Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-02

group OF tourists ~ separated Into 1t0 oon-
CHICAGO want. See ssas
side. while sedafe, business. prosperous.
virtuous New York Ii shown to an Indiana
preacher. It ALT depends upon the guide.
MIR. Hughes tells athe ssory Of these expert
ences and Mr.. Mayer illustrates them. Both
have done their work well. Perhaps Mr..
Mayer is trifie fnereocaustic in his satire
than Mr. Hughes That facile illustrator.
with his style peculiarly adapted to the
exploitation OF the humorous side Of the
subject, exaggerates his characters Just
enough to accentpate their dominant traits.
Yet Mr. Hughes Is by no means an apologist
for the metropolitan features of which the
decent world ha1 tatgraye doubts. He
strips aside the ttnsel and shows the harsh
realities beneath The, big city. as thus
ing though sometimes digusting in its few
erish pursuit Of pleasure.
LIFE AND DEATH; aud Other Legends and
Stories. BY Henryk Sfenkiewcz author of
Quo Vadis." &c. Translated from the original
Polish by jeremiah Curtin. Illustrated Bos.
ton: Little. Brown K Co.
These five sketches represent sienkiewicz' S
allegoric;l phase, that which appears less
pointedly in the course of his novels, yet
which is the main current of his thought
They are mere fragments of his style. care
fully polished and in their translation as
acceptably rendered are the other prod
ucts Of Mr.. Curtin's mediumship. Life
and Dea,h' is a Hindu legend which the
author hrd written for a reading in public
at Warsaw last January, subsequent to the
final preparation of this collection for the
press. 1t signifies the dilemma of the gods
over the tontending desires OF humanity re-
speeding tie present and the future states.
and their solution by interposing between
the equal'y delectable regions of life and
death, black veil guarded by Fear and
q M rrunr tnl boz, I, ,r,tll
ingly passed through the way from one
state TO the other: rs He the Dearest
One?'' is 4 very short Representation in al
egory OF the famine in Siesia and the aid
sent to the sufferers by Russian Poland.
"A Legend of the Sea- signifies the poiti-
cal career of Poland. f'hc illustrations are
scenes on the Strawberries estate.
CONTEMPORARY MEN OF LETTERS
SERIES; Edited by william Aspinwall Brad
ley-WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS; and
the Irish Literary Revival. By Horatio Sheafe
Krans. author of Irish Life in Irish Fiction y
With portrait. New York: Mcclure Phillips
& Co. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
When William Butler Yeats visited the
United States few months ago it was not
generally understood, save by the few who
had followed his career or participated in
his reception. that he represented a dis
tinct movement, revival, almost
organized effort to raise the standard of
Irish literature and to preserve the national
spirit and ideals. The little volume in hand
is devoted to a statement both of this
movement and of Mr.. Yeats part in it, an
important part in many respects. This
young man-he Is now thirty-eight-with
some others has been steadfastly striving
for about ten years to overcome the ten
dency of the reading world to regard Ire
land land of buffoons and roisterers.
reading of the poems and stories of Irish
life previously circulated. They have been
endeavoring, too. to catch the spirit and to
preserve the form of the legendary litera-
ture of the people. to present the Irshman
as in his intellectual aspect. MIR. Yeats is
mystic. AT one time he, made deep study
of occultism and magic. sitting In Paris at
the feet of an adept who entertained his
followers with demonstrations. Throughout
his poetry runs vein of this sort of thing.
delicately yelled and sometimes obscured
by the far-reaching imagery of his thought.
In this account of him and his works are
given examples of the latter as a guide to
a study of his personality and example
of what is being undertaken by him and
his associates in the Irish literary revival.
MOSES BROWN, CAPTAIN, U. $. n. By
Edgar Stanton Mac3ny. AN. author of "A His
tory of the United States Navy &c. Illus
frated New York: The Baker Taylor Com
pany. Washington: William Bullantyne & Sons.
MOSES Brown WaSPone OF the great prl-
vateer captains of the colonial naval forces
during the revolution. He served COM
mander of the General Arnold" which
vanquished two armed British ships in
March and May of 1873. off the coast of
Portugal. Later he was captured himself
by a much more heavily armed English
man, his ship sinking with all papers.
He was placed in a prison ship at Charles
ton, S. c., and detained for seven months.
Later Brown became commander of the
United States sloop-of-war Merrimac,
which performed excellent service during
the naval war with France, 179S-1S01. OF
the achievements of the Arnold there is
virtually no official American record Mr..
Maclay has obtained his information from
the private diary of Captain Brown. the
journal of Thomas Creole, his sailing
master: the narrative of Ignatius Weber,
prize master of the Arnold. and finally the
official report of the British commander or
the second of the Arnolds victims. The
present historian regards 1t as extraor-
binary that so Interesting an event should
have hitherto gone unwritten, especially In
the light of the meagerness of the Amerl-
can naval achievements during that first
struggle for independence. The story of
the Merrimac's exploits is scarcely more
familiar, however, so that this account OF
the career of one of the earliest of Ameri-
can sea-fighters IS a real contribution to
the record Of the republic.
THE LIFE OF FREDERIC WILLIAM
FARRAR, Sometime Dean of Canterbury. By
his son, Reginald Farrar. With photogravure
frontspiece and sixteen illustra tons. biblio
graphy and index. New York: Thomas Y
Crowell & Co.
The present is time of lives and remin-
iscences of great men; and among these
men few are more worthy of being so re-
membered than the late Dean Farrar of
England. Not alone was he notable fig
ure surrounded by other notable figures,
but the deeds of his life itself and the i'm
pulses of his lofty nature should prove an
example and an inspiration no less than
did the great churchmans personal serv-
ice. This authorized biography of the
dean is by his son. Reginald Farrar, who
is assisted by many of the fathers friends
and colleagues.
Perhaps one of the most interesting chap
tiers In the biography is the one relating
to THE Preacher of Eternal Hope " Dur
ing the twenty years spent by DR.. Farrar
at Westminster he reached the zenith or
his power and reputation as preacher.
His influence became national and his title
IN uk few DlllDit