Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
THE
PENSIONAIRES
A DELIGHTFUL STORY FOE
TRAVELLED AMERICANS.
Herbert B. Turner & Co., Boston.

nurses she volunteered her services and for
three years was kept hard at work I'm the
hospitals. struggling against the terrible
conditions Her letters and diary reflect her
intense indignation aroused by the brutality
of surgeons and the unfitness of other Off
GERS charged with the lives of the sick and
wounded. The decentralization and INSULT
cheney of supplies brought forth from her
many a moan. but not for her own sake.
She felt for the poor men who were Sacri-
feed to the unit conditions, against which
the efforts of physicians and nurses alike
were unavailing. After the civil war Mary
Phinney went back To her old home and
then in a few years war occurred between
France and Germany and her association
with Baron Won Olnhausen caused her to
feel that her duty called her abroad. So she
went to the continent and was engaged
throughout the war as nurse, serving 50
faithfully and well that she was decorated
with the Order of the Iron Cross by En-
peror William |. 1t is interesting to note
that when Prince Henry visited this coun-
try in 1902 he was particularly attentive to
this woman. who wore the order which had
been given to her by his grandfather. She
died in that same year. This account of her
life, carefully edited, preserves her point
of view as far as possible, and reflects
wildly the scenes and incidents OF two
great wars as seen by the army nurse.
COMEDIES IN MINIATURE. BY Margaret Cam
eron. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. New
York: Mcclure, Phillips * Co Washington:
Woodward & Iothrop.
Eleven pldyIetS- lIllS NoiuiHe.
They make good.reading viewed merely as
stories, although their prime purpose is to
furnish material for amateur actors for
psrlor presentations of a higher type than
those to be procured from the old-style
books Of plays. There is a suggestion in
Mrs. Cameron's style of that of Mr. How
els. whose one-act plays written few
wears ago form one of the most agreeable
features of his literary output. The long
est composition of this series is in two
parts the others being all of one act each.
Some of them are mere monologues. All OF
them are bright and based on interesting
themes The publishers add a note of COM
mendation on the plays by Franklin III.
Sargent of the American Academy OF ORA
matte Arts who declares Mrs. CameronS
work to be exceptionally brilliant. dra-
maticalIy effective and Electrically valua-
BILE"
THE WANDERINGS OF JOE AND LITTLE EN-.
By Albert Bigelow Paine. illustrated 10y J.
Conacher Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Com
pany.
This is the story of young New Hamp-
shire boy, who undertakes to walk to New
yorl, with his little sister in order to secure
the help of a famous singer who, while on
a summer vacation, has heard his re-
markable voice. The experiences of the two
Youngsters are told delightfully."-. They fall
into the hands of a Swindling actor, VINO
fattenS for a time on the proceeuS oi JOG
public singing. but Joe shrewdly scents the
danger and escapes He and little FIN
have many troubles. but they finaliy reach
their good angel and prosper 1t is story
to touch the springs OF sympathy III every
breast
BEL By lisa Darlington Cabell. New York:
Henry Holt & Co. Washington: W. ii. Lowder-
milk & Co.
Here. in the course of some thirty satlr-
ical ESSAYS, the writer brightly comments OK
certain phases of modern society. She has
q fsciIe style. easily shifting her pont or
view and expressing herself fuently ana
gracefully. Her illusions are sometimes a
trifie veiled hut her wit is keen and point
ed She discourses upon the new man, the
new child relatives servants, nervous pros
tration orig nal and defunct sin. and VEN
lures hints toward the answer of questions
such as should women and should men pro-
pose The book makes attractive reading
without involving heavy demand on TIE
ina ination or the sense OF connection.
ESSAYS ON GREAT WRITER'S BY Henry d.
Sedgwick, jr. Boston: Houghton. Mi;flin * 60.
Washington: Vim. Ballantyne a Sons.
These nine essays are chiefly reprinted from
the Atlantic Monthly. Mr.. Sedgwick is en-
doWed with sound and varied scholarship,
keen insight, generous imagination, genial.
spontaneous humor and literary manner
singularly lively and expressive. In this book
he deals mainly with such men of letters as
Scott, Thackeray, Macauay. Monta. gne
and CervanteS-alwayS with firm, critical
handling yet with wealth of asides and
a vivid touch of personality which give to
his work an unusual infusion of the breath
of life.