Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-15


convention may not apply, yet when
these interned people are employed in
government work they will be paid at
rightfu1 days off" Shorthand and
rhetoric We're popular studies in the
days of Matthew, Mark. Luke and
John. And. coming along to the first
century preparedness was political
Watchword. While this animated and
fascinating piece of scholarship con-
vinces the reader that he may be GO
ing round and round instead of climb
ing upward, it will, also. give him
positively electrified account of an
ancient day that has become sadly
overlaid with the concealing garments
OF many centuries. a remarkable study
that exemplifies admirably a most il
Illuminating historic method.
ITALY: Medieval and Modern. By E.
NJ. Jamison, c. N. Ady. x. D. Vernon
and c. Sanford Terry. oxford: The
Clarendon Press.
This general sketch of italian history
from the invasion of the barbarians to
the present time is intended to serve
as an orderly background, or outline,
into which may be fitted the full sum
of Italian development since the middle
ages. 1t is, therefore, a broad view,
this development. Italy, long before she
attained to national unity, was the
scene of profitable experiment in polit-
zeal organization and IN organized
churchcraft. These two points, therefore.
take on relative Importance here.
Italy as the birthplace of medieval and
modern art, science and philosophy is
the subject of consideration by way,
chiefly, of a study Of the conditions ia
vorable to the growth of these intel
lectual and spiritual powers. The con-
trolling purpose Of this development,
however, is to trace through the fiuc-
tuating tides of Italian history the in
stinct of the Italian people toward ma
tional unity. These oxford writers offer
this study in the belief that this is one
of the prime moments to re-emphasiZe
the debt Of the Englishman-and of the
English-speaking people-to Italy, to
the Italian Gregory the Great, to whom
we owe our Christian faith: to Benedict
Of Nursia and Francis of Assist for in
terpretations Of that faith that have
survived the middle ages and the ref
ormation. Tt was on Italian SOIL"
the writers add, that English human
lists made their first acquaintance with
the wisdom Of antiquity and the spirit
of free thought. Machiavelli first in
and the purpose of the modern state;
MaZzinf taught US to respect the idea of
nationality. Dante and Petrarch,
Artosto and Tasso have been accepted
nloaetS III more imam one great age OF
English poetry. Nowhere have the
great Italian artists. from Giotto to
Raphael, been better loved or more
closely studied than in England"
THE OLD WORLD THROUGH OLD
EYES. Ply Mary S. Ware. illustrate
ed. New York: G. p. Putnam's
Sons.
A volume of letters-open, commune
cable letters--in which Mrs Ware en-
bodies the salient points Of three years
spent in going from point to point of
the fan east. Unlike many books of
travel. this one devotes little time to
descriptions of scenery, or cities or
historic relics, and none at all to his
tory itself. Rather does the interest of
the writer center upon the people, and
particularly upon such remote and Sc
cluded people as have, latterly, come
under the influence of the west 1t is
the colonies of the orientals under gov
ernments set up by the English, the
French, the Dutch, that claim the bulk
of this writer's attention. The work of
the merchant and the missionary-many
among thesis given here
In accounts of the improved conditions
of life that these have brought to the
east The whole is highly informing
record, and one. too, of such vividness
as comes when an interesting woman is
a BILE to charge her writings with her
own personality. This gift, added to
unusual opportunities for the observa-
ton of a line of exclusive facts, sums
the book to valuable contribution to
the literature of the orient A liberal
and discriminating use of illustrations
objectify striking points of the text.
The volume is dedicated to the help of
the French hospitals.
THE HUMAN SIDE OF TREES: Won
ders of the Tree World. BY Royal
Dixon and FRANKLIN Everett Fitch
With four illustrations in colors and
thirty-two in black and white New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.
eff man has soul SO have trees"
This Introductory assertion is backed
ny such irrefutable proof that the
reader who values his forest friends
,or something more than their shade
md market worth, will love this book
md the pictures that go with 1T. 1--WE
10 not claim for plants and trees the
slightest equality with man; but we
10 claim that they are beings which
n a minor degree have all human
pleasures and understanding, and that
n the future life they will very likely
70 compensated for their struggles and
lif11culties here In this world"
To establish their unusual argument
he authors give scientific support to
he facts, told in q succession Of mar
'atively charming chapters. that trees