Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-27


Eaton Hill; golf, by Frances c. Griscom,
jr.; running, by Herbert H. Holton; lawn
tennis by J. Parmley Paret; field hockey,
by Constance M. K. Applebee; basket ball,
ism, by Belle Beach; fencing, by Regis
Senac: bowling, by Sophie Gundrum; track
athletics, by Christine Terhune Herrick.
The whole forms complete symposium OF
those forms of athletic sports which are
healthful and especially adapted to the
feminine constitution.
MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS. By Robert Louis
Stevenson. Boston: Herbert B. Turner q Co.
This is with a single exception reprint
of an earlier volume of StevensOn's work,
which he intended as collection OF
sketches bound together by the thread of
recollection. He had presented in them his
impressions of people and incidents and
the whole afforded view of phase OF
the authors mind not always displayed in
his fiction. For 1.-The Manse,' which APP
peared in the original edition, the present
publishers have purposely substituted The
Philosophy of Umbrellas" one of Steven
sons first efforts an author, which was
written in collaboration with James Wal
ter Ferrier one of the four editors OF the
Edinburgh University Magazine, and the
friend Of whom Stevenson wrote in pa
thetic vein in the third part of "Old Nor
tality" Portraits of Stevenson at various
ages illustrate the volume.
THE CERTAINTY OR FUTURE LIFE IN MARS;
Being the Posthumous Papers Of Bradford
Torrey Dodd. Edited by L. +. Gratacap. New
York: Brentanos. Washington BrentanOs.
It must be assumed that this Is not
hoax from the beginning to the end; that is,
that the editor of the papers actually pre-
sents these posthumous papers In good
faith as the writings of one Bradford Tor
rey Dodd, who, he states in his preface,
died at Christ Church, New Zealand, in
January 1885, The papers reached Mr..
Gratacap through Mr.. August Bixby Dodan,
unidentified as to locality, whose explana-
tory note states that he found the papers
in Mr.. Dodds trunk after his death. Mr.
Dodan had considerable trouble getting
them published, and perhaps they would not
now have been presented to the world had
1t not been for the sudden awakening of
public interest in the subject of wireless
biography, which forms the connecting link
in these papers between Mr.. DOdd on this
earth and his father on the planet Mars
Mr.. Gratacap vOuches for the fact that Mr..
Dodd and his father worked together in
their lifetime in an astronomical station
near Christ Church. Now whether, as Mr..
Dodd asserts, he did receive wireless mes
sages from his father when the latter had
become a Marian, describing the life on
that planet, remains for the readers cred
unity " ueteTIHlile IOT MIN personally. Inc
volume is at all events interesting and writ
ten with evidences of all sincerity. APP
pended is a translation of an article on the
planet by Giovanni Schiaparelli. 1t is in
any case an extraordinary work, whether
Mr.. Dodd was in wireless communication
with his father after death or not.
LETTERS OF AN ACTRESS. New York: Fred
erick A. Stokes Company. Washington: Bren-
tano's.
Readers Of 'The Christian" will recall
their enjoyment of Glorias bright letters
written to the old folks in the Manx Island
home. Equal pleasure will be found in
these Letters of an Actress. While it can
hardly be contended that the letters are
genuine, yet it is maintained that the oc-
currences described actually took place.
Since the success of AN English Woman's
Love Letters stories written in the epis-
tclary form have been frequent. The
method has its advantages, of course No
very keen analysis of character is expected
and its descriptions are of the sketchiest
sort. The tendency is toward frivolous
writing Adventures, conversation, en-
counters-they must be pictured in para
graph or they become tedious. The Letters
of an Actress appear to meet the require
ments. The heart-burnings, the comrade-
ship, the ambitions, the hopes and the
loves of the life behind the curtain are
deftly and adequately painted. One could
wish there was more about the stage ex-
periences of the actress, something on the
order Of Clara Morris recently published
"reminiscences. and less of her life outside
the theater. Nevertheless, an entertaining
story has been produced.
THE KNICKERBOCKER LITERATURE SERIES
THE FUR TRADERS; Of the Columbia River
and the Ro ky Mountains. As Described by
Washington Irving in His Account OF Astoria
and the Record Of 1.-The Adventures OF Captain
Bonneville With. Some Additions by the
Editor. New York: G.. =. Putnam's Sons
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop
PHILOSOPHY 4 A Story of Harvard University.
By Owen wister author of THE virginian''
etc. New York; The Macmillan Company
Washington: BrentanOs.
PRUDENCE PRATT. By Mrs. Dore Lyon. Illus
trated with Eight Original Drawings by Nal
colin A. Strauss. New York: Geo. v. Black
burne Company.
YOUNG IVY ON OLD WALLS; Book of Verse;
By II. Arthur Powell. Boston: Richard q.
Badger.
SLANG FABLES FROM AFFAIR By AL Kleberg
Baltimore: Phoenix Publishing Company.
FIELD OF FOLK; Poems. By Isabella Howe
Fiske. Boston: Richard G. Badger.
ward. Boston: Richard g. Badger.
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