Evening star., 1921-11-06

siE company.
- NE recalls yividly the state
of thrilled acceptance in
duced by the reasonableness
t-5 Of Norman Angels rThe
that argument is that universal
economic well-being is the one es-
sential for real progression progress
beyond immediate material needs of
food and shelter in order that the
higher powers Of the human may be
general economic well-being depends
on an international cooperation in
the various fields of production. dis
tribution and further development.
Nattonalisfn, born Of the exclusive
bundle Of feelings known as patriot
ism. and supported by military force,
Is in its nature hostile to general CO.
operation, subversive of economic
solidarity, and. therefore, inimical to
civilization itself. Mr. Angel cites
cases to show, nationAlism over
reaching itself. the doctrine Of force
stultifying itself, the victor in war
vanquished: The Franco Prussian
war exemplifies this point. The great
war may do so. The outcome of the
argument Is to demonstrate war as
futile agency Of material prosperity.
The book brought a tempest about
folks condemned him. Nations
damned him. The rank and file de-
spised him as a '.pacifist" Then the
great war came on. No word from
IN the diminished advocate of peace.
The war is over and the world is
fYrcP 10 @h
MI. ANGEL emerges with The Fruits
OF Victory" which, step by step,
point by point. is the authors way Of
saying Il told YOU" The argument
1s as clear as it was a dozen years
ago, an argument pointed upon the
present: The statement is as force
ful as 1t was then. The doctrine of
an International cooperation is as
complete and convincing. A great
oook-two great books.
THE IMPERIAL ORGY. By Edgar
Saltus. author of 1.-The Pomps of
Satan" etc. New York; Boni &
Liveright-
From Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas
II this account of the Russian czars
runs-an orgy" of astonishing
length, well toward four hundred
years And whether the ruler be
Ivan or Peter or another, he stands
as the embodiment OF absolute power,
exercising his Will In an untmasin-
able ferocity Of action, So slow and
reluctant has been the emergence of
Russia that so lately as three years
the whirlwind that the president
four hundred years had sown And he
perished under a brutality of onset
that Ivan and his successors had in
spired in the people themselves.
Edgar Saltus, like. Carlyle, writes his
tory in picturex across which thun-
derings and lightpings crash and
flash, vivid. and objective presenta-
tfon. One reads with the sense OF
wading through shambles of tortured
license OF the powerful is law. The
western reader has. no Interpreting
centers for this strange run of blood
that expresses itself in SO complete
lust OF savasery: that advances to-
ward the western civilization so slow
1y. so unwillfngly., This last point,
this tenacious Asiatic influence that
time and great world movements fail
to overcome in eastern Europe, is the
outstanding lesson that this highly
history brings to the reader as an il
Elimination OF Russia as it stands. or
falls. today. - -
THE PEOPLE AGAINST NANCY
Preston; By. John A. Moroso: au-
IL.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
at everybody's door to ask the sleeping
man, or woman, inside what he is going
to do about it, since this IL clearly that
same everybody's immediate concern.
The people having created an institu-
1t is indubitably the business Of the
people to see that the machinery Of this
institution functions in the rectftude of
its fundamental purpose. In this poi
gnant story John Moroso pillories the
law as it too often works out in the
underworld Of great city. Two fig
ures stand clear here. One of them is
Nancy Preston. the other is Michael
Horsan. Around them is a rabble of
loose judges-an purchasable with either
money or favors. When we meet Nancy
she is a ard-working woman trying to
support her little boy. When we meet
Michael he is in prison. The under
he is strongly suspected of being a gen.
tleman carrying out some batty expert
ment or other in a field that belongs to
them. Some time before we meet
Many she ns was street street
are fair game for these purveyors Of
justice. Without a thread Of melo-
drama, in the sheer poignancy of its
own brew, Mr.. Moroso brings to the sur
reads it in seIf-reproach. for. diving
into the depths of his own human ma
ture. he knows that it is true. And he
knows. too. that he is a shade hypo-
critical in his sympathy. for when. to-
ward the end. it turns out that Michael
Horgan has another name. that he Is
not a criminal at all. that he is pursu-
ing a truer justice for these helpless
people underneath-it is then. in the
light of these facts. that the reader
gasps and draws back at Michaers love
for Nancy. and his open intent to make
her his wife. Hypocrites. you see-all
o. US. A big. true. unhappy story.
ture. in a day that is pleased with its
own humane outlook, with its own prog
ress in civilization.
THE TREMBLING OF A LEAF. BY
W. Somerset Vaughan. author Of
The Moon and Sixpence," etc
New York: George H. Doran Com
pany.
Mr. MauEhham sounds the keynote
q poetic and significant sketch of the
Pacific as it registers in the heart
and soul of one sailing it's unbroken
fmmenSity. In one mood 1t is IAN
empty desert, and presently the
emptiness fills you with vague fore
. boding' That is the feeling--a feel
ing of vague foreboding"-that ami.
from it's opening line on through Incl
dent and episode that change the
vagueness to certainty, the forebod-
ing to the actual presence of evil and
disaster. The sum of these tales is
tfat the white nan loses himself
the native elements-both the human
and natural elements-of these is