Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23

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students Of literature Will be delighted to
own Mr. DaWsons The Makers or Engiish
Fiction" Those who have made q cursory
examination of the chur.a of English f,fstion
Or who ha,,s ,,.r-...s = -. xss,s- - az.
English novel win enjoy the essays upon
the fiction makers. and not stop to demand
more philosophical inquiry into fhe mart
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was born than to a whole treatment If
Fielding, novelist equally great IL not
greater. As a pOpularizer Of the best crfti-
cism OF the nineteenth century novel Mr.
Dawson Is not surpassed. The treatment of
Scott, Fhackeray, Dickens, George Eliot
and OF religion In fiction is PERHAPS indica-
tive OF certain ethical preferences which
are probably. responsible for the meager
mention given to the great masters Of the
eighteenth century. The title of the. book
is therefore In some respects misnomer,
but the uildoubted sincerity In the exposi-
ton OF the tendencies of modern masters Is
SO convincing and the style so pleasing that
no student Of fiction can AFFORD to work
without Mr.. Dawson's help. Possibly the
greatest contribution of the volume is its
justification of the idea that the novel Is
is secure and immeas,,rabIe.
A GARDEN In PINK. By Blanche Eliza
beth Wade. With illustration and dec
atoms in color by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
and also illustrations from photo,
graphs Chicago: A G. McCIur, &, "a
When the Best of All" told the "Other
One she had decided that ST., should he
pink the next season, he thought she
meant her bonnet But she really meant
her garden. not the big general garden.
where complete pinkness would have me-
cessitated a great uprooting of beloved
shrubs and plants, but the smaller Italian
garden, where experiments could be tried
And SO the pa rden heoap,o ntnL ora Ioh,,
Brown, the gardener becama 70 s,,,t AS
sitnatIon ard ~ on,1S 1870, ~ 9uit wy
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eled in mink tbought ni,b go, Ill. -
pink The res,lIt ,yae dra, ~ ta1,nii,,..s
a garden of rare delight To the owe y sn,,rcs
of great comfort to the soul. and the Other
One and the sBest of Au,' and sopa
Others wandered through II In daIooto he
cornmunion ana uatobaS .. -, ~ uo s eau.o
the sut J ,roe d,,u su1eu ~ success now
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nini,i.h 49,, =; so ~ uSieate sts.e, a
and with charming pictures to assist the
mind IN approaching the blessings of a
saioei, IN piiA'
A SOUTHERN GIRL IN ,e1. The War
time Memories of Confederate Sena-
tors daughter BY Mrs. D. Girard
Wrishe. liiustrated from contempt
PaSa p 3, 20 wash;,,eta,, yWU oades.a,:s
& Lothrop.
Intimacy is the cantiyatino no+a oe ,s-s
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there is no idea of anything histrionfc in the
hook. of he;ne nersona,lv a sufsarar ~ 90
80 ue..s rx;.,a.,ts. "a ~ oAis
eeS .aseuies. 1he story Oh
the war is told with such directness, sim
plicity and conviction that the reader is
satisfied in having at last obtained a veri-
table chronicle of the war at first hands
Modern philosophical history seems anaemic
beside this real history. Not the least at
traction of the volume Is the wealth of
contemporary letters and portraits. There
Is an evidence of constructive ability rare
in an autobiography Beyond these intrin.
sic merits the publishers work is done r,nst
sumptuously. w. A'o''
Putnam's Sons Mashi m torh. y. r
ward & Lothron 'on. "ooo-
one VINO Is not denizen Of the Man
haitian district or feverish follower Of
the society news in the daily and weekly
nress would ba y,1,,aa a. - -. S,'
the author of this clever satire ,,non "a.
cial doings and foibles should prefer To 70.
main anonymous. The publishers. however
offer the assurance that some of the char
acterizations In the narrative, which IL
In the somewhat loosely jointed form Of a
novel, are SO thinly disguised that they
are certain 70 De recognized and that there
lore the author PREFERS, for the present
az, ,eas " 5ealn unknown. He, or She
est. II touches mon tha sa,,aris3, in.er.
the gay set: 1t analyses the ennottons ana