Evening star., 1921-11-27

Mead & Co.
A WAR book from q war-wise
~ man. A quarter OF CEN
N tury as war correspondent mas
packed the grain and nber OF
Frederick Palmer with the stun OF
which this book is made. The Span
ish-American war. the Boxer rebel
lion. Japan with China, Japan with
Russia, the two Balkan wars, and
lastly, the world war have melted into
the direct consciousness of the writer
and this consciousness. gained oy
first-hand contacts. he sets up alss'
in tue corroborating light Of history.
He takes war up in his hands. SO 70
speak. He traces its roots. its con,
duet, Its effects, through the physicalt
and moral and emotional nature y.
man. He sets 1t OF In the economN
field He examines 1t in its politicai
bearings, in it's national outcome; oul
of this intensive study he Is aoie 10
declare war a disease curapie as
case. This is the moment Tor the peo-
pies of the world to deciae @ S..rm;r whermi
or not the disease shall be exter'l-
mated, whether or not 1t shall oe per,
mitted to eXterminate man hlmseiI.
In eraphic and picturesque writing
the author discusses old values' SCI
up when thinking was OF the nat
world stamp. These values he re-ex.
an,ines in the light Of the round worio.
with separated races brought into
single neighborhood, where asSocla-
tion is open and natural, where VII
derstanding Is easy. where ADJUST
ments are possible, where co-op,
tion is the logical instrument OF world
interdependence. The author shows
that everything that has been gained:
really. has been gained by the arts OF
peace. Is il not time. he asks, III SUI
stance. for the old men to stop max :,
ing wars for the you young as,ih men ahe 20 ronng n
men, as it should. A book to wake
up thought. a book to stir the oiooo.
by virtue of it's unquestioned sinceI-
ity, its authority, its vision ana ts
eloquence.
If WINTER COMES. By A. 5. NJ.
Hutchinson, author Of The Happy
Warrior" etc. Boston: Little
Brown & Co.
If YOU do not already know MARX
Sabre. get acquainted with n,nl as
soon as may be. II you do not already
know him. you have q genuine treat
ahead of you. such treat as rams
10 ones lot when he meets some man
or woman especially rich ana warm
of nature Mark Sabre Is lovabie LOT
heart. for his imagination that taxes
wing over the beauty that the Worio
spreads each day, for his heavenly
Kindness. 70 be sure he cuts no great
figure. He troubles his wife ABOUT ms
plain ways and the queer people
whom he likes. She is of the getting
ahead sort, so his ways fret her; BUT
how the queer people adore Mark Sa-
bre, And so he goes his way, gather.
ing the Joy of life out OF all KINGS OF
unlikely source. At the ias.. MarR 9ars
Sabre does just such a thing as Jesus
would have done-and the people are
no kinder now than they were cou-
pie of thousand years ago. But unoes {
the winter" that events pie arouho
the life of Sabre the lifting spirit OF
the man himself embodies the nope
and the promise of Shelly's line. 20
wind. If Winter comes. can Spring
he far behind?" The sincere anu
searching pictures that project mere
the experience of Mark Sabre are
done in a prose that Is q joy Of dig.
nified beauty. A story to read. and
then to read. and then to keep Tor
more readings. since it is iife itseii
wrought in beauty.
yO LET. BY John Galsworthy, author
of The Man of Property, etc. New
York: Charles Scribners Sons.
"To Let" is the last of the five novels
which, together, constitute the chronicie
Of the Forsyt family. The series. as a
whole, portrays certain characteristic
fsatnres have been modified. are being
modfaed. by the liberaiizing influences
of the past twenty-five years. These
series traces, in part. the pa ssaSe OF
social England out Of the victorian
period into that Of the immediate pres
that of England since the war. lts
general movement is one Of change.
change from the old cozy certainties to
an uneasy present faced upon an un-
with which the reader. by virtue Of its
sheer beauty and charm. is immediate
" and exclusively concerned. Is
romance wherein heirs Of the bitterly
divided house of Forsyte re-enact. save
for its tragic ending. the story OF no
let. This is the romance OF Fleur ano
ion Forsyte. F1eur the daughter OF
Soames Forsyte. Jon the son Of Soames
Forsyte's divorced wife. Why" as
the distracted Soames said, if that
woman had behaved herself they would
have been brother and sister" In this
sadly mixed situation. Mr.. Galsworthy
follows along close to the feelings and
outlook Of English folks Of the Forsyte
class beset by the loosening drifts OF
new day. Beautiful in form is this new
Galsworthy romance. and significant in
content. and absorbing as well In its
pure story value and appeal
THE SEER OF sLABsIDEs. BY Dal.
las Lore Sharp. Boston: Houghton
Miffiin Company.
HE was the simplest man l ever
knew" "He was elemental. He kept
his soul" mo man loved his fellow
man more than Burroughs. Few men
have had more friends. or wider
range of friends than he" ITO write
without break for sixty-one years
and keep ones eye undimmed, one
natural force unabated. ones soul un.
tagged and as fresh as dawn, Is OF
itself q great human achievement.
His books show a creedless. but an
absolute and joyous faith" There is
simple and EXQUISITE feeling In his
poems" ITO take the earth as one
finds it, to plant ones self In II. to
plant ones roof-tree in 1t. to till 1t
to understand it. and the laws which
govern it, and the perfection which
created it, and to love 1t all-this Ia
ion. the pith of his philosophy, the
conclusion of his books" This. and
much more, from Dallas Lore Sharp
himself a nature-lover and writer
himself the friend of John Burroughs
The little book is both tribute and
analysis-the one whole-hearted and
sympathetic, the other perceptivs and
Illuminating.
MORE TIsH. BY Mary Roberts Rine.
hart. author of "Tish." etc. New
York: George H. Doran Company.
Misc. Letttia Carberry, familiarly
known as "Tish." togegther with
"Agete'' and Lizzie" are the three
elderly female adventurers upon
whom Mrs. Rinehart here throws the
burden of general entertainment. And
this pfoject is no gamble for the au-
thorsSSShe knows what the three can