Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-21

half century cannot ignore the
commanding personality OF Ceci
John Rhodes, nor fail to ex'
anime the circumstances of his
career, a career so interviewer with the
swift and vivid development of South
Africa that historian and biographer meet
here to find their work one. To aid the
ultimate decisions of history, the cotem-
porarics of Mr.. Rhodes. his friends. trus-
tees, executors, determined to gather,
while these are fresh and open to the
tests of authenticity, the facts of his life.
This task was assigned to one of their
own number. Sir Lewis Michel, who at
the outset says: Personal affection on
my part may unconSciouSIy sway my
Judgment OF the only great man with
whom l have lived on terms Of intimacy;
but whatever the shortcomings of his
biographer. I am confident that posterity
Will not fail to appreciate the genius ana
essential worth of one of the greatest
Englishmen of the Victorian era" From
this advantage point of intimate and
romprehending friendship the author tells
the amazing story of Cecil Rhodes. Back
and forth, back and forth. between Eng
land and Africa, on the one hand stu
dent at oxford, on the other strenuous
advocate in field and mine. in politics
expansion. The author weaves the in
finite details of this astonishing career
into a vivid whole for ultimate Judgment
and appraisal. 1T is a growing fame.
When his foibles and his faults are all
allowed for there outstands the figure of
great and inspiring personality. He
still lives i'm the hearts and imagination
of the colonists. Almost all our high
and fruitful thoughts and acts of late
years are traceable to his compelling ex-
ample. His scholarship foundation. still
in its infancy, may in time move the
world. Above all, we have to thank
Rhodes for the preserva ion of that
immense territory called after his name
"a territory which in alien hands
would have barred our further expan-
sion northward. Regard him as we may,
with critical or uncritical eyes. we must
all admit that he was a great English
man. and one of the few who have left
a permanent mark on the empire. In
an introduction the author runs a sngu-
larry interesting parallel between Robert.
Lord Give and Cecil John Rhodes-both
inlperialists: both men of action, stormy
of temper. impatient of control. Give,
at twenty-five, a commissary captain,
the victor of Arcot, and planning the
overthrow of the French in India;
Rhodes. at the same age at the diamond
fields. dreaming of northern expansion
and how to restrain republican ambi-
lions in South Africa. At thirty-one
Give won the battle of Plassey, and
Rhodes was ruling Bechuanaland as
commissioner for the crown. Give be-
fore forty was governor in Bengal :
ihodcs at the same age was prime
minister of Cape Colony. At the age
Of forty-one Give left India forever
is career practically eSded: at about
the same age Rhodes resigned all his
Offices and retired into private life, as
IN" result of the Jameson raid. Append
~ 70 this history is copy of the will
- teeil Rhodes. remarkable piece of
documentary evidence. 'rhe great value
=: this study is hardly caIculable in the
lseeent
HH HANDs. BY Richard Washburn
Child. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Brentano's.
The logical ending of this uncommonly
cood story stands at its beginning COM
! '"ic in tho first chapter wnh Jim Hands
tinc girl. Katherine married to the boss
boy. Bob. and sturdy two-year-oId son
as fat and healthy as an exhibit at
county fair according to Jim-tum-
bling about the pace. Jim had an ever
new. exulting joy in his girl. Katherine
and no wonder. Sitting out. alone in
the summer dark. smoking ii would come
over him. all new, for the thousandth
time: why, that's my girl-my Kath-
"rine-my daughter. I'll tel you about
her. I'll tell YOU. And he does. That
is what makes this story. What Kath-
crime was. and did and led others to
10. unwinds this double coil First. there
- the matter of the factory owner. "the
old boss. and his workmen. making a
natural sort. Then. about Katherine and
pob-a beautiful love story, also sane and
natural, and sound and sweet This
author has the. gift of making. peo-
pie with two lines. or three at the
most. One wonders. doubtingly, if this
is his first book There are no present
evidences of other authorship. Well.
whatever his literary lineage may be.
here Is a sound book. sound like a per-
feet apple. and sweet like all healthy
things
THE SPIRIT TRAIL. BY Kate and
Virgil ID. Boyles. authors of 1.-THE
IioneSteaders." etc. Illustrations In
color by Maynard Dixon. Chicago:
A. c. McClurg & Co.
\ Coopercsque tale moved from pioneer
dealings with the Five Nations in New
York and westward out into the far
west in the early seventies with the
I'akota Indians as the moving features
OF the trouble. The old grievance. a
broken treaty. added to some original
sin all their own. is what stirs these
daughter OF government agent serves
for abduction. and youthful missionary
Joins to his regular job of ChristianiZing
the poor Indian the more successful one
OF leading the rescue. This task, difficult
and dangerous. however, moves the adj
venture through wide tracks of western
scenery and atmosphere, and through
many devious defiles OF Indian DISPOSE
ton and custom. Fort Laramie and its
environs stage the action. and Red Cloud
with his Ogalalas front IL in savage and
treacherous warfare upon the whites.
other names in history. those of Sheri-
dan. Crook. Custer add the flavor of
specific reality To the generally romantic
character of the adventure.
THE TNLIvED LIFE OF LITTLE
MARY ELLEN. BY Ruth McEnery
stuart. author OF sonny" etc.
Decorations by Ruth Sypherd Glenn
ents Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
Despite its flower-strewn holiday dress.
this odd little story cries like a hurt child
over the misery of things. marital
hallucination. rather different from the
common sort of these lies at its roots.
\ young woman, deserted at the altar
and coming, by accident. into the pos
session OF Il big doll with talking
machine inside of il and the trick OF
opening and shutting it's eyes, lives out
The remainder of her life in the full be-
lief of wifehood and maternity. The queer
through the conspiracies of the villagers
.pyfsa in 1n NJ co