Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
IDA GILBERT MYERS.
THE NEW BARBARIANS. By


THE NEW BARBARIANS. BY VIII
Harvard University, author of
1.-The Expansion Of Europe etc.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
TIME barbarian is not extinct.
No more than in the old savage
days when as Goth or Vandai
or Hun he swept down from
the North or out of the East in con
quest and destruction. Working with
in it's own borders or from without,
every civilization has marched forward
under the hostility and menace OF the
barbarians of it's own age. These the
most potent Of the agencies of disinte-
grafton by way of which clvillZatlons
have fallen away, these the prime
source of the rise and fall of peoples
which have set the rhythmic move
ment of all historic periods and eras'
The twentieth century is no excep-
ton to the centuries that have gone
before Nor is the New World exempt.
1t, too, has its barbarians, differing
only in method and gesture from thelr
historic prototypes. The end with
these, as with those. is destruction
DR.. Wilbur c. Abbott, out of a SUB
stantial experience as student. traV'
eler, teacher and writer, bent in gen
eral objective upon the subject OF his
tory, turns us here upon our own
country that we may see afresh no" II
is with us in respect to these enemies
of our national Well-being and our
confident facing upon fair future.
What is the United States? Ir
answer we are given map-not oil
areas and subdivisions. A map OF
significances, rather. Traced upon II
are our people in their wide variations
Of origin and native condition; mere
the slow growth of understanding; the
reluctant blend of old blood with the
new vision upon which they are eX
pected to look: here, the ready over
reach for benefits conferred without
individual effort: here the easy sus
ceptibility to vagrant and mischievous
influences.
Upon this map are placed, too, the
beginnings of our country, the quality
of it's early settlers. These settlers
of quality it was who projected the
vision of our republican government
they who outlined its pattern ano
plan, they who provided the example
of brain and Drawn. they who have
upheld the hands of their spiritual de
scendants in the NATURALIZATION. o.
this dream of democracy. And upor
go forward.
These stable foundations of fulfill
ment the author presents both as fac
and as promise. A confident and as
surfing picture. Within it, however
he does point the unmistakable pres
ence of the old barbarian, destructive
| in effect, If not always such in intent
Here Is the new alien, brooding over {
| hard life and old wrongs-himsel
/ maybe just out from serfdom. Sud
denly pushed forward, a century a
! least, by the simple act of crossins
| the Atlantic. he finds himself in be
wildering richness of circumstance
a child set down before a dazZiin:
| Christmas tree. Here is a land O
| plenty and freedom. Personal effor
| is not his program. Feelings Of ale
glance are not yet born. Benefits con
| ferred measure his hopes. Soon i'm
patience and discomfort grow unde
! the facts of the new life. In tim'
much of this corrects itself. Much o
| it does not. Right here, with dis
| content acute and receptive. a flood o
| interference sets in. The willful mis-
! chief maker, hating all government
| and all order, makes this alien hi
special charge. The sentimentalist
!
parlor declaimer-the whole brood O
! half baked and over baked meddler
| make of the alien their lawful pre-.
| under one pretext or another.
| X * x
The book is a call to every Amer
| can. A call to his good sense, to hi
patriotic intelligence, to his need of
| wide and fair view of the field as
| actually exists. to his self restraint, I
| his seizure of proportion and balance
to his general fealty to his countr,
and his countrymen. What this al
| thor has to say on the overworke
subject of Americanization every on
of us should read with an open MIND
| What he has to say also on .1mm
| grafton
WEBER s FIELDS; Their Tribuia
| tiOns, friumphs and Their AssC
ciates. BY Felix Isman. New York
| Boni & Liveright.
| A CHAPTER out of the history o
the worlds most picturesqu
| street A story, besides, of goo
American pattern wherein two PENN
| less boys rise to world prominence il
| their own particular line of endeavor-
Just as Abraham Lincoln did in his
and as innumerable other boys hav
gone on to great success by virtue o
their own indomitable qualities.
panorama, also. of certain period o
Americas brand of amusement an
, recreation wherein Weber & Field
held commanding and enviable place
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