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Il Selection Of Books for the PadYear-
Latest Portrait of Marie Anf0mette
Il Background of Science.

sodes. with their influence on the DEVELOPMENT
of the doctrine. form the subject matter of this
most thorough work of scholarship.
THE LIFE OF JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN VOL
II. 1885-1895. BY j. L. Garvin. London:
Macmillan & Co.
THE first volume of this broadly planned, dis
tinguished biography of one of the leaders
of British craftsmanship appeared less than a
year ago. This volume begins with the fall of
the Gladstone government in 1885, when Cham
berlain ceased to be minister and Lord Sails
bury's administration succeeded to control Of
the complicated situation caused by the break
with Parnell over the Irish question. Early in
1886, when Gladstone forming another gov
ernment, Chamberlain was made president OF
the local government board, in the cabinet,
rather than Of it. Over Irish home rule he and
Gladstone again radically disagreed and Cham
berlain soon resigned In his view, liberalism
was being disrupted and he believed that for
him personally the dark hour had struck and
that his career was at an end But he was only
40 and had many years of political activity
ahead He set out to kill Gladstones bill, break
Parnells domination, and reunite liberalism.
The fight was to the death, the bill was killed,
there was general election, and Gladstone was
again deposed When the period of this volume
ended Chamberlain was So he colonial sec
retary in the Salisbury government, and again
saw opportunity alluringly ahead. But the de-
sire of his life the premiership, he was never
to attain. James Lewis Garvin, author of this
life of Chamberlain, was editor in chief Of the
last dourteenth) edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica and since 1908 has been editor of
the London Observer.
STORM BEACH. BY Virginia Hersch Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
\A/HY some events create memories almost
w as vivid as the events themselves and
others leave a complete blank is question
psychologists may be able to answer. 1t is not
hard to explain, however, why Sarah Carvalho
in Storm Beach," while remembering few of
the scenes of her many years of married life
in Charleston, vsualized clearly when 1t
happened scene of 40 years before in st.
Eustace of Santo Domingo. She was return
ing the gifts of Gabriel her first love, while
her father the bearded Jewish patriarch, stood
by and then led her off. Shortly afterward
her marriage contract with Abraham Carvalho
signed. At the time of the Negro up
rising in Santo Domingo in 1871, the Car
valhos and many others became refugees and
settled in Charleston where five of Sarah's
eight children were born. The wealth made
in Santo Domingo gradually filtered away in
Charleston, until at Abrahams death only a
little shop was left, managed by the oldest son,
Ephraim Old Sarah, sitting alone, groped in
the past OF her memories; or, when M. Pierre,
the dancing master, a fellow refugee from
Santo Domingo in that terrible year, came
the street to her, told the same stories
from her memories over and over and listened
to his in return. The Carvalhos were aristo-
cratic, inbred Jews The first Carvalho to
come to America was Benjamin. one of Capt.
Kidd's pirates-a queer pirate, who was always
either seasck or sick from the sights he saw
when Capt. Kidd ran down a merchantmen,
who deserted the first time he had permission
to 60 ashore His descendants were scattered
all over the Eastern States, like storm
beach"-"a ridge Of sand and weed and drift
wood washed up by frequent storms"
Storm Beach" is the story of old Sarah
Carvalho, widowed, living in her memories and
her children, against a background Of old
Charleston. It is perhaps most of all the story
OF Judith, her youngest daughter, her eve
lamb whose religion and love came into con-
f1ict. 1t Is also the story Of Annabelle, who
became a Jewess, "on purely religious grounds"
in order to marry Sarah's nephew, Albert
Jacobs, and at great crisis found that she
was still Christian at heart. The problem
OF the Jew, living among other people, yet
striving to preserve his religion and his race
purity, is so insstent as to make Storm Beach"
almost thesis novel. The theme is big one
and worthy of literary treatment. The con-
fict between religion and love has been the
subject Of many fine pieces of fiction but as
subject it has somewhat lost its potency in
these modern times. The reflective style of
Virginia Hersch in harmony with the brood
ing of old Sarah is impressive and there are
a number of well-handled dramatic situations,
such as the hurricane at Charleston and the
final lamentation of the matriarch: "It was
sorrow and sorrow and more sorrow that built
up our race. = = = Sorrow the force of our peo-
pie! 1t is such ease as we have here that
softens us and makes us afraid even somewhat
ashamed of being Jews"
THE ALBUM. BY Mary Roberts Rinehart
New York: Farrar g. Rinehart
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