Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-20
BOOK REVIEWS.

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH STUDIES.
BY Whitelaw Reid. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Brentano's
HESE essays. given by Mr..
Reid to clubs and associa-
lions. universities and institu-
tons. in both America and
Europe come together here as
an important. significant and available
body of discussion on many matters OF
general public interest and concern. and
serve as literary memorial to a man
who. in his latter years was known
chiefly as a diplomatist. The first
of the two volumes deals with GER
tain problems of government in the
United States. and with certain aspects
of education. Mr.. Reid sets out the dan
gers of immigration. past certain point
He makes logical definition of our duty
in the Philippines He outlines the ma
ture, purpose and ultimate effects Of our
territorial expansion. The peculiar
stamp of this work is that all Of his
topics are of immediate appeal, of prime
Importance, and that the treatment of
them is invariably forward-looking and
constructive The second volume is made
up. in the main. of critical Geographic
studies-stud es of Abraham Lincoln.
iHOIldS JEFFERSON, IdHeyTdHu, Win u
literary review of Byron's work. This
volume cioses with four essays on jour-
naiism, these in part historic survey. in
part study OF journa ism as career.
The discussions are approached from
many points Writer, scholar man of
affairs political student, politician, dip
lomat and c-tizen meet here. each con-
tribut.ng to the high quality of the whole.
The scope and source and method of
these studies give them a special value
Complementary parts of d more ex-
tended historical work.
dore Dresser. author of Sister Car
rie," etc. Illustrated by W. Glackens.
New York: The Century Company.
That which makes "A Traveller at
Forty" more interesting than many-even
than most-travel books is that In it's
making Mr.. Dresser assumes. and right
iy assumes. that what proved interesting
to him on this his first trip to Europe
is more than likely to be interesting to
the great majority who have not yet
been 10 Europe at all And SO. instead of
writing eulogieS on more or less OF the
great and-goneness of the old
country. Mr., Dresser. under the capacious
and capable wing of a certain English
'Barfeur, goes To London teas and
talks to the ladies, makes weekend Wis
its into the country. browses about odd
corners of London, stays out o. nights
making copy sof Lilly. Girl of the
Streets, and in a word. opens I'D every
sort of opportunity for getting next to
the live folks of every grade and degree.
remaining curiously insensible mean
while to the usual excitements of CHIT
seeing. And so IL rs in Paris and through
Italy and Switzerland, Germany and Hol-
land. There is no other travel book just
like this one AT first, too. you resent it,
wondering if Theodore Dresser thinks you
care to read about his not very exciting
excursions into London society in the
role of a small domestic lion. You miss
me tower and the houses of parliament
me galleries and the Nelson column
Richmond, Hampton Court and the rest
Of II. But by the time Paris is reached
or before, you begin to wake up TO the
people. Without saying anything in par
ucular about 1t Mr.. Dresser makes any
thing that Is alive and around seem more
worth while than things that are dead
and shut up somewhere in crypts. And
50 you join with him in the hunt for the
human, declaring loudly. like all converts.
IN the betweenwhiles of the pursuit that
this Is probably the only cotemporaneous
travel book in existence.
cussions of War and War Access
sories. BY David Starr Jordan New
York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
$50 the day of peace is coming Which
shall it be. the Peace of Force, or the
Peace of Law? We may work for either.
We cannot have both. Every man has
some influence in forming public opinion,
and. al the last, the world is ruled by
what its people think. You have a vote
in world affairs. Its weight depends on
your intelligence and your integrity. How
shall your vote be CASTE" So ends David
Starr Jordan's War and Waste" a series
of addresses and essays whose single pur-
pose is to oppose war and all of it's aux
iliaries-war scares, false doctrines of war
based on supreme fighting strength and
readiness, false theories of national honor
and self-respect. At one hand DIR. Jor-
dan sets the existing war spots of the
world. At the other the small army of
war bogies, wire-pulled. dance merrily.
Before him Is the full body of war theory
and dogma. And he examines this theory
this dogma. concretely in the light of the
bare facts that these bodies To his right
and to his left reveal With these upon
either hand, he discusses the history OF
war and its psychology, the clear human
nature OF il. With them evidence and
support. he examines into the present un-
primitive, sophisticate sources of war In
politics and finance and international bar
gainings He then defines and amplifies
the higher politics and traces it's course
toward international understandings and
international settlements according to Law
and equity. The book, within its limits OF
space. Is mine of verifiable, dependable
Facts in support of its opinions and argu.
ments- In quiet irony the author ap.
ponds the Navy Leagues "Sixty-Sever
Reasons for a Strong Navy" This is q
readable book, a strong plain dealing
convincing study of war. 1t is moreover
a practical one. putting it up to you, tc
ever. body, TO take hand In determining
Just what sort of peace, 1.-The peace oil
force or the peace OF law" we are going
TO have.
THE GOSPEL STORY IN ART BY John
La Fargo. New York: the Macmillan
Company.
Few subjects in literature and art stand
more In need Of illumination than doe.
the Christian art OF the old painters
That John La Fargo stands as the one L
meet this need gives warrant of tn,
worth and wealth of the light thrown her,
around very obscure subject Eight,
reproductions of famous paintings max,
the body of this book. telling the Chris
tian story from the birth OF Christ to III,
cruciflxion. Among these are Jdichae
Angelo 5 various sibyls and prophets, Bot
ticelh Nativity, Fra Angelicos An
nunciation and on, with chapters O
this pictorial story from Correggio Glotto
Rembrandt. Da Vinci. Van Dyck, YEAS
quez Titan and many others somewha
less well known by work and name An
these great pictures are bound togethe
by the stories, legends and traditions tina
stand as their source and inspiration
Upon the pictures themselves FOO Nr