Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-20
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
ARTICLES ON WASHINGTON IN
CURRENT PERIODICALS.

CURRENT PERIODICALS.
Hereafter 1t Is proposed regularly to give
in these articles listing the new books added
to the District Public Library notes of the
most important articles on Washington and
Its affairs appearing in current periodicals.
In this first list will be given the most note
worthy articles that have appeared during
the last few months.
The visit of Henry James to Washington
last year resulted in two brilliant, though
not altogether ineligible, articles on Wash
ington, published in the North American
Review for May and June A more recent
visitor to the United States was H. G.
Wells. In the final article of the series
which he published in the Harper's Weekly
Che issue of October 81 he related his i'm
pressions of Washington and of President
Roosevelt. IAN English View Of Washing
tom is the title of Sidney Brooks article
in the Harper's Weekly of August II.
Social Usages at the National Capital
are described by Florence Howe Hall in the
Harpers Bazaar for May, while Washington
society of an early period treated in the
entertaining articles entitled washington
in Jefferson's Time beginning in the Sep
The economic and sociological aspects of
Washington find treatment in Commissioner
H. B. F. Macfarland's article. THE Needs
Of the National Capital" Outlook, June 80;
August 2s;" "The Sanitation Of the
City of Washington" by Ben winslow,
Scientific American, September 1 and sue
in the National Capital" by Clinton R.
Woodruff, World Today for July, and
washington Colored Settlement" by r.
w. Buell., World Today for August. Educa-
tional interests in Washington are treated
by Prof Ossian H. Lang in the current
Forum (October-December) in his article,
The Educational Outlook in which he
discusses the retirement OF DR.. William I.
Harris commissioner of education and
the appointment as his successor of DR.. e.
E. Brown and the appointment of DR.. Will
liam E. Chancellor as superintendent OF
schools. Child Labor at the National Cap
ital'' is treated by DR.. Charles P. NeiH, COM
missioner of labor, in the March number of
the Annals of the American Academy OF
Political and Social Science.
The following is selection from the
books most recently added to the library:
Religion.
coleridse, Il: J. Mother Of the King. cBT-
C673m. o,o
n Book s. St s' in The BOOK Of job
Church History.
Bodley, J. E. G.. The Church in France. DG39-
Maitland, s. R. Reformation in England. DJ45-
Biography.
Brown, P H. George Buchanan and His Times
Campan, j. L. Memories. E-C15ls.
e n.tifslft Pfnl graf v0n The Hat1fsdt Let
Lang. Andrew Sir Walter Scott E-Scossla.
10 7 O. Memoir Times
Ger; John Lamb s.. E lilies f,tc, rr,,a,
the V queen Of II the Bluestociings E-M7ea2
Petit de Julleville, Louis. Joan Of Arc E-J57p.
aSpssssu SJias Let're dAem0ert sur les
Sichel. Edith Life and Letters of Alfred Aim
Walker. Winston. John Calvin. E-Cl37w.
History.
Aters iSa74s History of South America 1854
Breasted, j. ii. A History Of Egypt from the
Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest. FIJI
Canning A. g. Literary influence in British
Davey. Richard. The Pageant of London. F45L-
History from Charles the Great to the Present
pa Thwaites, <. q. The Story of Wisconsin. Feo2-
Wellington, Duke Of The Dispatches. F45es-
Description and Travel:
Conway. Sir William Martin. No Mans Land.
Eagar, N. Six Years at the Russian Court.
Howe, Henry: Historical Collections of yir-
= Jackson, A. v. W. Persia Past and Present.
Moore, Frederick Balkan Trail. G5e, M7ssh:
White, A. s. From Sphinx to Oracle. CTS
Politics and Government.
Coldstream, J. P. Institutions of Austria. HC56-
Flowers. B. o. The New Time. I-F6esn
Lucy. II. W. Balfourian Parliament. K45h-
Spender. j. A. Modern Journal the Diary of
Greville Minor, for the Year of Agitation, 1904
Hygiene.
Freeman, A; G: Crematoria in Great Britain
Nabarro. David Laws of Health. QH-N112l.
Essays.
Couch A. T. Q. From a Cornish Window.
Smith, NJ S. Lang syne Y-Sm55sl
Fine Arts.
~ B b HGo,, A. L. Drawings Of Hans Holbein.
Baldry A. L. Drawings of John NJ. Swan.
Muther, Richard. Francisco de Goya. w1o-
G7s4m.
Practical Arts.
Aughtie, Herbert. Practical Pattern Making.
Hasluck. P. n. ed. Glass Writing, Enclosing
and Fascia Work. WS-H275g
Leather for Libraries. zK-L4s5.
Literary Criticism.
Oliphant, G. F.. Alfred de Musset. ZY39-M977o.
0liphant. Mrs N. Q. Cervantes. ZY40-C33s0.
Oliphant, Mrs. M. o. Moliere. ZY39- M734ot
Paris CASTOR. Madiaeval French Literature.
ZY39-P214m.
French Literature.
La Rochefoucauld Francois Refexions. BOT
L32r.
Mace, Jean. Theater du Petit Chateau Y3sD-
M1l2t.
=. Fiction.
Gordon. Samuel. Strangers at the Gate.
Hobbies, ]. o. School for Saints
Kipling. Rudyard Puck Of Pooks bill.
Lee Vernon. Hauntings, Fantastic Stories.
Reed Myrtle Spinner In the Sun.
Robinson r. e. Out of Bondage.
Smith, A. p. Monflivet.
Spoford, Fl. p. An Inheritance.
Stevenson, B. e. Affairs Of State.
Strannik, Ivan. Shadow OF the House.
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