Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02

the Browninss ana the Troliopes, yielded
to. the subtle influence Of the F1orentine
styled The Dream of Rose Aylmer. Miss
whiting discloses the poetic romance OF
Landor's youth which influenced bis entire
of the attachment has ever been fully and
accurately told. and 1t supplies serti.
mental touch to the volume which 10 OF
keen interest. The illustrations, apart
from the reproduction of the Coleman por-
trait, are from photographs Of Florentine
scenes.
THE PRINCESS PRISCILLA'S FORT
NIGHT. BY the author Of Elizabeth
and Her German Garden" New York:
Charles Scrfbner's Sons. Washington:
Woodward. G. Lothrop.
The Princess Priscilla, sole remaining I'M
married daughter of the Grand Duke of
Lothen-Kunitz. grew to womanhood secret
ly loathing the life at court. She went
through her accustomed and required rou-
tine with calm exterior. but with re-
bellious soul. Her confdant was the court
librarian whose title Is too long for repeti-
ton, serving as her tutor as well as the
custodian of the literary treasures Of
Lothen- Kunitz. He was also custodian of
Priscilla's secret aspiration to be some
thing more In the world than a mere prin-
cess, creature Of forms and ceremonies.
Perhaps he was the creator of her longing.
At all events. 1t was he who managed her
flight from court at favorable opportun
ity, who escorted her to the coast, across
the channel and far UP country into rural
England. 1t was he who contrived. by dint
of much brow-beating and persistence, to
buy two cottages for the princess from an
estate that had never before sold cottages.
There his part practically ended, and the
fugitive princess took UP her new life.
She denroralized the village, scandalized
- -, Go he Ia
neighborhood, added the hearts OF two
young men and brought despair to her
venerable tutor and guide by eXhaustlng
the. exchequer When the SKIES were . an a.,
an additional gloom over the princess OF
the much hyphenated assumed name, there
suddenly came solution for the troubles:
There had been a certain prince VINO Wooeo
the grand dukes daughter, and there Is
something mighty fine in the way this
young man met the situation when he hao
traced his virtually aftianced wife into ru-
raj England and appeared before her at the
psychological moment of her deepest de-
SPAR. The reader, while realizing that the
story could not have been constructed
otherwise rather resentS his being cut on
with q single brief appearance, so engag-
II the author of these stories preserves
her anonymity as well as she manages 70
increase her appeal to the attention and
sympathy of her readers. she will indeed
become the mystery of the fiction world.
LIFE AND RELIGION; an Aftermath
from the Writings Of the Right Hon
orabls Professor F. Max Muller. By
his Wife. New York: Doubleday
Page & Co, Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
The late Max Muller wrote so much on
ethical and philosophical subjects that his
religious views are now scattered over
wide area of print. Many of his admirers
have expressed desire for a condensed
presentation Of those views, and 1t is in
accordapce with that wish that Mrs. Muller
has prepared this book, which probably
she alone could produce, for she has not
only drawn from the printed works of her
husband, but has quoted from the writings
left unpublished and from private letters,
passages which would otherwise have re-
manned unknown to any but his own fam
in her preface:
Those who have read the Life and Let
ters' do not need to be told that Max Null
Ter entertained from his earliest years the
firm conviction that all is wisely ordered in
this life. all for our real good. though we
do not always see 1t, and though We can
not venture to fathom the wisdom guiding
our steps, To other readers the unswery-
ing trust and faith shown in these extracts
may be a revelation, for he rarely con-
versed on such subjects. Yet this trust and
faith gave him strength through the bitter
struggles of his early life, taught him res
ignation during the years when the dearest
wish of his heart seemed unattainable, sup
ported him later when those whom he loved
tenderly were taken from him and up
held him in his long and depressing i'll
ness. 1t is my earnest desire that thls NJ
tie book may prove help and comfort to
those who endure like trials, and that 1t
may strengthen those whose path in life
now stretches before them, filled with sun
shine. to meet the sorrows that inevitably
await US all.
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY sERIEs-so-
CIAL THEORIES AND SOCIAL
FACTS. By William Morton GrinneI.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
The author of this suggestive little book
holds to the belief that there is an undue
tendency in these days toward sumptuary
legislation. toward both socialism and class
distinctions, and he argues for more ra-
tional view of the social administration
which will more closely follow the law Of
Moses and the elementary laws governing
property which have existed in all times and
among all peoples. He considers natural
and artificial laws, trusts-which he regards
as the result Of neutrality-suspicious. it
self as broad principle; socialism, labor,
the cost of living, the course of wages.
railroads and the proposition to regulate
railroad rates by federal agencies. The
volume contributes interestingly to the dis
cussion Of modern issues of an important
character.
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ART;
Edited by John c. Van Dyke-THE
HISTORY OF AMERICAN PAINTING.
By Samuel Isham, associate of the Ma
tfonal Academy of Design, member of
the Society of American Artists Illus
trated. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
Preceded by volumes treating Of the hts
tory Of American sculpture and American
music this work on the history of American.
art finds its public waiting eagerly, and re-
garding It. as perhaps the most important of
the series which is being evolved under the
able editorship Of Mr.. Van Dyke. In the
selection of Mr.. Isham to treat of painting.
the choice has fallen upon one emlnently
capable of performing his task judically.
His work attests to his thoughtful prepara-
ton and his discriminating selection of ma
terials. He avoids the error OF treating
American painters as a strictly modern
school and ignoring the precedents and in