Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-30
BOOK REVIEWS.

THE WOMAN THOU GAvEST ME-:
Beinx the Story Of Mary O'Neill.
BY Hall Game. author of The
Christian" etc. Philadelphia: j. 3.
Lippincott Company.
~0HE story Of Mary O'Neill is the
drama Of marriage held fast to
the letter of its bond by an
exacting church, even though
the spirit of this relation de-
rnands a speedy and resolute dissolution
of the tie Mary O'Neill convent bred,
Is above all else trained to respect for
authority, habitated III unquestionins
obedience. So. when her father and
young Lord Raa, each driving sharp
bargain-money on the one side, rank and
title on the other-pass Mary from hand
TO hand as the consideration OF this
compact the girl makes little if any
demur. But, the realities of this marriage
wake Mary to resistance. rebellion,
hatred. Meanwhile a passionate man and
woman love springs up spontaneously be-
tween Mary and Martin Conrad. the
playfellow of her childhood And Mary
leaves Lord Raa's house with Martin
Conrad's child in her arms Hereafter
t&ic stoIy " Co Will tHc DltlcI uGldliS
of Mary O'Neill's life while she is learn
ing the hopelessness of the struggle be-
tween the Individual and organized So
ciety. the foregone defeat of the natural
man or woman arrayed against public
opinion. There is but one thing left for
The Mary ONeills Of the world to do
And this Mary. fiayed. broken. beaten
hoes. This struggle between man and
men. between the individual in his native
instincts and feelings and the social
whole in its artificial system of self-pro.
lection Is. In one setting another. Mr.
',aine's constant theme The Woman
Thou Gavest Me may perhaps not scale
The heights nor sound the depths of
The Christian" or even The Manx-
nan Nevertheless, it is a big and
serious story. stamped throughout with
the characteristics that have given Mr.
caine worldwide acceptance and popu-
,arity.
VOICES OF TOMORROW: critical
Studies Of the New Spirit In Lit
ePature. BY Edwin Bjorkman au-
thor of els There Anything New
Under the Sum" etc. New York
Mitchell Kennerley.
According to the critical Judgment of
Mr.. BjOrkman, the writer's gathered here
stand as the prophets Of our literary
future. Their right to the distinction of
this high role rests, in the main, on the
conception. held in common by them. of
the true mission of literary work, of its
zeal purpose. In some part. too, it rests
on the special means employed by them
20 realize this purpose. and. In other part
IN the standards which their artistry has
set for this new day in writing. All of
chem are Joined in the deep conviction
that the novel and the drama. poetry
and philosophy, must seek, to the ex-
plypcSr %
whole of life more Ineligible not only
the more superficial layers of it, but also
those deep-lying realities. those mys-
ferrous powers within us. so hard to
catch so impossible to hold. yet SO pro-
roundly important not only to self-reali-
zation, but as well to the realization of
all that Is not SELF Their task to set out
one or another phase of life drama tically
nsld with uncompromising fidelity. so
that. mayhap, this inner content may
emerge from these transcripts of the
outer form. Strindberg. Bjornson, Selma
Lageriof, Francis Grierson. Maeterlinck
Bergson. George Gissing. Joseph Conrad
and. IN America, the greater Edith
Wharton and Robert Herrick. make up
this band of standard-bearers. The essay
on Strindberg, to whom Mr.. Bjorkman
holds the relation of interpreter and
authorized translator is the most COM
The new mysticism is analysed by way
of critical consideration of Francis
G-ierson as the prophet OF this revived
and renewed cult: of Maurice Maeter,inck
as its poet. and of Henri Bergson as its
prophet. What this writer says Of Edith
wharton is more sketchy, less convinc-
ing. than is his very capable, fair-minded
appreciation of Robert Herrick These
critical studies are of 2 piece with MIR
Biorkman's habituaiiy sincere work They
are, moreover. an admirable example of
his own high literary powers
fAnRE. POET OF SCIENCE. BY Dr.
G. V. Legros. With preface by j.
III. Fabre. Translated by Bernard
Mall. New York: The Century
Company.
This Is the life story Of 1.-THE reciuse
OF Serignan." the story of a great nat
uralist, poet. philosopher. teacher and
scientific writer. 1t is the record of
life OF solitary labor, of untrumpeted
greatness, of obscure greatness even. For
Fabre is not the writer whom everybody
reads, the man whom everybody knows.
not In any sense popular. as is that other
great peasant of France. the poet Mis-
trail, in every sense popular. And yet, no
less judge than MaeterllncS speaks of
j. III. Fabre as lone of the most pro-
found and inventive scholars, and also
one of the purest writers and. l was going
10 add. one OF the finest poets of the CEN
fury that is just past He adds to this
that "Fabre is one of the glories of the
civilized world one of the most
profound admirations of my life" Ros-
tand also talks of him as 1.-THE sayant
who thinks like philosopher and writes
like poet" One recalls for himself that
Fabre's Life of the Spider is as dra-
matte and interesting as an exciting novel
such extraordinary interest does he con-
triSe to give to his scientific writings
Old letters. the works of f'abre, and in
Vulnerable talks with him in which he
reconstructs the past, are the materials
out or which VI. Leeros has built this
fascinating story that is half biography,
ham memoirs. The not over many who
have read little or much OF Fabres writ
ings Will welcome enthusiastically this
very personal and intimate study of the
life OF this great man.
OCA WORLDS The New WOrld-Life
BY Rev. Josiah Strong, d. D., au-
thor OF Our Country" etc New
York: Doubleday. Page & CO.
The general reader of events needs the
help. now and then. of some organizing