Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
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Being thus exceptionally qualified to
write a survey of the whole incident, he
has now produced a work which should at
once take rank as valuable record or
one of the most remarkable international
episodes in the history of civilization. He
has sought to aid in establishing better
and clearer understanding of the relations
which ought to exist between Cuba and the
United States. In tracing the events which
led to Intervention and the ultimate estab-
lishment of an Independent state, MIR. ROD
mson has occasion to critcise the actions
of both the Cubans and the Americans. he
indicates the great and unprecedented diff
hculties which were met by the latter, and
the natural causes of Cuban suspicion,
which at one time threatened to undo the
great work of liberation. He finds much
to praise in the bearing of the Cuban lead
ers in the days when their administrative
inexperience and the clamors of their fol-
lowers might easily have led them into
irrenledial blunders
TOMMY CARTERET; a Novel. By
Justus Miles Forman. Illustrations
in color by H. III. Foley. New York:
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Mr.. Formans previous achievements in
fiction scarcely justified an expectation
that he would produce a story of the dra-
matte strength of Tommy Carteret." He
has shown himself capable of gracefully
telling dainty tale of love, and it was to
character of Tommy Carteret, his latest
hero, with endearing qualities. But he has
gone long stride forward in his con-
struction and has produced novel OF
rare strength and suggestiveness. Tommy
the younger is a Quixotic fellow, who as
sumes the responsibility for the sin of his
father, poor, weak, cowardly "old Tommy"
The young man is banished to a desolate
place in lower Illinois, where he is to live
in comparative solitude during the lifetime
of his accuser. Circumstances which reflect
no discredit upon him involve him in
tangle of tragic forces, and he is about to
marry a handsome country girl when a
storm of human passion bursts upon their
heads After 1t has passed the girl lies
dead and he is desperately wounded Be
fore dying she has declared that she will
join him wherever he may be. She keeps
her promise and Tommy Is a haunted man.
There is nothing in recent fiction more dra-
matically interesting than Mr.. Forman'S de-
scription Of the sufferings of poor Tommy
while in this state. His eyes follow his I'M
welcome visitant, who is unseen by his
companions; he engages in conversations
with her which sound like overhead talks
at the telephone; vacant chair is always
provided for her at table in his own house.
Finally release from the obsession comes
through an accident and the ingenious and
daring device of his loving friends, and
with a great heart, and rewarded such
hero deserves. Mr. Forman makes vivid
ly realistic series of situations which in
their bare suggestion challenge the skepti-
cism of the reader. In the telling there is
no chance for incredulity.
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. By
Edward Everett Hale. With a new
introduction and notes by the au-
thor. Boston: Little Brown & Co.
1.-THE Man Without Country has been
printed so often, in so many forms, that it's
republication now Is significant mainly be-
cause of the new matter with which it is
associated. DR.. Hale's introduction fully
justifes a fresh edition. He explains the
circumstances In which the story came to
be written in 1868, when he saw the great
need Of a stimulation of the tagging pa
triotism of the people Of the north. 1t is
difficult to estimate the effect of the tale in
this direction, but it is safe to say that 1t
exerted a powerful influence. It presented
In concrete instance, perhaps more Sharply
than ever before, the case of a man who
had forfeited his right to call a flag his
own. 1t symbolzed the sin of treason in
terms that all men could understand. So
realistic was it, SO artistically In harmony
with the possibilities, that 1t was accepted
by many readers as a real instance and
embarraSsmentS which We're caused in con-
sequence of this belief. He now clears away
all possible doubts on the subject by de-
scribing the processes of the story's con-
struction, how he came to choose the name
Philip Nolan for his main character how il
CHANGED to coincide with that of a real
character we'll known to the early Texans.
1or whose liberties he died. and why he
adopted this expedient and that to give the
tale historic likeness. His notes and other
information complete a most satisfactory
edition of this piece Of fiction which has
been styled one of the best short stories
ever written.
THE HOUSE OF HAWLEY. By EInora
Ellott Peake, author of "The OAR
lnstons, &c. New York: D. APPLE
ton & Co.
That part of lower Illinois popularity
known as Egypt was sprinkled with Haw-
leys, bright, interesting, contrasting ner-
sonages. whose experiences Mr. Peake has
woven into an entertaining tale. 1t con-
Germs the love affair of two young people
against the handicap of an obdurate grand
rather, who is guardian of the girl Old
Major Hawley is familiar type and his
objection to the marriage of his ward
to man to whom he is politically on
posed Is not at all uncommon in real life
The story is marred by a single defect, in
that undue stress is laid at the opening
upon the moral weakness of a man who
plays eventually very small part in the
drama Otherwise 1t ranks with the really
good stories of the season, disclosing, as it
does, section of the country not frequently
visited by the novelists in search of local
color.
REGISTER OF THE SOCIETY OF CO.
LONIAL WARS; in the District of
Columbia, 1904. Washington: Pub
Hshed by the Society.
This handsome volume was prepared for
the Society of Colonial Wars by DR.. A. C.
Peale, the registrar and edited by DR.. Mar
Gus BENJAMIN, the deputy governor, under
direction Of the following committee on
publication: Thomas HYDE chairman; A.
c. Peale, A. Howard Clark, Marcus Ben
jamin, Frank B. Smith. It sets forth the
constitution of the society, lists of past
and present officers and Of members with
their genealogical records. Membership in
this organization is limited to lineal de-
scendants from ancestors who served in the
forces of Great Britain or of the colonies
in any of the wars in which the colonies
were engaged between May 13 1867, the
date of the settlement of Jamestown and
April 10, 1775, when the battle of Lexing-
ton, was fought, or who held certain offices