Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-03

opportunity for humor of which Madame
Jesurin and Professor Van Wart are the
most natural embodiments. Mr.. Taylor
knows what music Is and what Its infiu-
ence may be- and his Judgment upon pro-
fessors, teachers, preachers, club promoters
and others who use electrically heated me-
tallc keyboards and plush-faced keyboards
for acquiring the velvet touch. Is expressed
with epigrammatic point and polish.
THE BELOVED VAGABOND. By William
J. Locke, author of The Morals Of
Marcus Ordeyne," &c. New York: John
Lane Company.
Love plays strange pranks with CASTOR de
Nerac, alias Paragot. First, it caused him
to sacrifice his own affections then to
plunge from the world Of art and success
into that of vagabondage and dissolute liv
ing. Then 1t brings him back into polite
circles, clad in uncomfortable garb and
pressed out of all semblance to his familiar
SELF Then love tricks him again by dis
closing the impossibility of his new rela-
tions, and sends him back into his old
haunts. Finally, his eyes are opened full to
the possibilities Of love greater, and truer,
and richer, though more humble, than that
which has been leading him, like will-o-
the-wisp over rough and through miasmatic
places for. years. Paragot is a contradc
ton, yet consistent. brilliant genius,
though an Unlocking, addressed. intemper-
ate vagabond. Immersed in the mire of low
living, he nevertheless undertakes to train
into an artist and q gentleman London
gamin whom he has bought from drunken
mother. He succeeds. Paragot eventually
succeeds in other lines. masters himself,
discoveries his own possibilities. and be-
comeS-of all thingS-a farmer, a husband
and a father Two women affect his life
Joanna, the beautiful daughter of refined
English parents. and Blanquette. waif of
the highways and byways of France. Blan-
aDd JOapnai
thor never pictured. Asticot, the London
gamin. growing into artist and gentleman
under the tutelage of Paragot. tells the
story pathetically, humorously, dramati-
cally, exposes Paragot In all his disrepu-
table ways. exalts him in his true heroism,
his unselfishness. his eccentricty. He offers
the full-length figure of a hero in rags and
dirt.
THE OPENED SHUTTERS. Novel BY
Clara Louise Burnham. With Fronts
piece by Harrison Fisher. Boston and
New York: Houghton, Miff1in 4 Co.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press
This Is another of Mrs. Burnham's tonic
stories Of the pleasure-land Of the Maine
coast. In 1t the shutters of girls soul
closed through prejudice and f-absorp-
ton, are opened to all good influences. until
she blossoms into beautiful womanhood.
| The story Is absorbing one. and the peo-
pie who live in 1t are graphically presented,
well. 1t Is wholesome tale and smells of
pines and of the salt wind.
TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS. by Ed
ward Everett Hale, author OF The
, Man Without a Country" Illustrated
New York: The Macmillan Company
Washington: Brentano's.
DR.. Hale. despairing that any one will do
anything to fill 1.-The great voids of igrlor-
ance'' about North Dakota, Idaho and even
New England, and believing that while as
science orders, a man should travel him
half-priced convention members from ac-
tually seeing America, sets himself the task
1t must have been a pleasant one, Of max
Ing known their country to his countrymen.
The papers originally published in maya
zines, treat Of each Of the New England
states together with New York and the city
of Washington, and are copiously and
charm!ngly illustrated. There Is In them
as might be expected much more than the
accuracy of a Baedeker or the minutiae Of
an atlas. MY mind" DR.. Haze quotes
"impels me to write on places where 1 have
been and on some of the people whom
have seen In them" And that personal IN
timacy Is the dominant characteristic Of
the volume. 1t is irradiated by the strong
thoroughly masculine temperament OF the
writer, one who has touched shoulders with
those in the lead Of American enterprise
and scholarship. and who has seen and felt
deeply for more than a half century the
have made the nation Not the least at
traction of the book In the rare geniaHtY