Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-03

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| Courtesy of the Century Company.
! wife and then forgets. But Phil comes back
| to the line at the end. He is true gold.
| There is much contemplating by a despic-
| able creature, art critic and writer of
| filthy books. Caracal, who uses the Duke of
| Morgana as a tool while that exalted per-
| SOnage is doing Paris with an entirely I'M
| real Innocence 1t may be asked in passing
| why M. Castaigne. absolutely in control OF
| the illustration of his book, persisted in de-
| picting the duke with Dundreary whiskers
| in a story SO modern that the characters
| ride in automobiles and a steam yacht
| equipped with wireless telegraphy appa-
ratus Those whiskerS are an anachronlSm.
The story has it's decided structural faults.
1t is ragged in it's texture here ana there,
episode almost throughout and somewhat
difficult to follow; but it is an earnest, SIN
cere performance, and 1t is easy to see that
the author has thrown himself into its crea-
ton with the ardor of one who believes IN
his personages and who has visual1zed them
In their activities. Light touches are al
forded by the characters Suzanne and Pou-
faille, Bohemians of Bohemia. A meledra-
matte climax in a mythical Adriatic duchy
gives the story vivid colorlng
BUCKING THE sAGEBRUsH; or. the Oregon
Trail in the Seventies; BY Charles j. steed-
man. illustrated by Charles NJ. Russell. New
York: G. z. Putnam's Sons. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
The days described in these pages are no
more Gone are the great spaces unbroken
by mans works. In their place are rail-
road lines, telegraphs, roads, cities and
towns. Gone, too, is the cowboy of the
seventies for his successor of today Is far
different in manners and temperament He
Is much closer to civilization. The author
went to a Wyoming sheep ranch at the age
of twenty for the sake of his health and in
search of adventure. He found health. but
the sheep ranch was too tame; SO he went
oth
men with a little capital and set up in the
cattle business, which promised to be more
diverting. as well as profitable. His first
experience was a trip over the oregon TRAN
with a herd, and this book recounts his ex-
periences that occasion. He has set
them down in their exact proportions. de-
scrbing the life of the cattle men wildly,
and incidentally recounting many stories of
the occasionally wild life of the western
plains and mountains Mr.. Russell's pic
lures are artistic. and aptly illustrate the
text.
THE NEW FOREST. By Mrs. willingham Rawns-
ley. With twenty full page Illustrations in
color. London: Adam & Charles Black. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
Every nature lover will rejoice in the
printing of this beautiful book, with it's
dainty water colors and it's graceful de-
scriptive text. The author has gone afield
not only with the eye of an artist, but with
the soul of a poet Month by month she
has watched the woods and fields and road
sides, and she tells the tale of their chang
ing aspect in great detail, and yet with
a breadth of treatment seldom combined.
Her illustrations are works of art. feelingly
reproducing the tones of the changing sea-
sons in the English landscape.
THE MANIToBAN; Romance By Henry II.
Bashford. New York: John Lane.
This story concerns itself with the Cana
dian pioneer life in Manitoba. The hero is
carried from his boyhood to his full man.
hood in the rough struggles of a new coun-
try. He is the type of young and lusty
people, upon whom in days unborn our
more decadent east shall come to learn; the
true heir bred of the old traditions, but the
product of new and simple life; the true
heir, sound, sane and intrepid facing the
future in the night of optimism" The va
rious types of Englishmen in the Dominion
from Laville. the most debased sort of re
mittance man. to the sturdy frontier peo-
pie born to the land. and building its des-
tiny, and the greenhorn Of good family and
gentler traditions, suddenly thrown into an
existence, the Strenuousness of which his
fancy had imperfectly painted, bear their
share in an earnest. downright romance
The story Is a vivid picture of the rough
struggle for existence.
THE WISDOM OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON;
York: Scott Thaw Company.
All admirers of Stevenson will be inter-
ested in this compilation of the philosophi-
cal expressions of that author chosen from
all available sources and arranged with
care and skill according to themes. with a
comprehensive index serving the purpose of
quick reference to particular topics. The
work is handsomely bound In gold-too
red flexible covers and makes a dainty gift
OUT OF WORK Study of Employment Agencies
their treatment of the tnPmDlOyed nd hafr
Influence upon Homes and Business. BY Frances
A. Kellor. fellow College Settlements Associa
Published for the Inter municipal Committee on
Household Research. New York: G. p Put
MANS Sons Washington: Woodward & 10th
1t would be well IL a copy of this hook
could reach every person 'sout of work.,
every housekeeper. every municipal official
and every legislator, state and national.
For it is a book to enlighten a great multi
tude of readers to conditions which
vitality affect the prosperity of the people.
individually and collectively 1t is a de-
tailed report of an extended investigation
conducted by the author and eight assist.
ants into the methods of those who are
seeking employment and of the agencies
which are to be found In every city pur-
porting to facilitate the search for work
That serious evils exist among these en-
ployment agencies Is known to many but
that they are of the particular kind and
operate to the extent shown in this volume
will be a surprise to most readers How
ever the author makes II clear that there
are honest agencies. earnestly trying to
bring the employer and the unemployed to-
gether. and that the managers OF these
establishments have greatly helped the
investigation and are inststuting reforms.