Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-27
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Hundreds OF girls will sympathize with
Joan, and marvel as they read that the
writer Of this brown book with the mas
turtfums on the cover should know girl
so nearly like themselves. It is an, enter
tanning and delightful story. full Of warm
sympathy and understanding.
LITTLE STORIES OF CoURTsHIP. By
Mary Stewart Cutting. New York.
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. Washington
Woodward s. Lothrop.
Perhaps the public is getting little bit
tired of boarding house stories. The board
ing house Is certainly q plot-saving device.
bringing together, as 1t does, all kinds of
people, with the dining room as con-
venient stage. 1t often requires consider
able ingenuity and some waste of time to
get the destined lovers into propinquity,
and Frank Stocktons daring solution or
the difficulty in one instance by land
slide which deposits His house in Her inn
mediate front yard is a shameless expose
of artistic methods. 1t has the disastrous
effect of a parody, and affects the readers
mind unpleasantly. Ever after he is apt
to detect the landslide method where the
story teller has taken infinite pains to con-
ceal the secrets of his profession. Ger
tainly the boarding house device with all
its manifest advantages was discovered be-
fore the days of oliver Wendell Holmes.
but no one has ever used 1t half so well,
and the vein is little overworked of late,
to mix the metaphor.
1t is the first and longest of the present
stories which suggests these specuiations
The others concern themselves with vari-
Gus couples who have managed to get into
juxtapostion without the superior advan-
tages of being paying guests at the same
board. Several rather amusing characters
and situations are given in these pages,
but the stories are somewhat clumsy in the
telling; and while the reader will very
likely feel that Henry is "A Humorous
Love Story" he will admit at the same
time that any effort at humor is always
tentative, and that instead of accepting
this statement. which accompanies the title.
he would rather wait for crcumstantial
evidence.
THE OUTLOOK BEA UTIFUL. BY Lillian
Whiting, author of The World Beau
tiful," &c. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co.
"The Outlook Beautiful is to some de-
gree the outgrowth of thought suggested
by hundreds of letters from strangers re-
ferring to convictions expressed in several
of Miss Writings preceding booksellers
vital In their intense interest regarding the
mystery of death and the relations between
the life that now is and that which is to
come. AS a church woman Miss Whiting
naturally turns first of all to the teaching
of the Divine Master, and her argument
is that faith. alone. is enough for the
premest reliance immortality, but that
if to faith be sdded the larger extension of
kno wledge, revealed by modern science and
by psychic research, the religious faith is
thereby only Informed to a more complete
and reverent grasp of spiritual truth. She
regards all human relations being prac-
tically divine relations, friendship being,
as Emerson so well says, for aid and COM
fort in all the passages of life and DEATH,
and she endeavors to portray the natural
continuity of all these sweet relations be-
yond that change which we call death, but
through which is really entered the life
more abundant"
ROSE OF THE WORLD. BY Agnes and
Egerton Castle. Illustrated by Har-
rison Fisher and Clarence F. Under
wood. New York Frederick A.
Stokes Company. Washington: Bren-
tanOS.
When Captain Harry English. commend
ing a long-besieged force of British and
Hindu soldiers. led a stormng party in aid
of the relief column that had made it's way
painfully the mountains, he was seen
to fall beneath the sword of Ghasi war
rior. His body was never recovered, al
though the besiegers were driven off and
the ground was thoroughly searched. 1t
was supposed it had been rolled over the
cliff with others into the mountain torrent
and so destroyed. Engishs young widow
mourned for him in dazed way, received
a box containing his papers and souvenirs,
his diary of the siege and some unposted
letters to her. but she did not open it, After
a brief period she married a pompous high
civilian officer of the Indian service for the
sake of the luxurious home he offered her.
Her life ran placidly. Then came to her
one who had been her husbands comrade
In the siege, asking for materials for life
of Harry English which he had been COM
missioned to write. She refused to lend the
papers in the box. Finally she was coerced
to consent by her second husbands domi-
neering, and returned to England in i'll
health, to the house that had once been
English's mothers, now her property. There
she opened the boX-and fell in love with
her dead husband. She had never known
his true nature in life. Now it was dis
closed to her with its ftneness and strength
its tenderness and it's passion. She realized
that she had done him a great wrong. She
forgot that she had a second husband.
This is the situation to which Mr.. and
Mrs. Castles strong story centers, with
many elements Of mystery and dramatic