Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
BOOK REVIEWS.

THE FLYING Inn. BY Gilbert h;
Chesterton, author of "Manalive,
etc. New York: John Lane Com
pany.
a CRAZY Irishman. a mad Eng
~ ishman, a demented Turk, the
flying sign of THE Old Ship
\ crescents interlocking ramounc-
tious horns with the rigid arms
cf austere crosses, a girl. donkey ana
multitude of other odds and ends are
tumbled into these covers and left to
work matters out as they may. And one
hears a terrible hubbub inside from
which he is able with great difficulty TO
gather that every English idiosyncrasy
above the seven seas is being torn to
tatters by one or another of this rabble.
Venturing to put an ear to the lid, one
listens, when he may. with uproarious de-
light at terrific jabs from one or another
OF these bedlamates. But as for the
whole of it together, as for this tre-
mendous powwow about the overserious
paternal role of England itself and about
the multitudinous passing absorDtlons OIL
its individuals and cults, one is able to
make nothing at all. This is very
popular book, one of Mr.. Chesterton S
best It is already running away with
It's second edition. To be able to seize
Mr.. Chestertons meanings, as If he We're
the twin of ones soul, is as much mark
of intellectual distinction nowadays as
Il was twenty years ago to grasp the
cryptic utteranceS of Robert Browning.
Not that the two are comparable in any
respect. save in this common quality OF
unintelligibility.
UNITED STATES; From the Revo-
tuition to the Civil War. l'y John
Bach McMaster. University CT PenA-
sylvania. New York: d. Appleton
u Co.
This volume, the eighth, completes the
latest edition OF John Bach McMaster's
History of the People of the United
states, From the Revolution to the Civil
War" 1t ends in the closing words OF
Lincoln's inaugural address, March T.
1861, and faces outward upon the I'M
minence of war. 1t begins with the agl.
tations of 1850 over the question OF
slavery in its application to the enor-
nous additions of new territory acquired
by the United States as a result OF the
war with Mexico. Throughout its course
it covers the ten years of struggle over
this paramount questionable question
that eliminated in secession and the
formation of the southern con1ederac!.
The eight volumes, together, stano
monumental triumph of modern scientlhc
history-making and the pioneer OF tnls
science in the United States.
THE FORESTER'S DAUGHTER: a
Romance Of the Bear-ToOth Range:
BY Hamlin Garland. author OF
"Main-Traveled Roads, etc. New
York: Harper & Bros.
That a novelist should be led to stray
hyyf will n
one or another of hi book women is no
matter for surprise. Such an outcome is
merely bringing to print an everyday
occurrence with all sorts and conditions
of men. And this is what happened to
Mr. Garland in the making of The For
ester's Daughter By his own admis-
sion he set out to write big sociological
novel on the theme of the government
forestry service. What he did do was to
write the love story OF Berea Mcf ar
lane, the daughter of the forester. And
i perfectly fresh and delightful story II
is. sketched against a glorious BACK
ground of the great western mountains.
one can only be glad that Berea set the
larger and more prosaic story aside and
offered instead the idyllic adventure of
her own heart. Not in long time will
one find another heroine Ike Berea NC
Farlane-so sweet and fair, so sensible
and warm-hearted and worth while AND
Il.
Berea as about the conservation of our
resources so long as he is permitted in
the writing to tell about his own real
trails and camps, about the weather ne
meets in making them and the ANIMALS
that companion him, and the play OF
clouds and sun and rain on forest and
mountain side. And We would Infinitely
prefer to have him write about Berea.
IN FREEDOMS BIRTHPLACE; a
study of the Boston Negroes. By
John Daniels, sometime holder of
the South End House fellowship in
Harvard University; now secretary
of the Social Service Corporation,
Baltimore. Boston: Houghton Milf
fin Company
Mr. Daniels expert investigation of the
rase of the Boston negroes is, by this
circumstance of place, addressed to the
citizens of Boston. But the growing
movement of the negro from rural to
AN urban environment through the de-
mand of cities for unsKilled laborers
makes the problem attending this town
ward drift a general one that sets any
competent special consideration OF 1t into
the broad field of common service. Sc,
while this study. for all the purposes OF
scientific research and deduction, deals
alone with the negroes of a certain To-
cality. il is, in its manner of dealing
with this subject, bound to be OF
greatly enlarged usefulness Inc nrst
nine chapters of this notably scholarly
and fair minded examination give de-
tailed account of the past and present
of the Boston negro-of his advent and
subsequent deliverance from servitude;
of his enjoyment of equal rights and.
Immediately following the civil war, of a
large share of public favor: of the re-
action against this early fervor, a re-
action that threw the negro pretty COM
pletely upon his own resources. From
this point the study recounts the slow
advance of the negro in realizing society
and the cooperation that supports and
buttresses it. 1t marks the growth of
individual morality and social ethics. 1t
defines the scope of economic achieve
rnent. The last chapter fronts upon the
future of the negro. 1t gives statement
to the vague connotation of the negro
problem analyzing the points of dispute
covered by this problem in direct and
prehensive study is a very sympathetic
one, with no trace Of the sentimentality
that this theme is likely to invite In
fact, quite as often as otherwise, Mr..
Daniels puts it up TO the negro himself
to get down to business and stop cry
ing for an equality that can come only
with equal capabilities and responsible
ties. 1t is an admirable study, fitted for
u broad and thorough usefulness.
DARKNESS AND DAWN. By George
Allan England. illustrated. Boston:
Small, Maynard & Co.
This is long story-almost 700 napes