Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04

0HIS was Giuseppe Garibaldi
war cry In it's name and I'M
der its spreading significances
James Ludlow builds, wildly.
the drama of Sicilian life at
the romantic and stirring point when
Sicily revolted against despoism and.
under the generalship OF Garibaldi him.
SELF Joined her fortunes with those OF
a united Italy. This is a crowded stage,
a brilliant and complex one, though an
orderly and disciplined one. Across 1t
priest and layman, noble and peasant
patriot and conspirator and traitor,
statesman and demagogue, civilian and
soldiery march and countermarch, COM
5ine, and dissolve. and reunite. in an
amazing pageantry OF incident and gen
eral advance. A fine love story threads a
sensitive way through the ruder pursuits
OF war and politics. Dominating the
whole at longer or shorter range are
three tremendous ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
close at hand, Cavour farther away and
colder in spirit, and Mazzini flaming out
OF his distant exile toward patriots ana
conspirators in behalf of united Italy.
1t is great story of it's kind. winged
with a splendid Imagination and Keen
feeling for the drama of Sicily at this
point of her fascinating career.
kING-ERRANT. By Flora Annie Steel
author of ION the Face of the wa
ters." etc. Illustrations by the
author. New York: Frederick "A
Stokes Company.
Away from the dissections, and vivi-
sections and biological calculations
upon which so much of current novel
writing depends. Miss Steel takes refuge
in the past for wherewlth TO hang
tale upon. The outcome of this literary
far-faring is oriental romance of
Arabian Nights establishments. This
is the manifold life adventure of Babar.
founder of the Indian empire or the
great moculs at Delhi The writer of
il says that il is neither a novel nor
1t history, but rather the mans own
memoirs shaped to the modern reading
habit BE that as IL may, 1t is with
ont any question at all an absorbing
adventure The record of the great
game. with kingdoms to win and lose,
then To win more than to lose, and
dnalIy to win so irresistibly that Babar
stands with the two or three other
great warriors and Soldiers-with Alex
ander. and Hannibal, and Napoleon. An
intimacy with eastern ways of looking
at life and with eastern customs and
traditions. an art in making the people
of the story real and lifelike. and a big
muscular grip on the sweeping course
Of events surrounding Barbar work to-
gether here to fashion this masterful
romance.
CORPORAL CAMERON; Of the North
west Mounted Police. BY Ralph
Common. author of THE Sky Pilot,
etc. New York: George II. Doran
Company.
\ robust. out-of-doors. man story.
Its hero. Cameron, could have hailed
from no other where than Scotland.
For an interesting reason. one pic
linz nf a N
reality Cameron emigrated to Canada,
drifting ultimately from Montreal out
into the northwest. Here, throug n
about every Imaginable sort of rough
Cameron of the famous northwest
mounted police. The beginning or the
story shows how easy 1T is for even a
fine boy to go wrong. The remainder
Of it. how natural il is for him to go
right in conditions fitted to his tenn
permanent and tendencies This young
fellows instructive quest for his own
native trail of action is filled with the
adventures and situations OF pioneer
life. on "A farm, in a surveyors camp,
and finally, as a part of the great
british frontier of law and order set
bv the mounted police of this region.
The story is a sincere one, It's autnor
content to stand by things pretty much
as they are without stressing or crowd
ing the picturesque or adventurous. IN
the contrary, it is a markedly con-
trolled and discriminating portrayal
where the temptation to extraVasahce
must have been strong. IL is no
preachment. no problem. Simply a
fine. rugged story that makes housed
folks sit up straight and breathe deep
II its good airs and essences
ITALY IN THE THIRTEENTH CEN
TURY, BY Henry Dwight Sedg-
wick. Boston: Houghton Miffiin
Company.
Having chosen as his general theme the
most splendid of the medieval centuries,
the thirteenth this author objecufies the
century in a study of Italy as the ma
energy. the most productive power. the
most many-sided genius. The two Dig
volumes devoted to this subject are
crowded with affairs OF moment ana
with memorable personalities working
out through the two great agencies OF the
ueriod-the papacy and the holy Roman
empire. Religion. politics. literature and
art in the time of Innocent III and En-
peror Frederick ii are here examined IN
their large features and relationships
BY design. Mr.. SedSwick selected the
material for this historic review In such
a way as TO prepare for study OF
Dante's divine comedy, overlapping the
ground covered by Dante in his poem
The charm of this history lies In the
fact that the author has lifted 1t above
the dead level Of much OF the common
writing or history, VltdlziiS IL Will per
sonages and events belonging to an ami
mate world. He possesses, moreover. the
gift Of picturesque writing. 1t reads with
the sweep of sound and color SO marked
Ia Macaulay.
rHE AMERICAN MIND. BY Bliss
Perry author of walt Whitman,
etc Boston: Houghton Mifi1in Com
pany.
Adopting Jeffersens phrase. the Amer
,can mind" as the theme for this group
Of essays. the author sets himself the
task OF demonstrating that there Is a Pc
culiar quality and attitude of mind that
may be classified as American in con-
trast to other qualities and attitudes that
stand as the French mind. or the Eng
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