Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-26
.,osEpu JEFFERsON; "reminiscences Of

JOSEPH JEFFERSON; "reminiscences OF
a Fellow Player BY Francis Wilson.
Illustrated. New York: Charles Serb
ner's Sons. Washington: Woodward q
Lothrop.
A small boy who had just been taken to
zee Rip Van Wrinkle told his teacher In an
swer to a question in American history that
Joseph Jefferson wrote the Declaration or
Independence. 1t was possibly this same
sort OF boy who saw Joseph Jefferson
standing on the corner of 23d street and
9th avenue in New York one day eating
Malaga grapes from paper bag, and who
brushed up against him with the greatest
respect in the world just to come in con-
tact with his idol. AT any rate. that boy
was Francis Wilson, and he always held
Joseph Jefferson in an affectionate esteem.
although he did not personally meet him
until many years afterward. Even them
as Mr. Wilson says. they were not intro
duced. They Just shook hands. They be-
came the warnest friends. And now Mr.
Wilson has become Mr.. Jefferson's biogra-
r,her not in the usual sense Of the term,
not writing the record of his life with PAINS
taking consideration of dates ana sequences
and events but in a reminiscent mooo. II
is the tale of one man love for another
came personally acquain ted they discovered
a congeniality that kept them IN close COM
rntnion until Mr.. Jeffersons death M.
Wilson was a member or the all-stai Sf'9'
OF THE Rivals organized IN 1870 4or q
short tour of the country, the otner neni-
hers being beside Mr.. Jefferson, Nllilan
III. Crane, Robert Taber. Joseph ana y. VI
Holland Nat Goodwin. Mrs John bIS",
Julia Marlowe Taber and FanhE rice ~,
brought him into intimate relations Win
IRE veteran actor and gave him rich ma
terials for the book now IN mana. Mr'
Wilson considers Jefferson's general char-
acteristfcs and then passes on 20 ulScqS-
efnI, nf his work in RIP Van Nlnkle- re
roas o. some length into AS recreations ana
deyotes separate chapters to MIN as rec
turer and as an author. Inc chaPtel VI,
the all-star production or Inc fNaiS
is especially entertaining.
srcb hook. written with all a mans
love for his subject is more VaiuaDle
biography in many cases than more lot
mai presentation of the subject. One gets
hold of the real Joe JEFFERSON through
the medium of Mr.. Wilson'S pages.
THE LIFE OF A STAR. BY Clara Morris,
author of Life the Stage. New
York: Mcclure, Phillips d Co WASH
jngtOn: Woodward K Lothrop,
Having told the story of her dramatic
novitiate in the course of her previous vol
une. Life on the Stage" Miss Morris has
ing IN series of wildly Interesting papers
an account of her experiences as star.
These papers are perhaps of deeper In
tensfty in some respects than the former
series. for some of the illusions of the
Young actress were beginning to disappear
by the time she had attained to stellar
heights and she had begun to touch some
of the phases of stage life which eventually
brought disappointment. This second vol
lne is not quite as biographical In its
character as the first, being broken INTO
episodes dealing with certain famous peo-
pie who Miss Morris met during her ca
reer She writes well in all moods, humor-
ousiy. iOyously and sadly, as the theme
shifts. Her style is that OF one who feels
everything she writes. The woman who mas
portrayed on the stage so many enotioIlal
characters could not fail TO invest her
written portraits Of men and women with
life-lke qualities. Some of those whose
lives touched Miss Morris during her ca
reer as a star were Salvini the elder, Dion
Bloucicault. Marie Seeback-one of the bril-
liant failures of the stage-Presidents Gar
field and Mckinley, Lucius q. c. Lamar.
tubal 4. Early and Henry Bergh. OF the
last named i is interesting to note, Miss
Norris was always a devoted admirer, and
today a faithful follower in the spirit. There
Is no warmer friend of the animal kind
than Clara Morris. These chapters are oc-
casionally mere sketches but always vital
and interesting.
THE INVISIBLE BOND. BY Eleanor Tai
bot Kinkead. New York: Moffatt, Yard
& Co.
A stirring tale Of Kentucky and love, de-
ceit and fidelity TO the ideal of honor. On
the one side. a man and woman who love
each other. but are kept apart for long
time by considerations of duty and devotion
TO a high standard. On the other side
man and a woman to whom the commands
of duty and faith and fidelity are as moth
ing. and whom temptation leads astray into
paths Of wretchedness. Wllh these four
march through the pages handful of sub
ordinate personages. entertatningly out
lined Roger Boiling is true to the type
OF the man OF duty, infexibIe when once
he has seen the path OF righteousness,
even though It may lead him into misery.
His wife is an adventures, subtle, pas
sionate, deceitful TO the last degree She
coils about her victims like a serpent.
vet there lies beneath the surface of her
apparently deliberate wickedness a certain
1mpulsiveness which Is almost sincerity.
She offers an entertaining puzzle in per-
sonality. The story is strongly suggestive.
RED SAUNDERS PETS, and Other Crit
tiers. By Henry Wallace Phillips au-
thor of Red Saunders and Mr.
seraggs;" Illustrated. New York: Nc
Clure, Phillips x Co. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
Red Saunders has many friends and many
humanity and all the brute creation TO his
heart. His pets various and peculiar,
ranging all the way from plain dogs to
snakes and pigs. In these short stories of
the big-hearted fellow and his adventures
in the dry lands of the west the familiar
spirit of the Red saunders OF yore shines
forth and the reader Is drawn on to bursts
OF hilarity which grow In intensity as the
volume wakes and wanes. Some OF Mr..
Phillips best work has been done In these
bits OF fiction.
RECoLLECTIoNs OF THIRTEEN PRES
IDENTS. By John $. Wise. author OF
The End OF An Era" &c Illustrated
New York: Doubleday Page & Co.
Washington: Woodward * Lothrop-
Including jefferson Davis, Mr.. Wise
has been personally acquainted with thir-
teen Presidents, those Of the United States
being John Tyler. Franklin Pierce James
Buchanan, Andrew johnson, Ulysses S.
Grant. Rutherford b. Hayes, James A.
Garfield. Chester A. Arthur. Grover Cleve-
land, Benjamin Harrison. William McKin-
ley and Theodore Roosevelt 1t will be no.
ted that Abraham Lincoln's name does not
appear in this list. That is because during
Lincoln service at the head of the govern
ment Mr. Wise was fighting in the ranks