Evening star., 1921-04-17

York: Harper & Bros.
~HE came to out Of the honey
moon. Lilly Becker did. know
ing that never in the world
could she live with Albert
Penny. marriage ceremony notwith-
Standing. Why. the man chewed with
his temples. He had. besides. an
Adams apple. disgusting in size and
hagrant in activity. She herself.
moreover. was the possessor of a
lyric soprano" or So she had been
told. Bundling herr grievances to-
gether, any unbearable number of
them she was able to count, the girl
took to fight by train from the mid
west to New York. There the story
unfolds, after the manner of Fannie
Hurst. Sticking as close to life. strug-
Cling life, as a mans skin sticks to
his own body. the author follows this
girl in quest of her shining destiny.
From radiant and steady star to star
dust the aim lowers. The common
story of reach too short for the Wis
ion. A hard road to travel is the
road in the big city even for a living,
To say nothing of an exalted career
hardness of this road. A poignant
story, that passes from the hope Of
personal success to that of vicarious
fame by way of the little daughter
that that hateful honeymoon had be-
Queathed her. And even this fades
when the girl under the urge of life
seems about to yield up the glorious
voice to the ravages of marriage
with the man who had, a week before.
lnval hap Cordi63 Mavha
Life. though. One recalls just this
perfect honesty in fiction in David
Graham Phillips-not since. Some day.
when she gets to it, Miss Hurst is
going to take a pruning knife and go
after her language to lop of those
grandiloquent moments of speech that
the reader simply refuses to tackle
after losing himself in few Of them.
vENIZEL0s. By Herbert Adams
Gibbons. author Of The Founda-
tion Of the Ottoman Empire" etc.
Boston: Houghton Miflin Com
pany.
The story Of Eleutherios venizelos
Is inseparable from that OF modern
Greece itself. for the history of his
country played equal part with the
blood of his ancestors in the making
OF this Greek statesman. Mr.. Glib
bons. therefore, in this study of the
Of modern Greece as the field Of his
activity and power. Freedom from
the Turk. general independence. the
achievement of full nationalism.
are the ways along which the path
Of Venizelos runs in this intimate
and discriminating study. From
boyhood to the time Of the peace
conference. the account moves;
through the Cretan agitation and the
Ra1kan fhrnyrOh a cnmnletQ in.
ternal reorganization of Greece and
the entrance of the country into the
great war itself-venizeios an Inn
pressive and influential figure
throughout More than one book on
vital matters Of the eastern hemi-
sphere attest already to the standing
of Mr.. Gibbons as authority on these
matters. A vigorous and direct man.
ner goes along with the knowledge
and the seasoned judgment. The
book in hand is the first in modern
Statesman series that these publish
ers are projecting.
THE LIFE OF JOSEPH HODGES
CHOATE. By Edward Sanford
Martin. New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons.
Happily. this biography is achieved,
in the main. by way of Mr.. Choate's
own letters. It has. therefore. the i'm
uIculdlS 0QPSdA Va Tue
And, as a matter of fact, a part of
the story was written by Mr.. Choate
himself. its continuation and con-
clusion being made by means Of his
correspondence. The early days at
Salem, at Harvard. in New York. are,
dlled with experiences that stand as
a part Of our historic setting. The
professional career OF Mr.. Choate is
reviewed in these letters through the
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law, since incorporated as q part OF
American Jurisprudence. His ambas-
sadorship to the court of st. James
produces most interesting and inform
ing chapters in these letters. The
whole Is Of the genial nature Of the
man himself, of his wit. of his wis
dom. The book Is no more for the
special reader-the lawyer. the dip
Jonathan it is for the great body
personal pride in this eminent Ameri-
can through the reading of this infor-
NAL and friendly story. To present a
picture Of such unity and continuity
an admirable discrimination must
have gone into the selection and ar
rangement Of the letters that make
up this notable book.
THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO. BY Wal
lace Thompson. New York: Har-
per & Bros.
Mr.. Thompson. out Of many years Of
study among the Mexican people. be-
lieves that the answer to Mexico-to
its unrest, its turmoil. its lack of ma
tional sense-lies in the warning ra-
cial elements of the people them
selves. struggle that will yield to
the slow processes OF evolution alone.
This book submits the evidence upon
which this belief il founded. Who
are the Mexican people? In answer
the author traces the Mexican today
back to his racial roots. The founda-
tion Of this people is Indian. And
here the author portrays the old In
dian cfvilizations-Maya, Toltec, Az
tee and so on-and sets down as well
the great body of uncivilized native
Indians Of this region. To the lat
ter was added the Spanish strain.
From these two came the mestizo; the
the incompleteness of the blend. the
hostile elements striving in the indi-
vidual. that today marks the back
ward state Of the Mexican In any na-
tional sense To this view of the
situation the author adds q very full
way the Mexican lives-this con-
tributory. also. to the present unde-
veloped state Of Mexico in any ma
tional sense. In this picture one sees
tho sum OF daily Mexican lffe-the
climate. community life and its gov
and sanitation. the conditions Of Ia
Dor and cost Of living. Tho book is
. fresh approach to the problem OF
Mexico It is . thorougheoing and
scholarly piece Of work. It 10 2
plausible theory that the study itself
consideration