Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12

statue to Count Casimr Pulaski. the
first chief of cavalry in the United States.
This event gave Mr.. Adams a fitting
branch of the army in the revolution. A
perennial subject 1.-The ethics of seces-
siOn," becomes here the basis of a spir-
tied analysis Of the views of historians
and jurists. both north and south, sup
plemented by the authors positive opin-
ion upon the ethical import Of this act.
Again some phases of the civil war is
a friendly but uncompromising criticism
| Of this part of James Ford Rhodes His
tory of the United States, wherein de-
ficiencies and shortcomings, vital defects
according to Mr.. Adams. are noted and
supplied. These studies. searching, schol-
| arly, finished in manner and substantial
in theme. are, in matter and method. in
valuable both to the student and to the
general reader Of history.
CONCERNING SALLY. BY William
John Hopkins, author of THE Clam
mer." etc, Boston: Houghton Miffin
Company.
Mr.. Hopkins has taken up here an un-
! usual theme for story use. though in real
life the situation is both altogether pos
sible and. in its general features, COM
mon. That q father disappears leaving
his family to fend for itself Is daily
commonplace. That this family through
its own deserving comes into comfort and
the happiness Of many sincere friend
ships Is not strange. That the father,
this accomplished returns for acceptance
and support Is quite to be expected. That
he Is rejected is, according to most peo-
pie, exactly what he deserves. Such is
the barest outline Of this novel. Now
and here is the point of departure into
the unusual-this father Is brilliant
and fascinating man. a college professor
Of quite superior order. He has. how
ever. developed the secret vice Of gam
flf ho6S hot %olr n
to nearby city on vague pretexts of
Laboratory work" Discovery, loss of
position. and disappearing follow. Some
very clever work is done in depicting the
presenting his little daughter Sally. the
only one able to meet in any adequate
way the elaborate ceremony of her IA
theirs refined cruelty. Intellectually, Sally
Is merely woman-average-but adored
and. in a way, protected by Sally. Char
lie. the baby. is destined to inherit the
fathers viciousness, but not his brain,
and to be the means of discovering the
father in some underling capacity in the
gambling house to which the boy made
frequent resort while away from home at
college. All Of the story is admirable in
conception and execution. The early part
of it. where Sally and her father are
the leading features. is inimitable. Sally,
her father gone, never quite finds foe
man worthy Of her steel. In the later
reaches Of the story she is. Of course, the
heroine of a love story, a very delightful
one. as she might easily have been of
half dozen had she not, as woman,
been stanch and serious and honest like
Sally the little girl. An uncommonly fine
story-this authors best.
THE MOON ENDURETH, Tales and
Fancies. BY John Buchan. New
York: Sturgis & Walton Company.
The title suggests that these tales and
fancdes may have been worked out in the
madness that, now and then-in long
betweenwhilesIs placed upon man
through the witcheries Of the moon. In
that case. these, clearly, should have to
do with mystery. magic. marvel, miracle
even. Reading proves that some of them
do move by these hidden agencies, while
others OF them are as sane as the sun in
open day. CA sure sign Of moon-lunacy,
whose chief symptom Is intermittence-
lucid interval set of against sheer mad
! ness) Some of these stories flow in
! through the five senses, IN quite the
ordinary way. Others of them come
across on q sixth or even a seventh
sense. Now. il. unluckily, we happen to
possess the usual channels only, We
shall be able to make nothing whatever
Of part Of these-the best part, too. one
suspects. Having read them all-adven-
tura. romance. mystery-tales so original,
so rich in Imagination here, 50 trans
Cr1pIlV0 OF Cuc VcTltleS LneTc, cdCu 30
fascinating. all 80 uncommon in work
manship and artistry, one involuntarily
obtrudes this wish-would that more
writer's. and yet more Of them, were mad
-moon-strtcken-as this man so hap
PLY Is.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY; the
Personal and Literary Life of Sam
uel Langhorne Clemens. By Albert
Bigelow Paine. With letters. COM
ments and incidental writings hith-
erto unpublished; also new episodes,
anecdotes etc. Three volumes. IL
Illustrated. New York: Harper Bros.
Literature is indebted to this biographer
for many new glimpses into the personal
ity of Mark Twain. Mr.. Clemens himself,
in the friendly intimacy of an association
that existed nearly ten years prior to his
death, contributed the "reminiscences of
, his childhood. and placed at the disposal
Of Mr.. Paine the worldwide correspond
ence of his later career. Dear William
Dean Howells. Joseph Hopkins Twichell,
Joseph D. Goodman and other old friends
letters and memories" and that the work
has been approved by the only living
| member of Mark Twain's family is evil
denced by its dedication to Clara Glenn
ems Gabrilowitsch. who steadily upheld
the authors purpose to write history
rather than eulOgy as the story of her
fathers life These credentials assure
statement the three volumes might be
three motion films. SO wildly human do
| they picture the man who gave us tears
and laughter, and who voiced for us some