Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-14

plicity. Quite as good as the love
story itself is the remarkably appeal
ing picture of the South African
background. Here is comprehend
ing seizure of those mysterious i'm
plications that lie in the Landscape
itself The two joined for the pur-
poses of this romance serve to put
within reach of the reader very
substantial source of genuine enter
tainment.
THE IVORY BALL. BY Chauncey G.
Hotchkiss. author of The Red Pa
per-" etc. New York: w. j. Watt &
Company.
Not any excess OF plausihility here.
but one is not always on the hunt for
consistency. Sometimes he merely
wants things to happen. and this is
Just the mood for Tine Ivory Ball.
An out west story. that begins. near
the border. with hold-ups. and kill
ines. and escapes. An unrommonly
good effect Of crossing stretch Of
the desert itself gets into ones feel
inge After this the agile story takes
on an oriental cast in the myst er ious
ivory hall which turns out to he
the stolen jewel that served as an
eye for some great and rencefn'
Chinese god Its pursuit involves a
ysriegated series of adventures that
keep one on the jump until. out Of tbs
whole weird performance. the affair
glidts into the commonplace of Just
getting marrisd. Up to that point.
however, things go humminC and one
has fine time with adventures that
80 right along regardless.
CONSTANTINE AND THE GREEN
PEOPLE. BY Paxton Hihhen. 4. r.
Century Company.
Greece during the war Mr.. Hihh.l
takes fresh standpoint of invesiiSa
ton. From this place of Observation
one is allowed an entirely new view
Of Constantine !. of the Gallipol
campaign. and of the general disun
ion and disorder of Greece itself dur
ing the war period. The book stands
in effect, as a yindication of Con
stantine and An arraignment of fh'
allies. The former is presented as to
true friend of Greece and of thc al
lied powers, rather than sy.npa-
thizer of Germany or an Indifferent
ruler of his own people. The igno'
rance Of Balkan affairs on the part o
the allies is held accountable for The
failures of the allied armies in tn.
east, a failure that goes still fur
Their back to the blund ering diploma!
of uniformed representatives of th'
western powers. This aspect of The
whole matter is new one. To it the
author brings undeniable conviction
md zeal. an impressive fund of fresh
information. and the gift of A ver!
striking way Of putting what he ha
to say on this important theme. Bot
in substance and form the study re
pays abundantly ones careful consid
GRAFTON.
WOMAN AND THE NEW RACE. B,
Margaret Sanger. New York
Brentano's.
THE most immoral practice of the
day is breeding too many children
The most serious evil of our times
into the world of large families
The immortality of large families lie,
not only in their injury to the mem
bers of those families. but in their
injury to society,"" This. in effect. i:
the thesis upon which Mrs. Sanger
of new race produced under intelli-
gent and purely voluntary mother.
hood. 1t is her claim that mother.
hood is not the deepest instinct oil
woma nhood. Rather is that an un.
conquerable instinct toward freedom
toward a free expansion of self tina
| may. or may not. include the bearing
and irresistible urge. The writer
goes back into history to show the
warfare that has gone on in the pas
for escape from the burden of child
bearing. From this individualistio
point of view, the study emerees into
the domain of society to show both
in the past and in the present. the
effect of a population that can neither
be well born. nor well reared. nor
well adjusted t0its collective obliea-
ton. The study involves a new mo-
ralIty. 1t is frank advocacy OF
hirth control. 1t is an honest and a
coura geous consideration of this
theme from the standpoint of human
values in social relations. and from
the standpoint of every outstanding
aspect of human evolution. In sub
stance 1t IL the study. In broad out
line. of a new civilization. as this
author interprets civilization.
THE HUMAN COSTS OF THE WAR.
By Homer Folks illustrated.
New York: Harper & Bros
These are some of the human costs
Of war. Ten million people hastily
leaving their homes. under the enemy
advance. to lead makeshift exist :
ence for five years. and then to re-
turn to ruins where homes had been.
Forty-two million people held under
subsection in their own lands by an
enemy occupation. Hundreds of thou
sands of these sent into slavery to
supply the enemy's shortage of man
power. Nine million soldier dead
Fifty million manless homes. War
diseases. A submerged continent. A
mortgRged future. Continental recon-
struction and nobody to take it in
hand. Such are a part only of the
counts in this human cost of war tina [
Mr. Folks sums here in strict account
ing. Around each of these items in
the great bill of war he groups facts
and pictures drawn at first hand from
each Of the war areas. Himself chief
Of the department Of civilian relief
Of the American Red Cross. Mr.. Folks
was able to gather from under his
own eve the rt-breaking records
that fill this volume. The book the
story. then faces upon American
the attitude of question. a question
that America is answering as America
always does answer.
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