Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-08

of which maketh the flowers to start, when
exc Zephirus with his sweet breath hath
quickened the tender shoots In every heath
and holt. and the young sun hath sped his
half course in the Ram. and the little birds
make their melodies and all the night sleep
with open eye. so nature pricketh them IN
their hearts. then folk long to go on pill
grimageS-and palmerS to seek strange
shores-to the far shrines- of saints known
in sundry lands: and especially from every
shire's end of England they journey to
Canterbury to visit the holy blessed Martyr,
that hath helped them when they were
sick"
The text is printed in large type and the
book work is admirably done. Six pictures
are contributed by Walter Appleton Clark
in colors, in a style in keeping with the
character of the Tales and the contempor-
airy art of Illustration. The whole book is
indeed a treat to lovers of early English
literature and a delight to the eye.
THE REVELATION OF HERSELF. BY. Mary Far
ley Sanhorn. New York Dodd. Mead & Co.
Washington Woodward & Lothrop.
The woman writes and the man reads
She writes letters in which she pours forth
her now intense, now whimsical, expressions
of self-analysis. Some of these letters she
does not expect the man to read at the
time, but keeps them for his eye later
That there is later is the result of the
final conquest of her better nature over the
circumstances that threaten to tie her down
to uncongenial conditions. She leaves New
York for rural region where her grand
mother an invalid. is a parsonage of i'm
portance, and for a long time the young
woman dances attendance upon the old
one and promises to respect her wish that
she marry another man than the one on
whom her heart is set. There is a complica-
ton about will and a last revolt, and
then tragedy, and at the end remuneration
of wealth and the gain of great happiness
The letters are brightly written, pquant in
expression and often cleverly epgrammaIic.
The author has contrived through this
rather difficult though often misused me-
dunn of correspondence story to give her
characters vivid reality and her tale a
moving interest throughout
FoRTYFIyE YEARS UNDER THE FLAG. By
Winfield Scott Schley Rear Admiral L. s. A.
New York: ID. Appleton K Co.
Admiral Schleys professional career has
been so full of action in all parts of the
globe and his experience has been va
ried that he might, had he been disposed
to use the hackneyed lines from -::,
have appended to his autobiography "All of
which l saw and in much of which l took
part A veteran of two wars, he also saw
active service in the hermit land of Korea,
participated in diplomatic expeditions to
Japan, performed a most trying part in
the turbulent days of the Chilean revolu-
ton and crowned all his achievements with
the rescue of Greedy and his associates from
the frozen wastes of the Arctic All his
experiences he describes simply and nat
urally, speaking of himself in the third
person, and when he gives place to COM
mendation of his exploits it is expressed in
the official orders of the occasion. A con-
siderable part of the book is devoted to a
defense of his course in the Caribbean cam
paign in the Spanish-American war, and a
review OF the verdict of the court of in
qu1ry that met in this city in the fall of
l9Ol and considered the controversy, then
pending.
To quote the admrars words: Begin
nlnS his service at a time when the transit
ton from sail to steam had begun, he has
lived to see the evolution from the auxiliary
steam vessel completed in the mastiess bat
tie ship of this day. AS step by step has
been taken along this route leading to COM
plete change from old conditions he has
seen obstacles that were scattered over the
way by conservative opinion vanish before
the advancing demand for machines indie
pendent of wind and weather at sea. From
the contests of old days with wind and
weather, when the battle between the ele-
ments and man was always uncertain, he
has lived to see the final triumph of man
in these high-powered vessels of today
which defy winds and weather and run al
most as railway trains schedule time
The change from old muzzle-loading, oddly
shaped, smooth-bore guns to the graceful
modern, high-power, breech-loading cannon,
and from the black powder of low initial We
locity. with enormous internal pressures to
the smokeless powder of this day with a
decrease of internal strain and a vast in
Creasing in the foot-tOn energy of the pro-
jectile on Striking-all this has taken place
in the professional life of the author"
Admiral Schley's style is rather plain and
circumstantial. 1t has nothing of the pic
turesqueness of Admiral Evans "A Sailors
Log IfS Ira tic interest Uppen6S
the events themselves rather than upon
the manner of narration. Yet one cannot
read the simple, unadorned story of the dis
covery of Greedy without being nightly
stirred Referring to the approach of the
Thetis, bearing Schley, the commander of
the relief expedition 20 Cape Sabine, where
is was hoped to find word of Greedy, Ad-
miraI Schley writes:
Parties were detailed to examine stimuli
taneously the cairns on Brevoort Island,
Stahlknect Island. the coast line around the
bay and Cape Sabine. When these parties
had left the ship it was blowing heavily
from the southwark with biting snow
squalls, which impeded somewhat the
search. In the meantime the commander
had gone TO his room to take some rest TO
prepare for the battle through Kane sea II
perchance the search about Cape Sabine
should reveal no tidings of the missing ex-
petition. His berth against the ships side
was near the water line, or more properly
the ice line. While no sound could be
heard on deck because of the roaring of the
wind through the rigging, he distinctly
heard what appeared to be cheering. Has
tening on deck to inform Lemly, who was
the watch officer, he learned from him that
he had heard nothing and could see moth
ing for the falling snow, which shut out
the islands and the cape. The commander
returned to his room, leaving instructions
to keep a sharp lookout A second time
cheering was heard. and this time unmis-
takably. The sounds had been borne by
the ice against the ships side almost to the
ear. A little thought recalled the excel
lent conducting qualities of ice and ex-
planned all. Returning again to inform
Lemly that there was no doubt about hear
ing cheering, a rift in the squall disclosed
Seaman Jewell running over the ice from
Brevoort Island toward the ThetiS, holding
up and waving a package. A few min
utes later Harlow signaled that GreeIy~s
records had been found on Stahlknect Is
land.
THE excitement on both ships when this
fact became known was most intense, and
when Seaman Jewell came over the side to
deliver the package Taunts party had
found on Brevoort Island, with the infor-
nation added that the records showed that
Lieut.. Greedy and party were at Cape Sa-
bine, no words could express the surpaSS-
ing emotions of JOY which filled every soul
on board. Realizing that he who rejoices
below to the cabin to be carefully read over
to the officers left on board To the hor-
ror of all. they bore date of Sunday, Oc-