Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-01
NEW PUBLICATIONS,

THE PEOPLES MONEY. By W. l. TRENHOLM
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Brentanos.
This book, as the author says in his intro
duction, wns not written for the learned. 70,
those who are versed in economic literature
but for tho large number OF plain people who
desire to get some practical ideas upon the i'm.
portnnt subject to which they relate. Very
clearly. and in accordance with most excellent
method. mr.. Trenholm proceeds to the
work OF education. His wide experience in
treasury matters has given him all the
experience any one man needs, but no
amount OF financial experience could endow a
writer with the ability to impart information
in the concise and simple manner SO success
fully used in this modest volume. Legal tender.
treasury note circulation. bank-note circulation,
the balance of trade, the volume Of money and
standards Of value will not long be enigmas to
the general public If The Peoples Money" is
widely read.
REPRESENTATIVE ENGLISH LITERATURE
FROM CHAUCER TO TENNYSON. Selected
and supplemented with Historical Connections
and Map. BY HENRY 5. PASooAsT, lecturer
on English Literature in the American Society
for the Extension of University Teaching. New
YORK: Henry Holt Co. Washington: VIM.
BallaDtyne Sons.
Prot. Pancoast has accomplished that which
he started out to do; has written a book which
will be Of value to those who are beginning to
teach the study of English literature in accord
ance with modern methods The student is
brought directly into contact with the warm.
pulsating spirit Of the authors whose bodies
have returned to dust. Heretofore it was
deemed sufficient that the great classics be
studied in fragmentary way; now they are to
be discussed in their entirety. This book will
aid in the reform.
ON SLEDGE AND HORSEBACK TO THE OUT
CAST SIBERIAN LEPERS. BY KATE MARS
DEN, member Of the Royal British Nurses Asso-
citation, member and medalist or the Russian
Imperial Red Cross Society, &C., fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society. New York: Cas-
sell h Co. Washington: Brentanos.
Three hundred pages of pleading for such
help as will result in the securing Of comfort
and medical attendance for the most fearfully
afd1cted OF people; q piteous appeal to the
charitable OF Great Britain and America. calling
upon the humane of those countries to do for
Russian unfortunates those things which Russia
does not seem over anxious to attempt Sad
in its details and evidently the plain truth For
her missionary effort, put forth under great
dlHlc ulties and at the expense OF much personal
sacrifice, Miss Marsden is entitled to ali praise
Her work should be encouraged.
TENTING ON THE PLAINS; or, Gen. Custer
IN Kansas and Texas. By ELIzABErH b. Gus
TER New YORK: Charles l.. Webster * Co.
perfect Photographic and phouographic
ately followed the close of the war of the re-
belllon. Other women have suffered or en-
loyed Just such experiences as those of which
Mrs. Custer chats SO delightfully."-, but none of
them, nor, for that matter. has any man given
to the civilian public such cleyerly written
sketches OF frontier army life as are to be found
In this unpretentious volume, fifty dedicated
Ito him whose brave and biithe endurance
made those who followed him forget, in his
sunshiny presence, half the hardship and the
danger"
RECoLLEcTIoSs OF MIDDLE LIFE. By FRAN
CIsQUE SAGE. Translated by Elisabeth
Luther Cary. New YurK: Charles Scribner's
Sons Washington: b:entano's.
1t would be more ,han strange If the auto
biographical production o; such man as NJ.
Sarcey was not extremely interesting For
more than thirty years he has been one of the
most conspicuous among the hterati and art
lovers of Paris. He is q successful journalist, a
dramatic critic Of international reputc, novel,
list and a lecturer. His recoilections give the
reader insight into the social and intellectual
life OF France such as has not been afforded by
recent writer's.
THE NOVEL WHAT 1T IS: By F. MARION
CRAWFORD. New York: Macmillan a On
Washington: VIM. Ballantyne Sons.
Many people who are really interested in
the building of novels will enjoy brief.
such as comes from the brain and hands of one
who is in the front rank Of those who today
write acceptable English fiction. Marion Craw-
ford writes equally well whether he be dealing
with others, as he generally does, or with him
self, as in this instance.
TWO WAYS OF BECOMING HUNTER. Bv
HARRY CAsrLENoN. Philadelphia: Porter
Coates Washington: VIM. Ballantyne Sons.
boys book by q man who has written most
successfully Of the doings Of all sorts Of boys.
This volume has a moral or two hidden In it.
The MASKED VENUS. A Story Of MANY Lands
BY RICHABD HENRY SAVAGE, author of my
Omcial Wife" 1.-The Little Lady OF Laguntas,'
prince Schamyls wooing," &c. New York:
The American News Company.
ELEMENTS OF ARITHMETIC FOR PRIMARY
AND INTERMEDIATES CLASSES IN PUBLIC
AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. BY WILLIAM J.
MILNE. Phi. IL D. president of NevYork state
Normal College. New YorE: American Book
Company. =
1YRA MORDAUNT. Story Of Love and Con.
stancy. By W. y. NcMlILAH. Third Edition.
Chicago; Morrill,, Higgins Co.
GERFANT. BY ClARLRs On BERNARD. Trans
lated from the Preach By A. A. Page. Illus
0asod. chicago: Laird Lee.