Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-14

primarily a love story with an unusual set
ting, in which the events of exciting
and dangerous experience are powerful
factors in determining the choice of the
heroine.
The stocal courage and the daring of the
captain and the picture of life aboard ship
are intimate and real, and true impressions
of types now fast passing away. 1t is the
first novel of author whose short stories
and brilliant sea poems have attracted wide
notice.
HE AND HECUBA. BY Baroness Won
Hutton, author of ''Marr'd in Making"
Our Lady of the Beeches," &c. New
York: d, Appleton & Co.
In He and Hecuba" the Baroness Won
Hutton has shifted her scene to a quiet
English country school neighborhood. Its
peace is only on the surface, however, for
it serves as the theater for the struggle be-
tween the warning factions in King Hardy's
soul. In one phase of this conflict King
Hardy, rector of Carbury, middle-aged.
hard-working man, writes a powerful ro-
nance, which f1aunts the rebellion of a
sensuous, beauty-loving soul in the face
of all the principles which the working
part of his life has striven to establish. A
number of well-individualized men and
women play their parts in the drama. OF
these Abby Hardy. the pathetic wife of the
rector, is perhaps most real The book has
much of the distinction of style of the au-
liAOA pOpuidl Oul 1>dSy VI LIE bSeCiltS.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. By Fred
w. Atkinson, first general superin-
tendent of education in the Philippine
Islands. Boston: CHM & Co.
Mr. Atkinson was especially fitted by train
ing to make such observations as would
result in an impartial, accurate, and at
the same time brief, statement of the
conditions in the Philippine Islands. The
IL ;e
from the point of view of the generally
observing American. 1t will give the pub
lie at large definite idea of just what
our new possessions in the orient com
prehend, and serve to correct impressions
that have been caused by erroneous ac-
counts, and to reconcile views that have
come from the two necessarily conflict
ing sources-the military and the civil.
A sufficiently detailed consideration of
the history of the islands Is given not as
an end in itself, but in the way of fur
nishing an adequate historical setting for
this present-day view of the archipelago
and Its inhabitants, its character and its
possibilities. In short, the aim is to give
concisely that sort of information which
will be the best substitute for an actual
acquaintance with the different parts of
the archipelago.
The plan of the book is simple and logi-
cal A consideration of the general eeog
raphy of the islands and a brief resume
of their history form the introduction to
the treatment of present conditions
Among the topics discussed are the fol-
lowing; Commercial geography, climate.
public health, people, superstition. re-
ligion, native and foreign government.
education, and, finally, the possibilities
and the outlook for the future. The pur-
pose has been to balance the principal
questions that are properly included in a
work of this sort, to state impressions
resulting from mature consideration, and to
formulate the results of a wide experience
in way that shall be most profitable to the
general reader.
ON TWO CONTINENTS. Memories of
Half Century By Marie Hansen
Taylor Mrs. Bayard Taylor. Illus
trated from contemporary portraits
and paintings of Bayard Taylor New
york; Doubleday. Page & Co. Wash
mgton: woodward & Lothrop.
This book will be welcomed by all lovers
OF memoirs 1t embodies the recoIections
of woman of quick observation and wide
sympathies, covering the period of the civil
war IN the United States. Mrs TAYLOR
had, moreover, the advantage of being in
both countries, both as an observer and a
citizen. For she was a native-born Ger
man. She was during her residence in
this country the loyal wife of an Amerl-
can. and returned to Europe often for pleas
ure or for literary material, twice when her
husband represented his country In Russia
and in Germany The daughter of Han
sen, the noted mathematician and astron-
err and the wife of the translator Of
Faust" enc of the foremost literary fig
ures of his day Mrs. Taylor could hardly
| have failed to accumulate "reminiscences Of
striking value and interest
Her book abounds with anecdotes of such
| famous figures as the Brownings. Thack-
cray, the Stoddards George William Curtis.
Boxer. Aldrfch Horace Greeley, Bryant
stedman. sutnbaxnA ETeytag. BismaS1E