Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-18

New YORK: harper q bTOtnerS pun
fishers.
n It various times and places. with
IN openings and dedications,
"A leagues and associations for &C.
y casion. the editor of the North
American Review has discussed
economic conditions and political stua-
tons from the ground of his slightly pro-
fession and practice. Gathered into
volume. these addresses stand conspic-
uously as the work of a careful student
and an astute man of business, in one.
The facts of history and the philosophy
of events illustrate and project the
themes of this author. Robust and fear
less, these speeches set off the political
drama from it's melodrama. They dis
unguish sharply between national honor
and national sentimentality, between the
personal conscience and a mere sheeply
conformity TO rule. A nervous style.
short, incisive, picturesque-gives STAG
cato. explosive eloquence to this authors
work. Good sense. good courage, GOOD
humor, arr numor, buttresS these oppor-
tune and inspiring themes. One likes TO
mention. just now, the tribute to Joseph
Pulitzer made by Mr.. Harvey in his ded-
1cation of this volume.
THE RECORD OF AN ADVENTUROUS
LIFE. BY Henry Mayors Hyndman.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany. Washington: Brentano's.
A man who sets out Ito talk through
q few hundred pages about himself. his
career, and the men and women he has
met is, as safe rule, some one to flee.
No one. of himself. legitimateiy bulks to
this measure of print. Then, too, there
is good reason to suspect that 1.-The men
he.
in the glare of his own ime-lit spot
Moreover the whole combination of per-
son and circumstance may prove duh,
trivial. parocnial In this case both sus-
picion and fears are SroundleSS- MI
Hyndman, out of a ricn experience OF
travel acquaintance and work. knows
how to select the things that have picture
and story in them. From this expert
ence he draws numberless recollectionS.
the best OF which are used to light up
certain dominant personalities whose or
bit OF activity. conceded in large meas
ure, with that of his own. The people
sketched so life-iikely here are reaction
aries OF one sort or another. Here are
Alaz4ini and George Meredith, with the
brilliant and oft-warrIng band, out OF
whose visions English socialism spranS-
Kari Marx, Wilhelm Liebknecht. lean
Juares, William Morris, Bernard Shaw
and. with others. Mr.. Hyndman him.
self. Personal, rather than doctrinal,
these recollect.ons serve, nevertheless, in
thar larger aspects 10 make q concrete
record of the vicissitudes of English so
cialism. The volume talks along easily,
without special order or form, with pur-
pose neither deep nor set. An inti-
mate, sociable, illuminating book.
THE WOMEN OF THE CAESARS: BY
Gughelmo Ferrero. author of The
Greatness and Decline of Rome"
New York: The Century Company.
To the searching survey of the scholar
and the practiced ease of the writer Gu
glielmo Ferrero adds a bit OF stage man.
agement in presenting the women of the
Caesars TO modern readers. Fidelity 10
the constant and calculahle facts of hui
man nature in whatever strange garD OF
time or place il may be clothed and
vivid use of historic circumstance. par
allel but less remote than that surround
ing his subject are the devices or TINS
author. BY their use he lifts the dranat-
&c Caesarian period out of its classic fast
ness and rolls il forward like movable
stage within whose foreground al group
ed the women of the emperors-Livla ana
Julia, Agrippina and Messalina. This
brilliant and significant chapter of his
tory becomes a matter of special interest
to the student OF the evolution of woman
from slave to citizen. Certain points OF
power and privilege among these TAR
away women raise the old question in
ones mind: Is that which we call prog
ress advanced along a projected line. or Is
II merely going round and round, touch
ing again and again old high points OF
life, wallowing again through old and
forgotten sloughs of depression?
FRANZ LIST. BY James Huneker. au-
thor of ''MeZzotintS n Modern Mu-
Sic" etc. Illustrated New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
Even TO the unmusicianly. Mr.. Hun
cke.'s life Of Franz List Is an absorbing
matter. The author, remembering that
List is very much man, one from
whose purely human qualities sprans the
form and color of his art, lets the reader
see this TOO, and engages him with the
personality OF List, as we'll as with his
genius as an artist To musicians MIR.
Huneker must here be JOY. lie exer-
cises the critical faculty with precision,
and power AID restraint. Out of il Lists
work. both by itself and in its contribu-
tory influences, stands squarely upon the
! KS OF creative art. out or IL 100,
List is measured among his cntem-
poraries, and estimated in his ultimate
place among the geniuses Of the world.
The deafness of critical analysis, It's over
common quality, not once obtrudeS itself
upon this discussion Here, instead. are
color and spring and vision, such as 70
make even the unframed, untcchnical
reader go over this life story as il II were
a romance, as II l..
THE SOUL OF THE FAR EAST. BY
Percival Lowell. author of ~ ko-
rsan Coup d Etat.' etc; member of
the Asiatic Society OF Japan New
York: The Macmillan Company
Washington: Brentanos.
Upon reading a book like this. out u
sone intuitive unrefecting recess OF his
being one exclaims that the author seized
the spirit OF his theme \ curious Judg-
nent since more often than otherwise II
il made with no face-to-tace khowiedSe
whatever of this theme. W hat one must
mean Is that the writer while gathering
the facts and Impressions TOR has SUP
jeCt, and later while orientng himself
before them, appeared TO have slousheo
his own personality and TO have crep
into the spirit Of the person, or place, OF
thing he was seeking 10 realize. Ana
moreover, that the mere observer and
reader followed the process, tapping TINS
new shell Of being for hollow places oil
empty or inharmcniOus sound. When
none replied then IL was that one de
clared the writer 70 be possessed of the
spirit OF MS subject, In this satisfying
and delightful book the author obviously
css. lie ate OF the fruits Of this soil anc
absorbed the oriental civilization. The
meaning OF its religion and art, OF its
literature, of its oVerShadowing family
tradition and custom cleared 10 him. Sc
far as white man mas he entered into
the mind and heart of the oriental whose
WV Of looking outward upon life and in
ward upon himself this author Gathered
and gave with sincerity and insight.
ART IN FRANCE. by Louis Hourtico
inspector of fine arts In the city OF