Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22

agreeable, but which he regarded his
duty-the obtaining of contributions from
the wealthy residents of New York. But
undertake II he did and his sincerity and
his attractive personality won many in
huential friends for the project.
Mr.. Maclay says: Possibly the secret of
Philips popularity with all who sailed with
him was that he never held in grudge
against a fellow officer-one of the most
serious mistakes made in the service. and
one that has foolishly led to many life
long enlightenment. Quick to resent en-
croachment or aSpersion, Philip always was
ready to meet more than half way the
slightest overture to forgive and forget.
While he was tolerant of ALL says the
author. and took pains to enlarge on the
good that was IN evidence, wherever found,
his own example all through life was an
eloquent, powerful sermon in advocacy of
the tenets of his choce-an unperishable
monument to that highest type of sea war
rior-a Christian gentleman"
of the Wizard of the North. Which Theft is
Humeiy Acsnowiedged by 5 r. Crockett IL H.
pany. Washington: Brentanos.
A group of young Scotch children re-
fused to take the interest in the works of
Sir Walter Scott that their elders regarded
desirable, and so the Story-teller as
device to lure these youngsters to the
printed works of the wizard of the north,
told them series of tales drawn from that
wonderful, treasure house of romance, the
Waverley novels. He gave them free-hand
versions of the more entertaining of the
episodes narrated by Scott in the course of
his longer works, and held their attention
so closely that they later fell upon the
shelves with eager desire for the entire
works themselves. These stories are told
amid the very surroundings of Scott and his
work, anc are separated by 'interludes." in
the course of which the Storyteller relates
something of the geography and history OF
the scene, and the reader of the book is
given a glimpse of the youngsters. Mr..
Crockett lays no claim to originality save
in the matter of his own individual render
ing of the tales. He says: 1.-The books are
open. Any one can tell Scotts stories over
again in his own way. This is mine 1t
is delightful way, and will revive the IN
terest of elder readers in the Waverley
SERIES and probably will attract hosts of
young people to those great works of fic-
ton. The illustrations in color by Simon
Harmon Vedder are exceptionally effective.
A PARODY ANTHOLOGY. Collected by Carolyn
Wells. New York: Charles Seribner's Sons.
Washington William Ballantyne Sons.
Some folks dislike parodes, because they
say they spoil the originals. But 1t may be
averred that as many others relish clever,
humorous imitation of a well-known poem
without in the least degree feeling their
appreciation of the originals blunted Miss
Wells herself a parodist of high rank. has
undertaken the collection of the best to be
found In this line of literature. thus per-
forming a valuable service to those who do
not keep scrap books. In this small volume
will be found scores of old friends and some
new ones. OF course Miss Wells had to
draw the line somewhere, and in drawing
1t she was forced to exclude from her an
thology a large number of more or less
familiar parodies smacking strongly of
the vernacular. Thus her collection of
parodies on Mary had a little lamb does
not include few that exceptionally eX-
pressive of the fun-making spirit of the
American people. But the book is the more
circumspect for the omission.
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. By Tudor jerks. New
York: The Century Company
Despite the lapse of time, the figure of
Capt John Smith looms large in the histor-
zeal perspective. His is one of the earliest
of the romantic characters connected with
the discovery and development of the new
world The Spaniards came and went and
left their impress deep on the land. Smith
did no more, perhaps, than many others,
but one circumstance alone has served to
keep his fame alive through the centuries.
The Pocahontas episode gave him place
that no end of sacrifice and suffering and
adventure and achievement could have
yielded. for in that incident was struck the
love note that never dies. Mr.. Tudor jerks
has undertaken in this work based strictly
upon Smiths own narrative, to disclose the
real man, with all his faults and graceS,
and to present an account of his enterprises
as nearly true to fact the existing rec
ords will permit. He shows in this biogra-
ply that Smiths claim should rest upon a
broader basis than the Pocahentas romance.
He says: 1T was John Smith who taught
all colonists the strength of independence.
To this brave, patient, resourceful, honest
nrf1u N "a nd &c,
trace back the influences that a century
and a half later set ringing the bell to pro-
claim liberty to all the land and the in
ha bitantS thereof The United States of
America owe more to him and to his words
than they have set recognized, and though
his place in history is secure the nation
which Is the fulflment of his dream owes
him monument among those of its found
erS.
A SHORT CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES BY Francis Newton Thorpe
An. Ph.D., author of The Government of
the People of the United States" &C. Boston:
Little, Brown Il Co.
DIR. Thorpe has already written several
volumes dealing with the history of Amer
lean political institutions One of these was
narrative of the civil development of the
states and another of the development of
the federal Union. He now tells the con-
stitutional history both of the Union and of
the states, showing the common basis of
American local and general government
He believes that there is need for broader
understanding by the people of the state
constitutions with reference to their bear
ing upon the fundamental federal law.
Since 1865 there has been a decided trend
of public interest in national affairs at
tended, he believes, with a distinct decay
of interest in. the affairs of the common
wealths.
THE GRAY WORLD. BY Evelyn Underhili New
York: The Century Company.
Believers in reincarnation. as taught by
the Hindoo cults. will find this novel of dis
tinct comfort and satisfaction in that 1t is
based upon instance of the immediate
return of soul from the mysterious place
of departed spirits to inhabit another mum
dane body. This Is the soul that has de-
parted from the frame of London slum
child who dies in a hospital. 1t finds itself
in gray world" lonely and awful. 1t
demands release and is sent back to occupy
the body of the only son of a middle-class