Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

| GERMAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. By
| William Harbutt Dawson author of Germany
| and the Germans etc. Illustrated. New York:
| 6. p Putnam's Sons Washington: Woodward
| q IothrOp.
| The second number Of "Our European
Neighbors Series" verifes the promise CIV
en- by the first, issued a few weeks ago,
concerning the French people. Mr.. Dawson
Is editor of the series itself. besides being
a student of German conditions His own
| contribution to the work is therefore the
product of a special research which has
| given him fund of information about the
| Fatherland not usually possessed by the
| foreigner. Germany is just now worthy of
close study. The enterprise of her man.
| ufacturers and merchants, the ambitions of
| her sovereign the schemes of her dgitatOrS,
all tend to draw the empire into closer rela-
| tionS with the rest of the world and to
| promise exceptional developments. 1t is
| important that the home life of the people
| should be understood, in order that the
| character of the leaders, their environment
and their limitations may be appreciated in
| the international conflict of peace or war,
trade or diplomacy. The various chapters
of this work afford abundant information.
The illustrations are reproduced in the
main from works of art.
THE EPIC OF THE wHEAT-THE OCTOPUS; a
Story of California. By Frank Norris author of
Page & Go. Washington: William Ballan-
tyne & Son.
MIR. Norris proposes series of novels de-
picting the folk side of the great trust
question a literary work with so pointed
motive is assured of measure of attention,
and the first contribution suggests that the
ratio Of interest will increase The "octo-
pus'' deals with the war between the wheat
grower of California and the railroad
trust JTS will no in
the sense of a continuation of literary in
terest, but will follow sequentfally in their
relation to the distribution and the con-
sumption of American wheat, as THE Oc-
topus concerns the production problem.
There are strong characters in the book
and the story develops some romantic cpl
s0deS and would be an interesting story
without the keen concern which the reader
is made to feel in the political phase of the
questions presented.
THE FANATICS. By Paul Lawrence Dunbar, au-
thor OF Lyrics Of Lowly Life etc New
tano's.
Interest attaches to Mr.. Dunbar's devel-
opment as a novelist chiefly because of his
race and his emergence from the field of
poetry into that of prose. His first novel
1.-THE Uncalled," showed promise with it's
literary weakness. THE Fanatics justifies
this promise somewhat, but 1t leaves room
for further progress. 1t deals with the in
tense fractional feelings prevailing in an
Ohio town before and during the civil war;
winch rent families aSunder and caused
strange alliances. The story is of conyen-
t1onal development, with q brisk action, and
| it rises to true dramatic climax when
young confederate soldier, manned by q
northern bullet, returns TO his Ohio home
and is menaced by a mob, to be defended
by the northern fanatic whose daughter
he loves.
MISTRESS NEIL: Merry Tale Of Merry Time
tIwixt Fact and Fancy. By George C. Hazel
ton, jr, author of the Play. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons Washington. w,iI;am
BaIantyne & SOrs
Reversing the usual method of writing a.
novel and then dramatizing 1t, the author
| has written play and then noyeIized IT
| The novelist labors under disadvantage
in following this process, for sahe story
necessarily reveals the mechanism of the
stage to certain extent, and the conse-
quent efiect Is not always wholly pleasing
Yet Mr.. HaZelton has deity avoided the
difficulties as far possible and produced
an interesting sprightly story with brisk
action, vivid cOloring and witty dialogue
| FROM SWEDISH HOMESTEAD By Selma
iageriof Translated by Jessie Brochner New
York; Mcclure. Phillips Co. Washington:
Woodward & LOthrop
These stories reveal some of the inner life
romantic myths of that land. The long
tale, THE Story of a Country House." is
weirdly impelling of interest 1t tells Of
the restoration to mental health of a young
man through the power of love. There is a
charming naivete in the rendering The
translation, however, halts at times and
descends too freely into cOlloquial idioms.
PRINCE RUPERT THE BUCCANEER: His Adj
ventures set to paper by Mary Iaughan who
through Affection followed him to the West In
dies and the Spanish Main. acting as his Secre-
tary; lie Declining her Male, though tinid BY
tntiiHe Hyne. author Of The FilIblsters -
etc New York: Frederick A. Stokes Cnmnanv
Washington: BrcntanOs.
| HIPNOTISM Complete System of Method An
phcatlon and Use. Prepared for the Self
instruction of the Medical Profession BY L.
Hypnousm and Suggestive Therapeutics Pitts
burg Illustrated Second edition. Chicago:
The Henneberry Company.
| THE PHILOSOPHY OF MENTAL. HE,IISG: a
Practical Exposition of Natural Restorative
Power by Leandor Edmund Winnie Third
edition. New York: The Metaphysical Pub
fishing Company. ~
| RECOILECTIONS OF \ GEORGIA IoyAIJs-r
~ Elizabeth lichtensten Johnston. written in
t E Edited by Rev: Arthur Wentworth
| Eaton, b. A. New York: VI. F. Mansfield &
! OR PSYCHOLOGY; Written from Sntrit IN
pression by Charles II. Poster OF Alameda
Cal San Francisco: Published by The antbor
| MALCOLM, THE WATERBOY; or n Mrs+o-v .,
Old London BY d. T. Henty New YORK:
| The MershOn Company. -'-A
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