Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-23

Association. Boston: Houghton
Miff1in Company.
INCOLN. as President. as martyr
and as man. has obscured Lin
coin the lawyer and statesman.
II Intent upon his supreme role.
the world has neglected his
lesser ureoccupatiors. 1t is for the
purpose Of rounding the common esti-
mate Of Lincoln 20 TIE measure of his
fuI deserving that this study was
made In order Z" demonstrate that
Lincoln vas ore of the great lawyers
of his generation. Mr.. Richards has
gone into the court records of Illinois
ard those of the supreme Court of the
l-pited States. drawing from these
first hand sources of information album
dant evidence of the quality and gem
eraI influence of Lincoln's professional
ability and distinction. Appended to
this volume is ~ very interesting and
Informing list of the cases argued by
Lincoln in these two courts Beyond
this point of investigation the writer
discusses Lincoln as statesman, us
ing as the basis of this analysis the
attitude and openly expressed views of
Lincoln on the subject of reconstruct
ton of state governments i'll the south.
on the right Of individual states to
grant or to withhold suffrage. on the
futility and injustice of certain sys-
tens contemplated for the government
of the southern states. n review of
certain facts is again made here to
witness that LiriSoln was an advocate
OF the independence of the judiciary.
in despite of claims to the contrary
that have been made The final chap
ter of this volume is in the nature of
pure tribute to Lincoln us an orator.
Following this are half a dozen pages
- fro, hos nd
ings of Abraham Lincoln. The whole
is a we'll ordered and authoritative
summary of the powers of Lincoln in
the fields of law and craftsmanship
THE CRUISE OF THE TOMAS BAR
RERs. BY John +. Henderson.
author Of american Diplomatic
Questions" Illustrated. New York:
~. p. Putnam's Sons.
The daily records of the cruise of the
Tomas Barrera form the foundation of
Mr. Hendersoh's narrative. The Tomas
Bsrrera is Cuban fishing schooner,
manned by Majorcan islanders. Upon
this occasion both ship and sailors
were turned over to the service of a
GROUP of scientists. the most of whom
are In the research departments of the
United States government. The orig
inal intent of the expedition was a
single one. that of collecting Cuban
marine mollusks to perfect certain
lines OF inSeSti gatlon. This purpose.
however. turned out. happily. to be an
elastic one, roomy enough to expand
the SIX weeks cruise into study of /
both the animal and plant life of north
western cuba and of the waters ad-
jacent to that locality. More than this. |
Mr.. Henderson has included within this |
narrative many general topics of in
terest. He pictures the landscape,
sketches the Cuban villages. blocks in
crarlerPriS personalities gathers
the ways Of life in that part Of the is
land, uh=yinds the connecting highways
and flauhs them with innuinerable
touches VI island life And when the
scientists go a-huHting. each for his
own particular catch. Mr.. Henderson
takes the reader along. letting him into
the myst cries of capture and care. in
deed permitting him to have share
in the excitement of the whole scien-
tiac to-do. II is d most engaging book.
easy and informal II is. besides. a
genuinely instructive survey of the
areas over which the Tomas Barrera
cruised. and Of the mainland beside
which she was anchored Maps of
regions and routes with generous
number of admirable pictures supple
ment the text of this entertaining and
Informing narrative.
TIKI: DUEL. BY A. kuprin. New YORK:
The Macmillan Company.
y friendship of three-two men and
the wife of one of them-a gradual re-
arrangement of the group. with love
crowding out friendship here, and hate
taxing it's place there. Intrigue.
Secret jealousy. open outbreak. A
duel and death. \ commonplace out
line enough for the development of
novel. The story begins to take on
separateness. however. from its setting
an army post. II comes into positive
Individuality through the fact that this
getting is a Russian barracks, a
mote place Of deadly routine and de-
pressing monotony- The progress of
this affair follows a backward course
OF the ten commandments. beginning
with the last one and finally reaching
TIC sixth by way of the seventh 1T
Is srrdid picture. And no one but
Russian could have lifted its brutal
quality. undiminished unchanged.
into print One is in bad company from
the minute that he opens the book I'M
til he closes ii. But he msryels over
every page at the amazing insight and
skill that causes these lines Of type to
evoke The actual men and women of
that Russian barracks Here are brutal
ofbcers. taking out their beastliness in
regular order on those below them, the
common soldiers venting themselves on
one another. on the horses and the dogs
The hero Of the tale is dreaming.
impractical Russian. The wornen-wcll.
the women are All unspea ka bly, hard
and cruel. or furtive and equally cruel
The only one who has any notion that
life means anything al all Is drunken
officer. Wrought with incredible care
and power. this picture impresses one
as ar expression of the nth power of
what lies inherent in every place that
Is consecrated 10 the business of battle
with the long between periods o. train
Ing to the pitch of murder lust and
for the event Of wholesale slaughter
itself This is kuprin's greatest book.
terrible indictment of army life. a
revolving picture of the degradation
and sodden misery Of Russian garri-
son life.
THE BATTLE MONTHS OF GEORGE
DAtRELLA. By Beulah Marie Dix.
author of The Gate of Horn" etc
New York: Duffeld &; Co.
Upon its face this is war romance
rising out OF the current of the present
strife and shaped by one and another
of It's characteristic events. On the
one hand is a young soldier. George
Daurella. ahame with military ambi-
tion. On the other is a girl. capabIy
ardent in the interests of peace. The
story runs along the common road of
romance until the reader is repeatedly
and persistently made aware of the
fact that its characters and situations
spcaii, the author refusing them Ioca
habitation or specific nationality. To
be sure. the curious idiom Of George
of identification. is also the i'm =
r. fIEf of +.atV, e