Evening star., 1923-05-27
Reviews of New Books

the soil and have, on the other hand,
been imposed upon it, book OF
amazing richness of information. An
orderly and clean..cat book calculated
to prove an invaluable guide. AS
book to read 1t is still informed, or
derly. clean-cut and strikingly inn
pressive in the spread and depth OF
It's knowledge. One should study
Egypt just now. No; not primarily
on account of the recent excavations
and the lifting of Tutankhaman, but
rather out of the fact that Egypt Is
now entering upon it's own independ-
ence after forty years of English con-
troll and supervision. AS mere book
this Is handsome one-generous In
size without the effect of bulk. It's
pictures are many and well selected.
Many or them are skilfully colored
and beautiful. That essential of the
notable thing thfs book on Egypt
'Old and New"
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
ENGLAND. BY william Burnet
Tuthill, A. NJ New York: The
Macmillan Company.
Architecture is the most obvious OF
the arts and. certainly. the basic art.
1t is often inclusive of sculpture and
sometimes inclusive of painting, CIV
ing both place and point to these. 1t
Is the one art that combines both
tnesls. There Is a growing general
interest in architecture. This is due
IN part, to a broader general educa-
tfon of the people and. in other part.
to the emergence of architecture from
strictly religious uses into the COM
mon secular life. A book on architec-
ture no longer lies. musty, on the
library shelf nor finds it's way, ex-
clusively, into the hands Of the special
student or the architect himself.
number of people, quite outside the
professional class but deeply inter-
ested. nevertheless. in the forms and
meaning and growth of this significant
ana satisfying art, will seize upon this
book with joy. Eight hundred years
ago and something less there was a
great building impulse in Europe. In
tnat time the great cathedrals of
England and the continent were built.
Inc book in hand deals with those of
England But; first. IL deals. briefly.
with tho conditions-thc social and
political and religious conditions
that could turn whole nation.
whole continent, into the common
impulse to embody august ideal
in these concrete wonders of beauty
and aspiration. In other words. go
ing about from one English cathe-
dral to another-Durham, York, Exc
ter and the others-this author is not
content to offer 1t in the technic of
the architect alone. Rather does he
make II stand for the common concen-
tration of the period out of which II
grew-the only way, you see, for
the general reader to realize the true
marvel of these great aspirations
worked out in stone. Amy one who
finds himself reaching out for the
meanings of these structures that
men set up will find an absorbing and
Illuminating starting point in this
competent study Of English churches.
study rooted in the life of the
period and the people.
BARNEY. BY S. B. Fl. Hurst. author
of "Coomer Ali" New York: Har-
per & Bros.
This adventure gets, it's undercur-
rent of direction from the tempera-
ment and essential character of each
of the two boys upon whom it CEN
ters. These are two high spirited d
English youths. who, suspected mis-
tahenly. of grave social offense.
decide to leave England for America
This they do with, in between. real
istic and exciting experience as sea-
men. Thereafter the adventure moves
forward in the exactions and hazards
OF an Alaskan and Canadian setting.
Rough and hard at every step from
this time on to the end. with an
almost inconceivable variety Of
strenuous measures up for these boys
to meet and usually for them to cir
cumvent. Gambling towns. gaming
houses. the gold diggings, about every
kind of scamp that these prolific re-
gioRs have been so famous for, silly
women and wicked women-alI these
In shifting combinations confront
these boys. And beside these there
are the storms. and the cold. and the
general inhospitality OF this remote
region for them to whittle themselves
down upon. Not. an idle minute in
this tale and hardly moment of