Evening star., 1923-03-04
THE IMMIGRANTS DAY IN COURT.
BY Kate Holiday Claghorn. New
York: Harper & Bros

orh' Harper IL Bros.
"HE records of fact, presented
~ here. give to the native an
excellent chance to learn some
of the difficulties of the immi-
grant. The author, deeply experienced
IN this field. takes one along with her
to set out the various troubles that.
from the moment of their entrance
INTO this country, beset these new
'tomers. There are the constant
troubles over money. over work, over
the daily adjustments to new and
strange conditions and customs. fam
lily troubles-troubles of every kind.
And, in one or another of these. the
Immigrant is sure, sooner or later. t0
Eonne up against rules, regulations
and laws. This is the story of the
immigrant in his experiences with the
law and the courts. From cities of
sarge foreign population the author
has drawn hundreds of concrete cases
10 show what the law is doing to pro-
tcct the immigrant. to correct him.
Ard to safeguard him in those rights,
which this country recognizes and
upholds for its citizens. The records
cover the full field of purpose and
object Of the author is, clearly. to give
an opeI view of this side of the life
uS the Immigrant. II is a book that Is
very much alive. very informing, very
1ntereStinS-a big free observer back
Of it. The one drawb back to the book
is that it is not as accessible as the
Gaily newspaper. 1t ought to he for
these things that the everyday, work
ing American should know. Taken as
i whole. the study is as directly cal
culated to AmericaniZe the Amarican
aS II is TO set out the case of the I'M
migrant. One of the most pointed
and practical of the characterization
Studies"
sOLIL0aUY. BY stephen Mckenna,
{. author of The Confessions of 4
Well Meaning Woman" etc. New
York: George II. Doran Company.
The psychology of the female, with
n strong slant toward sex psychology,
is the preoccupation, just at present
Of lot of male writerS-young men.
mostly, they sound like. \ fair. and
pretty general criticism against the
novels that these are turning out 50
copiouSly is that they are stupid.
Whatever grain of psychological in
sight may belong to them is buried
IN indeterminate action, stale Incl
dent, and total lack of writing dis
t:nction Just mess in which these
commonplace writer's wade around un-
der the delusion that they are Great
ing realistic novels. or, possibly,
merely the boys ambition to be smart
and shocking. HoweTer-Stephen Nc
Keuna. dramatizing a woman's life
1inder the complete freedom of the
'Soliloquy" has done the thing so
cleverly. as to show these young anna
;eurs what can be accomplished by
the brilliant handling of theme
whose essential nature is such as to
keep 1t. properly. retirement, Mr.
Nckenna appears to have left moth
ing out. Here are the secret antagon-
isms that exist in families, but which
everybody denies, here is the shabby
maneuvering of young wonIen for
lovers and husbands, here is the wife
" no uses the husband solely for social
success, and the widow who resolves
10 marry a boy young enough to be
her son. And about each of these the
lady talks with a freedom that, so far
as one can see, has not shadow of
reserve about it. True? Probably not.
But it is the artists vitw of it. for the
time being at least. And TO get ii
across he craftily unloads it on the
woman. presses the talk button-and
she does the rest.
BOOK RECEIVED. BY ]. C. Squire,
author of Life and Letters" etc.
New York: George H. Doran Com
pany.
Under title of Books Received" J.
G. Squire offers half hundred criti-
cal essays on books. new and old
together with certain estimates and
appreciations of one writer and an
other Nobody reads book of es-
q book as this one. That would be a
task To read it at will. so to
speak. is a delight. So. we-running
a finger down the table of contents,