Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-18

the opposition of a corps of shocked
relatives by marriage is put aside at
the advice of her husbands cousin, who
| would have been heir to the family title
except for her own baby boy. With the
same impersonal kindness he steers her
clear of other social complications until,
with the mellowing of her Judgment and
! an awakened love for her husband she
cause by that time Gillian's own early
womanhood has been served and she
must remain in London to guard the
growing boy. Refused the right to share
her husbands life, Gillian takes to the
social whirl she had previously disl ked.
and between train of eur admirers.
a traitorous woman friend and disap-
proving 'in-laws' is in danger with all
, innocence. of wrecking her reputation
on the reefs of scandal when the plot
| takes dramatic turn that shows the
student son to be paramount and that
youth will be served" The story gives
an intimately interesting glimpse into a
feature of English life which has be-
come. also, phase of our own since
the acquiring of foreign possessions puts
the wives OF American soldiers to the
test of remaining at home or following
their husbands to their posts in, say,
the Philippines.
STORIES OF OLD GREECE AND
ROME. By Emile Kip Baker. au-
thor of "Out of the Northland"
New York: The Macmillan Company.
In pagan ages, when the gods were, they
made themselves so interesting that the
student of today is expected to know all
about Mount Olympus-not as the mere
earthpeak which science has now climbed
and harnessed into a practical fact but
with its NEUROLOGICAL halo that crowned
Jove and made him ruler throughout the
n nf
Mindful of the difficulty of mastering a
study that lacks attractiveness, the au-
thor has given to her chronicle of myth
traditions the accuracy that classic liter
allure demands. and a fairy-lore charm
that challenges interest with the wonder
tales of an Andersen or Grimm. To the
value of the text is added many photo
graphic reproductions of the famous gods
and goddesSes in the galleries of Europe,
with frontispiece copy of the painting
Reading from Homer" and cover-friezes
OF picturesque deities on background of
black and maroon.
PARTNERS. By Margaret De1and
Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.
New York: Harper & Bros. pub
fishers.
This little story is told with the tender
simplicity characteristic of Mrs. Deland' S
work. The partners are q mother
and daughter the latter spinster be-
cause Of lover who died 500 after the
war. The mother has been postmistress
OF durham for twenty years, but the
story opens with the daughter in charge.
The peaceful supremacy of the partners
among the villagers because of their con-
nection with the administration" Is end
ed with pathetic abruptness by a sum-
mer resident-member of Congress-who
turns the partners out so that he may
appoint an army substitute who carries
ball in his leg that belongs to me-"
Having paid his personal obligation at
the governments expense, the new post
master comes to take possession, and
well, 1t is really a beautiful little story.
THE THEORY OF SOCIAL REVOLT
TION. By Brooks Adams. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
When an environment changes much
more rapidly than do the agencies that
administer the social forces of that en-
vironment, then revolution occurs. That
is, when the economic, and industrial,
and social condition expands and ad-
vances while the government that as
sumes to coordinate and unity these
forces remains rigid and static, then
revolution is bound to enSue. The in
evitable effect of revolution is to create
new governing class and to redis-
tribute property. History shows that
luton to nations and peoples incident
to this maladjustment of government
to environment Such, roughly sketched.
is Mr.. Adams theory of social revolu-
ton. With this theory as a standpoint.
Mr. Adams discusses those agencies in