Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-17
Reviews of New Books

possession of the human heart. Little
ironies creep into these tales, as they
would from so keen and profound an
observer as Tagore. In the main. now
ever, they are gathered in an indulgent
mood, and projected in warm ana
genial atmosphere. To 81, the genera,
beauty and command an interest tnat
is sometimes withheld from him by the
poems and plays. Their meanings are
less subtle. their mysteries are more
easily grasped.
TOMORROW: Letters to Friend In
Germany. BY Hugo Munsterberg,
author of Psychology and social
Sanity" etc. New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.
Hugo Munsterberg is accounted an
eminent psychologist. If. however, one
were to Judge that accounting by this
volume of letters. he would be driven
to the conclusion that Mr.. Munsterberg
was a German several hundred years
before he was psychologist and that
this fact had SO Germanized his psy-
chology as to destroy utterly its recti-
tude as science. Under the childlike
business Of letters to a friend the
writer takes the public into his con-
fidence about the new nationalism that
this will be an enlarged kaiserdom
Even that achievement. however, VIII
not end war. for along with Treitschke,
Bernhard and the rest. Munsterberg
declares that zone war leads 70 an :
other The psychological outlook
shows both future peace and war. A
psychologist, ne puts these recurrent
slaughters on habit. whereas the 9TH
ers claim 1t as the prime agency or the
will to power, and the supremacy Of
the state The writer laments pathet-
ically, above all. / shall never over
come my regret that ! did not see the
great emotion of the Germans at the
beginning Of the war with my own
eyes. on, how I wish / might have
lived through that glorious. solemn
exaltation of the fatherland! That
was the hour when German national
ism came to its maturity" But some
of the ugliest acts of the war were
clearly the consequences Of the newly
awaking nationalism in the world"
Naturally at this point you expect an
unprejudiced scientist to speak of Bel
GUM. Not this one. He is referring
TO Japan's seizure Of Kiau Chau. with
an abundance of love Germany had
built UP and protected this eastern
jewel of it's colonies. German or anti
fairness must feel II painfully that
Japan grasped 1t at a moment when a
third Of the civilized globe was fight
ing against Germany. The book is a
L
humanity illogical and unscientiflc.
THE BOYS LIFE OF MARK TWAIN
BY Albert Bigelow Paine, author Of
illustrated. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
There must be In the hearts of thou
sands of boy readers a very genuine
friendship for the author of tom Saw
yer and keen wish also to know
more about him at close range. AL
bert Bigelow Paine. companion and
biographer of Mark Twain. here gives
the boys their chance. In a manner so
freely Informal and companionable as
70 capture a boy Immediately. Mr..
Bigelow tells the story of Mark
Twain's life. From this story the orr
gin Of Tom Sawyer stands clear max
ing an extra appeal by virtue Of it's
identification with much of Mark
Twain's own boyhooa Mr. Paine pos
sesseS the art Of robust and vivid mar
ration. AN art that. in this case is ami
mated by sympathy not orly with the
subject of this blogra ply, hut with the
boy reader besides. Therefore. his story
or the man who made the world laugh
and love him" should take its place on
the boys bookshelf with Mark Twain $
own books for boys
HOW THE WORLD MAKES IT'S IIy.
ING. BY Logan Grant Mcpherson
New York: The Century Company
The unusual value Of this study
rises from the fact that it Is. funda-
mentally. the outgrowth Of wide and
eXacting business experience. Theory
here becomes concrete, and principles
stand objectified in fact by reason OF
this experience. 1t takes its place
therefore. as a book for the average
reader on a subject which il every
body's concern, but one of which, under
ordinary treatment, the average reader
can make nothing. The study is, in
substance, summary of the evolution
of industry and the DEVELOPMENT Of the
present highly organized commercial
activity. 1t is, besides. an analysis OF
the institution Of property and an ex.