Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
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century ago might have been drawn
off. both in substance and form, from
the war that has just ended. The
beauty OF the workmanship here-its
clear transparency. its austere sim
plcity-adds to the timeliness of the
publication a fun content of literary
beauty.
Trask. author of in the Van
guard" etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
A love story wherein the obstacles
set UP for loves surrounding are
those of race and religion. The twain
are a Jewish maiden and a Roman
soldier. The time comedies, gener
ally, with Roman overlordship in the
east. and. specifically. with that of the
crucifXion of Jesus Christ The. story
objectifes by suggestion the rise of a
new power. the dawn of new order.
1t is this denial of an outworn sys-
TEN, this acceptance of what men be
lieved to be a better one, this dtscoN-
cry of a new world. that links up the
little play-Story with the present re-
discovery of the world. With the sure
touch--a light touch-and the true
but delicate fancy that gives to writ
ing the lyrical note. Mrs. Trask de-
velops the love story. Around the
growth of love itself are grouped pic
lures of eastern life and custom. This
life and these customs are troubled
by the words of Jesus Christ. who
breaches the gospel of humanity. pro
ella inns the brotherhood of man. Vivid
scenes come and go in rapid success
sion rounding up a panoramic back
ground of historic content, against
which the idyllic love story shines
out in glowing coiors. The author
calls this a reading play" since il
throws into the conversational inter
course of pure drama enough of con-
nective matter to give something of
the effect of narrative.
SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING:
ASPECTS OF THE WAR Lectures
delivered before the Washington
Academy of Sciences. Washington.
ID. c.
These lectures sum the findings OF
experts on certain highly specialized
! aspects of the war just concluded.
Each, Of unassailably high author
| ity, embodies the theory and practice
| of some one of these new elements
| of war up to the latest point of in
| vestigation and conclusion. English.
| French and American specialists have
contributed to this exposition. Some
| of these are specialists through the
m edium of experience itself. Some
| are such by virtue of wide and pre-
| found Investigations. All are, hap
| PLY. free from abstract and technical
announcements. The book, there
! fore. is as open to the average stu
dent and reader as it should be. Here
| the methods of gas warfare are set
| down. Here, too, there is fair
| minded discussion of aviation in its
L afn
ment. besides, of the prime problems
of anti-aircraft firing. One lecture
| reviews the development of the ar
/ tillery branch of the military ma
| chine during the present war. One
| takes up the problem or nitrogen IN
! it's relation to the war In more gen
J eral view Biology and War" makes
| the subject of one lecture. Reprinted
| from the Journal of the Washington
| Academy of Sciences, the book pro-
vides an authoritative and highly
| useful body of facts concerning mat
ters whose importance continues be
! yond the limits of the present war
itself.
THE GRIZZLY, Our Greatest wild
Animal. By Enos A. Mills. author
| Of wild Life on the Rockies. etc.
| illustrated. Boston: Houghton Mif-
fin Company.
| 0lllS HdS pcCu Paf h''S
quafntance with the grizzly for about
thirty years now. a period in which
his liking and respect for this. "our
| greatest wild animal have steadily
increased. In this book he sets down
many Of the experiences that have
/ gone into the growing friendship be
i tween himself and the big bear
| Enough of a scientist to keep on hon
| orable terms with this exalted CLASS
| Mr.. Mills is, above all else. natu
| ralist. This implies that difference OF
attitude which. in the case OF .he
| naturalist, adds Interpretation to the
| bare fact, touches up accounts OF am
/ NAL life with the essential poetry OF
! that life. translates it into terms cor
| responding to much OF human en-
| deayor. So here we read of the griz-
| zly's ways of making living
much as we might read Of this pre-.
| occupation in a human brother-ot
| the laws that prevail in his habitat
| of his hours of vagrancy and recre
| alton. of his sagacity. OF his curlos-
ity. Of his docility and MS loSn,yt
| An animal lover-one OF the sort
| that does not express his interest by
| way of gun and trap-will be glad 10
| 90 along with this man and the gear;
| through their many meetings ano
! their mutual admirations. la.e
historv and classiication-but IL
comes too late to blur ones enjoy
| ment of actually getting acquainted
The earlier chapters have looked
| after that in a most energetic ana IN :
| teresting fashion: Boys VIII IKE 'n a
| book. So will all amman ioNe''
| CARELESS of years.
War Imitation.