Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29


bodily and human in its impact as to relate
that prehistoric day in its human aspect to our
own day. As to bring understandings and ac-
commodationS to our own minds at many q
vital point in this progression. AS to let down
the BARRIERS little, to the parish proposes
sions behind which We rejoice In our own time
and state as compared with other periods Of
human advance. The author rounds the help
full study by pointing the way for further work
on your own part.
WHAT THE FIGURES MEAN BY Spencer
Meredith. Boston: Financial Publishing Co.
A LITTLE book that holds big promise
Just this-That having absorbed its con-
tent, one finds himself able TO read with nm
derStanding the financial page of the daily
paper Among ourselves we know that to the
majority Of ns that financial record might as
well be cast in classic Greek or ancient Hebrew
Yet 1t has to with the prime concern Of the
wide world, money. The laborer saving up to
buy home or the capitalist manipulating
daily the means Of thousands, both have vital
concern in the power Of money, in its ways and
possibilities.
In the authority of long training and expert
knowledge, Mr.. Meredith lends helping hand
to very urgent and general need He has
built this primer Of facts about such aspects Of
finance as come into the experience of ALL Less
than hundred pages Of instruction. Plain
print short paragraphs clear thinking ard con-
else phrasing, produce an ensemble of ideal
quality for the purpose in hand
Broadly does the author outline a financial
enterprise company, corporation-giving gen.
eral framework to organizations projected for
purposes of investment and sound uses of saw
ings. What are assets Of a company? Tangible
assets, intangible, current assets and the rela-
ton Of the last to their own total? What Is
capital? What surplus? What are the stand
ards for computing depreciations and deple-
tions? You know these terms, from the OUT
SIDE and the other common ones going along
with them. Here the author takes you into the
inside and shows you around in definite order,
in concrete display, in q related overlooking Of
that which Is commonly so mysterious. Rather
appalling. when you come TO think of 1.-THE
ignorance OF the average In respect to the
first letters, even, Of the alphabet of finance.
Lambs for the slaughter, innumerable, flock
out from this thicket Of Woodworking. And,
besides, any one who can earn money holds an
obligation to learn few things at least of what
to do with it. Get this book. Every topic Is
business budget. Not one uses up two pages
for its lesson. The most Of them less than one.
This lesson mastered to your advantage, you
viii be asking for another from the same au-
thoritative source. Let us go to school to the
financiers for a season or two. Let us thank
them for giving US Of their time.
THREE VIRGINS OF HAwoRTH: An Ac-
count of the Bronte Sisters BY Emelie and
George Romieu. Translated from the
French by Roberts Tapley. Illustrated. New
York: z. p. Dutton q Co.
CONFERENCE is not necessary to the writer.
Imagination will serve, creating fiction
more true, and more lne-like even, than truth
and life. For the hctions are naked, while
truth and life are so often tTicked out with
a mask" True too, despite our denials. True
certainly, in respect to those three gifted
women, the Bronte sisters, who Of personal and
factual encounters with life had none at all. A
little out Of key with the present are their
novels, but out Of key at another pitch also Is
the rest Of the fiction Of their period. Yet de-
spite such slight oh-tone, not even the free
recording of a licensed present can surpaSs in
passionate fervors the plain imaginings of those
Bronte genuises inspired alone by the unending
gloom and dreariness Of the wild English moors.
It is a terrible story, this one of the household
Of Patrick Brlnty, IriShman, settled across in
England for his own getting along in life.
Married. Children. "But that man is no
father" Indeed not. Merely another dour fig
ure in the tragedy of the six little outcasts"
A hard story to read-yet such a pitifuIly
beautiful one. Bereft Of every element of hap
pness for children, yet, through the truly celes-
tial gift Of imagination, of minds awning like
birds and bees and butterflies, these children
insist so desperately upon beauty that they
learn TO make it out Of just nothing at all,
save their own amazing fancies.
For the moment, at any rate, do not recall
so complete a sympathy, so perfect an I'M
derstanding and a partaking, as these two
French writer's have given here in the story of
this family of Haworth. The translation itself
is an achievement in which Roberts Tapley may
well find deep satisfaction. Such rapport be-
tween author and translator was in this case a
vital need that nothing be lost from the facts
or the savors Of this touching and strange story.
The next thing is to read, probably. "wuther-
ing Heights" over again In the shadow Of this