Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-30

IN LIGHTER VEIN.
ONE-F0RTY-TWO: the Reformed Messenger Boy.
BY Henry NJ. Hyde. Illustrated by Ellsworth
Young. Chicago: Herbert s. Stone & Co.

IN LIGHTER VEIN.
BY Henry NJ. Hyde: Illustrated by Ellsworth
Young. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co.
"reminiscences of "Chimmie Fadden,"
"Artie," Checkers and other artists in
slang are inevitable when this book is
read. But they are not regretful recolec-
tions One orty-Two'' is distinct type,
the tough boy in uniform, quick to "go
to the dirt with an opponent, precocious
in Indulgence in bad habits, wise far be-
yond his years, the agent of love, revenge,
charity and Justice This Chicago product
is philosopher, sage and critic; he has
loved and lost, organized unions among
discontinued golf caddies, baffled burglars,
foiled confidence men, restored kidnapped
youths to their homes, checked the down.
ward career of Maynard young men-in
short, he has been guardian angel for all
sorts and conditions of men; and his own
tales of his experiences are revelations Of
the capacities of the English language for
distortion and suggestiveness. "One-Forty-
Two'-it would be treat to know his real
'handle'-is likely to make many friends
for he is an entertaining little ruffian.
THE BURGESS NONSENSE BOOK; being Com
plete Collection Of the Humorous Masterpieces
of Gelett Burgess, Esq, some time Editor OF
."rhe Lark" etc New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Co. Washington Brentanos.
The title page conveys much more infor-
nation than is given in the foregoing an
nouncement. 1t tells how the volume-ex-
ceptionally handsome, typographically-in
cludes the Purple Cow with forty odd
nonsense quotations, the "Chewing Gum
Man. epics, the "Gerrish" ghost stories
and others of Burgess peculiar products
in text and picture, the Whole forming
Book of Blissful Bosh for the Blase, an
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a Stimulating Spur to Thoughtlessnass, and
Restful Recreation for the Super-Civil-
lied, the Over-Educated and the Hyper
Refined" and so on for several more lines
of extravagant proclamation. Assuredly
the man or woman who can remain serious
while going through this book, or can find
one serious motive or suggestion in it, must
be a rarity. Burgess has a strange numor
of both pen and pencil. His view of life is
essentially trivial, but such triviality is in
itself an achievement Any one who could
not only dare to perpetuate the purple
Cow" but carry 1t off as trademark for
years, must be little short of being a
genius. This collection of Burgessania will
please those who have acquired the COOP"
habit.
MIR. MUNCHAUSEN; Being True Account of
some of the Recent Adventures beyond the
some time Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder
as Originally Reported for the Sunday Edition
viewer the late Mr.. Ananias,. formerly of
jerusalem and now first Transcribed from the
Bangs Drawings by Peter Newell Boston:
Noyes Platt Co.
Apparently no one is now safe from the
humorous resurrectionist. One might per-
haps have supposed Mr.. Bangs content
with his wholesale disturbing of the rest of
the noted dead in the course of his "Styx''
stories, and that he would permit classic
bones to rest. But no! He insists upon re-
viving Munchausen, the dear, Irresponsible
entertaining baron who pulled himself and
horse from ditch by Juggling at the tail
of his own peruke. 1t seems pity that so
dign1f1ed liar cannot be permitted 20 re-
pose in peace, and that ones pictorial i'm
pressions of his features and his enterprises
may not remain as Dore created them
Peter Newell may have been dragged into
the scheme to violate this grave. His work
will serve, perhaps, to palliate the offense
committed by his partner in crime Mr.
Bangs has not added to the Muncnausen
lore anything of real value. Such works
are necessarily predicated upon the orisi-
mails, and knowledge of the original in
this case is fatal to the appreciation.
MORE ANIMALS. BY Oliver Herford Pictures
Sons. Washington: VIM. Ballantyne & Sons.
Oliver HEREFORD has given the study of
natural history new and refreshing turn
ings The child may be instructed, per-
haps, but the adult is the chief gamer by
this invasion of a scientific field The
latest book Of the Herfordian menagerie is
fully up to the standard set by it's prede-
cessors, appropriately ending with a char
acteristic treatment of the dachshund de-
scribed as once, in Edenic days. a full-sizad,
wel-proportioned dog. Unfortunately, it
tried tardiiy to follow it's master and MIS-
tress out of the garden upon their expul-
sion, and was forced to creep through a
hole in the wall, resulting in its modern
elongation. The author, generous with his
space, devotes four page panels to the I'M
fortunate creature in it's present protracted
state.
AROUND THE "PAN'' WITH UNCLE HANK;
His Trip Through the Pan-American Exposition.
By Thomas Fleming. New York: The Nut Shell
Publishing Company.
The humorous side of the recent big fair
at Buffalo is revealed through the medium
Of this book of pictures and text The
story of the hay-seed at big gathering of
curiosities is bit antiquated, but it serves
in this instance to carry the really bright
Illustrations of the amusing phase of life
at one of the giant side shows which have
become standard feature of the popular
amusements.
BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS.