Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-04

Industrial Life, with the Pronunciation and
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AM, DID, LID. assisted by the following ~;
editorial , staff AZ Prof Alpheus s Packard Dud
| Chester. james. NJ. Buckley, Prof Henry Mar
George G. Reynolds, John Clark Ridpath New
York: Hunt & Eaton. Washington Il. A.
Dinsnore CPS street.
"Of making many books there is no end,'
and especially does this undeniably accu-
| rate scrirtural statement seem to apply
| to books of the encyclopedia sort. New
dictionaries have of recent years made for
| themselves Eonored places in useful litera-
| ture, and now comes a new encyclopedia
| an encyclopedia edited and complied by
mere than hundred of the men who are
eminently suited to such a task The pub
fishers principal reasons for the presenta-
| ton of this valuable work of reference at
this time are that all encyclopedias other
| than this lack freshness; that "all the
| civilized governments of the world make
a thorough enumeration of thejr resources
| social, industrial and physical-once in
| every decade" and that sin this last quar-
| ter of the nineteenth century the pace of
human progress is so rapid that any trust
| worthy work of reference needs constant
| revision in order to fifty represent the lat
est achievements of the forces of civiliza
| tion." This encyclopedia follows as close
| ly as possible the conclusion reached in
| the almost co-ncdental census of The
| United States, Great Britain, Germany and
| Canada In every respect this siX-volume
| edition is an improvement upon the one
| issued under the same auspices in 1881, at
| which time the work achieved remarkable
| success and in the succeeding years be
| came deservedly popular The Peoples
| Cyclopedia is specially valuable to those
| who, for many reasons, do not care to
| possess .cyclopedias which deal with topics
"a great length. The editing has been very
| carefully done, the effort evidently having
| been TO condense information without sac
| ritjciQg of the essential facts Mention
also should be made of the fact that the
Peoples is an American cyclopedia, special
attention having been given to the south
| and west in their social, industrial and po-
ftical aspects. Pertinent illustrations, adj
mirable maps and a great variety Of charts
| and diagrams add materially to the value
| of a most excellent work.
GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. A series
of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
| than two hundred of the most prominent per-
| sonages in history. New York: Selmar Hess.
| Washington: c. f. Lipscomb, 1905 street.
Published by subscription and subdivided
into sixty-eight parts, this work deserves
to achieve useful popularity 1t deals with
! soldiers, sailors, statesmen, sages, work.
men, heroes, artists and authors, and it
does so in such a fashion that the book at
once establishes itself as one of the fea-
| lures necessary to anything approaching
| completeness in a modern library. The
| range of personalities literally sketched is
| very wide, and within it's bounds may be
| found great proportion of those who at
some stage or other of the worlds history
| have achieved more or less of fame. Caius
Marius and Julius Caesar receive the atten-
| ton to which they are entitled. and SO do
| Thomas Carlyle, Sarah Bernhard, William
! Hogarth. Benjamin West, Grover Cleve-
| land and host of other celebrities of all
| sorts. Some of the illustrations, notably
| the photographers, are especially excellent.
Among the authors who have contributed
| to the biographical riches of this book are
Theodore Roosevelt, II. H. Boyesen, Louise
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| ingalls,, VIII Carleton, H Rider Haggard,
| Edgar Fawcett, Albion W. Tourgee, Noah
Brooks Murat Halstead. Edward Everett
| Carthy and William Lloyd Garrison.
| THE SCNG-LIFE OF SCULPTOR. By William
| ordway Partridge, author of The Technique Of
Edition Boston: Roberts Brothers.
Many Washingtonians will remember
Mr. William ordway Partridge's exnbi-
ton of sculpture at the rooms of the Cos
| mos Club. 1t was not, perhaps, generally
| known to those who admired his work in
| marble that Mr.. Partridge is a poet as
well as sculptor. The poems in the little
volume named above show how well he is
| entitled to rank one. No one can read
! Sowing to the Spirit without feeling the
| intense earnestness and sincerity of the
| writer (Which, indeed. his strongest
| characteristics, nor without being uplifted
| into a clear and pure air of unselfishness.
Should any one feel that his life is barren
| of blessings let him read 1.-The Gagged
| Lark and he will be strengthened in his
| efforts to do his duty under any circum-
| stances, however adverse Some of he
| poems show the writer's sensitiveness to
| pleasing, natural and musical sounds; THE
Brook "A Rhapsody and THE Convent
| Tower are such. All of the poems are
perVaded by deep earnestness of pur-
| pose, much too rarely shown in modern
! poetry.
LoT Hos IN JAPAN. By Henry T. Finck
Sons. Washington: Brentanos.
Mr. Finck is satisfied that in very many
respects Japanese civilization is superior to
| the civilization of which we occasionally
| feel proud and of which we are not unwill-
| ing to boast. The testimony that led him
| to such belief was ever before him while he
| toured in Japan, and he has put in this
book as much of 1t as he deemed necessary
| to attempt conversion of Americans who
| imagine Japan to be uncivilized and the
United States the home of all that is best
in human characteristics. Mr.. Finck says:
Il have tried to show that the japanese
| have as much to teach US as we have to
| teach them, and that what they can offer
| US is, on the whole, of higher and nobler
order than what we can offer them. Jap
| anese civilization is based on altruism, ours
| on egotism." With preparatory utterance
| like that the reader might be led to expect
a didactic sequence, but instead of that pos
sibility there follows clever descriptive
| Wiling VI the usually TO De 1OunQ IN
| good newspapers. Appropriately and well
| Illustrated, the volume lacks but little of
| fully-rounded completeness
ENGLISH sEAMEN IN THE SIXTEENTH CEN
| TuRY. Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter
| Terms, 1891. By James Anthony Froude, late
| regus professor of Modern History In the Uni
| versity of Oxford. New York: Charles Scrib-
| ners Sons. Washington: Brentano's.
| To nation that sees with the eye Of
faith the coming of time when the star
spangled banner shall float from mast
| heads in every sea these lectures should be
| of extraordinary Interest and value, for in
| them is sketched the way by which Britain
mia sailed to maritime greatness that not
even the sharp competition of a commercial
! age has been able to seriously disturb
| F'roude's motive, of course, was to Impress
| history on the minds of students, and he
| must have succeeded wonderfully; such
vivid sketches are not often given in cold
| type; they send thrills through the veins
| of those who even remotely sympathize
| with the daring deeds of Drake, Hawkins,
| Howard, Seymour, Frobisher and the 9TH
ers who made England mistress of the
ocean some three hundred years ago.