Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-10

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| and entertaining as the first of the series.
| There is just one cause for regret, and that
| is that chronologically at least Miss Glider
| has brought her story up to date and left
| no chance for a third sequential issue of
| this character But there is ground for
| hoping that she may find time some day
to tell of her literary life in detail in the
| same breezy, humorous manner.
| In this book she relates the efforts or
| 1.-The Tomboy'' to earn her own living. Her
| early experiences were amusing. Ihere
| was no withstanding her brisk directneSS
| in going after what she wanted. When she
obtained place in Trenton, requiring daily
! travel for few miles, she had no COM
| Functions about asking for railroad pass,
| and it was typical of her fortunes through
| out that she got it. One of the most IN
! teresting features of this book is the dis
| closure of Miss elders work on the New
| ark Register, especially in the days of its
| reorganization following the failure of her
| brothers company. Her description of the
| convivial editor-in-chief whose official skin
| she saved on more than one occasion, is
| one of the best things in character writing
l. of late years. Mrs. Shinn's pictures have
| a certain suggestion of portraiture that
! con- ports we'll with the general nature or
| the work, and at the same time they accen-
| tuate the note of good humor which pre-
| walls in Miss elders account of her own
| activities.
| ARBITRATION AND THE HAGUE COURT. By
John W. Foster president of the National a., AZ
| fin & Co. Washington: Brentanos.
| 1t is a hopeful sign when a man who
| stands so eminently for world peace as ex-
Secretary Foster, and whose voice has been
| raised in his official and private capacity,
! in behalf of a world agreement against
war; should now utter a strongly optimistic
| note regarding the outlook for the attain
ment of that ideal, even while the echoes
| of the conflict in Asia reach our ears. Mr..
| Fosters monograph has timelness seF-
| dom acquired by book publication. 1t is
| given particular pertinence by the agree
ment of England and Russia to refer their
| dispute over the North sea affair to an ar
| bitration commission to determine the facts
of that unfortunate incident. The work
contains a brief historical sketch of the
| worlds moves toward the abolition of war
and the settlement of disputes between
| nations by peaceful adjustment. 1t sketches
| the work of the conference at The Hague
| in 1899 and describes the work OF the
| court in the Pious Fund case and the
Venezuelan claims dispute. Mr.. roster re-
| CARDS the latter of these settlements as of
| immense Significance and Importance. He
! SAYS in conclusion:
| IA fresh propaganda for arbitration has
| opened in Europe, in which the statesmen
| and iurists of France take the lead. King
| Edward VII is eXerting his mighty inf1u-
| ence among the great powers in the same
| direction. The President of the United
| States on all proper occasions, raises his
| voice and shapes the conduct of his govern
ment in favor of international arbitration.
| We know too sadly, by the daily intelli-
| gence from the east that universal peace
has not vet come, but we may fondly hope
| that the era of Alexander, Caesar and
| Napoleon has passed never to return; that
! the ambition of rulers and the rivalry of
nations may henceforth lie In the paths OF
| education, industry and commerce; and that
| The Hague court will long stand as a
| beacon light in the tempestuous sea of in
ternational politics. and its influence and
| efficiency grow with the advancing years
| THE AMERICAN sPoRTsMANs LIBRARY;
E Edea T 3 s TSsRay EAr1RAIIsT By L.
W. BrownelI. New York: The Macmillan COM
| pany. Washington: Brentanos.
| The camera is working wholesome re-
| form in the way of educating those who
| tramp the woods and fields that there is
| finer and more exciting sport than the
Staying of the birds and animals. 1t has
| persuaded many sportsman" that the
| gun is poor agency for the pursuit of en-
| tertainment Those who have adopted the
| photographers equipment in it's stead have
| found that they can derive ten-fold the
| pleasure from their outings that once was
/ theirs when they went forth bent upon
killing For there is nothing to exceed the
| tension of the moment when the mother
| bird. having f1uttered frantically about her
| nest for long time. finally settles down
upon her eggs and gives the intruding
photographer chance at the long-awaited
snap shot. Work in the open with a cam
| era in quest of pictures of nests and old
| and young birds, insects and reptiles and
| even flowers brings knowledge too far be-
yond that to be derived from dead creatures.
| In this book are given detailed directions
| for nature photography, some of the sug-
| gestions being in the main applicable to any
! line of Photographic work. 1t is a book to
| widen the personal horizon and to fill the
! lungs with fresh air and the heart with
| deep reverence for nature in all her forms.
THE SPECIALIZE; Novel. By A. NJ. Irvine.
| New York: John Lane.
| Here Is indeed ''novef' in the sense
that a new story is told. The scene is laid
| in sanitarium In the Alps, where the hero
submits himself In considerable doubt to the
| hands of the Specialist. The surgeon holds
/ out little satisfaction to his patient in pro-
posing the ordeal, merely admitting the
chances of recovery, but dwelling upon the
Importance to science of the experiment and
the slight advantage to be gained by avoid
ing 1t. Though his days are supposed to be
numbered, the hero is somewhat difiident