Evening star., 1920-05-23
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Beveridee. A. ]. Life of John Marshall.
V. 8 and 4. E-MS56b.
These two volumes. presenting the details Or
| the political. social and economic life OF fh"
period. conclude Mr.. Beveridge's really great
biography Of one Of the dominating l hsu.es @ IN n
| Constitution" tFss-c4s6v.1el, by Edward :.
| Corwin. gives compact and vivid picture or
| the man and his work. making an excellent
| complement to the fuller life.
Bispham. David. Quaker Singers Reeoilec-
| ton. vW10-B544.
| Relates the interesting experiences in the
! career Of an American opera singer who knew
nearly every one of note in the contemporary
musical world.
Candy, H. 8. Education by Violence. F3o79s-
Cl62c.
] A collection of essays Of which Maurice Egan
| says: 1T is the most serious book OF the year
| and the most important in dealing with those
| things Of the American mind on which the fu-
ture of our country must depend"
| Gwynn. s. L. John Redmoud's Last Year.
| E. R246g.
| A personal and political study Of very great
! interest, written by who friend Of
Mr.. Redmond and had access to his papers for
| the period beginning with the war. Though IN
| no sense q dispa ssionate or unbiased narrative
| Of events. it is marked by breadth OF view
| and puts the nationalist case with courtesy and
| discretion.
| Ley. J. W. T. Dickens Circle. ZY-LSas
"A book like this is the delight of all D.cA
ensians."
| Patton. L. A. Elizabeth Cary Asass;z.
| E-As17P.
record Of a highly significant contribution to
| American education. 1t reveals TO the aus
cerning reader 4 familiar truth-that a positive
and individual force is essential to the launch
1 s- NJ fsrfl
to justify itself. Mrs. Agass;s provided that
force for Radcliffe College"
Sayler. Q. N. Russian Theater Under the
| Revolution. vU54Sas.
| 1T was an admirable exhibition OF Amer-
can enterprise and pluck which took Mr.. Sayler
into Russia during the revolution TO study the
mimic stage Of Moscow and Petrograd The
record which he has produced describes the
| times"
Scarborough, Dorothy. From Southern
| Porch. Y-Sca72f.
The porch philosophy whims;caily
| pounded in this book makes wonder why We
rush about seeking adventures and change
| when We can sit quietly on porch and have
graceful. poetic fancies and old negro melodies
to friendly toads and confding ghosts.'
shackleton. Sir T. II. South. G14aShl2su.
| Shackletons object was to cross the Antarctic
Zealand. via the south pole. After a series OF
billiards his ship was crushed and sank, leay
ing the twenty-eight explorers marooned on
floating piece Of ice 346 miles from land. with
| seventy dogs and six weeks provisions. The
entire book is new revelation Of the intel
Ngence and endurance Of man.
Trench, Herbert. Napoleon. YD-T7o6n
The scene is small-the coasts of England
and France: the characters few-an English
family and group around Napoleon. Mr..
Trench's Napoleon is brilliant. with purposes
as clear and relentless mathematics: his
hero a young Kentish idealist, who heats
out his life in vain opposition to the Corsican.
is real that he draws a specta tors heart
out of his body. The play is one Of the few
real fruits of the war
Spargo. John. Russia as an American Prob
lem. F5466 Sp27r.
Though We now have score or 20 OF
books describing the present situation in Rus
sia. few writers have seriously faced the ques-
tion What is to be done abort itg' Mr..
SparGo has devoted his latest vo,u-ne chiefly
to that question. starting from the belief that
Russia is the decisive factor in the history
OF the world at the present time. and aiming
to convince Us that the problem Of her re
construction concerns us pre-eminently, that il
10 a challenge to America"
Notes taken from various sources)