Evening star., 1919-05-11


The theme of Kate Jordan's new
novel stands for one of the common
places of modern life. Escape is as
familiar a motive for marriage as is
the illusion of love. 1t is when the
expected freedom of matrimony turns
out to be new kind of bondage that
the real fiber of the fugitive female Is
proved. Is she the good sport, stand
ing up valiantly to every point of her
new job, knowing full we'll that her
contribution to the arrangement is no
better than that of her more or less
buncoed partner-if 1t may be count
ed even as good? Not often. This
story. however. provides an exception
| to the rule of evaded obligations in
herent in this kind of marriage OF
convenience. With a good comprehen-
sion of the situation. with skill In
the delineation of personality and
character. and with a keen sense of
the fitness between actors and the
stage on which they are set, this
writer develops an interesting story
that might be drawn Off from the
actual life of innumerable quarters of
modern experience. One gets out of
the story a we!l-meaning fellow of
ordinary stamp and kindly heart and
weak will-the world Is full of him.
And here, too, is a fair-dealing wom-
an with the sense Of obligation upon
her and stamina enough to live up to
backbone of many f1abby woman
placed Just about as she Is. The story
as such has an over-weighty intro
duct1on to it's real movement. At the
last, too. the writer is unable to
resist the happy ending-or It's i'm
age reader cries. even though In the
logic of the events set down here q
lappy ending is the last Of all thin>'s
to be expected. Barring these two
lapses-serious ones they are. too
the story has a body of excellent in
Vention, which secures the interest
and sympathy of the reader.
EDUCATION BY VIOLENCE, Essays
ON the War and the Future. By
Henry Seidel Candy, Phi. D., pro-
lessor in Yale University. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
These essays come into this volume
cut Of earlier printings in various peri
,dicals. Together. they take survey of
the education that has accrued, and that
wili accrue. out of the general violence
OF war. These various modes of educa
account of the actual agencies of war
agencies that have 30 many times bsen
summed and described. Yet, despite
the war-worn condition Of this theme,
The writer gives to it, out Of his own
point Of view, an effect of new matter,
an urge of new sympathy, an outlook
upon finer future. 1t is a book of open
mind addressed to readers who them
selves are looking out through new eyes
nto coming days that the effects of the
war will have expanded beyond our
PRESENT appraisals These are stimulat-
ng essays, ripe in scholarship and the
power Of reflection. yet, withal, informal
ana with charming grace of approach.
THE VALLEY OF VISION. BY Henry
Van Dyke, author of Fighting for
Peace" etc. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Touches Of romance, bits OF allie
cory. little fables, dreams and those
-lalf-dreams wherein sight takes on
long range and meanings grow clear
Ind deep-these are the forms in
which Henry Van Dyke has produced
the reflections and Impressions gath
cred out of the realities Of war. These
etches-notes--half glimpses-em-
,hasize Mr.. Van Dykes familiar habit
Of seeing much more than the partic-
De looking. 1t recalls his tendency
to run ahead-as 1t were-to the place
where the essences and potentialftfes
II the object in hand meet and mingle
with their kindred forces on the spir-
.ual side Of life. Drawn off from the
war in the main, these are. neverthe-
less. quiet stories and half stories
worked out in the artistry of form
and the breadth of spirit that stamp
all of this writer's work. ls
DEMOCRACY. BY Henry Allen Tup-
per. d. D.. LII. D., author Of Ar
menia It's Present Crisis and Past
History" etc. Washington: B. F.
johnson. publisher.
A little book made to shift easily
from pocket to hand in the frequent
moments of waiting that slip in be-
tween task and task. This substan-
tial little volume sets up in a clear
light the high points of the demo-
cratic ideal-its essential unselnsh-
ness, it's conformity, therefore. to the
brotherhood Of man that was preach
ed and practiced by Christ. Upon this
groundwork Of inherent equality the
author defines. in specific terms. the
value and power and general benef1-
cence of this form of government. An
Initial chapter outlines the origin OF
democracy. Throughout this serious
and scholarly discussion - historic,
philosophic and transcriptfve of cur
rent movements-the spiritual vision
CLEANS. and the persuasive call comes
to forward those ideals of life toward
which the serious-minded are just now
so steadfastly advancing.
THE FIELDS OF THE FATHER
LESS. BY Jean Roy. New York
George H. Doran Company.
This autobiography of a servant
girl gives no hint of society's secrets