Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17

the heaU the -AUeliSd
Catholic Church marks in OPP
perfume immediacy the recent
double Jubilee set to celebrate
Z Cardinal Gibbons fiftieth anniversary as
priest and his twenty fifth anniversary as
cardinal Much of fragmentary sort has
been written about this distinguished
and compelling personality. lnnu1nerapie
sketches and passing views. sourced In
Special occasion and made without reier-
<nce to the complete pattern Of his He
may be gathered up. The volume In hahd
IS. however, the first comprehensive pioS-
craphy wherein special motive and action
take on full significance by standing IN
proper relation to Cardinal Gibbons lie
series Of intent and deed. Following the
plan OF the analyst the author, from
his store Of accumulated facts, draws out
a plain story of the passage OF James
Gibbons from obscurity to fame. thou
sand incidents portray hini-kindly, cour-
! ageous and growing steadily toward sa-
cacitv and strength. These incidents are
SET i'm circumstances of all grades OF I'M
portance. from merely personal and local
concerns to those of national and inter-
national magnitude. The author contents
himself with an orderly and well seiec.eu
array of facts. warming these III .Ie
glow of his own personal comprehension.
he makes a vivid and inspiring story OF
the great cardinals lie. All men, IN PRO-
portion to their rise above the coinIhoh
level. are tantalizing subjects 70 tns
average man who tries to explore 1urther
and yet further into the sources OF human
mower So. here. the reader reefs tne
need Of a complement to this admirable
work. something Of philosoph hr ana q, a ths
patriotic priest, this statesmaniS A'iie'-
lean prelate
HISTORY OF OUR TIME: 1ssS-19l1:
BY G. P. Gooch, NJ. A., author OF
English Democratic Ideas In the
Seventeenth Century, etc. The
Home University of Modern knowl-
edge. New York: Henry Holt &
Co.
This author is like a bird or a man
flying too high to catch more than the
big features of the earth below him
mountains, long monotonous levels.
blotches of towns stamped only by their
most aggressive physical facts. SO. soar
ins high above the political world, he
skins of its significant aspects Of devei-
opment and direction alone. Over Europe
-. first, gathering up Great Britain, France,
the Latin south uta!y, Spain, PortugaD'
AUSTRIA Hungary, Russia and the tempt
ing little near-east nest of Balkan states
Stopping a minute here. he sweeps up a
fine analysis of that useful political in
err Then off to Asia to find Japan wide
awake-doing well as could be expect
Cd. too, thank you-and China yawning
lortentously Away to Africa, in time
10 see all Europe picking it's dis5ointed
ones. Then over to us, new wOfiderG,
where in thirty pages or less we, In our
POLITICAL person, are gathered up, shak-
and spanked with d forebodinsly gen.
t.c hand and told to be good. AT this
cumulative point the flight swoops sharp
u tn the handwriting on the wall. AS
Pain as day il spells the universal SUI
l'remacy of democracy, with the letters
.Siant toward socialism. An incompara-
bic book for setting out unmistahaoy
TIC unity of the word, and, on this basis,
,stuaily~Nseful for charting ones thought
and comprising his study
SERVING THE REPUBLIC, Memoirs
of civil and Military Life. BY Nell
son A. Miles, Lieutenant general
United States Army. illustrated.
New York: Harper & Bros, pub
History joins autobiography in this SOL
dierly story by Gen. Nelson A. Miles. 1t
is, in outline, the story of wars-the civil
war, Indian wars and the war with Spain
Thousands of old soldiers will follow this
vivid record of the civil war IN the bat
ties of Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill. Antietam,
Chance llog svile. Spottsylvania and the
! Wilderness. The frontiersman will follow
his course in the Indian country, subduing
hostile tribes in br liant and decisive
battles The war with Spain rounds out
this life of military activity, where the
volunteer from Massachusetts, now ap-
pears as commander Of the United States
Army 1t is plain and modest account
and an inspiring one withal, Of what this
man line of patriotic duty has achieved
for the military prestige Of his country.
A RETROSPECT OF FORTY YEARS:
1s1J-1S6S. By William Allen But
Ter. Edited by his daughter, Har-
riet Allen Butler. Portraits and il
srr,bnaU S Ssw York Charles
Brentano's.
The broadly essential features of this
long and brilliant retrospect-the ones in
which the reading public has a manifest
concern-lie in its sane and many-sided
view of the anti-slayery movement and in
its graphic picture of the rise and prog
ress of the civil war. Supporting these
central themes are hundreds of revealing
anecdotes OF men and movements, of
affairs and issues bearing directly upon
this most critical period In the develop
ment of the United States. In a COM
manding and dignified position of public
lions Of important character. this author
makes several chapters of history that.
for vitality and warmth. surpass any
mere abstraction of historic fact. An il
IdlnIuduuS ptlsoHdi NECN VI tiic pc
Rod covering the civil war and its
sources.
SHERWOOD: or, Robin Hood and the
Three Kings; play I'm ave acts.
By Alfred Noyes. author OF THE
Enchanted Island" etc. Illustrated
by Spencer Baird Nichols. New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany.
From the slow and picking current of
pnOder7a literary logic with welfer nf
superimposed human problems. one re-
verts, now and then, with unqualified
joy to the unimpeded progress of high
romance Here. the logic of events
when lifted into the youthful and color
full world of-things-as-they-o ught-to-b be
is quite as sound and satisfying as in
the modern practice. So. in this mood of
revolt, one takes up with pleasant hope
the old story of Robin Hood and Maid
Marian, recast in the truly melodious
tones and poetic fancy of Alfred Noyes.
Set I'm drama, the matter moves to its
issue In swift and vigorous action.
through the adventures of this bold
marauder. this rebel against the king s
oppressed While a twelfth century
glamour sufYuses this romantic tale. one,
under it. trappings OF chivalry. reads the
eternal story Of the people striving
against the bonds of Tyranny.
MUSIC AND MORALS. BY the Rev
H. r. Haweis, NJ A. New York
Harper & Brothers. publishers.
Tho o,,hcfapca oF this ipsfruct{vn opI