Evening star., 1901-03-30

irresistible temptations to rhyme. and the
book closes with variety of verses under
the subcapticns eNew-a-Day Cuilud Folks"
The first poem Is as follows:
Oar nehber wa'nat no one who couldn't hn' out
But lit it's better dan ioasn' any an Sein no good:
'Thout takin' too much bout de money dat's paid.
Don was'e all yoh time countin' up de reward,
Jus ten to yoh BUS ness an trus' in de Lord.
When Moses. de prophet led Israel's band
He was leadin' sm to- Ed IF dey y followed wed de light
He knowed dat de future wah boun' to come right.
deln, yoh bes' Iwid ysh hans an yoh h'aht.
So dom git contrary and sing Of de chord,
Jes' ten to yoh business an trus' in de Lord.
It might be said that there is a tendency
to endow the character of our old friend
Uncle Eben," who, the accompanying
Illustration would Indicate is sponsor for
the poems In this department, with more
cultivated philosophic sense than could be
looked for in one of his social condition.
But 1T is difficult to see how this impression
could be avoided without relapsing utterly
into the conventionalities Of opoSSun1s. per-
simmons and cake walks. g-S
-NoW-a-Day Poems" has already had
considerable hearing through the exchange
editor's frequent approval of their quality.
Anu many of the poems have been honored
by generous recognition in that most select
of all volumes, the scrap book.
THE SECOND BoER WAR, 1sse-1soo By John
T. Wiser. Captain, 7th U. s. Artillery, late
Instructor in tactics and strategy. u $. Artil-
lery School, Fort Monroe. Va; author Of "Prac
tical Problems in Strategy and Tactics Kan
sas City, Mo-: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing
Company.
Captain Wiser did not personally observe
the operations In South Africa, but he
studied all the available reports and COM
ments In the technical journas of Europe
ho IN, kI,ic 70 al, ,of3 nfa
the net results of the campaign and the les
sons 1T teaches, the soldier. There have
been numerous accounts of the fighting
from correspondents. whose knowledge of
tue precise workings of the battle plans has
been so slight as to be in a measure offset
oy their lack of professional knowledge.
Perhaps for record purposes the deductions
OF a non-observer trained in this speciality
OF military analysis are as valuable when
derived from authentic sources as though
ne were In closer touch with the operations
themselves. A portfolio Of maps accom-
pantes the book
ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL sERIEs-MANUAL OF
The CONSTITUTION OF THE U. S. By Israel
Ward Andrews DID, LID. Revised by Homer
Morris LIB, of the Cincinnati bar. New
York: American Book Company.
DR.. Andrews work has been a standard
for reference and study for many years,
and its revision now, by competent hands,
puts 1t once more in line with the march
of events and the demands of the time 1t
now includes the recent interpretations of
the Constitution by the courts, and the I'M
portant statutes calculated to produce per-
manent political effect. In addition. such
modern topics as Our Island Possessions,
the Interstate Commerce Commission. the
Law Against Trusts and the Civil Service
Commission, are fully treated, both as to
their histories and their constitutional as
poets. An appendix gives, among other
things, the Constitution and the Declara-
ton OF Independence, while a complete in
dex renders possible ready reference to any
topic. =
HEROES OF THE NATIoNs-wILLIAM~ PITT,
EARL OF CHATHAM; and the Growth and
Walford Davis Green N. F. New % York: G. G.
P. Putnam's Sons. Washington Woodward
and LOthrop.
The author prefaces his work with the
statement that there is no good biography
Of Lord Chatham, and proceeds to show
wherein previous essays in this direction
have failed of the true mark. That he has
lahored diligently to supply their deficien-
cies as a formal, exhaustive rendering of
the life of the great Englishman Is clear
and the result is in the main satisfactory,
yet the work lacks the sense of comolete
pcrtra1ture afforded by Macaulay's essays
on Pitt. The historical perspective is well
preserved in the consideration of the str11p-
gle or the colonies for proper treatment and
finally for independence. MANY portraits
and maps illustrate the work
NEWFOUNDLAND IN 1900. A Treatise Of tho
Geography, Natural Resources and History Of
the Island, Embracing an Account Of Recent and
@ Present Large Material improvements. Illus
trated New York: The South Publishing Com
paIy.
The government of Newfoundland has Is
sued this neat book, in the hope of more
effectively scattering information about
this l1ttle-studied colony of the English
crown: There is much in it's pages to
amaze the southern reader, who. lacking
Opportunity to travel into the picturesque
regions Of the upper Atlantic coast, is apt
to think Of Newfoundland as only a little
less barbar1c In its development than
Greenland. The publication marks an ad-
vancing movement, stimulated by the COM
pletion Of the transinsular railway. which
is believed to be destined to bring the great
island into close communication with the
world to the south and west.
LIKE ANOTHER HELEN; a Novel By George
Horton Horton ~, Illustrated by e. NJ. Relyea. Indian-
apolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company.
War, riot, arson, pillage and pestilence
crowd each other in this tale of the Cretan
insurrection of few years ago, forming
the lurid background for the telling of the
dish soldier of fortune, who come to love
the same Cretan maiden The boy is
cured Of his infatuation by the suspicion
that the girl has incurred the leprosy dur
ing her flight from the Turkish household
to which she has been forcibly carried by
a dashing young Bashi-Bazouk. The Swe-
dish soldier is braver and finds in her a
loving spouse, free from the taint of the
dreadful aftiiction. She is supposed to be
the modern prototype Of Helen of Troy.
but the semblance is rather strained, for
she is not the cause of the war in Crete,
THE GOLDSMITH OF NOME; and Other Verse.
By Sam C. Dunham. Cover Design by the au.
thor. Washington. The Neale Publishing
Company.
Mr.. Dunham went to Alaska in 1913 as
a statistical expert of the department of
labor. and in 1S99-9O as special agent Of
the census The verses composing this vol
ume were the poetical result Of those visits.
In the course Of which he acquired sense
Of the hardship of the "tax-burdened and
people," as he terms them.
Some of them directly express this sentt-
ment. Others are renderings of the sensa-
tions of forlornness, cold, physical suffer-