Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-19
BY THE BOOKLOVER.

Aho lcH pest DOCKS OF tHe tWeHtlelH
century are discussed in the May
| number of the International Book Re-
view by group of well known critics
-Hilaire Belloc, Henry Seidel Candy,
Gertrude Atherton. Van Wyck Brooks,
Christopher Morley. William Lyon
Phelps. Maurice Francis Egan. Carl
Van Vechten. John Erskine and Rich
ard lie Galliene. No limitations are
set on the type of books or the lam
guage in which they are written. The
results are naturally rather miscel-
laneous. Only few titles appear on
| more than one of the lists. The vari-
Gus critics seem to have had most
difficult time before arriving at their
decisions: One of them remarks,
have had rush of books to the
head" Here are three of the most
interesting lists.
Gertrude Atherton-"The Old Wives
Tale" tArnold Bennett. 1.-THE Golden
Bowl" tHenry James,. THE Passing
of the Great Race" (Madison Grant,,
| Spoon River Anthology" Edgar Lee
Masters), The Dynasts" (Thomas
Hardly. "Nostromo" (Joseph Conradl,
OSBORN. Eminent Victorians" hyt-
! Branch CabelD. Life Of Lord Ran
dolph Churchill (Winston S. Church
/ ilD.
William Lyon Phelps-"The Admira-
BILE Crichton" (J. NJ. Barrie), 1.-The
Furnished Room" 90. Henry, The
Forsyte Saga" (John Galsworthy).
"5esep hnF vante tWi Ga De Nor.
gam. Letters" Canton Chekov). Life
of Mark Twain" tAlbert Bigelow
tertonJ, Poems (Francis Thomp-
SOM "Recollections" Hord Morley.
| Henry seidel Candy: "Felle the
Conqueror" on. A. Nexo>. The Greek
| Commonw CA. f. Zmmern).
ETHAN Frome" Edith Wharton).
1.-The Everlasting Mercy" John Mase-
field. Youth" tJoseph Conrad.
Spoon River Anthology" Edgar Lee
! Masters). Queen Victoria" lLytton
| Strachey), plays" (John NJ. Synge).
| william james,, The Dynasts'
| (Thomas Hardly.
The books mentioned by two or
more critics with the number Of
votes received. are as follows: The
! Dynasts," Hardy. 4; Jean Chris
topic" ROLAND. 3; plays" synge.
I, 8; spoon River Anthology, Masters
| 3: Hail and Farewell" George Moore,
2; Eminent Nictorians. Strachey, y,
! Tragic Sense of Life" Unamuno. =;
! "The Greek Commonwealth" Zim..
! mern, 2: THE Everlasting Mercy
| Masefield, .: Seven Men" Max Beer
bohm. 2: The Forsyte saga. S %as
/! worthy, .; Joseph Vance, De Nor
| gan, ,.
| In these days of feminism and little
theaters" the volume of short plays
! lust edited by Frank Shay, under the
! titIe "A Treasury of Plays for Wom-
, en-" should be extremely useful to
| vomen's clubs and colleges and girls
schools. The collection includes
| eighteen plays in which the parts are
almost entirely feminine. The few
ma scuIine parts are either subordi-
nate or such as may easily be taken
nv women. Some of the plays are
| Kreymborg's "Manikin and Minlkln.
/ O'NeiIs Before Breakfast Clements
The Siege" Florence Knox o or
! Morley's THE Rehearsal. Howard
! Snith's .sBlackberryin'." Clarice Ma
caulay's The Conflict, Edna ST. YIN
cent Millay's five-act dramatl &c, poem and
the Bell" and an old favorite. Maeter-
iinck's The Death of Tintagiles'
| x 4 r X
| A few months ago people interested
in public education, and especially
those engaged in educational work
were startled and disquieted by the
annual report of the Carnegie Found
alton for the Advancement of Teach
ing in, which President Prltchet1
wrote of The Rising Cost of Teach
ing" His principal theses were two:
That the cost of education has become
overwhelmingly burdensome, and tina,
the chief causes for increased costs
are that we are educating large mum
hers Of children who ought to be IN
industry rather than in school. and
that there is too much vocational
.tr.ining and so-called enrichment
Of rublic school courses. brief
pointed and effective answer TO Or
Pritchett will be found in two.
page article in the May number OF
the Journal of the National Educa.
tional Association. by W. Carson
RYAN, jr., formerly of the United
states bureau of education and now
4
college He quotes figures showinG
that less than liz per cent or the
annual income of the country is spent
for education. To be fortified to an
swer those enemies OF public educa'
ton who have seized upon DR.. Pritch.
ett's onslaught. the article referred
to should be read and digested.
The story of the czechoslovak
struggle for independence, written by
one who was leader in the struggle
will soon be available for interested
ireaders when the memoirs of Presi.
dent Masaryk of Czechoslovakia are
published in English. The author
who recently celebrated his seventy
third birthday anniversary. visited the
United States in 1918 to represent the
interests of his country to our gov
| eminent The memoirs discuss many
Diplomatic events of the European
war and will be a valuable contrlou'
ton to first-hand war history.
In an age of modernism which has
to a large extent relaxed so-callet
orthodox belief in the actual divinity
Of Christ. The Life of Christ" b!
! Giovanni Papini. translated freely b!
Dorothy Garfield Fisher. appears t.
the general public as something OF q
novelty. Papini makes no conces
i. sions to theories Of symbolism ant
the divinity Of human genius as re-
/, CARDS the birth of Christ. He up
. holds the literal sonship of Jesus tt
God. the incarnation, the immaculate
! conception and the reality of thu
miracles. The spirit of the ''life" Ii
mystical. Love is shown to be thu