Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-16


MOVEMENT: A Historical survey.
BY DIR. Kaethe Schumacher. Trans
lated from the second German edl-
tion by Carl Conrad Eckhardt. Ph.D
instructor in history, University OF
Colorado. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
~ r. SCHIRMACHER'S history
spreads a world-map OF the
modern woman's rights move
ment. This map turns out to
be thing to ponder, since 1t
marks a matter that in less than dec
ade has grown from parochial to interna-
tional measure. matter. moreover, that
looks ominously like those irresistible I'M
dertows Of humanity which, In times
past. have set OF one stage Of growth
toward freedom from its antecedent OF
oppression-say. q reformation. French
revolution, war Of independence. The
energ1zing impulse Of this particular for
ward press IL envisaged in body OF pro-
testing womanhood. q body that immedi-
ately follows protest by demand for
equality Of rights in the great fields Of
human characterization, labor. the law
and society. This study sets OF the stages
of advance In the woman's rights move
ment. In the Germanic states 1T pre-
sents a compact organization, definite
goal. diffused influence. This is the high
point Of its development. At the other
extreme is the far east, where the stir
is loose-limbed and sporadic, not much
more, as yet, than an involuntary recoil
from the monstrous inequalities OF sex
as these work out in the common affairs
of life. The author. herself an ardent adj
vocate Of woman's rights. offers this
study, not only as a body Of facts. but as
a political pamphlet as well. Its general
excellence shades of a trif1e through
slant of malice toward the tyrannous sex
the author forgetting that, in the be-
ginning woman worked assiduously to
compass her own servftude and that at
her hands man accepted his subsequent
overlordship. In view of this historic
fact woman's part in the present is that
of self-correction in patiently persistent
mood, rather than that of militant accu-
sation and demand. However. this is
to the present. conclusive. From 1t wom-
en- will be able to take exact political
and social bearings.
WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD, A Search
for Principles. BY c. w. Saleeby.
MD, FR.SE., Ch.B, author Of
"Evolution: The Master Key" etc.
New York: Mitchell kennerley.
Woman is natures supreme organ Of
the future" Upon the full meaning of
this unassailable fact DIR. Saleeby builds
a hopefully frank, scientific discussion of
womanhood. Woman, considered as the
prime biological fact of human existence,
equipped by nature for her destiny and
pointed upon it in implicit responsibility,
is the solid ground work of this theme
Woman as the ultimate conscious instru
ment of human advance toward physical
and spiritual perfection is its OutgrOwth.
Between these two points is a volume of
intimate plain speaking. Scientific in
struction direction. suggestion, crystalline
general theory into individual outlook and
action. Definite explanations, plain Illus
TO enlarge ones conception of the po-
tential existenceS of wOmanhOOd- This is
the supreme fact, not only to shape and
control education, but also to direct the
modern economic, social and political ac-
sivties of womanhoOd. Dr. Saleeby Is
another authoritative voice against the
Jet -aIone policy applied TO youth IN the
supreme matter of human existence.
INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSIONS. Their
Causes Analysed and Classified with
Practical Remedy for such N re-
suit from Industrial Derangements;
or, Iron n the Barometer of Trade.
BY George III. Hull. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Distinguishing sharply and at analytical
length between financial panics and pc
RODS of industrial depression, this author,
out of statistical and other official rec
ords builds a theory of industrial depres-
son-defining its causes, its character
istics of appearance and course, its rem
edies- The study serves to do away with
some of our respected notions on this
subject Overproduction, poor crops,
presidential campaigns and the other