Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-09
10y SARAH Q. BOWERMAN
Storm Jameson Bares Her O7vn Life TN a
Mez0 Mo0eIA Biography of DE Valeru
and Books for Summer Reading:

tons" and 1.-THE Old Order Changeth," are
omitted. Perhaps they are out of print. 1t
also seems as If there ought to be demand
among users Of libraries, whether there Is or
not, for requirements Of such books as J. D.
Beresfords These Lynnakers" This best be-
neve) Hugh Walpoles The Old Ladies" and
The Secret City" and Edith Whartons 1.-The
Reef" and The Custom of the Country" The
choice of books by Eden Phillpotts and Francis
Brett Young may be seriously questioned from
the point Of view Of excellence 'Widecombe
Fair" by Phillpotts. included in the list, is
one Of his better novels Of Dartmoor, but the
others listed are not among his best. not to be
compared with children of the Mist" Sons
Of the Morning" and THE Portreeve." These
again may be out of print. With the exception
OF "Woodsmoke," the novels of Francs Brett
Young listed are far inferior to his fairly
recent novels not mentioned Love Is Enough"
and The Redlakes," also 1.-The House Under
the Water" published this past season. un-
doubtedly too late for this list. A valuable
professional contribution accompanying the
Replacement List" is the Specifications for
Library Reprints" which include size and pro-
portion, book papers (the Bureau Of Standards
is referred to as authority, type faces and
plates illustrations, margins ink sewing. end
papers, hinge reinforcement back Innings, bind
ers' board glue book cloths labels and corners
DE VALERA BY Denis Gwynn. New York:
E. p Dutton Co.
IA THAT is the secret OF the ascendancy of the
w Irishman with the hybrid French
Spanish name, canon De Valera? Why is
there so much difference of opinion about him
among Irishmen in both Ireland and the
United States? What has he really done for
Ireland and the Irish? Is he just visionary
or is he a constructive patriot and statesman?
r. Yrse1
author Of biographies of John Redmond and
Roger Easement does not and cannot answer
all these questions but in his critical examina-
ton of the facts Of De Valeras career he assists
any one who wishes to answer them. canon
De Valera, born in New York, OF Spanish I'M
migrant father and an Irish immigrant mother,
lis thus an American citizen" He was brought
up by an uncle in Ireland, among the tenant
farmers Of County Limerick, and was educated
by the Holy Ghost Fathers at Blackjack Col
lege and at the Royal University of Ireland.
When the World War broke in 1914 he was I'M
known even in Dublin, though he frequented
gatherings of the Irish Ireland" propagandists.
In the Easter instruction of 1916 he was
commandant in the Irish Volunteers.
The fact of his American citizenship probably
saved him from the execution meted out to the
other leaders in the insurrection. His sentence
of penal servitude for life dwindled to little
over a year in prison and on his release he was
in the Irish revolutionary movement was &C"
cepted He was soon President of both the
Sim Fein and the Irish Volunteers, the two
anti British organizations. More imprison-
ment followed, but prison sentences were an
asset in Irish politics. In 1919 he was head OF
the new cabinet Of the Dali Eireann and came
on a mission to the United States, where he
soon split the Irish. Americans into two hostile
groups He has always believed in his mes
sianic mission and has always brought sword
and not peace. He returned to ireland TO the
burning Of Cork by the Black and Tans-civil
war; With the separation of Northern and
Southern Ireland and the treaty with England,
De Valera proclaimed himself in opposition TO
the treaty and has ever since fought and re-
pudiated its provisions His aim, says Mr..
Gwynn, is to bring the six Northern counties
into a united Ireland and to abolish every
semblance Of active cooperation with the Brit
ish Commonwealth" That De Valera has shown
little regard for existing conditions and pop
ular sentiment in his promotion Of civil war
and his reputation of the treaty, is Mr..
Gwynns conclusion. When the whole story Is
told whatever the outcome, De Valera Will I'M
doubtedly be considered one Of the remarkable
group Of revolutionaries produced by the early
decades of the twentieth century.
THE ARCHES OF THE YEARS. BY Halliday
Sutherland. New York: William Morrow
& Co.
I ONDON reviews have compared this auto
l. biography with DR.. Axel Munthe's STORY
of San Michele" but there is little resemblance
between the two books except that both are
by physicians who have had experience in
neurology, DR.. Munthe as speciality, DR.. Suth-
rland as an episode. A further similarity IS
hat both books are written in entirely per-
sonal and capricious way, without chronological
order or the presentation of orthodox facts and
dates as if in each case the author had drawn
from his store of memories at random whatever
seemed to him good at the time of writing
A number of doctors have turned to literature
in recent years some of them as an avocation