Evening star., 1927-04-30

"CZeChOSlOVakId. the Lana OF All
uncomfortable Ideal" by Jessie
Mothersole, is the work of one who
is both historian and artist. The in
terest of the book is enhanced by 80
Illustrations by the author, in color
and black and white, the result of
several months of rambling with
painting outfit through the villages
and country districts of this new re-
public. The history of the Republic
of CZechosloVakia, now including Bo-
hemia. Moravia, CZech-SileSia, Slo'
vakia and Ruthenia, has always been
one of struggle, Rome never con-
uuered this country, though Marcus
Aurelius attempted it's sub1ugation
with his legions. Bohemia was one
of the earliest nations of the Middle
Ages to fight for religious liberty.
when the violation of the safe conduct
of John Huss at the Council of Con-
stance in 1415 started the Hussite
Wars The motto Of the Czechoslo-
vakian Republic today is that adopted
by the Hussites, Truth wins" The
Taborites, one of the parties growing
out of the Hussite movement, recog-
niZed as early as the fifteenth cen
tury equality of rights and obliga-
tions between men and women. so
women were early given educational
opportunities. The progress of this
liberal country was checked by the
domination of the Hapsburg power
and Bohemia became a part of
Austria and so remained until the
World War of 1914-1S set her free.
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School children will soon have the
best of opportunities for musical
knowledge if the new work on which
Walter Damrosch has spent over
three years is adopted to any large
extent by the schools of the country.
1t is an eight-volume series for the
vocal training of children from the
first to the ninth grade. Mr.. Dam
rosch has had as collaborators George
Gartlan and Prof. Karl Gehrkens of
Oberlin College. Folk songs form
prominent part of the collection. The
music of the greatest musicians is
also represented, including Beethoven,
Mozart, Haydn, Saint-Saens, Bach,
Gounod and many others. Parts of
the series are devoted to a summary
history of music and an account of
the various types of instrumental
music.
The revolt of youth against tradi-
ton, of the individual against the tribe,
is the subject of This Days Mad
ness" by the author of Miss Tiver-
ton Goes Out" Our sympathy is on
the side of youth and the individual.
The tribe is represented by an English
county family, the MoncktonS. Lefty
Monckton considers the ideas and
standards of her family both tiresome
and useless and sees no reason why
her own substitutes for those ideas
and standards are not as good. The
family is rather q terrible one to
"huck I'D against" The author says:
"They We're solid and upright and
united and encjrcling, like the stakes
of an inclosure." Sir Giles, the Anglo
Indian officer, narrow and heavy;
Cousin Maurice, a tyrannical clergy
man-squire; his invalid wife and five
suppressed daughters; his son Ber-
nard. who wishes to marry his cousin
Letty-these are the chief members
Of the family Lefty does not Suftl-
ciently admire the family to wish to
marry back into 1t, and that makes
trouble, but Lefty does not object to
troubling the family.
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The famous old inns of our country
are not all to be found in New Eng
land and Virginia, with a few Penn
sylvania and New York inclusions,
though such seems to be the opinion
of many Fasteners and of most Euro
peans travelling in the United States.
Elise Lathrop has found over 1900
inns worth writing about In her book.
early American Inns and Taverns."
A century of age is her qualification
for admission of Eastern inns, but
three-quarters of century is suffi-
cient for inns of the West. Califor-
s1.r1 all fY.rt1
to qualify, but Ohio, home of Presi-
dents, supplied about so. The author
gives something of the history of most
of the inns, and IL there is romance,
or tragedy. or scandal connected with
an inn. she mentions that.