Evening star., 1915-02-14

her foreboding fear was nothing at all
to the paralysis of astonishment thai
seized upon her when this young bust
ness autocrat proposed. in the most
business-lke way, that she, for the
space of one year. consent to stand be-
fore the public as his fiancee-his Of
nciai nancee, SO TO speak. ~ this point
neither the reader nor Miss Monica
herself is let into the secret lying back
OF TINS astounding proposition. Miss
Monica demurred. girl would. But
tressingly close. the Increased wages
OF the new situation turned the scales
in favor of the engagement
The writer who succeeds. as this one
does, in developing very pretty and
innocent working-girl romance from 4
starting point so palpably forced ana
Improbable deserves the credit that
this engaging little story is likely TO
win for her.
THE ENCHANTMENT OF ART: A.
Part of the Enchantment of Expert
ence. BY Duncan Phillips. Illustrat-
ed New York: John Lane Com
pany.
| One is invited into this book by the
| authors frank avowal that it is sim
! ply his own attitude toward art, his
own personal appreciation of it. And
having entered. one finds Mr.. Phillips
as good his word. Not at any time
within it is one crowded into the dry
corner occupied by the precise tech
nician. Instead, in the easy company
of this genial guide, he hears an H.
Eliminating talk about impressionism,
what il is, and what il means, not only
to painting but to poetry and prose
as well. And there are informal
studies of certain great painters. OF
their peculiar artistic reactions against
the times in which they lived. and
everything about what they left to the art
! of the world. This writer has know-l-
npli q a.
communicating OF this book he him.
self says: Apparently il is about art.
Actually il is about my own life some
4 of its finer moments when the enjoy
ment of artistic beauty made il WON
/ derfully worth while. Art is per-
sonal matter from beginning to end
from the personal mood that precedes
an original creation TO the last word
1 of personal opinion passed in comment
upon it.
THE GREAT SOCIETY: 4 P.ychoIosi-
| cal Analysis. BY Graham Wallas,
| author of Human Nature in Poli-
tics" New York: The Macmillan
| Company.
! The great society with which
this writer deals is the world of men
drawn into a neighborhood OF cas-
intercommunication by the discoveries
of science and the inventions based
upon these. And to this expanded
ciety the author brings the findings of
modern psychology to show to what
extent these suffice for the enormously
enlarged problems of ..Is society. Its
discussions of fundamental mental
| processes front upon both the individ-
udl and the group, bringing these to-
sether to bear upon the new conditions
that underlie. and the new dangers
that aSsail both the conference and the
permanence of the present order
MR.. CREX OF MONTE CARLO. BY f.
Phillips Oppenheim illustrated.
| Boston: Little. Brown & Co
| 1t is doubtful if Mr.. Oppenheim has
ever written a more absorbing story
than this. involving international in
| thrilling adventure, all amid the fas-
cinating setting of Monte Carlo. AL
| though the book was written before
the outbreak of war in Europe, IL
deals with questions of diplomacy and
| the destinies of nations in way in
which the writer has shown might not
have been preposterous. In Monte
Carlo representatives of three nations
meet in plot to change the map of
Europe, while another diplomat, in the
interest of his own country, seeks to
thwart them. He is aided by young
:, merican millionaire in dashing Amer
lean recklessness. the interest OF this
young man being in the lovely daugh
ter of the grand duke, whom he wants
| to maryland does. A touch of fan
| whirlwind wooing Of this Lochinvar
| and his complete upsetting of old
world conventions and ideas.