Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15
Reviews of New Books

India From this general survey he
| projects. also. the logical and inevi-
table future of India along lines set
by its economic and social, It's po1iti-
cal and religious interests. In sum.
the study embodies the awakening
OF this ancient land and Its slow
turning away from an illimitable
past toward a future that partakes
OF the forward movement of the rest
of the world. Only SO much of the
| history Of India is used here as to
portray the quality of the Hindu
mind, the depth of the Hindu trad;-
ton. Against this rigid background
the author sketches in sharp lines
of contrast the influences, largely
western and modern. that are grad
ually co-ordinating the innumerable
diverse elements of the population
into an organic unity of national life.
points upon ultimate self-govern-
ment. These significant processes o.
reimbursement constitute the silent
revolution set forth as the object of
the study in hand. Both the w:s9oIn
and the unwisdom of English rule in
| izing process. The war has acceler-
ated ii probationary. midas splendid
response in mon and material to Eng
lands war need united the country IN
Il Single ACT Oh spontaneous nODllity
1t broke through the hitherto invul-
nerable seclusion or the p-op,e as a
whole. 1t proved their self-sufficiency
by the standards of modern life. This
writer knows India. He has lived
there. He has studied the resources
of the country and the character OF
the people with sympathy. as well
as with knowledge or what VIII
be required of them as a self-govern-
/, ing people. To both knowledge and
sympathy he adds the power of the
storyteller. The little book. there
fore, stands as a competent discus
sion of its subject and as a highly
interesting one as well.
THE SOCIETY OF FREE STATES.
By Dwight w. Morrow. New York:
Harper & Bros.
Solid throughout, and at the same
time strikingly graphic, this little
book commends itself to students of
the most momentous matter of the
hour. Its foundation is an analysis.
by an American lawyer and a trained
business man, of the league of ma
lions both in it's bearing upon a gen.
eral world order and in its bearing
also upon the individual aspect of
nationality. Going back into history,
the writer reminds one that per
petual peace plans" are as old as
war-that is, as old as history itself.
Every great and devastating war,
throughout the ages. has been follow
ed by glowing projects to end war
for good and ALL A discouraging
outlook for our new league. But,
along the way from those earlier
times to this latest one, Mr.. Nor
row points out the internationalizing
that have come into being since war
has ceased to be the single preoccu-
patton of mankind. Through the more
peaceful agencies of an expanding in
dustry and commerce, through the In
ternationalizing effects of worlu
through the spread of education.
through the ascendancy of delibera-
ton over attack-through all of these
instrumentalities and many more of
kindred nature, the way to peace is
more open now. less barricaded with
simplicity of approach. its plain COM
mon-sensible treatment, its reason
ableness of spirit and it's command
over what the world has already done
along the line of the present discus
sion. the book is admirably calculat-
ed to project needed information and
needed accommodation of spirit into
the immediate situation. The term
Textbook" is a much abused one.
If il carried it's best meaning one
would be inclined to call this a first
class textbook on the subject of a
league of nations.
BLUE GRASS AND BROADWAY. BY
Maria Thompson Daviess, author Of
THE finder Box" etc. New York:
The Century Company.
The purpose Of this likable story
is to develop the romance of Patricia
Adair. Kentucky, and Godfrey Vande-
ford, New York. Playwriter and the
atrical manager. these two. Miss Pa
tricia. away down in a corner of
Kentucky. whips a play together from
those yellowed letters out of great
grandmother's trunk. which every
southern attic has in storage. With
the play she sets out for New York
to stage it, in order to lift the mort