Evening star., 1925-06-07
Reviews of the Seasons Newest Books
Word Two About Sun the Chinese Repuc-A
cord and Lexington EvnGorge Washington Country Gentleman,
and Some of Novels

/ bigger story-bigger in theme, finer In
treatment, infinitely more impressive
In Its depth of appeal.
GEORGE WASHINGTON: COUNTRY
GENTLEMAN. BY Paul Leland
HaWorth, author of THE Path Of
Glory" etc. Illustrated. Indianap.
oils: The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
The new methods of research and
investigation are doing as much for
history as for subjects accepted as
departments of science. Indeed these
are creating science of history out
or original documents, and new front
lngs upon life and the new conclusions
ana forecasts made possible by this
modern attitude. One Of the out
standing facts growing from this
fresh approach to the subject is that
many things which we look upon as
wholly part of the new day of in
vention and progress are not new
things at all. The book in hand is
a case in point. George Washington
as lover of the SOIL as a country
gentleman, as the builder of a great
estate, reads much like a man who
mas graduated from one Of the mod
ern colleges OF agriculture. Evidence
here that he studied this problem of
the land much as it is being studied
today. He was clearly a conservator
OF the soil. he was informed as to the
crops which should succeed one an
other in order to take advantage of the
iana without eXhausting it. He studied
and experimental and made records
OF these experiments. He was a good
landscape gardener and an intuitive
horticulturist. Intensive farming. It
turns out, may be a new phrase, but
II Is not a new practice for Wash.
ington was keen to this aspect Cf
farming. This surprisingly up-to-date
land tillage, however, did not absorb
this country gentleman entirely, for,
In addition, one comes here upon a
most interesting account of George
Washington's play days. days wherein
he was the good host and the versatile
entertainer. A picture of him, too.
among his slaves and their white over
seers. A sketch of this gentleman S
wife, also, and of the general year
around at Mount Vernon. A pleasing
story of easy flow through uneyentful
seasons wherein work and a fine hos.
pitality recreate the time of Washing
ton as man in private life We
have had so much of the great Wash
lngton in his clear greatness that it
is both pleasing and profitable to ha We
within easy reach this admirable ac-
count of him as the country gentle
man"
A KING IN THE MAKING. By
Genevieve Parkhurst. Illustrated
New York: G.. P. Putnam's Sons
Lucky the writer who chooses a
subject compact from center to cir
cumferance with an interest in which
all the world shares with a zeal that
has no flaw. A dangerous situation
for the writer. 1t is true, since little
more is required than to present the
subject and let it do the rest. How
ever, in this case no such suspicion
can rest against the author, as her
book bears evidence a-plenty of a good
pursuit and a fair choice of material,
of an orderly and pleasing course and,
most OF all, of very sensible attitude
toward a subject that is likely to prove
ruinous to restraint. Edward. seven
teenth Prince of Wales, is her theme
From a baby, when he is cajoling his
austere great-grandmother out of her
habituated severity, to the present of
a rather lonely young man circling the
globe on an embassy of goodwill, we
go along with him here in the hard
labor to which the honors of his birth
have condemned him. This Is the
story in a word-loneliness. Oh, to be
sure. a gay and laughing and friendly
young man. this Edward Albert Chris
tan George Andrew Patrick David
Prince OF Wales. But to be just the
one of his kind in all the world-there
is an unSpeakable isolation about it
That is the effect of the story-an eff
feet for which the author did not
strive, one which no doubt the young
man himself would regret. But there