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

OF his book to the rise OF religious reform
In France and the two centuries OF war
and persecution which killed and drove
out of that country her best class OF c1tt-
xens, and, in the authors Judgment, by the
consequent weakening of the body polite
paved the way for the revolution and the
terror. The second part of the work gives
an account of the various disastrous ut-
ttmpts to found Huguenot colonies IN
North America, while the third takes up
the story with the beginnings at Plymouth
New Amsterdam and Virginia, and traces
L. to the present. The work is repiete with
wildly interesting matters. It deals with
both individuals and the larger forces
which have worked on great bodies of peo-
early French colonists to link together a
wide range of famous men and women OF
America, showing that some Of the best
factors in the upbuilding of the new nation
came from this source.
THE COURT of LOVE. BY Alice Brown,
author OF Tiverton Tales" &c. Bos-
ton: Houghton. Mifiin & Co. Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Miss Brown INDUCES In this story In q
jolly bit Of absurdity with deeper mean
ing than the setting of the tale might at
first suggest. A husband with a mind only
for statistics on sociological questions. a
silly wife with tendency toward sonnets,
a newly returned globe-trotter with heart
HuH6tr, anu d pTlsh young Woudu JuSt Ic-
leased from the bondage of years of COM
partnership with Grabbed old great-uncle.
are the chief personages of the tale. The
court of love- is the establishment of the
heiress, who Is bent upon giving to every
one she meets just what the heart Graves.
She has surrounded herself with an engag-
ing assortment of impossibles and gives
a fancy dress ball. The place being mis-
taken for a lunatic asylum some strange
happenings occur, and the climax comes
swiftly and humorously. An altogether de-
lightful story. sprightly and suggestive.
WHERE SPEECH ENDS, Music Max
er's Romance. By Robert Haven
Schaufler. With prelude by Henry
Van Dyke. Illustrated by z. M. Ashe.
Frederick Dorr Steele and Leon Gull
pom. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.
It is refreshing to become acquainted
through the medium of this artistic work
with the spirit of the orchestra, the force
that blends into enhancing harmonies all
the sounds emitted from the dozens of IN
struments. The author is plainly a music
lover probably musician He has led his
reader into communion with the lives of the
men who make the great chords of the
symphony and has told them a tale of love
and sacrifice, joy and trouble and reward
which holds the interest to the last "oFu.
Perfect sympathy with the story does no.
REQUIRE an intimate knowledge of music. al
though doubtless one who appreciates the
nuances of the composer art Will De the
better able to comprehend the full signin-
canoe of the romance. Dr Hehry van
DYKES prelude sets the key in terms whlch
glow with love for the marve!s of harmony
and melody.
THE RACE OF LIFE. BY Guy Boothby,
author of "a Millionaire's Romance,
&c. New York; F. M. Buckles q Co.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Guy Newell Boothby died last year al
the age of thirty-eight, when his fame as
a novelist was reaching beyond the Aus
tralian and English circles, in which ne
was chiefly appreciated He left the man
uscript of finished novel, which is no"
published, the last to be received from lis
pen 1t is a tale of the Australian ousn
life as were most Of his other works. AS
a native of that great island, Mr.. Boothoy
sought to express it's moods and meanings
IL. his fiction He was familiar With all
It's phases, and his stories of the back
blocks are wildly true to the life. In this
tale he renders dramatic account Of the
life of a young ranchman who went forth
with a chance-found partner to establisn
a business. Their dangers and successes,
their MISUNDERSTANDING over a woman, the
tragedy which came to one and the JOY
which came to the other. are all rela.cd
in the brisk straightforward style Wnicn
gave Mr.. Boothby's novels their distin-
gushing quality.