Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28


came and settled down under her nose ami
brought bride there to his cabin, and
afterward was proved to be Il bigamist.
Tioba, after mankind had shown signs Of
disapproval,' heaved herself one night and
sought to settle the score in her own way.
1t was only Because Jim Hawks was not a t
home but fleeing with his first wife, who
had threatened vengeance, that he was not
given a proper burial. AS it was, only
,Jeany,' whom Jim had so cruelty deceived,
was sacrificed to- the mountains righteous
indignation. Told in a dialect which
offends not in strangeness of diction, but
-aboun1s in pleasing metaphor and alluslon.
the story. of Tioba is delightful, even
though sad in the ending. Then come sew
eral other tales, of various sorts and
lengths, but none as positive in force as
HOME BUILDING AND FURNISHING; Being a
Combined new Edition of Model Homes for
Little Money. by william L. Price, and I'm
side of 100 Homes by w N. Johnson New
York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Washington:
William Ballantyne Sons.
a wholesome degree of attention is being
paid of late to the matter of home building
and home making-these being two entirely
distinct terms-and gratifying results are
to be seen throughout the country in neat
suburbs, well-kept city lots, higher grade
of architecture, and, what is best of all,
merely passing by in railroad trains or
trolley cars or on foot artistic interiors,
coupled with maximum of comfort. Two
little books enumerated in the title given
above, were recently published ting in
such an attractive manner of the ways and
means of artistic home making that it was
deemed desirable to combine them, and this
volume is the result, well worth the read
ing and studying Even though one is not
about to build or to buy or to lease, it were
well, to learn something of how "the other
half lives, that half which is thinking
tied means.
A MIDsoMMER NIGHTS DREAME; First Felio"
Glossaries, Lists Of Variorum Readings and Sc
lected Criticisms, by Charlotte Porter and Helen
A. Clarke, editors of the "Camberwell Brown
ing" With photogravure >frontispiece, rnbri-
Gated title-page and cover designed by Goodhue.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
This appearance Of "a Midsommer
Nights Dreame'' heralds a Shakespeare
event of some moment. The volume is the
forerunner of an entire set of the poets
works, to be known as 1.-The First Folio
Edition." and to rest upon that famous
original not only for text, but also for
spelling and punctuation. Despite the
many editions of Shakespeare now extant,
the First Folio" is new departure, and
is therefore entitled to special considera-
ton. The editors say that Chaucer and
Spenser have been privileged to reach the
modern reader in the forms of speech be-
fitting them and belonging to their time
then why not Shakespeare? Chaucer is far
more archaic, and Spenser more affected
and remote in style than Shakespeare.
Without Is much need of it, the last has
been modernized to suit each succeeding
epoch Yet. barring the long 50 and
very few similar typographical changes,
there is practically nothing in the form Of
the first complete text of the plays pub
lished in 1928. and commonly called the
First Folio, which should cause the present
day reader to stumble.
TWENTY-sIx HISTORIC SHIPS; the Story of
Successors In the Navies of the United States
:, and Of the Confederate States of America,
from f715 to 1902. By Frederic S. Hill. New
York: G. z. Putnam's Sons. Washington:
Woodward g. Lothrop.
The author says that the suggestion that
led to the collection Of the material for
this volume came in the encouraging COM
ments of naval officers upon a monograph
he had written on the story of the Enter
prise and her SUCCESSORS These critics be-
Heved that work of similar character
might well be undertaken for other historic
ships of the navy. The author remarks
that almost all our naval history of any
Importance up to the time Of the civil
war, with the exception Of the battles on
Lakes Erie and Champlain, has been COM
prised in actions between single ships. The
vessels whose careers the author has re-
counted are the Alfred, Ranger, Bon
Homme Richard, Reprisal, Hornet, Wasp,
Enterprise, Constitution cold Ironsides'),
Constellation, United States, Essex, Law
renee, Saratoga, Fulton, Hartford, Monitor,
SI1Dof for To-.
bama, Merrimac, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Maine, Olympia and Oregon. In the chap
ter on the Lawrence is described the battle
OF Lake Erie, in that on the Olympia the
battle of Manila, in that on the Oregon
the destruction of Cervera's fleet The
story Of the Hartford details Farragut's
most important work in southern waters.
The chapter on the Monitor tells, of course
of the desperate fight with the Merrimac
in Hampton Roads. In fact, the work is
g. history of the American navy, with the
famous vessels treated units. The result
has been to make a volume Of unusual in
terest and work of great value for ref
erence uses. The style is easy and flowing
and not too technical to discomfort the
landsnlan.
The FILIGREE BALL. By Anna Katherine Green.
author of The Leayenworth Case" etc. Illus
trated. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Com
pany.
This authors works are notable for the
element or mystery they contain. The aver
age reader Of fiction is fond of detective"
stories and the guild Of writer's Of whom
DR.. Conan Doyle is the dean are in high
favor. Miss Anna Katherine Green, it may
be added, holds front rank. 1.-THE Filigree
Ball." aside from the intrinsic merits of the
work, should interest Washingtonians The
scene of the mystery is here. and the mag
nation is stimulated by familiarity with
the settings to enter more heartily into the
absorbing intricacies Of the plot
The mystery centers about one of the old
colonial houses Of the capital, long deserted
and given over to cobwebs, dust and an
uncanny reputation. Who has not observed
these relics of by-gone times in the older
settled parts of town, and thought that they
looked to be likely places for ghosts, 'ha' nts'
and mysteries? The great mansions, dark
silent and gloomy, with closed shutters
certainly must, 1t would seem; hold tragic
stories, enclose unsolved mysteries. 1t is
just such house as this that Miss Green
chooses. The place has an evil reputation:
men have died mysteriously there, always
In the same room, in the same spot and ap-
parently by the same means This story
opens with the eliminating tragedy of the
series. The daughter Of the family own
ing the house, bride of two weeks. sum
posedly blessed with everything pe edfuI for