Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-28
A Tale of the West.


The Full of the Moon" is another
of Caroline Lockfort's inspiring,
thoroughly enjoyable stories of the
West. The cowboys she portrays are
true to life and the analysis of the
character of the Mexican should be a
revelation at this very time. AS the
author of this novel paints them the
MeXicans are cruel, revengeful, I'M
trustworthy, with a large measure of
the coward in their composition. But,
from this condemnation let us ex-
empt the Mexican woman-a true
product of glorious old Spain, speak
ing Spanish with q purity unknown
in South American countries and
instinct with the passion devotion
and grace of the pure caStilian from
whom she sprung.
If Indian blood has at ala modified
the character of the Mexican woman
it has not taken from her those quail
ties which make her Spanish an
cestor's such delightful creatures in
the plays of Calderon, now, unfor-
tunately so little known to the pro-
fessed litterateur, even.
If one wonders a little at the char
aeter of Nan Galbraith in 1.-THE Full
of the Moon" n girl who would have
her fling and goes off to the far
West to find it among cowboys, let it
be remembered that there are thou
sands upon thousands of women who.
if they dared, who, if their spirit
were in proportion to their desire,
would, driven by their unexplained
longings, soon fly from the trammels
of convention and of the brutal
banality of commonplace men. Let
those who doubt this go into the di
vorce court and listen for while to
the weeping testimony of disillusioned
wives whose husbands are but COM
panions for the beasts of the field
and who are as incapable of appre-
ciating the aspirations of high-spirit-
ed women for life and activity as they
are of understanding the poetry Of
Sappho.
Let those who enjoy a spirited tale
read "The Full of the Moon.
1.-THE FULL OF THE MOON" BY
Caroline Lockhart, author of THE Lady
Doe etc. with ill9stTations by Charles
Philadelphia and London.
New Poems by Gale Young Rice.
A new volume of poems by Gale
Young Rice has just appeared from
the press of Doubleday, Page & Co.
| "At the Worlds Heart is the title
of the book, q collection of lyrics,
many of them on Oriental themes.
| Inc TUE VI lit6 NOiulhO 10 oPBAo
pirate. Mr.. Rice has again been
eavesdropping at the heart of the
world, and has brought back with
him many of the rhythms that pulse
deep in the breast of life. After a
number OF poetic dramas and books
of lyrics this volume will also doubt
| less be most warmly received.
! Professor Phelps, of Yale, says:
''Mr. Rice's lyrics are deeply impress
sive. A large number are full-bloodeo
| works of art"
| That Mr.. Rice is among the fore
most poets singing in America and
England today is an assertion that
| no longer needs to be repeated.
Social Revolutions.
| In the Theory of Social Revolu-
| tons" by Brooks Adams (Macmil-
| lans), the author has attempted to
bring home to the governing class of
| this country a sense of its RESPONSE
| bility, as that is, he believes, its only
hope of safety Nearly twenty years
| ago he calculated that were the pro-
| gression to continue at the same ac-
| CELEBRATION. our present social system
must fall by or before 1890; he now
| holds that he has seen no reason to
modify his opinion. Whereas he has
confined his attention in the past to
some one side of this greatest of prob
lens, the economic, the military, or
the geographical, he here attacks the
| legal. The work is the result of wide
reading. experience and reflection.