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

the climax of the study. This is the
point that stresses the need for a bet
| ter acquaintance between the two
| western continents in order that a
| community of interests-social. indus
trial. financial interests-may arise
doctrine, in it's origin and many
points of application. takes on con-
crete form here. The writer gathers
| up these points and embodies them in
| clear analysis of this American
doctrine of exclusion. The clear merit Of
this timely study lies partly in the au-
thor's selective sense. and partly in his
| sense of drama. The one rejects a
world of details that are non-essental
to this consideration and would prove a
source of bewilderment to the general
reader. The other achieves a story-a
swift and vital story-of men who,
through patriotism. or ideaEsm. or plain
ambition. contributed materially and
often picturesquely to the formation of
free republics out of the new world
colonies of Spain. An admirably clear
and interesting piece of work
GOLDONI AND THE VENICE OF HIS
TIME. BY John Spencer Kennard.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
This book holds threefold inter-
est 1t presents the many sided
charm of Venice, when Venice still
stood on the highway between west
ern Europe and the SumptuouS riches
of the east This for the general
reader. 1t gives full-face picture of
This for the special student and the
exclusive reader. Within this mate
rial and intellectual complex it sets
up man-Goldoni himself-who COM
| pines the two. weaving the daily local
life into the Italian comedy. A great
Inv - -1<l
recognize that the essence of comedy
us Its current quality, it's running
along beside life itself. rejecting, in
terpretlng, deducing, explaining life.
by way of the comic drama. An inno-
vator and a reformer he, and, what is
even more, one of those rare cotem-
poraneous men, marching along in
step with any age. looking straight
across into the eyes of the twentieth
century man with complete under
standing. in complete sympathy. And
this. to the one who believes that
of studies is the supreme value of the
book in hand. However. it is point
eddy addressed to the student of the
history of a special art. since it is
fitted with lists of Goldoni's plays.
with analyses of these. with ap-
praisals and comparisons along the
line of dramatic art. Nevertheless.
the average reader is going to steal
many an absorbing page out of this
study of special import In it's pro-
duction Mr.. kennard has himself fol-
lowed the cotemporaneous habit OF
Goldoni. for the whole manner of the
book is as fresh as today. where 1T
might SO easily have been of Stilted
and archaic habit.
THE NEGRO FACES AMERICA. By
Herbert ]. Seligmann. New York:
Harper g. Bros.
Mr.. Seligmann appears to have no
| other object here than to provide in
formation of the reliable sort to such
of the reading public as has suffi
GENTLY open mind to receive it. His
| theme is the negro. Not the old
negro of before the war, nor. except
by incidence, the tiftyyear-o negro
who has been coming on since the
! civil war. The great war discovered
| a new world, and in that new world
| speaking now of the United States
there is a new negro whom it is i'm
portant to know. Mr.. Seligmann un-