Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31

ton of the adult reader 1t has unmis-
taxable qualities for success both as a
Juvenile and as a story for the elders.
THE COUNTRY BOY. By Forrest Crissey. Illus
trated by Griselda Marshall Mcclure. New
York: Fleming II. Reyell Company.
Thirty short sketches illustrative of the
life of a country boy comprise this attrac-
tive volume. The author has accurately re-
produced the atmosphere of bucolic boy
hood, with its terrors, its temptations. Its
trials and joys, it's narrow limitations and
its nature wide opportunities. The boy IN
these sketches is of the average type, save
that in the final sketch he is shown to be
possessed by a great gift the faculty for
keeping a secret He and his playmates
devise an imitation meteor which star1es
the community, and for two years thus
particular boy remains true to the trust i'm
posed in him. When at last the truth
Genes out and the father learns that his
boy has kept faith with his companions in
mischief for two years he rewards him by
presenting him with rifle. And after that
he is no longer a boy. So the book appro-
priately closes. The pictures are numer-
GUS and artistic.
THE GOLDEN CHAIN BY Gwendolin Overflow
author of ''Anne Carmel etc. New York: The
Macmillan Company. Washington: Brentanos.
This little love story of the great south
west catches the readers sympathes.
young farmer meets a company of travelling
actors, the youngest member of the party
being girl Thenceforth his life is chang
ed. He rescues her from an angry mob of
Mexicans bent upon killing her for the
supposed theft of golden chain from the
neck of a statue of saint in the church.
A Mexican girl who loves him interposes
her influence with the mob to save her
rival and then the story proceeds quickly
to an appropriate conclusion. 1t is biief,
but tense, taking the reader into the heara
of quiet, forceful. determined young
| member of the great plains colony.
MY OLD MAIDS. CORNER. BY Lille Hamilton
= French author of ..IIezekiah's Wives" etc
New York: The Century Company. Washington:
Brentano's.
This is a plea for the spinster, the I'M
sung, almost unchronicled 'old maid" This
particular spinster has discovered that the
very best vantage point possible TO any OBJ
server of humanity or nature Is a corner.
from which everything can be seen. The
center of the place she declares is for the
self-poised self-interested people VINO have
no time for watching others. From her
corner she notes the world and the heavens
anC. renders her thoughts into charming
discourses which reflect much philosophy
and many interesting incidents.
GALLoPs 2. By David Gray. New York: The
Century Company.
In a former volume, styled 'Gallops," Mr..
Gray told some excellent short horse
stories which won high praise for him from
all lovers of the noble animal Now Re
| repeats his venture in a book of similar
stories, which is appropriately entitled
"Gallops o. being a continuation of his
former theme. The tales are peopled
by horsemen and women, witty and enter
tanning all true devotees of the turf and
the hunt Cupid. who must take to his
own wings when he goes afield, plays an
rf,,, arf ~, hos md
mark with his usual accuracy.
HOW TO JUDGE ARCHITECTURE: Popular
Guide to the Appreciation OF Buildings. By
Russell g sturgs NJ Phi D. dilusrated New
VIM Ballantyne Il Sons.
From the early Greek temple to the mod
ern business block is a long jump, covering
many changes In architectural standards.
But it is significant that today in the mod
ern building may be found suggestions of
the Greek temple. In short, the modern
creation Is the composite of all that the
world has produced in the past in bricz,
stone, plaster or wood. Consequently 1t is
difficult for one not an architect to dis
eliminate accurately between the schools
and classes. Mr.. Sturgis, who is acknowl-
edged to be the leading critic of architec-
ture in this country, has here sketched the
history of modern opinion of this art. He
traces the influences which contributed in
the forma ton and evolution of the types
and Furthermore deduces some simple rules
to enable the average person to judge IN
diligently as to the truth to type of any
building. He sets up no absolute standards,
but states the fundaments of taste. He
declares that in the creation of modern
structures thought must suppiant tradi-
ton, which has passed with the merging
of types and schools.
THE FLOWER BEAUTIFUL. BY Clarence Moores
Illustrated Boston: Houghon. Mfiin &
Co Washington: VIM Ballantyne & Sons.
Happily the day of the bouquet has
passed. No longer are flowers massed to-
gether and tied rigidly into tight inverted
cones each blossom losing its identity and
becoming unit in a conglomerate. Now is
the day of the individual flower. cherished
for it's solitary beauty, its grace, its use
fulness for decoration. One rose, artisti-
caIly held In vase in the right place in the
room. is worth more for decorative effect
than dozens massed and wrongly disposed.
This book tells how to handle single flowers
and small punches and growing plants to
the best advantage for indoor effects. This
art, in which the Japanese were the pio-
neers Is based upon fundamental princi-
pies, ard leads to the consideration of
other elements than the mere arrangement
of blooms and plants. The house beautiful
is within the reach of those who study the
preceptus enunciated in Mr.. Weeds volume
and life will be broadened and enriched.
ADVENTURES OF AN ARMY NURSE IN TWO
WARS. Edited from the Diary and Correspond
ence of Mary Phnney baroness Won Onhausen)
by James Phinney Munroe. With portrait Bos-
ton: Little Brown Co.
Mary Phinney Won Olnhausen was one of
the best-known of the American war
nurses. She was New Highlander who. in
middle life. met and married a German of
high scholarly and scientific attachments, a
scion of q noble family. He lived only two
years after the marriage and his widow
was thrown back upon her resources. She
went out west and was living on the FROM
tier Of civilization when the war between
the states broke out. Realizing the need of