Evening star., 1912-08-31
BOOK REVIEWS.


,RRESPONDENCE OF WILLIAM
SHIRLEY; Governor of Massachu-
setts and Military Commander In
america; 1s3I-i.6O. Edited under
the auspices of the National So
ciety of the Colonial Danes of
America. by Charles Henry LIN
coin. Ph. II. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
~TIDENTS of our early history are
in debt 10 the enterprise and
scientific outlook OF the Colonial
Danes for first-hand study of
the colony OF Massachusetts
hrough the official and personal corre-
pondence of William Shirley. From
tudy of this body of letters ones first
lrarked impression is of the quality OF
thc man himsclf-a sing'Ilarly modern
man of reforming type. shrewd OF insight.
with organizing capacity. and adept at
adaptations and adjustments. Coming
o America in the middle of the eight
zenith century as surveyor or the KING
woods. Shirley made study OF the nat
raj resources of the region. appraising
hem astutely in the light Of their eco
1omic promise. In this period he became
familiar. too. with tho geographical de-
lenses OF this locality, an immense ad-
vantage in the subsequent wars with
'rench and Indians. Upon accession to
no govcrnorship. Shirley, a kings man.
onsistently maintained the policy that
ne welfare OF the colonists was the best
guarantee of colonial .oyalty to the
rown. The letters, fresh from their
original source, are replete with the real
avor OF days Of stress and danger and
deprivation, and filed with perplexed re-
atoms OF the new country to the old.
This is fine material. the first drawing
m from the facts themselves. 1t puts one
IN the ground. SO TO say. permitting him
o make his own interpretations, form his
own opinions, construct his own history
this period of the Massachusetts, colony.
As important and substantial contr1-
button to the growing body of original
historic material these volumes give high
redit to the projectors and executors of
this enterprise In scientific scholarship.
incidentally, one loves the wife of Will
,ant-a highly intelligent woman of
much influence with lords and dukes.
whose minds she kept warm and uneasy
with the merits of her husband across
sea.
NARRATIVES OF EARLY PENNSYI-
vANIA, WEST NEW JERSEY AND
DELAWARE, 16SO-17O7. Edited by
q
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
These Original narratives also furnish
'resh and fascinating material to the stu
lent of early American history. The vol
Ime separates into two distinct parts.
Zach specific in it's aim and character.
rhe first part has to do with the Dutch
snd Swedes roundabout the Delaware
iS IN CniPny
,f official reports to superiors in office,
with no thought of their further publicity
facts calculated to cover their quality.
The second part. describing period later
oy twenty years than the first one pre-
sents. deals with the English in this re-
ZION. These narratives were shaped for
Immediate publication with the direct mo-
i've of attracting settlers to the shores
Of the Delaware. something as the rosy pic
ures of today lure men to far farings.
rhe two groups combine in a highly in
structtve account of the early settlers in
his part of the new country.
HENRY DEMAREsT LLOYD, 1s47-
1909; n Biography. BY Caro- Lloyd.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Save for the briefest sketch of his
youthful years, Miss Lloyd confines her
brothers biography to the period of his
working efficiency. This is the vivid story
If a reformer. a leader In the crusade
against what in an introduction to this
volume Charles Edward Russell calls IAN
abominable industrial despotism." Mr..
I.loyd's active years ran concurrent with
the revolution through which the prin-
ciple of Industrial combination supplanted
that of competition. Monopoly was the
dragon upon which this st. George waged
lifelong battle. The story bulks with
the strain and stress of this fighting
Idealist. 1t involves. moreover a pretty
poplafa history pf tho indnSfri rnndipt
# the last half century. AS matter of
ogic Mr.. Lloyd is found on the firing
line of labor. AS matter of ultimate
conviction he stands with socialism. The
Sonality something like that ascribed in
these pages to Mr.. Lloyd himself.
'oITH AMERICAN PROBLEMS. BY
Robert T.. Speer. New York: Stu
dent Volunteer Movement for For
eign Missions.
Seven of the eight chapters of this
study of South America serve merely as a
broad approach to the last one, which
contains the pith OF the whole matter
This closing chapter is not only a de-
scription and defense of the Protestant
mission work of this region. but 1t stands
also as an active propaganda for its
expansion. A short sketch of South
existing republics, a plain statement of
its urgent problems of education make
introduction To the authors real intent.
This. closing argument for the Prot
nstant mission cause is. in both bulk
and substance, an arraignmcnt of the
Roman Catholic influence in this country
since tho very day of it's advent il
sums this influence as one of arrest TO
civilization. as one of degradation even.
80 far the information gathered into
TINS volume goes information of eco
1ofnic. political and social fact, liz forms
IN all-around and interesting view OF
somewhat obscure country. It's opinions
and judgments. however. remind one
again that Christians. of both brands.
as barren OF broad comprehension
and liberation as the yeriest of the
heather. In an altogether admirable
spirit Of turning the general student and
reader to the facts of South American
life. the author PAYS tribute to the high
character OF the Pan-American Union at