Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-18

I Mr. Wilson up to the year 1910. when,
ut the age of 81. he moved dehnltely
ont of the academic world to enter the
field of national politics.
The end Of the second volume,
| 'princeton," forecasts for those yet 10
come n sharp cleavage away from the
GENERAL substance of these introduc-
tory volumes. Beyond TINS point any
et,,dv of Woodrow Wilson must take
ON new direction new character even
| The earlier academic existence must
rive wav to the active political career
! Hereafter the study must center pro
eressively upon the Governor OF New
| Jersey upon the Chief Executive of
the Federal Government, upon the
J President Ambassador of peace to the
Old World, upon the idealistc states
man seeking international amlty Dy
wav of the new instrument of coop
Grafton and accommodation, seeking
domestic well being and the solution
of national problems by way OF the
time -honored and more or less MADE
innate instrumentality Of party politics.
our immediate interest and concern,
however. center upon the two volumes
already at hand: that is, first interest
rises out Of Il study of the long pre-
paratory period for public service
allotted to Woodrow Wilson.
Mr.. Baker holds here to the accept
ed geographic formula, the time Sc
ancnce of individual life. But in TINS
case happily, the formula does NOT
impose the frequent geographic formal
ism in an effect of distance, dmness,
unreaIity. A peculiarly vital study,
this one. instead. delivering over TO
leaders both immediacy of contact ana
= sense of distinct personality. Not
only is the wayWise writer at work
here. but beside him is also the man
Of deep understanding and sympathy.
And so we go along with Mr.. Baker.
absorbed in the boyhood and youth OF
Woodrow wilson. keen to his student
DAVIS on to the time when, giving up
| the law as a profession, he settled to
| the career of teacher. becoming the
scholar and educator, historian of the
cries of government, president OF
| Princeton and strongly influential
throughout the academic world. Many
of the familiar inhibitions of the typ
ical schoolman come out in this study
of character. But these are offset by
a natural gaiety, wit, piayfuiness
that make the man warmly alive and
communicable. "Thirty-o one years and
nothing done" is a personal lament
that ought to prove mighty prod TO
! more than one disheartened youth.
The now historic Princeton contro-
versy brings to a close the two vol
umes that stand as a clear triumph IN
at least two directions. Here is actual
distinguished achievement; nothing
less than the delivery of man-Dody,
soul and spirit-over to readers Ana,
by way of such delivery. there is also
the projection of a period essential in
it's importa nee to the higher education
in America. The second direction of
worthiness here is that of promise as
to the high quality Of the volumes to
succeed this one in the study of Mr..
! Wilson.
Reading this straight, clean-cut re-
| embodiment of personality and
| period, one cannot realize the enor-
NOUS amount OF work nor the feeling
for structure and fitness that went
| into it, Only when one is told that
bulk of material literally weighing
tons. was the field to be explored and
! brought into order and conference, only
then does one weigh the competency
Of workmanship. the mastery of the
art of geographic treatment, the sense
Of proper background, the feeling for
proportion and balance, the apprecia-
ton of the human element in such ire
mendous surroundings-only then does
one come to anything like an adequate
appreciation of the character of Mr..
|
without extravaganza, may be called
monumental in scope and Importance,
profoundly vital also in its significance
to history itself.
= s.
CASTE. BY CosmO Hamilton. author
of THE Blindness of Virtue" etc.
New York: G.. p. Putnam's Sons.
TWO strands of motive woven into
a single thread lay the pattern of
COSmo Hamilton's new novel upon the
wide fabric of modern life. Here is
the Younger generation. embodied in
! a slip of a girl bent to the business of
her own personal liberty AS familiar
rs the morning. this theme. these days.
/ Entering into such new freedom. how
ever giving it purpose and form is
he idea of caste TO he Circumvented,
10 be set aside by this brave marauder.
as if 10000 years had not gone into
3, the building of the barrier between
race and race. The jew and the Gen
tile become the deadly antagonists
here drawn mp between the love of A
boy and sirl--a Jewish lad. genius
of music and rich girl of the famil-
lar American pattern. Equally hOr-
rified at such proposed desecration Of
bonds established in the far away days
of history are both parents of these
chldren-the Jewish and the Gentle
fathers. Such is the general direction
of the romance that, in intuition and
sympathy is a quite surprising story
of human prejudice against which the
tender and beautiful love of these
children beats itself to death. If lati-
tudes appear on the horizon of the
situation they are not of the Hebrew
| fathers making. But in any event
| they come too late. Cosmo Hamilton
has the habit OF knowing exactly what
he wants in the way of material for
his novels. This material is unfail
inGlY Of good substance. He follows
straight course of building. lie is a
good architect in story structure. No
| unWOrkmanlY and weak points dis
trPSs his readers who move with him
securely through situation that is
| plausibly conceived and quietly pro-
/ iected along one or another of the
outstanding aspects of current life.
| SO, here, with a theme of great i'm.
! pOrtance he gives out a tender and
! beautiful love story, set against the
| background OF current prejudices and
/ bitter prepossessions.
THE A r G OF ARCHITECTURE
BY Matlock Price. Illustrated. New
York: E. y. Dutton and Company.
/ COME contend that of all the arts
- architecture is the most impress
sive and beautiful, These declare also
that it is fundamental in origin and
use, providing occasion and support
for the lesser arts Of sculpture and
painting. Apart from contention upon
this topic 1t is safe to say that it is
a generally neglected art by the aver
age, even though one of its finest
| examples may stand beside the street
| solicitous to the careless passer.by.
Yet, when one does open to sense