Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-08

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OF the stories themselves, 145 in number.
little can be mentioned in description. They
are the works of sixty-eight authors, the
list of whose names is practically a COM
pendulum of the worlds honor roll of great
writers. The whole compilation is such as
to appeal to the most limited as well as the
broadcast taste. 1t has an educational value
as well as fulfilling the function of mere
entertainment 1t is noteworthy that save
in the case of the three great classics, the
HAD Odyssey and Aeneid which, as
already explained are composites of vari-
Gus renderings. the stories are reproduced
in their entirety, without editing or mutlia-
ton The biographical and synoptical fea-
lures alone are worthy of close study, and
the whole reflects infinite credit upon all
who have been engaged in the great task
of production.
THE MATRIMONIAL BUREAU. By
Carolyn Wells and Harry Persons
Taber. Boston: Houghton, Miff1in &
Co. Washington: William Ballan-
tyne & Sons
Memories of that exceptionally clever
novel, 1.-The Gordon Elopement," by Miss
Wells and Mr.. Taber which gave so much
entertainment year ago, are quickly re-
vived-if they need reviving-by the first
few pages of this worthy successor. THE
Matrimonial Bureau" is written by these
capable collaborators in the same vein of
unusualness that wins the attention from
the beginning. The story results from the
Matchmaking yearnings of a delightful
spinster of taste and means, who has three
young girl friends whom she secretly I'M
dertakes to provide with husbands. The
idea of establishing a veritable matrimonial
bureau is given to her by Tekla, her maid,
who advertises for and gets husband Miss
Esther, instead of advertising, writes to
certain available young men to visit her.
Then it fairly rains good-looking, available
young fellows, an army officer with
broken leg, big blond civilian, two eHer-
yescent brothers, rotund Abraham Lincoln
Dodd and George Washington Dodd, his
father, whose youth of spirit is not DIS
counted by his years. And just as MISS
ESther's plans are on the way to culmina-
ton in come two pretty sisters, to whom
the brothers are engaged, and also beau
tiful stranger, who upsets the combination
which has been with difficulty formed to re-
place the former one. In the end the
matches are made quite differently from the
way that Miss Esther has proposed. She
has at last the satisfaction of knowing that
she has married off four girls instead of
three and spread genuine happiness over
wide area of young life.
Miss Wells and Mr.. Taber have learned
the secret of writing charmlnSly in light
terms Their story makes no profound ap-
peal, but it does unqueStionably stir the
risibilties 1t sparkles with wit and it's
situations irresistibly funny. People
move on and off the scene briskly, always
leaving distinct impressions of individuality,
however brief their appearance.
THE QUAKEREss; a Tale. By Charles
Heber Clark MAX Adeler). With il
Illustrations in color by George Gibbs.
Philadelphia: The John c. Winston
Company.
1t is long step from Max Adeler's "out
of the Hurly-Burly," published in 1874 and
still selling, to his new work, The Quaker
ess,' but the authors latest work has in
it all the advantages of thirty-one years OF
experience with life and with literary work.
The theme is the love entanglements of a
charming girl who was born a Friend, and
who, at her best, represents all that is ex-
cellent and admirable in the society which
founded the commonwealth of Pennsylva-
MIA. The tale is filled with vivid pictures
of life in a region where the Friends still
have dominant influence, and it will pos
sess interest for the persons who have never
visited any of the quaint meeting houses
where services are held on First-day, or
mingled socially with the followers of
George Fox. There many bits of fun
in the story to tighten it's somber features,
and the characterization Is singularly
strong. The book is unusually handsome.
made for it four striking and dramatic
pictures in colors, and there are other in
teresting Illustrations of the Quaker meet
ing house and the village church and par
Sonage.
THE MORALS OF MARCUS ORDEYNE;
Novel. By William J. Locke. New
York: John Lane.
1.-The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne' brings
into contrast the position and training of
women in England and in the orient. Or
deyne, weIl-to-do scholar of middle age,
uncouth responsibility thrust upon him in
the guardianship of Carlotta, young lady
from Aleppo. Carlotta is the daughter of
English parents. Her mother, widowed
soon after the girls birth and alone in the
east, has accepted protection by marrying
an influential Turk, Hamdi Effendi. The
girl, born an occidental, is thus in all her
training and attitude toward life thoroughly
oriental Finding her unbefriended and
sadly at loss in London, Ordeyne under
takes to shield her from the dangers to
which her position and education expose
her in a foreign city, and with a disregard
of conventional scruples characteristic of
the man establishes her as his ward in his
house. Though a bachelor Ordeyne has
other ties, and from this quixotic step the
author has contriyed a network of emo
tional situations that displays keen analysis
of character, sense of humor and pathos,
and workmanship in the control of strong
and absorbing plot.
THE FIRST BOOK OF FARMING. By
Charles L. Goodrich Farmer, for
merly instructor in agriculture at
the Hampton Normal and Agricul-
tural Institute, Hampton, Va. Illus
trated. New York: Doubleday, Page
q Co.
Mr.. Goodrchs many years of experience
as a teacher of agriculture supplemented
by his personal experience In the practi-
cal tillage of the soil, entitle him to give
the American farmers advice as to the best
methods of soil culture. 1t is by means
theory with him, but a practice based
upon his hard gained knowledge of the
problems to be solved and the limitations
which bind the farmer. He addresses
much more willing audience today than he
would have found two decades ago. The
work of the Department of Agriculture and
of the state agricultural colleges has over
come much opposition to book farming"
1t Is now possible to teach the man with
the hoe, for he has been shown the bene-
fits of scientific agriculture as contrasted
with the disadvantages and losses of old
fashioned methods. In this book Mr.. Good
rich discusses soils, roots. seeds, irrigation,
planting pruning, fertilization and rotation.
He leaves much to be treated in the course
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