The Washington herald., 1912-11-24

fed searches for infinitesirnaI '.polntss
long lost In fog-banks OF words-what
fun and pathos. tears and laughter, good
sense. nonsense. and law-sense 'cote set
tir' is-ln kentucky
Nisi Prius in session in the great Cons
monwealth OF Kentucky. It sounds for
nal and serious and stately. But II isn't.
It's q rollicking yarn OF lawyers and
lawyering, written by one Of 'em. Only
a lawyer can size up. a lawyer; only
n lawyer is ''onto the curves" as It were,
OF his fellows at the bar. For is It not
become a proverb that the man who
hireth a lawyer has to hire another one
to watch the first-and then he occupieth
himself solely in watching the team
work. Of the twain? From the opening
OF Nisi Pr:us, when Uncle Toby, the
black tanitor. opens the courthouse,
sprinkles the floor. and adds new saw
dust to the many small square wooden
boxes"-those convenient. omnipresent
square wooden boxes!-to the closing
banquet. at which everybody had cart
blankr' the yarn is mighty good one
MASTERPIECES OF THE MASTERS OF FIc-
TION: By william Dudley FouIke The Cosno-
politan Pres. New York. Price, N-&
Mr. FouIke is the author of Dorothy
Day. Of Maya" a lyric poem worthy
Of the best traditions of our literature.
and for years the editor OF one Of our
in his boyhood and In his early man
hood he read again when he was Of
middle age, and once more when he en-
tered upon the age OF ripper wisdom. In
this volume he reviews those master
pieces only that must endure during all
the future ages. books that become ripper
With ripening years.
In these days of many books thou
sands are asking what shall We read?
The books here reviewed are books for
the boy. the girl, the young man. the
young woman. for both sexes, and all
periods Of life. For want of space We
mention but q few Of the authors, whose
works are reviewed by Mr.. Foulke: RAJ
belais, Cervantes, lie Sage. Defoe. Swift.
Fielding. johnson. Sterne. Goldsmith.
Goethe, Chateaubriand, Austen. Irving,
Scott. Manzoni. Bslzac, Dumas. Bronte,
Dickens, Hawthorne, Thackeray, Feuil-
let. Flanbert, Hugo. Eliot. Blackmore,
Merimee. Dostoyecsky, Stevenson, and
Victor Won Scheffel.
STEPHEN MULHEw; THE MAKING OF GEN
TLEALAN: BY Howard B. sdtL The Ooano-
politsn Press. New York. Price. an
This account of the evolution Of Ste
phen Mrlhew contains a story Of child
hood and innocence and the simple joys
Of playmate days, Of youth and its as
pirations and passions. all amid life as II
was lived in a country village Of South
eastern Pennsylvania during the few
years Immediately following the war OF
the sixties.
II you would learn to differentiate the
influences that develop manliness In q
boy from those that destroy Il you will
find this book OF interest. No human be-
ing ever was born a gentle man. The
properties that make the differences that
exist between brute animals and human
beings all are acquired. The story of the
evolution Of a boy, when told with the
fine artistry that makes this book litera-
ture is of interest no less than impeding.
THE SIEGE: BOOK OF LOVE AND WAR: By
John s. wili.mA The Cosmopolitan Pres. New
York. Price. a-9.
A panoramic view Of the great Ameri-
can war unfolds while we read. That
war We see as a whole. and even in de-
tail. as in no other single volume. Yet
with battles raging about us, and with
the sound Of clashing arms ringing in
our ears, we witness at the same time a
fierce battle Of another sort-the fight
waged between love and duty. the fight
that was waged in the heart of Jessie
Carlton. a Vicksburg girl, who risks her
life for her country, amid all the hard
ships and dangers OF the historic Vicks-
burg siege. But she never quailA she
never grows faint OF heart-how could
she, with young Mason fighting the
epoch-making battles that were being
fought out in Virginia from Bull Run to
And while young Mason is fighting his
battles of more than one sort, Jessie Is
fighting hers, which are equally hard
fought. For she thinks that she should
for duty's sake marry young Anderson,
who tried to hold her to their engage
ment. But mutuability. the one immuta-
BILE law Of nature. works overtime when
men are at war.