Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-27

literary excellence. this work Is invaluable
in the freshness with which It reproduces
the early conditions-the explorers first I'M
pressions Of the new country. the primitive
customs of the aborigines and the plans and
achievements of the man himself.
PERSIA PAST AND PRESENT, Look
of Travel and Research, with more
than Two Hundred Illustrations and a
Map BY A. v. Williams jackson, pro-
fessor OF Indo-Iranian languages New
York: The Macmillan Company. WASH
ington: Brentano's.
Professor A. V. Williams Jackson's Per
sia Past and Present s perhaps the most
important work in this field yet accom-
plished by American scholar. As pro-
fessor of Indo-Iranian languages In Column
bia University, Professor Jackson has won
recognition an authority on Persian his
tory and archaeology. while he has gained
a large personal following as one of the
most popular of public lecturers on his
torical and literary subjects. His book.
while it aims at the highest degree of
scholarly accuracy, Is also an eminently
readable description of Persia as it is today.
1t records what the author actually saw,
and is illustrated with more than hun
dred photographs which he himself took
on his recent tour of the country. Authori-
tative in its treatment, the charm Of pre-
sentation in both style and Illustration
makes the book appeal to both scholarly
and general appreciation.
MONTLIvET. BY Alice Prescott Smith.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
This Is a capital story of adventure in the
days preceding the French and Indian war.
The scene is the wilderness which covered
the country about the Great Lakes, CENTER
ing at what Is now Mackinaw.
Montlivet. the hero. is the originator Of q
league between the French and the Indians.
He is patriotic. wise, magnetic. chivalrous.
Inc series of events which begins with his
escape with the charming English prisoner
and ends-after hourly danger-in a double
victory holds the attention of the reader
breathleSsly. Armand de Montltvet is gal
liant figure and the woman" quite as gal
liant an enemy.
THE INCUBATOR BABY. By Ellis Par
ker Butler. author Of pigs Is Pigs"
&c. illustrated by May Wilson Pres
ton. New York and London: Funk &
Wagnalls Company.
The humorous side Of modern scientific"
methods of baby culture Is deliciously en-
phasized by Mr.. Butler in 1.-THE Incubator
Baby" The patfros of the loneliness which
may assall even a properly steriHzed and
antiseptic infant is delicately suggested.
Considered seriously-if one can be sufi
for a return to natural grandmother
methods. Fortunately 1t Is quite possible to
do nothing more conscientious than to laugh
with Mr.. Butler at the humors of little Miss
Marjorie Fielding and her grown-up reia-
tives.
THE HAPPY FAMILY: By George
Hodges, Dean Of the Episcopal fheo-
logical School. Cambridge. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowel1.
A wise and practical little treatise Is this
| in which Dean Hodges discourses on 1.-THE
| business of being a wife and 1.-The business
of being a father" 1t strikes straight at
the weaknesses OF everyday humanity,
startles with its insight and is full Of pleas
ant hunor. 1t is imposs1DIe not to quote:
THE little things in married life are very
| large. Cheerfulness. for example. without
which people cannot ave together, Is not
| mentioned even in the BeatitudeS.
| Blessed are they who have good manners
even at home. Blessed are all considerable
| thoughtful. obliging and agreeable people;
| blessed are they who have a sense of HUI
NOR for they shall inherit the earth.
| The business Of the father does not consist
| In setting hts son a lettering example
| PUTTING THE MOST INTO LIFE. By
| Booker T. Washington. author ot Up
From Slavery" New York: Thomas
P. Crowell & Co.
Like all Of Mr.. Washingtons utterances
| from the pulpit as well as through the
press this little collection Of addresses put
| into literary form is full OF practical Of
fectiveness Primarily intended for his own
students at Tuskegee they deserve to have
a larger audience with his race. as a whole
as we'll as with those who sympathtZe with
| a brave fight against discouraging condi-
lions. The last article "On Making Our
| Race Life Count in the Life of the Nation"
| sounds his most distinctive and his highest
10 ovvn|sN fn1 in ~ "
expressive English.
| GETTYSBURG AND LINCOLN. The Bat
tie, the Cemetery and the National
Park. BY Henry Sweetser burrage,
| Brevet Major, U. S. Vols. Illustrated
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Mr.. Burrage has collected together in one
| volume the history of this greatest of bat
| ties, the circumstances Of its dedication as
| q national cemetery and its later reserva-
| ton as a national park. That which will
perhaps most quickly touch the sympathles
| of his readers is the account of Lincoln
| Gettysburg Grafton with exhaustive re-
| search into the circumstances Of Its deliv-
| cry. The book will prove OF interest to
! students OF our history.
| GERONIMO's STORY OF HIS LIFE.
Taken Down and Edited by 8. NJ. Oar
rett, superintendent OF education. Law
ton, Oklahoma-New York: DuMeld q
Co.
| The appeal of this exceptional autobiogra-
| ply begins at the dedication. which saya'
| Because he has given me permission to
| tell my story: because he has read that
story and knows try to speak the truth;
| because I believe that he Is fair-minded and
will cause my people to receive justice In
| the future. and because he Is the chief of a
| great people, 1 dedicate this story OF my
| life to Theodore Roosevelt, President Of the
! United States"
The attempt is made to present properly
| the Indians cause to permit chief to
the Indians cause. to appoint a chief to
| state the reasons that impelled him to op-
| pose the civilization and the laws Of the
| land. And it must be confessed the appeal
| to reason and justice is retained through
| the book to the time when the old chief
| becomes prisoner of war. There Is IN
cluded store Of information regarding
| vanishing types
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