Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-03-29

with the slightest of clues. While the hunt
progresses the millionaire entertains the
nero nero with stories of his career in Sallust
CITY, affordlng an amusing caricature, at
times too faithful to be pleasant to Ameri-
cans, of the politics of our municipalities.
Ihe tourists are wrecked upon an island
in the south seas which has been seized by
gang of mutineers who have formed a re-
public. Here occurs the dramatic climax
OF the book, everybody escaping of course.
The love hunt ends in London, with q series
of alternating shocks to the sympathies of
the reader but happily at last. A brisk
movement, checked occa sionally by the dis
sertations of the American plutocrat. car
ries the reader cheerfully along from be-
ginning to end.
THE GOLDEN POPPY By Emory Evans Smith
Palo Alto, Cal: Published by the author.
Botanists, historians. poets and people in
general will be entertained by this hand
somely presented work of CALIFORNIA; typi-
cal flower, which covers the fields of that
state with a rich carpet. Written from a
motive of pure love for the golden bloom,
the account ranges from the scientific anal
ysis of the growth, through Indian legends
and historical Incidents to the architecture,
art and literature of the present. Handsome
illustrations, beginning with a frontispiece
IN colors, tempt the reader who is not now
a Californian to migrate at once to the
land of such a graceful, abundant, poetic
flower.
OCEAN TO OCEAN: an Account, Personal and
J. W. G. Walker. Q. s. n Illustrated from
original photographs and maps. Chicago: A. c.
McClurg & Company.
The author Of this book, a naval officer,
was employed during 1898 under the direc-
ton of the canal commission in surveying
the belt of country available for canal con-
struction between Lake Nicaragua and the
Pacific. He had occasion. therefore, to
ct1,I- b.
ly, and to acquire much information, which
he now presents in digested form in this
book. 1t is an interesting and in some re-
spects valuable addition to the canal litera-
ture, for it depicts the characteristics of the
country through which the canal il cut
along the Nicaragua route, will flow. 1t is
one of the strong claims of the Nicaragua
route advocates that this line will permit
the development of the country through
which it passes, whereas the climatic and
other conditions at Panama preclude the
possibility of much improvement, indus
trially or socially. Therefore, the descrip-
ton of the people and geogra phical conii-
tons of Nicaragua has a direct bea ring
upon one phase of the great controversies
now awaiting final settlement or another
postponement at the hands of Congress.
THE SPECIFIED BROOK TROUT (Salvelinus Fon-
Reel. Edited and Illustrated by Louis Rhead
With Introduction by Charles Hallock. New
York: X. II. Russell.
Few handsomer books have ever appeared
fl ON an American press. 1t is bound in 2
coiored photographic imitation of gray
birch bark, ornamented with trout flies on
their smells, the insides Of the covers being
lined with equally good imitation of the
brown inner bark of the birch. Thus, from
the outset the reader is given a glimpse of
trout's environment above water. The illus
ranging from portraits of the brook trout
in colors, through actual fishing scenes to
landscapes of the trout regions The es-
says on the trout relate in the main to the
Adirondack lakes They include The Bap-
tism of the Brook Trout" General De-
soription of the Trout Family" and The
Ole Adirondacks," by Charles Hallock
Lake Batiscan, ETC. by E. T. D. Chambers;
THE Habits of the Trout" by VIM. c.
harris; An Anglers Notes on the Beaver
Skill" by Benjamin Kent; Winged Enc
Trout Propagation" by A. Nelson Cheney;
Some Notes on Cooking Brook Trout"
by Louis c. Rhead, and Along a Trout
Stream by L. F. Brown.
THE Eed ANGF E1ss.; OF T THE LES POEM By
THE MOTHER OF THE CATos; a Novel. By
by Mrs. j. NJ Lancaster. New York: The Neely
company. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
THE MAN WHO PIEASES AND THE WOMAN
WHO FASCINATES. BY John A. Cone New
York: F. TennysOn Nicely. Washington: Wood
ward & LOthrOp.
POEMS. By Frances Guignard Gibbes Washing
ton: The Neale Company
YOUNG HOWSON'S WIFE; a Novel By A. E.
Watrous New York: Quail and Warner
THE STORY OF THE NATIONS-MEDIEyA
ROME; From Hildebrand to Clement VIII 1913
to 1900 By William Miller. Ma. author of
MANS sons. Washincton He Woo nSrH e. r. Put
HEROES OF THE NATIoNs-EDwARD PLAN
T1NIAN; or the Making of the Common Law
By. Edward jerks MA. COxon. ct Cantabl.
ares of Ssw 9 Yolk POLITICS in the Middle
Washington: Woodward Lothrop :.
BY THE HIGHER LAW; Novel. By Julia H.
etc. Philadelphia: Henry 7. Coates & Co.
and Sturdy Souls BY Charles johnson Moves
Boston, Henry A. Dickerman & Son.
HOW TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH GOD: the
Meaning of the Christian Science Movement
By Theodore +. Seward, author of Spiritual
showing etc. New York: Funk & Wagnalls
Company.
ALABAMA SKETCHES. BY Sarah Minturn Peck.
author OF cap and Bells etc. Chicago: A.
OUR EUROPEAN NEIGHBoRs; edited by William
Harbutt Dawson. SWISS LIFE IN Town ASI1
COUNTRY; by Alfred Thomas Story, author of
The Building of the British Empire etc
Ws as5fntsd New MWoG Work; G. putnams Sons
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