Evening star., 1916-11-12

tic state into a cooperative one. 1t is
a prodi gious displacement incident to
sudden transition. The French revolu-
tion also was the monstrous jar caused
by the sudden breaking away from
absolutism into individuaIism. Mr..
SteinmetZ makes a practical study of
the essence of cooperation in it's ap-
plication to social and business life in
this country. In everyday detail he
shows the working out of business CO.
operation describing it's consistent and
logical chara cter, pointing to its ad-
vantages. and showing how this. too.
is but step toward cooperative
state. Mr.. Steinmetz is d socialist,
with more than the average socialists s
notions of a working program for his
plan OF cooperative democratic
state. An impressive part of this study
is that in which the writer points out
that these great epochs arrive; that
those nations and people that adapt
themselves to these successive new
orders survive and advance. while those
that rigidly resist or fail to recognize
the Change promptly lose their chance
and perish. The study, in sum, con-
sists of simple application of the
principles Of the cooperative state to
the republicanism Of America.
A sHEAF. BY John Galsworthy. au-
thor Of Fraternity" etc. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons
This is sheaf of pleas. with now and
then a protest thrown in. larger
Kindness among men and toward every
live thing Is the essence OF these es-
says. Under this flexible theme Mr.
Galsworthy talks about prisons and
laws, about peace and war, about the
position of women. and about the great
fields to be opened anew after the war.
He says some things, too, about ami
htv, huf SLf h Il
reading for the sake of our daily atti-
tudes toward these. Among these he re-
fleets on the sportsman's joys, on the
vivisection of dogs, the slaughter OF
animals for food. on performing ami
mails. to which he might have added a
word on the enforced domestication of
wild animals for purposes of exhibition.
When he reaches the war. Mr.. Gals
worthy looks at it from many points
of view. but always faced upon the
hope of lasting peace. After one has
had about so much to say in behalf of
peace and kindness he must expect to
be set OF as a sentimentalist: But stur-
dier stuff saner and more decent con-
Germ for the people and things brought
under consideration here, cannot be
found than in this sheaf Of pleas and
admonitions.
MULTITUDE AND SOLITUDE; A
Novel. BY John Masefield. author Of
THE Everlasting Mercy. etc. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
This Masefeld novel made its first
appearance several years back. Be
tween that date and the present one
imagines it standing around rather out
of things. to speak. For this is a
record of the quest of an ideal. To be
sure, II was at that time, as 1t has
been at all times. no unheard-of thing
for one to possess an Ideal and to pur-
sue it. But the social vision. as aga ms /
the individual one. is. in any general
sense, very recent development. And
since 1t is the social ideal with which
this story has to do. il has been com
PEELED to wait till now for its fullest
and most sympathetic acceptance. Five
of the twelve chapters here give a
realistic narrative of two men adven-
turing into Africa to fight the sleenjng
sickness. that scourge of the native
The seven chapters leading up to this
adventure describe in thoughtful elab-
GRAFTON the spiritual rebirth of Roger
Naldrett, successful writer and self
satisfied man of the world. A deep and
sudden personal loss drove Naldrett
into himselfin a quest of the realities
These he found to be identical with
those Of all men. He emerged from
this self-searching in bond to social
obligation, which. under the urge OF
certain mystical and romantic infiu-
, ences. he sought to fulfill, In part, by
this humanitarian mission into Africa