Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-19

Reviews variety of color and design. The
contents of the June number are: A Note
on the Binding, by Cyril Davenport. F. s.
A; The Great Condition. story, by Hen
| ry James; A Modern Woman Born 1889,
sketch of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, by
Elizabeth Robins &C. E. Raimond'D; Some
Considerations of the Last Treaty of Paris,
by Hon. Whitelaw Reid; Letters to YER
vaine. from the garden Of "E. v. B." 0he
Hon. Mrs Boyle; Sir Robert Peel. by Lord
tKossoery: Osborn and ursyne, drama in
three acts by John Oliver Hobbies (Mrs.
Cragfe); All the Worlds Mad. story. by
Gilbert Parker; the Centenary Of the Bat
| tie OF the Nile. poem, by Algernon C. Swim
6urne; the Scientific Principles of Wireless
| Ie!egraphy, by Prof Oliver Lodge, F. r.
5. About the Sudan. by Slatin Pasha; A
Mezzotint story, by Sir Frank Swetten-
ham, K. c. NJ. G.; Selections from the Let
| tiers of Georgiana. Duchess of Devonshire
| edited by the Duchess of Devonshire; An
Epitaph on Charles James Fox, with a
Note by Earl Gray. In addition there are
| notes on the Illustrations, which consist of
reproductions Of a bust of Queen Victoria
ana portraits of George Washington by
| Gilbert, Sir Robert Peel by John Linnell,
Anne Of Austria by Rubens. Georgiana,
| Duchess of Devonshire by Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke.
me editorial department consists Of sew
! eral pages of Impressions and Opinions"
| from an unacknowledged pen, which bear
entertainingly upon American politics and
instructfvely upon English affairs, couched
|
The co, ROUGH Ct u, RIDERS By Theodore Roosevelt
Illustrated. New York Charles scrbuer.s Sons
washington: Brentanos.
| Col Roosevelt's story Of the regiment
which he commanded in the latter half of
| the war with Spain has already been SER
| tally told so 1t Is no stranger But it is
| highly desirable that 1t should be added to
| the rapidly filling book shelves devoted to
fha
| arbitrament by the sword. The unique
| character of the regiment whose popular
| name gives the title to this volume, the
| high position and the well-known charac-
| teristics of it's lieutenant colonel, after
| ward its colonel. and the achievements
| which marked it for exceptional efficiency,
all contribute to lend strong popular in
| terest to this organization. Col Roose-
vets work in connection with the regi-
ment was prodigious. He was seconded
| with equal zeal and fidelity by Col. now
| Gen. Wood. for whom he expresses in this
| work the deepest affection and the strong
est admiration. AS a record of a military
| experiment. the mixing of the toughest
| with the most polished members of society
| IN a volunteer regiment, this book is de-
| cidedly one of the most important contri-
| buttons to modern wartime literature.
elsts A compilation by Mary Wright Plum
mer With Introduction by Edward Es erett
| d
| Comba.
The inspiration for this unique work
| came to the compiler while she was exam
| lining number of TRANSACTIONS from the
| Spanish in preparation for n paper mod
ern Spanish novelists. 1t seemed to her
| that comprehensive, intimate acquaint-
| ance with the inner life of the people who
| have recently been objects of such peculiar
| interest to this country might be afforded
| by presenting characteristic extracts from
| these works. Accordingly she has divided
her matter into five brancheS-local de-
| scription, religion, politics, manners and
| customs, and society. Her sources are the
| works Of Pedro de Alarcon, Emilia Pardo
| Bazan, Benito Perez Galdos, Armando Pa
! lacio Naldes and Juan Valera. The result
| is a remarkably clear insight into the con-
| diti"ns of modern Spain. DR.. Hale in his
| Introduction says that in his Judgment
based upon observations during a trip
| through Spain in 1889, the Spanish people
| are very Industrious, while the administra-
ton is very bad.
| THE SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN: 1898 By Major
| Ge.erai Joseph Wheeer. commanding An Corps
Santiago campaign. Philadelphia: Drexel Bid
! General Wheelers re-entry into military
| life at his advanced years was one of the
most romantic episodes of the war with
Spain. The public watched his course with
d
the war. When later he secured an assign
| ment which would give him active fighting
| in the Philippines II applauded the spirit
while perhaps deprecating the risk of so
gallant soldier His story of the Santa
go Campaign is told mainly through the
medium of the official dispatches and re-
ports and is valuable for its record of the
| important events in which General Wheeler
| took so prominent a part. He tells the
story of the siege and the surrender of the
Cuban city with clear force, without any
attempt at dramatics Throughout APP
pears the suggestion of a brave, spirited
soldier anxious only for an opportunity to
be at work and impatient of the climatic
debility which for short time kept him
out of the thick of the fight.
STATE ,B TRIALS r. $50 OF NARY; QUEEN OF SCOTS;
WILLIAM KIDD: condensed and copied from
notes. BY Charles Edward Lloyd Nt Chicago:
Calaghan Il Company.
Charles Edward Lloyd" is locally and
| better known as Mrs. Cicero W. Harris, who
has attained to a considerable prominence
| in magazine literature during recent years.
Mrs. Harris was placed In charge of the
| Department of Justice exhibit at the Omaha
exposition and in collatng the materials
| her attention was attracted to the many
matters of rare interest concealed in some
| of the old volumes intrusted to her care.
| Her researches among them led her to
| further expeditions into the criminal an
| mails of the past, and the present volume.
which will probably be followed by others
| in the same line, is the result. 1t is filled
with facts of historical value, bearing in
| large degree upon the development of the
American colonies.
PORTO RICO AND THE WEST INDIES BY Mar
gherita Arna Hamm author of Manila and
the Philippines New York: +. Tennyson
Nicely.
Mrs. Hamm went to Porto Rico we'll
equipped for newspaper correspondence and
| for subsequent writing about her expe-
rienccs. She has long been connected with
| the metropolitan dalies. and consequently
she tells the story of Porto Rico as she
saw it in terse, graphic style, which gives
a clear impression of this newcomer in the
american commonwealth. The author went
into the family life of the islanders and as
certained much about them of a valuably
instructive nature. The author does not be-
leVe that the difficulties facing the United
states In Its new possession are as great as
those which IT summarized in Califorpi, ~