Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

attribute perSonif1cd to the present full growth
of the modern novel. The old writer's at a
certain stage of this development used, you
remember, to dress up single human traits
hate or love- greed, jealousy, generosity, kind
ness, whatnot, calling each of these the whole
man, which no doubt it was, and is Around
the chosen virtue or vice they built the outer
personality in its likeness This is exactly what
Daphne Lambart has done, all in the current
mood of this morning or last night. family,
the Shards, rather a tribe of three grown and
charming children, q brother and two sisters.
are here evaporated and condensed to their
basic substance of Self-suflciency, both the
family sort and the individual brand. Rich and
handsome and well grounded in English COM
potency these, you see, are able to have things
pretty much their own way They do. That
is what the story is about. The oldest girl
develops passion for her woman friend
artist They set out to live together familiar
situation nowadays. In the course of no long
time the woman is drowned at the sea coast
where the two chance to be. Deep down in
the heart of this particular Shard-What a
relief! Friends are truly boring in the long
run. The other girl loves a manor thinks
she does. At any rate, she loves him to the
point Of immediate marriage. mistake The
fervors have cooled. Long tedium, instead I'M
folds to the imagination of the girl. Easy to
avert such personal disaster. Send him adrift
Never mind the man. He'll get over it. Men
always do. Let's hurry home and play some
more together-we three Shards. That is all
ways best And the brother, Vivian, in a way
wholly unprecedented finds himself with
wife. One need be no more than half-wit to
realize the kind Of life for her there in the
grand old Shard home. with the single spark
of grit left to her she takes her leave-and all
three are in their hearts delighted Lets have
a game on the green!" As hostage to such
sorry fortune this girl leaves baby, from which
she herself dies. A babyl What a nuisance
yet it is Shard and just possibly it may
serve some day to carry on. No, no, not here.
breaking in upon US three. What to do? The
very thing-send old Swallow, who has brought
all Of Us UP, to rear this other Shard also.
Does old Swallow want to go? She hates to
leave the beloved h0me-but what does that
matter? ITO be sure, old Swallow settles the
thing so neatly-for u.s."
Waywise and restrained COOL collected and
as ronic as it Is easy to imagine-which is
just about 100 per cent ironic in this particular
year of our Lord 1890 and roundabout. In
form, light, sketchy and wildly effective.
THE NEGRO IN WASHINGTON: A study i'm
Race Amalgamation. BY A. H. Shannon.
B. D., M. A. New York: Walter Neale
publisher
THIS study is not confined to washington
Rather by virtue of the compact character
of that area, the proportion of its Negro popu.
lation, the accessibility of facts bearing upon
standard OF comparison and measurement. The
work itself covers, in effect, the whole western
continent The purpose of the study is that
OF gospel, the gospel of race purity. The angie
OF approach IS the Negro himself his advance.
his destiny-not, vehemently not to be al
tained-through a blend of Negro and Cau-
caSian blood Rather is it to be secured through
an intensive cultivation of his exclusive racial
traits. In the distance, somewhat family out.
lined Is future for the American Negro In
africa, creating another great civilization from
THIS schooling among the white contacts OF the
present In America. However, the substance
OF the study is given over to statistical reports
OF comparative population-full- blood Negro
mulatto, meanwhile" The distribution If
these is defined and the status of each in its
particular locale is made the subject of pointed
disclosure prime argument in the discuss
sion is that the pure-blood Negro should be-
held to that particular purity of strain but that
IN addition, he should be accorded full oppor-
tunlty for growth within this specific racial
limit. A full account of failure in this direction
Is made here. The mulatto and the near.
white" are accorded opportunity-the black
man none at all in comparison. The book is
packed with carefully collected facts upon the
subject. It has distinct value to the student
In this respect.
An interesting topic is that which assumes
to lay the causes of divergence between Latin
America and the north country above it. in
respect to growth In modern civilization when
the SpaniardS and Portuguese came this way
adVencurerS, explorers conquerorS-they left
their women at home. When the Nordfc people
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