Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-09

Courtesy Of the Macmillan Company
her specialties. Indeed. during the past
few years Mrs. Wright has been leading a
double literary life, producing books both
In her own name and as Barbara" She
has been president of the Audubon Society
OF Connecticut since its organization in
1895 and is co-editor of Bird Lore with
Frank NJ. Chapman. Her home is at Fair
field, Conn.
So much for the author. whom it is good
to know in her own person. AS for her
latest Barbara" book which still presents
the aspect of ancnyminlty. despite the pub
fishers cOincident revelation. ii is a
worthy member of the delec table series.
As In her other books. Mrs. Wright-it is
difficult and somewhat saddening to say
goodbye to Barbara a pleasant
romance into her garden lore The scheme
of her story Is simple. She and Lavinia
Cortright and Mary Penrose the last
named living at a little distance. form an
organization styled The Garden You and
MARY Penrose being admitted as an af-
terthought-for the study of garden meth
DDS and the development of home beauties.
The book is mainly written in the form OF
letters passing between Barbara and Mary
Penrose. The former gives most of the
garden advice and warnings and hints and
the latter renders the human-interest story.
Mary Is clever narrator and the tale she
tells is entertaining to the finish.
The same sweet, gentle, wholesome quail
lily that marked the other Barbara" books
y QpUlndHl IN TINS MIS-. wright has a
genius for causing her readers to love the
whole world and all that in IL is
AUGUSTINE THE MAN. BY AmeIie Rives
princess TroubetZkoy). New York :
John Lane Company
Since the writing OF THE Quick or the
Dead and the subsequent publication of
her short stories In various magazines the
announcement OF any work by Amelie
Rives has stirred a particular phase of lit
erary interest. The issuance of her verse
also has invariably been attended with a
degree Of curiosity and appreciation accord
ed only to those who have plainly mani
tested the reflection OF the divine fire 1t
Is probably enough TO say that the new
dramatic poem. Augustine the Man" adds
70 the laurels OF who has previously
shown the power of mind and subtlety of
temperament that alone Is capable of ere
atng poetry with distinction. In full rec
Ognition OF the form which has been given
the poem. Notwithstanding the arguments
of Augustine and Antonius the dialogues
of the man with Monica, his mother and
with Melcara and their boy, Adeodatus. the
impression of the work is rather OF a sub
tie and philosophic poem In four cantos
than Of drama in four acts This is a
play only in structure. IL is devoid of
Theatre elements. but II is a poem In which
the conflict OF human love of child and
mother with compelling faith is made so
poignant that II is clear the human and
the divine needs have been felt by the au-
thor most passionately.
Beyond this searching truth OF content
the work is enriched with brilliancy OF
phrase and a dignity and melody of line
that give IL a beauty quite separate from
the appeal 10 fundamental emotions.
THE PACKERS, THE PRIVATE CAR
LINES AND THE PEOPLE. BY j.
Ogden Armour Illustrated. Philadel-
phia Henry Altemus Company.
Mr.. Armour a few months ago broke the
traditional silence of the corporations in or
der 10 set before the public the case OF the
packers in respect to the charge brought
against them that they were controlling
the markets by means of private car lines
and the further charge that their methods
are unwholesome. Mr.. Armours articles
were published seriany In the Saturday
Evening Post. They are now done into a
book which appears at a most interesting
Juncture. II would have been better for
the meat-packing industry IL this work had
appeared little earlier before the proof OF
the truth OF Upton S!nclair's accusations In
The Jungle by means of President Ro Sc
velts special commission. With the Neill-
Reynolds report in hand. and with the as
surance that there is more of the same
kind in reserve. and with the country pretty
thoroughly convinced that tie packing
methods are or at least have until lately
been ab0minably unelean. some of Mr..
ArmOurs statements In the concluding
chapter OF his book are, TO say the least,
indisereet. For instance:
Writers and publishers who have only
the doliars-and-cents purpose 10 serve as
sumo the tragic pose and unfold hair-rais-
ing tales about dark secrets of the packing
industry. They make statements that
should, IL true. cause every packing house
In America TO be closed by law and should
convert the whole world to vegetarianism.