Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-26

agandists in London which are interesting
from an unprejudiced point of view. The
story is naively told, sometimes showing a
toucn winch suggests, perhaps purpOSely
to deepen the mystery of the anonymity, an
unframed style in composition.
SIMPLIFIED INSTRUCTIONS IN RETOUCHING
NEGATIVES ETC: Spotting Prints and Seven
Methods of Photographic Photo Reproduction in
tolors. Including Lantern Slides and Trans
parencies. BY Frank b. Clark. Washington:
Published by the author.
The author of this little book, well known
in local art circles, believes that the time
is not far distant when photographs can
be taken in color directly from nature. But
meanwhile there is a demand for the COM
bined product of the camera and the brush,
and his instructions in methods best suited
for this line of work are the result of ex-
perience. He also gives practical suggeS-
tons for the treatment of negatives which
do not quite suit the artistic eye or the de-
mand for lkenesses. They are couched in
the plainest terms. and can be followed by
anybody with dizziness enough to hold a
retouching pencil or fine brush. Pho
Biography becomes closely akin to art when
pursued under such conditions.
COMMENTS OF \ COUNTESS. New York: John
Lane.
The demand for the literary products of
the supposedly great continues undated
w lille the mystery of the German Eliza
Delh is unbrOken, another is added, the
nameless author of these comments" who
is too smart to be a member of the smart
set. and too we'll versed in the tricks of
composition to be a social butterfly Her
to smother the suspicion that the author is
a man-condensation of practically the
whole of the life of fashionable England
into few short chapters is remarkably
well done. An amateur author would ram
bic far afield and would yield to the temp
stretch clever IN
particularize half suggested scandal. If
the countess is not trained professional
writer she has had the great good fortune
10 md an editor of the highest skill. The
humorous treatment of the characteristic
pursuits of the British arstocracy does not
prevent the telling of many wholesome
truths.
THE BLAZED TRAIL. BY Stewart Edward
White. New York: Mcclure. Phillips 4 Com
pany. Washington: Woodward & Iothrop.
In this tale of life in the logging camps
OF the north the author carries the reader
into section too fnfrequently visited. 1t
still is a pioneer region of literature Life
is strenuous, rough and purposeful. The
men have good req blood in their veins.
they do things with their muscles, they
confront death every day they work and in
the enc there are more kicks than pennies
for their pains. The story is written with
evidently spent some time in the midst of
the scenes he describes and is familiar with
the technique cf the situation. There are
some charming word pictures in the novel.
The man who wrote them got very close to
nature. He also has made a study Of hui
man nature and skllfully and unerrfngIv
depicts the characteristics of the men who
do the work in the snCwclad forests Of the
north. The harmonious construction Of the
nf he
romantic interest to the practical IN the
logging camps love is not the controlling
motor Of life.
New York: Mcclure Phillips & Compa6v
Washington: Woodward 4 Lothrop.
A Whit of ozone from the bounding west
Is breathed in the opening chapters of this
book. Mr.Wm. Saunders, alias Red" Saun-
ders, sometimes ''Chanta Seechee" Saunders
is good fellow, with his heart in the right
place, breezy way Of talking and clean
grit. His adventures in the west are told
until he makes his stake His entrance
into the quiet life of little New England
village, where naturally he creates com
MOTION furnishes sharp contrast to his
former life. The thread cf romance is tied
into a love knot in the end The story is
Charming throughout.
THE MAKING OF A STATESMAN Rr 1,o,
Chandler Harris New York: Mcclure Phil
lips & Company. Washington: Woodward &
LothrOp.
More stories of the southland, told in Mr..
Joel Chandler Harris characteristic fash
ion The quaint negro dialect and the un-
familiar life of the whites in reconstruction
times as described by the author are the
chle1 charmS OF the group of stories COL
lected under the title of the first and long
est one.