Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25

author of "Education and the
Larger Life" etc. Boston: Hough-
ton Miffiin Company.
- EEKING through the instruments
of education to materialize his
beatific vision of the ultimate
brotherhood of man, Mr.. Hender-
son has done much interesting and
deeply significant work. He, more than
another has answered the call of thou
sands, yearning to see face to face that
which now gropes before them like vague
figures of the mist Long-sufering WIN
the crystallized. hopeful with the ouii'
Mr. Henderson has. hitherto, held to the
essence of his inspired view. But just
here, for cause unknown, he gives up
shade of this fine patience. and with Its
loss there falls away part OF his haolt-
val reasonableness and an appreciable bit
of power Industrial education Is the
theme of this au hor's present agitated
concern 1t is all wrong-and so IL ls'
According to Mr. Henderson, 1t is wrong
beceuse of its alliance with the aims ana
pursuits of modern industry. Much Oh
the authors energy goes into an exam
ination of what he calls "lpduStry-1or-
Profit" This is now a na1onal lnsutu-
ton It's sins are many and muitiiorhl'
Its existence stands in the way OF d
possible paradise on earth. In its support,
a great and free people hands ltseiI over,
body and soul, to the pnillstlhes Oh "e a.i
and explota ion. Education-our most
yainglC rlouS aSSet-1n sheer Sycopiidlcs
10 this grand nlogul Of power permls
business TO tyranl ize over millions OF I'M
ready children, impressing them, prena
turely, into its service for seinsh anu
monsIrous gain. AS a fact, TINS I'artlcu-
lar feature of the discussion is not true
Education sought business. Business 'dld
not seek education. On the contrary, IL
held itself alCof. inhospltabie TO the otei
lures of an education, in wnich II hau
little or no confidence. But education. IN
its failure, by way of the Things OF
tread-mill mind sought business ues-
perately. to save itself from the ignominy
of complete failure. 1t did not say TINS.
Even education has some of the cruoer
forms of diplomacy. But education was
and is-undeniably on he run. Who are
chasing it? Most significantly, the GhI-
dren themselves. who leave its purheus
at the first sniff of something real and
doing outside. And shall these De per
mitted to judge? They do, and seem 10
manner sharp contrast TO his usual
tolerant mood, Mr. Henderson makes
spirited analysis of this lndustry-Ior-
Profit. Against it, he sets up an INDUS
try-for- Use" whose essence is, that pro-
ducton shall be limi ed to use, whose
boundaries it shall not exceed in the IN
terest of exploitation and proht. Leisure
for all follows this plan-what the author
calls economic leisure" in which, pre-
sumably, the Peep devote themselves to
litera ure. art, the contemplation OF ma
ture. In this great democracy we roar
and invite our souls, along with wait
Whitman, whom the writer calls the only
real democrat that he has known II
il were to the point, some things might
be said about the democracy of the good
gray poet. Mr.. HenderSon'S view frontS
upon man developed 10 the point of re-
nouncing gain, and urgent to cast in his
lot with the whole of his kind. Like the
gospel of Jesus Christ. this message waits
the slow regeneration of human nature.
TWO thousand years have, SO far, scarce
" made a dent in it: But the processes
of evolution count years by tens OF thou-
sands even millions. In the meantime,
Nh Henderson, millennial vision will in
Spire and direct increasing NUMBERS
toward its fulhhment.
THE TARIFF IN OUR TIMES. BY Ida
VI. Tarbell, author of The Life or
abraham Lincoln etc. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
Upon its outside and. to the general
reader the tariff story looks heavy, in
volved. dull. If, however, you chance to
be intelligent and alert to current events
though possibly unframed to the technic
of political scienee-take up Ida NJ. Tar
bells concrete history of the tariff in our
times. If a newspaper reader, the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill becomes at once the
unit by which you will measure all tarin
bills from the civil war on to the present.
They are curiously alike. Each turns out
to be only a general scramble for local
advantage Miss Tarbell makes the whole
matter as clear as daylight. Not by any
one-syllable process, Fact-worlcs or SUBJ
Stimulated INSTRUMENTATION, drama al
full evaluation OF personality working in al
fairs W.T. and humor and epigram electrify
this amaz ng story One marvels at the
amount and quality of research lying at
the basis of this keenly critical and
rhnlIx hftrn of
has operated and still operates in Amer
lean Politics. In Miss Tarbefl's hands ii
now takes on the appearance of a mon
Strous and ottmoded humbug. among the
personal ties that stand so wildly here as
agents in this single chapter Of our his
tory the author pays unqualified tribute
TO Grover Cleveland alone. Whether this
be the mere issue or polite al kinShip or
the wise estimate of great man, a grow
ingly great man, one does not know, but
he Endorses it under the presentment of
this author.
JENNIE GERHARDT: A Novel; BY
Theodore Dresser, author of sis
ter Carrie" New York: Harper &
Bros, Publishers
The reader closes this book strengthen
ed in her belief this world is no place for
women. Youth, beauty, innocence and
poverty make a complex upon which life
bears brutally and irresistibiy. Charles
Dickens could not have shown the Spar
tan resistance that Theodore Dresser here
maintains toward his subject. Had Dick
ems written the story of Jennie Gerhardt
time and again would he have sent her
from the stage that he himself might
take it to make impassioned pleas for her
or TO hurl maledictions upon a world that
could produce a Jennie Gerhardt. But
Mr.. Dresser, behind the scenes, takes no
concern save to spread his story in the
pattern of exact truth. With rare fidelity
TO the character that he has set-that OF
d good, unse fish and beautiful girl: with
complete knowledge of human nature,
both in the individual man and In the
whole worldly lump of men named So
ciety; with never turn toward over.
stress nor any single move made for Ell
feet alone, the true and tragic story
grows in the exact similitude of life. At
its close one cries out of an absorbing
urgency to help: Everybody must read
this book! Then in a minute one settles
back. What is the use? Who can help
Jennie Gerhardt? No one. Men cannot;
their help always hurts. Women will not.
In 10000 years from now, Mr.. Dresser,
when the animosites of SEX mayhap, are
somewhat Modified. put out this book
again. Then we shall see what can be
done for your Jennie Gerhardts
THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER
BROWN. By g. X. Chesterton, au-
thor OF George Bernard Shaw"
etc. illustrations by vii f. Foster.
New York: John Lane Company
The Sbaws and the CheStar,on, avn,