Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14

series of talks between. the poets by
means of alternating selections which
continue a thread f6f discourse and EVIL
dence the occasional agreement or con-
fiict of those who have chosen the same
themes. Lanier and Whitman debate
America" Keats and Browning, Beau
racy;" Rosetti and Coleridge, dreams"
Shakespeare and Hood, tEarly Rising;;'
Emerson and Browning, Evolution"
Emma Lazarus and George Eliot .Evolu-
peare "Flowers;" Whittier and Lowell
Freedom" Tennyson' and Browning
Immortality" and so goes the list, COW
erng a wide range of subjects and of
contributors. The work evidences deep
reading and inventive arrangement.
RESS From this World to that which is to
Come. Delivered under the Similitude of a
lions in Puritan Costume by Harold Coping
New York. Fleming II. Revell Company.
Two considerations are essential in the
making of a new edition of this immor-
tai work; first, that the text be free from
innovations, and, second. that the illus
trations be artistic and yet characters
tic. Both qualities are present in this
new publication of the work. The text
is as nearly as possible that which rep
resented Bunyans own latest correction
and additions. During the authors life
time no less than eleven editions were
published. the last in 1858. the year of
his death, and in the course of the sue
ceSSiVe Temperatures Bunyan altered
and enlarged his work. The present pro-
duct of the RevelI press is. therefore,
virtually authoritative. Mr. Coppings IL
Illustrations are remarkably effective. He
has viewed the work III its large aspect
as an allegory, typical of the Bunyans
own life and travails. and has, therefore,
drawn the characters of the work in the
costumes of Bunyans own day. Further
more, as far as possible he has discarded
the conventional ACCOMPANYING of the
allegory and eliminated much that de-
tracted in the old prints from the vivid
realism and yet the high spiritual mean
ing Of the work.
THE DANCE OF DEATH. By Hans Holben.
With Introductory note ny Austin Dobson. New
York: Scott'fhaw Company.
1t is believed that Hans Holbein, the
younger, designed this series of cartoons
about 1927. They were first published at
Cologne without his name and with the ad-
dition of French quatrains supposedly from
the pen of Giles Corozet. They are re-
garded today as among the finest examples
of satiric art in existence. Their repro
duction in a handsome lit lie edition; with
explanatory matter and Mr.. Austin Dob
sons verses on the subject is treat 10
all lovers of old books and engrayings. The
cuts are admirably printed in panels about
three inches by two, the opposite page
being devoted to the original bibl cal quo
tatlonS in red and the French auatrains n
black. An explanatory index key to the
cravings is also given. The main series
of cuts includes all of the originals while
eight which were added in subseuu mt edf-
lions are supplemented. Two are miss ny
Note is made of the fact that only by i'm
pilcaton does the credit of the remark
able WOOD engraving, which so accurately
ana splritedly transcribed Holbein's draw
lngs, belong to Hans Lutzelburger a form
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OF the cuts. In these cartoons death is
represented as attending upon all classes
of men, from the pope to the pc asant
Throughout the series runs a keen wit at
the expense of the wealthy and titled class
es. So sharp was the satire, indeed that it
Is supposed Holbein shrank from disclos ne
his identity in the first editions
THE WAY TO THE WEST; and the Lives of
Three Early Americans. Boone, Crockett. Car
issppi Bubble nlustra tions by Frederic Rem
ington Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Com
When Mr.. Hough produced that striking
piece of historic fiction, THE Mississippi
Bubble" it was evident that new chron-
icler of high ability had appeared to re-
count the story of the great westward
march of civilization. He indicated in the
course of that book the true spirit of the
west lover one who has breathed the air
of the prairies and has seen the vistas of
vastness and has understood the meaning
of both. Now he offers an interpertat on
of the facts and forceS%of the westward
advance which is in no degree fictional and
by no means true to the historical conven-
tons. 1t is an estimation of the forces
natural, artificial and human, which d
to the development of the great American
empire and the evolution of what the al
thor insists is the true American, the west
erner. He discusses first of all the four i'm
plements which enabled the pioneers to
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vance across the Alleghenies These are
that splendid tool, the American ak not
more an implement of labor than an instru-
ment of civilization" that sweet ancient
weapon of our fathers, the American ri lie,
maker of states, empire builder" that
fairy ship of the Wilderness the birch bark
canoe, the first craft of America, ante
dating even the arrival of the white
man. and finally the American horse,
without which the American civilization
perhaps could never have BEEN He tells
the stories of Boone, Crockett and Carson.
He follows the advance to the Pacific and
beyond, and shows how the westward sp rit
has laid open new pathways and offered
new duties and new opportun. ties Through
out his work Mr.. Hough displays a rever-
ence for the great powers of civiliza ton
and for the men who have proved them
selves its fit agents.
AESOP's FABLES IN RHYME FOR CHILDREN
BY Richardson d. White and Margaret D.
Longley. Decorated by Charles Livingston Bull
Akron, o.: The Saalfeld Publishing Company.
Instruction and entertainment are blended
in this handsome book for children which,
indeed, the grown-ups may read with inter-
est. Half a hundred Of the famous fables
Of Aesop have been put into modern verse
in style calculated to enable the little
folks clearly to appreciate the humor and
wisdom of the allegories. To accompany
them as many full-page Illustrations are
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edly interpreting the text. The book is a
valuable addition to the shelves of the
library.
EIGHTY DRAWINGS, including THE WEAKER
SEX: The Story of Susceptible Bachelor. BY
Charles Dana Gibson New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: William Bal
lantyne Sons.
She is still pensive and soulful and he Is
still square jawed and intense, the i'm
mortal Gibson girl and Gibson man. With
them, through the generous pages of this
handsome edition of drawings, appear bores
and servants, dowagers and fathers. for
eign noblemen and snobs all sorts of both
sexes, but he and she remain the central
figures, drawn as though by process.
These drawings are all more or less famil-
lar through the periodicals, but they are
nevertheless welcome. They perpetuate the
Gibson tradition and incidentally are of