Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-18

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| tempt to explore the wilderness of Lab
| rador has been heretofore only feebly ap-
precated by those who followed the news
| paragraphs regarding the expedition and
| Its fatal ending. 1t was by lucky chance
that any of the three members of the
expedition Hubbard, Wallace and George.
the guide. lived to tell the tale. Hubbard
and Wallace started in July. 1908. pene-
| trated some distance into the Labrador
| country. and then retraced their steps.
enfeebled by the failure of their food
| supplies and by Illness At last Hubbard
| could go no farther toward the coast, and
| Wallace and George. pressed on as fast
| as their diminished strength would per-
| NIT, In the hope Of securing provisions
from cache in time to save Hubbard.s
life. They failed Wallace himself fell
| exhausted, and George continued. still
hoping to find help in season. Trappers
whom he notified of the situation went
] back on the trail and with difficulty
found Wallace, all but dead. Later Hub
| bard was found dead in his tent.
Leonidas Hubbard was thirty years of
| age when he started out to explore Labrador
| with his devoted friend as a companion.
| He had highly developed love for adven-
| ture and discovery. The region he sought
| to penetrate had baff1ed many others before
| him. owing to the extreme difficulties of
| portage and the uncertainty Of the food
| supplies He yielded his life in the attempt.
| and now this melancholy record Is offered,
| vividly interesting story of adventures,
eXpedientS, SufferingS and privationS, SIM
| ply and yet amatically told. 1t in meas
| ure suggests that the author, who held the
| dead explorer in the highest esteem, may
| himself take up the enterprise thus checked
| by death and seek to penetrate to the IN
| nermost regions of Labrador. He has, at
| all events paid the highest possible tribute
| to his friends memory, to the purity and
| sincerity of his motives and to the value
| of his life.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MAN. BY
| Robert Alton Holland, S. T. D. The
Slocum Lectures, 1894 delivered at
the University of Michigan. New
York: G. p. Putnams Sons. Wash
| ington Woodward & Lothrop.
| The Charlotte Wood Slocum lectureship
! on Christian Evidences was endowed in
| 1890 by the wife of Elliott I. SlOcum of
| Detroit, Mich, in memory of the life and
| labors of Ri. Rev. Samuel Smith Harris.
| the second Bishop of Michigan. Rev. DR..
| Holland, rector of St. Georges Church, St.
| Louis, was the lecturer in 1894, and the
| material of his discourses would have been
| printed Immediately after delivery but for
| the failure of his health, which prevented
| publicati ton. Later, moved by the marked
enthusiasm aroused by Edward Markham S
| poem, The Man with the Hoe" to write
| and speak in opposition to the doctrines
| embodied in and inspired by that compost
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what he terms the "socialistic faliacles
| which that poem had set to stormful
music" The book now offered Is COM
bination of these sermons and the Slocum
lectures They sound a strong note of faith
| in the ordered scheme of things and their
patriotism is unmistakable There is
abundant food for serious discussion and
earnest thought in their pages.
JOHNNY REB AND BILLY YANK. By
Alexander Hunter Illustrated. New
York and Washington: The Neale
Publishing Company.
Mr.. Hunters military experiences were
wide and varied. covering the entire
period of the war between the sections,
but they were not so wide or varied as to
| warrant the great length of his memoirs,
| which fill over 700 closely printed pages.
II reduced to one-half the size the book
would be a valuable contribution to the
personal records of the great contest, for
the author was one of the most active of
the confederate fighters, being employed
frequently on dangerous missions and
standing in the thick of the struggle.
He tells his story well, with n pungent
humor which lightens the narrative.
Some of his anecdotes of the battle front
are diverting notably an incident that
came under his eye at the battle of Bull
Run, when about forty of his fellows,
feeling timid when they found them
selves under fire for the first time, took
refuge in long line behind a tree, the
string of trembling humanity waving to
and fro as the enemys shells fell to the
right or the left. Mr.. Hunter pays high
tribute to the federal troops. Through
out his memoirs he displays commend
ably fair spirit, and is unsparing in his
criticism of the confederate management
in the details in which it was deficient:
He wakes enthusiastic in his praise of
Robert Z. Lee The book is not happily
illustrated. most of the drawings being
inartistic and the photographs plainly
modern compositions.
WINOWINGS SERIES NO. - WIN
NOWINGS FOR WASHINGTON'S
BIRTHDAY. BY Agnes Mawson au-
thor of -''Winnowings for Lincoln's
Birthday" New York: d. Appleton
Il Company.
This is a convenient little volume of eX-
tracts from the writings and utterances of
Washington and of ma terials regarding him
written and uttered by commentators on
his career and character. An admirable
biogra phical sketch adapted from the long
or work by Cyrus r. Edmunds appropriate
ly opens the work and Is. followed by Sc
lections from Washingtons letters,
speeches and addresses, and from his
rules of civlity.' An especially attractive
feature of the compilation comprises q
series of brief extracts from Washington's
writings and those about him, for the in
formation and use of the little folks. Anec-
dotes and special extracts from letters
add to the human interest of the ''winnow-
ngs" which are properly completed by the
reprintng of the farewell address" The
whole is of value to students of the man
and schools and societies engaging in spe-
cial exercises incident to the celebra-
ton of the anniversary of his birth.
MATERIAL FOR PRACTICAL GERMAN
CONVERSATION. BY Laurence Foss-
Ter. professor of Germanic languages
and literature, University Of Ne
braska. Boston: CHM & Co.
Many students wish to be able to speak
German as we'll as to read it, but college
curricula and textbook makers have rarely
recognized this need and have offered few
courses and helps calculated to satisfy it.
Fossler's Materials for Practical German
Conversation is a textbook which puts
the work in a composition course on
systematic and rational basis, and sur
rounds the students with an atmosphere
of common everyday German. No such book
has before been published in America.
KOBO; Story of the Russo Japanese
War. By Herbert Strang, author of
Tom Burnaby." Illustrated by Will
lam Rainey, r. /. New York: G. p.
Putnam's Sons. Washington: Wood
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