Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-31


Wesley as an indefatfgabIe to1ler IN the
vineyard OF the Lord. He wAs tireless IN
his preaching, IN his Visiting. IN his tr2y-
cling. His slight figure seemed scarceay
suited TO his extraordinary achievements.
He dreaded idleness. In himself or In others
Much OF the austerity which characterised
Wesley's doctrines and teachings was
doubtless attributable to this love Of work
the unoccupied. The biography IN written
in style THAI grasps the readers interest
from the first paragraph.
THE PHILIPPINE EXPERIENCES or
AN AMERICAN TEACHER q Mar.
ratfve of Work and Travel in the
Philippine Islands. BY William b.
Freer. illustrated. New York: Charles
ward q Lothrop.
While pessimIsm stin prevails in some
quarters In this country as to the effective
ness of the work done by the American
government in the Philippines for the adj
vancement OF the natives. evidences are
coming to hand from time to time to dem
onstrate that despite the difficulties Of re-
adjustment from Spanish to American SOW
ereignty. despite the obstacles raised by
the war Of pacihcation. and despite the
slowness Of American legislation for the
benefit Of the Filipinos. the teachers who
have been sent out from this country to lay
the foundations of a helpful educational
system have been successfully at work
This volume is gratifying sign of the
progress that has been scored since the
American occupation in the uplifting OF
the natives. The author, who has thrown
himself into his task with zeal, says In his
foreword: THE author trusts that the pc
rusal of the following pages Will result IN
better understanding of some desirable
traits Of Filipino character, in stronger
conviction of the unwisdom of granting, at
this time, any greater degree or seif-goV-
eminent than the Filipinos already possess,
and in a fuller understanding of the work
that is being done in the public schools In
the attempt to fit the people for the event.
uaI exercise of complete autonomy"
He presents the younger generation of
Filipinos as they are developing under the
care and instruction of a competent, en-
thusiastic band of American teachers, as
sisted by an increasing corps of native In
structors He shows that this younger
generation has materially advanced in the
few years of the American dominion, and
he offers evidences In concrete form of the
steady development of native character UNI
der the beneficent influence of a well es-
tablished and skilfully maintained public
school system. He has presented valu-
able, Illuminating work that should clear
away some doubts that linger In the Amer
lean mind here and there.
THE FIGHT FOR CANADA; a Sketch
from the History of the Great I'm
perial War. By William Wood De-
finitive edition. Boston: Little, Brown
& Co.
Although the story of the fight for Cam
ada" has been admirably told in many vol
umes, new light Is constantly being shed
upon this important phase of American his
tory by the discovery of documents and new
of old materials. Maj. Wood, who
Is an officer of the Canadian militia and
president of the Literary and Historical So
ctety of Quebec. has awaited himself of the
results of recent research which. he de-
clares, have put out of focus all partisan
points of view. 1t Is no longer possible to
treat of Canada as an Englishman, an
American, a Frenchman or q Freneh-Ca-
madam.
Full research" he says. makes very
short work of the perversons of race, re-
Hgion or politics. The shame of France
Is well matched by that Of Canada, while
there was quite as much rascality among
colonial upstairs as among any of the cor
rupt officials that came out of the mother
land. The general run Of American public
men were no better in the eighteenth GEN.
fury than they have been in the nineteenth.
And there Is purely British crime which
can blacken out even their dark methods
the bought-up vote in the house of commons
which ratified the most ignominious treaty.
of peace that England ever made.
The author gives full credit for the dis
covery Of the new sources of information
about Canada to Mr.. A. G. Doughty. the
new archivist OF the Dominion, who has re-
Gently published six quarto volumes which
by no means exhaust his supply Of original
imprinted documents. Maj. Wood takes
broad, q statemanlike view Of events. and
focuses his treatment upon the Battle OF
the Plains as one OF the great decisive
re- in ha history dtGnlaVH
exceptional skill in description OF complex
military situations and in tracing their
bearing upon the politician problems OF the
time. The volume is handsomely published.
with numerous maps and portraits.
MAID OF ATHENS. BY Lafayette Nc
Laws, author of When the Land Was
Young" &c. Illustrated by Harry c.
Edwards. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Any novel dealing with the career of Lord
Byron is certain to end in a minor chord.
The poets life was tragedy. and the 1c-
ton founded upon 1t must necessarily par
take of the sombre character of his career.
There were flashes Of Joy, occasionally Tin
but every episode which has been
celebrated by the novel makers shows the
man as failure. Miss McLaws has chosen
the relations Of Byron with Thyrza, the
Maid of Athens" to whom he addressed
his deathless song. She has contrived a
complex and entertaining plot, vivid with
color and action. Byron is represented as
dashing intriguant, fearless to the point Of
folly, adopting DISCUSSES In order to enter
the sacred precincts of the sultan's palace
at Constantinople and mixing in with the
Greek reyoiutionists In their abortiye at
tempts to overthrow the dominion of the
Turk. Thyrza is an appealing character
easily won by the soft-eyed Englishman.
She is caught in the net of circumstan
ana suffers for her love. She follows Byron
TO London after he has married and tifiwit-
tingly precipitates the separation of the
poet and his unsympathetic wife. She goes
to France and enters convent, where she
dies The author has followed closely such
established lines of Byron's biography as
have been discovered. but does not hermit
them to restrict the play of her Imagination.
Those Confusing Winston Churchills.
Mr.. Winston Churchill, the American au-
thor. was born at st. Louis, November 10.
1871, and graduated In 1894 from the United
States Naval Academy. For a year he was