Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15


he has prepared two chapters which anaiyze
this phase of the question. and answer
the question so often put by students of
history. Was Elizabeth actuated by mere
love of admiration or by a passionate love
for those upon whom her favor Hgnted!
To this question Mr.. Hume addresses him
self In these supplementary chapters with
delicate tact, which leaves his meaning
clear without offending the sensipliltles or
the modest reader. He believes that Eliza
beth was in fact moral woman, careless
but innocent of the 1apses with winch she
has repeatedly been charged He can find
no substantial proof of the charge that she
bore children by Leicester. and at consider
able length dssects the claims of Arthur
accused of being an English spy, asserted
that he was such a. son. He believes that
Dudley's carefully prepared story was the
work of Englishmen who were using this
young man as tool. perhaps, indeed, as
political spy. He considers carefully all
of the queens so-called amours and finds
reliable evidence that they were other
than platonic, however indiscreet
THE OF MaTa N By Ey p PSS
Mead & Co. Washington: Brentano's.
This moth, suddenly freed from all re-
straint, futtered dangerously close to the
candle flame, but finally escaped injury.
The tale is told in the form of series OF
letters written to an intimate friend in
America by Mrs. Grace Trevis, whose un-
congenial husband has been dead short
time, and who is seeking diversion and
happiness in Paris. Some readers might be
inclined to regard the title of the book as
an inversion of the fact. for rather is Mrs.
Trevis a flame around which numerous
admirers gather. There is first of all-and
last of all-Lord Kirth, then Count Tyrniz,
next Count Sbvorska, followed by Prince
Schonberg-Grussdow, who is in turn sue
ceeded by Prince Serge Orlofsky. It was
ur,fa f1,n 10
named of these titled personages that the
moth fiuttered to Europe. But Serge
proved inadequate to meet the changed
conditions and the moth went to Eng
land and there found peace with Lord
Bobby kirth The story is prettily told,
with rapid action and delicate respect for
the conventionalities, even while dealing in
the difficult situations which obtain in GER
tain circles on the continent
BLAzED TRAIL STORIES; and Stories of the.
Wild Life; By Stewart Edward White. Fronts
piece by Thomas Fegarty. New York: Mcclure
Phillips Co. Washington: Woodward & 10th
Here are thirteen stories of the kind that
Mr. White can write with a superior fac
ulty for compelling the interested attention.
Six of them are grouped under the we'll
known title "Blazed Trail" and the others
are styled stories of the wild life." and in
clude adventures of all kinds in the wilder
ness. They have been printed in the periodi-
Gals from time to time, but their close re-
semblance in general character warrants
their assemblage in book form. Mr.. White
presents a series of perSonageS of courage,
skill and strength, men of the woods, the
trails, the logging camps, the rivers, some
of them heroes developed by their contact
with rude nature some mean fellows whose
elemental weaknesses have been accentuat-
ed by their semi-Solitary life. Their labors
and their sports are described with the
swift vividness that has marked all the
productions of this prolific pen.
sEA-woLvEs OF SEVEN SHORES. By Jessie
from Drake to Farragut" Illustra ted by Alden
kitteredge Dawson. New York: Charles Serb
ner's Sons. Washington: Woodward 4 Lothrop.
The romance of piracy is inexhaustible
The days of the buccanneer are gone for
ever, but the interest of the moderns in the
daring adventures of these daredevils of the
n ain does not wane with the recession of
their deeds into the remote past. The au-
thor of this stirring account of the enter
prises of the pirates of the American shores
and of their purs1ers has gathered all the
reliable materials from the records and has
woven them into a narrative of dramatic
power and interest. So remarkable were
some of the adventures of those times,
when men fought fiercely, that at times the
tale reads like fiction. But there is no
doubt a store of thrilling facts even yet I'M
covered to Justify the imagination in what
ever wild flights it may essay in attempting
to depict the wild life of those perllous
days. Miss rockingham has certainly not
called upon her readers credulity unduly,
and her account of piracy in the American
seas may be accepted as an historical rem
dering 1t is undeniably entertaining and
incidentally instructive.
THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. By Mrs. Craigie John
Oliver Hobbies, author of The School ior
Saints &c. New York: The Scott-Ihaw Com
pany.
Mrs. Craigie read this essay as president
of the Ruskin Society of Birmingham,
England, a year ago. In 1t she discusses
what she confesses to be the most difficult
subject in the world, which has been APP
preached by the greatest of the ph1los-
cphers with the result that there are now
prevalent manifold schemes for the solu-
ton of the problems affecting humanity.
Two of these philosophers she especially
considers, Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder OF
the Society of Jesus. and Count Tolstoi.
Incidentally she touches upon the theoriss
of Mr. Andrew Carnegie as to the distri-
button of wealth and the proper method OF
bestowing charity upon those VINO Iack
means and the views and doctrines of RUS
kim the apostle of beauty. Her own view
of this question seems to be that the SCI
ence of life is the science of the training
OF individuals and the working out of in
dividual purposes. She does not agree with
Tolstoi's claim that mankind can ma nap,
piness only in renunciauon, TABOR anu
thought She does not agree with All.
Carnegie that giving creates poverty. she
argues for a broad consideration of the
needs of the young and the training Oh
their tendencies toward wholesome en1S
The essay is filed with suggestive thoughts
and expressed in Mrs. Craigie's most grace
full and pointed style.
SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY; the Ingersoli Lee
ture 1904 By William 0ser. MD, Frs,
professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins unlver-
sity Boston Houghton, Mifn & Co. Wash
ington William Balantyne & Sons.
The Ingersol Lectures were founded n
1898 by Miss Caroline Haskell 1ngersoll OF
New Hampshire, who beaueathed $1,000 to
Harvard University for the maintenance Of
a perpetual series of lectures on the subject
of the Immortality of man. The lecturer
this year was Dr. Osler one of the fore
most physicians of the United States, who
brought to the consideration of the subject
the mind of scientist whose life has been
devoted to the analysis of the material
facts and factors of life. In this discourse
he says:
whether across deaths threshold we
step from life to life. or whether we go
whence we shall not return, even to the
l6 nd of darkness. he tthe studenO cannot
tell Nor is this strange. Science is or
ganized knowledge. and knowledge is OF
things we see. Now the things seen are