Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
IDA GILBERT MYERS.

IDA GILBERT MYERS.
THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF
WOODROW WILSON. By James
Kerney Illustrated. New. York;
The Century Co.
I 7 greatly pleases the American
university world to look upon
Woodrow Wilson as having
Il leaped straight from the %presi-
dency of Princeton into the presi-
dency of the United States. A firing
spectacle. this, and proof positive.
besides, of the practical efficacy OF
high institutional training. Here is
the scholar, the idealist. head Of a
great university, professor of juris-
prudence, lecturer and writer on the
development and character Of gov
ernments, champion of the principles
Of democracy, advocate of the rights
OF the common people, a simon-pure
Jeffersonian rising to overthrow the
ubiquitous forces Of Mammon. Here
Is striking and romantic figure
forum Of a great country, a figure
calculated to stir PROFESSIONAL pride
everywhere and to promise life to
many an academic theory of political
perfection. 81
AS a matter of fact. however, this
was not the way of II. For In be-
tween these high extremes Were
strenuous and tolltaking years Ia. the
rough-and-tumb,e of actual politics,
and these must stand as the agency
Of Woodrow Wilson's practical ,edu-
cation. These years became the
crucible in which the man OF states
manly vision became the man Of po-
litical action.
&c cd IF
education of Mr.. Wilson that James
Kerney deals here. Head Of the
Trenton Times. Mr.. Kerney was, dur
ing this period, not only close to the
politics of his State, but he was. as
well. in intimate touch with the rise
Of Mr.. Wilson's ambition toward the
governorship Of New Jersey, with his
incumbency thereto, with his later
occupancy of the high Office Of Presi-
dent OF the United States.
Writing and interpreting happen
ings over a period of 80 years"-James
kerney talking-"has brought asso-
citation with public men of all shades
and OF varying degrees of Importance.
There was no other such endless, in
teresting experience as watching the
forward march OF Woodrow Wilson.
Those Of us who lived in the inner
Wilson circle while he was playing
the political game saw him change
from a conservative Democrat to a
very militant two-fisted radical, and.
with the coming Of war, to an equally
two-fisted autocrat." Such is this au-
thor's mature general judgment. And
this study is, IN the main, body
of concrete evidence in support Of
such conclusion. Evidence gathered
through the exacting years of war
nd inn 10 70
through the less strenuous earlier
years.
A fair-minded man of wide and
deep information on the subject, Mr..
Kerney appears to be, giving high
credit and even homage to the state
manly stature of Woodrow Wilson.
Yet the book is bound upon a rough
voyage. Mr.. Wilson, out Of some
thing deep in his own nature. created
only passionate adorers on the one
band and equally passionate I'M
friends on the ether. Not more than
half a dozen seem able to stand up
straight between these two groups
of natural antagonists. Mr.. Kerney
appears to be one OF the six There
fore, where he here even approaches
adverse judgment. he will be damned
likewise. Nevertheless. here Is a most
interesting inlook upon the years in
which Woodrow Wilson was being ed
ucated. politically, at the hands OF
the common life OF a great free gov
eminent.
IGNATIUS LOYOLA: Founder of the
Jesuits. BY Paul Van Dyke, Pyne
professor of history at Princeton,
author of THE Age of the Renas-
cence," etc. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
TN this biography Prof. Van Dyke
faces himself upon three Outstand-
ing difficulties attending the work.
There is first and foremost the essen
tial quality of Loyola to be extricated
not only from the mass of non-essen-
tials, but from burden of Justification
as well. Again, there is the head of
the Jesuits to be apprehended in the
light of his own ideals, in his own self
projection as spiritual interpreter and
leader. And again. there must be ade-
quate appreciation and use of the ma
terials available for this work. In
such spirit and purpose and practice
the author presents the founder of the
Jesuits as. primarily, A man of the
world, from which estate he passes
into that of the student and seeker
after truth, travelling and studying in