Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-12
- %B9sok1 =
WRITERS

is now widely known as a writer Of fiction
and playwright. She married Mr.. Regi-
maid W. Craigie, but Is best recognized by
her pen name of John Oliver Hobbies. Her
fathers rscollections of her childhood are
perhaps the most entertaining feature of his
own work.
THE SCHOLARS DAUGHTER. BY Be
atrtce Harraden, author of Ships
That Pass in the Night" &C.. Fronts
piece by Charlotte Weber Dftzler and
Decorations by John Rae. New York:
Dodd, Mead & Co. Washington: Bren-
tano's.
Miss Harraden writes Just infrequently
enough to whet the appetite of her admirers
for more. She chooses her themes judi
ciousiy and does not attempt to set pace.
1t is now thirteen years since ships That
Pass in the Night" aroused keen interest
In both England and the United States and
three years since Katharine Frensham''
appeared. Now she presents an engaging
character in Geraldine Grant. daughter of
photographer who is taking plenty of time
and spending all his means In the produc-
ton of dictionary that Is to establish the
language once for all upon a firm basis.
After twelve years he and his three secre-
taries have evolved the volume which dis
poses of the first letter of the alphabet
Prof. Grant wants Geraldine to become
scholar and to devote her life to the die
tionary. She has different views. She has
been carefully educated but has touched
the world sufficiently TO acquire taste for
social relations. Her father has sedulously
kept her from association with women. All
his servants are men. Yet marriage is
furthest from his thought for his daughter
W men a young man calls to tell him of a
loco NV fnf% Ill
man who made a small fortune in Australia
the photographer has no notion that Geral-
dine may fall In love with him, but she
promptly does SO, and then comes a new
complication. A woman wants to inspect
the famous oak-paneled library and an
actress at that. He hates actresses above
all other women. But the woman comes
ana there Is a denouement which brings the
reader up with a thrill. Miss Harraden
manages her lights and shades artisticaIly
and tells story which. while not to be
classed as equal to her first great success is
nevertheless a delightful bit of fiction. and
one that will win a host of readers
THE EVASION. BY Eugenia Brooks
rockingham, author OF THE Turn of
the Road" Boston: Houghton, Mifflfn
q Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
Had Dick Copeland been brave enough to
clear hlmself OF the charge against him-a
charge so monstrous that not one man in
ten Thousand would have borne It undened
-'hefe would have been no complication
ana probably no story. Dick being the
thousand and first man, the story follows
II Is tale of high ideals on the part Of
one young man and extremely low ideals
on the part of another. Dick Copeland is
visionary who thinks to reform social
conditions by employing his own large for
tune FOR the common veal of his en-
pIoyes. He has the usual troubles of the
well-meantng but misunderstood reformer
meanwhile losing the woman he loves be-
cause ne has stuck to foolish conception
OF honor between men. Miss rockingham
has written strongly of the frfvolities of
nigh society and the degradation In the
under world, and some of her Characters
are convincing. But being based upon the
rare exception, the plot whole is
hardly satisfactory
sANDPEEP. BY Sara E. Boggs. Illus
trated by May Bartlett. Boston: Lit
tie, Brown Il Co.
AT first the somewhat classical style Of
Sandpeep as she writes In her diary-al-
ways difficult medium of narration-tars
on the readers senses of the probabilities,
sandpeep being the daughter of a down
east fisherman, whose education has been
extremely limited. She has had. to be
sure. the advantage of association with a.
scholarly man who spent some months at
the cottage for the benefit of his health.
After few chapters the stranseness dis
appears, and Sandpeep is in the midst of
a story OF steadily increasing interest An
ar OF mystery pervades the place where
she goes TO serve as governess to a peculiar
nttle BOY. An unhappy marriage on the
part OF the chlld'S father has led to COM
plications and Sandpeep plays an imYor-
tant part in the game. The author has in
vested her characters with both dignity
and comedy and has worked out a romance
of exceptional interest.
THE MAYOR OF WARWICK. BY Her
bert M. Hopkins, author of The
flsnIihs Blshop. F'rontisptece in color
by Henry Hutt- Boston: Houghton.
Miff1tn & Co. Washington: Woodward
d Lothrop.
With the fine discrimination Of one who
has lived the life. Mr.. Hopkins has caught
the spirit Of the small New England CITY
which boasts of a church college and has
presented a bit Of fiction that will stick in
the memory. The Mayor of Warwick, ts a
young lrishman, who has been profess
sional base ball player in summer and q
trolley conductor in winter. He has aroused
the interest of the daughter of the bishop
resident at Warwick, the real power In the
college. Miss Felicity Wycliffe is a rare
combination of aristocrat and socialist. con-
venuonal and unconventional, a peculiarly
complex character, Fascinating to the reader
as she must have been to the men who met
and loved her. Into this placid town comes
young western professor of mathematics
and his affections and activities stir up
trouble which does not end until the last
page is turned and even then the end is
only prospective. Mayor Emmett Is a man
to win admiration, considering his lmita-
lions. He ought to develop far In the
days following the tale which Mr. Hopkins
has told so wildly and appealingly.
HUMANICULTURE. By Hubert Higgins,
formerly demonstration of anatomy at
the University of Cambridge England
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany.
A few years ago citizen OF this coun-
try undertook to cure himself of certain
physical ills which he attributed to wrong
eating. He developed a system of nutri-
ton. which was founded largely upon the
theory that perfect mastication of the food
Is essential to the proper sustenance of
life. This system has come to be known
as "Fletcherism," from the name OF its
prepayment. DIR. Higgins devotes consider
able space in the present volume to a con-
gideration Of F1etcherfsm, which Is thus
expressed by Mr. Fletcher himself IF
you eat only when you have an earned
appettte. TnaSticate your food thoronp hIy