Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

development has been in nature. direction
and extent quite otherwise than the WIS.,
ion Of Marx projected 1T, 1t turns out
that much of the superstructure OF So
cialism built by him upon this shifting
foundation has fallen away, or, at best.
Is being forcibly held into place by the
rigid determination of Marks disciples
to crowd an expanded and growing con-
dition into a cramped and unyielding
theory A larger body Of tested economic
and Industrial fact and q longer exposure
of economic movement are the agents
employed by this author to prove that
much Of what Marx saw as inevitable
issue is in reality quite outside OF any
possible realization, that what In his
forecast was social revolution and cata-
clysm is being supplanted by the orderly
readiustment of evolutionary growth. The
whole is a clear exposure of MARKHAM
socialism as present or future impossi-
bility.
HARLETsTE. BY Marion Polk Angel
lotti. author of 1.-The Burgundian."
New York: The Century Company.
History makes no more Of this matter
than that Duke Robert had seen Arlotta,
the daughter of a tanner of the town,
washing her linen in the little brook by
Falaise, and. loving her, had made her
the mother of his boy
This bare and inconspicuous fact OF
IneQletdl tunes mas more HeduH1S, HOW
ever, than its face discloSeS. For the
boy so CURLY mentioned here because
in due time William the ConQueror. And
Robert was that fierce and 1nvtncipie
Duke of Robert the Magnif-
icent" to his courtieres. to his enemies
Robert the Devil"
"Harlette' is the romance of this Ar
lotta and Robert of Normandy upon
these meager lines of history Miss An
gellotti has built not great story, nut,
wherein proportion and line and coloring
are altogether admirable. The romance
itself CLOVIS through its 800 forgetting
years like a live coal cleaning richly
from it's bed of ashen gray. Hariette
herself Is of such woman-stun as TO
make her as believable today as she Will
be a thousand years ahead or was near
to a thousand back. Both The Burgun-
dian" and "Harlette" stand for clear evil
dence of this writer's dramatic feeling
for the picturesque in history. for its
human and personal quality, for Its hlgh
points of illumination for these qualities.
She is, besides. an intelligent and sympa-
thetic interpreter of human nature. as
well as a good story teller whose 1maS1-
nation is of the richly romantic type.
JOYOUS GARD. BY Arthur Christopher
Benson, fellow of Magdalene COL
lege, Cambridge, author of From
a College Window" etc. New York:
G. p Putnam's Sons
Sir Launcelot. in the days of good
King Arthur, built himself a castle of
delight and named it Joyous Gard
Into this. when outworn with warfare,
Sir Launcelot was used to betake him.
self for rest and enjoyment and self-re-
newaL Mr.. Bensons Joyous Gard"
projects a new castle of delight, one
fit to every mans building and in
which he may find refreshment after
the heat and burden of the day. Here,
with persuasive art. men and women
are urged to build themselves fort
resses of the mind and heart. and to
furnish these with the treasures of
learning, of broad experience. of kindly
feelings. of strong emotions. These es-
says, all in Mr.. Benson's rich and mellow
vein. are, each. a guide to the fashion