Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-19

Boston: Hougbton, Mifiin & Co Washington
BreutaIo 's.
John Fiske's works on American his
tory are today recognized as among the
most valuable and serious efforts at new
world chronicling this end of the century
has produced. Their distinguished author
has fortunately taken a wide scope, APP
preaching his successive themes with a
comprehensive idea as to their proportion
ate relations to the whole and to their as
ISOLATED parts. First came ''Old Virginia
and Her Neighbors," followed by 1.-THE Be
ginnings of New England" the two leav-
ing the history of New England at the
overthrow of James II and carrying that
OF the southern and middle colonies into
the reigns of the first two Georges. The
study of the Dutch and Quaker colonies
embraces much of the most virIe and
constructive life of the formative period
on the new continent. 1t discioses the
germ OF religious and commercial enter
prise which developed into a hardy, pro-
gressive craftsmanship and later into
a steady, conservative craftsmanship. This
volume in effect merges into the other
works, for the Dutch and Quaker influence
extended to certain extent into New
England and also into the southern colo
MES.
MRS. N. Q, w; OLIPHANT. Arranged and
E Edited by Mrs; Harry Coghiii. Two Portraits.
1ngton: William Ballantyne Il Sons.
When Mrs. Oliphant died. in June, 1897,
she left request that no biography of her
was to be written, preferring that any such
work should be made out of her own life
memoranda. These scraps, however, were
later found to be utterly inadequate, for
they had neither beginning nor end, and
were marred by great gaps of time and cir
cumstance. Mrs. Coghill has sought to
piece out such record as would doubtless
have met the wishes of Mrs Oliphant, by
Using some OF her letters, and thus appears
composite more or less reflective of the
career which has left so marked an i'm
press upon English letters. One who wrote
Upward of 100 novels, not to mention count
less bits of criticism and review, several
biographies and the like, is worthy OF study.
Hence the value which attaches to this self
written record, the story of of the
purest and most active lives known among
the women of the closing century.
A BEAUTIFUL LIFE AND IT'S ASSOCIATIONS
BY Anna Howell CIarkson. Illustrated New
York: Published under the auspices of the
Historical Department of Iowa.
This beautiful life is that of Mrs Dru-
slla Allen Stoddard, who with her husband
Gid much to rehabilitate and maintain the
Iowa Central University in the years of its
early struggles. To their unfiagging inter-
est is ascribed by It's devoted alumni a
ieti &c part VI the SUCCESS IL dCnleVeu IN
uplifting and enlightening the life of the
middle west and Mrs. Clarkson assumes
now the pleasant task of expressing this
appreciation in a memorial volume which
has the exceptional value to it's subject
that it appears within her lifetime The
be ok is emhelished by portraits of alumni
and of the scenes of their student activi-
ties.
Welfare Institutions By Nicholas Paine eli
man Boston,: Honghton. Mifiiin & Company.
Washington VIM Ballantyne & Sons.
Economists have lately turned their at
tention pointedly to the matter of profit
sharing enterprises, and have found a de-
cjded tendency toward the establishment
of broader, better relations between en-
p!oyers and employees. Mr.. Gilman has
gone far atield searching throughout Eu-
rope for statistics and information and
presents in this volume the results of his
labors. which reveal that in this matter the
old world has advanced beyond the new
and can demonstrate satisfactory results in
this new departure.
Henry B. Darlington, IL D. Illustrated
Second Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons Washington: Brentanos.
Gen. Carringtons studies of Washington
are known to be inspired by wise adj
miration for the first President and a
aspect. The first edition of this work found
an eager demand. The second is intended
to carry the study of Washington into
farther corners of the republic, where the
temperament of the revolutionary general
is perhaps not fully appreciated. In the
light of very recent events, a survey of this
great military genius is instructive.
Amand Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Mar
tin, With portraits. New York: Charles Serb
ners Sons. Washington Brentanos.
1t is a natural reaction for the French
mind to revert from a contemplation of
its sufferings in 1870 to an enjoyment of
the recollection of 1853, when victory, at
the expense of Austria, gave a marked i'm
petus to the French military snrit This
book is a study of the circumstances which
led to that event. which is thought by
many historians, Saint-Amand among
them, to have prepared the way for the
disasters of eleven years later.
THE HoNEY-MAKERs: By Margaret Warner
Morley author of The Bee People Illus
Clurg Co. Washington: VIM Ballantyne &
Sons.
Miss Morley loves the bee people" as
i'll previous work she calls these giants
of insect industry. Her studies are conduct
ed along varied but compatible lines. those
of history. literature science and COM
duction to one of the most marvellous
organizations in all nature
IHE WlNkTtM BOOK. By Henry Clayton Hop
klns Baltimore: Ii. l.. Washburn & Co.
Another symptom of the more or less an
noying disposition to distort art and nature
Tor the delectation of children and grown
ups appears in this extravaganza in lines
angles and colors. 1t is beyond Judgment
save that it is very near the limit of toler-
ance.
FAMOUS ACTRESSES OF THE DAY IN AMER
4CA; Sketches and Portraits Of Maude Adams
Julia Marlowe, Mrs. Lesioyne, Mrs Fiske,
blanche Walsh, Annie Russell, isabelle Irving,
Maxine Elliott Ada Rehan, Virginia Harmed
Viola Allen, Corona Ricardo, Mary Mannerng'
Ida Conquest, Julia Arthur. May Irwin Ellie
shannon; Mrs. Carter, Mary Shaw, Olga Neither
sole Lillian Lawrence, Blanche Bates, Elsie
DeWolfe. Rose Coshlan. Margaret Anglin Fay
Davis, odette Tyler, Marie Burroughs, Kathryn
ktdder, Helena Modjeska end May Robson By
Lewis z. String. Boston, L. c. Page Il Com
pany. Washington: VIM. Ballantyne & Sons
TO WHOM MUCH is GIVEN; Practical Talks to
Women. BY Lucia Ames Mead author Of
Crest Thoughts for Little Thinkers New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
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