Evening star., 1925-02-07
THE LIBRARY TABLE
by THE BOOKLOyER

ming OF his three-part family novel
The Forsyte Saga" has Just died
| In his lonely apartment, No. II Bel
Vile Row, London. Soames Forsyte,
his cousin, who has not seen him for
months, happens to hear OF his illness
and stops to inquire for him just a
| few hours before the old sportsman
| passes away, with a cigar in his
mouth. Incidentally, Soames' visit Of
few moments Is utilized by his
dying kfnsman. who has been always
| rackety,' for the drawing Of brief
codicil to his will leaving $4,000
| to his mistress. But it is not this
fact, which will, of course, outrage
| old Georges brothers and sisters.
| which Soames chiefly remembers
| about his visit. 1t Is the presence
over the fireplace in the bedroom of
| George Forsyte. opposite his bed, of
| chinese picture of "a large whitish
sidelong monkey, holding the rind OF
/ squeezed fruit in it's outstretched
paw. Its whiskered face looked back
| at him with brown, almost human
| eyes" The picture haunts Soames
and after Georges death he buys 1t
| In and gives 1T to his daughter
| Fleur. wife of Michael Mont THE
monkeys eyes" he reflects, 1.-The
| squeezed-out fruit-was life all a
bitter Jest and George deeper than
himself" This episode explains the
title Of Galsworthy's new novel 1.-The
White, Monkey" a sequel to the
"Forsyte Saga"
The picture of the white monkey
| as a symbol of modern life forms the
| underlying theme of the novel
Aubrey Greene, the painter, expresses
the meaning of the monkey when he
| first stands before 1t in Fleur's draw
ing room and surprises Soames by
being reverent instead of modernly
| fiippant. why. it's a perfect alle-
! CORY, sir, Eat the fruits of life,
scatter the rinds and get copped
doing It," When Fleur is expecting
| her child and Soames is wandering
| about downstairs and in a state of
| nervous misery, he stops in front of
| the white monkey. There he is found
by his son-in-law. Il should take
this down, IL I were you," he says,
| until IT'S over"
why, sir?" asked Michael, in sur
prise.
! Soames frowned. Those eyes" he
muttered. Michael went up to the
picture. Yes! He was haunting
kind of brute, ...-..-
But it's such top-hold work, SIR"
Soames nodded.
"Artistically, yes. But at such
times you can't be too careful what
she sees
"I believe you're right. Let's have
him down" So the white monkey is
| taken down and stored in closet
until the eleventh baronet of the
| house Of Mont Is safely born. Then
! Michael takes him out and mutters /:
THE creatures eyes! But
Til see the brute further before he
shall depress me-" And he and
| Soames carefully replace the picture
| on its hook In the Chinese drawing
| room. ..t
! Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist,
has launched from Paris furious on
slaught against the Spanish monarchy
and King Alfonso, demanding his abb
dication. Published simultaneously
In Spanish, French and English, the
American editien of his first book or
pamphlet in this campaign is entitled
| Alfonso XIII Unmasked: the Military
Terror In Spain" 1t has been under
stood that Spain and it's King had
| been neutral during the great war.
Blasco Ibanez charges that through
Alfonso's connivance certain Spanish
ports were used by German subma-
rines as supply bases, and that the
King synipathized with the Kaiser be-
| cause he himself desired to be an
absolute ruler of his kingdom. The
| King he holds responsible also for the
| recent disastrous Spanish campaign
In Morocco. The author has suffered
| both prison and exile in defense of
his republican ideals. His climax Is
| THE King must go"
y
In 1.-THE Faith Of a Liberar' DR..
| n,,f1 hoc 1rritf IAN q
collection of % essays on social and
political conditions in the United
4 States The discussion of what con-
stitutes liberalism is the heart of the
book. DR.. Butler considers radicals
the only reactionaries and the worst
enemies of liberalism. Socialists and
communists, he says, impose upon the
/ governed uniformity and conformity
}. and eompulsion is their method, so
i they are in no sense democratic or
4 liberal The true liberal is believer
In liberty under the law, in a govrn-
ment based on a constitution. He
opposes government regulation OF
business, laws multiplied for the re-
striction of personal liberty and
| "blocs" in legislative bodies. DR..
Butler calls attention to the fact that
Iparty names have come to mean little,
and that liberals are to be found In
both the Republican and Democratic
parties. 1t is time for the formation
of two new parties-a liberal Demo-
at-Republican party and a party
which shall gather into itself all the
radicals Of the country. AS regards
International affairs, Dr. Butler be-
lieves in our entry into the World
Court, but not into the League of
Nations. He says: The conviction
! grows in many lands that there must
be, in fact IL not in form, recon
sideration of some of the settlements
made in the treaty of Versailles II
Europe and the world are to regain
their economic and political feet"
| X X !; -
Tyler bennett of the State Depart
ment Is engaged on a study of .Theo-
dore Roosevelt as diplomat w hich
will sooner or later be issued in book
form. Under the title. Gould T. r.
Have Stopped the War;" he ,ypab-
fishes in the February Worlds Work
an interesting analysis Of Reosevelt.s
probable action during the last days
! of July, 1914, had he, instead of
Woodrow Wilson, been President. He
bases his conclusions on what Roose-
velt actually DIG in 1904-1905 to keep
the Russo-Japanese War from becom-
ing a world war, and his warning
to the Kaiser not to permit the
Morocco affair to bring on a gen.
eral European war. In view of these
facts, and Roosevelt's statement in
l1sII concerning the interest of the
United States in the balance of power
IN Europe, Mr.. bennett believes that
he would undoubtedly, as he aft
erward asserted, have again served
notice on the Kaiser of the American
Interest in the maintenance of peace,
with the result that the great war
would have turned out to be only