Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-06

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THE Man and His Plays. etc. New
York: Duffield and Company
- - AI-RICE MAETERLINCk IS
~ more than fashion over here.
N His open spiritual and phlio-
sophie kinship to Emerson IN
dicates sympathy with the
diffused thought of which Emerson was
the supreme concentrate expression III
America. Maeterlincks dramas, more
over, appeal to the commonaty as the
New Theater performances prove anu
not alone to a lettered cult. The man Is
without doubt more than mode, more
than a passing fad for the advertisement
If an elect following. Montrose Moses
here makes a most interesting STUDY OF
Maeterlinck. MIR. Moses is an engaging
writer. an informed and serious one,
man of thought and experience Ills
method too, is of the best, concrete
method wherein the development ana
significance Of man are traced Dy way
OF what he has done in literature. TITS
plan clearly outwcighs that OF mere inter-
arv ANALYSIS Of an authors work. Poem
hy poem, and play by play. Mr.. Moses 1oi-
lows the growth of Maeterlinck out from
!, realm of Spccters into the light of gen.
- h,,r,an feeling and activity The
dramas gather into groups, each group
standing for some phase OF Maeterilnck
ins cht and outlook, some accounting OF
Ills growing philoSophic thought. The
marionette dramas, the static theater are
hut the application OF art 10 the uia
rnatist's conception OF the content OIL me
Mr. Moses does line service here IN feScu-
in.. Maeterllnck from the overtures Oh
esotcrics vt every stage he holds MN
10 Il native simplicity, an expialnaoie man
honestly expressing his vision OF lie III
terms of dramatic art.
TWENTY YEARS OF \ FLORENCE
BALCONY. BY Virginia W. Johh
Arno." etc. Illustrated. Boston,
Dana Estes and Company.
II il not easy to vision the city OF
Florence as "a place where people llve
II the most il stands IA churched, en-
.alIeried spot turned over to the uses
Of intellectual travellers and would-oe
intellectual tourists. Dante, CimaDue'
Giotto. crystallzed the city i'll the
glory of the thirteenth century,. me
two succeeding centuries addeu iuslei
10 luster. Then Florence passed SLOW
~ into splendid fossil. oniy la..e ~
does one. here and there appear "
realize the beauty and meaning OF
modern Florence moving against 1ts
-iorious medieval backerouno, ne
present unpretentious little VoIume -
a case in point of this later movement
Here is a group of little sketches por.
traving the daily Florentine life as it
passes to and fro beneath the writer's
balcony. "a spacious balcony, with a
tiuc-worn parapet, giving glimpSes OF
distant hills across the Arno. Ihese
are pictures of city streets with every
day men and women passing aiohs
them. OF lovely children, or hlgh DAYS
and low, of sunshine and starry nights
of the passing paeeantry of the Italian
seasons-easy pictures out of ready
hand fresh and charming book,
whose indirect effect is to send vi,
TALKING breath across the splendio
dead -and-g gone Florence of Dante.
cimabue. Giotto. da Ninci and their
followers.
WILLIAM JAMES: And Other Essays.
BY Josiah Royce, LII. d.. Lift. D.,
professor. of the history of philosophy
at Harvard University New YORK:
The Macmillan Company.
\ tribute to the memory of William
James, a. study on Christianity. an ideal
istic thesis of Immortality, an essay on
Loyalty and Insight" summarizing ana
defending an earlier exposition OF philo-
sophie thought, are the subjects included
in these addresses by Josiah Royce. A
profound group offered to deep readers
and students of the problems OF modern
philosophy. The most concrete. and
therefore the most broadly appealing Of
these, is the appreciation OF William
James the authors teacher and friend.
Placing him in the second stage OF cv0-
lutionary thought and movement, and
measu. ing him by the independence, the
originality and the fruitfulaess OF n
work, the author counts Mr.. James, along
with Jonathan Edwards and Ra. phi Waldo
Emerson, as the three American thinkers
who have, so far. contributed in any
notable and typical manner to the sum
of general philosophy. Scholarly in SUD-
stance and method, sympathetic but in
I.-na Wit no AM
valuable contribution to the body of phil
osoph C analysis by way OF this eloquent
appreciation. He presents Mr.. James as
the =. eat psychologist. the radical en-
piricist, the pragmatist but beyond
these as 1.-The interpreter of the ethical
spirit of his time and of his people-a
prophet of the nation that Is TO be-
WHEN NEIGHBORS WERE NEIGH
BORIS. 4 story OF Love and Life In
Oiden Days. BY Galusha Anderson.
). T: D.. LII d., professor emeritus
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company.
This easy author draws lifelike and
charming picture of an old-time country
neighborhood. with a rare and beautiful
love story growing in its midst. What
these unpretentious people thought and
what they said about their work and
their play, about their religion and their
politics. and about the rumors of great
things that drifted vaguely into the by
ways of their remote life make a de-
icous and tender story. 1t is such a true
Story-that il, il is held so well within
the natural and plausible attitude of its
characters, II is an interesting thing
that this author should turn the Intimate
experience of twenty years devoted to
teaching and preaching into this perfect
picture of an earlier day, when neighbors
were really neighbors.
TOURING IN 1900: 4 study In the De-
velopment Of Travel . Means of
Education. BY Z. 5. Bates. With
illustrations from contemporary
sources. Boston: IIoughton Miftlin
Company.
\ book designed for everybodys pleas
IRE. II IL one 10 delight the collector Of
customs that are now out-moded and
curious, one also to attract the student
II history and interest the general reader
as well. This is vivid story Of touring
100 years ago. Intimate in tone, fresh in
approach, smooth and spirited in manner,
the whole is mine of information. a
success on OF good stories. a series of
fascinating incidents covering land and
sea travel. with highwaymen and pirates
in ready attendance. The atmosphere of