Evening star., 1917-05-06


Boston: Houghton Miff1in Company.
Galusha Grow. Mr.. Dubois and his
collaboration have caught the true
relation of biography to history as
well as the true message of biog-
raphy to posterity. Biography. that is
worth the name. is no longer a personal
panegyric. 1t is no longer a family
record of ancestry. birth, youth, ma
turity and decay. Rather is it study
of mature life in it's full power directed
upon one or another of the essential
things underlying genuine progress
and the substantial well-being of a
people. And this is the attitude of Mr..
Dubois toward the work in hand. That
which chiefly absorbs his attention and
engages his study is the meaning of
Galusha Grow as a self-directed force
in the wise development of his coun-
try. To be sure. there is a sketch of
the early life of Mr.. Grow, but this
sketch is itself focused upon those
youthful prepossessions that later bore
fruit in the authorship of a great ma
tional movement Galusha Grow was
Congress from the great state of Penn
sylvania. He attained to the speaker
ship Of the House of Representatives.
These are external matters, oppor-
n.
With true historical instinct Mr.. Dubois
holds in clear but unobtrusive promi-
nence the fact that the land-the great
federal commonwealth-came to be the
absorbing prepossession of this man.
who, in his boyhood. was of the land.
taking in from it certain fundamental
ideas as to its distribution and control
by the government itself. This is the
central point from which this author
examines into the many-sided powers
and works of Galusha Grow. This is
the starting point of the coherent and
illuminating study. Without doubt, the
book will receive, g 1t deserves. prompt
and full recognition. In purpose and
treatment it is admirably calculated to
supplement the regulation text book OF
history in consideration of the period
of United States development with
which it deals. 1t is fitted to warm up
the average history and to change the
drift of its emphasis toward the really
important movements of the country.
BRAZIL. TODAY AND TOMORROW.
BY l.. E. Elliott. F. r. G. S. Illustrat-
ed New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
In this volume of only medium size
the author has produced a practical
study for the use of the average read
er. as well as for the use of the student
of world currents and events. Within
hensive survey Of Brazil in its present
aspects and future Hkelihoods. and to
this subject matter he has added the
maps and charts that are 50 essential
to the needs of the reader and student.
The study, as it's title promises is an
outlook upon Brazil, first, as it stands
today, and, second. IS the facts of today
project themselves into the logical Sc
quence of tomorrow. With only brief
sketch of history-just enough of this
to make accounting for the beginnings
of this country-the writer plunges
into the present of Brazil. Energeti-
cally and tersely he sums the present
situation-in its industrial waking up,
in it's political ferment. in it's social
activities that are along the lines of
education and social relief rather than
along the ways of mere social amenity.
The author has lived in South America.
He is. moreover. a trained observer to
whom political. industrial and social
appearances point to undercurrents of
tendency and drift. 1t is from the sur
face manifestations coupled with their
meanings for the future of Brazil that
the author draws his forecast of the
place of this country in the economy of
world interests. Just now, now of all
times, this is a subject Of urgency, a
subject Of appeal The book is time
ly one. as it is one, also. of authori-
tative fact and substantial conclusion.
CHILDREN OF THE DESERT. BY
Louis Dodge. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
tano's.
Even though this romance does look
across the Rio Grande from Texas into
Mexico, the reader need have no fear
that it is one of the common tales of
"Greaser and Gringo" type. On the
contrary, it has nothing at all to do
with the gun-play and cattle-raid ac-
tivities that. in wild-west romances.
constitute the sole occupations of the
border. This is, in substance, a study
of Sylvia Harboro. Now, Sylvia was
a bad" woman. Harboro. newcomer,
quiet self-contained man, rising
fellow. too. was seized by the chaste
and virginia. beauty of Sylvia. stand
ing by the lone door of her fathers
shack in the moonlight. Desire and
event were simultaneous. The two
were married. The slow unfolding of
the truth about SYLVIA word here, a
veiled glance there. mysterious atti-
tudes toward this respectable man and
wife, the new wooers of Sylvia to whom
tedium was the only hell in her cos
mos-these are the steps in the new
education of the good man, Harboro.
Well, the point and pith Of this story
is Sylvia herself AS one goes along
with Sylvia. casting back to her little
girlhood In the Mexican quarter of San
Antonio and coming along up with her
girls need of comfort and warmth and
love. Graded in an element of complete
unmorality--an along this way with
accompanies one. This is Thomas
Hardy's Tess" 1t is pretty fine trib-
ute to give to Louis Dodge-that he has
enveloped Sylvia in the same current
of inevitable sequence as that in which
this master-hand Of the English novel
has borne Tess along to her doom. That
tribute is his due, however. And how
did the story end? There are two COM
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