Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05
Reviews of New Books

up not only himself. but about all the
rest of US. For. he who finds him
self finds humanity" This is the book
of truth, as well as the book of self.
1t is. moreover. poetry. rich and varied
both in form and color. In addition to
this pentrating selfstudy. the book
contains The Song of Life or youth
gone out on the great quest. and ,Crea,
ton" the drama of all life envisaged
in the life of man.
JOURNAL OF SMALL THINGS. By
Helen Mackay. author of Accident
ais" etc. New York: Duffield &
Co
These are exquisite sketches-hun-
dreds of them-gathered throughout
France with a curious sensitiveness
that keeps within each little picture
the very essence of the thing else. A
bit of French wayside. a garden cor
ner. the sun smiling on a tower, an
old man doing some homely thing,
woman at work, little children at play.
Madame Marthe. the old Cure, and then
the hospital. and the soldier, and war.
Mrs. Mackay says. Il want to make
notes of things, not of the great things
that are happening, but of the little
the little everyday dear. accustomed
things, to take hold of the moods of
them. and gather up their memories, to
be put away and kept, and turned back
to from always afterward. 1t is as if
they were things soon to be gone away
out of the world and never to be again.
And this. with SURPRISING sympathy
and delicacy, she has done for SO many
aspects and moods of France that can
not return to France again.
ENGLAND AND THE WAR: 1914
1918. BY Andre Chevrillon. Preface
Nv P,r6v I'd mi
Doubleday, Page & Co.
England and the War" came out
first as series of articles in the Paris
Review. 1t is, in effect. psychology
cal study, an examination of England
in respect to those marked changes in
its modes of thought, ir its way of
looking at itself and the world forces
around 1t, that produced so vigorous
change in its conduct and opened out
the future of England in new direc-
ton. England had to be Jared pro-
digiously in order to realize the reality
OF the war; she had to rediscover her
enemy; to democratiZe the protective
forces OF the country; to slough of
ages of custom; to wake up the indi-
vidual. 1t is to a study of these move
ments and the mental processes back
of them that NJ. Chevrillon devotes this
Smpatnetic and penetrating study. In
this highly intelligent and i1luminat-
ing book o..e is reminded again that
the Frenchman has once more shown
the Englishman what he is better than
the essentially unimaginative English
can do this. The writer makes
one, on the whole, very proud OF the
Briton, and when he is not exactly
proud he is never ashamed-just hope
full.
THE INNER DOOR. BY Alan Sullivan.
Frontispiece by William Van Ores
ser. New York: The Century Com
pany.
A novel of modern industry, with the
workmen and the management of a
great manufacturing plant set OF
against each other in hostility that
has no accommodations. This ever
uppermost problem is presented in a
plain and realistic fashion by one
whose sympathies are. manifestly, with
the workers; by one, too, who Is suffi-
GENTLY familiar with the particular in
dustry employed to make vivid and
picture of its operations.
For the story part of this development
there is young man who, suddenly
become poor, enters the factory as a
workman. There he gains the point of
view of the workmen and finally en-
lists himself on their side. That the
factory belongs to a young woman
whom he expects to make his wife and
whose attitude toward labor he hopes