Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-26

won out. makes brisk, entertaining little
tale which wildly displays Mr.. Lynde's
familiarity with western life and railroad
affairs. This volume is to be welcomed on
It's own merits alone, but is doubly COM
mendable for the testimony 1t affords that
the publishers have decided that there Is
no good reason for combining this pocket
book series of short bits of fiction to the
five volumes originally planned and al
ready issued.
American Colonial Policy. BY Henry
Parker Willis, Ph.D., sometime Ar
mour-Crane travelling fellow in the
University of Chicago. professor of
economics and politics In Washington
and Lee University New York: Henry
Holt & Co. Washington: William Bal
lantyne e Sons.
The authors declared purpose is to re-
view the American experience as nation
in the governing of the Philippine Islands
and to offer an appreciation of the main
elements of the Philippine problem as 1t
now presents itself, with the latter object
paramount. He had devoted some time to
a study of the question while engaged in
editorial work In New York city in 1901.
and later while stationed in this city as
correspondent of the New York Journal Of
Commerce and the Springfield Republican
during 1923. He felt, however. the neces-
sity of conducting first-hand Investigations
and proceeded to Manila In March, 1904
and spent several months in the archipel-
ago He regards the Philippine question as
a special phase of imperialism, calling for
particular consideration a novel fac
tor in the American political equation. He
does not agree that the American admin
istration of the islands has been unvary
ingly wise or generous He indicts wash
ington" as having complicated the prob
lens that have developed in the insular
management. and he utters sharp word of
warning against the exploitation of the
archipelago for the benefit of American
capital. He believes that the natives should
be steadily given more and more freedom
of political action, the municipalities being
first vested with home rule and the pro-
vincal administrations merged into the
municipal. These steps should be followed
at a proper interval. Mr. Willis urges, by
the organization of a national legislative
assembly, chosen by the natives while 1t
should be the policy of the home govern
ment a Washington to supplant Americans
in office with natives far and as rapidly
as possible, leading eventually to the choice
by the natives of their own executive. Mr..
Willis indeed. holds to the view that it is
not impracticable to grant the entire archi-
pelagO a degree of home rule that is tanta-
mount to independence, but he regards the
central problem dealing for the pres
ent with more vitality important factors.
such as the sanitary, police. educational
judicial and economic administration Of the
islands. In all of the departments of Amer
lean government he finds occasion for
criticism and he sets forth his conclusions
clearly and dispassionately. His work.
whatever may be the views 1t evokes in
criticism or opposition. Is at least frankly
presented in terms that will arouse keen
interest.
AMERICAN HEROES AND HEROINES.
BY Pauline Darlington Bouve Illus
RnSfnn I.Ot e Shpn.
ard Company.
This book. which will tend directly to
stimulate patriotism in young Americans.
contains twenty attractive sketches of IA
nous men and women in American history,
among them Father Marquette. Anne Hutch
inson. Israel Putnam, Molly Pitcher, Paul
Jones, Dolly Madison and Daniel Boone. A
valuable feature of the book is the includ-
ing with the well-known characters men
toned of number of others we'll worthy Of
note, even if their names have not been
given such national prominence. Among
these are Haym Solomon, the patriotic Jew
ish broker of Philadelphia; DR.. Kane, the
Arctic explorer; Margaret Haughery, the
benefactress of New Orleans, and the west
ern heroes, Kit Carson and Sam Houston
The author Is cousin of Amelie Rives and
a relative of Thomas Nelson Page She has
already well known a writer of both fic-
ton and history.
DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH; a Wars
gleston. author Sf Dorothy South"
&c Illustrated by Z. Pollak Boston:
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company.
"A Daughter of the South" is a romance
having a peculiarly interesting setting. 1t
Is primarily a love story as sweet and as
pleasing as Dorothy South" Like that
tale, 1t has for its heroine a young woman
of high breeding and high character proud.
passionate and duty loving, a woman who
thinks clearly. feels strongly and acts in
obedience to her own convictions, without
any shadow of fear or shrinking from the
consequences of right doing. The action of
the story lies in the region of the lower
Mississippi river. and it's time is the period
near the end of the civil war, after the great
river opened to navigation, but when
its banks and bayous were still vexed with
hostilities. and the greedy lawlessness of
SPECTATORS who gave to their business a
good deal of the character of crime II was
the author has written. that time when
in the minds and conduct of many men
there had been a lapse from patriotism to
plumber. from loyalty to loot. That period
in that region was peculiar in its Dictrr-
esqueness and in its wealth of romantic and
dramatic interest. The field is one totally
new to fiction.
WHEN GRANDMAMMA WAS FOUR
TEEN. BY Marion Harland, author of
Nv hen Grandmamma was New" IL
Illustrated by Etheldred b. Barry. Bos-
ton: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company
Mrs Mary Virginia Terhune, who has so
long been better known as Marion Har-
lana, some time since wrote a delightful
biographical story Of a little Virginia maid
long before the war" OF course the little
maid was herself and the stories were those
told to her own grandchildren. These have
been continued under the title when
GrandrnamIna was Fourteen" and through
the eyes of fourteen-year- Molly Bur-
well the reader sees much that Is quaint
amusing and pathetic in Richmond as 1t
was before the war. and the story has the
charm OF manner and rich humanity which
are characteristic of Marion Harland
THE MAKING OF A MAN. BY Orison
SWEET Marden, editor OF Success" and
author of stepping Stones" &c Bos-
ton: Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Company.
No secular books have accomplished as
much the remarkable Self Help" by
Samuel Smiles and if any man at the pres
ent time Is qualified TO continue the SUBJ
ject. that man is certainly DIR. Marden. who
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