The Washington herald., 1912-12-08

the municipal organization. This is not
because the latter is IN any sense regard
ed as the less important OF the two, But
merely because It Is proposed to deal fully
with that phase of the subject of the later
| volume.
As respects governmental organization,
no attempt has been made to cover every
point in full detail.
In an age when men appear too ready
to proceed with a diagnosis and to pre-
scribe remedies without much preliminary
study Of the anatomy and the physiology
| or city government, too much stress upon
| the importance Of the latter branches of
the subject can scarcely be laid.-At any
rate, We have heard so much in recent
years concerning what the government
Of American cities ought to be that an
apology is hardly necessary for the EN-
| Phasis which this volume places upon
what their government really is.
THE NEW INDUSTRIAL DAY: BY William c.
Redheld. Tbs Century Company, New York.
Price, SIS.
When a man who holds an elective Of
fee in our government and has political
ambitions writes a book concerning the
chief economic topics of the day he Is
more than likely to perform that ma
neuver which is best described by the
nautical locution boxing the yards ''
| This is what William Redheld has done
in his work called THE New Industrial
Day
The progressive spirit of the text is
expressed in the forewOrd where Mr..
Redheld, who holds a government post,
says: ''It is in the hope that we may come
to see more clearly the right values
among us. and that seeing them We may
come to use them better, we may con-
serve them. that this book Is written.
II 1t shall help to add TO the apprecia-
ton of man for man. II il shall aid to
take away the unnecessary burden placed
by man on man. if 1t shall in any degree
lead to the happier and more produc-
tive working Of man with man. its pur
pose will have been fully served
The best part of the text IS to be found
in the opening chapters on Wealth and
Waste" and The Days Of the Rule of
Thumb" In the first Of these the author
gives a summary of the progress Of the
material conquest Of America" and OF
its enormous waste in natural resources
and the waste OF HUMAN life. He cites
the determination OF the bison. the pass
ing of so much of our forest land, the
fire loss that cut down to the level of
the annual loss Of England and Germany
for the next twenty years, would not only
pay our enormous pension list. but would
prsvide money enough TO pay our national
and State debts.
The cahpter concerning the Rule OF
Thumb is an essay in business pragmat-
ism. or A new way of saying old things
about industrial waste. Dwelling on the
passing Of the old methods of manufac-
turing. Redied then points out that
business nowadays has become a pro-
fession, and he cites many instances of
how the scientific spirit in manufacturing
Is tending to do away with many of the
old clogs on the wheel of progress.
In his chapters on Costs and Their
Causes" some free trade arguments rear
their heads to b. knocked back into the
pit by the testimony as to the superior
condition of workinCmcn's lives here over
those of foreign workmen.
IDYLLs OF THE SOUTH: b. Mrs. BETTE Keys
Chambers The NeAle Publishing Company New
York. Price, $50.
Bette keyes Chambers-"B Bette keyes,
she Is best kn0wn-was a southern
girl. the daughter or a soldier. Col.
Washington Keyes. of Decatur. Ala. She
lives now at San Diego. Cal. Her four
brothers won laurels on Southern bat
tlefields. At her home in Mississippi
during her young widOwhood, she nursed
many wounded soldiers. and her kind
ness is remembered in homes scattered
all over the now united country. Her hos
ence between the blue and the gray-nOt
when suffering wounds called for help.
Eva Landeneau," the initial poem OF
Mrs Chambers's collection. was begun
shortly after the war, at the suggestion
of ]. G. Holland II is dedicated to The |
United Daughters Of the ConfederaCy."
an appropriate tribute. since the heroine
is a Southern woman. and the poem mar
rates her experience from the beginning |
of the war to the yellow fever epidemic I
in 1875. Many Of the shorter lyrics were !
printed in the New Orleans PiCayune and /
other important newspapers.
These 'Idylls," which are greatly va
ried in theme. range from light moods !
Of fancy and memory 10 passionate prayer |
and appeal. In the lyrics, Bend Low. o ,
God" written during the yellow fever /
scourge: Warnings" ''MiEonette," and ,
My Mamie" the poets emotion is ,
voiced with genuine power.
RELIGION: BY Thomas C1rr1n |
Ryan tof the Wisconsin RarD. sherman French /
& Co, Boston. Trice. ST.
The book is addressed particularly to
those who seek faith. but who are so
constituted that their search must be
guided by reason. The author uses I'm
tellectual Religion" as he would sunny
day" The day is no less a day because
it is sunny, nor is religion less because it
is intellectual.
The author. a member If the Wiscon-
sin bar. brought to the study OF science,
and religion the exacting
qualities Of the legal mind. To know. not
intuitively, but intellectually, was neces-
sary, and to this end lifelong study and