Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

In them Lord Lytton gives
the recollections and impress
sions of his boyhood, OF
school days. of his introduction TO
books, of college. Of travels at nome
and abroad. bringing the record up 10
his twenty-third year, or about the
time OF his disastrous marriage 10
Rosina Wheeler. st this point Lord
Iytton's grandson takes up the mar
rative And, throughout, by free
use of extracts from Lord Lyttons
writings, the work is notably of self
revealing character. These VIKINGS
personal letters in the main. speak Tor
the man-of his prepossessions, occu-
pations. views and tastes Connecting
them. and reproducing the conditions
and situations out OF which they
sprang. is the very competent and SYM
pathetic work of the biographer him
self. This writer first tells the full
and painful story of his grandfather
marriage, since the influence ana Ell
fects Of this marriage were or SO
marked and lasting quality as 70 aeo
mand attention in any considerable
study of the character apd career OF
Lord Lytton. He then traces the de-
Neiopment of his distinguished career
III politics and his more distinguished
career in literature Within the sphere
of this two-fold line of development
may be found both the political his
tory of England from 1881 10 1866 and
the presence, at one or another point
within il. of about every considerable
English man or woman of letters liv-
ing within this period. One Is much
impressed with the detached, imper-
sonal quality Of this writer's attitude
in the study of his grandfather's char
acter, in the Interpretation and APP
praisal of his acts under one and an
other set of circumstances and provo
-
stand almost bends backward. giving
a slight effect OF recoil and hostility.
However, the ultimate summary COM
ports finely with the full substance of
this study. Here the Earl of Lytton,
in perfect fairness. says: Lord Lytton
undoubtedly ranks among the leading
men OF his generation, remarkable
rather for the universally of his gem
JUS than for his supremacy in any one
particular sphere. lie was not SUI
preme either in politics or literature,
Yet in one respect he was unique. No
other man of his generation reached
so nigh level of attainment in all
the varied departments of his s4ctivi-
ties Distinguished as novelist. as a
dfdmatIst and as an orator, he was
also essentially d man Of the world. In
business capacity, in judgment. in
imagination, in brain power. in indus
Try, he was equally remarkable-in the
iast quality almost unrivaled. When
the number and variety Of his works
are considered, one is struck with
amazement at the amount Of intel
lectual labor which he crowded into
the seventy years OF his life
The LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTlN-
GALE. BY Sir Edward Cook. Lon
don: Macmillan < Co.
Aiuch more often than otherwise aIIu-
SONS to Florence Nj htin ale are maze in
The terms 'angeI' and saint" This is
unfortunate For these names rather
al h.arr rro In II, Ia,
Scnnote a certain medieva.ism. And
even despite ones self. they set the
work and influence of this woman tar to
ine rearward of present movements. This
too IN face of the fact that, N spirit
- outlook and in action Miss Nightingale
IS as much a part of the present as she
was OF the present of fifty yeas ago as
she will be nity, or even hundred, years
from now Sir Edward Cooks full and
hTst-hand study OF this famous woman's
lie IS calculated. above all else, TO dem
onstrate this progressively coJeal -o.an-
eoGs character OF Miss Nightingale's in
Huence and appeal. The story o. i.er re-
volt against the routine OF London social
life while yet a girl-rich, intellectual,
cultured. sought-reads much like similar
rebeliions today, save that, by virtue of
her own courase then, little is needea 10
do this now. The first ten chapters OF
Sir Edwards book gather up the early in
huences that, despite the fierce oppos-
TORS OF those days, shaped this career,
masculine fiber and substance. The re-
mainder of the study has TO do with Miss
Nightingale in the Crimean war, in Eng
land. in India, working in field and camp.
establishing hospitals and nurses
schools, planning reforms inclusive as
70 reach from the head Of the war office
Itself 10 the lowliest soldier The end or
this absorbing story finds Miss Nightin-
gale TO longer the occupant of some holy
niche where prayers and thanksgiving
are laid. She is. on the contrary, very
real and present woman-a logical think
ef. q me organizer and administrator,
tntolerant of delaying fornaliUes, quick
TO praise, ready To blame, passionate. i'm
perious and withal tender ard full of
pity. Sir Edward Cook is a sympathetic
biographeT- lie is not, howeveE, par
usan. From this story one gathers both
the faults and the virtues or Florence
Nightingale. These summed and a bal
ance struck, there stands before readers
a remarkable character, vital and ire
mendous force. 10 whom every woman of
today is III undeniable debt. For this rea-
soa. apart from the general value OF this
biography. the book should be "A part of
every womans study of the forces that
have united in her own present environ
ment-
JINGLE DAYS. BY Arley Munson,
VI. u. illustrated. New York: d.
Appleton & Co.
Jungle Days is an interesting and an
important record of the experiences OF a
young doctor, an American woman. in
India For Ave years DR.. Munson trav-
eled through India, seeking out remote
and scattered villages in order TO doctor
the sick of those places and 10 teach
both the well and the sick the ways to
health. A missionary to the bodies of
these people, a crusader against disease,
this young woman went through expert
ences that rarely fall 10 the lot of either
man or woman. Out OF the close rela-
tionship that her mission created and
fostered DIR. Munson writes Familiarity
and intimately OF a thousand aspects of
this PARKWAY life. Some OF the story Is
clear adventure. Some OF IL is perilous.
Much OF il. however. is the everyday story
or this unfamiliar people. Many pictures
help to objectify this text The commune
cable quality OF DIR. Munson writing
puts the reader not only in possession
Of innumerable fresh facts. but IL trans
nlitS to him also an aprreciable part OF
the writer's own sympathy and enthus-
jasm. This, in sense, is new Florence
Nightingale, a highly trained and spe-
SialiZed product of the rebellion set up
by the latter more than fifty years ago
against the sacrosanct tradition of wom-
anhood
THE BROKEN HALO. Ely Florence L.
Barclay. author of THE Rosary,
etc. New York: G.. p. Putnam's