The Washington herald., 1913-10-19

or sociology. She is 10 be thanked rather
for the clear, logical singieness Of pur-
pose which inspired her work.
To say Just what Mrs. Gallichan stands
for. Just how she feels toward any Of
the individual questions which are agi'
tating women today. would be unfair
to her argument as a whole. She is moi
so much upset by what the English Par
lament or the legislature OF some Ameri-
can State is going to do about granting
women the vote as she Is by the danger
Of men and women falling to achieve the
most eficient life together. solving theii
difacuities side by side, and each per.
forming the duties for which nature
equipped them. What those duties are
Mrs. Gailichan shows conclusively, has
depended upon the needs Of that partcu-
lar civilization In which the individual
lived and moved.
The spiritual force. slowly unfolding,
that has uplifted. and is still uplifung
womanhood, is the foundation or
woman's claim that the future progress
OF humanity is bound up with her eieva-
tion to position of freedom and human
equality. But this position she must
not take from man-that would be
step backward. She Is TO share 1t with
him, and this for her own sake and for
his and. more than all. for the sake OF
their children and all the children OF
the race
Mrs. GaIlichan bases her Interesting
study upon the established facts Of
biology and antropology, which she
makes as readable as novel. Then.
beginning with human society, she traces
the course Of sex relations through the
stages when women were pre-eminent
and man. as husband and father. was
Sraa srzN1 - ~ 1n~r
when man came through economic agen-
cies TO position Of superiority and down
to the present with the struggle of
woman TODAY to reinstate herself in
tellectually and economically side by side
with man.
Interesting as it is. ''The Truth About
Woman has none OF that imagination
which made Olive Schreiner's Women
and Labor" a splendid work of literature
aside from its potent message. Mrs.
Gallichan is more scientific in her
method. Only on her final page does she
let her Imagination color her style of
vision OF the future. At times. too, she
is not exactly logical in the development
Of her thought.
JOAN THURSDAY: BY Louis Joseph Vance. BOs-
ton-Lttle. Brown CO.
Joan Thursday. is a story of every
day happenings in the life of a New York
shop girl, who becomes an actresss< The
transition is so sudden that Mr.. Vance
naturally Is unable to leave behind all
evidences Of his former style, and he
therefore makes his story a strange
commingling of the believable and the
unbelievable. His characters in each in
stance are somewhat overdrawn. All
their virtues and weaknesses are ex-
aggerated and. although he apparently
writes of life he knows, he does not
give 1t the consistent semblance of life.
His characters are more readily at the
behest of his will than of their own. Al
though they are recognizable as human
beings, acting according TO their own
volition, or in response to the demands
of fate, they are sometimes the novelist's 8
puppets rather than the real people he
imagines he has created.
Mr. Vance has accomplished a great
deal and has made a stride forward to-
ward becoming a chronicIer Of events.
His heroine follows the tborny path to
stage success. She Is eagerly sought
by men. After having been engaged to
somewhat quixotic young dramatist.
she marries a vaudeville actor, In whose
support she is playing, and whom she
eventually deserts. finally becoming fam
GUS as a star through the good Offices OF
man who, in the last pages of the
story. is killed by the woman she dis
places. Each epoch in her career is
described. and he lays especial emphasis
upon the phases Of character that lead