Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-03
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| than special. In this paper DR.. Munster
| oerg dwells upon the necessity for broad
| bases OF International consultation, and he
sets forth his reasons for believing that
greater benefits flowed from the congress.
| thus conceived than though the specialists
| had been encouraged TO advance their in
| diyidual doctrines.
Volume one Is devoted. after the matter
| just described to the address of the pres
| ident Dr. Newcomb in opening the con-
| gress, followed by the papers read before
! the six sections of the department OF phil
| osophy and the three sections Of the depart
| ment of mathematics
/ THE DAWN OF A TOMORROW. BY
| Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustrated
| by F. C. Yohn. New York: Charles
| ScFibners Sons.
| in the Gospel according to st. Matthew 1t
| is written, And in all things whatsoever
| We shall ask In prayer. believing, ye shall
receive" Herein lies the inspiration OF Mrs.
| Burnett's powerful story. She presents
/ first the hopelessness. OF a man without
! faith in a higher power. without the solace
| of prayer. He fears he is about to lose his
| mind and, possessing all that goes in the
| material world to make life desirable, he is
| about to destroy himself. The merest
| chance-or is it the guiding thread of the
| higher law?-leads him from the immediate
I
| communion with the lowest dregs of hu-
| mainly IN a London slum. He encounters
a slip of a girl. whose optimism nothing
can destroy, not starvation, pain or sin.
| She Is not enlightened, but the truth Is
| working through her. She brings the de-
! spairing denizen of the upper world into
| contact with thief, young woman of the
streets, a drink-crazed bag and finally
| woman who has been elevated from the
| "A r.
| former in the halls received her inspira-
| ton from a casual visitor to the hospital.
| where she lay bruised. Here is her phil
| losophy:
They comes in different wyes, the an
swers does Bless yer. they don't come In
claps of thunder an streaks of Eighteenth
sometimes yer don't think fer a mint Or
two that they're answers at all. But 1t
| comes to yer in a bit, an yer cart stands
still for joy. An ever since then l Just
| go to me book an arst. P'raps me bein
the low an pore in spirit at the beginnin',
and settin' ere all alone by meself day in
an day out, just thinkin' 1t over-an' arst-
man waitin'-p'aps light was gave me
eos l was in such a little place an In the
dark. But amt pore in spirit now. Lor' .
no, yer can't be when yerve got on'y to
believe An Itherto We ave arst nothin'
in my name; arst therefore that ye may
receive an yer Joy be made full
Then does the man who had expected no
tomorrow begin to see light ahead, and to
have faith in himself. He abandons his
! purpose, and finds that life Is filled with
| chances even for rich man, to find food
for faith.
FOLLY. BY Edith Rickert author of
The Reaper" With frontispiece by
Sigismond De Ivanowski. New York:
The Baker & Taylor Company.
Those who nicknamed Mrs. Florence
Christie Folly were doing better than
they realized, for she was undeniably a
very foolish woman. So foolish, indeed
that It Is difficult to accept her at first as
the novels central figure, SO foolish as
to ALLEVIATE sympathy. which is a bad thing
for heroine in a novel to do. And her
husband seemed foolish too. for allowing
her to pursue her vagaries and fall in love
with minor poet with an incurable dis
ease and follow him of to Spanish cure,
and nurse him through the last stages OF
his illness, mercifully escaping the very
end because the minor poet proved himself
| a bigger man than a poet and went away
to spare her. Perhaps 1t should be laid
down as broad rule that any woman who
falls In love with another man than her
! husband is foolish. It took this Folly a
| long time to recover from her delusion
that happiness was to be found In strange
| places. She came near to finding 1t when
| she gathered up the babies of the slums
and made for them a home in the sweet
| country, where they were transformed
from little skeletons iKSo plump infants.
But she had to wait for final realization
| of her folly, which came at last In the
form OF a heart hunger, which only her
husbands consent to receive her back into
her old place could satisfy. Folly Christie
is a charming woman In some respects,
, | yivacious clever. high spirited and beauti-
| full. But she is an inveterate gambler.
When her own child Is stricken with illness
she determines to guide her steps by its
| eba will IN hnr not
, | If II lives she will stay with Andrew. 1t
dies In Haldane Gore she would have
, found a true mate She enters his life as
| comforter IN the last days to strengthen
his soul His last letter to her, received
!. through her husbands hands after nh
| death, reveals the mans final attainment
of self-mastery.
THE NONCHALANTE; Casual data touch
ing the career of Dixie Billion. Oper-
ettensangerin at Beilmar. BY Stanley
|, Olmsted New York: Henry Holt &
Co. Washington: VIM. Ballantyne &
| Sons.
Mr.. Olmsted presents a bit of fiction
which fully justifies the expectations of his
| friends-of whom he has many in Wash
ington-as to his literary abilities In Dixie
Billion, American musical student in the
German city of Plissestadt, he offers fas-
; chatting character study. Miss Billion has
> peculiar charm OF independence, a spirit
Of Indifferent fondness for adventure. She
is wholly unconventional. but she breaks
| only the letter and not the spirit of the
moral laws 1t matters not to her that by
| starting to elope to Europe with young
Harry Eddinger and then changing her
mind about marriage but sailing neyerthe-
less with him on the same steamer she has
; set in motion a great SNOWFALL of gossip.
She Is a jolly companion. that Is ALL and
she does not care III her mofiyac anp5 oo.,
duct are misconstrued by the rigid follow
ers of the social laws. At Plissestadt she
meets two young Americans, one of whom
5 falls desperately In love with her. Being
the poorer of the two, upon whose hard
work at the university depends his future
success. his infatuation is costly. He
pays the penalty of his wooing of the
; girl in the acquisition of thirst for cog
nae. Later Miss Billion succeeds in her
art. The story is crisply written, with an
epigrammatic quality which gives each
page value. The author writes from an
, evident personal acquaintance with the ar
: tistic atmosphere of the German student