Evening star., 1918-01-27
Reviews of New Books

GUS boys who are just little outside
the boy normal perplexing and
troublesome variant from the regula-
ton run of boys. Having taken up
this boy-a moody, temperamental, un-
stable fellow-the writer simply fol-
lows along. culling out of the boy him
self those things of which he is made
and setting them out in the drama of
that particular boys inclination and
destiny. Oh, yes. the sum Of this close
attention is a story. and good one.
and it is the boys story. There is no
strain after a proper ending for this
novel, an ending calculated to tickle
the easy laxiness Of readers. The end
Of this story lies. In essence, in its first
chapter. The writer simply let's it out.
What an enjoyable thing it is-to come
across a piece of good fiction now and
then.
NEW ADVENTURES. By Michael
Monahan, author Of palms Of Pa
pyrus," etc. New York: George H.
Doran Company.
Michael Monahan loves Manahatta-
that part Of 1t that called out. too. the
joyous fellowship of Walt Whitman
the human side Of New York, down
where the human swarms most spon-
taneously. Here are sketches of one
and another Of the intimate corners of
the big city, and sweeping views of
some wide scene. and interpretations
some Of them merely shrewd, some of
them intuitive and inspired. some of
them real artistry-of its less open and
obvious attitudes and behaviors. And
his grip. bent. too. on drinking in i'm
mediately some Of the intoxication Of
that heady town. But he waits-for
here is more Of Monahan-Monahan
this time in literature, talking in his
fresh Irish way-and most knowing
Hearn. and James Whitcomb Riley and
others. No. these do not by any stretch
of the Imagination belong together, but
here they are all In the same book and
originality Of this literary critic. And
there are touches here of what life
means to Michael Monahan himself
where this exciting stream of life Is
going, where he himself Is in this rae
ing current, how much he has to do
with shaping this stream Of multi
fartous events-philosophy. philosophy
in littles' he calls these brief outlook
ings upon the drift of things. The book
is a refreshment Of original approaches
timid world. Of fresh turns Of thought
about common things-of an Irish
charm that 10 as tndescribable as 1t is
persnnially real
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF WOOD
ROW WILSON, 1018-1017. BY Ed
gar p. Robinson and Victor ]. West.
New York! The Macmillan Company.
The larger part Of this volume gives
! place to something like hundred Of
President Wilson's public pronounce
ments bearing upon the foreign rela-
tons Of this country. Rescued from
the impermanency Of press accounts or
| from the general fnaccessibility OF Of
fciat documents, these various an
nouncsments Of policy come together
here in . compact and available body
Of information that embodies. at drst
| hand, the Presidents Interpretation of
the United States as an international
factor. By way Of approach to this
body Of odlcfa1 declaration, the authors
sketch q review Of those conditions
which. within the past four years, have
caused the foreign relations of this
I country to stand a. the paramount is
sue. This review goes back to the case
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