Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-06
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF GEORGE AU-
GusTls sA LL!A.;; Written BY himself, N Two
scribner's Sons. Washington: Brentano's
Of life the great English journalist has
seen much, but he who reads these two
deeply interesting volumes for the purpose
of finding hair-raisifg stories of adventure
will surely be disappointed. Intimately
acquainted with a, great many men and
women who have become historic char
acters, Mr.. Sala has given to those who
like to study their fellow beings a large
quantity Of material of really enjoyable
cort. Mr.. Sala's career as artist and
journalist would of itself be sufficient ex-
cuse-if excuse We're needed-for the pub
Hcation of this work, but the especial value
that attaches to these volumes is found in
the sketches of important personages with
whom. in some capacity or another, the
author was profC ss.onaily or otherwise as
ISOLATED. The captious reader may take
exceptien to occasional evidences Of self
esteem presented here and there by the
author but those who know the man will
not accuse him OF possessing any more Of
egotism than might reasonably be looked
for in one who, during two score yeats
has been central figure in English cur
rent literature. In the preface Mr. Sala
says: Il have wished to give the general
public general idea of the character and
the career Of a working journalist in the
second. third ana fourth decades Of the
Victorian era. What the new Journalism
may be like / neither know nor care, but
most assuredly it is not the journalism
to which l served my apprenticeship, and
skilled workman" Whatever the public
may think of Mr.. Sala's indifference to the
new journalism-which, after all NAV he
inferior to The old-there can be no ques-
ton as to NJ. Sala's ability as writer
His Life and Adventures is worthy a
good position in any library
STEPS INTO JOURNALISM: Helps and Hints for
Young Writers. BY Edwin I1ewcllyn Shun,ap
Evanston: Correspondence School of Journalism
Not written to encourage those who may
contemplate the burslariz.ng of their way
into journalism, this book is undoubtedly
deserving of commentator. Mr. Shuinar
IS practical newspaper worker: he knows
what to say and how tot say it, At the
outset he says: 1T is not the aim of this
DOCK to make any more writers; We have
too many now. On none of these pages
will there be found single word tempting
any young man to leave the farm or the
business office, or advising any young wo-
man to foTsake the household routine Ii
order to run after the ignus fatuus of lit
erary fame. Where there are words Of en-
couragement or enthusiasm they are for
those only who have the divine cai-which,
in preacher and editor alike, is nothing but
the native ability TO do that one thing
better than any other thing in the world"
| Mr.. Shuman's particularly readable chap
ters are headed, Evolution of the Press"
plan Of a Newspaper Article" "A Day
With Reporter" interviewing and News
Gathering dieting a Start as Core
s g"al Methods Of the Editorial
MagaZine and Novel Writing" and Mis-
sion of the Press" 1t is good book.
SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.
BY ]. r. Green, MA. Illustrated Edition, Cd
TIED by ~, Mrs r., J. + Green and Miss Kate MIR
Washington: Woodward & Loth.op.
This volume brings to a close a series
Which, a whole, may fairly be said to
comprise the best history of England ever
presented for the consideration of those
whose desire it is to become acquainted
with the history of one of the greatest of
| nations, but who. not being students, do not
care to search for their facts in the great
mass of matter that is undoubtedly neces-
sary to completeness. but which to the
casual reader is only confusing. Volume
~ is Illustrated if possible, more literally
than were any Of lis predecessors. and Is
in every respect fully up to the high stand
ard established by the author at the out
set.
TRANSACTIONS or. TIE ANTIsEPTIC CLUB.
Reported by Albert Abrams a member OF the
New York: E. b. Treat.
The publisher claims that this volume is
laden with sterilized wit and humor, that
every page is illun;ned by the phosphor-
cscent microbes OF untlloyed sarcasm. The
claims are SO we'll founded that, probably,
even those physicians and surgeons VINO
are enthusiastic IL Campaig ning against pa
cilH viii be compelled to laugh at the
quaint manner in which the author has
lampooned them and derided their most
sacred theories.
LINGrA GE:NiMAE, A Cycle of Gers Being His
tory OF One Hundred Precious Stones. with tie
Specification and Popular Superstition Attached
to Each AID Appropriate Poetic sentiments. By
Ada L" Sutton Illustrated 1l, by Mary FatTInan
ton: Woodward s Lothrop.
THE PRINCESS ALINE. By Richard Harding Da-
Wis, author of The West from Car Window
oar Engsh ccasinS', The w, Rulers IT,, of tie
Others Sc. Illustrated by G; D. Gibson New
York: Harper & Brothers. Washington: Wood
ward Il Lothrop.
JIM OF HEILAs; or, In Durance Vile, and Be
II captain hG ianua ny 1si ey Susea a Hi
degarde," Five minute Stories' when Was
Boston: Estes & Laurat
DAME PRISM. A Story for Girls by Margaret
Daushters.'' with sixteen Fullpage uimstra.
lions by Elizabeth s. Tucker. New York Fred
erlck A. Stokes Co. Washington; VIM Balian-
tyne & Sons.
GIRLS LIFE IN VIRGINIA BEFORE THE
WAR. By Lettia N. BGrweil. With Sixteen
Ful!-plge Illustrations by William A: McCul-
ong sd and Jules grgas New @ FeFes
thTop.
The Prisoner Of zenda" The Inilscretioas Of
The Duchess" SC. New York: Henry Holt &