Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16

character, IL 1t still held its first purity.
one would like to use 1t above all other
words to cover the quality Of the Can
field stories. This writer's stories are
wholesome. but they are also stories Of
fine intuition and clear insight, stories
that are dramatic in effect and work.
manly in structure, stories that deal in
an artistic realism with human nature
objectif1ed in the everyday folks around
one. Above all, these excellent quail
ties they have fiavors and atmospheres.
true essences of superior workmanship
combined with genuine feeling. 1t is
not easy to select from this generally
fine group-but read "A Sleep and a
Forgetting"
THE NIGHT COMETH. BY Paul Bour-
get. Translated from the French by
G. Frederic Lees. New York: G. P.
Putnam'S Sons.
NJ. Bourgeois novel is, in effect, the
study Of two opposed hypothesis on
the inevitable problem of death. The
two persons from whom the study is
made stand in sharp contrast to each
other in both character and habit.
Ortegue is a superior man. strong in
intellectual power. scientific in his
methods of thought. Death suddenly
rises before him. He faces 1t with a
positive doctrine, the doctrine of an
Inhalation. With pathetic grandeur
he faces this certain and total collapse
of his being. LIE Gallo, on the other
hand, is a simple man, a man Of &C.
ton. He has not formed his doctrine.
He has received 1t. Before him also
death arises. The tradition Of his doc
trine enables him to accept death i'm
mediately. to adapt himself to 1t. offer
ing his agony in the conviction that 1t
becomes a sacrifice to those he loves.
Ia Nf
these two doctrines Is 'utilizablew
And, curiously. the doctrine of LIE Cal
lie stands under this test as more scien-
tif1c than that of .ortegue. the &C
nestle current runs through this study.
serving in part story purpose and, in
other part, as material for the develop
ment of relative values in this discus
sion. The whole is drawn against a
background Of the great war.
THE GERMAN REPUBLIC. BY Walter
We1lman. New York: E. P. Dutton
& Co.
The theory that the German people
were deceived and practically .ricked
into a war against the world is plaus-
ible theory to advance, in respect to a
nation brought up to the rule of hav-
ing it's political thinking done for it
that the peculiar ferocity of their ag-
erosion not only does not represent
the character Of the German people, but
that it wickedly misrepresents the mild
and amiable Teuton. of all Germany,
save Prussia, Is also believable. And
1T is upon this double assumption that
Walter Wellman creates an imaginary
German republic In place of the en-
pire, and as a result of an arraignment
and trial of the German emperor by the
people. Mr.. Wellman carries out this
with convincing dramatic
instinct. He does succeed in giving the
impression of a people profoundly sor-
rowful as they accuse their emperor
naming the places at which they have
been misled and the times when they
have been grossly deceived. The trial
of the government becomes a revolu-
ton. The Teutons cease to be Ger
man tribe. and unite as a self-govern-
ing people. The progress of this event
serves to review the conspicuous points
in the history of Germany for the past
two years. 1t serves, also, to picture
the patriotism, the valor. the unity of
the Germans. At one point only does
this really fine example of historic i'm