Evening star., 1923-03-11
THE EVENING POST, a Century Of
Journalism. BY Allan Nevins.
New York: Boni & LiveriHht.


This is the biogra ply of newspaper,
the Evening Post, which, more than a
hundred twenty years ago. was founded
by Alexander Hamilton. 1t IS, in effect.
also. a summary of the general course
of American journalism for the past
century and more. The Post was born
out Of the defeat OF the federalists by
the democrats and the rise Of Jefferson
to the presidency. Its purpose was to
provide a party organ to fight these vic.
torious democrats who were sweeping
everything before them and to restore
the prestige of the federalists, as well
az, in small part. to protect Hamilton
himself against the attacks OF factions
within his own party. From such
political beginning the Post continued
upon an active political career. To this
II added great interest and equal in
auence in the concerns of the city. now
running away by leaps and bounds from
he mere $4,000 that summed the popu-
alton when the Post was founded.
Even then New York had its literary
5avors and the Post was keen to en-
courage these. Irving and Cooper and
Halleck and Charles Brockden Brown.
and Bryant, were all on the way. Later,
1luCn later, we FedO OF Wlllam SuLcH
Bryant as editor Of the Post and of the
stir and impulse which this fact gave
10 the literary character Of The paper.
And other great editors followed Bryant
Carl Schurz, John Bigelow. Parke
Goodwin. F. L. Godkin. Horace White.
ifollo Ogden. And these upheld. in a
great manner. the established principles
and policies of the Post, during the po-
itical heat of slavery discussion. dur
ng the war. and the reconstruction.
at,l ,rxl, x,I,p vsy,rv f~6, fNf
national and international affairs. Out
" hundred years of record Mr.. Nevin
selected and combined material with so
fine sense of values, so keen an eye
for color and personality and life that
the story Is absorbing merely as a
story. And to this must be acded its
very substantial value as the history
II n representative Of the greatest edu-
"ational force in the world, not even
excepting the schools themselves. Of
logical extension.
Idealism. BY Olivia Rossetti Ag-
resti. Boston: Little. Brown & Co
This is the story Of David Lubin.
founder of the International Institute
of Agriculture. at Rome. 1t is the
story. too. of an immigrant. who, born
in Russian Poland in 1S4S, came.
when very young. to live in East Side
man at work. Then away out of the
east to Arizona, California. In the
latter place he became a merchant.
Ear;y in his commercial career he
'aN 10 see that the prosperity OF his
"W class. and of the laboring class.
as well. depended on the prosperity
of the farming communities of the
country. He went into farming, APP
plying TO it exactly the business prin-
riples that he had applied to his COM
ginning of study and steadily
broadening experience that culmi-
mated finally, in the International In
stitute Of Agriculture. TO organize
agriculture for the spread of knowl-
edge. for an understanding of the
markets, to secure rural credits. to
obtain the best advantages of trans
portation-theSe We're the objects for
which he laborad. beginning with his
immediate neiRhborhood and working
out toward and into the international
field OF Lubin his biographer says:
He was practical idealist. and his
whole life was spent in the tenacious
effort to realize this same ideal of
economic justice. But Lubin was not
only an idealist, he was also an orig
ina1 thinker. an initiator. a pioneer
and step by step he worked onward
an upward through a series of co-or
dinated efforts-all links in the chain
of the same endeavor." In the field of
international cooperation David Lu-
bin was a pioneer and world leader.
Signora Agresti. the biographer of
Lubin, worked with him in close
sympathy for many years. accepting
his theories, supporting his claims
This is. therefore. by competent BIZ
of an illuminating and persuasive
power. OF her William Roscoe
Thayer says: Are we not all indebted
to Signora Agresti for writing this
80 aht- inr
US to know one of the distinctive
great men OF his age-one of the
light t-bringers
MEMORIES OF TRAVEL. BY Wis
count Bryce. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
These "memories stand as hardly
more than an indication of what Lord
Bryce had meant to do with the store
of notes that he had gathered through
The first of the papers included here
goes back to 1872. The last one is
as recent as 1891 The first covers
the authors impressions OF ireland.
The last pictures the scenery of
there are descriptions Of the noun
tains of Poland and Hungary. the
Altai range Of Asia. besides. The
land Of Palestine is given also. partly
by picture. partly by history. both
ed past and present. There is a
memory" Of the Pacific islands,
wherein their formation comes in for
more attention than does their nero
appearance. From boy James Bryce
loved nature. with which he became
acquainted chiefly in the company of
his father. From this he gathered a
knowledge of geology and botany-a
knowledge which went with him in
all of HIS subsequent travels. The
reader gets the pleasure and the in
tellectual advantage of this special
equipment here. The book in hand is
hut a fragment. yet it stands out in
clear distinction by virtue of the
quality of the observation back of it,
and the wide experiences in other
by virtue. too. of the kind of thought
that inspires and controls it.
CONsTANTINOPLE TODAY; Or, The
Pathfinder Survey of COnstantino-
pie. Under the direction of Clar-
ence Richard Johnson. NJ. A, pro-
fessor Of sociology. Robert Col
lege New York: The Macmillan
Company.
This survey of Constantinople as it
ls today was brought about through
the cooperation of eight distinct or
all Of which have been
engaged in the common task of i'm
proving the social and economic con-
ditions in Turkey. The book is. in
effect. a series of studies, each the
nutgrowth of special investigation
and experiment. One takes up the
civic administration of Constantinople
under the serious handicap of a city
broken into various communities
with many hostilities to separate
them and with little to unite them
like a civic sense does not
exist. Another study deals with the
industrial life, such as il is. Another
considers education in general and
the native schools in particular, set
ting out standards and methods
There is a study on the refugees and
another on the orphanages that have
been established. Other topics bear