Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-28

| tons are well chosen and reproduced Mr..
| Slauson's paper on curious customs OF the
| past is of an especially suggestive character
consisting of well-handled excerpts from
| the local newspapers of the old days. Mr..
| Bryans paper on the revelations that
| flowed from an F street fire in 1913 brings
| to light chapter in the anti-slavery move
ment which Is of interest and Importance
| to historians.
POEMS OF ITALY, Selections from the
Odes of Giosue Carducci Translated,
with an introduction by nj. W. Arms.
| New York: The Grafton Press.
Translation demands, according to Ro-
setti, that poem in process of passing
from one language to another shall not lose
| its poetry. 1t is not matter, It may be
| inferred merely of informing those who
| are not able to steep themselves in the mel
| ody and suggestion of an original what
| the content affirms or denies, not a pres
| ervation of rhythms. rhymes. forms, but of
retention of spirit and of reproducing in
the newer language the impulses and con-
notatfons of the earlier medium. A good
poem must not In any other language be-
| come lesser poem.
Miss Arms is successful in this subtle art
+, Of reincarnating the lyric emotion of for
| eign master, and the only regret in the
reading of her little volume is that she
! modestly proffers only six poems. She has
| in these translatons so completely evaded,
| or transcribed, the appearance OF transia-
| ton that the student and reader alike must
| trust her scholarship and poetic intention.
| They desire more.
| With a sense of melody capable of show
| ing blank verse lyrical, Miss Arms seldom.
l as so often In previous translationsi of Car
| ducci, drops into the prose of mere knowl-
| edge but retains a spontaneity of phrase
suggesting independent poetic power. Be
| fore the Old Castle of Verona and Mira
1 mar particularly show the foreigner TO De
| In the merciful hands of a poet.
The book Is further attractive by reason
| of an appreciation sketch OF Carducci
| and some keen, critical notes.
| "IF YOUTH BUT KNEW BY Agnes
and Egerton Castle. authors of Rose
| of the World" etc. illustrated by
| Launcelot Speed New York: The Mac
| milan Company. Washington; Bren-
| tanos.
| Jerome Bonaparte is King of Westphalia,
| a realm carved out for him by brother
Napoleon from the remnants of certain
| German principalties, an ''incongruous rag
| torn from the map of the old Germanic en-
pire" Up and down, in and out, wan
| ders a venerable tramp, with violin under
4 arm "Geiger-H Hans" to the children and
| young folks and elders alike, merry COM
| rade and a shrewd philosopher. Geiger-
Hans sees the cracks in the foundation not
only of little brother Jeromes throne, but
| those on which rests the larger and more
| imposing imperial seat OF Napoleon. He
| knows that the day of collapse is coming.
| In the forest lives beautiful child almost
| a woman, heiress to a large property, an Or
| phan and Warded by her raScally uncle
| Geiger- Hans searches for At young man
I for the child-wornan, whom he loves be-
cause of her resemblance to his own dead
| wife, victim of the terror in France. He
| finds such a youth seated on a milestone
hair,
| chaise has broken down. Then begin the
| wanderings of Geiger- Hans and Count Ste
ven of Waldorf Kielmansegg. They are
| led into strange places and comic and sert-
| GUS adventures. They encounter the merry
| Jerome on one of his pleasure jaunts incog-
| nito. They taste the terrors of medieval
| mysteries. They witness the fighting that
betokens the close approach of the end
| of the NapoIeonic episode. They intrigue
and at last the day OF happiness for the
| two lovers dawns and Geiger-Hans departs
/ on his lonely way, his mission performed.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Castle have told a tender,
! dramatic tale with a return to their first
subtlety of treatment. Their Count Steven
| comes into being by sure stages. living
| individuality. But in Geiger-Hans they
| reach the point of yeritable triumph, pro-
| ducing in him a character certain to live
| long in fiction as one of the most appeal
! ing personages ever introduced In the pages
| of a story.
| THE -FOUR MILLION. By o. Henry, au-
! thor of 'Cabbages and Kings" New
| York; Mcclure, Phillips, s, Co. Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
| Not very long ago." said the author in
| a brief predatory note, some one invented
| the assertion that there were only four
! hundred people in New York city who
were really worth noticing. But a wiser
man has arisen-the census taker-and his
| larger estimate of human interest has been
| marking
! little stories of the -Four Million. !"
Mr. Henry's point OF view is such that he
| must inevitably find copy" bEistling out OF