Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-08

BOOK REVIEWS.
THE STORY OF PAGE; Thirty
Years OF Public Service and Public
Discussion I'm the Editorial COlumns
of the New York World. By John
l.. Heaton. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
@HE page whose story is told
here is the editorial page OF
the New York World for the
thirty years that Joseph Pu-
liter put the single stamp OF
his own unique personality upon ~, anu
through it expressed his ideas OF the
place of the newspaper in public AFFAIRS.
In large measure the page tells its own
story. Mr.. Heatons part is to supply the
connective narrative to series OF I'M
portant climaxes, his part to set the
stage for Mr.. Pulitzer in his role as
knight of the national holy grail, as flash
ing crusader against one or another OIL
the dragons of political unrighteousness
The story resurrects bodily and sets
in the open, their virtues and vices
still fresh upon them, the political
events OF the last quarter OF a CEN
tury, and within these events walk,
as large as life and as natural, the
men who gave to them shape and direc-
ton. The effect is that Of time. embod-
led in the crucial affairs of people,
marching through the glaring light and
the sharp-cut shadows of an electric IL
Elimination. The story is history not
yet laid to the monochrome of the grave.
1t is life, warm, pressing, colOrful, re-
fuSing to give way to the chill, unchang-
ing pallorS of the past. 1t is an amaZ-
ingly vivid panorama OF the rise and
fall Of men and issues in the endless
rhythm set by human greatneSses and hui
man littleneSses- And what is curiously
significant is that while the men of this
great procession have changed, the fun
damental issue. that of democracy-that
of all the people by all the people,
Tor ali the people - has remain
ed the same. This is d partisan
page fierce and unfiagging. But it,
without question, proves itself here to be
partisan of principles rather than a
partisan of politics and parties such.
This is novel story-brlliant, vital, abb
sorbinG II should stand. and will, as
one of the stable monuments to the pa
triotlsm. the courage, the ability, the
power and the genuine manhood Of Jo-
sepI Pulitzer. The book itself is most
original III conception. most valuable, and
il"sp admirably presented.
HISTORY As LITERATURE; and Other
Essays. BY Theodore Roosevelt.
.>tN York: Charles Scribners Sons.
Washington: Woodward Il Lothrop.
These essays, dozen. more or less,
meet here To contribute each it's own en-
phas.s 10 the common thought by which
they are bound together. The pith OF this
thought so variously expressed is that
both science and history are, above all,
bound in duty 10 give themselves to the
pubic III a generally readable fashion
Ihat each is due TO present itself in u
personality Of such easy approach and
strong appeal as to make of its facts
and meanings, and applications. an open
highway wherein even the plain general
reader may walk in understanding and
delight. This implies that literature. as
such. should take up science as an appro-
pirate subject upon which to practice it's
highest art. 1t means, too, that however
much history may become subject of
scientific treatment. it must not on this
account lose any part of the literary
quality 1t may possess. History as Lit
'rature," the first of these essays, sets
out this thesis with precision and con-
N1ctIon. succeeding ones illustrate the
working out of this theory by an applica-
ton of Mr.. Roosevelt own literary
method to one or another aspect of SCI
ence. to this or that phase of history
subjects OF pure literature. Also find
place In this volume, brought, maybe, to
serve as the standard by which to meas
tire the effect of this literary handling
ut what are commonly thought of as I'M
literary subjects, and to have in hand. as
it were. the proof of the pudding. The
most pointed and convincing exemplifi-
cation Of Mr.. Roosevelt's thesis, the
most searching. comprehensive and vital
illustration of 1t, is, Biological Analogies
in History an address made by him be-
fore the university of Oxford. All of these
essays, however. are tremendously en-
phatic Endorsement of the now pretty
General movement toward making knowl
edge of every sort more and more avail
able TO age In which everybody reads,
nd i'll which the majority are seized with
/, uriosity about the present amazing
Progress OF events. In and of themselves,
too. these wide-rangiHg and vigorous
views are charged with the appeal that
trained scholarship. practical experience
and distinct personality are bound to
create.
i. TEMBAROM. BY Frances Hodgson
Burnett author of THE Secret Gar
dem. etc. Illustrated by Charles S.
Chapman. New York: The Century
Company.
E Tembarom. waf, newsboy and finally
~ d!nt of steady pegging, prodigious
lJluck. heavenly disposition. smile
that would not fade whatever wind might
blow: heart winning set of clean. white
teeth. and fun lexicon of New York
Siang-by dint of all these. finally. re-
porter on The EARTH proud occupant
Of Mrs. Bowse's hall bedroom and of
seat at her boarding house table. This is
Mrs. Burnett's hero.
II is important to remember that at Mrs
Bowse's table, too sat Little Ann" and
her father, the latter come over to the
states from Lancashire to put through
some wonderful invention
one day there came TO the boarding
house Palford OF the firm of Palford &
tirimby. solicitors of Lincoln's Inn Fields
pom this advent there followed the meta
'norphusis OF t. Tembarom to Temple
Temple Barholm. heir OF the magnificent
estate of Temple Barholnl. Lancashire
Vt this point the story moves to England
with T. Tembarom trying to live UP TO
an ancestral estate and TO ancestors that
were pretty well settled when William
The Conqueror sailed across from Nor
mandy into England. The tale supports
- mystery, deep and unfathomable
Through the industry and energy of r
Tembarom, ii discloses clearer heir than
himself. Ii sets this new heir neatly into
the shoes OF mis- ancestors and steers T
Tembarom off the shoals of high life
where marriage with Little Ann is
the interest OF Representatives,
The warp OF this story is of the char
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