Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

expansion in ChlneSe territor!-
AT this point, too, that he hnds the
cause of future trouble between Japan
and the United States rather than IN the
lesser causes that lie along our racine
coast. A resident of Tokyo. a news
naner man assigned to poiltlcal anu
~diplomatic matters, Mr.. Jones has had
.aood opportunities to STUDY the Jap.
atnese at close range He comes out u
the study with no very eNaited opih-
ION of the moral qualities or the gen
araI good faith of the leaders of
Thought and action in that country &C
cording to Mr.. Jones here IS a country
that will bear watching by an the
western powers. This is a very fraHh
and open study, the writer saying what
he thinks in . manner that calls oul
admiration for his courage at least. II
is. besides. a readable and interesting
summary of the situation as II LOOKS
from where Mr.. Jones stands
escape: Nnd other Essays. BY Ar
thur Christopher Benson, author OF
From a College Window etc. New
York: The Century COMPANY
From the i%nundations of war litera-
ture IT is happiness TO come into the
haven of a quiet Benson book of es-
saws. So easy. so friendly, SO personal.
too. is this writer in his ~unic bill
ity that one has the sense of gong
A-visiting to a delightful host. as he
here follows the course OF Mf. Benson =
thought among the things OF literature
aud the things OF life One loves the
roominess OF Mr.. Benson's mind. a place
where the reader, as we'll as the writer,
can turn around for different views at
a single object. One grows happy over
his frank personal confessions with
their implication that the reader. also.
is a human being like himself ana
thereby able 10 comprehend his honest
experiences with himself. ever MS non
est contradictions of himself And OF
course one respects. one might say re-
yeres. his seasoned thoughts or the pig
things in life and the rare things IN
literature. Here he goes back to school
days and dreams. to authorship ana the
new poets. with a special review OF
Walt Whitman. of whom he says many
finely admiring things, many true
things in the Interpretation OF Whit
mans gospel of ~slf-revelation The
whole is a sort of divinely welcome
book. an escape from the weiter of to-
days terrible doings.
WEE MACGREEGOR ENLIsTs. BY ].
J.. Bell. author of Wee Macgree-
gor," etc. New York Fleming II.
Revell Company.
On a particular morning not SO long
ago our old friend Macgreegor slipped
around a corner of the year to keep an
appointment with his nineteenth birth
day. And waiting for him.. there, be
sides, were pretty Christina on the one
hand. and on the other the shadow of
the big war. A Scotchman, and that
very hour his own man in so far as
the o of the recruiting oifice
were concerned. Macgreegor enlisted on
The spot. Then in thorough and sober
Scotch fashion he set himself TO the
business of counting Christina up to the
promise stage before orders came for
the front in Flanders Or lit might be
the front on the Dardanelles. The ups
ard downs of Macgreegor's days as
sutton and recruit furnish the capti-
waiting qualities of this record. As
dry. as droll. as amusingly Scotch and
human. loo. as at his first appearance
81 print. Macgreegor promises TO be a
lasting source of diversion and pleas
ure TO those who are SO fortunate as
to come into his
WAY OF MARTHA t>D THE
WAY OF MARY. BY Stephen Ora
ham. author OF Russia and the
World. etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
Using Russia as a standpoint, Mr..
Graham gathers up by way of this vol
ume a general survey OF eastern Chris
;ianity. = survey which he hrst inter-
prets and then along broad
lines with the IDEAS underlying Chris
tidnitV as tGIS IS GpneIo IN the western
world. The purpose OF the book is OBJ
viously that of reconciliation. Its de-
sign is TO show that there are no in
euperable barriers based on deep-seat-
from the rest of Europe. Eastern
Christianity e&alts faith, western
Christianity requires service. But
these. the writer maintains, are merely
different stages Of a single develop
rnent- Time was when the west. too,
masnifed faith 10 the neglect of works.
And the time will come when the Rus
sian people will march side by side
with the other nations OF Europe. This
book is the outcome of travel and per
sonal investigation. 1t embodies the
conviction that has grown up out of a
free association with all grades of the
Russian people. Mr.. Graham has al
ready said from the lecture platform
much that this volume contains. Here,
however, this comparative study of the
two branches of Christianity as a unit
ing force between peoples liz enlarged
and rounded into a complete and force
full body Of exposition and argument.
Innumerable pictures Of Russian life
and sketches of Russian outlook and
character objectify the study. render
ing service also in support of the writ
ers main thesis.
JOHN BANNIsTER TABB: The Priest-
Poet. BY NJ. s. Pine. author OF
Alma Mater" etc. Washington. d.
The ultimate purpose OF his little
yoiame is TO contribute TO the estab-
tshment and suppo of a memorial
Father TabD scholarship in st. Charles
college. where for thirty-hve years the
subject Of this sketch oficiated as pro-
lessor and priest. Its Immediate aim is
to acQdairt readers with the main
~Ants il the life of his unique and in
ssrsstinr personality The son OF an
-'d ard prominent Virginia family OF
r:Gtsstsrf faith. Johu Tabb while stu
y hos entered The Confederate army
-ie most significant feature Of thIs
experience vas Su eight months i'm
~Srsonment in company with sidney
i4af-sT at Point Lookout. Even til.
subsequent profession OF the priest
hood failed TO eradicate the memory OF
that confinement from his mud. for.
late Ia lif.. No mad Father rabo DE
~cIaring. y am a rebel. uursGeeni.eG ana
uuredeeundo ole. After the war Tsbn
bfeane a lescEer and soon. under the
influence o. an associate. turned to the
Church Of Rome for his spiritual salts