Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-21

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bourses. Then he takes up Wall street-a
| name 20 conjure with, q thing whose
powers are not only unknown, but I'M
I imaginable as well. He describes it. tells
now IL looks. what it does when in action,
what 1t means in the cosmopolitan world
OF hnance He then passes to an analysis
vi securltles-good ones and speculative
ohes-wlfh study of the art Of invest
reads this clear and illuminating exposi-
tion OF most important subject with
enthusiasm. He does not expect. through
It's GOOD offices. to become either a Pier
uoes reasonably expect is to grasp the
great principles of finance. And this he
- - aoie TO do with an initial lesson like
the one set down in this volume.
MEMORIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE,:
The Home Life Of Our Presidents
from Lincoln to Roosevelt. Being
personal recollections of Col w. H.
coin. since then disbursing officer
or the executive. Compiled and
edited by Henry Rood. illustrated.
Boston: Little. Brown & Co.
In It's bare temporal aspect stay at
the White House stretching to nearly
half hundred years makes a mere ad-
mlnistrative span of four appear as tran
silent as a day at some wayside inn.
Forty-six years, to be eXact-from Abra-
ham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt-Col.
W. III. Crook of the White House staff
spent i'll intimate and important service
here. This sets one off into speculations
on what fascinating picture book the
nina OF the man must be. And so it
turns out. In the period ten Presidents
passed out and in under the observing
eye of this permanent tenant To the
president as a man and a personality,
to the women and the children of the
White House Col. Crook pays his devoirs.
EVerypody-that is, everybody in the
United states, at leaSt-iS curious. proud
ly and affectionately curious. about this
particular man and his folks. his wife
and children. One wants to know what
goes on in the morning before the house
turns into thoroughfare and at night,
when. the public ceasirg to trouble it
becomes a home. These are precisely
the ties of kinship set up here between
this family and the thousands like it
throughout the land 1nnumerable scenes
and incidents are described. High lights
OF womanly charm and gir1ish beauty,
OF the laughter of children and the COM
partnership of friends. beautify them AS
one leafs this absorbing volume he grows
impressed with its discernment. it's sturdi-
ness, its plain manner. Under the cor
recting hand of this honest reviewer one
gladly revises distorted information about
one and another of these occupants of
the White House. The authors own feel
ing Tor these various presidential house.
holds and the convincing sincerity of
his portrayal are such as to make a pa
triotic experience out of the reading of
this book of memories.
AS I REMEMBER: RecolIeetions of
American Society During the Nine
teenth Century. BY Marian GOuver-
neur. illustrated. New York: d. APP
pletOn Co.
With a shade of apology the author
speaks Of these recollections as rambling
personal notes" Certainly. they are both
rambling and personal-delightfull so.
By means of the former quality one
moves in easy advertisement with no.
table company through the changing
fashions of social intercourse from the
first quarter of the nineteenth century in
America up to the present. Cautiously.
coincidently, almost the last page of this
volume pays a social and personal trib-
ute to Admiral Schley.) BY the power OF
vivid, participating personality this in
teresting pageant becomes animate in
complete and moving realism under the
reder's eye. Out of its inclusive nature
Washington-wfth the Capitol. the White
House, the diplomatic body, the army and
the navy as its symbols of national life
is fascinating center. This writer's
memories bulk about the capital A null
titude of incidents, episodes. portraits
set in this national atmosphere, crowd
these pages. One marvels at the authors
muscular grip on the story. A short
sharp sentence or two, a query, a conjec-
ture-each left to stand or fall by itself
and out of it a national personality stands
complete. 1t is exciting-this rapport A
leaning toward the old society of Wash
ington, as something stabler. finer, than
that of the present. Is delicious. one
hopes. with ardor. that in some years
from now a delightful woman of rich ex-
perience, like this one, will sound again
the wholesome though slightly plaintive
note in praise of these beautiful days
through which We are passing, needless
and unaware This is a thoroughly charm
ing book-one to pick up again and again
for the lavender scents OF last Year and
the year before. The book is a delight.
The woman writing is a sermon. A busy,
happy woman making pictures, real
pictures, for our informing and our pleas
uring.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ELDERLY
WOMAN. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company.
Unlike the two writer's Immediately
preceding this one-the two people
who. out OF long and rich experience,
entertain the reader with recollections
Of notable and interesting personalities
and events-this elderly woman, in
sharp contrast, takes her own inside
self as the subject of consideration.
From this original source of informa-
ton she demonstrates the anatomy of
elderliness in its attack upon the fem
mime 4 sociable. mild-mannered &C
count in appearance, it is in reality
a purely scientific performance, stamped
by an impersOnal detached attitude of
observation coupled with an austerely
exact record of it's results. The prod
uct is what the critic modishly calls
a human document" In externals 1T