Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-07
BOOK REVIEWS.

THE OPENING Up OF AFRICA: BY
Sir II. III. Johnston. g. c NJ. u. u;
Africa" etc. New York: Henry
Holt & Co.
~HE student of history should
give enthusiastic welcome to
this volume Its range of in
formation upon a single theme,
the many points of view pre-
scented by it. the timeliness of it's ad-
vent and the unexcelled equipment of
its author for the task constitute the
high recommendations of this valuab BILE
study. The opening of the various parts
of the dark continent at successive pc
RODS and under different circumstances
OF motive and method is here presented
most interestingly. After telling how the
native races reached Africa in one or
another of its parts, the author discusses
in chronological order the effects of
Asiatic and European encroachments upon
the civilization of this continent. In
tribute 10 the Christian missions in At
RIGA the author says: "Posterity will
realize the value of Christian mission
work in Africa during the eighteenth and
but in contributions to science, more es-
pecially to geography, ethnology, zoology
and above all. the study of African Ian
SuageS. The study closes with bIief
survey of the commercial development
of this region. To the African Associa-
ton. founded in England in 1ISS. he gives
great credit for persevering efforts to
create a legitimate commerce in the nat
ural and cultivated products of Africa
TO take the place of the trade in slaves.
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THE NEW ITALY, a Discussion of
Its Present Political and Social
Conditions. FEDERICO Garlanda, pro-
fessor in the Royal University of
Rome. Translated by NJ. E. Wood.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Playing that he is an American in
Rome writing to friends at home on his
impressions of Italy. this Italian author
takes occasion to free his mind on almost
every phase of current life as it expresses
itself in his native land Politics. religion.
education. literature art. finance. the
courts. colonization. the Malta and lynch
law" and family life are some of the
topics brought under the epistolatory eff
forts of this fervid admrer of the United
States and caustic critic of his own land.
one gathers store of information and a
useful general survey OF modern Italy
through this spirited one-sided cor
reSpondence.
HER ROMAN LOVER. BY Eugenia
.Tpe v fr4shingham' author or of
Houghton Miffiin Company.
\ fine American girl in a Roman set
ting. wooed by a noble Italian-the imme-
mortal prince of lovers according to poets
has again proved more than picturesque
writer can resist In this particular Ro-
ma ind
of keen pleasure beside its chief one of
fertile and vivid movement toward the
issue. The denouement Of this matter
sums in kipling's "Oh, east is east. and
west is west. and never the twain shall
meet. An extra pleasure lies in the
authors intimacy with the human.
coupled with consummate skill of por-
trayal- Qualities common to all narrow
here to the habitude and outlook Of ma
tionality and objectfy into living per-
sonalities-one an Italian man of aristo-
cratic type: the other a fine free Ameri-
can woman Another distinct delight
comes from this warm and living picture
of Rome as modernly habitable. The
author. taking the generally accepted
facts of Rome. subordinates death to life
freeing the city to a degree from its ex-
clusiveness as an ancient metropolis. One
walks about in the sunlight, instead of
prowling perpetually among tOmbs. He
meets other people following the pur-
suits of life. rather than those alone who
stand craven in immObility. To return
TO the tale itself Immediately following
a climax of tremendous stress, in which
deep-seated differences rise to the surface
irreconcilable, the drama slips away in a
homely, hopeful scene. A patient and
persistent American man, with the casual
statement that it is going to rain. wraps
the girl in her coat. buttoning ii carefully
down the front as he sturdily announces
that he has come to take her home" A
story of fine workmanship and superior
substance.
CRIME AND INSANITY. BY Charles
MERCER. NJ. D.. F. r. c. s.. physician
for mental diseases to Charing
Cross Hospital. author of Sanity
and Insanity" etc. New York:
Henry Holt & Co.
y book for the practical sociologist and
for the intelligent general reader as well.
The author says in explanation of the
purpose of this study: There is an i'm
mense amount of literature on crime and
an immense amount of literature on in
sanity, but not much has been written on
the relation between crime and insanity"
And to this relation he devotes this dis
cussion. The extent to which insanity CON-
tributes TO each kind of crime and how il
does this are explained. Suggestions fol-
low as TO the direction in which the GRIM
inal law needs alteration. Since the
methods employed to prevent and punish
nature and origin. the author makes care
full analysis of his theories of crime. The
kinds Of crime, separated into public and
private Offenses, are examined at length
in their various aspects. These are gath
cred into complete classification of Of
lenses whose purpose Is to show their
true nature by exposing their several re-
lations TO one another. The whole matter
is viewed and explained from the stand
point of the biologist, in its effects upon
the welfare of society.
THE MATING OF ANTHEA. BY Ara
bella Kenealy, author of The
Whips of Time" etc. New York:
John Lane Company.
The old-school doctor had a relatively
easy part. In his time God was made to
bear the brunt Of sick world, under the
platitude of some mysterious but alto
gether wise plan of discipline and regen-
Grafton Since this earlier day many new
views have interviewed to enlarge the hu-
side of this rpSDonsihility until IN