Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-13


wallop the government at Washington
Tor its all-roundk shortcomings with.
IN the past three years or So Firas}
mere was Mexico-the familiar IN
and-out sequence of Huerta Villa, Cars
rama. with the indeterminate military
conclusions of American Intervention,
Ana immediately upon the heels of this
rev brand OF foreign policy came the"
German war, with the names Of Bel
GUM. the Lusitania. Caveil, Fryatt and
SO on and SO on, to punctuate, what
me writer brands as the unforgivabie
inactivity of the United States govern.
ment in the cause of common humanity.
me points cited here are all familiar
70 the most average of American reads
ers. But the manner of their treatment,
is OF the. cataclysmic. variety-wo Va
done into tornadoes and cyclones. sirfa-
thunder and lightning and pe1ting han
ana singing rain. IL IS truly an elesG
trio performance brewed in the fervore
OF the writer's wrath over what Ioolss-
to him like the crime of indtfferene9s
TO great crisis in human affaire :
Wnether or not one agrees with the .
writer's state of mind, he is bound 70
sail right into this storm of inyective !,
Tor the mere matter OF getting himseif,
stung awake by it, and for the joy Sfs
laughing aloud over one more man, a.
this world of wordless men. who sa ~.
what he has to say in just the way ,fssss
wants to say it. Scathing? Full q
the wit that draws blood? Flexible e
a Whlp-lash to slither into ones yiIf>a
nerable crevices? All of these. And
All OF these play mercilessly. upon o,t
Uncle Sam in the person OF his ifnm -
diate representatives. -
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE FLowERE
BY Herbert Waldron Faulkner, PMs
B., NJ. E. New York: Frederick ~
Stokes Company. 80
This is the fascinating story, of flow..s
ers in their ingenious inventions fcF.
the purposes of reproduction. 1t is -
beautifully human story of seIf-adorrSs.
ment, and every possible brave MAMIE
OF allure, to subserve the absorbing
preoccupation of all life in the bust
ness of begetting its kind. The bod
Is one OF large movements devoted tbE
desired ends: 1t is only SteehnfcsE
flowers and the habits OF flowers si9r
required to show the artfulnesss -
plant life where its own perpetuitys -
concerned. Here. with concrete ex-@s
ers of wood and field, are descriptioriSs
of flower formations that serve witHrs
curiously pointed design the purpose9.
of reproduction. And here, too,s opera
out broadly the Office of the honeyxr
seeking adventurous bee, or that o..
the wanton wind. as agents of the
fecund flowers. Rooted in the austere
findings of science, as the study Ing
dubitably is, it reads better than the
best of fairy tales, since IL opens out
another leaf in the huge volume of
law and progression to which the lit-
tie, as well as the big movements of the
world are in bond. 1t is an inconf.' o.
parable text book Of large intentions.
How it does carry one back to one s."
dead botanizings of dried and pressed
specimens. And, il the truth were
known, these mummified things are
still taking the place which should be
held by the live and human books that e.
are so capably represented here in this
inspired study of the human content of .
plant life. - o.
l LITTLE WORLD APART. BY George
Stevenson. author of "Topham's
Folly" etc. New York: John Lane
Company. rs,,.
kind of Crawford" comes to HAND
With "A Little World Apart" Here. as
n Mrs. Gaskells earlier record, are the
trongly marked types that form the
enters OF all communities. Half
oxen heroes and heroines-in place Of -
he regulation pair-pursue their ways
nited or divided as life, rather than
omance. requires One has the chance.
t a choice of favorites here in this
omplex of village life. But, more than
H., is he charmed with the fresh out
ook of the writer upon the pure hu-
of each of these outstanding
ypes. Being an English story, il is.
he wears family that may be said to
ave prominence where all are of about ".'
quail account. The whole is natural
to which are added the par
cular sauces of English outlook and
lterest. The reader who is hunting for
.riking situations, for plots and mys---",
.rfes should pass this book by. Those p.
no love to let the savors of real life So.
lstinss Will find a genuine delight in
lis story.