Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11

ton by James l.. Tryon. lllustrat-
ed New York: G. +. Putnam
Sons.
vHE peace movement in America
as distinct from the world
wide current now setting III
toward more civilized methods
of adjusting controversies be-
tween nations-must, in the mind or the
mere reader of news. stand rather as
sporadic cases of humane feeling and
action, with Mr.. Carnegie as the great
txemplar of these. than as something OF
a size and organization and dynamic
direction to be classed as a formal move
ment. The useful purpose of this volume
IS to gather up and spread out in orderly
fashion the various activities in Amer
lea that consciously point TO the issue OF
peaceful internationaIism. One is as
tonished at this summary-at it's scope,
its spirit, at the work already done, at
the projects even now turning into
achievement. An interesting feature of
the peace movement in America, as the
! author points out, is the natural drift of
it's agencies toward Washington. where
theories may, under proper nurture. grow
into laws. where politics may, under 1n-
spircd tuition. blossom into statesman
ship. Among the many peace agencies
established at this point Mr.. Moritzen
makes special note of the PanAmerican
Union an institution as practical in its
economic and industrial propaganda as
il is unique and picturesque in appear
ance and attitude. OF the individuals IN
Washington seriously fronted upon the
peace movement is President Taft. who,
by virtue of his place. of his judicial
mind of his constructive power, and,
above all, of his plain human manhood,
stands clearly at the head of the efficient
forces of peace This study is most use
ful. most interesting. Its high quality
puts the author under bond to so alons
with this movement, making more notes
. and. family. rendering another account of
its growth and accomplishment.
THE ELDEST son; a Domestic Drama
in Three Acts. BY John Galsworthy.
author of Justice" etc. New York.
Charles Scribners Sons Washing
ton; Woodward Il Lothrop.
\ little note from Mr.. Galsworthy to
the reader explains that accidents hap
py and unhappy hindered the production
of this play a full three years beyond the
time of its completion. One reads the CEN
sor into these accidents The eyre
sious type of human that can be induced
to act as both the mind and conscience
of an entire community, ordering its art
and its amusements as he does a plate of
mutton and marrow, is exactly the KIND
to pounce upon this play and condemn 1t
in a jiffy outrageous, and its author
along with it. If social drama having
TO do mainly with seductiOnS is not I'M
moral, pray, what is! That this play is
a poignant piece of life, as, alas! every
body with eyes has been made to see.
has nothing to do with the matter. That
il is woven of the fabric of English life
with its traditions of caste, with its eX-
elusive angles of reflection and the mar
row sympathes incident thereto, is some
thing. But what really counts is that one
should put upon the stage, for all to see,
a play wherein one of the peasant class.
and woman at that, mere waiting
maid, COMFORTS herself with more of dig
nifty and independence, more of nobility
and self-reSpect than the whole kit-and-
Caboodle of the quality around her, "eld-
est SON and all. 1t is not only immoral;
it is bad taste. One envisages this play
a. a spirited, consistent, cumulative piece
of stage writing. Mr.. Galsworthy Is
workmauly man, cutting out compact,
Ceftly jointed unit of life-hard life, I'M
happy life-from the large pattern of hu-
man interests, and holding this up as it
il for all to see. One leaves his plays
desperately uncomfortable. grumbling
over Galsworthy's notion of what the
stage is for, and, next week, hunting up
THE Merry Widow or some other anti
dote for the pain of the Galsworthian
drama. If one be of a serious mold, how
ever. he is likely to turn reformer under
the spur of these plays. And somehow
reforming seems to be the most discour-
aging of all businesses.
THE SECRET OF THE CLAN. BY
Alice Brown. Illustrated by Sarah
h Smith. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
-Four little girls, frequently known by
forgetful erown-ups roundabout as
''imps" and an altogether adorable grand
mother make the handspring of this de-
licious story, though Titania and Just
Grandpa and F!utino, in the order NAM
ed, are by no means TO be despised as
good and efficient subordinates in this |
fine adventure of being a little girl. Not |
until one reads this story does he fully |
realize the purely supernumerary charac- !
ter of parents after one Is safely born :
and weaned What one really must have.
now ever. Ia draw the full fiavors out of
the iirst ten or twelve years of life is a
grandmother or so at hand. Plain ia
Tiers and mothers are fussy and trouble
eome. They are too young to have got ,
at the right value of things. So on
the one hand they are forever bear
ing down on matters of no earthly con-
Germ, and on the other making light of
the thousand and one importances that 4
pack every day from sunup to its down
ing This story free from such him
ORANGES. moves in the glow of grand
motherly approval The ingenuity and
fling OF its adventure hang upon the
pledge of secrecy that binds the clan to-
gether against the world. Admission to
the tribe is a fearsome rite. draught
Of blood sealing the bond and a mysteri-
Ous chant holding uppermost its chief
obligation:
''Yell-o, yell-oi yell!
We won't tell!
Shut us in a'cell!
Drown us in well.
Remember Ruddy jeil,S
We won't tell
YcII-o, yell-o! yell,'
t-Currant; changed to- blood in the cir
rumstance of the initiatory ritual)
The veriest ramshackle of a memory
serves one to picture here the potential
illrLLlail of GnliEG INSTRUMENTATION