Evening star., 1914-08-22

volume autobiography WHICH
as Ave-" "Salve" and Valve"
George Moore has gathered up
under the general title OF
"Hail and Farewell" And what sur
passingly fine autobiography this is' TOO,
standing far and away above the great
majority of these. The causes OF tnis
excellence are not far to seek Geor go
Moore makes real literature wnen NO
writes This is the most obvious anu
outstanding appeal of Hail ana rare
we'll" as 1t is also of his other "orhs-
Evelyn Innes." THE Lake" Memories
of NV Dead Life" and so on. He chooses.
too. to write about the innermost oi
himself. where the majority OF auto
biosraphers are likely to skim their sur
faces only. With the disarmlng open
mss of a child he uncovers his intimate
feelings and thinkings. digging boldly
down into the impulses underlying ms
actions hut leaving the actions pretty
much alone to speak for themselves
An impish glee, scantily veiled In the
most delicate touches of phrase ana
word animates these exposures Of the
truth about himself. as well as ABOUT
his friends. And this writer Is as un, i,
sparing of one as of the other Nale
is crowded with informed and lnIoInans ai
ments Of painting. music and nterature: !:
IT is besides. a fascinating volume or
personal recollections of one and announcer
man and woman celebrated IN TINS ne. =.
that field of creative expression. Es-
pecially does Moore devote hlmsei 70
portraits of his Irish friends. to those
ardent advocates of the CELTIC revival
as basis for modern Irish nterature.
Here. set each in a frame of intuitiveiy
rsan Interpretation, are astonishingly
vivid Vivid likenesses of Lady Gregory, and
Yeats, "a E." and Synee. HYDE and Ed.
ward Martyr. Mr.. Moore Is an aoe9e
catches his people Just as they, are
rieht in the middle Of things. and. oe-
sides. he discards none Of his impress
sions. but prints and finishes and puts
INTO general circulation all the records
GOOD and bad a1ike-that his camera
makes. Naturally. he is something OF a
terror to his subjects, however mucn OF
a delight he may be to the general
reader. And a delight he certainly is.
Vt is hard to imagine autoniographic
writing with more of free and Ieariess
and sunerfne quality to It tnan mas th,s ms
story of the essential features OF the
life of George Moore.
THE NOR: A Play I'm Four Acts: BY
John Ga1sworthv, author OF the
inn of Tranquility" etc. New YORK:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Brentano's.
''The Mob" closes with tableau
wherein the rosy dawn lights up and
warns the gray stone figure OF soli-
tary man. Around the pedestal upon
which the statue stands letters group
into the words Faithful to his ideal"
This is the figure of Stephen More. the
hero of the play. The ideal with which
More so fully kept the faith is. through
that of England embodied through its
people MS the friend of all the world.
champion of the oppressed, protector
of the weak. With this vision before
him More preached the gospel Of peace.
denouncing annexations and sno'ia-
tions-the whole general predatory
policy Of strong nations against the
less strong. The immediate situation
developed about this MANN. P. and
under secretary Of state-is that of all
England Is an acute stage of war fever
over some imaginary affront to her
pride by the border nations Of South
Africa. Specifically. this situation
posits the prelude to ,the Boer war.
Both parliament and people. self-hyp-
Noticed by an unceasing repetition OF
infiammatorv catchwords. are exaltipg
long. and loud. the Irresistible law of
Force as the great god of England at
this critical juncture. In the turmoil
Stephen More alone stands openly for
a bigger, a more humane, a more un-
selfish England. And upon him In turn
the law Of force wreaks itself. Set
peace goes down before 1t, Just as he
has done many times within the last
two thousand years.
The play is compact and dramatic
mage nf modern life. done in miniature
with Stephen More and London street
mob to give a sefzable and concrete
picture of modern nations with which
even in this age of boasted advance
mount It is. besides. a token that the
man of peace must work and bide fol
vet. million years or more before 'the
ape and tiger die
NOVA HIBERNIA: Irish Poets and
Drnmatist. Of Today and Yesterday
Bv Michael Monahan, author o.
Palms of Papyrus," etc. New York
Mitchell Kennerley.
Fine Irish studies these-essays, lee
lures, critical evaluations. For hii
open mind. his independent thought
the Irish turn of his heart, and tn,
Irish tune to his tongue one will no
find himself able to resist Michae
Afonahan. The most considerable o
these essays, in length at least. is tn
one on Thomas Moore, Of whom Mona
han makes an ali-round study. Moore
as patriot. as poet, as the sweetest o
lyrists, stands clear here. Then thi
writer gives some slight attention t
Moore's personality. with a good dea
more and different sort of attention
to those who foolishly sought to TAX,
away the poets gift through the fu
tile makeshift of detraction and denun
citation. Michael Monohan, true to hi
own Irish self. is a champion leadin,
from temporary eclipse certain ones t
whom he would do and would have u
do honor Among these are "Fathe
Prout" and Doctor Maginn. "the tw'
wittiest Irishmen of the last century.
The volume opens with an apprecia
tion of Yeats and Synge. Yeats. 9Th
poet of the banshee. of the leprechaun
of the lonesome Irish wind, of the mys
terry of the swaying reeds. the murmur
ing pool and of all the uncharted realm
of the Imagination, where there 4
nothing" This tribute to Yeats is o
itself no poor poetry. Nobody eve
wrote Irish peasant dialect like Synge,
Monohan says, and, after bit, he goe
on to explain the row" over Synge'
"Playboy." an explanation which h
head and front of Synge's offending be
fore US. His plays do not fiatter priest
ly sensibilities-they even woun
ecclesiastical coquetry in a land wher
the priest Is supreme"
ARMS AND INDUSTRY: A Study o
international Polity. BY Normal
Angel. author of "The Great II
lusion." etc. New York; G. E
Putnams Sons
Something like year ago Mr.. Nor
man Angel published his Great Illu
sion." that startlingly dramatic an
convincing presentation of the militaf
power Of a nation in its relation to tn
economic. the industrial. the social ad