Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-28

States. sails into Wall street. cleans VI
s., OOO,OO in about seven hours. and is
ready to sail away again. Back in Paris
he learns that the transaction which gives
him the role Of Dives simultaneously
stages the erstwhile old millionaire as
I,azarus--Lazarus exactly 100000 be-
hind the game. Immediately the cable
huns the fortune back to bridge this
awful chasm between owing and paying
Then the wedding follows. This story is
nothing if not moving. moving and cur
rent. The most prominent of our new
political isms peer out from among Its
pages, echoes OF the Chicago convention
mutter here and there. the policies OF
Roosevelt make mention. and the names
of live. sure-enough statesmen bear tes'
timony to the substantial reality of this
adventure in frenZed finance.
Bindloss. author of "vane of the
Timberlands." etc. Frontfspiece by
Arthur Hutchins. New York: Fred
erick A. Stokes Company.
Mr.. Bindloss, pitted against the SPLEEN
did rigors Of British Columbia. through
the adventures Of some chosen hero, is
dramatic, thrilling, absorbing. But Mr.
Bindloss let down to softer ATTITUDES
mixing with pruned and prismed COM
panies of men and women. fades from a
vivid and fascinating personality &c
something approaching the d1ngy human
lump surrounding him in these mildel
reaches. So, the part OF this romance
having to do with the dangers OF min.
ing and mine prospecting in the great
northwest, and with the hero's qulXout
and hazardous mission to clear the honol
of his dead friend. possesses in full meas
ure this authors best gifts of Invention
When. on the other hand, the hero Is
transferred to England and changed
, from adventurer to lover. he becomes
relatively colorless and unpersuasiVe
man. However, since by far the larger
part of this story Is virile and convlnc,
ing, why carp over an unaccustomec
hero's particular manner of wooing. A
good story?
CONCENTRATION AND CONTROL, q
solution Of the Trust Problem In
the United states. BY Charles r.
van Hise. author of Conservation
Of Natural Resources in the United
States" etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
University men-a growing number OF
them-are doing splendid public service
as purveyors of information on vital sub
jects of general concern and appeal. The
views of the best of these men are in
variably timely. practical. reliable. many
sided, we'll selected and admirably or
ganized. They move bodily into the
grasp Of the unframed reader. an extern
sion of the university out to the average
man. The study in hand is a case in
point. The author, in half-apology, calls
1t a piece of opportunism. And such 1t Is
A fine example of justiiable opportunism
bent to immediate usefulness and open to
subsequent adaptation to fit changed con-
ditions It's subject. the trust. is now I'D
permost in political calculations. TIC
have it examined and explained outside
he nf rfiSQnShln
matter of first moment. From the stand
point of evolution, economic evolution,
the author discusses business concentra-
ton as the inevitable next step In the re-
adjustment of economic forces when COM
petition passes. outmoded as a regulative
industrial agent. That unrestricted con-
centration must, in the fullness of trial,
itself give way to some economic measure
or still filter adaptation. that it. itself.
may become-and even now, in a meas
power, the author points out through
concrete illustrations of the operations
and effects Of great combinations of the
oil and steel. of the sugar and tobacco
trusts The last chapter of this full and
unbiased study deals with legislative con-
troll of these gigantic institutions. There
is no new and startling specific offered
here, as there is no new point of d'agno-
sis. The study is important and valuable
in that it gathers from many sources the
salient facts about big business, to which
it fits a clear-v!sioned, well reasoned plan
of regulation and control.
THE JUDGMENTS OF THE SEA; and
Other Stories. BY Ralph D. Paine
New York: Sturgis 6 Walton Com
pany
Those who have read Mr.. Paine's
stories in magazine or book form will no
doubt peruse with increased interest a
new collection of sea tales offered un-
der a title primarily intended for the
first Of the series, but which serves ad-
misably as the title for the whole. A
peculiar fatalism in the stories make
them The judgments of the Sea" AL
though six Of the thirteen stories COM
prising the book ware published in 1906
under the title of THE Praying Skipper
they hold sufficient attraction to warrant
a second reading. Broken shippers re-
stored to their ships or heroically sacri-
f1cing their personal interests to save
life, compraGors on the Chinese coasts, a
criminal running off with ship and a
baby and life saving on. the Florida coast
are all brought before one in a straight
forward. clear way, enhanced by quaint
expressions and phrases peculiar to those
70 flowing the sea. These tales hold ones
interest not by their manner of literary
construction, but by the sympathetic way
in which the material is handled, giving