Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-20
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THE REAL SIBERIA: Together With an Account
of Dash Through Manehuria Illustrated by
World on wheel, Setc New York: D. APP
pleton & Co.
Leaving the field Of Siberian horrors so
fruitfully exploited by other writer's, Mr.
Fraser has written book Of the new ST.
IBERIA, the industrial Siberia, with its rail-
roads, hotels, colonization schemes, wheat
fields, harvested by American farm ma
chnery; the Siberia of the Yankee drum
mer and the foreign promoter. The authors
style is fresh and breezy. He avoids IN
consequential details while presenting new
views Of the interesting and distant land.
Indian Life. BY Franklin welles Calkns. New
York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
The Crows and the Sioux were once at
deadly enmity. They fought whenever they
met, and a bitter hatred arose between
them, seemingly never to be quenched, even
by much blood. Rather did the Staying fire
the braves to further Staying, until the
strife became as though unending But the
great tribes were at last brought together,
through the influence of two children of the
Sioux, offspring of a great chief, who were
sent to be taught by the whites and then
ran away to seek their homes again. They
were stolen, however ana their WdhdeTiilSS
carried them through strange lands ana
over long distances. At last they We're re-
stored to their own people and out of graft
tude for their recovery Fire Cloud held
out to war party of Crows the mana OF
peace and told them the story of his little
ones. Thereupon peace pact was struck
between the Sioux and the Crows and
thenceforth kept The story of the wander
ings of the little Sioux is told with graphic
simplicity. revealing a close knowledge of
the life of these people during the days
of the contact between them and the
whites in the sixties. 1t discloses the ten
derness of the Indians for their own, their
emotions and higher sentiments and teaches
a lesson of patience with an aboriginal peo-
pie not fully understood.
EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL SERIES-TRAvEILER'S
TALES OF THE PAN-AMERICAN COUNTRIES.
By Hezekiah Butterworth. Illustrated. Bos-
to: Dana Estes & Co.
Recent events in the southern and central
portions Of the western hemisphere have
drawn the attention of both children and
adults toward those regions as never before.
There is much to learn about them, much
that has heretofore been taken for granted,
much that is absolutely new. These stories
told with the delightful familiarity of Mr..
Butterworth both with his subject and with
the needs of young readers, touch upon all
parts of the southern countries and the ISL
ands of the Caribbean and with the aid
of numerous pictures afford the reader a.
most as intimate an acquaintance with the
regions as though he had actually visited
them.
MY JAPANESE WIFE; Japanese Idyl. By Give
In colors. New York Frederick a. Stokes Com
pany. Washington: Brentano's
The usual story of a union between
westerner and a Japanese does not end so
happily as does this charming little novel.
The eastern atmosphere too often is sur
charged with tragedy, but in this case
nothing occurs to disturb the placidity of
the 'idyl," as the tale is rightly named.
Eventually MouSme and her husband leave
Japan for the strange land of his birth, and
she is sad for the moment az the shores of
her home fade from view, but there is no
suggestion of a wrecked happiness and the
reader feels confident that dear little
Mousme will be content in her new sur
roundings.
Lillian Whiting author of The World Beauti-
full etc. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Someone has said that Boston is not a
place. but idea. Miss Whiting strength
ems this thought by her manner of describ-
ing the intellectual charm of the hub
and its historic surroundings. Her book is
not history of literature, or a Geographic
record of the men who in the nineteenth
century made Boston famous. 1t is rather
a delineation of character, a city's char
acter. an analysis of the ideals which have
animated Boston and her people, a state
ment of the intellectual and spiritual in
huences which have given it a distinctive
quality in the national life. The work
is divided into four parts, the first being
devoted directly to the title theme, the
second to Concord and It's Famous Au-
thors,' the third to The Golden Age of
Genius" and the fourth to THE Dawn of
the Twentieth Century" Miss Whiting
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place in the years to come as factor in
the evolution of the American people. Her
outlook is optimistic and reverently en-
thusastic. She has approached her subject
in a deeply religious spirit.
THE Eo GYY NC, CALENDAR OF REVISED WISDOM
Shepard.
Three bright people have elaborated to
produce this calendar, which punctuates
the days or rather the weeks, with amend
ed proverbs. The originals are in most
cases strictly followed, with verbal altera-
tons which give them a distinct character
Authorship is indicated by series of initial
designs. Sometimes two of the co-workers
have united in the production of single
epigram. AS, for instance, it required the
joint efforts of Mr. Miner and Miss Mum
ford to announce that "a fool and his
honey are soon mated" But this Is ex-
ceptonal. Usually the proverbs have been
evolved single handed. They are worth
remembering and it is not quite fair to re-
peat any of them here.
NATURE AND THE CAMERA; How to Photograph
Live Birds and their Nests: Animals, Wild and
Tame; Reptiles. Insects, Fish and other Aquatic
Forms: Flowers, Trees and Fungi BY A. Rad
clyne Dugmore, author of Bird Homes H.
Illustrated from photographs made by the author
New York: doubleday, Page Il Co. Washing
ton: VIM. Ballantyne Sons.
Readers of the magazines are doubtless
familiar with Mr.. Dugmores remarkable
photographs of nature, and have been led
to admire the patience which he must have
shown in approaching and gaining the con-
idence Of his feathered and furry subjects.
In this book, which is in itself an artistic
production, he tells some of his secrets,
which, after all, are not secrets, for they
are common sense facts, which, to produce
the results the author has secured, must
be coupled with artistic taste and photo
graphic skill. Throughout his work deep
sense of duty to the birds and beasts and
flowers, and even the reptiles. appears Mr.
Dugmore does not believe in destruction in
any form. He advises those who would
follow in his footsteps to treat every birds
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