Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-27

Brant," etc. illustrated. Philadcl-
phia: j. b. Lippincott Company.
" HIS war story goes back to the
beginning of the war. In
1914 Mr.. Hopkins was in Rus
STA, Germany and France,
seeing and doing a multitude
of things. These observations and
experiences were set down day by
day in the color and movement of
their actualities. The diary thus
formed made the basis of lectures
given in America for the relief of
the Belgians. The lectures and the
diary together stand as the founda-
ton of this narrative, whose proceeds
go, also, into one form of Belgian
succor. This series of uses accounts
for the late appearance of the book
itself. What happened in the war
world something like five years ago
reads like ancient history today, so
swift>moving and world-overturning
have been the events that have in
tervened. But this delay in publica-
ton really adds to the present value
of the book, and certainly 1t adds to
its interest. To go back to those
first days, when the storm was threat
going into some clear place where
one can see and hear and think
things out a bit, a place OF refuge out
of the pandemonium that has been IN
full swing since those earlier days;
In the company of this energetic ana
to place in Russia and Germany and
France, mingling with the people,
catching their moods, watching their
faces, gathering in the meanings or
their words, sizing up, generaly. tne
stirred populaces OF these three a.
turesque adventure that one goes on
here. A distinct personality steps
out to meet one-sometimes Russlan,
sometimes French or Belgian, but al
cot them full Of SAVIOR and appeal. ~
finely competent and human SUM .nd
those days. The text is supplemented
by any number of good photographs
and by some admirable drawings ex-
ecuted by Edmund Frederic. 10 these
is added body Of documentary evil
dence BY way Of oersaan re nroelamao
tions.
THE FOURTEENTH OF JULY AND
DANTONs Two Plays of the Frencn
AGVOlUvIOnS
author Of "Jean- Christophe," etc.
Translated by Barrett II. Clark.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
These two plays form part of an ex-
pertinent made by Roman ROLAND to
create a theater for the average OF
the French people. 1t 10 not an ex-
pertinent confined to ROLAND and
France alone. In this case, as In the
otheIk no great degree Of success has
waited, upon the endeavor. The COM
paratlve failure Is due. more than
likely to the need for more time as
the :. me element in a process that,
FROM IS very purpose. must be OF an
two plays in, hand sum to noble 1T
erature whose content goes to the
roots of the revolutionary movement,
laying bare its sources. defining the
Influences that shaped its course,
pointing out, though reactions that
destroyed 1t. and gathering out OF, the
general catastrophe those living
fragments Of .self-government that
formed the Torment for the next
stage of French progress In political
enfranchisement. An Introduction to
these PLAYS by the translator outlines
the workc Of Roman ROLAND as q
force in the modern deVeiopment OF
erature. Without this critical sum-
mary that deals SO competently with
the subject, the average reader would
miss some part Of the deeper signifi-
canoe Of these dramatic pOrtrayals OF
: the period Of the French revolution.
THE TITLES A Play: BY Arnold Ben
nett. % IT Of 'Milestones." etc.
George H. Doran Com
With practiced hand Mr.. Bennett
here gathers up the outstanding fea-
lures of modern life. Politics takes
first place here. with the ambitions
that inspire 1t. with the hypocrisy
that envelopes 1t. with the graft that
propels It and with the general blind
ness that beclouds 1t. And here Is the
political press in high ardors OF party
announcement: Society 10 here-a
topply ladder for precarious ascents.
And the new woman and over-serious
top-heavy. youth have place here.
These. Mr.. Bennett includes In sim
, eie household Of most agreeable be-
. hayiors. That which sets the action
chara steristic revelations. is the fact
that title has been offered to the
head Of the house. Immediately two
factions are set up. The immediate
beneficiary Of this distinction. the
man Of the house. is bent upon re-
fusing the honor. The wife--well. you
know exactly how the wife feels about
it. So, the battle begins and ends,
Just as one from the start expects 1t
to end. The situation gives Mr.. Ben
nett the best possible chance to make
good-natured fun Of pretty nearly the
whole complex Of modern life in the
most absurd Of its manifestations.
THE dialogue sparkles along from