Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15

been given appropriate form in the Planta-
ton edition. which in paper. typography
and press work is all that can be desired
The ihustra tons are by such men as II. &.
Christy. A. b. Frost, Harrison Fisher and
George Wright. Pictures and text contrive
to present probably the best picture ever
drawn o. Old Virginia life.
A SAILOR OF FORTUNES; Personal Me-
moirs of Captain B. S. Osborn. By
Albert Bigelow Paine. New York: Nc
Clure. Phillips & Co. Washing.2n:
Woodward Lothrop.
This is the record of the life of remark
able man who touched and Influenced his
tory in the United States at many points.
1t has been written down by Mr.. Albert
Biselnw Paine, following, as he himself
says, the phraseology in which the stories
were told to him. If one is looking for ad-
venture he will find it here: he will find also
SiimpSes of history at unexpected angles
and the constant revelation of a strong per-
sonality. "A Sailor of Fortune is admir-
able in its workmanship and interesting in
its sTbiect-matter. The sailor is a man
whom the sea called with an irresistible
fascination and whom adventure allured
PAUL; a Modern Love Story. By E. F.
Benson, author of The Challoners."
Philadelphia: J. b. Lippincott Com
pa ny.
VIII :tever Mr.. Benson writes is sure to be
receie with interest. The public is GER
tain OF something fresh and original Paul
is no exception to the rule. In fact it is
doubtful whether Mr.. Benson has before
this written SO strong a novel. The story
is concerned with the fortunes of two young
English lovers who are divided, at first by
ignorance of themselves. and afterward-the
girl aving been led into an unhappy mar
riage by the circum instances of the tragic
death of the unoved husband. Finally the
barriers are removed. ard Paul and Norah
are restored to the sane happiness of
heathful youth.
mat whlcn distinguishes the novel, how
ever. is the character of Theodore Beck
with. In conception it borrows of both the
pathological and of the morbdly horrible.
Whe her one questions the secret of its
power or not it cannot be denied that the
character of Beckwith is successful piece
OF work. 1t gains and holds from the read
much of the fascination of terror with
which the man is supposed to have inspired
both Norah and Paul. 1t takes rank along
with Quilp and other monsters of fiction.
KINGS DIVINITY. BY Dolores Bac.n.
With illustrations by Phillips Ward
New York: Henry Holt & Co WASH
1nSton: Woodward & Lothrop
The participation of the petted American
girl in the political fortunes of tiny Euro
pean principalities seems to be an ever
fertile field for romancers to plow "A
Kings Divinity is a clever product of
that kind of horticulture. The hero, who
is, of course, an exceptionally manly young
fellow, finds the chains which bind him
10 his station almost impossible to break,
but being also very properly an fmpetuous
being, tie reader is not surprised that, in
the end he succeeds in freeing himself
though the severance is like the famous
cutting of the Gord-an knot. The FolIens-
bee family, of which the heroine is an
adored member, is a delightful instance of
American optimism and mutual indulgence.
GABRIELLE, TRANSGRESSOR. BY Har-
RS Dickson. Frontispiece by Walter
II. Everett, author of The Ravensls"
Philadelphia and London: j. B. Lin.
pincott Company.
A convent-bred girl of colonial New Or
leans, walking in walled garden, meets
the exiled prince imperial of the Turkish
throne. The romance which ensues is full
of color and intensity and eliminates in
high heroism. The events which brought
about the strange seclusion of Dumb House
and which brought young Prince Murad to
the shores of the new world are to be found
between the covers of Gabrielle" But
vision of the virginia. young creature of the
south. the warm blooded young eastern
prince in thrall and the ever-neW charm
of their garden love-lfe. They might be
the young daughter of feudal lord and a
young Saracen captive dreaming dreams
while medieval France fought Somewhat
of eastern mysticism is woven into the
story. but it is the human element in which
it is most successful.
THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS. Ry
Bernard Shaw. Being the Third Vol
ume of his Collected Plays. New York:
BrentanoS.
In one of his dramatic confessions Shaw
speaks of himself as a puritan 1t is pre-
sumable that his own type of puritanism
was in mind when he gathered THE Devil
Disciple, a melodrama;" Caesar and Cleo
patra, a page in history, and Captain
Brassbound's Conversion, a play of ad-
venture into one voiley of wrath and hu-
NOR for the discontinue, if not the ami
hilation. of the present conventional the
ater The inimitable prefaces, why for
Puritans?" ION Diabolonian Ethics" and
Better Than Shakespeare" and the antict-
patory and appended explanatory notes,
are written presumably to emphasize for
the duh the purpose of the plays In one
he says that he would hold 1t good states
manship to blow up cathedrals il he found
thdt they were becoming instruments of a
systematic idolatry of sensuousness. and
in that attitude he is certainly sufficiently
anti-voluptuary to be dubbed puritan
These plays, now ressued in conformity
with his other works. will not, however
much they may appeal to an enlightened
and chastened intellect, fail to give ex-
quisite pleasure
DEM GOOD OLE TIMES. By Mrs. James
III. Dooley. Illustrated by Suzanns
Gutherz. Decorated by Cora Parker
New York: Doubleday, Page & CO.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Mrs, Dooley with much tenderness dedi-
Gates her beautiful book to '.The dear old
southern mammies whose love and fidelity,
were its inspiration. Gr-ndaddy. who tells
or the good old times in response to mr.
gent appeals, say ''Yas, Honey, I try to
tell you about dem times Gaze dey is al
ways wild me, but when 1 thinks they is
gone, I'm kin nuver cum back no me. pears
Ike my oil, heart is empty is de aie shell
de little chicken jes lef':" Every chapter of
his loving chronicle is heart tribute To
! the association between master and sorry
ant. which no mir imbued with northern
views or sentiment has ever been able ia
| comprehend. Pleasing in it's simplicity and
Wild in the presentation OF phase OF
American life now completely DESTROYED
the story is a distinct contribution to his.
tory. Its appeal is touching and the set