Evening star., 1923-03-04
Reviews of New Books

l. " w DOOxAO
stopped at "NIr. George Moore's Tap
estry"-because we like Mr.; Moore
and wanted to know what this par
ticular critic had to say about him.
/ For his latest novel Mr.. Moore has
retold the classic story of Heloise and
Abelard, the love story of eight CEN
/ turies ago. And the author has failed.
| to degree, according to Mr.. Squire.
If one has not himself read the story.
of course, he is not prepared either to
agree or to disagree with the critic.
But that is not the point. The point
standards by which he comes to judg-
| ment, the wide latitudes to which,
with good reasons set. he admits de-
viations from the rules of creative
writing. the pleasant way of him. the
| unaffected contact that he establishes
not only between himself and the
! reader. but between the reader and
the theme as well. These essays run
along the highways and into some
or the byways Of English literature.
AND other subjects also appear here
as, for instance, a humorous taking
| up OF Glands" in n review of THE
Glands Regulating Personality" by
Or Louis Berman. And all of them
are calculated to increase ones APP
| probation both of literature and of
/ literary estimates and appraisalS.
"A SCHOOL BOOK OF FORESTRY.
! by charles Lathrop Pack. author
| or Trees as Good Citizens" etc.
Washington: The American Tree
Association.
rms is book designed to enlist
! the youth of the country to the sery-
Ice OF forest preservation 1t is
therefore,, planned to meet the inter
est or youth in the out-of-doors TO
| stimulate special interest In the for
| sStS. 10 present Il simple and complete
! oouE or the essentials of forestry. An
/ enthusiast on the subject, himself.
, the author is able to transfer his zeal
70 TINS hook. How do trees grow? BY
What plan are they gathered into
Iani!ies: n VINO are their friends?
W hat are their enemies? Where did
the idea of looking after the forests
start" To what extent has this
grown: These are some of the uueS-
tionS that he asks-and answers. He
describes the national parks and
! FARMER and the lumberman should
practice forestry-why the whole
| United States should do this. The
! oook. compact of useful information.
| is as readable as story. 1t is, more
over. so simply and clearly EXPRESSED
/ that 1t would serve admirably the
uses of reader to supplement the
geography studies Of school pupils.
THE RED WAR on THE FAMILY.
By Samuel Saloman.
| 1t is the moral program of social
| ISM, rather than either its political or
| economic aspect, that forms the ins-
! mediate background of the study in
| hand. Out from this. for special consid-
| GRAFTON. the author has drawn the
most significant and important fea-
! ture of that moral program, the fam
/ lly. The present offers unparalleled
, conditions for Il concrete. first hand
study of many subjects. this particu-
| lar one among them. The world to-
J day is wide open for inspection. Po-
! lltlcal and economic and social the
| ories are falling over one another to
+, catch the favoring eye. Daring social
] experiments are as open as thorough
| fares Besides. the world is little to-
| day-linked up into twelve-hour
neighborhood. and spread out like a
| diamond field. And this author. for
| the purposes of this investigation.
| seems to have taken advantage of all
! these favoring conditions. Out of
| them he has drawn body Of evil
| dence-reported facts. authentic sum-
marieS. lines of reasoning to eStab-
| lish the identity between socialiStic
theory and practice-all of this to
prove the menace to the family that
socialism is making day by day
through practices which are chang
| ing the menace into a calamitouS
reality. Mr. Saloman is, obviously. a
| sincere student of the subject, one
who has worked through many fields
! for fact and confederation. And he
possesses, besides, a passionate spirit
] of social service. The result Of his
work is a book that contains much
! information along this line that one
! could hardly find elsewhere in SO
| available a form.
| THE SNARE. BY Rafael Sabatini,
| author Of "Scaramouche." etc. Bos-
ton: Houghton Miff1in Company.
I For this historical romance Mr. Sa =
I batini goes back to the period Of Ma
| poleon and the war between England
and France. This novel, perhaps. Suf-
fers. a trife. beside the brilliant
| "Scaramouche"-but it is an earlier
novel. the promise of which the latter
works at a good distance from his
subject. far enough away to get the
/ sweep of action. the mass effect. the
wide spaces. the big to-do-all of
which he handles so robustly and so
picturesQuely. For the story itself,
known to authentic history move
about among those of pure creation.
Plots cross one another and tie and
tangle together in the way that this
good craftsman regularly has them do,
and then these untangle and smooth
out to the moment when the Iron
Duke" is rewarding Sir Terence O'Moy
for covering the body Of Wellington
with his own before the fire of the
enemy And this makes a good end
ing. since, save for that act of hero
ism and devotion, O'Moy was in a way
to suffer military disgrace for some
act that was rather more Irish than
| it was military.
THE REALLY ROMANCE AGE. By L.
Allen Karker, author of "Allegra.'
etc. New York: Charles Scribner's S
| Sons.
Book titles are troublesome things.
Something should be done about them
However, to get this particular title
out of the way, so that one may be
left to read the story in peace. you