Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22

directly upon beautiful and
IL notable example of creative
sculpture. This is EliZabet
Ney's Lady Macbeth" In statuary
hall. at the National Capitol, placed
there by the state of Texas, are the
virile and lifelike statues of Stephen F.
Austin and Sam Houston. there also are
the work of this artist. Down in Austin
there stands Elizabet Neys old studio.
containing her collected works. This
is now under the management of the
Texas Fine Arts Association, an or
ganization whose declared purpose is
TO preserve both the memory and the
art collection of Elizabet Ney and to
develop art in the truest sense in
Texas. The book in hand is life
sketch of this distinguished artist. The
bare facts of this life are romance
complete, and Elizabet Ney was com
pact of the familiar idiosyncrasies of
genius. Mrs. Taylor, wisely conscious
that the story furnishes its own en-
bellishment. confines herself therefore
with admirable effect to a plain MARIA
ton. In a swift survey she brings for
ward the early years of this girl. A
mother out of revolutionary Poland and
a father straight from Marshal Ney of
France bred in her blood, courage. in
dependence. revolt. Breaking through
the traditions of womanly occupations,
which. in the early part of the last
century were still undisturbed, she
chose SCULPTURE as career. At twenty
she became the pupil of Rauch, the
great German sculptor. and upon
Rauch's death, three years later, his
successor. Great men were her init
mates and the subjects of her art.
Among these were Schopenhauer. Won
Humboldt. Garibaldi. Bismarck and
King Ludwig II. Elizabet Ney held
marry. But she did maryland then
denied it with persistency that
brought upon her the obloquy of broken
social laws. This apparent social re-
form the theme Of this interesting
story Here one reads of the fight of
the husband and wife to America, she
still proclaiming her unwedded state
life. of work among the negroes, of
poverty, of establishment and then of
the heroic turn toward the rehabilita-
ton of her life as an artist, with an
art school as the object of her dreams
And this dream in it's fulfillment the
Texas friends of Elizabet Ney appear
to have accepted as their legacy from
this distinguished refugee to their hos
pitable commonwealth. Acknowledge
ments are due the writer. who, in a
spirit of lf-effacement-has brought
so vividly to readers the story of an
artist whose works make such sub
stantial claims upon their appreciation.
THE JAPANESE INVASION. BY Jesse
Frederick Steiner PHI. ID. Chicago:
A c. McClurg & Co.
In this new study of United States
immigration. DR. Steiner faces his in
leads to an examination of racial i'm
plications rather than to an exclusive
consideration of the theory of economic
effect. The railway and steamship are
great mobiliZing forces that tend in
creasingly to uproot and transplant
hitherto immobile peoples. This fact,
coupled with the superiority of the
west over the east in industrial free
dom and general economic advantage.
gives rise to conditions which are
bound TO produce a strong Asiatic drift
toward America To meet this move
ment adequately the policy of the Unit
ed States must rest frankly upon funda-
mental facts instead of upon evasive
assumptions. This study is an attempt
to get to the bottom of the mutual
Enthusiastically on the one hand
and resentment on the other-that ex-
fst between America and Japan. in
order that out of a definite comprehen-
sion of the source of these antagonisms
there may arise spirit OF mutual &C
commodation and fair dealing. The ex
nination-largely psychological in
character-goes back to those remote
differences of environment, proposes
sion and inheritance that set race OFF
against race, demonstrating meanwhile
the dominance of the white race. 1t
points out also the benign demeanor
of the white man so long as there are
the black man and the yellow one. 1t
is Japan's claim for partners equal
o.. ~
acceptance of the servants hire that
affronts America and not the economic
menace that as yet. does not threaten.
And that is just the point of this study
that the United States shall shape
her policy frankly upon the funda-
mental and real cause of her inhospi-
tality toward the east. This Is an in
dependent view that the author sup
ports by the applicable facts of history
and by an intimate knowledge of peo-
pies in both the west and the east. A
most admirable photography accom-
panies this study, one from which
students may gain an exhaustive view