Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-07


white-hot subjects in which reason
and restraint have been largely melt
ed away under the fire of excessive
emotion. Therefore. he confines him
self to authentic records of what the
negro has achieved in his half century
OF manhood. and of what. as 4 class,
he now brings to contribute to the
general well-being of his country.
While he does not avoid the inJus-
tices to which the negro has been
subjected. Is being subjected. by the
white race, he dwells, rather. in this
constructive study on what the negro.
under great handicaps, has accom-
pltshed in the way of industrial COM
potency. professional ability, social
dignity. political cleanliness - wher-
ever was have opened for the develop
ment of his power. Thorough study
lies back Of this book. 1t is put out
in good faith as statement of fact.
1t is not propaganda; it is not, es-
sentially. advocacy. 1t Is merely in
formation of a kind to enlist the at
tention OF those who are more inter
ested in humanity than in the white
race: more devoted to the wellbeing
or their whole country than to any
single corner Of it.
THE THREAD OF FLAME. By Basil
King. author of "The Inner
Shrine" etc. Illustrated. New
York: Harper & Bros.
Adjustment and reimbursement is
continuous process in human exist
ence. This fact constitutes the
theme upon which Mr.. King bases the
dation for this development is a
young mans complete loss of personal
identity by one of the casualties of
war In this changed situation
new me is established, one complete
~ remote from the old life. New hab-
IL hn ali
Citations are made. new outlook is
developed. Prior to his war service
hllly narrowly was a man of cul-
ture. of leisure, possessed by the
traditions Of his class. After the war
Billy ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS another name
since he could not remember his
own-was forced to earn his living
by hard and lahorious tasks. He as
sociated with workingmen. gradually
coming into their outlook upon the
organization of society into distinct
classes Then the possibility Of ro-
nance comes to him. 1t is here that
the guiding hand-the thread of
1ame-takes Billy Harrowby in hand.
for across his three-year barrier of
torSetfulness there come to him
to be-. of the home he used to have.
The discovery of himself is a dra-
matte mid-point in the story And
beyond this there is. again, another
reshaping Of this workingman to the
pleasures and the obligations, of his
old leisured life The serious under
current that marks all of Mr.. Kings
work sustains this interesting modern
romance and the mystic strain that
tinges his later novels is here, too. A
markedly appealing story.
YOUNG PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE:
PILGRIMS. BY William Elliot
Grims. author Of The Romance of
American Colonization" etc. H.
Illustrated. Boston: Houghton Milf
film Company.
1t is just three hundred wears ago
that the Pilgrims made their i'm
mortal story. So, this is one of the
special times to tell it all over again.
And this is what Mr.. Grifis does in
this book. facing it in his present
telling upon the boys and girls of
1920. so that they may know some
thing of what the young folks of
those old days did in their work and
their play. However the story is not
all about the pilgrim children. Rather
Is 1t picture of the whole pilgrim
community. determined above all
things to be free. men and women, no
matter how hard the road to freedom
might prove to be. That is the CEN
trail idea of this story for youthful
readers-the idea of freedom in the
commonwealth which they set up,
freedom in the church that they es-
tablished. And this idea of freedom
as fundamental today as it was
three hundred years ago-the writer
has embedded in the daily activities
and the homely hardships of these
early settlers of the New England
coast. There is no writing down here
for the sake of youthful readers. Bet
ter, much better than that is the au-
thor's seizure of the spirit of youth
in this storytelling about the pill
grims.
FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS.
Rv F. Scott Fitzgerald. author of
This Side Of Paradise" New York
Charles Scribner's Sons.
The "flappers" have it pretty much
their own way in this volume OF
Fitzgerald short stories. The phil