Evening star., 1927-06-12
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The Life of Eugene Field the Poet of Chldhoodohn Gals
worthy as Dramatic Artst-Newest Fiction
From the Publishers

scape are few or none. All is strife.
tumult. agitation, beneath a lowering
sky. The family is divided against
itself so that a mans foes are those
of his own household. The ties that
| bind wife to husband, children to par
ents, are strained to the utmost, if not
broken. Society falls apart into hos
tile camps. And the strange thing
about il all is that no one is definitely
responsible for this state of things y
Instead it is a complicated sum of
social and economic forces which we
all help to create that works so much
Of doom and disaster. SO the Gals
worthy plays deal with social miseries
and unrest. And what is the remedy? Z?
Politics, education, philanthropy, re-
liglOn? No. none of these. AS artist
and poet, these are the SUBMITS from
which Galsworthy looks upon the mis-
cries and turmoils of the world, know.
ing that they cannot be relieved in
any real sense. but loving the world
nevertheless. This study gathers ad-
mirably into a better understanding
the art Of GalsWorthy as dramatist,
which is his best and strongest express
sion of creative art.
X X x
BERBERS AND BLACKS. BY David
Prescott BarrowS. Illustrated. New
York: The Century Co.
VIVID word pictures of Morocco,
Timbuktu, the western Sudan,
make up the body of this book of
travel. And just now no part of the
world is more vital with interest and
action than this quarter. From the
book in hand Gen. BarrowS appears to
l., l,,l ,n1 Il
him in his travels. Just an errand-
less man instead, keen for facts and
more facts about the least known of
the great continents. With eyes
sharpened to his minds desire. he
Wanders here and there over Morocco
and the Sudan, getting in touch with
the peoples of various strain and blood,
gathering up their ways of life. max
ing notes on their peculiar and dis
tinguishing traits, their several his
tories, the various lures that brought
them into these localities, their rela-
tionS to one another, and their reac-
tions to the advancing armies of the
European nations. There are near
pictures of the French in Morocco and
the Sudan-picturcs that reveal
methods of colonization. personality
of certain leaders, achievements in the
tion within this zone. A tremendous
field of development is spread out
here and tallies are shrewdly drawn
between that which has been done and
that which is yet to come. Here is a
big picture, a wide outlook upon the
present and the future, a statement
of greatly influential facts and a
promise of greater events lifting above
the horizon. A rugged, uscular
story, objective at all points, convinc-
ing in its sound conclusions and wise
observations. Photographs and maps,
those essentials of every travel book,
add materially here to the effect of
the text itself.
X
THE LONGEST SHADOW. BY JEFF
ferry E. Jeffery. author of AN Oc-
tave." Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
IS A STUDY" the writer calls this;
'the study of young man be-
tween the ages of % and 81. those
being, in my opinion, the really for
NATIVE years in which character, PHI
able in youth. sets into manhood"
English, this youth was born to a
certain class, educated, therefore, in
certain schools. and headed automati-
cally thereby upon one of two profes-