Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
POPULAR HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF

POPLAR HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF CoLUM:
His VOYAGES. Discoveries and General Career
Digest OF All the Facts Obtaina.ble from
Enrant Historical Critical, Biographical and
nanse ProfeSsor Satnra Science and Author
OF ..Our Birds in Their Haunts.' &c, and
Pnn:Amcrican Confcrcace. washington: wom-
ans National Press Association
Very far, indeed, from being a stllted es-
say on the great seaman, and in it's SIM
plicity unlike any of the preceding efforts
of any moment to show the world what
manner of man Christopher Columbus was.
1t is book without a theory, its authors
being entirely careless as to whether Co
lumbus really discovered this land or not;
1t being suggested in the introduction that
II might be just as well to end the debate
as to the priority of discovery by admitting
that the aborigines first found the western
continent but that Columbus be awarded
the glory that should be his for giving
America to the world There is entire alb
Sence of sectarianism and partiSanShip in
the treatment of a subject that has caused
many authors considerable trouble 1t Is
history for the people.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL.
Gods Image in Man. Edward Burton"
&c. Boston: Lee X Shepard
standpoint of evolution and natural law,
and does 1t in a manner which entertains
even those who would be frightened by the
subject. The titles of few of the chapters
afford an idea of the books contents.
Among them are The Law of Cooperation.
The Law of Competition. Combinations of
Capital. Combinations of Labor, Profit
Sharing, Socialism, Economic Legislation,
Can Capital and Labor be Harmonized? The
Distribution of Wealth. The Capitalization
of Business, Booms and Pancs. Money and
Coinage, Tariffs and Protection, Industrial
Education, etc, etc.
AND STATES FINANCES, lNSEPARABIE
but DISTINCT SCIENCES BY lgnatius
Batory. Baltimore: The Sun.
Discussion, such as is found in this little
handbook, has been NJ. Batorys delight
for years. Believing that the object of The
trainers of our government was "a cheap
government and happy people" the author
proceeds to point out what he believes to be
the only way to national prosperity and
personal comfort. He aims to show how
every man can make living easily, and
has convinced himself, at least, that his ar
guments are unassailable. a better motive
than that which urged Mr.. Batory to pub
licity could hardly be conceived.
SOME SALIENT POINTS IN THE SCIENCE OF
THE EARTH. BY Sir ]. William Dawson.
CM.G., LID, FRS. Figs, &c. With
Brothers. Washington: Woodward & Iothrop.
This, says the brief preface, lis intended
as closing deliverance on some of the
more important questions of geology, on the
part of a veteran worker, conversant in his
younger days with those giants of the last
generation, who. in the heroic age Of geo.
logical science, piled up the mountains on
which 1t is now the privilege of their sue
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welcome the information given and the con-
illusions reached.
THE FLIGHT OF THE SWALLOW. Bv Emily
Maleone Morgan. Author of "A Poppy Gar
S ven. Mad, Madonnas :, Of the Smoke" &c. New
ton: c. c. Pursell.
The story of temporarily poor French
nobleman. who endeavored to earn a liveli-
hood by teaching some of the young folks
or a New England village how to dance:
how he was unrighteously prosecuted I'm the
name OF religion. and how he heaped Goals
OF nre on his tormentors' heads when for
tune smiled on him. A fascinating sketch
or bygone days and people who are now
rare
JEBLO INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO. Extra
Census Brlletin. BY Thomas Donaldson. EY-
pert Special Agent. Washington: United States
Census Printing Office.
Mr.. Donaldson is to be congratulated on
this especially interesting contribution to
modern ethnology. A vast amount of in
formation about a strange people is con-
tanned within the 40 pages of a publication
whlch called for much research and energy
before 1t was ready for the printer Some
OF the Illustrations are very good
TWO GERMAN GIANTS: Frederick the Great
ana bismarck; The Founder and the Builder
or Hermnn Empire. by John Lord. DID,
LID. Author of 'BeacOn Lights of History -
Ne At; To which are added Character sketch Of
bismarck ny Bayard Taylor and Bismarck's
Great speech on s the Enlargement Of the Ger
NAN NAN Army ny, In lSss: With Two Portraits New
ton; William Ballantyne & Sons
DR.. Lord deals fairly with the two great
est of Germany's princes. hesitating not to
smite when he deems blow necessary and
pouring out praise in unsparing quantity
when there is good reason for admiration
IN TIE SHADOW OF THE ALEXANDRIA. or
TIE LAST OF THE MOORISH KINGS. By
Is. Newman x Co.
An interesting historical romance the de-
tails of which Were acquired by the author
during many years of travel and study
in the lands where the scenes are laii A
book of heroes and villains, murder, mys-
terry and love.
MASSES AND CLASSES. A Study of industrial
condition, ,H,hnI, In England by Henry Tuckley.
Day Eden" &c. Cincinnati: Cranston &
Curtis.
Hardly an embarrassing sentence IN this
from beginning to end. Mr.. Tuckley makes
plain the precise situation of British toilers
OF both sexes and makes many instructive
comparisons A good book for the discon-
tented American wage-earner to read and
digest.
A CHRONICLE OF SMALL BEER. By John
Reid. New York: J. Selwin TAFT & SONS
The gift for chronicling such minor mat
tiers as Mr.. Reid includes in the term
small beer" is rarely bestowed. but II is
possessed by this particular chronicler TO a
delightful extent. A readable series of
sketches.
DOLLARS AND SENSE. FOR FIFTY CENTS
The Money Making Booklet for BUSINESS Men
OF Brains. By NathI C. Fowler, Jr Boston:
The Trade Co. " ~
The keenwitted merchant who has not
quite mastered the science of advertising
will find in Mr.. Fowler's latest a mine of
Information and suggestion worth digging
into.
DAVID OF JUNIPER GULCH A Story Of the
Placer Regions of California. Bv Lillian
ShuCN. of