Evening star., 1921-03-20

HOUSE. BY Gerald Stanley Lee.
author of Crowds" etc. New
York: E.sP. Dutton & Co.
(<THE White House is haunted
by a vague, helpless alb
;straction. kind of ghost
of . nation. called the peo-
pie" What we really do with a
President is to pick him deliberately
up out Of his warm. human living
with the rest Of US, with people who.
whatever else is the matter with
them. are at least somebody in par
tieular, lift him over into the White
years 70 live in wedlt :. with an Av-
erage-a kind OF vague. cold. intelIec-
tual. unsubstantial, lonely. Terrible
Angel called the People" This is the
'1one somest job on earth"
Now. the only way to say anything
about a writer of the Gerald Stanley
Lee class is not to say it-just let him
given is a sample Of the way in which
this writer defines the ways and
maans-some OF them-by which the
ghoetly hundred million people Of this
country can make themselves felt as
warm, human beings by the lonesome
man In the White House. OF course.
this 10 q most readable book. Its
manner secures that quality. Its sub
stance, too. goes along with the orig
inality Of its manner. Both are alto
gether Gerald Stanley Lee-ish.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF An
DREW CARNEGIE. illustrated.
Boston: Houghton Mitfiin Com
pany.
The striking effect Of this story Is
that at the end of his life Andrew
Carnegie was as much of child. in
certain ways. as he was in his actual
childhood. He had childs conf
dence In human nature, in his friends
ana In the essential goodness of the
world. 1t is a JOY to read ,ne book
for this quality alone. even though 1t
were not packed, as it is. with inter-
eating and important details of it's
authors progress from poor Scotch
immigrant TO one of the richest men
in the world, and one of the most
humane. The later years of Mr.. Car
negies life are. to degree, matters
Of common information-his wealth,
his benefactions. his kindness to
among the noted men OF the world.
One loves best here the stories of his
early days in Scotland and America.
1nnumerable incidents here are "a JOY
TO the reader. A good story, among
hundreds, tells of the day when lit
tie Andy was given pair of rabbits
Tor which his father built a warren
The usual multiple cation imm ediately
set in. Soon the question Of forage
sas uppermost. School days hindered
the solution Of this problem Andy
hit upon the expedient of enlisting
all the boys roundabout TO spend a
part OF Saturday in gathering the
weeks provisions. He paid them by
naming new rabbit after one and
another of these members of the com.
missariat. Looking back a shade OF
doubt as to the ethics of the plan ap.
pears-but the humor of the man
could not keep the story out Mr.
Carnegie's library plan. for which he
In so famous. took root years age
when, a little boy in Pittsburgh no,
able to get books, he became foreve,
grateful to Col. James Anderson. who
opened his library of 400 books &c
boys. That was what he was going
to do when he grew up. That wa.
what he did do. The whole story 4,
. beautiful one just because the spirit
Of the man himself lives in it, ant
throughout 1t.
Compiled and edited by Mai Georg,
wythe and Capt. Joseph Mill.
Hanson. illustrated by Capt. Car
v. Burger. Paris: Published b,
the Games Committee.
Do you know that there is a Per
shing Stadium in Paris? And thar
this was built by our soldiers. giveI
By tho Y. NJ. G. A. to the A. e. r
and given again by the A. K. F. Il
the people of France, to the end tha