Evening star., 1922-05-28


Company.
. HIS book steps out to meet
the Grant centenary. Tre-
mendously preoccupied as a
rule. the public mind is for the
present open to thoughts of Ulysses
8. Grant, to feelings toward him, to
the wish for a fresh reviewing. a
can.- The story has already beer, told.
Not i'm Just this way. however In
the flrst place. the forty years. or
thereabout, since the death Of Grant
have heightened the perspective
through which Mr.. Coolidge views
him. These years have brought. also,
interpretations through the fulfllment
of policies that survived their author.
personal appeal of its own. 1t is a
sympathetic study, the authors heart
running along with his theme. 1t
Is solicitous to gather both the sub
stance and the spirit of Grants life.
1t is impressive in its points of en-
ais. 1t is inspiringly American in its
approach and progress. One feels
like giving very special and sincere
thanks for this particular study OF
Ulysses Grant. A man emerges from
this story-soldier. President. citizen
of whom any American must be
proud. And along with the pride
there goes a deep tenderness of kim
ship. Simplicity has an amazing
power. And Mr.. Coolidge has let this
simple man alone in his outstanding
characteristic. The effect Of the book
is strong and beautiful. Through 1t
one is enabled to come very close to
the man himself--to feel for him and
with him, to glory in him.. to fear
for him, to rejoice when the fear goes
by, to pity him In hts heroic last days,
to live him throughout. That. SO it
One may study it for the soldier. an
other for the statesman. Plain folks
all of us-will study 1t for the man
that it SO triumphantly- brings to
them.
THE FORsYTE SAGA. By John
Galsworthy, author of Saints
Progress" etc. New York: Charles
Scrihner's Sons.
"The Man of Property" In Chan
Gerry" and ITO Ler'-these are the
three novels that Mr. Galsworthy
brings together here in The Forsyte
Saga" Three generations OF For
'sytes live in this long three-in- one
story. BY way of them a grade OF
English social life is made alive and
set a-going. And this picture OF
social life, in turn. depicts the ripe
torian era" Spiritually. it is the
struggle between the mere possessive
instinct and the subtle power OF
beauty-beauty of spirit. of life, OF
form. of the great world itself. 1t
is all Of these things, about which
one has not to trouble himself. In
stead one enters the book and sits
iafl fhoroin xrhila and WO-
men come and go. while times change
while new outlooks open. And these
changes and these wider outlooks
affect equally, 1t seems, both the peo-
pie moving about in the story and the
one sitting quietly within the book
quite surprising beauty. Mr.. Gals
worthy has done many big things
king man with much of worth to
his account. This. however. this
"Forsyte Saga" is SO far the crown
Of his writing achievement. and a
thing. one takes it. that Is going 70
stand by through any turmoil and
change whatsoever in the literary
field Of modern England.
WHY EUROPE LEAVES HOME. BY
Kenneth L. Roberts. indianapolis:
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
1t takes this man to write this kind
Of book. 1t is a matter of vital mo-
ment for Americans to know just why
Europe is forever gadding about.
since so large part of that restless
continent is headed straight upon
America. And without any academic
preliminaries Mr.. Roberts jumps into
the middle of the why's and where
fores of this general European frenzy
to leave home. The big idea back of
the rush is. it appears. always to
take something from America: never
to do anything for America. The
first four chapters of this book con-
stitute a concise. forceful summary
Of our immigration problem. together
with a practical and common-sense
plan for meeting this situation. These
four chapters are not for the senti
mentalist. leaking words about this
country as haven for the oppressed
It is not for the politician who is
ferreting for votes when he ought to
be building hi: country into the sub
stance of it's great design. For the
plain man and woman, whose patriot
ism is sound and big and responsible
past his own immediate self-seekins
the book is the call of his country
Beyond this story of the prodigious
onrush to America Mr.. Roberts gives
in his own exclusive way, the reasons
why Russians fly to Constantinople
why the. Greeks-king and commone!
move here and there by devious and
disconcerting ways. An illuminating
study. every word of which gets
straight across The information
gathered at first hand. is rounded here
into a remarkable general view OF
the European drive upon America.
THE RISING TEMPER OF THE
EAST. By Frazier Hunt. India
napolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Com
pany.
Mr.. Hunt is. clearly, for the under
a11 ~
however, be a good thing to stop a
moment. now and then, to consider
lust what kind of dog that under one
would be if he succeeded in getting to
be top dog. Maybe not Sentimen.
talists have their very substantial
uses. In quest of the oppressed. Mr.
Hunt went, naturally. to the far east
HIS first story is the story of Gandhi
He was much impressed by this OBJ
viously sincere man who had taken
off his shoes and seated himself to
the long business OF non-co-Opera
ton, as a means of driving the Brit
ish from India. 1t was fine sight
all the non-co.operatins natlyes SIT
ting around also, weaving cloth, or
dinky little hand-looms as protest
against British occupation and Brit
;sh modes of getting things done
They were sure that Gandhi was ex-
actly what they had been looking for
as a savior, for the British feared
Gandhi," indeed he was the only thing
on earth that they-did fear. They
would never dare to arrest Gandhi
Jail him? Never! And there you are
Mr.. Hunt is greatly excited over the
shooting at Amritsar. So We all are
Still. the natives broke the law and
there was fool man at the gun. The
thing might have happened in Chi.
caoo Unhappily no part of the world
is. as yet, fooiproof. England has
done much for India. In plain fair
dealing one has to admit that. Mr.
Hunt does not say it loud enough
From India this knight-errant went