Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-15

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-ehalIIon was not against religion. but
against words and formulas about re-
iieion instead. Here are portrayed the
intellectual activity of the man, the Gull
lure. the public service. the high pa
+rintisru, the winged power of speech.
I'n6er the completeness and vigor Of the
whole one feels the industry of research
that went into it, the eXacting thorough
ness Of tests for validity OF facts. the
drama of selection to produce the man
himself whole in nature and meaning. a
fne study. beautiful appreciation. d
valuable piece of geographic history.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, AUTHOR OF
What Else He Was and Who. By
F S keySmith. Washington:
Key-Smith & Co.. Publishers.
The appeal of an old house, one that
las been the home of distinction of any
sort. is irresistible. This appeal. too. is
clearly that Of one personality to another.
somewhat as IL these walls. having alb
sorbed the thoughts and feeling thrown
off within them, now project them as a
phantom of the one from whom they
emanated. Washington has many of
these haunted houses. They, one and all.
set the imagination a-tiptoe in an effort
10 read their shadowy features and to
restore them TO something of their early
in a clutter of trade and the clatter OF
traffic. but grave and aloof withal. stands
one OF the most generally interesting OF
these ghostly frames, the old Key man
sion. where for many years lived the
author OF The Star Spangled Banner
Before it both habitual wayfarer and
passing sghtseer pause to search its face,
10 read its message. to ply it with ques-
tons about the singer who gave this ma
tion Its song A poet and a patriot. yes
hut what else? Better than imagination,
in answer. is the little volume now at
hand made up of exactly the things one
desires to know about Francis Scott Key.
The influences that went into his making,
his youth In its surroundings and ten
denotes his life among men, in business,
political and social relations: his per-
sonality and effectiveness. The value of
this book is measured not by its bulk.
but, after the importance of its subject,
BY its source and character. One OF its
highly interesting features is that it was
written by great-grandson of Francis
Scott Key-a fine and filial bit of patriot
ism. Despite this advantage of similar
blood currents and kindred drifts, despite
this proximity to family tradition and
neighborhood report, the author subjected
each step of this study to the rigors OF
rerifcation by original documents. so the
book stands first as completely authentic.
II is moreover. careful sitting of ma
ter,al. years in coming together, to the
end that the truly significant things alone
shall appear. Its illustrations, though
not numerous. are of special point and
interest Here is compact, authorlta-
tive geographic study of picturesque
figure of American history.
THE CLEAN. BY Helen r. Albee. au-
thor of Mountain Playmates," etc.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
Extremely rare is true and useful
record Of what ones spirit is doing day
by day. And there are good reasons
why this is so. Not every one finds his
SOUL and when he does. so long has 1T
been set TO minding the large concerns OF
future life and another world that he
Tails To count its ways as "onted to
time and place made up. in large part.
Of an irksome round Of trivial acts. Even
when one has met his own spirit and has
acknowledged il as the complete guide
70 righteousness, he needs courage ana
honesty intelligence and intuition, to
make avowal of activities many of
which lie outside the region of creed and
acceptance. Now and then, one, though.
who has watchfuliy followed the lead
OF his own soul, with JOY and not with
fear, consents TO share with others this,
the most significant of human expert
ences. Mrs. Albee has done this In the
present volume. What she believes. what
She rejects. what she accepts, though
deeply Interesting, are not the chief mat
ter nerv- The great concern is that she
boldly went a-venturing with her own
SOU, ready to fare far, II need be. strung
70 tie utmost of encounter. Ihat she
was led through the various SHADES OF
orthodoxy into and out of new cults OF
on sort or another is not Of the greatest
import That she did, though, finally dlsc
cover her spirit at home. ready to hep
DO the homework and dig the garden,
ready IN bring large meanings into little
81 81 tZ-~ hnv
beauty. 10 bear sorrow In quietude-this
IL me supreme concern of this del1ght1ui
end deeply suggestive volume. Rarely
Goes one depict the everyday uses OF
ones own spirit more fully and helpfully
than does this author.
THE FASTING CURE. BY Upton SIN
clair, author of The Jungle" etc.
New York: 1fitchell Kennerley.
Nj UPTON Sinclair, always interesting
IN more or less unexpected sort OF way,
Is. IN this open and specific account OF the
making over of his own body, even more
attractive than he Is in some of his ef-
!orts 10 recast the morals of the rest of
ne word The fasting cure. of which he
mere gives most convincing personal
teeord turned him from sickness and in
utiity 10 health and efficiency. Full Of
NV vigor himself. he tells Of IL in terms
~ FEELINGS. processes, results-phy steal
results and spiritual Merely because
MS cure is something outside the famil-
therapeutic rut-not a new something.
uat me revival Of thing inexpressibly
o.I-one leans, naturally, toward repudi-
S.Hs II 80, lie searches for good and
=. 'e4ctil reasons why one should not use
- Sut physiology does not bar it. A de-
" led universal stomach pleads for It,.
60 alone. as the author says, offers but
si'acoW of danger. One closes this book
,ossssed with a notion of surcease OF
80 80 ana inspired to try the cure. Every-
10y 10 whom he confides his intention
60 under the dominion Of the usual
800 go Don't you do it, a portentous but
10y phrase based upon prescription
r,one. mink OF being clean once, just
ongv- Think of babyhood sleep, dreamless
IT. rosy. such as the author pictures
LINK or mind free to soar, or even to
D. ch weighted by the loads of poison
Ne refuse that everybody Tugs about.
e. sinclair makes out fine experience
~. himself. one equally good, 1t Is sur
Used Tor the rest Of us. The big appeal
~ quite apart from the sanity Of this
n In lies III the fact that the author
saGhes no gospel, urges no conversions
n rnu hoids himself more frankly open to
- convictions along certain lines than
most possessed of what they are
p =. to call a message Two pictures
th' "r. sinclair in the very similitude of
Are nostrum seller, the before taking
a, ,h. Tue after" sort, embellish the face
'nis volume. One Nkes this. too. There