Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. An &C.
count Of the big game Of the United States
by theodore Roosevelt, author Of Hunt
ing Trips Of a Ranchman." Ranch Life
she Boone and S
honorary member of the London Alpine
Club: Illustrated. New York: G. p. Put
mans Sons Washington: Brentano's.
Few men who are on intimate fighting
terms with Americas big game could hope
to tell their experiences in the interesting
fashion common to Mr.. Roosevelt, and none
Of those who have essayed the literature of
the chase on this continent have reached
that degree Of excellence which makes
comparison possible. Mr. Roosevelts ex-
perience has been most comprehensive--his
long residence in the west having given
him opportunities not afforded the casual
Nimrod. He has, to use his own words.
hunted much, among the mountains and
on the plains. both as a pastime and to
procure hides. meat and robes for use on
the ranch and II was my very good luck TO
Kill all the various kinds of large game that
can properly be considered to belong to
temperate North America" Mr.. Roose-
velts descriptive talent has been given full
swing In a field where his pre-eminence is
universally conceded and the amateur
seeker after the great game of the North
an overlooking store Of valuable Informal
ton and advice. The work Of an enthusi-
asst Is always delightful and that Mr.. Roose-
welt Is enthusiastic must be evident TO
those who read him where he writes OF the
hunter in lonely lands that for him IL the
JOY OF the horse well-ridden and the rife
well-held; for him the long days Of toll and
hardship. resolutely endured, and crowned
at the end with triumph. In after years
70 ind h.
memory Of endless prairies shimmering In
the bright sun; OF vast snow-clad wastes
lying desolate under gray skies: OF
the melancholy marshes; OF the rush
Of mighty rivers; OF the breath of the
evergreen forest In summer: OF the Groom
ing Of ice-armored pines at the touch of
the winds Of winter: Of cataracts roaring
between hoary mountain masses; OF all the
innumerable sights and sounds Of the wild
erness: of its immensely and mystery; and
Of the silences that brood In its still depths"
THE EMPIRE OF THE TsARs AND
THE RUSSIANS. BY Anatole Leroy-Beau-
lieu. member of the Institute of France
Translated from the third French edition
member of the American Oriental So
ciety." OF the .Societe Ethnologique" Of
Paris, OF the Victoria Institute" London;
The Story of Assyria," &C. New York:
@. P. Putnams Sons. Washington: Bren-
tano's
How such an eminently fair statement Of
fact as Is the spinal cord Of this book could
be forbidden circulation in Russia lie one of
those things not easily to be understood
by people who are not on terms of reason
able intimacy with Russia's governmental
condition. Truthful and absolutely eouita-
BILE In its premises the argument leads up
| to conclusions that would be irresistibly
logical to the minds of all save those whose
| selfinterest binds them to the car and his
| methods. The principles OF autocracy are
cleverly and honestly discussed. and that
alone is the reason why the official censor
has set upon the volume the seal OF his dis
approval The author insists that Russia
while a Christian state is not a state OF
! our time: that it belongs to the Europe OF
long ago: that to imagine, on the faith Of
the almanacs. that Russia as she is and the
Emperor Alexander III belong to the end
of the ninteenth century is. in spite OF all
chronological tables, a gross anachronism.
and on such a base this he POUNDS his
criticism. He holds that the Tsar Alex
ander Alexandrovitch. crowned in the
Kremlin Of Moscow. is not so much the
contemporary of Queen Victoria as Of
Queen Isabel Of CASTLE" The upright
ness of the emperors intentions and the
loftiness Of his character are declared 10 be
beyond all doubt. but NJ Leroy Beaulieu
will have II that neither the emperor nor
his people live in the same intellectual at
mosphere with ourselves. that AL that has
been done In Europe or America for the
last four centuries. since the time of Co.
lumbus and Luther. Washington ana Mira
beau Is as far as Russia is concerned. nom
existent" Feeling thus and willing to give
the Slav a chance to win for himself a
place in civilization the author proceeds to
furnish information as to the RUSSIA
character such as is not provided by any
other writer on the people Of that enormous
empire. The Empire of the Tsars'' is en-
joyable food for thoughtful men and wo-
men.
FOUR CENTURIES AFTER: OR HOW
DISCOVERED EUROPE. BY Ben Holt
New York and Washington: Brentano's.
Would have been a much better book had
the author not been so persistent and so