Evening star., 1917-01-14
Reviews of New Books

hand-these are the factors contributing
to that enviable motor tour from New
York to the writer's old home in the
Hoosier state. The journey turns out
to be a glorified vagrancy. These are
tramps on wheels, whizzing from one
point of lure to another along TINS
stretch of beautiful country. They loaf
and work, and soak themselves in a
thousand views. They take notes and
make pictures. and, under the soft Sc
ductions of out-of-doors. they grow eN-
panSive with theories of society, and In
dustry. and art and life itself. Reach
ing the old home state the leader of
this vagrant band goes from one point
of establishment to another. to the ole
places where he used to live. to the
old times that had suffered aston
ishing shrinkage in the intervening
years. to the old neighbors the most of
whom were gone. Yet. it was. after all.
a happy holiday with melancholy and
gladness hobnobbing together as they
are bound TO do when folks go a-hunting
for the dreams of childhood. Vivid mic
lures by the score, from both writer
and artist, accumulate here, and many
inside glimpses Of the two come to the
surface under such evokins circum-
stances. Back to their starting point,
it then becomes the business of the
publisher to put the results of this ex-
pedition into the past into a suitable
dress. 1t is a very beautiful book. one
with which both Mr. Dresser and Mr..
Booth should be az pleased as the reader
is with the work of everybody having
part in it,
THE JAPANESE Conquest OF
AMERICAN OPINION. BY Monta-
Vile Flowers NJ. A. New York
George II. Doran Company.
"A plea for enlightened patriotism' -
this is the substance of the book in
hand In detail il goes into a discus
sion of the propaganda that is being
supported in this country on the sub
ject Of Japan and the Japanese in their
relations to the United States. The
organ of this propaganda is the Japan
Society of America made up in large
part of Americans, whose avowed pur-
pose is merely Ito foster and encour-
age a cordial relationship between the
peoples of America and Japan" MI.
Flowers, who. without doubt. is pos
sessed of a pretty complete knowledge
of the Japanese in their racial charac-
terstics their national ambitions. the
political policies and their immediaie e
interest in the United States. decries
the work of this society. as the work
of sentimentalists. oftthinking advo-
Gates of world brotherhood. where
hard. everyday facts of human nature
in it's present international manifesto
tions preclude the possibility of such
fraternal combinations. On the con-
trary, the writer maintains that there
is a Japanese problem in the making.
one that will not be solved by platitu-
dinous maxims, and by an open-arm
hospitality toward the little brown men
of the east. He states the steps in this
problem. tersely and vigorously. sup
porting them by the recorded facts or
recent history. He delves into the ra-
cial qualities and ambitions of the Jap
anese. He goes over step ny step. the
origin, the development and the pres
ent status of the Japanese controversy
in the United States. While the whole
forceful exposition is designed to give
pause and a new direction to certain
currents of public opinion. the BOOK is.
besides, an orderly and pointed array
Of new facts. which. in connection win
older ones form here a very arrestlhs
study of the subject in hand
LEADERSHIP OF THE NEW AMER
ICA, Racial and Religious. BY
Archibald Mcclure. fellow OF NC
Cormich Theological Seminary. 1hi-
caEo. New York: George II. Doran
Company.
The new America" is that. in rms
connection. which is represented bS the
more recent immigrants to TINS couh-
try. by the potential Americans whose
racial ties are those of southeastern
Europe and eastern Asia. The study
is an accumulation of authentic fact
and not a statement of theory, or the
argument of a social proposition IN
vestigation on fairly wide scale re-
suits in this volume in useIul oous
of information concerning tne traits
and characteristics that the SlaVlc anu
nonSlavic races of Europe, tosetner
with the Chinese and Japanese. are
contributing to our American citlzen-
ship. The writer has gone 10 tne
places in the United States where THESE