Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-06

a brief and non-partisan discussion of the
motives and circumstances leading to such
engagements: The author expresses no
opinion as to the present problems and
does not enter at all into the most recent
acquisitions. Porto Rico and the Philip
pines. although devoting considerable space
TO Hawaii A few tables in the appendix
afford a comprehensive idea of the essen
tial statistics and institute instructive COM
parsons to the area and population of
the various territorial additions.
THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERyY ANN
BY joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by a. b.
Frost New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Washington: Brentanos.
Aunt Minervy'' has established herself
in American hearts as a true type of the
negro ma mmy, who reflects much that
is kindly and human 4 the old southern
life. Some of her experiences are semi
tragic. though most of them are broadly
humorous, and all are delineated in the
exquisite method of the creator of "Uncle
Remus and other sentient creatures of
the southland given enduring form by
stroke of real genius. There is a measure
of sequence about these chronicles" which
lends them the flavor of a story
HENRY ROCKFORD. A Novel. New York: F.
Tennyson Nicely.
\ rather interesting story of an innocent
man accused of arson and robbery An
amateur disciple of Sherlock Holmes solves
the mystery, and virtue energies from the
ingt0n readers to know that the author is
clerk in one of the government depart
mentS here. and that this is his first at
tempt at fiction, though now past three
score and ten.
A PRETTY TORY; Being Romance of Partisan
Warfare during the War Of Independence in
the Provinces Of Georgia and South Carolina
Rclating to Mistress Geraldine Moncrin. BY
Jeanne Gould Lincoln. Boston: HoaghtoB. NH
fin x Co Washington VIM. Ballantyne &
Sons
NoRTHLAND LYRICS. By William Carman Rob-
eiGs. Theodore Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts
Selected and Arranged with Prologue by
Charles G. d. Roberts and an Epilogre by Bliss
Carnan. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
THE sIGNoRs OF THE NIGHT: the Story of Fra
Giovanni. the Soldier-Monk Of Venice; and of
SeW 3ne DodG ead CO. Max
VIM. Ballantyne & Sous.
THE BLACK VOLTS BREED; Story of France
in the Old World and the New, Happening in
Second Edition. Indianapolis: The Bowen
Merrill Company.
ZULEKA: Being the History of an Adventure in
the Life OF al American Gentleman with some
Account Of the Recent Disturbances in Doroia
By Clinton Ross Philadelphia: Drexel Bddle.
flower and how he Served Miles Standish. By
Beulah Marie Dix. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Brentano's
NATURE: PICTUREs BY AMERICAN POETS. Sc
lectcu anu E<llIeu Dy annie russell marble, a
NJ New York: The Macmillan Company
Washington: Brentano's.
THE KINGS JESTER; and Other Short Plays for
Small Stsges By Caro- Atherton P9gan Bos-
Vim. Ballantyne & Sons.
the Development of Man. BY Bolton Hall In
troduction by George d. Heron. Boston,
Small. Maynard & Co.
OUTDOORS AND INsIGHTs; Essays in Behalf of
Larger and More Hopeful Views of Life. By
Humphrey ]. Desmond Chicago: Rand, Nc
Nalls Go.
MR.. JACK HAMLINs MEDITATION; and Other
Stories. By Bret Harte Boston, Houghton.
Mifiln Co. Washington: VIM Ballantyne
Dewolfe Howc-JOHN BROWN. By Joseph
: Edgar Chamberlin. Boston: Small, Maynard
& Co.
TIE LITTLE HEROES OF MATANZAs; Story
OF the Last Days of Spanish Rule in Cuba. By
Mary Z. Garrett Boston: James II. West Com
pany.
SMITH BRUNT; a Story Of the Old Navy. By
Waidron Knitting Post. New York: G. p. Put
Southampton Insurrection. By Pauline Car
rington Bouve. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
TROOPER TALES; Series of Sketches of the
Real American Private Soldier By VIII Lev
iDgton Comfort. New York: Street & Smith.
BEN GOMEZ; Il Tale of Rogers Rangers-175S-
80 BY NJ. ]. Canayan. New York: The Mac
milan Company Washington: Brentano's.
BEACON BIOGRAPHIES; Edited by NJ. A: De
Wolfe Howe AARON BURR. By Henry
Chilss Merwin Boston: Small Maynard & Co.
A STUDY OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWN
ING. BY Lillian Whiting. Boston: Small
Maynard Co.
THE wANDERINGs OF COCO; and Other Stories
By Florence Kingston Hoffman. Philadelphfa
Drexel Bddle.
THE GOODNESS OF ST. ROGUE; and Other
Stories By Alice Dunbar New York: Dodd
Mead & Go.
THE LOOM OF DESTINY: Short Stories BY Ar
thur j. Stringer. Boston: Small MAYNARD A
Co.
PAN Spheres: NoYel BY Caroline T. prooks
Philadelphia: Drexsl Biddla.