Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-07


Mrs. Martins achievement in the pres
entation of the little Mennonite maid to
the attention of the readers of fiction was
so marked success that 1t Is gratifying
now to announce another work from her
pen, dealing. as did that first book, with a
peculiar Pennsylvania religious sect. The
old keystone state is dotted with commune
ties and denominations whose members are
in truth peculiar people" They speak a
strange assortment of dialects and their
customs are in some cases wholly foreign
to those of their average neighbors. Sa-
bina who succeeds Tillie as heroine, Is
of the Anlish sect. and her trials and ex-
periences are vividly set forth in the course
of a romance in which a young artist IN
search of materials for sketches ngures
prominently. There runs through the STORY
a vein of mysticism. Sabina Is visited with
premonitions and is occasionally haunteo
by warning face. This phenomenon the
author vouches for as genuine. the story
is distinctly stronger than the first product
and will make wider appeal
THE MATRIMONIAL PRIMER. BY V. B.
Ames, with a pictorial Matrimonial
Mathematics and decorations by Cor
don Ross. San Francisco: Paul Elder
& Co.
The booklets which come futtering across
the continent from time to time are very
welcome TO those WHO lihc 1itlO AoAAoSAA'1~
mixed In with the prose of life. Messrs.
Elder and Company have greatly enlivened
this sordid sphere of affairs by their oc-
casional contributions in the publication OF
which they have richly added to the litera-
ture of Sheer Fun. In the Matrimonial
Primer they have offered, through the ex-
celIent agency of Messrs. Ames and Ross
if, indeed, it is Mr.. Arnes''-an assortment
re cricp comments on the dual state.
Here are some of Mr. Ames remarks:
when YOU are married be a good COM
rade If it breaks every canon of your
church and ancestry
IF you selected your wife because or her
style don't growl when the styles change.
when your husband seems willing that
all economy shah be at the home end, IN
sist upon laundering his shirts yourself
Use your best conversational powers oc-
casionally at your own dinner table:
Elevate your husbands sports by par
ticipating in them"
Mr.. Gordon's pictures are sprightly and
artistic conveying many richly humorous
suggestions and aptly suppilmentlng the
text The primer is a book to keep in the
pocket for those occasions when the VIII
flows free and there is no inclination to
bubble at q little borrowing.
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER IN SOUTH
AMERICA; Being the Experiences and
Impressions of an American Business
Man on a Trip through Panama, Ecua-
dor, Peru, Chile, the Argentine and
Brazil. BY Frank Wiborg. Illustrated.
New York: Mcclure Phillips & Co.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
The reasons which led to Mr.. Wiborg's
visit to South America lie close to the root
of the evil of which he writes pointedly in
his preface and his concluding chapter.
His firm had become involved in misunder
standings and entanglements through the
incapacity OF its representative in that
field, and il was determined to send one of
the members down to investigate. He
went, he saw a lot of the country, made
copious notes, evidently took some excel
lent pictures. and came back and told his
friends his experiences These friends were
at once aware that new view of the great
southland had been opened before them,
and they advised the traveller to relate his
experiences for the benefit of a wider cir
Gle. He does so, with unnecessary apollo
gies. His book will be valuable even If 1t
should not interest a single reader through
its descriptions and anecdotes of the jour
neying, for 1t sounds the note of warning
to all manufacturers and selling agents in
this country to get busy to recover the
ground lost in South America to the Ger
have cultivated the commercial soil of South
America to far better than the Americans
have done. His suggestions are practical
and pointed, and they bespeak the serious
consideration of the captains of industry in
this country and their active lieutenants.
AS a travel book Mr. Wiborg's contribu-
ton is delightful in its frank expression
of interest in the many remarkable and
curious things to be seen by a wide-awake
tourist.
AND THEIR DOORWAY GARDENS
By P. H. Ditchfield, MA, F.S.A, FIR
HIS. With predatory note by Ralph
Adams Cram. illustrated. PhiladeI-
phia: The John c. Winston Company.
Americans who have journeyed through
rural England have often deplored the lack
in this country of the picturesque working
mems homes and the small vine-clad cot
tages of the humber residents. One OF the
most pleasing pictures they retain on the
mental retina is the matched cot of the
English peasant. and they look at the sor-
did. dingy tenements in the small manu-
featuring towns of this country and sigh
for the transportation of some of the old
country IDEAS to this soil. The volume in
hand is calculated to cause this sentiment
to solidify into the beginning of move
ment for the better and, what Is chiefly in
point, the more picturesque and artistic
housing of the workers. The author has
traced the tendencies of construction meth
DDS, analysed the styles Of architecture,
treated exhaustively of the gardening prin-
ciples and altogether has presented a book
that will go far toward creating an en-
phatic demand here for something that will
resemble closely If 1t does not actually re-
produce the landscape of Old England.
BABY BULLET, THE BUBBLE OF DIES
TINY. By Lloyd Osbourne, author of
The Queen Versus Billy" The Mo-
tormaniacs," &c. Illustrated by Mar
tin Justice New York. d. Appleton &
Co.
Baby Bullet Is 1oyously. irresponsibly fun
ny-that Is. Baby Bullet, the sprightly ro-
nance by Lloyd Osbourne Baby Bullet the
bubble, the old three-cylinder- compound
Despardoux," is the quintessence OF auto
mobile pathos 1t is In her dependence, her
whimslcality her feminine variability, her
weakness that her strength lies 1t Is be-
cause she must be towed that she becomes
the bubble OF destiny"
To Miss Christine SchelI-thirty-five. a
touring. escaped school teacher-and her
charge, Miss Essy Lockhart - nineteen
blond and charming, daughter of the pro-
verbal wealthy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
doing pedeStrian tour thrn,,oT, r,,r,,