Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-14

incident to an attempt to unravel the conn
piications caused by constant intermarrfage.
1t Is. indeed. this very fact of royal inter-
marriage which forms the basis Of the IN
quiry and leads to the conclusion that there
is tendency downward after generations
OF close blood relationships.
CHILDHOOD. BY Mrs Theodore ". Bir-
ney. founder of the National Congress
of Mothers. With an introduction by
@: Stanley Hall. Phi. D., Lid, author
Of Adolescence, &c. New York:
Frederick A Stokes Company.
Mrs. Birney has been for several years
engaged in one of the most important
sociological reforms of the modern period,
endeayoring to arouse national apprecia-
lion of the fact that the child is a proper
object of careful. scientific and construc-
tive study, instead of being merely an OBJ
jeet of love and sometimes of distaste. She
sees In the child the future member of So
ciety, the father or the mother, the business
man or the business woman. the potential
success or failure. Her work in rounding
the National Congress of Mothers was a
practical move toward establishing firm
foundation for broad effort to arouse the
motherhood instincts and to guide them. 1t
has succeeded In a very encouraging meas
ure, and mothers clubs and parents clubs
are springing rapidly into existence and
much is being done toward systematic
effort to carry light and health and love
into the dark places. Her present book Is
thoughtful practical treatise on the needs
of the child. the errors to be avoided IN Its
rearing and training and the objects to be
sought at all stages of its development
She insists that the abundant parental, self
sacrificing love must be supplemented by
knowledge of the child's mental, moral and
physical nature. and that sad mistakes are
often made through the blind following Of
affectionate impulses or harsh courses of
discipline. The work Is pitched in a key of
the purest love for the child and hope for
Its highest degree of success as an indf-
vidual.
LIFE IN THE OPEN; Sport with Rod
Gun, Horse and Hound in Southern
California. BY Charles Frederick
Holder. author of THE Big Game
Fishes &C. illustrated. New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Mr. Holder Is an all-round sportsman,
with true appreciation of both the joys
and the limitations of all forms of out
door work with rod and gun. He loves
sport for the sake of the association with
nature which it enforces and permits. He
finds in southern California a field for vari-
Gus opportunities for this enjoyment al
most unequaled in the world. He writes
with the ardor of an enthusiast and yet
with the discrimination of a scientific OBJ
server. Whether he is describing the land
ing of a giant tuna, or the freeing OF a
mountain lion, or an afternoon of hare
coursing, or coach ride through the noun
tains, he is always delightful in his zest and
his choice of terms. The book is exception
ally artistic in it's print and illustrations.
No pains have been spared to show beauti-
full scenes of outdoor life, and the volume
will appeal strongly to all who enjoy the
atmosphere of the field and wood, the
brook and the coast.
THE DOG BOOK; a Popular History of
the Dog, with Practical Information
as to Care and Management of House.
Kennel and Exhibition Dogs, and De-
scriptions of all the Important Breeds.
By James Watson. In ten partS-Part
VII. Illustrated. New York: Double
day, Page 81 Co.
This is particularly a terrier part OF the
Dog Book. Successfully treated are the black
and tans, the Bedlingtons, the IRISH the
Dandie Dinmonts, the Skyes, the Scotch,
the Welsh and the Boston terriers The
chapter on the last named will perhaps
have the greatest degree of popular in
terest, for the Boston terrier is new type
and strictly American. Mr.. Watson de-
scribes the manner of it's origin and the
way in which it obtained it's name, which
was given to avoid confusion at an eX
.hibition. The illustrations are more than
usually numerous and satisfactory