Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-22


| COLUMBUS. OHIO
| ma ,30d4,7 IL ,14,1s,21,22
the interesting topics noted in the titles
| Dainty productions throughout.
| TIE YEAR BOOK OF AMERICAN AUTHORS
Written and Complied by Ida Scott Taylor and
| Raphael Tuck & Sons Co.
One Of the most acceptable Of the clever
| compilations so popular as gift books in
| this gift-gtying and gift receiving season.
| The artist who scans the dozen page-illus-
| trations can hardly do otherwise than
praise.
| CHATTERBOX 1894. Edited by j. Erskine Clark.
| MA. Boston: Estes Lauriat.
This is the ''only and original" Chatter
box. Preceding volumes have been the
| source of almost unlimited instruction and
amusement. 1t is a publication that seems
| TO improve with age.
FRoGLAND WEDDING. Words and nlustra-
tions by Roy CoEger. Music by Helen Hitch
| cock. Chicago; Laird Lee.
| A children's holiday book.
LOVE SONGS OF CHILDHOOD BY Eugene Field
New York: Charles Scriblers Sons. Washing
ton: BrcntanO's
Charnningly as Eugene Field writes, he
is at his best when he plays with the little
ones. AS maker of lullabies he is with
out peer.
LITERARY AND SOCIAL. ESSAYS. BY George
| william Curtis. New York: Harper a Brothers.
Washington. Woodward * Lothrop.
| With the one exception of the treatise
=! upon Sir Philip Sidney, all the essays in this
| volume have been previously published,
some of them many years ago. The SUBJ
jects are Emerson, Hawthorne, the works
of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rachel Thack-
| cray in America, Sir Phil Sidney, Long
| fellow, Oliver Wendell Dimes and Wash
| ington Irving. Completeness cannot be
claimed for a library in which these essays
| have no place.
LITTLE MIR. THIMBLEFINGER AND HIS QUEER
| COUNTRY. What tie Children Saw and Heard
| There by Joel Chandler Harris, author OF
| Uncle Remus. &c. Illustrated by Oliver Her
| ford. Boston: Houghtcn, Mifiiin Co. Wash
/ ington: Robert BeaIl.
Some of these stories. says the gifted
chronicler of Uncle Remus, were gathered
from the negroes, but were not embodied
| in the tales Of Uncle Remus, because
was not they were negro stories:
| some Middle Georgia folklore stories,
| and no ooubt belong to England; and some
| are merely Inventions" But no matter
| what their place of origin-whether Britain
| or African or the brain of josh Chandler
| Harrs-they are simply delightful.
UNDER FII!E; By Capt. Charles King. y; $: A..
| Faith" Captain Blake &c. With llnstra-
| tions by G. Is. Cox. Philadelphia j. Is. Lip
| pincott Co. Washington: Brentanos.
In many respects the best of Capt. Kings
many good novels. OF course tits an army
story, but it will be welcomed by lots of
readers who know next to nothing of the
| service. Army people are after all but or
| binary beings with as much of human ma
| ture in them as Is in non-military folks;
| they are sketched from life In Under
| Fire"
of an mhG
Persuaded" AZ New York: The Merriam Co.
An odd story. full Of strange conceits
and the material Of which dreams are
made.
THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN
| .GREi;NLEAF WHITTIER Cambridge Edition
| Boston: Houghton, Mifiin Co. Washington:
Brentano's.
| This, altogether the best edition of Whit
tier with which the public has been ia
| vored, and, SO far as the text is concerned,
| cannot possibly De improved upon. Along
| with the old favorites-revised by the
author not very long before his death-are
| some of his latest gems; few of them
unknown until his papers were examined
| by his executors
| AND POWERS OF ADAPTATION. by c. os-
| borne Ward, Translator 10 the United States
Waterman Co.
Treats a phase Of political economy in
! such plain language that all can under
| stand and appreciate 1t.
| 1t rebukes scorchingly the abuses of our
| prevalent competitive system, and, as
| remedy for these, Mr.. Ward proposes a
national cooperative system, under de-
| partmental supervision and control, with
the application of civil service principles,
based Iupon natural aptitude, or superior
| fitness. This, he believes, is already proved
| to be emnently practical, by referring TO
the Post Office, Treasury, Agricultural,
Army and Navy Departments, in which
exists a nucleus, working upon this very
system in highly satisfactory manner
THE DAUGHTER OF THE NEz PERCES BY
Arthur Paterson. American Authorized Edition.
New York: Geo. Gottsberger Peck Washing
| o ton: Brentanos.
Exciting enough to please the hungriest
searcher after lively incident Based upon
history it has a right 10 more of existence
than is usually accorded novels of this
class Throws some light upon Indian af-
| fairs as they used to he. Sketches TO the
| life the great Chief Joseph
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. BY Edward Cary.
American Men OF Letters Series. Boston:
Hoaghton Mifiin Co. Washington: Bren-
tanos.
An altogether admirable photograph OF
one of the truly great men this country
has produced.
| NAVAL CADET CAIlLYLE'S GLOVE. by Iona
| Oakley Gorham New York: j. Sel"in TAFT
Sons.
A strong novel of the society" sort; in
which there are tense situations, such as
might be expected when the characters are
studied. The finale is tragic; a clever bit
of descriptive work.
TIE BANKING SYSTEM OF THE UNITED
STATES and its Relation TO the Money and
business of the Country. BY Charles q. Dawes.
Chicago: RaId, McNally 20.
A business subject dealt with by busi-
ness man who thinks, and rightly, that
there can be no proper understanding OF
the monetary problems of the day uniesS
the relation of the bank-credlt money ol
the country to the money OF the govern
ment is fully comprehended.
IN THE DoZY HOURS AND OTHER rAPEIS
by Agnes Reppiier. Boston: nousn'on' +"'
fiu & Co. Washington: Brchtaho =
PICTURES OF SWEDISH LIFE; Or, Svea and her
Children BY Mrs Woods Baker, author OF
'Our Elder Brother. salt Inc baI ~ !"
the Basket" &c. New York: Arson ~ r.
Randolph * Co. Washington: "liiA"ni pai-
lantyne 4 sons
THE LOST ARMY BY Thomas w; Knox; author
nf Il Close slave The Talking Handker-
Chief, The Roy Travellers" &c. Illustrated
New York: The Merriam Company. Washing