Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21

West Virginia coal lands for $1,000, paid
her over the full price instead of a paltry
5000. probably her nephew, Stephen, would
have survived. AS it was. he passes on a
small son to be cared for between the aunt
and the unsupported Benson And 1t is
this last Stephen who figures in the third
stage of the romance, finds himself torn
between his formal affection for his foster
father Benson and his genuine love for his
great aunt, Virginia, is COMPOUNDED by posi-
tive proofs of Benson's guilt-strangely Sc
cured from the hands of grown-up Benny
Rogers-and forced to choose the course
of honor against that of interest.
Mr.. Kester relieves the somewhat monot-
onous somberness of his tale by the intro
duction of the genial Gibbs, true type of the
ante-bellum boomer of the prairie region,
optimistic bibulous loyal. Gibbs is worthy
of his large share of attention, and in the
shifting current of human interest flowing
through the novel he and Benson an aus
tere, unattractive figure, and Virginia Land
ray, insufficiently accented personality,
hold the stage throughout.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kinney have illustrated the
book charmingly.
THUMB-NAIL SERIES-SONNE'TS FROM
THE PORTUGUESE; and Other Poems.
BY Elizabeth Barrett Browning. ONE
WORD MORE; and Other Poems. By
Robert Browning. Introduction by
Richard Watson Glider New York:
The Century Company
This dainty contribution to the book low
ers store of treasures appeals through not
only the artistic embossed leather cover,
designed by Blanche McManus Mansfield,
but the scholarly and sympathetic introduce
ton of Mr.. Glider. In this Mr.. Glider tells
of the Brownings' meeting, their friendship
and their marriage, and proceeds to a crit
zeal discussion of this unusual antfphony of
love poetry. In addition to the sonnets six
of Mrs Browning's lyrics are Included In
~
'One Word More" "Prospice'' and Oh,
Lyric Love from THE Ring and the
Book for the first time assembling In one
volume the love poems which disclose, in
part, the beautiful romance of the Brown
ings
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON; Memoir.
BY His Son. New York: The MacmiI-
Ian Company. Washington: Bren-
tano's.
Since its issue in 1897 this admirable BIZ
ography of Tennyson by his son has been
reprinted eight times in the two-voiume
form. remarkable record for so large
work and especially for a biography. There
Is. however a demand for a single-yolume
edition, to met which the publishers have
issued the present work, containing the
full text of the original in more compact
form.
CATCH WORDS OF CHEER, New Series.
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portrait. Chicago: A. C. McCiurg & Co.
There are few of u.s. says the compiler
in her foreword. who can cheeriiy make
our daily round without help from fellow
souls. We need the friendly thought the
encouraging word to keep us at our best.
strong and willing to encounter the trials
which beset every path" She has sought
to provide such catch words of cheer in
me form OF brief quotations from the great
optimists. arranged as calendar. SO that
Tor every day of the year there Is a sentf-
ment that can be made part of the dafly
lille. The book Is artistically printed and
bound, and is attractive as we'll as help
ful
THE QUESTION OF OUR sPEECH-THc
LESSON OF BALZAC, Two Lectures
BY Henry James Boston: Houghton
Mifiin q Co. Washington: Woodward
d Lothrop.
The first of these two lectures Is already
we'll known to American newspaper read
ers, through the criticisms directed against
Il from all quarters Immediately after its
delivery before the graduates of Bryn Mawr
College last June. In the course of that
deliverance Mr.. James spoke caustically
of the newspaper language usages and en-
braced in his criticism e. practices of the
schools and other Institutions which help
to keep our speech untidy and slovenly.'
The other lecture. on 1.-THE Lesson OF Bal
zacs' was delivered for the first time be-
fore the Contemporary Club of PhiladeI-
phia, january II. 1896. In the course of