Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-13
WHAT HAPPENED TO EUROPE. BY
Frank A. Eanderlip. New York:
The Macmillan Company.

The Macmillan Company.
N N r. VANDERLIP'S recent visit
l" to England. France, Italy. Bel
GUM and Spain was made fol
the purpose of gathering, al
first hand. facts and impressions bear
ing upon the industrial and financial
condition of Europe. The book ir
hand embodies these facts and impress
sions. supplemented by the opinions OF
many European leaders of enterprise
along lines of national scope Mr. Van
derlip describes incisively here the in
dustrial paralysis of Europe. The need
of raw materials, crippled machinery
loss Of manpower. total collapse OF
transportatio facilities, the unbalance
of international currencies and the stu
pendous problem of credits-these are
the causes underlying the continental
disease of industrial paralysis. Arriv-
ing at this point by the straightest cut
possible. the writer's story is but half
told The remainder of it Celebrates
the question, What are we going to do
about it?'' and provides certain tenta-
tive answers to the query. The disease
affecting Europe is a communicable one.
Therefore. if the United States were I'M
der no moral obligation TO lend hand
she is clearly under the bond of self
protection. But she has the moral
obligation, and this Mr.. Tanderlip
makes convincingly~ clear. In prac-
tical recognition of this fact, he sub
mits plan by which this country
may help to liquidate its debt to hui
manity. In clean-cut. untechnical
outline he presents the plan for an
international loan to Europe. defining
the role of the United States in this
transaction. The straight thinking
of the successful man of business
gives high value to this book. The
expert opinion of the trained hnanc1er
adds to that value. But the book has
another quality, one that might easily
be lacking in a discussion of this sort
II possesses in itself. and passes over
to the reader. the sense of personal
obligation as good citizen, as good
being of the world itself. 1t is a book
that belongs not alone to the pub
lie man, to the man of big business.
It's facts are so important, its man
ner is so simple. its spirit is 50 big.
that. by right, it belongs to all citi-
zens. and, in particular, to the grow
ing-up ones
THE YEARS BETWEEN. By Rud-
yard Kipling, author of 'The Song
Of the English" etc. New York:
Doubleday, Page & Co.
of Rudyard Kipling. Among them is
the we'll known and much loved
France" singing splendidly the
brother bond between England and
France bond that has held at heart
through many an unbrotherly denial
The poems. as whole, embody Eng
land in her strength. her champion
ship of the weak. ker honor. her
awakening to the war and it's i'm
plications. All of them are simple
and big. Many. of them touch the
heart deeply. This one does.
THE QUESTION.
Brethren. how shall it fare with me.
When the war is laid aside,
II 1t be proven that am he
For whom a world has died?
If it be proven that all my good.
And the greater good will make,
Were purchased me by a multitude
Who suffered for my sake?
II it he found, when the battle clears.
: Their death has set me free.
Then how shall live with myself through the
Which they have bought for me?
Brethren. how must it fare with me,
Or how am justified
II 1t be proven that am he
For whom mankind has died,
II II be proven that am he
Who. being questioned denied?
THE UNDYING FIRE. By II. G.
Wells, author of Joan and Peter"
etc. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
Novel. or essay, or imaginative ro-
nance. it is all one with Mr. Wells.
Each is a sermon, bent upon instruc-
tion. conviction. persuasion. The
novel in hand is the story Of Job
Peter it is a discussion of education,
"a n W a cd oh he
set off in opposition to what it really
is. Schools should be vital insti-
buttons, not lighthouses and sep
ulchers. Schooling should be living,
building process-not one of indura-
ton and decay. Job Huss objectifies
this vision of growth, of lifting the
individual into the universal current
of life-objectifies it by way of the
school for boys of which he is the
head and inspiration. Needless to say,
days wait on the career of Job Huss.
misunderstanding, opposition, persecu-
ton and well nigh defeat become the
agencies by which the invincible
spirit of the man is tried and proved.
BY special intent this story defines
the aims and hints at the means by
education may be renewed, may be
terminated by the expanding spirit
of the immediate future. By general
design it exemplifes the unconquera-
BILE soul of man.
ANATOLE FRANCE. BY Lewis Piaget
Shanks. Chicago: The Open Court
jii Publishing Company.
HI Usually a biographer is in sympa-
urhy with his subject Commonly he is
sdn possession of body Of knowledge,
simore or less co-ordinsted. bearing
upon that subject. Sometimes he
II commands set Of values to give sub
Instance and force to his appraisaIs
mot often, however. does he combine
Jim himself this full three-ply equip
II Jnent This writer, in his study of
1iAnatole France. is a good deal of an
4! exception to the familiar haIf-pre-
i pared critic. BY this happy variation
from the rule the reader finds to his
hand here a competent and illumi-
If mating analysis of the celebrated
living man Of letters" under the des-
,ignation of his biographer. This is
itfhe literary biography of Anatole
"a France, one that draws upon the ex-
ternal facts of his life merely to
give setting and impulse to his ca
d. roer as writer. The various works
Of the French writer are cited here
la demonstration of the curious spir-
itual phases that mark his develop
h nent phases of contrary aspect and
widely disparate aims. These are re-
n fec,ed and embodied in his writings,
. The most notable of which are brought
'l.nating evaluation. Skeptic, intel
X lectual sybarite, ironic and disillu-
.lsioned onIooker at life, pessimist,
NradjcaI-and then. at seventy years OF