Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-22
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
BY-wAYs OF WAR: the Story of the Frlibusters.
By James Jeffrey Roche Boston: Small, May
nard & Company.
The filibuster is the type of the hero or
the desperado according to the point of
view. He has figured in some of the most
stirring events of history. and the influence
of his activity upon civilization is yet to be
accurately measured. His motives have not
always been pure and his reward has usual
ly been tardy. while his punishment has
often been swift. Recent events In this
part of the world have closed one nearby
field to the filibuster, where once he was a
factor of first Importance. Cuba's story
includes succession of attempts at inter-
vention by ardent spirits Of this country,
who have thought to drag the islanders out
of the morass of Spanish misrule. But all
too many Of them found that the islanders
were unwilling to be rescued. Those who
followed Lopez to Cuba in 1850 had occasion
to repent of their haste when they secured
a landing only to De ignored by the people
they had come to save. Many brilliant men
have met their death in this questionable
enterprise. Some heavy sacrifices have been
made, and the world has become none the
better for them. Yet 1t would have been
impossible to repress these adventurers. The
temptation Of riches and power. coupled
with the notion Of staying the hand of
tyranny, must always prove potent as long
as human hearts beat and there are wealth
and influence to be grasped and sufferers
to be rescued by bold strokes. Yet the OPP
portunities of the rangers Of the sea and
the desert and the chaparral are lessening
as civilization extends it's bounds, and thus
the story of the filibusters is nearing its
close.
Mr.. Roche has written an interesting and
also an important record of filibustering en-
torDriSoS In the western world. He has re-
vived memories long dormant and collated
forgotten facts in a compact volume. He
defines filibuster as the citizen or sub
ject of any country who makes war upon a
state with which his own is at peace, with
intent to overrun and occupy it, His ac-
count is little more than sketch, for 1t
would require a book many times the size
of his to detail the record of the adven-
turers of even the past century who have
made history in this part of the world. A
portrait of William Walker unquestionably
the most dashing and attractive figure of
all these modern crusaders and freebooters.
constitutes the frontspece, while map or
Central America, the scene of many filibus-
tering exploits, is added.
vERBECK OF JAPAN; a Citizen of No Country
Life Story of Foundation Work Innugurated
by Guido Fridoln Nerbeck. By William Elliot
Cribs, author of THE Mikados Empire" etc.
New York: Fleming H. Revel Company.
"Verbeck Of Japan" is the title given by
scholars and missionaries who have
worked in the mikado's land to a man who
labored there for forty years in the. inter-
ests Of the development of the Japanese
Guido Fridolin VerbecIs. native of Holland
once a resident in the United States. and
then, until his death in 1898. the foremost
figure among the western educators in
Japan, accomplished great things for the
opening of the far east. He is honored to-
day more markedly by the Japanese than
by his countrymen Of either Europe or
America. This is perhaps due, in part, to
the fact that Verbeck's fame is only now
beginning to be carried abroad as 1t de-
serves Rev DR.. Griff1s has undertaken the
task Of describing Verbeck's work. He en-
joyed close personal association with him in
Japan, where the present biographer was
engaged for four years in educational
labors He had. therefore. opportunity to
judge accurately Of the capacity and the
efficiency of this man, who had passed
through many trials. who had been often in
personal danger, who had struggled against
eastern prejudice and Indifference and lad
finally built up one of the finest instit utions
in the eastern world. the Imperial Univer-
sity Of Japan.
DR.. Griffis declares that Verbeck came to
know the Japanese better than he knew
himself. He studied them in all ranks, not
combining his associations with the scholars
and the statesmen, but digging into the
depths Of society in order to appreciate the
feelings and To sympathize with the suffer
ings and to measure the limitations of the
lower classes This in large degree ex-
planned his power, which came to be gen.
orally acknowledge by the Japanese Of all
ranks. There is much in DR.. Griffis' work
which throws light not only on the charac-
ter of one Of the pioneers of the west in
Japan. but upon that Of the people of this
remarkable community, which has burst
through its bonds and has become COM
paratively in the twinkling of an eye,
mo- hor Of fhn for, Of
this transformation Verbeck Of Japan was
potent factor.
MOSQUITOES; How They Live. How They Carry
Diseases How They Are CLASSIFIED, How They
May Be Destroyed. By L. o. Howard. Ph.D.,
Gure, Phillips and Co. Washington: Wood
ward and Lothrop.
Mr.. Towards investigations into the
mosquito disease Transmission agency
have been directed toward the solution of
the practical problem Of how to eliminate
the pest. He has studied the insect from
every possible point of view, and his dis
sections have furnished him with an album
dant store Of knowledge, which permits ac-
curate prescription Of remedies. The SUBJ
ject OF preventive means he divides into
three groups: The treatment of breeding
places with insecticides the abolition of
breeding places by drainage and the In
PRODUCTION OF natural enemies into breeding
pools which may not be drained or be treat
ed with oil. In this line the writer quotes
from the records OF experiments under