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Wells' Latest "Nevel"
Cevers Toe Much Ground
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(i. VvI.I.l.S HMiinrk. in the iiret-
nre te His ' A Minn History tn
tln' World" (Manmllan ftimiwnyi
tlmr ttn hook i t' le leiul .tratsbt .tratsbt
feru.inll "iiliiie-t as :i nn"l Is re-ail."
This Iml.o.'ite mNii tin1 manni'V in which
it .liniiM lii" reui'Wi'il.
Ili'Sanli-il n- a lmisniiilii''iil i"1'1
with -Man as tlic Iktd the fernnila by
wlili-h te tft it -ii','Si'!-t- iiM-lf at unci'.
We juilge a iiiivpI by it.- plot, IN dial
iit'tT-, and it1- moral "r ihilo'-epliical
fentciit. Tlii'iPitre ariiiu -iilidiii-ien
into wliii h ikie1m are divided armrdiiu
a- tliej drill with inntiiieis or with
ianr.il-, or with iw'holej;liil iii-eblcms
or hi-teiH'al rliarartiT-. 15ut it in mil
M'rsall admitted that the must till
tell ;i -!nr liitcri'vtinc I'tieiish te held
the tittentleii.
riioie must be t-enip mis-
pen
and some eentliet toward I lie
outcome of wlileli I lie ir.iuiT uiuws a:
he turn- the papes.
New, let u- -ee what Mr. Wll hab
done.
I have intimated that the hook Is u
bietfuphieal novel with Man as the heie.
It -tart", however, before the birth of
the here. There i nothing new in this.
"The lli-tery of Tem Jenes" opens be be
feie Tem was born and it wa- written
l.v rieldiiiK in the infancy of the novel
as a form of literature, llieken fol
lowed this example in "David Copper Cepper
t;,.i,i " tin. ktnrv of whose life and ad-
volumes Uezllis dcutp u-
lu re nan
uttered his lirst infantile wail et pre-
te.t agnin-t being horn into troubles ami
perplexities of life. !
Mr. Wells gees lhee di-tinguished
novelists net only one better, but ut ,
lea-t u whole dozen eetier. i v -".- t
lit- til., before the earth wa- createii,
in that period when there was even
greater chaos in the vn-t voids of space)
than new alllicts Europe. As he is net
hampered by facts hi- imagination runs
free as he tells u- about the origin
of thiiu-s in preparation for the advent
of his here. When he gets the earth
created, or evolved, te his satisfaction,
he dt-cnhi- the origin "f Uf" '" lllc!
-ilt of tin' seas and its development
through various stage- until Man ap
peared. .... !
The eailv ancestors of hi- here were
such reatiires a- de net new move in
....in.. i,.m 1 ndi ed. the inquiry
,.i,i,.i, i... I,n made into tld- nvitur has
re-ulteil
'Ue that of the new-tlcn ,
Vniene.'in el -II
ehbi-h pretensions who
,-k- the t'ollt'ge of iiernms in
UOUlUfll
" ; i f.Vmiiv tr.... niilv te find
,,. uaceeul hi- familv tree ni te unii
tli.it it was in its unguis n ga lows inc. ,
All -eris of direpntnbh' and slimy eieu-
if net in his
tii'i-i were Ills lereii'-iii.
iiniii. il'.ne line, then at
least III the
cillat.-riil branches.
n.,i l..., nt In t alipe.ns.
And Mr.
i Wells inclines le the belief that h'1
emerged along the bunks of the 'limine
when- Londen new stands. AMnve-ti-
' ."itii.n- Live net been made in Asm nnd
Ut .-,, In- inluiits that it is pe-ibh'
tlat tb'. may be n mistaken view.
Hut he i confident that tin first man
wa 1...1 an American Mr. e., i
P pa rent l.v proud of the fuu that al
though his here
Might liave bee-i .1 Koesl-iati
Kreiuhman, Turk or iTeunhiu:',
dr, perh.u. i:y-tal-l-an.
In fiilK- of all ti-mptat...ns
Te ticlenff te ether nation..
H pmuins an KiuUshmu
7'ie pcni'iOncr of thu iniultiiutij
in Mr. WelW thinking is piirnculiirly
miTMlififf.
Br.KOI
interi
n toying witn
rnatienalism. but as seen us
rnclnnd was threatened he forget all
i about ibis amiable nnd bloodless doc
trim- and beenme mere pm-Hrltisi
,i,
V"ln
i the extremist l.iitlc KnglamW whom
he once tried te wither with his con-
tempt
lie traces the course of hi) here
1 threiiL'h the tneliisterli' periods where
lie Is as Iittl" hound by known facts
1 ii he wns in the period before the
, world emerged from i-l.nu. Hut he Is
net quite se dogmatic hi hi .-t.ilemint
a. he was in ins "(Mitline of Ilisterv."
He tells hew- man uiiule liiti lit hi tools,
hew organized sei iet bi-zun, hew wrl
iug was developed and se en until lie
reuehtH lilsterlc time. Then Man, his
here, multiplies lnt i men and he intro- i
duccb se great a number of chumcteis i
thnt it is uh dllTicult te keep truck of )
them and of their part in the story as
it In in Kathleen NertU' "Cciliilu l'eo l'ee
i pin of Importance."
' He i hnndlcapped, ten, by the fact
that the characters that he new intro intre
ducis ere real men about whom ether
men have written. There are se many
of them that it Is dllllcult in the space
available te refer te morn than one or
two of them. He Insists that .lulius
Caesar has received mui-h inure alien alien
lien i hit n Ins meriih justify, an opinion
which wns challenged when he expressed
it in his larger weik en the same sub
ject. And .Jesus, whom he resards for
the purposes of the hunk ns a man,
leaving the theological question open,
is described ns a political philosopher
intent en making ever the necinl and
economic organization of the world.
;Viln ill a point en which there is
,le difference et opinion and no ipse
u et air. wens win Bettle, the con-
rsjr, I cite the two cases te
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dhow I lie manner In which he bus
handled his ehnractera. n manner whlrh
eiicht te lie cenvlncitiR, but In many
instances Is far from It.
There are novel triffc (tnd Kith
out plots, fun the h'n enc, tehtther
they have a plot or net, are all in
teresting and worth ichilc.
WIIKTIIKK there is n plot te Ula Ula
teiv is n uui'Ntlun upon which men
nc (lUputt'd for centuries. Philos
ophers have exhausted their limiElna limiElna
tiens in discu-slnB it nud throleRinns
have reughl by appeal te authority te
istnhliKh the preposition that there IB u
tmrpose back of it all. Mr. "Wells has
a plot, the outcome of which does net,
jet appear, for lite story is net yet fin
ished. Hut It Is n plot with evolution
as its motive nnd he Ilnds evidence
that events have been tending in tbc
same general direction since the proto
plasm emerged from the primeval silt.
What its purpose is lie does net pre
tend te hay. The bet that the theo
logians have been able te say is that
its purpose is te glorify the Creater of
all things, ns though Omnipotent l'ewer
..1.1 . ....,! l! .... . I . A... nf l.n lit, win -
I nnuil Kei Kiaiuicuiiuu out ei wiu muuu-
1 tien of such ephemeridae as men.
i Henry Adams, who was it man of
considerable philosophic Insight, devoted
him-elf for several years te an effort te
Hud out n plot, but he gave up In
di-gust. for be could find no purpose
in the rlp and fall of nations, or in
the plagues nnd mnssacres which peri
odically wiped out thetihiinds of live.
And even the evolutionary theory was
unsatisfactory and inconclusive, for he
-aw about him living creatures identical
with fc-il remains found in the eldest
rock-. If a living creature Intel brought
forth after its kind without change for
hundreds of thousands of jears, what
j.i-titicatlen. he abked, was there for
the assumption thnt ether Hung crea
tures luid brought forth after different
kinds until un intelligent, articulute
man was prepaguted?
It would be presumptuous in me te
attempt te answer this question or te
degmatize about the plot of the story
of life en the earth of which Man is
the here. I am only pointing out that
.Mr. Wells' conception of the plot of
the tale is net universally accepted ns
1 correct.
I There is an excuse for Mr. "Wells,
heweier, for he is net content with
1 watching the. course of events. He
-eeks te influence it and te divert it in
, the direction which he in his infinite
' confidence in his own wisdom thinks i
best. Se in his concluding chapters he
suggests what ought te be the deneue
ment of his great tale; or it net uie u.
the I
I neuement, at lea-t the next step in
ileveletiment of the plot. Thee
ta.
i miliar with his sociological views can
gue-s what it is.
,., hl.mm..ri,,. :. Imlst be mid that
Te summarize, it
(1H )eV(1 J(j cyhj. . sooner is
ft ,haracter introduced than he is dis-
mKM,tl if ti,e r,.nder knows the Mery
a,ivnncP ),e can get sonic idea of what
,t ,s (lU (lbellti T1)C!je fault, ar) ,I1PU
table in nny work which attempts
te
cover he inucn greunu. u '" i "
a comprehensive story of what has hap
pened in K.000,000.000 jears within the
space of -I.'O pages, even if you com-,,1-e-s
the story of the rtr-t L'.'.tiiD.U'.le.dOO
venrs in the lirst Ufty pages. The
wonder is thnt the novelist ha- suc
ceeded se well.
uneite.i: w. Derca.AS.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S
LIFE PUT IN A PLAY
Yeung authors, in their lrgin efforts,
i ... .,, n
very elten ileiisui in iuiuiv.n --""J' -r
-seineuung . ..i - '..,",. "'
IMiliJliinii" uiiixictt ". ".,',
nonchalantly, tanv.us inures ui ..
m preW(.H aa statesmanship.
m (we I)jU10S b,lrcij.
nf ()i(ijr t(i(i)i( ftmj stujentH at Celutr
neu'-lmliintiy, taiwius iixurri ui imh,-.
nut
umbln
I"n!versit. loUaberateil en a piay mint
. ...--.
aiennd the life of Voltaire, ami mm
their jilrtj accepled, tee, though its ulti
mate reieptlen was none tee kind.
New- wi- have a drama built around
the tinted Florence Nightingale by a
Mning auriieress ny tnc numr m i.uuu
(Jitti'ig Held. "Tlerence Nightingale ' I
(Miemill.iu Company) Is n play that,
few will ilnd hard te rend. There is i
a si .net hues te it, and n certain liter- I
nrv disttnrtien that mukes it an inter-
.-ting studv for an evening at home. ;
The fact jemnlns. however, that there
is an ab-ence of dramatic red meat In '
it. There is net eneugu i-wium-i- n-u
eiieiizh uctualitv. It is simply the ex ex
iiltiiMeu by the uuther of n very high
tvp.. eif woman. It might be said that
the -puitual note of the famous nure'h
mlherenee te her duty nnd her id'-als
form the play's hnckbenc, hut thlb Is
net inetigh. The play simply lakes the
i generally accepted verdict of the world
i en Florence MKIilinguie. uus scene
' showing her home life, many of them
,!,,,. witit real understanntng nnu sym- ,
; imthj . and spreaus tlie uirce iicvs out ;
The only
, "ver a perieei i i"iv ;.-
I really vital thing about the piny Is the
patl.etlc eciie ei a wi "" "-. ,.r..-,
I iii,.i Tn this there Is rea
I rri"sJen
llUIIIIIIUK.l'VJ,
! I. . ,he wpnefl take place during
,, crunenn War. nnd have their net-
' ,i. ,,,, ,,r nrnr. the battlefields. Hven
,,, ,.,.:i(1in2 them, we cannot feel the
, prnMinitv of wnr and death nnd trag
,.lv. anil It is mini
te see hew- this
fi ding could be suppiieu any eciter en
the stage.
Mar.v Andersen Is quoted en the cover
a loud lit her praises 01 r lerence
Nightingale." The thought come that
enl if its leading role were te be played
by an artiste an great ns she was would
llllS llralUll or .uir.u inra imm ll
chance at success upon the beards.
Gunsaulua' Tribute te Field
.lames SlileHlie Is continuing his pub
lication of Fleldinna in extremely Ilm
lted editions. Ills latest, in an edition
of thirty-seven copies, is a reprint of
the tribute by Dr. Frank . OiiiimiuIus
read nt the funeral services of Kugene
rii.ld en November 0. ISO.I, Mr. Shields
has changed the original title of the
poem te " 'Saint' te 'Sinner,' " In al al
liileu te the tumeiiM Saints and Sin
new corner in the McClurg bookstore
In Chicago frefpieiited by both Field nnd
litliisaulus. Included In the thin vol
ume are u few stanzas from Jehn Him Him
ten Flnley'N poem, "The Other Saints
mid Sinners turner, written snowy
lifter the fuineus corner In C hlcage was
elestreyed by fire.
isvVVVVVVVVVVV ,
t Beoh Exchanges ',
5m
Out or I'RiNT noeKi ruRMiauKe.
CaUlPSTl' tassjusHf. K. It, Reblnss. 410
nfrJr r: Tre.r, Xerr Tr?rU,
ERVINE'S VIEWS
He Writes Entertainingly and
Infermingly About his Elder
Contemporaries ,
If any one is interested in whnt St.
Jehn G. Krvine thlnkM nhetit Gals
worthy nnd Shnw, Wells nnd Chester
ton, and several oilier contemporary
men of letter, he will find it net forth In
"Seme Impressions of My Elders" (the
MncmUlnn Cempnny), n volume in
which Mr. Ervine has assembled n
Ferles of csjy written originally for
the North American Ilevlcw.
What Mr. Ervine thinks about these
men is worth knowing. He Is ncqunlnted
with them nnd can interpret them mete
accurately than is possible for n writer
who knows them only through their
hooks. And he is n man of letters hlm
tclf who hns written some, distinguished
things. .Se his book is the comment of
one competent literary craftsman upon
the work and personality of a group of
ether competent literary craftsmen.
lie has written freely but at the same
time courteously, expressing his admira
tion nnd his crltcism with frankness,
nnd for the most part with charity. Hut
when he writes of the Irish, ns he does
In his essay en Hhaw, he nays things
which nre likely te brine n let of ether
Irishmen down en him with the fires of
their vituperation. He In speaking of
Synge and here is what-he says of him
nnd of the Irish :
I am disinclined te believe that
Kynge was a crent dramatist. lie
brought a desirable element of bit
terness nnd acrid, beauty Inte the
sticky mean of nelf-atlBfnctlen and
bentlmcntallRtn which Is known u
Irleh literature, but I feel that he
was lacking In Maying-power. He
shot his belt when he wrote 'The
I'labey of the Western World," the
chief value of which lay in the fact
that it ripped up the smugness of
the Irish people, than whom there are
no ether people In the world se
pleased with themselves en bucIi Blen
der grounds, nnd taught them the
much-needed lessen that they are very
llke the lest of C.ecVs creatures. SynBe
portrayed the Irish people faithfully
as he saw them: he put In the ele
ment of peutty In the Celtic char
acter, but he iiIbe put In Hie element
of cruelty; he put In the wit and gen
erosity, but he also put In the dul -ncss
and the gieert . be put In the gal
lantry, but he ais P"1 "', "'" V"
ardice; he put In the nobility, but he
also put in the brutalltj. In ether
words, he saw at the ine time the
Idealism of I'adrale I'l'iirse unJ
Themas Macdonough permeated by
the incredible btut.illty of De patera 8
rulllans.
Mr. Ervine admires the untiinnce ei
I Hhaw nnd Insists that he is one of the
I greatest contemporary writers, but he
savs that he needs the conceive of
Chesterton, who wns horn 10 imsc mi'
remark "On the eentrnrj" te whateve
Shaw may say. The fendud ng para
L i. ..r i.tu eulr en Wells is illumi
:..,, lt wrltl'K that he remembers
i v'. w!,.tu. iiM a dark iinagc eh
scu'rely seen, and Mr. Shaw as it shy.
irect man who talks emphnt cally he
i iiuse otherwise he would net be talking
at al . He rcmemiiers uui-uii.i. ."
. . -t l.l.. 1.1 ti.i.tli tnvt lie
should say tee much, and .,cerg Moere
.... ...... u ,,,,,,. i i, u inn ,. v..,. . ' -
as one who is const. in u " '"" ""
he will net say eiieuBn. .... -tnembered
as nn eager, friendly man,
whose speech, thinly uttered, suggests
(utitinunl testing. .
The book is one which these who nnd
pleasure in reading literary jritUIsm il
luinlnnted by criticism of life will be
likely te prize highly.
THE WISSAHICKON AND
ITS MANY CHARMS
-n,n rinrden Club of this city is re
spensible for the puh'icatlen of u me-t
informing hepls about the issalncken. I
II ha- been compiled by 1. A. Daly and,
illu-t rated by Herbert rulllugcr. heui , $'J()00 am KOt out for a trip te En
gentlemen have done their work witlijr0j,ft intending te keep en going tin
the skill expected of them. 'Ihe greater, ti uis nieney or vitality or both gave
pint of the volume is devoted te a , euti This trip proved se interesting
descriptive nnd historical guide te the that he forget all about his health, but
,.n..,- Tin. sterv of tnu ,i. Lii.iititn ..I ..i,i.,.. -n,..l
buildings within it is gen, the legendh i lllt,,M ,u h,.njis them for siinulta
tliat center about it ureietp.il, ''H I neens publication le various nevvspa
place in the history of the citv is llxed. i ,,crs throughout the l'nite-cl Slates. '
V map of the whole valley, which shews1 Slm,() t,cu j,-ri,nk O. Carpenter's travel
its course, is supicmenieu uj a '';
n ups of sections of it
enUirell
enough te indicate the historic buiUl-
rw nnu siii-h aim worn- niu -.v -
cress or Intersect it. I here nre nrucn-.-ii
nn its geology, its trees ami wim ii -
il'r.-.. 1 1 r. Iltunev i .. ....
:... mnLMd urwi is einin : 111111 it
.11(,es wti, n iist 0f the rallreau
ni trelle;y routes lending te It. ine
leek is such a guide ns lias long uecu
needed. I
Mere Nevlll Reminiscences
n. I. Dutten & Ce. announce a new
volume of reminiscences by Italph Ne
vlll whose "Miiyfalr and Mentinartre
thev i.reueht out last veur. The forth
coming volume will be called "iester-,
day nnd Today." and it will, among
ether things, make a comparison be
tween the morals and manners and so
cial customs of u generation age and
the present time. I
A Bird Anthology
Teenis About llllds." an anthology
compiled by II. .1. Mnssingham, the
Knglish writer and naturalist, is te be
an early publication by K. V. Dutten
& Cn that will Interest bird levers.
- Beulah Marie
ings nnd sitit) nnu wnere tnc birwivn,,,
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Sara Teasdale has made a beautiful collection of poetry
for boys and girls; there is a fine Navy story from Captain
Beach; stories of the living beauty of ancient days by Jennie
Hall; a collection of "real" animal stories by Frances Kent;
the quaint and delightful Memoirs of a Londen Dell, and an
entirely new kind of story for little tots in Charlie and His
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nerarlm I NAPOLEONIC CLOSE-UP
Memoirs of His Mameluke Shew
the Man in Exile
Seme day the available material for
Xnpoleeniatm will run out, but that day
is in the far reniote and only supposi
tious future. Just hew remote that day
is enn be surmised when, u hundred
years after the death of "The Little
Corporal" an "eyewitness" story of his
daH of grandeur nud of his days of exile
is making Its appearance.
Leuis Etlenne St. Denis was second
Mameluke and personal vulet te the Em
peror nnd followed him te Elba nnd
later te St. Helena and was with him
nt his dentil. Before his own death St.
Denis wrote a sort of sketchy memoir of
his experiences which lie gave te the
keeping of his family, who held the
manuscript unpublished till recently.
These memoirs Harper & Ures. lirjvc
new published in English under the title
"Napeleon l'rem the Tullerlcs te St
Helena."
St. Denis beasts little of literary style
nor. apparently did he expect te take the
place of a historian, as he did net fertifv
himbelf with notes as Important happen
ings were going en about him. re, in
inter years, he had te content himself
with refctcnec te his memory and he is
fnnk in saving that this often fulled
him.
I his disjelntcdncbs nud vagueness nr
true especially el his narration et
events preceding the Inst trln te St.
Helena, but of events nud persons en
the island he is much surer.
Description of the last days of the
fallen Emperor gives a niiman picture of
the once dictator of Europe. There nre
muny personal anecdotes. Here is n
man, failing in health, one with a short
temper, who resorts te a kick te stir n
laggard servant. And St. Denis or All
ns he was known the recipient of the
kick, naively mys lie forgave his muster
when he spoke nicely te him the follow
ing tiny.
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