The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-05
BY A. ID. JACOBSON.

ELkAN LUBLINER. AMERICAN: BY Montague
Glass author Of Potash and PeTlmutter.' &c
Doubleday. Page & Co. New York. Price, SID
This is the moving picture of natural
lied young America in the making. The
book begins with the arrival of Elkan
in this country as a youth from Russ
land" who has come to the Land of
Promise. We meet old friends, such as
Messrs. Polatkin and Scheikowitz. in
whose firm Elkan eventually becomes a
partner. and We make many new ones.
Mr.. Glass has done nothing with more
humor. more depth, more insight in the
cloak trade of the East Side man than
his account OF Elkan's Courtship. My
name is Elkan LIebchen," he declares to
the little girl whose name he doesn
know. and we would send all the heavy
washing out" 1t is unquestionably the
authors most finished effort Underneath
the laughter and the fun, which runs
from page to page, there is the big dra-
matte idea that here is a fellow-citizen
absolutely different in thought and ideals
who is going to have an equal share in
the future of this country and who will
bring TO the task a thousand and one
racial instincts of which many are in
almost total ignorance.
MONACO AND MONTE CARLO: BY Adolpn
Smith. Illustrated ]. Il. Lppincutt Co., Phia-
delrha.
To most readers Mr.. smiths study of
the principality of Monaco will be I'M
commonly illuminating. for ii is the first
serious study of the problems in process
OF solution to-day in that unique coun-
try. To give the history of Monaco and
Monte Carlo IS his first object: TO make
clear that the life OF the princlpality
las a twofold aspect in his second. II
is the study of the latter which will
AZ
Smith writes with enthusiasm and a
grateful impartiality of statement and
judgment
The study Of Monaco presents series
of governmental experiments for in this
little principally more money is spent
on internal improvements, public works,
scientific research, music. and the drama
than anywhere else in the world This
Will appear the more remarkable when
Il Is noted that it has all been done with
out awakening the irate taxpayers or
leading TO the creation of a rate-payers'
protective league. The fact is that the
principality has applied with such re-
markable success the principle of tax
ing the foreigner" that there is no ne
cesslty of any home tax whatever" 1t
is through the enormous receipts from
the Casino at Monte Carlo that the
great work Monaco is doing to-day for
Inc advancement Of science and of the
arts is made possible. Mr. Smiths de-
tense Of this method of raising revenue
Is both clever and cogent
For greater clarity he divides his bool, |
into two parts. In the first Monaco is
studied-its topography. history. scientific |!
research, and humanitarian endeavor. In !
the second part Monte Carlo is vivified !
for us-its art, beauty, luxury. pleasure, I
and folly. II is the dual life. the \dual (
aspect OF the prinCipality, its least I
worthy side. which is the best known TO ,
the world at large. We learn of the |
mythology of Monaco-the Portus Her
axis of the PhOenicians, and of its sturdy |
history. so dramatically interviewer with !
that of France, Italy. and England, from,
the rise Of the Grimaldi of Genoa to the