Evening star., 1920-01-11
THE LIFE OF JOHN MARSHALL;
Volumes III and ". BY Albert j.
Beveridge. Boston: Houghton Mif-
fin Company


fin Company.
r. BEvER1DGE's life of Johr
H Marshall is, in barest outline
an examination, by way ol
Chief Justice Marshall, into
those Supreme Court decisions that gave
body and form to many of our Ameri-
can institutions, modifying the history
OF this country up to the present time
This Is not a work, however. to be men,
tioned in outline, An outline is skele-
ten But here is p history that is en-
dowed by it's creator with flesh and
atty. Around John Marshall. chiefly
IN his judicial activities, Mr. Beveridge
weaves the full web of that American
period of political hatreds and fierce
party antagonisrns through which the
actual building of the nation was in
process. The material is so vividly pro-
Jected by the author that one lays OF
the sense of reading and puts on that of
an-actual partaking. He takes sides as
cetween- Marshall and Jefferson He
sits through the dramatic and pictur-
esque trial Of Aaron Burr. incidentally
becoming quite won over by this be-
guiding and innocent-seeming man.
And so. all along the line of Marshalfs
eminent career one takes part in the
building of the nation. Away from the
lure OF the telling one counts the pa
tience that went into this work, the re-
search. the taking in of the enormous
body Of facts, the final acceptances and
reflections, and then the long stewing
in the authors own juices for the fair
Judgments that mark the whole and for
the admirable and absorbing drama of
the story itself. Solid. scholarly, monu-
mental in proportions, the work. never
theless, reads like an absorbing romance.
THE AMERICAN ARMY IN THE EU-
ROPEAN CONFLICT. By Col De
Chambrun and Capt. De Marenches.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
dunn size one gets here an authorita-
tive and comprehensive history of the
American Army in the great war. Its
authors. French officers attached to
the staff of Gen. Pershing. were in a
position to prove in every particular
the weight and accuracy of the ma
terial in hand. From this point Of
clear advantage they construct con-
else history of the American Army
both as contingent and Independent
forces in the various war theaters. To
a professionally competent considera-
uon of the purely military activities
OF the Americans. in all lines of the
service on various fronts they have
added an account of the elaborate and
efficient service of supply behind the
Army itself, and have given also a
description of the welfare organiza-
fions whose men and women so reso-
lutely went to war along with the SOL
dlerS themselves. 1t is reasonable to
assume that when more yolurninous and
excited accounts have moved on this
restrained but wholly sympathetic
history OF the American ARMY will
still be occupying the wide field of
Permanent t>usefulness for which it is
obviously designed. -
WHEN THE wORKMEN HELP YOU
MANAGE. BY William r. Basset.
New York: The Century Company.
For the past eighteen years Mr..
Basset has been engaged in making
nrst- hand studies of the labor situa-
ton in factories. Hundreds of facto-
rfes, covering. about every line of in
dustry. came within the scope of his
consideration Out of this widely va
ried Held of'investigation certain ele-
ments common to- all industries, in the
relation of the employed to the en-
ployer. formed the basis for the prin-
ciples of management set down in
this volume. Mr.. Basset is not friend
to the numerous welfare" ,expedients
OF many business concerns. The issue
Is business, not philanthropy. The ex-
pedient is a subterfuge that obscures
the real question. Nor is he a believer
in the growing practice of profit
sharing, since this assumes a relation
between the employer and the en-
ployed that does not exist. an assump-
tion that is bound. ultimately, to
doom the practice to failure. Honest
co-operation between the two parts
: of the labor unit. division of GER
tain responsibilities between them, an
adjustment of wages to the mutual
advantage of both-these are the
aims and achievements that will jus
tify the wage system which, today, IL
on trial for its existence. The book is
practical in outlook and filled with
concrete cases drawn from both Eu-
rope and this country in support OF
Mr.. Basset's advocacy for, this or
that plan of fair and equitable busi-
ness management. Much of it's value
lies in suggestion. since the writer
realizes that no set of directions could
cover the numberless Individual prob
lens of management A book of all
around helpfulness to the business ad-
ministrator. ~
DUST OF NEW YORK. By Konrad
Rercovici. New York: Boni & Live
right.
o. Henry is said to have discovered
New York, Since that event more
than one has staked his claim to areas
and corners of. this rich domain; A
few-Fannie Hurst. for instance-are
their particular holdings. Konrad
Bercovici appears to have carried on
some very capable grubbing in the
practically virgin soil of southeast
Europe transplanted to east side New
York. Now and then. too. he makes
proprietary gesture toward the Latin
countries of the big town. And one
goes the rounds with Bercovici, fas-
cinated by this alien mosaic of race
and nation imposed upon the fiat
J,utch- English surface of Manhattan.
Down steps to cellar or up steps to
hall, around the corner to pastry
shop or over the way to saloon, and
there they are in full bloom-Hungary
o-gSyria, Rumania or Russia or Italy
c another. The happenings are small
and of the commonplace. The reac-
tions are prodfgious. in their vehe-
1etnce of gesture and violence of col
or Bercovici is much at home in this
reported Europe! He slips out and
in a familiar to the whole exotic
trpod, touching here and there upon
racial point or national idiosyn-
easy with a hand which, though of
tho ough-and-ready sort, is a very
sure hand, nevertheless. A frank un-
fa'th in the, pure beauty of human
u rature appears to possess Bercovici in
these adventurings and his humor
snGrls bit. His perceptions are
Straight. however. and his artistry is
packed with color and movement and
life. This is work that stirs enthu-
siasm. making one want more Of it
from this same source, and soOn 100
before the field becomes overgrown
with a waywise Americanism.
LIFE ENJOYABLE. BY Kostes Pal
q amas. Translated by Aristides E
Phoutrides. Cambridge: Harvard
. University Press.
& The English speaking Greek. ,Aris-
tides Phoutrides, who translates this
poem, gives also an Introductory
sketch of the life and career of the
poet. with something of the general
character of his work, something Of