Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-04


Company.
AoO the most of US. mere uncon-
cerned passersby' the factory tory
as such, connotes no more than
huddles Of ugly buildings, scars
upon any landscape. Its bust
moss from this casual outside view. ap-
pears to be the daily consumption OF two
Garrantlan meals, taken In with mon
stro,Is gustatory noises and huge Deicn-
3nrs of black smoke. Twice every DAY
svarms of unpalata BILE looking folks are
drawn into its gigantic nav. and as regu-
iarly twice day, spewed out. uneataole.
Mr. LincoIn's story of the factory is
written, however, from the inside ana
out of searching study. 1t is clear rec
ord of the ultimate amalgamation OF
hundreds and thousands of INDIVIDUALS
into a coherent Unit by the slow. habit
making processes of a common environ
ment. The same roofage of toll, kindred
tasks and recreations. equal hours OF
work and respite. food alike in quality and
much the same in amount, ad1acent
homes of similar outlook, common grew
ances and desires-these elements and
agencies shape and weld class. Discon-
tent is its dynamics. Another class be
comes the object of its concentrate dis
trust and aversion, the object toward which
the UNREASONABLE momentum Of its mass
is directed. The factory, out OF this STUDY
stands as the prime origin and present
urge of the struggle going on between the
laboring and capitaliStic classes Among
many kindred studies. the particular
stamp of Mr.. Lincon's work Is its reada-
bility 1t has movement. color, personality.
History and literature sustain Its purely
expository purpose. Illuminatingly in
1erwoven here is the story of Richard
Arkwright. penny barber of Preston
of .
grateful king-eighteenth century cap
tain of industry and titular head of the
modern factory. Here are Carlyle's apos-
trophies to the laborer and Rnskin,s
prophecies. Here Dickens Hard Times
and Meredith's Shaving of Shagpat' are
shown to have had their roots In early
factory days. Here is the story of Lord
Byron's maiden speech in parliament, OPP
posing bill designed to protect these ma
chine-inventing innovators, SO feared and
dstrusted by all classes. Dozens of sim
liar touches along the course Of this
study not only compel absorbed attention
10 the matter, but give proof. as well. Of
the robust vitality and sturdy resisting
power of the factory growth
Mr.. Lincoln stands clearly and honor
ably with the increasing numbers of uni
versity men who. in the service Of the
public, are valiantly rescuing useful bod
les of knowledge, on the one hand from
their crypts of unintelligible technic. and
on the other from their sheer depths OF
utter dizziness.
THE RETURN OF PIERRE. BY Donal
Hamilton Haines. Frontispiece from
one of the panels of Edouard De-
taille's lie Chant du Depart" New
York: Henry Holt & Co.
For place, the tiny village of Ardun,
eharmingly fresh. and peasant and
French. For hero. Pierre. For time.
1870 The story opens with Pierre riding
home to Ardun on a neighbours cart, his
three years conscript service happily
having come to end. Sitting beside
Pierre, the old neighbor tumbles out of
his mouth mutter of words, clipped by
toothlessness and muff1ed in blankets OF
tobacco smoke. Pierre gathers: Marie
has lover.'' NO villager, no peasant,
this man. A painter. What do you think
of that? 1t is a misfortune. Pierre, but
time or another most of us have to
stand aside and see a better man take
the things We have wanted. 1t is great
pity. but it is life. 1t has happened to
me- In this humble of fact and
philosophy, Marie has a lover prov
en- to be the seeding Of this romance.
From it springs Pierre's return to the
army. now moving toward the German
frontier to add the Franco-PruSsian war
10 history. There, amid material scenes of
heroic dash and spirit, Pierre meets In
combat the urbane painter. the better
man. the lover of Marie, who turns out
To be German spy, who under cover
of easel and brush. had previously
infinitely mapped strategic Ardun.
A good gift of story telling falls to the
author. He makes men and women in
the image of reality. after good pattern
of French peasantry and soldfery. These,
occasion warrants. he rounds up into
good brawny situations, where they be-
nave themselves with spirit and original
ity. The war episodes are believable as
we'll as dramatic and exciting The whole
is cleyerly built. interesting romance.
RECOLLECTIoNS OF An OFFICER
OF NAPOLEON'S ARMY. Bys Capt.
EIennh by F. Jules Mera as0 NeW
York: Sturgis & Walton Company
Washington: BrentanO's.
1t is hard to imagine blither view of
warfare than the one given here by this
debonair captain OF Napoleon's army.
Bivouac and march. camp and garrison,
even campaign and battle. partake of the
unauenchable gayety of this prince Of
good soldiers and good raconteurs Re-
covered from the first strange effect of
his buoyancy in the face of so dreadful
thing as war. one begins to sense the
graphic and brilliant quality of Capt.
Baze's work. Lightning sketches of in
spring courage. of invincble heroism, of
keen military insight, flash out in COM
pany with lighter scenes. where wit and
satire and a laughing humor lead one
away momentarily from the full dra-
matte vigor of these recollectione.
THE STORY OF PLOUGHBOY. BY
James Bryce. Introduction by Ed
win Markham New York: John
Lane Company.
A poignantly painful story OF the life of
Scottish country boy-a fatherless,
motherless, friendess. poverty-eate boy;
a farm hand. task-mastered by success
sive orders of tyrant stretching from the
soil to the ultimate overload himself. 1t
is q story calculated to blur any illusions
concerning the poetic and pastoral lures
of every sort of rural life-a wholly bit