Evening star., 1914-11-21

@1HIS is a great story. great in
treatment as well as In
theme. And all along Its
course there is evidence. am
pie In amount and unassail-
able in character. that the book is
standing squarely up to its claim OF
sivint readers the true Ulysses S
The particularly illuminating quality
Of this work rises from the fact that
q soldier of broad experience and sub
stantial achievement tells the story of
this great American soldier. No civil
ian. however competent he might be,
however inspired even he might be.
could seize and appraise the full meas
ure of Grant with the same sympathy
and insight. with the same justice OF
Interpretation, as Gen. King has exer-
cised. A notably right perspective con-
trolls this study. The various stages OF
Grants life stand here in such true re-
lation to one another that this orderly
and proportioned entirety presents him
to the heart and comprehension or
readers as complete personality. Gen.
Grants career reaches it's real climax
in the civil war. And this event the
author spreads out in thrilling drama,
as the feld of Grants most significant
service. The drama becomes, too,
though in subordinate and incidental
manner. a brilliant exposition OF the
technique of war, objectiried in the va
rious campaigns and decisive battles
Of the great conflict. Stuuents of war,
of war as a uUuy of scIentIhc knuwi-
edge, will read this stony tor its pre-
else and graphic record. Old west
Pointers will love it Tor its roster OF
N eS achievements,
And to thousands beyond these profess
SiOnaiS ana reminiscent groups II Will
make Irresistible appeal. Grown folks
will reappraise Grant through this
av:IiiapIe rioSu-gaLse study "a the GAL
liant young soldier who passed out OF
tue MexIcan war into obscurlty as un-
successful farmer and country store
keeper. changing this unhappy ana
nat,,.tlc seCiusIon for the LIIcerta.n
hazard of the civil war, and moving on
thence To Iue pI Iesioency oI .ne I..Itea
Stayes. Ana to those VINO are younger,
tnose VINO passIonately cherlsn heroic
men as the measure or their own
stravings. as the fabric of their own
hrlGut dreams, this story OF great
American soldier will prove inhni.el!
nearer tnaR the epic heroes OF ancient
Troy, or the stili more cistant Wal
r;ois sung in Scandinavian sagas. Tnis
eloquent and true and tender story
sWeiis the neart in resurgent devotion
to the silent man TO wnoni, next 10
Lincoln himself, We are In deot ioi
the pl essen, integrity OF our Chlteo
States Both the spirit and the sub
stance OF Lnis book are emtneh.iy ris.,t
and fine Tor the purpose wnich II rs
to serve in the Lipplncott series OF
true biographies" calculated 1or the
use Of the general reader.
THE RISE OF JENNIE CUSHING. By
Mary S. Watts, author OF Nathah
Burke" etc. New YORK: ihe Mac-
milan Company.
The police court Is the hrst of the
slippery stepping-stones to mark the
"rise,' of Jennie Cushing. Only mite
of girl, Jennie Is hailed to the bar
of Justice for thoroughly thrashing
Heinie Mollenkampf. who was admin
istering some third-degree OF feline
torture to a forlorn alley cat. At un-
equal distances beyond this point one
comes across Jennie, at the REFORM
school, ut Doane's as hired girl, pacR
TO tho city as hairdresser and manicure
girl as occasional maid to some hne
lady, as a painters model also. Then
follow four years in Europe with tne
painter, rich young Donelson Meigs,
where travel. and food, and clothes,
and love wait upon Jennie Cushing.
And then one encounters Jennie on
the high seas, bound for America, a
fugitive from this bitter-sWeet ex-
perience. AT the close of this story the
of old Ma" Doane and mothering a
handful OF little girls whom she has
snatched from the homelessness that
set her own feet in the strange and
moment of meeting Jennie in the
police court to the parting, when half
a dozen waits are clinging to the
skirts OF this essential mother OF un-
rnothered children, one is in thrall to
tins serious. deep-feeling. honest Jen-
ME Cushing. To be sure, Jennie's life,
Set up against the square and compass
o. the rules of conventional behavior,
looks like crazy quilt. a patternless
nit-or-miss. But according to the way
Things look to her from where she
stands at one time and another on
these various stepping stones. she
cor.ports herself with sincerity and
I.iore than little dignity. But Mrs
Watts story is too long for it's width
ard depth. More than half of its 500
pages are taken up with matters too
remote from the center, too remote
3rom the girl. This situation keeps
the person in whom he has worked
up tremendous interest. These be-
tween-whiles of separation are filled
with brilliant comment on any NUM-
Der of characters, on keen portraiture,
on amusing caricature. but there is
too much Of this. 1t Is a fine story,
one that would have been finer, how
ever. for a more concentrate line OF
development.
THE LIFE STORY OF A RUSSIAN
EXILE. BY Marie Sukloff. Trans
lated by Gregory Yarrors. Illus
trated from photographs. New
York: The Century Company.
Marie Suklof, Russian peasant girl
yet in her teens, here tells her own re-
markable story. II Is the story of
casting her lot, when still little girl,
with one Of the revolutionary bands
that honeycomb the political structure
OF Russia and sustain themselves with
the fallacy that tyranny can be crushed
sixteen the girl was imprisoned at
Odessa. Thence she was exiled to
Siberia. Escaping from Siberia she
made her way to China. The story
closes with her on shipboard making
her way to Genoa. But to this young
revolutionary freedom is only self
reproach. The sea and skies became
red like the blood of my martyred COM
rades The music in my heart ceased.
and the thought of my freedom no
longer agitated me. The decision to
which they perished was slowly form
ing in my mind. And all through the
rest of the journey it was uppermost
in my thoughts. The jungles of India.
the Red Sea, the green coasts of Africa
and the bare desert of Arabia, the Suez
canal and the beautiful skies of italy
all these wonders of nature did not
for a minute change my resolution. did
not weaken my desire to go back and
throw myself again into the unequal
struggle"
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