Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-29

cation stamp many OF their various
views and activities Among the young
women this alteration is more than
likely to take the form Of revolt
against love. a husband, home, chill.
dren. 1t Is this particular phase of
modern social idiosyncrasy that Mr..
Dawson has seized and dramatized for
the purposes of this novel. Through
two girlhoods-those of mother and
daughter-he follows the maze of self
ish perversity by which each glorihes
and maintains her personal freedom.
freedom renders them incapable of ac-
cepting even the reasonable restraint
that finally seems to them so desirable.
1t is tantalfzing story. This fact is
manship. Mr.. Dawson has observed
and OWNED to some account. One rec
ognfzes these women and Identifies
them. 1nnumerable times in the read
ing one reaches to administer the cas-
tfgation that these silly women deserve
and even when they might be pitied he
takes grim pleasure instead in the
thought that they are getting exactly
what is coming to them.
COUNTRY CHRONICLE. By Grant
Slovenian. Illustrated by George
Wright New York: The Century
Company.
This is ten-year-old boys story of
how things looked. and how things
went. on the old Wisconsin farm forty
years ago, or thereabout And. being
boy. not a thing escapes. Through
eyes. or ears, or nose, or mouth, or
hands-er. through all of them togeth-
er-he takes in everything. Being q
boy, he is also as out-giving as he is
in-taking. So we, too. get the whole
of that delicious time that, somehow,
And with the boy we go about the
morning and nightly Chores" tossing
the hay, pushing up against the warm
and steamy sides of sweet smelling
cows and horses, lanterning about like
overgrown frefiies in the darkness of
late dawns and early nights. And the
days work that we turn off with him
in field and loft. And the playtime-
the rest of a boys muititudinous re-
sources we take a share of here. Com
pletely delightful and reereatiye-and
all letter-perfect, too. Ones thorough
creased amazingly by the certainty that
the chronicler himself had the time of
his life over this book. Think what
it must have meant to a university
ture at that-to slip out of it all and
beat a retreat to those old and roomy
days of dear delight, from which he
has brought this chronicle unblemfshed
by any niGQulluSS OIL OVSi Use SioW II
man.
THE NEW PURCHASE: Or, Seven and
Half Years in the Far West. By
Robert Carlton, Esq. Edited by
James Albert WOODBURY.. Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
One fact of the history of the middle
west is known as the New Purchase"
The term covers those negotiations be-
tween certain tribes Of Indians and
the United States government by
which the latter acquired tract of
land in the neighborhood of the Wa
bash river. This acquisition was of
such extent as to add thirty-seven new
countries to the state of Indiana, a
region hat Immediately became the
goal OF s,ilgrim and pioneer and adven-
turer. This history is the true story
of that early settlement. Baynard Rush
Hall, teacher, preacher, student and
plain human being, lived for several
years among the pioneers of the New
Purchase. It is from this personal ex-
peFience that he has drawn the graphic
details of that time and place. This
is tho best kind of history, the alive
kind. It brings one face to face with
the heroisms Of that life. with Its
maksshtfts, its humors, its exigsncies.
While the schools of indiana. those Of
all ranks. will place a special value
upon this Photographic chapter OF the