Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-03

Of any sort-which IL one Of his most amaz-
nag attributes consfderinG tina afttnctauey
OF hls environnent--isolates the work 81
makes him always modern. He has that
Innocence ef vision" which Rasi<fn 9nds
In the great artist alone: N immense Sim
kind. He looks upon hts subject as purely
and as impartiaily as the very hight itself.
He Is supremely normal and public which
struggies to keep pare with the FRI
must learn to see the world f1rst brown,
then purple, In masses, In detail, now dark,
now light, turns to Spanish portrait
painter who died in 1850 for the fine and
/ reasonable beauty which lies sin . natural
expression OF things as they are.
THE FLOWER OF DEsTINYy an Epi-
l sode. BY William Dana circuit. II.
Illustrated by Charlotte Weber. Chi
| cago: A. G. McClurg b Co.
| Current historians have not accredited
Mile. de Montiio with especially strenuous
| reluctance to marrying Louis Napoleon.
prince president and later Emperor Of
| France. There are beliefs quite to the con-
/ tTary, But Mr.. circuit has calamity and
artistically y-aved them aside. and has
| wrought delightful little tale Of the Ma
| peleonic wooing, which offers more agree
| able portrait of Louis than that which Is
| usually drawn. The scene opens In Lon
| don. on the occasion of the escape of Louis
| from the fortress Of Ham. It shifts to
| Baden, where he avows his love for Eu-
| genie. It closes In Paris. where the prince
| president executes his stroke OF state,
| makes himself emperor and publicly crowns
| his intended bride with vioiets, the flowers
| OF destiny.
THE GREY BRETHREN, and Other
Fragments in Prose and Verse. BY
Michael Fair1ess, author Of The
Roadmender." 60. New York: Il. p.
Dutten s. Co.
| The author OF this little volume has a
| temperament SO sensitive that it might
| very easily have kept its silence from pure
shyness and reserve It has found express
sion in these delicate fragments-poems
fairy tales and essays-which have in COM
| mon. Notwithstanding their difference In
form, quality of refinement and tender
ness. The tales for children are curiously
quaint and whimsical The lyrics and es-
says are both kind of pensive music.
Through everything runs an elusive SYM
bolism. and THE Tinkle-Tinkle," in spite
OF Its fantastic humor. is touched with
spiritual significance. The reader who APP
preciates delicately imaginative concep-
ton and style that is the sensitive ex-
preston OF an unusual temperament will
feel the quaint charm of this volume.
PARDNERs. BY Rex E. Beach. Illus
trated. New York: Mcclure, Phil
lips & Co. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
This is story of hardship and devotion
in the country north Of the Arctic circle.
The absorbing theme is the faithfulness of
men to each other in circumstances of
great danger and privation. 1t Is stirring
tale of adventure. graphic and well written.
THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES OF
TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS; Edited
by W. r. Lethaby. STAINED GLASS
and Workers in Glass. By C. w.
Whall. With diagrams by two of his
apprentices and other illustrations.
New York: ID. Appleton & Co.
This valuable series of technical books
has embraced. no number more instructive
than the present, which deals with craft
but little understood by those who have not
been personally led into contact with it's
details. medieval mystery hangs about
the art. 1t has been only within few
decades that stained glass work approx
mating the wonderful art effects of the
middle ages has been produced by modern
craftsmen and artists, but great has been
the impetus of the new movement for the
encouragement of all the fine arts and their
branches in the last few years that there
is high hope in the breasts of lovers of this
difficult branch of art that the products o.
today may be recognized by the highest
contrast with the wonderful works Of old
In his handbook Mr.. WhaII describes in
line detail every stage of the process sug-
gests the best methods Of construction, as
semblage. soldering. firing. glazing and col
oring; instructs precisely in the art of COM
position and the study of lights and has
assembled. altogether, a book of especial
worth to the student of the art, the worker
In the craft the architect or the patron.
THE TRAVELLERS HANDBOOK;
Manual for Transatlantics Tourists.
Compiled by Josephine Tozier, au-
thor of Among English Inns" New
York: Funk & WagnalIs Company.
Going abroad? Then heed the advice of
those who have gone before. There is much
to learn-about customs. tips. hotels. fares.
baggage, routes, servants, etiquette. A
shrewd American has declared that 1t is
a liberal education in what not to do just
to go over the big pond once and take notes
of mistakes There is no lack of opportu-
nifty to learn at second hand. for usually
one can find a traveller in every neighb0r-
hood. Few people lack friends who have
crossed at least once But the advice Of
friends is not especially trustworthy, for it
is based first of all, upon solitary expert
ences, and, furthermore 1t is seldom COM
plete. It is eften scattered in the course of
many conversations Here is little hand
book which boils down into brief space all
the things TIE traveller needs 10 Know, the
reasons for the different customs, advice as
to the best means of travel, and the best
way to become understood in the face of
language difficulties. 1t is not a guide book
to Europe, but rather an encyclopedia of
sound advice, and such should be well
coined by every one who is intending to
take the first voyage.
FAIRY TALES EVERY CHILD SHOULD
KNOW; a Selection of the Best Fairy
Tales of All Times and of All Au-
thors. Edited by Hamilton Wright
Mabie. Illustrated by Blanche Os-
terag. New York: Doubleday, Page
& Co. Washington: Woodward C
Lothrop.
Mr.. Mabie has compiled two dozen fairy
tales which stand for the best in all Ian
guages and has prepared an Introduction
addressed to those older people who have
made the mistake of straying away from
childhood In the course of this preface
he discusses the real character and piIr-
pose of the fairy story and pleads for more
consideration for the imaginative tale OF
the younger days. It Is to be regretted
that he did not cite the names OF those
authors whose tales are to be identified. It