Evening star., 1914-07-11

Avon for the SHdkeSpedie
festivals. Mr. Howells. on the
verv day of his arrival, fell
ia by happy chance. win
the shade of William Shahespea'e Aii
self Drawn together. no doubt. ny
their kinship in craft, the TWO gre" ~
he nrodieious friends and constant COM
panions during those days OF 1es,iNi.S-
Seemingly "a bit strange and loneiS'
Shakespeare in particular became free1y
1alkative, and. at length. confidential
AS II turned out. the ghost Of the man
had come back to his own celeoratlon
in the express hope of finding there
some comprehending and sympatheuc
soul with whom he could talk out the
thousand-and-one topics of daily dls-
pute to which the Shakespeare plays
have given rise in their three-huhafeu-
year survival of Shakespeare hlihseli-
In wholly artless manner the poet :
ghost confessed to a genuine ikins lot
the increasing reverberation OF men
praise''-as Mr. Howelis. naturally
elated by the company he was IN,
sraudiloquently put the question Ana
it was because of his respect ana Ioho-
ness for this particular 'reVerberation
that his spirit had come back at ms
time to explain away. or at ieaS. 81
plain what of dross and Stag theSe
amazingly critical modern folks ma
mixed with the pure metal or ms WoIh.
BY nature the most genial ana hlndlt
. cathechist Mr.. HowellS nevertheless put
1t sauarely up to the ghost OF " imam
Shakespeare to explain the patch"oIh
of some of ShakeSpeare's plays, 10
iustify the humor that, disowned at
home took shelter with roosh anu
roistering farce. to account Tor ms n'!ie
pilfer.ngs and braZen borrowings Ihus
pressed. il must be admitted Una. tne
spirit gave a splendid account OF the
poet All the time, it is needless 10
say there was supreme de1erehce 70
ward the great superman on the pa
of his interlocutcr, and. eGuailE an tIe
time there was complete good feelnS
between the two. Toward the last: SIP
ming into more private matters, SNAKE,
speare spoke with much affection OF
Anne Hathaway. mistakenly pedestaiedl
now for three centuries as pattern or
the neglected wife. He told: by the
wa. TOO. how he came to will her his
secouti-hest bed instead of his first
best removing by this explanation a
Ior.r and public grievance against his
own memory Taken all in all. these
tive. shade and man, aloof in the mlost
: o. the celebration, settled to every
bodys satisfaction the many-Slded
Shakespeare question, including the sac
to which Francis Bacon is made to lay
claim by enthusiastic champions AS
for the festival itself that is here IN
its many colors and meanings. But the
pure joy of this record centers IN
and his happy encounter with this
prince of interpreters and chroniclers.
JOSEPH PULITZER: "Reminiscences of
Secretary. BY Alleyne Ireland.
New York: Mitchell kennerley.
Joseph Pulitzer, in the years following
his blindness. surrounded himself with
half a dozen men, each of special gift or
aptitude all of exceptional experience
" far H..
BILE. the business of this group was to
stand in the stead of eyes to Mr.. Pulitzer.
And this business was by no means
mere matter of daily observation and re-
port. Quite to the contrary, it was the
task of seeing things in Mr.. Pulitzers
own manner. instantaneously. with far
flashes of vision, .seiZing meanings, signs.
portents and grasping Immediately GER
tain line of action for each important sit
uation and event. In these "reminiscences
MIR. Ireland. one of this group. presents
the astonishing phenomenon of a human
DYNAMO supplied with clean-sifted mate
rial to work upon. through the efforts of
these half dozen men toillng literally
night and day to condense to their least
bulk bodies of outside fact, news, infor-
nation of every sort. to arrange these to
their most striking and seizable form.
and in many cases practicing to present
them in their tersest as well as in their
ishing power developed in this exacting
school, the power that made one and
another of these men so useful in trans
ferring the facts of the outer world to
the inner vision of Mr.. Pulitzer. is pre-
cisely the power that makes Mr.. Ireland
himself SO surprisingly effective in pre-
sentins Mr.. Pulitzer to readers in this
vivid and living likeness Reading here.
the book falls away and one becomes
part Of the group circling around this tre-
nendous personality One literally sees
the man and hears him talk. Here in
his least moods we'll as in his great
est. Mr.. Pulitzer stands. Now he is the
most brilliant. the most lovable of COM
panions and in the next tortured mo-
nent, intractable, unreasonable, insulting
the victim of a riot of raw nerves. Mr.
ireland has imagination. humor, and al
WAYS a thorough consciousness of the
high quality of his man. His story of
Mr.. Pulitzer is more absorbing than a
novel. more illuminating than any mere
biography. II is hard to realize that
words can be so aptly and artfully strung
together to actually re-embody man
as Mr.. Irelands words serve to re-em-
BODY Mr.. Pulitzer.
FULL SWING. BY Frank Dandy. author
of Pigs in clover" etc Philadel-
phia: J. B. Lippincott Company.
This is a serious and exceptionally
we'll wrought story. whose people and
scenes and situations sum to "a lifelike
demonstration that thoroughly good
person rigidly pursuing what is called
duty may finally compass in this pursuit
the entire round of human failure and
wrongdong. Bent not only upon her
own duty she saw It. but self-installed
as the conscience of those about her.
Agatha Wanstead. Lady Grindeay works
a pretty complete wreckage of her own
life. of the life of the man she should
have married of the life of her own son
and. in less marked degree of the lives
of everybody about her. Had she not
:. died. this would have been a dismal story
to the very end. Her maSterful presence
removed at the last. there is still little
time for readjustment along easier and
happier lines Though unconmonly strong z
and dramatic as story, Full swing
is. in effect. a study of human nature
thwarted by the warning OF its own ele-
ments.
THE LAST SHOT. BY Frederick Palmer
author of over the Pass" etc New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Washington: Woodward * Lothrop
This is novel of modern warfare.
Holding human nature constant to the
groundless and unreal hatreds that re-
cruit men into opposing armies, this
writer organizes the ''Grays' on the one