Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-25

~ NE feels workmanly building long
before he can analyze H. more
than likely, he Is never iulS
able to make a strict accounting
OF the nice exactitudes that I'M
derIie his sense of well-being wherever a
master hand has planned and wrought
Rather. does he simply move INTO the
place glad of its ordered comfort aho
convenience, of its pleasant light ana
dreaming shadows. glad OF IT'S open out
look over such spaces as nave ero"
wonted to his out -faring feet. MISS
er's new novel. her first long story, makes
this satisfying hoLsage for It's READERS >.
The store Itself is built upon the common
rule of three Specifically here the three
arc. a man and his wife and the other
woman. Away back. long befofe this
story opens, a boy-the man. now-in COM
pany with a maid, was ambuscaoed anu
laid low, by the spell OF youth ana inc
eprin ztime OF Paris. dear EPISODE thousn
quite forgotten by the boy in the shose-
uuent- INSCRIPTIONS of business success anu
marital happiness Right here the common
story OF three becomes uncommon. II
seaves the beaten highway Tor hsii
hidden trail, where the guide Is or SUD
tier shape than that of mere eyes anu
ears At this point the real theme comes
To. life 1t is that of the persistence Oh
youth throughout HE, ana Oh I.s 80 Of
cent action when the circumstances VI
its early evocations are repeated by an
accident OF business the man reVlslls ihe
places that knew the boy faIls again;
and London. The old walks py oelns h anu
Thames The Museum, and Twlckenham
or Richmond, places of ecstatlc meetiils
or CAV adventure. The same old 81 mour-
ing lunacies OF the night. Ana the stars
txrxt oa
shining, for all the world, JUST a. .ms
that of re-meeting And then strlcAen
r,.sh New Englandward, to wash anu
wipe clean the faces of lares and penatess:
swearing meanwhile. never asan.
Years follow, years of out-voyasins anu
homecoming, the youth triumphant, the
man shaken. Out of this absorbing &C
ton three astonishingly hfelike persons
emeFge, each innately noble, all oeslrins
TO be good. One rests in the beauty ana
strength of not knowing. tne tnrasnes
about bewildered by the full-armed, Out,
rushing antagonisms between nature anu
convention. One moves forward seodlSiy
in the sunset light of comprehension Ihe
whole is ripened, a penetrating. per-
feet picture of human nature Under one
Of it's innumerable assailments and provo
cations
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF
- 1880. BY Emerson DAVID fite'
Phi D. assistant professor OF MS
= tory in Yale University, autnor oi
SOCIAL and Industrial Conditions IN
the North During the Civil war.
New York: The Macmillan Company.
Washington: Brentanos-
1t is so important in purpose and meth
oTIthis book-and yet so natural and
xasy-seeming, that one wonders why II
was not made long ago presidentiai
campaign is the public school of politics
fer adult democratic nations. Through the
e. nTnen campaign neutrality-suspicious.
kreecb! and individual persuasion-parues
pfjectffy, policies crystalline, issues take
Or form and feature and leaders pass
Uur.-s4 dim distractions into real blood
ard Drawn. All over the land school
Wakes In and the hum OF lessons pc
ing taagh and learned for the time pc
g. n ourhums all other sounds. The CAM
- aien3 of 1850 was a far-reaching and
NtsE movement. This authors inspira-
MANSION such il must be counted-was
lift the campaign out OF its non-es-
sfntial arrangements and to place IT,
stitlsbodfly warm, within this volume, &C
ces sihe TO all. Original sources or In
5ormatton on the subject were taxed TO
the full for this enterprise. The agita-
ffohs@ and discussions of Senate and
s1Iouse,- Of party conventions. OF stump
Pratpry and popular appeal. stand mere.
Is II were. in the flesh Here, out OF
fhefy own words and acts. leaders lead
and ere led, advanced and retreat. sail
free and trim close, as occasion and
character point. Four comprehensive and
illuminating speeches-by Carl Schurz,
Stephen A. Douglas, William L. Yancey
and ". G. Observation-Disclosures with the
party platforms. complete this admirable
study whose great point is that the au-
thor stands aside without offering ready
made conclusions This fair-minded.
piain-dealing act leaves the reader and
the period face TO face for independent
acquaintance and judgment on the part
OF the reader.
THE ABOLITION CRUSADE AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES, Four Periods Of
<nsrisa1 History N.v BY Rorl Hilary G,ryr, a
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
- tano's.
Northern pens have written volumes
In exaitation of abolitionism. The
south has made few formal statements
about ii, yet the common southern con-
viction is that the abolitionists brought
on the civil war in the pursuit of an
end which the orderly processes of
economic and social evolution would
have reached, finally. without this de-
StPDctive issue. Relatively few men in
the south. were slave holders. The best
and, most influential of this few believed,
with the north, that slavery was wrong.
washington was an emancipationist- SO
was Jefferson. So were many all along
khes line. These were searching for
\
solution that came early and easily to
the north through soil and surface
that of themselves repudiated slavery.
Whether men and nations learn lessons
from history, lessons that pass into con-
duct. may Well be moot question. But In
the bare possibility that they do so
learn. the one vital condition is that
.both the facts and feelings of history
yhe fully set out before them So it
homes as welcome thing that one COM
nfetely equipped as Mr.. Herbert is should
state. the case of abolitionism and it's
tnects as the south looks upon this
snatter. A southerner born and bred, a
believer in the Union though a Con-
tederate soldier. for many years a men,
ber or Congress. and finally. Secretary
Of the Navy. this author brings both
Ifhe warmth Of experience and the re-
etraints of training to the task. 1t is
a candid and courageous story. 1t is
an impassioned one. stressed by the
-recollections of bitter years. But il
is. withal. a fair story, one that ought
TO be told. ought to be pondered. Out
of. u one cannot fail to gather that
enthusiasm however lofty. zeal however
~lnsPired. feelings however profound, con-
.victions however deep-seated-that all
,these whipped TO an excitement bordering
close upon fanaticism are not the proper
leaders In critical and >momentous periods.
.IRtS book has place-north. south. east
and west Its clear office Is 70 compile
ment the accepted and established his
tories OF the movement with which II
deals. =
HEREDITY IN RELATION To EU-
= GENICS. BY Charles Benedict Dav-
export. Carnegie Institution of
WASHINGTON. director of the depart