Evening star., 1924-06-22

by it's good substance. but by it's
vigorous and businesslike manner Of
saying what it has to say.
THE POLICEWOMAN; Her Service
md Ideals. BY Mary i. Hamilton.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company.
There was a time, not so many
years ago, when a police department
was no Womans land. Today the
accepted one" This is Mrs. Hamilton
talking. the first policewoman on the
New York force. The book itself is
record of experience, a record of
the pioneer movement of incorporat
ing women in the force whose work
it is to protect the defenseless and
to prevent crime in so far as this is
possible In this account of her own
work Mrs; Hamilton approaches the
duties of the poIicewoman everywhere
and meets the same problems. More
than this, she brings out of fhiS eX-
pertinent also many lines of social
work for other women to consider
and undertake. Not in any sense
history, this. The movement is too
new for historic values to emerge.
1t is better than any attempted his
tory at this point could possibly be.
For it is a plain and practical survey
of things achieved according to the
purpose out of which the policewoman
plan emerged, and in Difference to
which it is so steadily and usefully
expanding. This is book for all
serious women to study, though its
most pointed usefulness is for other
women engaged in this particular line
of public service.
AN AMBASSADORS MEMOIRS. BY
Maurice Paleologue, Translated
by F. A. Holt. o: B. L. Iilustrat-
ed. New York. : George H. Doran
Company.
Maurice Paleologue was the last
French ambassador to the Russian
moirs, the one in hand, covers
the period between July, 1914, and
June, 1915. By this time it was clear
to any practiced observer that the
enemies of the autocracy within Rus
Sia. itself were gaining prodigiouSly
in numbers and assurance: that the
foes of the royal family were growing
daily in either open hatred or only
half-concealed hostility. 1t is within
this field that NJ. Paleologue takes
close and careful observations, setting
down here in frank and intimate dis
closure many salient features of the
impending dissolution of Russia. In
addition to this bulk of political OBJ
servation there are here many Incl
dental sketches that reveal the per-
sonal side of Russia. the characteris-
tics of her people, their curious NOR
bid psychology, their peculiar atti-
tude toward art and letters, out OF
which has grown a culture that is ex-
attic Europeans. A brilliant picture,
clean-cut and deeply discerning
such a picture as only the able
Frenchman can make, in contrast to
the artistry of all other peoples.
THE VALLEY OF HEADsTRoNG
MEN. BY ]. s. Fletcher. author of
The Root of All Evil" etc New
York: George H. Doran Com
pany.
plot of land has done yeoman serv-
ice for literature, since hardly
another cause of contention between
men is able to bring to the surface
so dark a side of human nature. And
human nature in all of its .behaviors
is the stock in trade of the true
novelist. A story of the Yorkshire
moors, this, and of Ryvedale Abbey,
that for hundreds of years has hous-
ed a single old baronial line. In these
modern days Ryvedale Abbey, along
with many another English estate,
stands to lose its traditional security.
Two men. neighbors and friends,
covet the old holding. The high pas
sions of both, under the supreme
urge of covetousness, run off into
over-reaching, and finally into bit
ter hatred of the successful man on
the part of the one who so greatly
desired the abbey. The fact that the
son of one loves the daughter of the
other appears TO add only bitterness
to an already unfortunate state of
enmity. The story progresses by the
way of the animosities engendered
between these two. who were once
friends 1t is a story of deep glooms
and childishly vindfctire states of
mind. But it is a true story. That is.
il is true story in its fidelity to
the characters that the author con-
ceived here for the purpose of show
ing the lengths to which strong men,
thwarted, will go TO achieve their
deep-seated desire. Did they ever
face about and make up their quar-
rel? What do you think men of this
character would do? Be. sure to get
the real character of each, and the
whole character, SO well portrayed
here, before you give answer to the
question.
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