Evening star., 1923-06-03
T1THIN THESE WALLS. BY Rupert
Hughes, author of Souls for Sale,
! etc New York: Harper & Bros.

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~ back in 1882, or thereabout.
n Andrew Jackson was Presi-
dent about that time. Web
ster and Clay and Calhoun were the
high lights of Congress. Indeed, Weo-
ster comes into this story for an hour
or so, long enough to eat too little
and drink too much at the grand So
ciety dinner, where, in courtiy gran
diloquence, he fiattered the prettiest
lady at the party. This prettiest iady
Is also the heroine of Mr.. Hughes
story of old New York. Great excite
ment in the growing city just then.
Oddly enough, of sort, too, just op-
posite to that prevailing today Then,
nobody would drink water. Every
body drank rum. Now wen,
there's no use in mixing the story up
with unnecessary troubles, for, GER
tainly it has troubles of its own.
Much of the action here hinges upon
the business of supplying the city
with water, hitherto drawn from pol
lutcd wells, producing scourge OF
cholera just at the time when these
other matters come along. Tremen-
dous opposition to the innovation or
water tunneled and piped from the
hills. If God, in creating the world,
had any such intent, He would, Him.
self, have handed the earth over all
piped and fauceted--certatnly. In
this picture of old New York and
in the picture of a human nature that
does not change from one thousand
years to another, Mr.. Hughes does
completely interesting work. The
center of the story is the lady of the
dinner party, the one who turned the
heads of all the city gallants finally
choosing a man much too good Tor
her Nothing the matter with the
however eNCeDt
frankly and openly human. She does
all of the things that women do to-
day-this awful today of which we
hear SO much. And, maybe, the story
means to show that all days are pref
ty much alike, growing exemplary
only in retrospect. Certainly, if more
dreadful things could happen in these
days that we pronounce so deVaStat-
ing one wonders what these could be.
The highly respectable husband of
this lady deliberately commits MUIR
der, twice. and simply goes on being
respectable. To be sure. he was JUS
titled. both times, but that is not al
lowed to count The daughter of
these two suffers, as a little girl, the
most hideous experience conceivable
AS young woman, she has father
less baby. She, too, is still respecta-
BILE, finally mothering several chill
dren, these fathered according to GUS
tom. Out of this stark realism one,
after ALL begins to have doubts about
the good old days" of which so much
is said. A very outspoken story OF
society as it looked and behaved
about a hundred years ago. A very
absorbing and believable study of
. human beings, each in his special web
of impulse and desire.
LEX TALIoNIS. BY Warren Hills.
Baltimore: Fleet-McGinley Com
pany.
Mr. Hills here presents a study of
those political forces which not only
objectify the issues of the world war
itself, but which serve, besides. to
trace the course of the peace confer
ence and to interpret the terms of
the peace treaty of Versailles. This
political study Is based upon an anal
ysis of the mass of historical material
accumulated by the peace conference
and released from it's practical Sc
crecy only upon the signing of the
peace treaty. This release of mate
rial came about through the medium
Of the press and the publication of
certain official documents 1t was the
work of this author to gather this
scattered material. to organize 1t and
then to subject it to the analytical
study which produced this summary
of conflicting political ideals. For,
from first to last. throughout the con-
ference. and. indeed. throughout the
war itself. two irreconcilable forces
were at work. The one embodied
bodied the principle of democracy.
Throughout this thorough analysis
this fupndamentaf opposition appears
IS the eliminating point or each set
of conclusions: In summarizing his
work Mr.. Hills says, I'm the Paris
peace conference, two irreconcilable
PHILOSOPHERS of government were in
contact. and harmonious settlement
could not be reached. Overwhelm-
ing advantage in negotiation lay with
La nf nld
Had the entente governments been
democracies. with a political and So
cial organization like that of the
United States. with executive and con-
crosses responsive to the popular
will, the peace conference might have
taken on the aspect of a world par
lament, in which the will of the ma
jority afforded a sufficient sanction
for it's decisions" Keenly intelligent
study and one of exceeding usefulness
to students who are curious to know
why the United States cannot see eye
to eye with the political theorists
who are advocating a world state for
tomorrow.
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY;
And Burial of the Unknown Dead.
BY Mary Frances Adams. Wash
ington. D. c.
An appealing and attractive little
book, admiral BILE in both purpose and
workmanship. 1t presents Arlington
cemetery-now come to be national
shrine-from its various points of
view. For immediate use it stands as
a competent guide to the cemetery,
presenting it first in itS broad and
general features of situation and plan.
1t then moves into a series of orderly
directions for seeing the many high
points of interest with which the
great burial field is thickly stud
ded. Touches of personal history and
achievement for this great soldier. or
that one, go along with the mere
guidance from place to place. This
part of the book covers an excellent
description of the cemetery as a
whole. Leading to this part is short
sketch of the history of Arlington, a
particularly clear and interesting
sketch that covers the place from the
time that this tract was acquired on
through the building of the beautiful
mansion and its occupancy by the
Custis and Lee families, and still fur
ther on to the time when the war of
secession turned Arlington over to the
United States. which, finally. secured
for it its present use and significance.
The little book ends with the story
of that November day two years ago
when. in ceremonial of gratitude
and love. an unknown soldier from
the world war was reverently given
his long home in this lovely and hall
lowed spot. The book. so genuine in
its feeling, is made even more desira-
Bile by a free use or beautlful pnoto-
kraphici views of one and another of
the outstanding points in this great
national field of the dead. Any one
would be glad to have this competent
and feeling book.
THE WOMAN OF THE HORIZON
BY Gilbert Frankau, author OF
Peter Jameson" etc New York
The Century Company
Sugar and spice and everything
alx-
ing of those odds and ends of dream
blood impulse. desire and flashes OF