Evening star., 1917-04-15

ones. They are the additions and sub
tractions-the sums and remainders-
of keeping house and doing business,
Of making friends and getting on with
the neighbors. These are the prob,
lens of work and play-the twofold
problem of existence. Under titles OF
abstract content--"Ambition, Eff
cheney" Influence Experience,
''1dealism" and the like-the most con
crete and common-sense substance i'm
aginable is given over to one in epi-
srammatic cubes that are the very es-
sence of world-wisdom. one keeps
this book at hand and opens it any
where. And out from any page steps
with brave assurance thought that is
worth putting into ones handiest pock-
ct for an all-day use. Surely. this par
tlcular book is n sharp reminder that
we cannot afford to neglect the real es-
sayist.
THE IDEALS OF PAINTING. BY ].
conlyns Carr, author of King
Arthur, etc. Illustrated. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
a compact and substantial art study
designed for the general reader whose
aim is not an understanding of the ar
lists technic but, rather. an intelli-
gently broad outlook upon the underly-
ing motives of art. This historical sur
have sourced and sustained the art OF
painting begins with Giotto in the Flor
ence of the fourteenth century and ends
in England with such modern painters
as Burne Jones, Rossetti Millais. Hol-
man Hunt, Ford MADDOX Brown. Between
these two points there are comprehen-
sive studies of the ideals animating the
art of Flanders, Germany, Holland,
Spain and France. The interesting and
proflta BILE feature of this study lies in
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Painting is to him merely mode of
expressing the life out of which it
springs. The common aims and activI-
ties of a people or a period, the sum OF
their strivings, the scope of their out
look, the quality of their idealS-theSe
things source the art of a place or a
time, as they source also its social and
political and industrial fabric. 1t is this
attitude of the writer that gives so much
of meaning and so much of interest to
this authoritative and well considered
treatment. Nothing in and of itself
contains anything worth while of ap-
peal. 1t is the thing in relation to some
whole of which it is an organic, CO.
operative part, that brings with its eX-
position a flood of light and meaning.
These relations. worked out from time
to time and from place to place, form
the foundation of this notable review
of the subject of painting. the book is
admirably calculated to give one a
groundwork for the more detailed study
of this subject. as il is calculated also
for the purpose of general reading.
THE NEW POETRY: An Anthology.
Edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice
Corbin Henderson, editors of "Po-
etry." New York: The Macmillan
Company.
Two general effects emerge from this
book of modern verse. one-that poetry,
today. is the preoccupation of an as
tonishing number of young writers.
The other-that poetry as literary
medium appears to be passing through
one of those periods of readjustment
that from time to time mark its de-
Velopment and give new proof of its
About a hundred writer's are
here represented by several hundred
poems-all written within the few
to the volume one of the
editors gives, in outline, the charac-
teristics of the new poetry here Of
fered to the public. Its avop'ed and
conscious purpose-to touch briefly
upon this predatory analysis-ls to
seize bodily, so to speak, the manifold
of life, and to project
these concretely in the magic and
glamour of passion, in the spirit of
vision, and to the measure of individ-
ual cadences. Its broad motive is sin
cerity-its pattern. simplicity. In order
to realize this purpose the poet ac-
cepts-or rejects-as need dictates,
those crystallized molds into which
poetry is run. In the
main-ss one discovers here-he re-
han 5,ir is..,1 pAfA