Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-13

THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Including Public Addresses, her own Letters
and many from her Contemporaries during Fifty
Years. BY Ida Hustled Harper. In Two Vol
umes Illustrated. Indianapolis: The Bowen
Merrill Company.
1t is somewhat unusual, as Mrs. Harper
notes in her preface that biography
should be presented Of a living person.
Autobiographies are not rare Indeed, they
are usually to be welcomed, embracing, as
they do, much of the personal tempera-
mental interest which can only be given by
self-written account. But Miss Anthony
stands today for so much more than a sin
gle human existence that a rendering of
her life and experience is to be valued not
withstauding conventions. At the same
time she is so thoroughly occupied with
her work of fostering the equal rights"
sentiment that she will not undertake the
task. Accordingly, Mrs. Harper was en-
trusted with the duty of writing the story
of this wonderful career and she was given
access to an enormous mass of letters and
documents.
Few biographies cover so extended a
sphere of activity as does this. Few wo-
men of any period have ever wrought so
steadfastly and so inteiligentIy for their
sex. Miss Anthony was born a reformer
a thinker, an agitator While teaching
school In her teens she saw things in the
aroused fol the slave Later after the
emancipation of the slave, those Sympa-
thies We're IS keeniy enlisted in behalf CT
Wonfahklnd There is no denying the
CROWN OF the woman suffrage principle.
1t is impossible to forecast its future course
or extent. But whatever may come of the
present beginnings, the result will always
De closely associated in thu public mind
with the name of Susan b. Anthony, to-
sether with those of Gail Hamilton, Eliza
BETH Cady Stanton, and Others of rare men
tai force and far-sightedness and agrees
SiveneSS
The book presents a multitude of facts
ana "reminiscences which bear not alone
upon the suffrage campaigns through which
MISS Anthony and her associates have
passed. II treats of general political situa-
uons and reveals the Progress of national
events as they have touched upon the
propaganda which this remarkable woman
has conducted. II
AMERICA IN HAWAII: a History of United
states states Influence in the Hawaiian Islands by
M Mainund James Carpenter. BOSTON, Small
AS a rule. books On HIuWaii have merely
dealt with the insular history from the
point OF view of the passing of a pictur-
esque community into the more modern
sys'e" OF the American republic. Few
nave sought to trace the steady growth of
the influence which resulted in the annex
alton of those islands last summer by the
United States. This book has disclosed
that chapter >of the record, chapter
which clearly establishes the steadfast
drift toward the union of the two govern
ments IN the name of the greater The au-
thor confesses at the outset to a sympathy
Tor the American missionary and his fol-
lowers in the civilization of Hawaii and
his belief in the righteousness and value
to the Islands of annexation. But he avow-
ediy seeks ito prevent this. prejudice, from
leading him aside from the paths of fact
ana IN MS account of some of the early do
ihgs In Hawaii, when the white man first