Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-05

some years Mr.. Ehfrles W. Eldrldge. Tor
meriy OF the publishing house OF mayer ~
Eldr1dge, Boston, was engaged IN the woIn
OF preparing materials from these annuai
reports for book to give permanent me.
airy form to Mr.I O,Connors grapMc W.T. W.T.
ings. This tash was nearly completeo
when Mr.. Eldridge died last year. and the
book now put forth Is the product OF ina
labor. Its chapters. dealing Win spec il
instances of the heroism of the !ife-saVins
crews of our coasts. are vivid taies OF ais
aster and bravery Stripped Of their refel-
ences to recorded facts. they might easny
be mistaken for fiction. They inciuoe
twenty-five stories from the records.
Sketches BY Felix E schelling. Illustrated:
Boston: Houghton, Mf1fn d 20. washington
William BallaHtyue7 & Sons.
So abundant are the literary remainders
of the life and times of Queen elizabeth SO
beautifully bloomed the tree OF Engnsh
genius at that time, that 1t Is possible Ior
the student to reproduce those days Oh IN
trigue. scholarship, gayety and gallantry
wildly to bring them directly before the
eyes of moderns. In this book Pror. Schei-
ling has rendered such a service, with ten
sketches which are based upon deep reading
in the annals of the time Of the virgin
queen. High life and low, titled personages
and commoners poets and merchants pass
through the pages. The queens own prog
ress to Kenilworth opens the volume ana
Ben Jonson's pedestrian journey to the
north closes it. Between these two occur
graceful accounts of the ways OF NE IN
those days. graphic descriptions OF me pussy
Elizabethan world, lfe-like portraits OF
Observation-Disclosures, men OF letters, nat
tering courtiers and musicians. 1t Is DOCK
to stimulate ElZabethan research.
THE BLUE GRASS COOK BOOK. Compiled by
Minnie c. Fox. With an introduction by John
Coburn New York: Fox. DufHeld & Co.
Housewives and cooks alone can decide
whether the recipes that constitute the
body of this cook book are especially vaiu-
able or novel. They read mighty appetiz-
ing, in any case. But there Is no need to
go to the kitchen for judgment upon the
quality of the Introduction which Mr. john
Fox, jr., has contributed to the work. 1t
was written on the list of June last. IN ia
pan, where the writer was awaiting
chance to get to the front as a war cor
respondent If ever man wrote IN nome
sickness for beloved things, Mr. FOX wrote
this preface in such a spirit. He was IN a
position to appreciate the Kentucky COOK
and her products. So he pays her tribute,
glowing and sincere, and it Is pleasant to
meet her variously in person in MIR. CO.
burns photographs from life, presenting
series of such artists of the rolling PIN ana
the frying pan.
MONARCH THE BIG BEAR OF TALLAc. By
Ernest Thompson Seton, author of wild AMI
mails Have Known &c. With 100 drawings
by the author. New York: Charles Scribner'S
Sons Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Monarch is composite bear character,
and the story of his life embraces incidents
in the lives of many bears. The author con-
fesses that in telling it he has taken two
liberties-frst in selecting for his hero an
unusual individual, and, second, in ascrib-
ing to that animal the adventures of several
Of his kind. The aim has been to picture
the life of grizzly, with the added glamour
of remarkable bear personality Mr. Sc
ton acknowledges that these circumstances
take the story from the catalogue Of pure
science. But the reader will none the less
accept 1t as pure delight, for 1t has all the
charm Of the earlier Seton-or Thompson
writings, while the pictures, large and small,
stamp it indelibly with the personality Of
this always welcome contributor.
A CHICAGO PRINCESS. By Robert Barr. author
els P, Wightman. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company. Washington: Brentano's
Mr.. Bars muse never falters for lack OF
strenuous incident. He IS always ready to
tell tale of love and adventure with
fervor which bridges many a gap of i'm
probability and gives an air Of even posi-
bility to preposterous situations. In this
tale his picture of the Korean court Is
wholly untrue TO life, and it requires
strain of conscience on the part Of the
cago millionaire whose yacht Is the scene
of the lively happenings IN the lives of the
small group of characters Mr.. Barr has as
sembled. But the tale is spirited and d.
verting and makes good reading for little
while. 1t is clearly a pot-boiler, It's chief
charm being the vigorous manner in which
the author has presented the person OF
Miss Gertie Hemster, whose violent temper
is never curbed and whose loneliness in
the eyes Of the Korean emperor causes ali
the trouble.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM Miracle Play OF
the Nativity. Reconstructed from the Tonneley
and Other Old English Cycles and Supplemented
and Adapted to Modern Conditions. By Charles
Mills Gayley. New York Fox, Dufield & Co.
The miracle plays of the thirteenth, four
teenth and fifteenth centuries would seem
to the student-reader to be of little or no
dramatic utility in these days, when realism
and sentimentalism, surrounded by theatric
devices to please but not deceive the eye and
the mind, are demanded by the public. But
the great success which attended the pro-
duction of "Everyman" proved that there
remains a deep reverence for and interest
in these crude but sincere attempts to por-
tray religious themes in dramatic form. Mr..
Gayley's version of The Star of Bethie-
hem necessarily departs in many WAYS
from the original texts. There are, how
ever, no innovations which detract from the
true significance of the whole or clash with
duction. This miracle play, as thus printed
has been presented on the stage by the COM
pany which produced ''Everyman," under
| the direction of Mr.. Ben Greet.
| IN THE CELTIC PAST; Stories. By Anna Mac
Manus Ultima Carbery), author Of 1.-The -Four
Winds Of Eirinn'' &C. New York: Funk &
Wagnalls Company.
THE PASSIONATE HEARTS. By Anna NacNa.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company
| Mrs. McManus died two years ago, leay-
| ing a work for which she was eminentIv
| qualified, the writing of characteristic
| stories of Ireland from the viewpoint of a
| true lover of the traditions and sentiments
Of the romantic people of that island. In
| these two volumes. issued separately. ap-
| pear the last of her works. short stories
| suggestive, in the one case of the rernota
| folk lore, legend and mythology of the Irish.
| and In the other of their poetic passionate
attachments. The two collections are dis
tinctly different in style. Rich coloring and
| strong feeling mark the myth tales. and
| the others pulse with the overlooking senti
| ment of the peasantry. AS preface to the
| collection of love stories Mr. Seumas Mac
Manus writes feelingly of his wife's devo
ton to the Irish people.
LITERARY LANDMARKS OF THE scoTT1sH
UNIVERSITIES. By Laurence Hutton IIIns
trated New York: G.. p putnam,s Sons
Washington: William Ballantyne e. SONG ~