Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01

! ture of American institutions and history.
| Thus John Bach McMaster writes "A
Short History of American Politics." James
Bryce chapter on the Constitution and
Government of the United States;' Prof.
| o. T. Mason a chapter on "Aborigines and
Aboriginal Remains" N. 8. Shaler contrib
utes an essay on the "Physiography of
! North America" F. c. Wendt on ''Clima tie
and Climatic Resorts Of the United States"
William A. Coffin on Painting and Sculp-
ture.' and Montgomery Schuyler on "Archi-
| lecture. while brief notes are added de-
scriptive of the sports and games here prac-
tlced, and the educa tional, charitable penal
and Industrial institutions Of the country
The guide-book proper covers the usual
lines or travel embracing the chief cities
] and show places of the country with mn
merous maps and diagrams to render the
way OF the tourist easy. The editor has
prepared TINS edition, he declares, as much
TOT the american tourist who wants to see
ms own country as for the foreigner.
THE PURSUIT OF PHYLLIS. By John Harwood
Brown. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Wash
ington: William Ballantyne & Sons.
The theme of young man falling in love
| with woman he has never seen is not
new one, but Mr.. Bacon has utilized it in
this bright story to good effect. His hero,
| Tom Mott. an author who has been ordered
to take long rest to prevent nervous pros
tration, finds a packet of letters in
dresser in his London hotel, and in a mo-
ment of chivalrous accommodation under
/ takes to restore them to their owner Miss
Phyllis Huntington, who has gone on to
| Paris with her chaperon. He misses her
at Paris, at Lyons, and at Marseille, dis
covering at the last-named city that she
| has sailed for Hong Kong. Having abun-
| dant leisure and apparently equally abun-
dant means. he continues his pursuit, but
does not catch up with her until Ceylon is
| reached. Beyond Ceylon the pursuit of
| Phyllis becomes a love chase, over handi-
| caps of Observation-Disclosures and scruples,
| and finally at Hong Kong, when the goal
| seems just within reach, another obstacle
| is encountered in the form of a Chicago
! widow with whom Tom Mott has been in
| discreetly confidential on the first part of
| his voyage. But even this hurdle is cleared,
and the pursuit ends happily for all. The
| tale is brisky told, with much light but
diverting dialogue and a thin thread of in
| cidental description of the places passed on
| the way to Phyllis heart
TITAN. BY Georg Gronau. Translated from the
| German by Miss Alice NJ. Todd. London: Duck
worth & Co. New York: Imported by Charles
Scribner's Sons Washington Woodward &
Lothrop.
| The German edition of this work, APP
| pearng four years ago, aroused consider
| able controversy in Europe as to both its
| general character and it's specific state
| merits. The work is confessedly based upon
| the biography of Titan by Grove and Cav
| alcaselle which, indeed, constitutes the
! best authority available for this study.
| But the present author has gone be-
yond the lines thus laid down and has
| given his own Interpretation of T1tians
| works, and has undertaken to trace their
| sequence, where exact data cannot DC
| found by means of the internal evidences
| borne by the paintings themselves. Thus,
| he essays research into the relations De-
! tween the earlier works of the master,
| those produced during the years OF his hrst
1 Off in
| that no document gives definite informa-
| ton of the events of Titians life until ne
! had passed his thirtieth year, and thus 1t
| is necessary to study the various influences
! of his masters and associates upon his own
style to determine with any satisfaction
| the order of his achievements. The book
| is replete with handsome reproductions OF
| Titian's paintings, though the author has
/ chosen by means the best-knoWn, con-
| sidering that the more famous are already
| familiar to the student of art. He has Sc
| canvases which have heretofore never
| been depicted. The biographical matter is
| interviewer with the critical comments,
/ thus tracing the influences which led TO
| the various changes of Titian's style of
| treatment and his choice OF subjects.
| The volume is most valuable compendium
| for the guidance of all who seek 10 STUDY
| this great master of art, whether as man
| or as painter
| AIR. FOOD AND EXERCISE; an Essay the
| Predisposing Causes of Disease. By A. Rabagh-
| ati. Ma, MD, F.R.C.S., Edn. Third Edition.
enlarged and rewritten. New York: William
| Wood & Co.
| This work has passed through two edi-
| tions IN curiously different circumstances.
| The first was prepared in such terms that
| the medical critics declared that it was
| written fer the lay public. The author
detected tone of reproach in this COM
ment and set about version of his work
| that would appeal specifically to the pro-
I fession That edition was criticised in
| some professional quarters as being too
| technical. Now he has abandoned. it would
seem, all hope of pleasing his brethren OF
| the medicine case and the instrument box,
| and has prepared an edition which frankly
sets his theories before the unprofessional
| reader the potential patient. Dr. Raba-
! gliat is a physician of note in England.
! specialist in the treatment OF cancer. he
4 holds the view that the predispoSitiOn to
! disease is to be found rooted in personal
| habits rather than hereditary tendencies.
| In the custom of the individual as to food
and exercise he believes lie the basic causes
| of disease, and he deprecates all Efforts to
| trace ill-health to wholly extraneous and
| unpreventable causes. His ESSAY" to
prove this proposition is very long, but
| fortunately he has prepared an index of
| chapter contents which is virtually syl-
| labus of the whole work. SO that the Seek
| er after information can quickly light upon
| the fact or statement he wishes. The whole
| work is couched in a tone of good sense,
| and the advice is wholesome. DR.. Raba-
| gliati believes thoroughly in medicine
| corrective process and in surgery a check
| to disease, but he also believes that both
| medicine and surgery have in some places
| and some lines gone too far in the claim
| of scientific exactness.
I SEEKING LIFE; and Other Sermons. By the Rt.
| Rev. Phillips Brooks ID D., Late Bishop of the
| Diocese OF Massachusetts,. Tenth series. New
| York: L. p. Dutton & Co.
| Although this is the last of the series of
| volumes preserving the sermons of the late
| Bishop Brooks, 1t by no means completely
| exhausts all the available material at the
| hands of the editors of the work. Natural
| ly many more than two hundred sermons
| came from the pen of that great preacher
| during the years OF his pulpit activity. But
| Ii has been deemed wise to reprint no more
| than that number, stopping short of ex-
| hausting the best of the material rather
| than to run any risk of including that
| which may be considered as second best.
f! Thus these ten volumes stand for the max
| imum of Bishop Brooks achievements. The
| sermons comprised in them were written
| in the various periods of his youth, growth
| and maturity, and represent every quality
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