Evening star., 1915-06-20

of circumstances toward the seventh
SHALT not of the Decalogue. The bold
est of the fiction makers arrive. The
less daring skirt this point and scurry
away No latter-day chronicler is
braver than Mr.. Beresford. The round
about ways of approach are not his
ways. On the contrary. he begins the
place where the most throw up their
hands or take to their heels.
This is the story of Jacob Stahl and
Betty Gale Betty keeps Blooms
bury boarding house. She is young and
comely stanch and practical. She
eninodies. besides, the very soul itself
of service. as the broadly elemental
woman is bound to do. Stahl is about
all that Betty is not. An intellectu-
al. impractical fellow. infrm of pur-
pose and ailing in execution. An in
termittent book reviewer in practice
a great writer of realistic romance IN
his fiuctuating desires and recurrent
dreams. The one of all the Blooms
bury boarders to stir to full blossom
Bettys instinct toward se1f-Eiving
The girl is web of conventions, the
daughter of an English curate. The
man. unconscious of any law beyond
those of his own making. has wife
somewhere, uear-wife somewhere
else. After a very sincere to-do of
mental anguish, Betty goes down into
Cornwall to live with Stahl. There her
Job is at once cut out for her. Thls
is nothing less than the everyday,
and all-day task of tanning the fame
of StahIs genius and the flicker of his
industry. of holding up his limp hands,
of putting starch into his slumplng
spinal cord. Betty wives and mothers
and tutors the man into sustained work
and final achievement This done. Mr.
Beresford himself gets into fright over
the final logic of the situation that he
has created. So. he runs away to bring
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wife, in order that these two may at
the last come out in the sanctity of
lawful wedlock and. in the course of
time, into the sunlight of public ap-
proved a difficult fellow. Into the
making of his literary career three
Beresford novels have gone-novels of
fne laboratory work--miscroScopy, chem
taking. All this. to say nothing of
the sweat and blood of women that
the nurture of this genius has demand
ed. Incidentally. these novels have
also established the literary Importance
Of Mr.. Beresford himself. setting him
we'll up in the class of English real
ists-the class established by Wells
and Bennett and Galsworthy, by Wal
pole and Cannan and Onions and
Mackenzie.
JAFFERY. BY William ]. Locke. au-
thor of THE Joyous Adventures of
ArlSIlue fuJOl. etc.
by F. Matania New York: John
Lane Company.
Blessings on William ]. Locke for
the gay and gallant romanticism that
lifts with it's April grace the dun fog
of realism in which. for the most part.
readers of modern fiction are con-
demned to grope. 'Jaffery" is simply
another delectable Locke romance.
whose every page spins thread of ra
whimsical T.
fiery Chayne Is a giant. like to none
other than Pantagruel. amazing son of
Gargantua. The big Jaffery's voice
rumbles out in Homeric ful1ness, his
laughter is Olympian. his ardors Her
culean. his eatings and drinkings and
sleepings are mythic in their astonish-
ing proportions. And into this stu
pendous fellow Locke puts the heart of
a child. Then he moves him up into
modern life. Upon the one hand of
Jaffery he sets Liosha. the Albanian
Amazon Upon the other. Doria. a
Dresden hgurine of 81. Johns Wood
road. This situation develops Jaffery's
love story, an inimitably clever and ar
tistic story, in which the character of
Jafery Chayne wins every reader, to
say nothing of it's effect on one or both
of the women nearest to him. The sur
prises and progressions of the romance
must be left for the reader to enjoy
at first hand. Not since "Aristide Pu-
jol'' has William j. Locke been SO cap
10 here in "Jaffery."
says. BY Richard LIE Gallienne. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
The whole of Mr.. lie Gallienne-poet.
critic. artist. story teller and discerning
onlooker al life and arts in this vol
ones. picked up along the way in the
near neighborhood of the heart, are
dressed in the half-mourning amethysts
of gentle melancholy. That is, the
most of them are. once in a while one
sees the brighter raiment of smiles.
but never the gay colors of out -and-out
laughter. The spirit of these essays is
wholly that of large kindness to-
ward the world. such as now and then
comes to men and women when their
fever of self-absorption has in
measure cooled. 1t is soft and mellow
work. finished and beautiful. Among
these essays some stand out in sur
passing excellence. One of these is
Mr. lie Gallienne's recollections of his
pilgrimage to Mistral the Provencal
poet. Another is MS penetrating study
of William Sharp in the person Of
Fiona Macleod. And one is the men,
ory of his undimini shing JOY in re-
reading Walter Pater. OF quite another
order is the pleasing a Modern
Saint Francis" And most beautiful of
all is The Little Ghost in the Garden
something of tender love and ex-
quisitely simple beauty that homes
straightaway into the warm places of
ones heart. This volume leaves one
keen in the hope that Mr.. lie tiallienne
10 already busy with its successor.
THE. ROAD TOWARD PEACE. By
Charles W. Eliot. author of II niver-
sIty administration, etc. Boston,
Houehton Miffiin Company.
DR.. Eliot here points the road toward
nesre by WAY of consideration of the
causes of war. and by the analysis of
such means of future prevention as lie
1mplicitly in the causes themselves.
the basis of much the larger part of
the deep-lying causes OF this con-
h;ct. Besides this. he indicates the
possible rise, and even the actual
existence, of other conditions that will
lead inevitably to future wars. unless
these be met by united and consciously
directed opposition. DIR. Eliot is an ad-
vocate of all measures that look toward
permanent peace. This attitude is far
removed from that Of peace at any
price" In this connection. he believes
that, for the sake of sucn permanent
peace. the war now going on must be
fought TO q decisive victory of the con- =
stitutional powers over despotism and
an autocratic government According g
TO this scholarly and distinguished man
this event will furnish the only stable
foundation for plans of international
agreements. for the establishment of
international courts. The present is the
time for frank opinions from compe-