Evening star., 1921-02-13
Reviews of New Books

THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS
TINE. By Joseph Bucklin Bishop.
editor of Theodore Roosevelts
Letters to His Children" etc. IL
Illustrated. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
TN this study Of the period COW
cred by the public career of
Theodore Roosevelt MIR. Bishop
makes use, in the main, of Roose-
velt's own letters as the medium of
exposition and disclosure. This body
of correspondence he frames, lightly.
within the usual Geographic scheme.
Almost Immediately, however, he
turns to the letters of Roosevelt for
running outline of his career from
his entrance into the New York legis-
the close of his life, in 1919. Within
these limits the correspondence
touches upon every phase of his pub
lie service and upon many aspects
of his private life. A momentous
period is covered by The career of
ton at home. disturbing conplicl-
tlons from abroad. A man of enor-
nous receptivity. Mr.. Roosevelt is
as open in expression. These let
ters. therefore. are filled with frank.
and even intimate, disclosures on
both domestic and foreign politics
and aims And not with politics
alone does the correspondence deal.
science. art, literature, explorations.
ulscoVerles-the whole sum of life
within his time comes in here for
interchange of thought between Mr..
roosevelt and an astonishing array
OF people who have achieved things
IN many directions. The work is as
valuable as it is illuminating and
fascinating. 1t belongs beside the
autoblography of Mr.. Roosevelt and,
with the letters to his children serves
10 complete and round out that auto
biography.
THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNREST;
REASONS and Remedies. BY Ray
Stanhard Baker. New York: Dou-
bleday. Page IL Co
For the purposes of this book Mr.
BAKER MADE a personal frst-hand
STUDY OF certain great Industries both
from the standpoint of the capitalist
and from that of the laborer. He went
TO industrial centers. There he talked
with the men on both sides of this
great dividing line. From these talks,
coupled with his own observations,
and backed by an experience in SINH
lar investigations, he sets down here
the facts and conditions which seem
to him to make for the unrest that
animates the present. 1t is the OBJ
1ective character of Mr.. Bakers work
that gives value to this publication. If
one gets a suggestion here and there
that his mind, at the beginning, was
not altogether a clean slate, not en-
tirely free from prejudgment, one is
convinced that the intent is per-
fectly fair one. In discussing some
of the plausible remedies for the con-
ditions set down here the author gives
a very clear and useful description of
the shop council system in its de-
velopment and method of functioning.
He discusses, as well. other phases of
the new cooperative experiments that
have been made in one and another of
the industries of this country. Mr..
Baker writes with energy and clear
ness. His book contributes substan-
TALLY to the general need for infor-
nation on the subject in hand.
MEMORIES. By Mrs.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. illustrated.
Boston: Houghton Miffiin Com
pany.
The enthusiastic Hoosier may con-
tend that the literary center Of the
United States has shifted from the
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own commonwealth. The Californian.
with equal confidence. may assert that
it has already reached the Golden
Gate. Despite these claims, to the
majority, however. it is still the in
tellectuals of Boston and roundabout
who inspire their deepest admiration.
This. due, in part. to the quality of
the New England genius. In other
part, due, possibly, to the mellow
bloom of the New England perspec-
tive. Emerson. Longfellow. Holmes.
Bryant, Hawthorne, Whittier and
the tradition of American letters.
They and their successors assured to
New England its literary atmosphere.
1t is of these successors that Mrs.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich writes here in
SO perfect simplicity of friendly and
intimate association. Beside the i'm
mediate circle of intellectual folks
around the Aldriches there gather
here famous people whom one is de-
lighted to meet in the informal fash
ion of these memories. The first half
dozen chapters have good deal to
say about Edwin Booth and. inciden-
tally, about John Wilkes Booth. so
that one. gets an intimate light on
certain phases of what eliminated in
the death of President Lilcoln. A
host of other people drift into the
Aldrich home-Dickens. Browning
and other famous Englishmen and
with many a cele-
brated American to keep them COM
pany. Mrs. Aldrich recreates a circle
and endows it with an atmosphere
that is altogether delightful in it's
communicable realism. The book per
mits one genuine partaking Of the
scenes set down here.
THE REIGN OF PATTI. BY Herman
Klein. author of Thirty Years of
Musical Life in London" etc. IL
lustrated New York: The Century
Company.
Only rarely occasional mortal en-
bodies career comparable to PATHS.
A touch of the legendary lies in her
long supremacy of genius. in the
character of her triumphs in her
rich and varied personality, in the
unembellished narrative Of her life.
Mr.. Klein approaches his geographic
study of Patti both from the stand
point of lifelong friend of the great
singer and from that of the critic
sional training have amply equipped
him for this particular task. Before
Patti, the artist, in her great creative
roles. Mr.. Klein is the critic-analyz-
ing, comparing. appraising. with a
and an authority that
make of this study an Illuminating
chapter of permanent values on the
content and history Of musical drama.
Before PATHS general life story he is
the brilliant and sympathetic narra-
tor. The artist and the student in
music will set their own evaluations
upon this biography The general
reader will take it with the zest that
goes into the fairy tale or the legend,
with this difference: That it is an
and we'll balanced story
of a remarkable actual personality
MIR. DIMOCk. By Mrs. Denis o'Sulli-
van. New York: John Lane Com