Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01

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~ time Engaged in another line Of
historic making, he became keenly alive
to the fact that at each turn in this pursuit
he was faced with immeasurably expanded
outlook upon every phase and feature OF the
research with which he was having to do So
deeply impressed was he by this phenomenon
almost a revelation-that he Immediately set
aside the work in hand for the time being, IN
order to take up the importunate beckonings
and hailngs of the wider horizons" granted
nowadays to every aspect of the earth, TO every
one of mans undertakings. Space itself Is no
longer measured by linear units, but by time
instead by hours, even. Swift communication
by airship and radio and telegraph by smooth
highways and speeding motors, by fast liners
and the shore contacts of these-such are the
agencies that are shrinking the world to
neighborhood. The petroleum age, the electr1-
cal discoveries and uses are creating an indus
trial world unit, an economic institution Of
surprising power and promise.
Again, Dr. Gibbons talks of the widening
horizon of healthier world, more efficient, and
therefore happier world wherein the indi-
vidual lives longer, really alive, takes active
part, feels himself contributing force much
longer than his scriptural allotment promises
So on and on around and around DR.. Gibbons
searching out these wider horizons at each
turn, looks in upon our cultural state and its
promise for the future through the human
contributions to America from older countries
and the amalgamation Of these with the native
soil to our great advancement in culture. Read
ing, travel, pictures music, thinking, feeling-an
expanding by way of this blend of the old and
the new. Industries and trade spreading all the
time everywhere-new contacts, new methods,
new eficiencieS, new ameliorationS coming this
way. Woman's place in the world, widening
the outlook and the effect through political
privilege economic independence, social liberia
t1NE The church in its expanding attitudes
and efforts is cited here. The influence of
youth upon this advance is vital and inspiring
The author moves on to international alliances
BY way of trade and finance and friendly
contacts, all looking toward understandings
accommodations, reputation of war as an
instrument of civilization.
big book of co-ordinated world interests,
giving wide views OF the important facts Of
world life most inspiring book in its effect.
aS it Is, Of course, an Illuminating vision pro-
jected by truly great historian concerned with
the present and the future for which the past
serves chiefly as inspiration or as avoidance.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. BY Brand whiEock,
author of La Fayette," ETC. New York: D.
Appleton q Co.
TO clarity, to concentrate, to condense
- thought and its expression is most diff
cult part Of the art Of writing. WordineSs Is
easy, and relatively without high value. The
time comes in consideration of any important
subject when the volumes that have derived
from it should be reduced TO slight bulk for
ready handling and frequent use. Brand
Whitlock's Abraham Lincoln" is q case In
point. Selecting here rejecting there, weighing
and measuring values, Mr.. Whitlock finally
within 200 pages gives the essential Lincoln to
readers. No one would for moment give up
the great and growing Lincoln literature. This
Is, however, a quite different matter. Here is
the man apart from the legend, apart from the
tradition that is growing around him. Year by
year from 1909 to 1855, a perfectly condensed
chronology meets the reader upon opening the
book. Then, the story-short, vital, vivid After
this a most carefully prepared photography.
That is all. Studying Lincoln from any of the
amplihed texts-those of Herndon, Holland.
Nicolay and Hay TarbelI, Frederick Trevor
Hill, Drinkwater. Sandburg, Beveridge and
others, one finds a true distillation of this
bounteous flow Of history, biography, drama and
poety in the little book that Brand Whitlock
has expertly and sympathetically offered to
readers, his Abraham Lincoln"
BY Gen. William Mitchell, author Of
"Winged Defense" Philadelphia: j. B.
Lippincott Co.
TN the making of this book it is clear that
- Gen. Mitchell held constantly before his
minds eye the great body of average readers.
Those who are so tremendously curious about
the ms and outs of this amazing day. The
great miracle Of the moment Is flying This
Il q common enchantment to men OF every de-
gree. It is for these eager multitudes that this
book was in the main written. Not an easy
thing to do, since the technic of the business
must be reduced to plain speech. But, patient
ly, Gen. Mitchell cast aside the cryptic terms
of highly specialized art and replaced these
with the ready words of common exchange.
The attitude of the author is exactly that of
the story teller In large measure 1t is this
that accounts for the readers clear sense of
FAl,,
here. climax at the very outset of the adj
venture-the high dramatic moment when