Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20

with direct force and pointed meaning.
The purpose of the volume is to oner a
key to the Presidents thoughts ideals and
policies. The work is well done. the edit
ing showing evidence of deal of care and
discrimination. A sketch of Mr.. Roose-
welt with an estimate of his mental proc
esses, is reprinted from DR.. Albert Shaws
introduction to the published speeches of
the President. The whole forms a hand
book which is assured of a wide use dur
ing the campaign now in progress.
THE MASTERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By
stephen Gwym. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Brentano's
The purpose of this book is to familiar
ize young readers and those of their elders
who have not heretofore made a study of
literature with the men and works that
have acquired public fame. 1t Is broad
sketch of the best to be found in English
letters, from the beginning in Chaucer's
works to the writer's of the Victorian per-
lod By careful system of exclusion only
those writer's have been chosen for brief
analysis and Illustration whose works pro,
duced an effect upon the literature and
live today because of some vital quality
Ihe author has no notion of supplanting
extended or special study, but rather to
cultivate such study by presenting first
this comprehensive sweep of the field. The
salient characteristics Of each of the great
word workers are suggested and in some
cases analysed in scholarly spirit.
STILL ON THE SEARCH; Being Record of Com
ment on Human Nature and its Environments,
as Noticed a Trip Around the Mediterranean
and Elsewhere. By George Otis Draper, author
OF Searching for Truth" &c. New York:
Peter Ecker.
Really. the reader of this book, rather
than the author, is the seeker. For the
reader, taking the title page as evidence
OF the character of the work and giving
the benefit of the doubt to the book, will
be puzzled to know just what kind of truth
Mr.. Draper sought in his wanderings
around the Mediterranean and elsewhere"
He will find, on page 1O5, some excellent
advice to the effect that it is unwise to
buy rugs in Athens unless educated in val
ues, and a doubtless perfectly true state
ment that Venice sells lace, glass and
page 81, recommendation to take dinner
at the Mena House near the base of the
pyramids He will find, page 107, that
nowadays people are locked up-all over
the world-for crimes and misdemeanors,
are compelled to work at murderous ma
chimes and ride in crowded trolley cars.
But he does not need to go around the
Mediterranean and elsewhere to learn
those things. He will have harder work
than their acquisition in the search for
something novel, something important,
something wildly or humorously interest
ing in Mr.. Diapers self-illustrated book
fessedly inadequate, repay his perusal
This is one of the books which are notable
chiefly for the mystery of their being.
MODERN BILLIARDS.; Complete Text Book Of
the Game. New Edition New York: The
Brunswick Bake Collender Company
This revision of a standard guide to the
game of billiards is largely the work of
Mr.. Benjamin Garno, the Oldest writer ON
that subject in America, and one whose
,s,;0r
the Introductory of the book he says: Gar
roming methods are still changing. Execution
is again growing less fantastic and more
practical. Systemization is becoming more
and more dominant. In consequence. certain
gathering shots. depicting instructive posi-
bilities rather than downright needs, and
diagrammed as still proper to teach when
the earlier edition of this book was issued
have no place in the present volume. Play
has been made harder in theory but easier
In fact. There has been progress in
more directions than one
Following instructive preface which
recounts to some length the great progress
in billiards between the two editions OF
Modern Billiards. and which shows how
the ball-and-cue game has kept pace with
other sports. the book contains a concise
but interesting history of billiards, de-
scription of the modern billiard room and
it's equipment, with suggestions as to the
care OF applldnC compete pidCticdi
and easily understood manual of the game,
which is a self-teacher. and which. COM
bined with plates and explanations of near
ly 100 of the common and fancy strokes
used in the various forms of billiards. gives
the amateur, and even the professional,
most comprehensive idea of the game.
THE MARVELLOUS LAND OF OF: Being an Ac-
count of the Further Adventures of the Scare
crow and the Tin WOOdman Sequel to The
Wizard of o." BY L. Frank Baum. author Of
Father Goose. His Book" &c. Pictured by
John r. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & BrittOn
Company.
In this new "Oz'' book little Tip, the Scare
crow and the Tin Woodman are Joined by
Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw
horse, the Highly Magnifed Woggle Bug
and the Gump in a series of adventures
which bring them in contact with strange
beings and stranger conditions. The same
cheerful philosophy pervades the atmos-
phere of this happy little company that was
a marked feature of the other "ScarecrOw
and Tin Woodman'' tales. The book is de-
lightfuI reading for elders who have not
Outgrown their love for the weird and the
impossible, while it will prove most enter
tanning to all the little folks who are not
yet out of the wonderful realm of the
fairies and the COLLINS. Mr.. Neilfs pic
lures are clever. The book is dedicated by
it's author to Messrs. Montgomery and
Stone who made his conceptions of the
Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman famous
on the stage.