Evening star., 1914-02-14
BOOK REVIEWS.


IHe MdCinilidn 1oiupdH4
%T was on Christmas eve of 1914 that
England and the United States sign
cd their last peace treaty. Next
Christmas. therefore. hundred
years of peace between the Two
countries will have completed ltseif- Al
ready. celebration OF this long stretch
of International amitS is on the DOORS.
An occasion commemorative of historic
event revives that event as mulch as may
be, renews discussion of it, resets it in
> the truer relations that a heightened
perspective affords. reappraises and re-
viscs il. 80 il viii he ia this case. And
this year constitutes the psychological
point from which 10 re-exanine the war
OF fsi2 and the quality of the peace that
has followed This war Among the first
of the considerable contributions to such
review is Senator Lodges "One Hundred
Years of Peace" :, study OF great force
am significance. Mr.. Lodges purpose
/. in making Te-eNaminatIon of this period
is not to add TO the mutual Fluctuations
and common jubiiation that viii feature
ths celebration of this century of peace
Quite on the other hand. it is his object
10 set out plainly the seasons of storm
ami stress weathered by these two ma
tons in attaining to an ultimately sub
stantial friendship AS Mr.. Lodge re-
years-just since the SpaniSh-American
war and because of the attitude Of Eng
land toward the United States in that
wa--that the hest OF good feeling has
prevailed between the Two nations that
arr about to celebrate a whole hundred
Years Of good will Not far before the
Spanlsh-Anerican war was the Nenezue-
Ia boundary dispute. in which England
threatened the Monroe doctrine 10 the
edge OF open hostilitteS. And before
Venezuela was the civil var. with ofh-
cial England in full sympathy with the
federdcy-CiladstOue in his Newcastle
speech proclaiTning that Jefferson Davis
has made Il nation" and ships for "a Con-
federatc navy Slipping away from the
ports of this ueatraI nation. And be
fore the civil War WIS the whole thirty
years from $50 on when the type of
English presses seemed able TO combine
II only such words spelled contempt
and derision for the United states y,
this point see Robert SOuthsN in the
"tluarteriy.' sydney Smith ~ the ''Edin-
bureh" and Char Dickens himself as
noteworthy examples - this eTrant use
OF print AND up to $50 and beyond it
there We're the inImedlate diSputdtious
settlements Of the war of ls12-boundaiy
Ines TO the north of us. the settlement
az Oregon, the fisheries question, com
rlercial uflderstandiuss-aH productive OF
raitcor. and all demanding the wisest
craftsmanship and most level heads On
both sides OF the water to hold the Two
l'sttions within the limits of a working
pace. AflG laTpNSilput TINS SDlln SEsltES-
Iaanship, these cool heads, have not been
lacking. MIR Lodge pays full due, in this
respect, TO Webster and Lincoln, to Cob
den and Bright and. among the writers, to
Thackeray and Washington Irving and
James Bryce In order fairly TO ap-
praise this period. both in its events and
az the feelings that affected these, Mr..
Lodge approaches this study not alone by
way of the war OF 1sl., but by way also
OF the feelings and attitudes engendered
by the revolution itself.
Energy and force mark this ciean-cut
SUMMARY y personal satisfaction per
vades 1.-THE satisfaction of who
finds himself .he finer, nohler side OF
the question, to say nothing of being on
the winning side of the contest The
smile-sonlewhat grim ana sarcastic il
must be confessed but SrIlile, neverthe-
less-of the one who Laughs last suf-
fuses it. 4 scholarly and most brilliant
survey. whose effect is appreciably
strengthened by the natural personal
qualities that animate and color it
GLIMPSES of THE COSMOS: A Mental
Autobiography. BY Lester f. Ward
LII. D.. author of Dynamic Soci-
oIogy, etc. New York: G. Z. Put
MANS Sons.
''Glimpses of the Cosmos names the
series of volumes into which is gathered
the enormous bulk of Lester f. Wards
miscellaneous writings. together with BIZ
ogTaphical and historical sketches of
his more formal publications. In accord
with DIR. Wards own wish, the first three
volumes of this series Were released
simultaneously by the publisher and are
now in hand This plan was chosen. one
Judges, for the reason that only with the
third volume of this issue is DR.. Wards
full vision indicated, the settled direc-
ton of his thought and purpose attained,
permanent method tested and adopted.
The initial volume covers this writer's
work from the age of sixteen TO that OF
thirty Here is an example of his few
early attempts at fiction, letters from the
army. IN which ne served. and communi-
cations OF resentment at certain false
teachings in matters of belief. The sec
ond volume. marking the years from
thirty-four TO forty, sets forth the inau-
guration of mis- scientific career. And the
third one. gathering UP the writings that
accumulated between the ages of forty
and forty-four. deals with the develop
ment of Dynamic Sociology" The ar
rangernent OF this enormous bulk OF mis-
cellaneous work is purely chronological.
Each article IL, moreover, headed with
the time and circumstance of its produc-
tion, as We'll as with the age OF the au-
thor at this time BY reason OF this
chronological arrangement and these de-
scriptive headings, coupled with the fact
that everything written by DR.. Ward
good bad and indinerent'-is collected
here. 'Giimpses of the Cosmos stands as
a fun history of the authors mental de-
velopment. II bears witness, besides, to
the single vision of this nIauy-sided in
vestigation. 10 his seizure of life and its
development one whole under its thou
sands of specifically contradictory as
pects- II stands. also, as the soil from
which spraug those monumental studies
IN scientific sociology-'Dynamic Soci-
ology, applied Sociology Pure Soci-
plogy' and The Psychic Factors of Civil
tizaticrl. "CilImpses OF the Cosmos
shows philosophy III the making as
these other works show a philosophy
completed and projected Aud while the
subjects profound and sometimes in
rClyed. the writing itself is a model of
clear and simple statement. DIR, Ward is
indeed one Of the most readable of tue
scientific and philosophic writer's. An
establishment of patience and arduous
labor went into this compilation. Com
pcted, II Will stand in a different place.
but not less important one, than that
occupied by the great works of DIR. Lester
L. Ward.
kINDLING: Comedy Drama In
Three Acts. By Charles Kenyon. An
introduction by Clayton Hamilton
Now York: doubleday, Page x Co.
Washington Woodward 4 Lothrop
\ good story and an actablc play. Its
stage is d squalid tenement house, where