Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-12

weekly naper. the rise and fall of which-it
never rose very high, and 80 Its fall was
not great-are recounted IN tHis Fo,oi
with pathetic intensity tempered by keen
sense of humor Later ne slar o5aa d awe
lar paper in Chicago of the same Iiaiile,
II met the same fate. While In Cnlcaso
Mr. Buchanan was deeply Interested III ING .
efforts to secure the pardon or repre- VI
the men convicted of comphclty IN ele nay ",
market dynamite outrage. HIS chaplel oii
his endeayors along this line Is OF intense
interest T., h,s
hook He does not attempt to set torth
argumentatively the doctrines lot winch ne
has stood for so many years. he mercy
tells his own story, as the record oI an
endeayor a personal document II Is an
important addition to the history oi 'ne
neriod for Mr.. Buchanan, at the helght Oh
his activities stood as a representative ol d
great social factor, then assuming tanslple
form and acquiring force in the eVolutioii
of the country. 1t Is fortunate that ne ne. Is
enabled to recount his experiences with
such vfyidness and such an unm1stakapie
note of absolute sincerity.
Caribbean Cruise. BY f. Frankfort Moore,
author Of 1.-THE Jessamy Bride" ETC. New
York: D. Appleton Co.
Some readers might declare that this
story book Is useful neither as guide TO
the West Indies nor as a romance, being
blend Oh IlOSS lWO SlcLlChlo 1"oN-
readers must be limited in their view of a
beck. Most excellent history has been
written with fctional narrative as me-
dunn of conveyance Much solid informa-
ton is here impaired between the passages
which relate to the authors observations as
a student of humanity. 1t is obviously the
record more or less colored and amplifed
NV an active imagination, of an actual ex-
perience Oh the part of Mr.. Moore. He tells
of his goings and comings with some cir
cumstantial precision. He renders his vari-
GUS shipmates with detailed strokes. The
conversation touches at times upon current
themes. For instance, the man who is per-
petually defending Gen Butler might easily
have stepped directly into the pages from
one of the London clubs. 1t Is an achieve
ment that Mr.. Moore is enabled, by en-
ploying his present method, to carry on
keen personal interest on the part or the
reader in no less than four romances. all
budding at once on board the steamer
Avon. The book is filled with clever writ
ing. with amusing incidents and with at
tractively presented facts. 1t causes the
generous-minded reader to wish TO take
himself the very cruise thus chronlcled. In
the hope of meeting just such a ships COM
pany of entertaining people.
SILVER Innings. BY Nina Rhoades Illustrated
by Margaret Eckerson. New York: Mcclure,
Phillips & Co. Washington: Woodward & 10th
For long time 1t seems as though the
silver Innings of this poor blind girls clouds
are never going to appear. She has the
most persistent bad luck But finally the
light breaks upon her troubled soul, and
though she does not regain her sight, she
comes into the glory of full happiness. Yet
as she notes at the end of her personally
narrated story, there Is in the book nothing
about love and marriage. 1t is simply the
story of young girl whose eyes ars blind
ed by an accident In her early childhood
and whose parents shortly afterward die.
leaving her to the care of an aunt and uncle
in a distant city. Misfortunes multiply rap
idly. When the girl Is still a child she
learns through the ill-tempered outburst Of
her foster-sister that she Is only adopted
into the family. Then few years later
her foster-mother and father are killed in a
railroad accident. The sister, now married
cares nothing for her, and the husband is a
scoundrel. who burns will to secure for
his wife all Of the dead mans money-be-
queathed equally to the girls. The blind
girl is next shipped off to a boarding
place while the young married couple go
to Europe This proves to be no less than
private sanitarium for the insane, the
girl having been declared to be unsettled in