Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-26

mate Biography. BY William Ros-
coe Thayer, author OF The Lie
and Letters Of John Hay" etc. Il
Illustrated. Boston: Houghton Mif-
hin Company.
~ NE cannot read Mr.. Thayer's
intimate story of the life OF
~ Theodore Roosevelt without
fndorsing heartily the name
that IL crystallizing around the per-
sonality Of this remarkable man
the great American. The story, how
ever. 10 in no sense mere eulogy.
study Of the whole complex of Roose-
velt--ths Inheritance. the tempera-
ment. the work. the. infiuence-from
which energies one of the most ar
resting. one Of the most inspiring
Americans Of this or Of any other
day. Long acquaintance. intimate
friendship, clear conception of the
full American environment of the
man. are the elements that have con-
tributed to the solid fabric of this
record. Coupled with this full meas
ure Of Geographic material is the gift
on Mr.. Thayer's part of telling the
story In a manner that holds the
man in the fullness Of life before
WV 0O IAAS A0 10 lihihCuldtC AL pCi
sonality. direct In appeal. at hand in
appearance and action and influence.
A book so alive in quality, so big in
theme. SO impressive in effect and
50 filled with the spirit of patriotism
ought to be a book for the hands
all over this country.
THE HEROIC RECORD OF THE
BRITISH NAVY. BY Archibald
Hurd and H. H. Bashford. New
York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Short. pointed, vivid and inclusive is
this story Of tho naval war of 1914
1913. The appreciative spirit of these
two authors is balanced by their hold
upon the facts and meanings of the
period and of the subject with which
their history deals. Through these
swift chapters OF events one moves
as In some old story Of Elizabethan
seafarers. From the battle of the
Blight to the entrance Of America into
the war there is spread here the
The battle Of Jutland. the work of the
submarines, the patrol of the Dover
straits, the sealing of Zeebrugge and
Ostend--these are the central points
in this story. Supplementing the
Nortn sea warfare Is the work Of the
Falkland Islands, of Coronel. The
purpose OF the book is to give an au-
thentic account In condensed form of
Britain's part in the great war by
way of its sea power To meet this
purpose the book stands as a clean
record Of the essentials Of the sub
Ject. An adequate foreword sketches
the development of the British ad-
miralty from its beginnings up to it's
present opulent moment Of power.
MAETERLINCK'S DOGS. BY Georg-
cite Leblanc Maeterlinck. author
Of The Children's Blue Bird" etc.
Translated by Alexander Teixeira
de Mattos. illustrated by the au-
thor. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Just everyday dogs these Nine.
Materlinck introduces them to the at
lection Of dog lovers generally. They
are Maeterlinck's dogs. Such is the
order Of the triple appeal Of these
stories. One does not quite under
stand why dogs are SO solicitous for
the friendship of the human. since in
50 many worthwhile ways they are
already laps ahead of their coveted
friends. But the fact remains that
they are. Nine. Maeterhnck is ex-
actly calculated to meet the desires
VI mo OOB IL tulS respect. one uH-
derstands them. They understand her.
Therefore with the bars all down
their friendship moves along freely
as friendship should. One is divided
here between liking for this group OF
Maeterlinck dogs and a complete ca
pitulation to the simple and sympa-
thetic woman. to the charming writer
who is telling the stories. grave and
gay, Of these household friends. Now
and then some dog emotion gets be-
yond the writer's pen. Then a little
sketch slips into the gap to bring out
the desire, or the achievement, or the
triumph, bursting from wrinkled hide.
or cooked eye, or disconso1ate droop
Of tail. A delightful book for the dog
lover. A beautiful disclosure Of the
woman. too.
MR.. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF THE
GREAT WAR. New York: Freder-
lex A. Stokes Company.
''Mr. Punch's history of the war
is a mirror of the varying moods.
month by month. rejecting in the
main how England remained stead
lastly true to her best traditions; how
all sorts and conditions of men and
women comported themselves through
out the greatest ordeal that had ever
befallen the race" August, 1914. pre-
sents the cartoon. bravo. Belgium!-
q small but dauntless figure guarding
the mo Thoroughfare" against the
menace Of . burly and brutal boche: