Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-09

history of the children's educational the
| alter this author makes valuable record
| of the steps of her own experiment. the
deductions of her own original observa-
| tons. This study clears path. The
| author hews down and casts away rank
| underbrush of mistakes and of round
| about or pOintiess effort. With no WELD
ing to the gittering false lights of the
! adventure, she holds stanchly to the sin
! Gle notion of the drama In its purely edu
| cative aspect With seriousness and a
| full measure of plain good sense the
| author discusses the obvious educational
! problems that spring spontaneously from
the enterprise. Supported by Stanley
| Hall, PerCfval Chubb Percival Mackaye
and other educators and dramatists. Miss
| lierts rounds her experience into q finely
| suggestive experiment in general educa-
| ton.
IN BUSINESS: 4 Contribution to the
Psychology of Business. BY Walter
Dill Scott. professor of psychology
at Northwestern University. Evans
ton, Ill. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
To set forth the rational methods by
which business efficiency may be in
creased, Mr. Scott makes a deeply inter-
esting and practical study of the laws of
psychology in their applica ton to man
as an industrial unit. and to groups of
The prime factors and logical processes
of education are here transferred to in
dustry further means of self-deyel-
opment. For example. imitation. stand
ing as the greatest eduCative force in
youth and an irresistible influence
! throughout life. becomes a conscious in
strument in the hand of business to i'm
prove both the rate and direction of in
dustria effort. In this selective process,
mere abstract feelings-those Of rivalry.
loyalty. pleasure, and so on-may. by
the fulnllment and application of their
own laws. be turned to economic account
through the multiplication of individual
power The authors study of habit in
its relation to business efficiency is prac-
teal and suggestive. The whole is
concrete discussion containing innumer
able records of experiment on the part of
business to meet its own demands for
trained and efficient workers. Here the
common involutions of psychology
straighten to the plain comnlon-sense of
business, its experience gathered, an
alyZed and formulated for use.
THE LOVE THAT LIVES. BY Mabel
Osgood Wright. author of "Poppea
of the Post Office" etc. Illustrated
in color by Hermann c. Wall. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
Mabel Osgood Wrights new story tastes
like New England apple, sound and
sweet clear down TO the core. With a
clergymans delightful family as point
of rest. the author paints fresh and
enjoyable picture of life both at home and
in the common interests of village
neighborhood. No less than three alto
gether engaging love stories unfold here,
each bearing no more of ViclSSftude than
love exacts for its upspringing and sur
vivaI These loves, as it turns out are
all of the perdurable sort-from that of
the old clergyman and his beauuful wife
down to that of his lghtiest daughter
and her sober and circumspect lover. An
unsupported and unrequted love throws a
tinge of shadow on the otherwise bright
story. The presence of young foreign
girl of mysterious parentage gives
piquant. exotic tang to this otherwise do
mestic matter. y thoroughly good story
in all three dimensions-in conception, i'll
structure. and in both Immediate and sus
tanned effects.
JANE DAWSON: Novel. BY Will n.
Harlem author of 'Abner Daniel,
etc. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Mr. Harben's story advances through
the unilluminating disputations OF
Georgia countryside over what. down
there. is called religion and no religion.
Jane Dawson, heroine, spinster mother
of a grown son-nursing active rebellion
against religion that could, in its own
name deal this single fatal blow to
womanhOOd-serves as the center OF an
unbelieving band, toward which the mis-
! sionary efforts of this orthodox COM
munity directed. The rural ms and
outs of this mission make the story:
| Taken up as whole, and considered
| merely as a broad picture of the static
notions and outmoded beliefs of ma
| rooned countryfolk. the story passes re-
! view. on the other hand. looked upon
/ as a study of character working out
| through some of the supreme stresses of
J life and SO Offering something for people
TO get hold of and use, it Is long way
off from the goal. One does not stick for
| a moral But he does, inStinCtiVely, feel
for the vision. be it never so little lifted
! above the common mire of living. Jane
! Dawson, the lonely woman, does not sue
coed in drawing her native strength out
from the bitter channel of hatred and re-
| sentiment. She lives and dies to herself.
! save for the son of her unforgivabe sin.
/ The son himself is the most hopefully be
! lievable person in the story. The young
| girl around whom the fabby love story
grows with her sentimental religion and
her general f1imsnesSs of structure. hanks
| back TO the middle of the eighteenth CEN
tury for her insipidity of flavor. The
| Young preacher-in fact. half-brother
! TO Jane Dawsons boy-is pretty good. He
is good actor, with rich and mellow
| voice that carries we'll. and not bad fell
low at all inside. A fair picture, but not
, d very good story
DESMOND ROURKE. Irishman. BY
| John Haslette. author of The Pas
| sion OF the president, cue. we"
! York ID. Appleton x Co.
| This mellihuous title covers the grace
less hero OF a tale that unwinds through
= the neck-to-neck race of its chief per
! sons TO discover and possess. each foI
| himself q mine of fabulous promise ~
ing secreted somewhere among the An
dean slopes. AS a matter OF fact, there
! was no such mine outside of Rourke'
fertile mind But, even such as II was
il nobly served the purposes of dark IN
| trigue and daring adventure. 1t made tht
exciting race. the clean run, the doubling
and side-stepping, retreat remit parley
concession-and off again Here, Cour
| vols and Smith, each, sets up his VII
/ against that of Rourke-France and the
| United stat against ireland, so 10 say
| The author does distinctly fine character
| work with these three people. As race
battle of wits, the issue remains un
| certain. for Inc Irish scamp. in the lure
of Jeanne CourVOiS eye, turned SOFT dnt
honest. So adventure that was head
cd toward the very heights of derring do
turns tameiy To the snug fireside, ant
leaves its hero eating contentedly FROM
the gentle hand of Jeanne Courvois.
PONAADER WALK. BY Louis y. Par
! ker. author of Rosemary" etc
illustrations by J. Scott Williams
New York: John Lane Company.
1t is Difficult: to describe adequately in
cold type the quaint and delightful charm
Of this book. TO those TO whom it will