Evening star., 1919-03-09

| It seeks to create beIfef in common
| interests between the forces OF labor
as contrasted with the general belief
| In opposed interests. There In. be-
sides, a comprehensive exposition OF
the principles underlying work. And.
| in addition, the writer discusses the
government in industry from the OPP
posite approaches OF advantage and
disadvantage in this policy. A short
chapter of sound common sense and
wise direct deals with simple edu-
cation of public opinion on the sub
| feet Of industrial reconstruction in its
most obvious essentials and require
ments.
THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY. BY
Roy Willmarth Kelly, author of
Hiring the worker" and Fred
erick ]. Allen, author of THE Shoe
Industry" Introduction by Charles
NJ. Schwab. Boston: Houghton
Miff1in Company.
This book is addressed, in part, to
the general public for the sake of
outlining to it the broad features of
the shipbuilding program under the
immediate stress of impending war.
In other part, it is designed for the
use of the army of workers-an army
more than 100000 strong-which in
one capacity or another is engaged
in reducing this program to actual
operation. Again, it is calculated to
meet and answer the questions pro-
posed by men who lean toward this
line Of industry and desire to enter 1t.
A large order the authors have made
for themselves, but, by economy OF
design and q thrifty use OF material,
they have, within the limits of book
of only average size, fulfilled the
three-foid purpose of this enterprise
in an Instructive and illuminating
fashion. Broad description and ex-
pert analysis in the field of special
industry, together with an outline
trial future OF the country, make up,
in general. the substance of this com
petent and practical exposition. Point
ed attention is given here to the
new science OF business efficiency as
this applies to the various adminis-
industry. Both OF these authors are
trained to vocational Investigation
and guidance. Not often does a book
OF this size contain so much OF or
ganIzed specific information and. at
the same time, present so broad
Introduction by Charles Schwab is a
bit Of robust and direct statement
overshot with a web of clear ideaiism
applied to this industry in particular
and to all American Industry, as well
in its relation to United states pa
triotism in world war.
MEMORIES CRAVE AND GAY. BY
Florence Howe Hall. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
Florence Howe Hall is the daughter
OF Julia Ward Howe. This single fact
is one of rich implications A family
out Of the common order is bound to
gather around so unusual mother.
BY the same token neighbors and
friends may be counted on for quail
ties that excite interest and provoke
a natural curiosity. And SO 1t turns
out to be here. In the most spontane-
GUS manner imaginable Mrs. Hall goes
back to her childhood, recalling the
l'carefree, happy existence OF the
young Howes in family life that
recognized the play needs OF children
and provided for them. So one reads
of gay household here where activ-
The children write plays and set up
a theater, they invent a cryptic Ian
guage for their own private use, and
do the thousand-and-one wise and
interesting things that children do
when they are not confined by endless
inhibitfons to their natural energy.
AS the story grows many important
people appear--people about whom
the public generally is curious to
know. One sees them here in SIM
pie friendly relations to this family
group. Incidents and events of wide
spread influence, points of public con-
Germ, come naturally into the picture
IN company with many notable and
distinguished person. An atmos-
phere sustains this story from begin
ming to end-the wholesome atrnos-
phere OF wide interests, of absorbing
enthusfasms along substantial lines.
OF capable cooperation in public
work, and, above all, there is here
and culture.
DEER GoDCHMD. BY Marxuri.e
Bernard and Ethel Serrell. New
YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons.
This little book contains the corre-
spondence between James Prender-
CAST Jackson, jr., age twelve, of New
York and his deer godehild." Andre
Leblanc, aged eleven. No IS Rue
d'Autancourt, Paris. In a burst OF
war generosity James applied for a
kld IN france TO support, boy be-
tween ten and twelve, if it is the same
to YOU" Having acquired the child. the
next question was his support-that
is, his support to the extent of 10
cents day. And the godfather buck
led down TO the keep of his family Of
one. the letters passing to and fro
between godfather and son let ont
some of the business ventures OF this
experiment in parenthood, just as they
tell a great many other interesttnS
things about the world and the war
as these appear to boys of this age
ana yndsr this stress OF circumstance.
and the fun is worth passing ON to
readers James Prendergast Jackson
declares his scholastic INDEPENDENCE
in these letters and gives himself
over to an orgy. Of the worst spelling
that ever got into print The god
spect. Indeed. one suspects that the
compilers edited part OF James or
iginal copy into these wild eccentrici-
ties of spelling. However, the fun is
there, despite its odd and often pug
cling outer form.
THE ENGLISH VILLAGE: A LITERARY
Study. By Julia Patton, Ph. D.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
In patient and painstaking scholar
ship this writer, for the purpose OF
the study in hand, searched through
hundred years of English literature.
The place of the English village in
creative writing-both prose and
verse-is the object of this research.
Besides an accounting of the mere
part played by the village In the
imaginative literature of the century
lying between 1850 and 1850. the
writer makes specific reckoning, Also
of the changes in social organization
of the village with the progress of
time and in the new economic sig