Evening star., 1921-07-31
OUR COMMON COUNTRY, Mutual
Good Will in America. BY Warren
@. Harding. Indianapolis: The
obbs-Merrill COMPANY.


E., Schortemeier.' and sent
out as a message to the
| lAmericaHApeople that they may have
| in the Presidents own words his con-
ception Of the proper course for Amer
leans to take in their domestic re-
lations. They constitute, In SUM. an
appeal toward cooperation, a COM
mon understanding. a mutually of
interest, all bent to the achievement
of prosperity and happiness for Amer
leans generally. MIR. Harding stands
| in the doorway of what he devoutly
hopes will prove to be an era OF good
| will. 1t is from this standpoint that
| he sends forth these messages-to
business, to labor. to the farmer. to
American education. to the immi-
grant. to other aspects of our com
| mon life. Simple, sincere, religious
even in spirit. these messages embody
the authors conception of American
nationality developed and expanded
| in a noble and self1ess enthusiasm for
the common veal.
CECIL RHODES. By Basil Williams.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
, He died only nineteen years ago.
So there are plenty Of people still lv-
| ing who knew Cecil Rhodes person
ally, talked with him, worked with
him, loved him. hated him. Yet. de-
spite his nearleSs. there is something
mythic and legendary about the man
that fires the imagination and tmpels
one to draw him in heroic lines. No
biography, however transcrlptive IL
may be, serves to bring the man down
to exact prosaic proportions. Mr.. VIII
liams' study is, obviously an intimate
| examination into the life Of Rhodes
] from first-hand and exhaustive
sources of information. II goes all
| around him in order to avoid any one,
sided view. 1t takes his faults and
his virtues. his mistakes and his In
| sprations. as they come, with no de-
sire except to interpret the great I'M :
perialist as he actually was. Mr.. VIII
| liams tells the big story with spirit
! and zest. One comes out OF 1t know
| ing Rhodes better. and in truer pro-
portions, than he tas hitherto known
him. He is glad Of the South African
history embodied in this story, glad
of the more intimate acquaintance
| with this builder OF an empire, ana
! glad, too. that the heroic figure re-
mains heroic, with here and there
touch of the grandly pathetic about
him. And that touch. also. is gooe;
| for it is endearing. great story on
1
AN AFRICAN ADVENTURE. By Isaac
! F. Marcosson. author of 'The Re
| birth of Russia" etc. Illustrated
! New York: John Lane Company.
| good newspaper man is. after all.
about the most captivating of writ
| ers.. He knows well that mere things
| without liSs. men behind them have
no appeal He knows that the near
engages one. where the remote does
not stir him. Mr.. Marcosson is
prince of journalists. So, when he
reaches Cape Town. at the beginning
of this picturesque African adventure.
he tells us all about Cape Colony by
| talking Of Gen. Smuts, at this mo.
ment so much in the public MIND.
In Rhodesia facts and futures come
to life under the animating spirit OF
Cecil Rhodes. True to his news sense.
he brings the historic Jameson raid
up close by reminding us that right
in Washington lives man who knew
Rhodes and Jameson. who was him
! self implicated in the raid and was
himself booked for punishment. Up
its present outlook as promising
part of the worlds business life
lStanIey, "a hard man.. and Livingstone
are linked UP with the current events
set in, motion by Lord Leverhulme
sspoa as sse5 kfss. duser'ss.s st soms of kns hs
sins through the understanding OF
the situation as Mr. Marcoeson sees
it and makes Us see it. The whole
picturesque story is as informing and
illuminating az 1t is fascinating. and
that is saying a great deal for its
Substantial qualities as a picture OF
Africa today. in it's economic relation
20 the rest of the world.
A DEFENSE OF LIBERTY. BY the
~
P. Putnam's Sons.
Mr.. Brett takes the stand here that
individual liberty. up to the tor
notch of its consistency with the col
! lective life. is the richest flower OF
human evolution: that its quest has
been the primal urge Of man since
he became man; that today Its sup
the chief cause of political unrest
and that. when tomorrow comes, II
will still be the supreme goal OF
human strivings. in an historic sur
vey he shows that this movement to-
ward individual liberty has. in all
into the opposing elements Of con-
servatism aud liberalism. From
Moses to William Hohenzollern he
points that conservatism has crystal
lized into. autocracy with the state.
abstract and infiexible: as its instru-
ment OF dQIIllnlStrdtIOn-. FROM InlS
analysis and demonstration he pass
es to consideration of socialism.
today the chief organized menace of
individual liberty, whose theory of
the state places socialism clearly
with the conservative autocracies
and arraigns it as the arch enemy
of personal liberty. From this point
the author takes an outlook Upon
the present machinery of English
government. showing that it Is, In
ipotentiaIity, the bnlwark Of liberty
provided only that It be allowed to
ship to it's full measure Of protection
for Individual liberty on the one
hand and for the development of the
ECoflective life on the other. Clear
simple. and convincing. the, study
tpesaesses high value for the student
tof current political movements and
trends.
COaUETTE. BY Frank Swinnerton
author of September" etc. New
X, York: George H. .Doran Company
Becky shEp, is the grandmother q
grandmother. II there may be said te
be anything spiritual about either Of
them And Sally is-sntitled to as long
a life aa that of her famous ancestor
She Is quite as clever, she has the
same will-to-power; the same Keen
! tion to, nibble from any edible. corner
of it that~may come her way. Sally
lives ON the edge of q London slurl
She is scrawny. 'underfed slip of q
lthing with freckles and only a wisp OF
drAb hair. No boy ever looks he: way
when the troops Of boys and girls
| gather in the twilit streets. Not one
ever sidles alongside to steer her into
a concealing shadow or around the
dark corner. And how Sally hates her
boifes. and her freckles, and her
scfagsfy locks for cheating her out OF
! every girl's right to her; own. One