Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-08

differences Of treatment required to
suit the pleasure of the play-goers. The
book Is manual in q larger sense
than that which satisfies itself with
the setting down of rigid rules and
ironclad Instructions. It is, on the con-
trary, an adequate textbook, and, at
the same time, liberal and Informing
handling of the subject from its many
sides Of interest and requirement.
WOMEN OF BELGIUM TurnsnE TraG.
edy to Triumph. By Charlotte Kel-
logg. With an introduction by Her
bert c. Hoover. New York: Funk d
Wagnalls Company.
Having worked for nearly a year as
a member Of the Belgian Relief AS
ISOLATION among the women Of that
country, Mrs. Kellogg here presents
the main points of that work and that
experience. 1t is the story of hungry
babies and little children whom the
association fed by way of regularly
established and conducted cantines.
Soon it becomes the story OF Belgian
women stirred out Of their despair into
an amazing activity of helpfulness and
succor. Here are special cases OF
heroic effort to which the writer pays
high tribute. The whole story, = plain
statement of the bare facts, is an in
finitely touching one. 1t deserves a
wide reading. The profits of the book
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT VOCAL
ton. By Holmes W Merton. au-
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Com
pany.
A book whose intent is to help men
and women to select a vocation, which
in an increasingly complex organiza-f
ton of society. becomes matter of vi
tai Importance. The keynote OF this
study is that the right choice of vo-
cation is the natural basis of efflci-
ency." The aim is to make clear how
the right choice may be made from
the hundreds of vocations now in ex-
istence for all of which efficiency is the
watchword. In order 70 direct this
choice wisely the writer leads one to a
practical self study by means of which
he may be helped to organize and place
his particular powers and gifts of mind
and temperament through a series OF
directions and tests that the writer
Celebrates simply for the use OF any
average student. Set OF against this
system of self study is an analysis of
many lines of occupation and vocation,
an analysis intended to show the par
tic1lar mental and physical qualities
mends itself as one that is built upon
sound foundations, as one, too that is
carried out in helpful detail over Il
broad field of occupations and in an
to the matter of self study AMI self :.
training.
SALTWATER POEMS AND BALLADS,
By John Masefield- Illustrated by
Charles Pears. New York: The Mac.
milan Company.
To this collection of already familiar
songs of the sea the author has added
two hitherto unpublished poems, each
carrying in its lines sense of briny
breezes and the rhythm Of water under
keel The Ship and Her Makers" gives
voice to the ore, the trees, the hemp
and fax that go to the making of the
ship: the workers. who put the parts
together, and the sailors, who make
her crew. Considered as verse making.
the poem is worthy of the reputation
which Mr.. Maseield has already right
fully earned, though. naturally. it lacks
the lovably humorous quality of The
Bedford Whaler." which spins the yarn
of a tobacco-chewing. Bible-quoting
who makes his answer to the
whaler's greedily expectant owners:
We've been at four years and more and never
seen whale:
We haven't lick Of oil on board but we've had
a darn good sail.
Mr.. Pears emphasizes the realism of
ships that go down to the sea, with
in black and white and
full-page color plates: the frontispiece
Loeb Achray," whose .----
-masts were gone, and afore you knowed
She filled by the head and down she coed,
Her crew made seven and twenty dishea : 4
For the big jack sharks and the little fishes.
And over their bones the water sWishss.