Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-19

Isaac's mouth with soap after an indul-
gence in profanity. The quaint humor of
the narratives appeals broadly to all, even
though the reader may never have walked
through the polyglot Last Side of the great
city.
THE WATCHERS OF THE TRAILS; a Book OF
Animal Life. BY Charles c. G. Roberts. author
of The Kindred of the Wild &c. illustra ted
by Charles Livingston Bull Boston l. c.
Page Co.
Throughout the animal stories by Mr..
Roberts runs the note of dominance. He
tells of big fish. big eagles, big bears big
wolves, big rams, big muskrats. He has a
deep reverence for the kingly qualities that
mark off certain members of the colonies
and families of birds and animals for rule
or guardianship. In this book the note of
dominance sounds conspicuously. The
heroes of these short tales of woods and
water life are heroes by right of size and
character, quickness of thought and action,
resource in emergencies, devotion TO the
guiding principle of life, be it the instinct
to satisfy hunger to guard the young.
Mr.. Roberts writes with fine dramatic eff
feet, personifying his creature characters
to a keen point of individuality. Mr.. Bull S
pictures are in close harmony with the au-
thor's style and greatly add to the i'm
pressveness of the stories.
THE MOTOR PIRATE. By G. Sidney Paternoster
Frontispiece by Charles r. Sykes. Boston: l..
c. Page Co. Washington: William Balan-
tyne x Sons.
With motor capable of making a
hundred miles an hour, with a fully con-
cealing coat and mask with a pistol skill
gained by experiences in wild lands, and
with an hypnotic power derived from a
Hindoo ancestry, the Motor Pirate a
truly formidable character, well calculated
to terrify all England for time. How he
began his devastating work, holding up
motorists and robbing them of their valu-
ables-even a certain August Parsonage
whose title could not be Northumberland
woundng and even killing those who re-
sisted how he was tracked by a man for
the sake of woman's love, aided by a
detective officer from Scotland Yard; how
his identity gradually was revealed. and
how finally he met a terrible fate this
sprightly story tells in detail with pulsing
of continuous interest. Liquid hydrogen
furnished the power to the remarkable ma
chine, which, in the days of the Motor
Pirates exploits, could be transformed
while on the road into the most innocent
| appearing of noisy. siowspeed cars. No
| degree of skepticism can serve to overcome
the appeal the story makes to the reader 8
| interest.
YOUR LOVING NELL; Notes from Vienna and
Paris Music Studios. Gathered by Dearest
from letters Home of the Ia tie Mrs Nelly
Gore. illus trated. New York: Funk Wag-
nails Company
| So absorbed was the western world in
| the tragedy of the death of Mrs. Nelly
| Gore a beautiful American woman, in Paris
| two years ago, that 1t had little inclina-
| ton to look beneath the sensational fea-
| lures of that mysterious affair for the true
| story of the woman herself. 1t is told, in
some part most intimately, in the course of
| the letters printed under this striking title,
| written by Mrs. Gore to a friend in the
| United States. They describe in a frank,
| simple style of the writer's hopes and
| fears and trials in Europe while studying
| music. They give little sketches of WELL
known musicians and teachers. They ex-
| hale the atmosphere of Paris without a
suggestion of moral faint. An intro
ductory note by Mabel Wagnalls briefly
states the known circumstances of Mrs.
Cores death in terms that fully clear
her memory of any question. The letters
themselves have a marked literary quality
and breathe pure spirit, with many pa
thetlc touches of utter inconsistencies. 1t
is a book to interest all students of music,
especially, and it appeals as well to readers
of all classes because of it's intensely hui
man note. The letters are vouched for as
genuine.
PLAYERS AND vAGABoNDs. By yiolo Rose
b0ro', author of The Joyous Heart" &c. New
YORK: The Macmillan Company. Washngto ton:
Brentano's.
These nine stories of stage-folk give the
reader look beneath the grease paint.
They show the real hearts of the people
who act the comedies and farces and TRACE
dies of the mimic world while they are
playing their own individual parts in the
dramas written for them by fate Miss
Roseboro has in her other books shown a
decided talent for telling of the thespians
of her more or less Ultimate acquaintance
in manner to challenge a sympathetic tn
terest, She has broadened her field some
what in this latest work. but without de-