Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-15
REVIEWS
OF
NEW BOOKS

OeAA -AANaA AhaNAAfEt
The Putnams are about to publish a
volume entitled Our IRISH Theatre,
by Lady Gregory, author of Irish
Folk-History Plays" New Come
dies" etc.
This book contains a full record OF
the growth and development Of an Inn
portant dramatic undertaking. IN
which the author has been directing
force. In literary h story Lady Greg
DRY viii always figure as one of the
most untir'ng, loyal and inspired
workers in the native Irish literary re-
Wval movement that has won wor d.
wide recognition. Through her ener-
getic zeal In sustaining the Abbey
Theatre players in their upward
struggle, through her own distinctive
dramatic contributions through her
rich literary assoc ations with the
leading men of letters of Ireland.
and, last but not least, through her
titie-won through strength of char
acter and unflinching loyalty to an
ideal-of being the bulwark against
which the prejudice and narrow
mindedness that the IRISH movement
encountered beat in vain--through ali
these activities Lady Gregory is in
position. as Is no one else. to write the
history of the Irish Theatre, of the
dramatists and actors who have been
associated with it, of the threatening
Clouds, pregnant with disaster. that
have swept about IL as the storm CEN
tire, but that have. thanks in large
part to Lady Gregory's protection, les
1t unframed. An interesting chapter
is devoted to the reception Of the Irssh
players in America, and particularly
I to the opposition which the produc
ton of THE Playboy of the Western
! World" encountered.
he boy Who stole to Go to College.
"I've been crazy about going to
oxford University, and when | saw
al this money in my hands l conidnE
resist taking it,
| That was the story told by a lad OF
seventeen when he was arrested Ia
New York. A few hours more and he
would have been aboard the Maure-
tania and off for England. Slowed
away IN his clothing was s1,410 IN
cash-enough TO keep him for three
years at the university.
| Before the boy was returned by the
Ne York police a Cleveland news
paper man called at his home. On
H.. oooA shelves were volumes OF
| poetry. In one corner stood a copy
of tom Brown at Oxford"-the book
that had obsessed him with desire
to go to the great English university.
BY day he performed his duties as
stock boy in a department. store.
earning 81 a week, part OF which
went regularly to the family support.
! He was prompt land trustworthy and
wa. scheduled for early advances
ment
.,.ght after night he sat pouring
over his books. His mother recalled
his keen disappointment when he was
| taken out of the high school at the
end of his second year and put to
work, because the family could nor
afford to keep him in school longer.
HE spent every cent he could save
| out of his spending money for books,
said his mother. Hes been at me for
months to buy him the Encyclopedia
| Britannica"
What the firm is willing to do in
the case has been stated by It's vice.
president. IF all this Is true, Il the
| boy wants higher education and mas
the mental qualifications, III see THAI
! he gets 1.-THE Survey.
Facts from ssxyar and Waste.r
| The United States Is spending $780,
600 a day on her army and navy. This
Is only one of the startl ng facts IN
WAR and Waste" by David Starr
Jordan, educator and peace advocate.
Just published by Doubleday, Page q
CO Listen to a few more facts about
war:
Il he purchasing power of dollar
has declined one-third since 1851
tn s is largely due to the heavy tax
alton all over the world. And this In
turn Is due to the waste and indebt-
edness caused by wars.
The ga'ns of war and war talk go
to the war Industries. The cost falls
on the common man. When Monte-
negro declared war in 1912 the nomi-
nah value of stocks and bonds in Eu7
| rope fell seven billion dollars. At the
same time the house of Krupp re-
ported a surplus of twelve and one
1 half millions and declared a dividend
| of twelve per cent.
| For the cost and upkeep of the four
| super dreadnoughts now asked for we
could build at Washington the one
great nat onal university of the world.
For our navy alone, mere decora-
ton, we spend $146.000.0eo a year, ten
times as much as the forty-eight
States spend yearly on their State
universities, technical colleges and in
dustrial schools, the backbone of our
national progress.
Common Sense I'm Art.