Evening star., 1924-04-20

BY Frank Tannenbaum. author OF
wall Shadows" etc. New York:
G. p. Putnam's Sons
" RANK TANNENBAUM is a well
- known Investigator of social
conditions. A quiet convinc-
ing man with nothing at all
of the professional agitator about
him. To be sure he once did do a
most unseemly thing. That was
about ten years ago. when he led
a, group OF jobless men right into a
church to ask for work, quietly and
respectfully. He went to jail a whole
year for that. Maybe it was there, in
Jail, that he got his lead for what
he has since been doing. At any
rate. once out OF prison he went TO
college for learning-for facts and
perspectives on social conditions. Out
tions that have since engaged him
and shocked the world. Wall
Shadows is a study of American
prisons. The book in hand is A sur
vey of the south in its social con
ditions generally. The work Of the
south. the workers, the source of the
labor element. the conditions of life
among the workers, the effect of the
single crop upon these conditions
There is, besides, a chapter on the
acute problem underlying solution OF
the difficulties. A pertinent and re-
lating chapter also on the X. K. h
in it's origin. its purpose. it's char
acter as an American institution
Hard reading. this. Not hard be-
cause the author tries TO make IL SO
He tries to do nothing except to set
the facts before one as he has seen
them. He leaves il to the reader
proud citizen of a great and beautiful
country-to muster the Justification
If he can, 70 administer the condem-
nation il his mind runs that way
Neither of these is OF great moment
except as the beginning of some sor,
of intelligent action.
MY MUSICAL LIFE. BY Walter
Damrosch. New York: Charles
SCribnerS Sons.
Walter Damrosch holds a unique
position, standing as he does between
two great orders-illuminating one &c
the other. On the one hand there Is
himself. as the artist rich in a per
sonal musical experience. Around
him, grouped in intimate nearness, are
the great musicians each set out in
his own special order of high achieve
ment. On the other hand is the mul-
titude of music lovers to whom, in a
perfect genius OF simple and dramatic
invention, MIR. Damrosch has inter
preted the art of music and the art
lists producing it Because of the
originality and scope of these con-
facts. because Of the relation that Mr.
Damrosch has been able TO set up be-
tween thousands of music lovers and
great music. these recollections oi
his life will mako a general appeal
something far beyond that of the
field of the technicians and artists
themselves. 1t is a readable story
most reada BILE in it's manner of sim
pie and friendly approach, to say
nothing OF its clear value as a body
of distinguished experience within q
certain domain of art
QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR. r,
Niscount Milner. author Of Eng
land in Egypt etc New York
George II. Dcran Company.
Some of the questions rising promi-
nently and preSsingly since the war
are common to all western countries
There ais the widespread question OF
a healthy and peaceful industry
There is the question of labor in its
most conspicuous lines of policy and
plan. There is the great question OF
economy in government with the nat
ural effect OF this upon the matter
OF taxation. So. while these questions
are discussed by an shman. il
turns out that they are not exclusive
English poSs esSioDs, but belong to
the problems OF our own country a.
well. And to their definition and dis
cussion there is applied a mind OF
great ciearness; seasoned by wide
experience in English governmental
matters. tempered by much thinking
Therefore one finds this author stand
ing upon good middle ground-not
the middle ground of indecision; in
stead. that OF a weighed and bal
f4RiCinr hi
thence. clear seeing. and straight
talking come together here in a fine
sanity that the present needs~the
American present as well as that of
Great Britain. for they are of close
kindred in the very matters brought
forward here.
MISTRESS wILDING. By Rafael
Sabatini author Of "Sca ra mouche, y
etc Boston: Houghton Mif1in
Company.
Delicious Sabatini stuff. this Ro-
nance, pushed back to the days when
romance behaved as such, instead OF
slipping Oft under the cover of a drat
and depressing realism. Romance in
its proper dress. this. with bright
endeavor tspots of low endeavor, tool
dark danger and eleventh hour res
cue. and love and laughter and high
beating hearts throughout. Mistress
Wtlding. an unwilling bride, all for
the sake of saving her young scape-
grace of brother. The devilish An
thony Wilding pressing his suit un-
der threats against this precious
brother. A most desperate to-do al
every turn, cooling off finally to a
plain case of wifely love on the part
OF tho naughty and fiery Mistress
Wflding. Here's the book if you find
yourself unable to wait for the serial
dawdling into print that this roman
tic tale is now making.
ESSAYS OF TODAY; An Anthosory
Edited by +. IT. Pritchard. BoS
ton: Little, Brown & Co.
The essay in literature, so Mr. Pritch-
ard says here, is the outcome of q
mild discomfort 1t embodies a wist.
full longing for that which is not. but
which has been or might be- 1t is
he says further, a brief attempt tc
"~o-esS prohinn in terms of ones