Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-27

With Two PhotograSur3 Portraits In two vol
umes. New York; stoCharles Scribner's Sons.
Washington: Brenta,lps.
Stanley in Africa.is a familiar figure. but
Stanley in the United States is practically
unknown. Yet the .1rpw famous explorer
who has recently achieved a seat in the
British house of scommons-was once a
newspaper reporteroand correspondent on
this country's frontier. Much of what he
saw in those days found its way into print
at the time, but the impressions he then
made upon his readers have doubtless faded
away long since, soslhis book comes with
refreshing newness to testify to conditions
that have vanished ibefore the westward
movement of a civilization that needed not
the distractions offered by arid plains,
lofty mountain ranges. treacherous streams
and large and varied assortment of blood
thirsty savages. Especially interesting are
the, chapters devoted to Indian affairs, for
Stanley gathered his prairie experiences in
company with Generals Sherman, Hancock,
Augur, Custer, Harvey, Terry and others
whose names and deeds are essentials of
western history. The Asiatic matter in the
second volume is very readable.
STUDIES OF MEN By George W. smalley an-
thor Of London Letters, and Some Others &c.
New York: Harper Brothers. Washington:
Woodward & LOthrop.
Mainly reprints from letters written for
=
have not lost force by reason Of their prior
publication. In their ephemeral form they
went the way of most newspaper matter,
but In their present shape-a neat volume
they will be preserved and appreciated.
The men who are critically and cleverly
sketche are-in some instances were-Car-
diral Newman, Lord Granville, Mr.. Bal
four, Mr.. Parnell. the seventh Duke of
Devon shire, Mr.. Spurgeon, Tennyson, the
Germaa emperor, Bismarck, the Master Of
Balliol CDR. JowetO. Professor Tyndall, Sir
Edward Burne-Jones, Lord Rosebery, Sir
William Harcourt, Mrs. Humphrey Ward
Lord Bowen, william Walter Phelps, Presi-
dent Carnot, Mr.. Froude, Mr.. Winthrop.
oliver Wendell Holmes, John Walter,
Francis Maynard, Lord Randolph Church
i'll and George William Curtis.
READINGS FROM THE OLD ENGLISH ORA
MATISTs. By Catherine Mary Reynolds Wins
Lee & Shepard
The publishers announce that Mrs. Wins
lows work is designed to illustrate the
stages in the progress of English dramatic
literature, and is particularly timely. in
view of the present interest in the subject.
The first period includes the Mosques and
miracles of the fifteenth and sixteenth GEN.
turtles. The second period dwells chiefly on
Marlowe, with specimens from Lyly, Ben
Jonson. Beaumont and Fletcher. The au-
thor then passes to the early Stuart drama,
including Webster, Massinger and Ford,
and for the restoration period Farquhar's
Inconstant is given. The eighteenth CEN
fury includes Oliver Goldsmith and Richard
Brinsley Sheridan. large number of
carefully selected scenes from typical au-
thors are presented, with Mrs. Winslow's
comments on the authors scenes and char
acterS.
DISHONESTY AND CASTE. BY Ethel Davis. Bos-
ton: Home Science Publishing Co.
House-furnishing. entertaining, domestic
service. housekeeping and home-making.
education and religion are the principal
topics treated. Few persons know SO much
of these matters that they cannot add to
their information. y Az
THE STORY OF FORT. FRAYNE By Capt Charles
y King, US-A., author of The CoOnels Daugh-
ter" Between the Lines" &c. Chicago: F.
Tennyson Nicely.
Through newspaper syndicate publication
Fort Frayne" has bacome well known to
the reading public.Ii Itis another of Kings
army tales; all OF them good enough to
deserve preservation.
DOCTOR HATHERN's; DAUGHTERS A Story of
20 Nirginia, in -Four Psts. By Mrs. Mary J:
eH'eS S p sSa
light English orphans. = "Gretchen," &c.
SeM 1Sys c. y, pa Washington
Extr@me length strains the narrative, but
not SO as to- seriously affect its. power.
We're the sterylskillfplly edited by be-
lever in forcefm brevity, Doctor Hath
ems Daughters" would be clever novel
of the better SORT.
POTOMAC SERIES Club Number. Washington:
Potomac Series Co: Woodward \ Lothrop. ~.
Something about Washington women and
SC me of their organizations. Folks who
want to know what number of the work.
ing women Of Washington are doing for
themselves and for others should read this
booklet.
AGNosTICIsM AND RELIGION. Being an E1-
animation of Spencers Religion of the Unknow
able. Preceded by History Of Agnssticism
~ Dissertation for the Designate In Ihao1osy at
George Lucas. Baltimore: John Murphy.
The author will be content if this product
CT his mind convinces a few persons that
the pseudo science and the pseudo religion
are unsound. To his mental eye there Is
of color in science and religion,
and his effort Is to make plain the intimate
relations Of the truly scientific and the
truly religious.
INEBRIErY OR NARCoMANIA; Its Etiology. Pa
tholosy, Treatment and Jurisprudence. By Nor
man Kerr, MID, Els, Fellow of the Medical
Society Of London; President Society for the
Study of Inebriety; Chairman British Medical
Association Inebriates Legislation Committee
&c. New York: ]. Selwin TAFT 4 Sons.
The third edition of a work that must. in
the near future, have far greater circula-
ton than has yet been its fortune. A more
comprehensive study Of drunkenness in all
its phases could hardly be imagined. and
although the distinguished author treats
his subject without any appearance of
bias, he nevertheless breaches
temperance on every one of nearly six hum
bred pages. DR.. Kerr expresses the entire
iy rational hope that his efforts will aid,
however feebly, ''in the enlightenment of
the patient his sorely-tried relatives ana
the community, in the great truth that in
ebriety is a disease, durable as most
other diseases, calling for medical, mental
and moral treatment" To practitioners in
law and medicine the book must be Of
great value.
THE TRAGEDY OF PuDD'NIIEAD WILSON AND
THE COMEDY THOSE EXTRAORDINARY
TWINS" by Mark Twain Samuel L.Clemens,.
With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford: Amer
lean Publishing Co.
The tragedy" is all right, something
that, in view Of the authors reputation as
a humorist, is rather surprising; the com
edy"-which logically should be first-class
is probably less satisfactory than any,
thing else Mark Twain ever wrote. Dis
readers will enjoy Pudd nhead
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