Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25
BOOK REVIEWS.

THE MAKING OF A NEWSPAPER
MAN. BY Samuel G. Blythe. Phila-
delphia: Henry Altemus Company.
-HOUSANDS of young men and
women in the United States for
whom a successful newspaper
career makes the full pattern
of their ambition will take keen
interest in Mr.. Blythe's recollections OF
his. apprentice days in journalism. The
glamour of success is calculated to cover
the defeats and discouragements of which
this success is, i'm part. made. Upon its
face it looks like a steady upgrade of
unbroken triumphs-a frightfully depress-
ing appearance to the fellow down below
stumbling in "A maze OF mistakes and re-
Bluffs. So. when a man successful In any
calling will sit down now and then to
talk about himself when his sailing was
not so smooth. as it now is, that man is
doing both kindly and useful thing.
Mr.. Blythe makes a plain, sincere report
of his own experience. The general tone
OF these recollections is, to be sure, cheer
full, optimistic. This is merely Mr. Blythes
disposition working. 1t does not hide, nor
does it seek to hide. the difficulties that
must be met by every young reporter.
Toward the last of the volume the author
passes into some very substantial words
of advice and caution to the youthful
writer, as well as into most interesting
critical analysis of the newspaper in its
attitude toward its two kinds of workmen
its reporters and its editOrs-defining
their fundamental relations to each other,
and the methods by which this relation
ship works out to the best mutual advan-
tage. A personal confession Of faith, so
TO say. filled with practical suggestions
6ra I'm bSfa hpn
slye experience.
ST. ANNE OF THE MOUNTAIN. The
Story of q Summer in q Canadian
Pilgrimage Village. By Effie Bignell.
author of The Chardronnet and
other Habitant Stories etc. Boston:
Richard G. Badger, the German
Press.
A little book for the nomad that springs
unbidden in every one when the days be-
gin to stretch themselves long between
sun and sun. A delightful summer expe-
rience, sent out ahead to meet one at
the yearly point when he instinctively
gathers his family and stuff. folds the
tent, packs the camel and fares forth
soTnewhere, anywhere, under the spell of
his native lust for wandering. The par
stfcular place of promise pictured here Is
the good hamlet of st. Anne, where piouS
pilgrims go to shed their sins. and where
mere travellers also go to enjoy the beau
tiful country. and the interesting habit
ants, and to get into a fresh and unwOrn
corner of the earth. st. Anne is up on
the ST. Lawrence. pretty near where its
mouth opens into the gulf. The first
charm about it is its ninety miles of dis
lance from the railway. Only ten less
than hundred miles of driving through
an interesting stretch of land whose
beauty and StrangenesS Miss Bignell de-
scribes in a way to make one put this
down as journey to take when his days
of travelling shall set in. And later. in
recountihg full summer of work and
play, in describing the life of these Ca
madam habitants and the places where
they live, Miss Bignell lives quite up to
the high mark made by her In picturlns
that memorable ninety-mile drive AS a
guide to follow literally in travel, or
imasinatiyely in reading. this story of a
summer is fresh and absorbing.
SNLVE. BY George Moore. author of
Ave" etc. New York: d. Appleton
& Co.
..Salye'' Is the second volume of George |
sMoorets trilogy. Hail and Farewell" So
far. however as any sequence between
the two goes. it might as well have been
the first. In this volume itself, too, the
author, disdaining any such workaday
notion as that of order, cuts loose from
control and veers about like Tightly
weathercock in every passing ruff1e of
ritate one, as rule. to man size
state of wrath. Now and then, on the
. other hand, one of these makes the
readef positively gurgle Joy. This one
does. In it, Moore rushes from London
10 Dublin in a passion Of missioning
zeal TO take hand in the revival of the
ancient Gaelic tongue, sin which the very
soul of Ireland lies implicit" Once there,
he. follows in happy trail almost every
notion under the sun. using the old Irish
speech and the Catholic religion. in turn,
chiefly starting posts from which he
makes all sorts Of excursions into
tanegyric and abuse as the particular
post sets him a-going. The talk flows
II a delightful haphazardry of poetry
and prose of shrewd depth and foamy
shadows. Now and then, in order to be
deliberately shocking. Moore is needless
.Iy nasty. laboriously and clumsly so. He,
n these lapses. reminds one of those
writer's who. when trying hardest to
practice the methods of realism, become
merely obscene-commenting sadly upon
themselves rather than upon the world
Itself, in this sort of transcription. How
ever. in this hit or miss little book there
is much delightful stuff to be assorted
out. that is quite of piece with MoOres
best artistry.
WATERWAYS VERSUS RAILWAYS.
By Harold c. Moulton, instructor in
political economy in the University
of Chicago. Boston: Houghton Milf.
fin Company.
Messrs. Hart, Schaffner & Marx-three
wise men of Chicago, public-spirited and
generous-have provided for an annual
award of prizes to American students, in
order to encourage a study of the vital
modern problems of business economics.
The volume in hand stands in this series
OF studies In substance. 1t is an expert
and critical comparative analysis of
waterways and railways as means of
transportation. The investigation springs
directly from the recent revival of inter-
est in the United States in a system of
inland waterways. for whose commercial
advantages fits advocates make ardent
claim. To open the subject fully, Mr..
Mouton not only reviews the history of
water transportation in the United
States. but he. besides, investigates the
waterway systems of Great Britain,
France. Germany. Holland and Belgium
the basis of cost. traffic development
and financial success. The author sep
arates this purely commercial aspect of
the subject from the somewhat alien al
liances forced upon il by the purposes of
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