Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-24


RES. BY Henry Adams An intro
duction by Ralph Adams Cram. IL
Illustrated. Boston: Houghton Milf
fin Company.
IF one. for presumably good reason.
were To require a catalogue name
for this study, he would more than
4 likely be, given a card reading ike
this: Architecture; Medieval; Ca
thedrals; France: Mont-Saint-M Michel
. 0hartres, This snug little transcript
exactly fits the card index outlook of the
keeper of the book shelf. And no one
would know that it conceals so much
more than it reveals. For instance, how
could one in quest of medieval art-of
its sources, its direction. its Towering
end its meanns-know that this is In
Mr.. Adams study of architecture? How
could one know that here. too, is a hv-
ing reproduction, or better an exhuma-
lion, of medieval philosophy and theology,
"f its romance and poetry, its politics
and economies? interviewer as these par
amount Issues are in life, so are they
interviewer in this study. Reflections OF
the full spirit and temper of period or a
people as these large themes are, here
they stand in an inseparable oneness as
the full embodiment of medleVallsm ITSELF
1t is not at all wonderful that Mr.. Adams
in a study of medieval architecture saw
this network of Undergraduates and
relationships through the expressive arts
of medievalism. Every study presents
this fact. This is indeed, the great point
in all study. The wonder lies in his
particular seizure and vivid amplihcation
of this web of medieval life ihe COM
posite life of the thirteenth century was
caught and held in the building of these
churches. Into site and nave and tower
IT poured: into porch and portal. into
window and hall and refectory. Crusade,
pilgrimage, enterprise, dogma and dlspu-
Iation, the songs of Roland, the loves or
Ams and Amle. of Aucassin and Nico-
lette, are all here, set in harmonious
arch and line and lift. 1t is a rich and
wonderful and notable study-rich in
theme, wonderful in insight and notable
in its method and effect.
MY MONKS OF vAGABONDIA. ny
Address Floyd. Union: Self-Master
Press.
so to Elizabet n. j. At this point
take the trolley line for Union, only
about two miles out. At Union, the
monks of Vagabondia'' live in a colony
that Is known as the Self Master Col
ouy." a name that pretty fairly describes
the purpose and the underlying impulse
OF this adventure in humanity. Work is
the leaven of this lump. Not just any
work. but rather, such work as a man
can do, and likes to do. and takes some
pride in doing. Address Floyd has
caught on here to what should be the
fundamental principle of all education,
and not alone the principle of that branch
of education having to do with modern
reform. So, in the Seif-Master colony,
the farmers are farming, the carpenters
are building, the metal workers are max
ing fixtures and furnishings. the cooks
are cooking, and SO on. Then there came
the time to make this book. The stories
We're ready-'fact stories selected from
tue tiles of the Self-Master Magazine
stories made to present the defeated man
ne is. good stories, some gay and some
grave, about one or another of the 1000
men that have passed through the colony.
The stories made. how to book them
came to he the problem. This little vol
tune shows ithe problem solved. In
hcokiet Address Floyd tells how il was
brought about. When all was ready for
The typesettei held up my finger like
tie conjuFer in the. Black Crock and
rn.re came out from my Atty clever ras-,
Gals whom / loye-a man-modestly blush |
.uc. I have set type for books these
twenty Years and more, he said. And
So through all the intricacies of book
making one or another of these monks
ri Nasabondia" responded till this arts
III triumph of the craft was ready to
hand The enterprise itself withits sound
educational foundation and htleaans foufi- /
dation. the stories and the book are enl-
ncntly worth ones substantial and sfHS
, tSrasted attention Address Floyd, at
this end of the line is working to help
defeated men TO themselves, to stronger
and more useful selves. in exactly the
spirit and with practically the same
methods used by Raymond Riordan in
Tie -.Interlacken School for Boys" at the
other end Of the line. with the set pur-
pose that these boys shall be fortified.
reasonab ly@ fortified. against defeat, and
that through useful and congenial work
they shall march happily and capably
into an all-around manhood. One won
v..hx obi fnrmallv cangfifnfPd
education. does not study such men,
|. FOOTPRINTS BENEATH THE SNOW,
4 Novel. BY Henry Bordeaux, au-
thor of 1.-THE Parting of the Ways,
etc Translated by Mary Seymour
Houghton New York: Duffield &
Co.
II appears that the wife of Mark Rome
nav. a young Paris architect, left her
husband to go away with her lover. In
the course of little time Romenay was
summoned to Switzerland on account of
an accident in which his wife and her
lover were injured. The young man died.
The wife recovered. Such is the bare in
cident lying at the base of this novel.
NJ. Bordeaux does not set out here to tell
a story. Instead. having sought and
found a ruin, he seeks, in serious ana
painstaking artistry. to make a rebuilding
of this wrecked family to fair pattern
of beauty and usefulness through the
persuasive law of compassionate love,
coupled with the persistent urge of the
mere instinct to live. a broken family is
the completest of ruins. A hundred shat
tered illusions lie in its wreckage.
thousand deep and secret antagonisms
now stand there in stark exposure. To
rebuild a seemly and vital whole out of
these passions and animosities out of the
repentances even, of this catastrophe may
be good morals as morals count, or II
NAV not be. 1t may be good art, even
classic art. the author suggests. but
IL is not life. The family idea is rooted
in sex To be sure, in the slow processes
of time il has Powered generally in many
soodIy yirtues-love, friendship. co-opera-
ton. loyalty. bodily temperance. chas-
tening OF the spirit. love of children social
responsibility, and so on. But let some
domestic cataclysm tear up this growth
INTO whose making millions of years have
gone and there, dominant. at the roots
are the primal sex impulses. with love
I'and hate wrestling mysteriously to-
| cether The tree of intimate personal
| knowledge bears bitter fruit as often as
| sweet More often than otherwise the
| whole instructive being of broken fam
ly is on edge with the bitterness of this
knowledge To rebuild in sEch case is
| not possible. The most that can be done
IS 10 erect a sepulcher-whited. maybe,
| but sepulcher still-around this ruin.
| One may object to the psychology or even
20 the domestic dogma of NJ. Bordeaux.
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