Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-03
Reviews of New Books

American girl and this English youth.
The people themselves are not SO con.
yincing az the settings are Inspired.
ovsrcharsed with its own exubsr.
ance. The effect 10 that Of extrava.
ganco. For example. ono becomes tired
Of the slang Of the American girl.
Slang 10 her exclusive mode of ex-
earlier days . v Very ' little to express.
so. later, when she becomes a serious,
beautiful. Intellectual, eingle-minded
war WORKER. fulnlling her love "a.
HIM nor 1s oEdss sesa SSSn1
in development. However, when the
author Is able to seize upon people
40 he Is able to gather up places IN
their significant fragrances and col.
0rs. there will be something like O
great story forthcoming.
THOMAS JEFFERSON. BY David Sa-
VILE Muzzey, Phi. d. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
The purpose Of this compact and
readable study is to give readers tho
chance Of seeing Thomas Jefferson
whole. 80 to speak. and not in the
series Of partial and over emphasized
Views In which he is commonly pre-
scented. The writer reduces certain
specially dramatic episodes in the life
Of Jefferson to their proper proper
lions. For instance, the antagonisms
OF Jefferson and Hamilton. More than
this In the longer perspective Of pass
ing years he deduceS truer estimate
OF the value of Jefferson as an Amer
lean of the formative period Of this
country. He points the difference be-
tween z the social phil9sophy drawn WI
Jefferson and the political doctrines,
British In origin despite the revolt
against England, that defined the
course OF Jefferson's contemporaries.
The whole study is corrective in pur-
pose. It attempts no new investiga-
lions. Rather does 1t set in order the
material already in hand concerning
which he worked. It Is a valuable
work, distinct in it's scholarly method
from the earlier treatments Of this
character.
GONE AsTRAY, Some Leaves from an
EmDeror's Diary. New York: John
Lane Company.
This diary" opens with the year
1859, when William II was ten years
old. II closes with the date "Feb-
rt,ary IL. 1918" It is not a large vol.
ume. So, one may look for long gaps
in the record. and for the submer-
gence Of all but the most important
book sums to an interesting illumina-
ton Of tho character Of the kaiser,
with many q revealing side light,
also. on the main lines Of contem.
poraneous European history. That
than ass s r.., az aary " The sat e
peror. is its generally: subdued char
aoter. Its substance has. obviously,
been filtered through z more con:
seryative personality than that Of
Shocks shock ~I lxStn ems ana thanders GOD
speaking. angels acclaiming, the deaf
ening shouts Of fealty from thou
sands Of German warriors. This. in
contrast, is q thoughtful. restrained,
vision set out in fair pro-
portions BY student tSs OF , character is
terms Of familiar intimacy with this
particular character. From this point
Of view the book, while not so star
tlingly dramatic and thrilling as the
emperor's diary would be. Is never
theless a notably Informing ana val,
urgent to understand.
PHILO GUBB, Correspondence
School Detective. BY Ellis Parker
Butler. illustrated. Boston: Hough-
ton Mifflin Company.
When a man can make you laugh
right out loud in the middle of your
reading without your knowing that
you are going to. when he can do that
every time, and not only with you. but
with several thousand other people.
that man has humor, thing not so
easy to analyze as 1t Is to enjoy. Ellis
Parker Butler has stepped neat-foot-
eddy over into the class Of literary
funmakers. Philo Gubb, "detecka-
tive" Is proof all of itself, but Butler
has put in abundant collateral evil
dence. also, in support of this fact. In
addition to the fun In which these ad-
the substantial interest of the good
ter, come trooping here to advance
the glory of Detective Gubb. And one
reads 1t all, every page, with a SEN
sible loosening Of the knots in his
nerves and a conscious relaxing Of
tense muscles, and O wholesome shak-
ing UP of his war-tormented insides
under the genial and beneficent minis
trations Of genuine and spontaneous
laughter.
THE ROOM WITH THE TAsSELs. BY
Carolyn Wells, author of "FaullS-
ner'S FOlly" etc. New York.