Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

Germany is the most intelli-
gently organized of modern
states, Mr.. Howe offers this
study in support of that po-
sition. The obvious mark of this su-
perior excellence of organization and
administration is Germany's notable
efficiency in the production of wealth.
in the diffusion of industry. in the
development of extraordinary re-
sources and in the. general well-befng
of it's common people. Under this as
tonishing national prosperity. and ac-
counting for it, is the state, a curious
blend of state socialism and pure
feudalism. 1t is to the workings-out
of this hybrid institution that MIR.
Howe devotes this intimate and au-
thoritative study. Much of it is a re-
view, particularly concise. graphic
and we'll ordered review of already
we'll known facts: Germany acting as
an all-around business incorporating
mines. factories and an means of
Transportation and communication, or
ganizing industry, protecting the work
ingman in every possible way. dictat-
Ing the exact terms of public educa-
tion and manipulating any or all of
these according to his own will-this
is familiar picture. It is in this part
of the study that the writer believes
30 many suggestions lie for other coun-
tries. particularly our own, in the So
luton of the social problems that are
now pressing so urgently upon them.
And yet II is out of this study itself
that one gathers the difficulties that
would meet other countries where
a thoroughly Prussianized Germany
meets none whatever. Here is coun-
try of rigid caste lines, 1t is con-
trored by the junkers and a fringe
= of wealthy men outside this omnipo-
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junker-is at one with the element of
control. The franchise is a farce The
controlling few manipulate Germany in
it's various projects and plans with
with which the astute American man
ages his single big business. That
Germany is an intelligent and benevo-
lent tyranny does not do away with
the fact that IL is tyranny. That the
common people are happy and content
is partly because of this good tyranny
in which they live. and partly because
the whole system OF German educa-
developed in the idea that the indi-
vidual Germans best destiny is to be
merely some perfectly working part
Of the great machine OF state. And Mr..
Howe makes all this quite clear. That
is one of the best features of this adj
mirable study. 1t is. too. the part out
of which the question arises as to how
much of socialized Germany would
issue under the buEnptious individual
ism Of the people. even the working
people. of the United States.
WALKS ABOUT WASHINGTON. By
Francis E Leupp. Drawings by
Lester G. Hornby. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
Merely as a book this is a handsome
and impressive volume. an inviting
one. besides. And the promise of it's
exterior is more than fulfilled by the
book itself. Here Mr.. Leupp has set
around Washington. SO to speak, the
frame of a hundred years. Within this
frame he has gathered the big events
in this century-old career of the Ma
tional Capital These in balanced
and orderly arrangement gather. each
around itself. picturesque cluster of
incident. parsonage, place and illumi-
White House, Ford's Theater. the
house where Lincoln died" Arlington.
Soldiers Home. Rock creek. the old
mill on Bladensburg battlefield. the old
house in Georgetown where Washing
ton had his Office and many more places
are: here, each recreated in the facts
that make IL memorable. Those who
are familiar with the city know how
surprisingly we'll this author has pre-
served its old fragrances and presented
its full atmosphere. AS inspired with
his sketches as Mr.. Leupp is with the
text. Mr.. Horribly has added in large
measure to the charm of this delight
full book on Washington.
KITCHENER CHAPS. BY A. Neil
Lyons, author of Simple Simon"
etc. New York: John Lane Com
pany.
They are motley-these Kitchener
chaps In this group of short stories
Neil Lyons disentangles something like
ffteen of them from the riff-raff of
their common surroundings and sets
them. one by one. at some stage of
being made into the chaps that
Kitchener just now wants. Humor is
the keynote OF these delicious sketches,
but out of this there grows. bit by bit.
stun that is now being transformed
into the English common soldier
There comes out, too. by clever touches
here and there. what these particular
samples OF humanity think of this war
and of England and. incidentally, what
they think. also. of their relation to
both. Mr.. Lyon has u very st~rp eye
and an equally soft heart for the
product of the London gutter. The
business of winning these gutter folks
to the war and the much more difficult
business of hammering them into SOL
der shape, give this writer quite too
good an opportunity to be resisted for
the play of his peculiar gift-a genuine
Dickens gift-of portraying this spe-
ciaI brand Of Englishman.
INCENSE AND ICONOCLASM, studies
In Literature. BY Charles Leonard
Moore. New York: q. p. Putnam's
Sons.
Despite the implication of it's title.
this volume Of essays is neither ritual
on the one hand nor rebellion on the
other. 1t lacks the reverence of the
first and the ruthlessness of the sec
ond. Rather Is II clear and pene-
tyating. a sympathetic and generous
consideration of modern literature
from something like half "A hundred
avenues of approach Some OF these
approaches are highways and sonie Of
them are byways. The former deal
with those essentials which literature.
the world over. recognizes and defers
to. These II is that create the soIidar-
ity of literature and give honorable
place to classic standa rds even in this
independent day. when the go-as-you-
please plan of literary craftsmanship
has.its loud champions. The by-ways
Of this study deal with the various ele-
mens that may. or may not. enter into
the question Here are personal and bio
graphic sketches in illustration Of one
or another point of considera ton.
Here. too. are discussions and ap-
praisals OF certain common motives
and themes that supply fiction with
material. And here are analyses Of
iertain methods of producing this or
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