Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23

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many successful forgerles. In the second
OF the various kinds Of paintings-fgure
paintings. portraits. genre paintings, land
scapes and marines and paintings of ami
mails. The chapters are Illustrated by
thirty-nine reproductions of famous pictures
representing many different periods from
Ghirlandajo's Last Supper" to Winslow
Homers Moonlight on the Maine Coast"
The book contains information which can
be found nowhere else in convenient form.
THE wHIRLWIND. a Tale of Rural
England By Eden Phillpotts. New
York: Mcclure, Phillips & Co. Wash
fngton: Woodward & Lothrop.
A tale of human emotions, of love and
hate, passion and revenge. not to be read
lightly, or fragmentarily or to be laid aside
at will A chronicle that lies close to the
soil and it's people. The wild wind from
the gorges of Lyd ruff1es the printed page
and the ink blurs meath The beat of Dart
moor's sodden rain. The book people are
clumsy. natural. They tread clumsily the
narrative way. uncouth primitive. their
speech hard. consonantic, peppered with
rough colloQuiSms, and framed III the crude
and ancient dialect of the Moor. They
drink their bitter beer with noisy gulping.
and eat meat. rare and much of 1t, to feed
They are human, unrefined. Behind their
gentle eyes, and deep within. sleep the fires
of the destroying passion that bides in
those who are born to the open.
Now and then a touch of humor In the
chronicle, a touch infrequent, unconscious.
pitiful. The rest is the serious business of
life, heavy understanding labor and deep,
dreamless, log-like slumber. And through
this homely warp and wool runs cunningly
interviewer, the inevitable scarlet thread
of sin.
A strong story, in truth, plodding along
the byways to a logical conclusion. Eden
Phillpotts lay prone on the turned earth
when he wrote 1t.
PROBLEMS OF THE PANAMA CANAL,
including Climatology of the 1sthmus,
Physics and Hydraulics Of the River
Chagres, Cut at the Continental
Divide and Discussion of Plans for
1880 to date. BY Brig. Gen. Henry L.
Abbott. L. S. A. retired. New York,
the Macmillan Co.; Washington,
Woodward & Lothrop
A new edition of Gen. Henry L. Abbot's
Problems of the Panama Canal" issued
by the Macmillan Company. brings this i'm
portant book as nearly up to the present
date as possible. Gen. Abbot's book re-
ceived recognition on it's publication as the
most important work on canal history and
canal conditions. and the first edition was
almost Immediately exhausted. The
changes made in this new edition include
discussion of the system of construction
by contract, and history of what has been
actually accomplished up to the present
time. There are full details of the recent
fiooi and number of new Illustrations
from photographs. In addition to its in
f.. general reader the hook Is
indispensable to the engineer who wishes
to be informed as to the problems involved
in canal construction.
THE STORY OF BAWN. BY Katharine
lyman, author of The Dear Irish
Girl" Chicago: a. c. McClurg & Co.
This is a pleasant and appealing story of
an attractive little Irish gentlewoman and
of the various troubles that beset her.
There has been disgrace and tragedy at
Aghadoe Abbey, and it is threatened with
further disaster which pretty Bawn alone
can avert. Her threatened sacrifice is
made unnecessary only at the last moment.
The heir comes to his own again and hap
piness reigns at Castle Clody, at the abbey
and at Brosna. Miss lyman gives an at
tractive picture of the Irish gentry who
are endeavoring to aCapt themselves to
modern conditions and bring prosperity to
their tenants and to their own impoverished
estates.
A BATH IN AN ENGLISH TUB. By
Charles Battell Loomis, author of
Minerals Manoeuvres," &C. Illus
trated by Robert A. Graef. New York:
A. S. Barnes & Co
A collection of short stories on English
life that have been previously published.
They have not improved at the collecting.
and it is only fair to say that they have
not become any worse. There are people
who think that Mr.. LOOMS is screamingly
funny, and those who do Will undoubtedly
be entertained by the Bath and other
essays on London and rural England.
There's one thing may be said about Mr..
Loomis which is very much to his credit
He lays his points of humor with the aban-
don Of an accomplished bricklayer. Only,
some people don't like brick structures.
LETTERS TIERS IT r. By H%sert
Eyes Of man a"h New Y York; W Mtche aa
Kennerley.
This book, which created lot of talk in
London is by Hubert Bland, who is we'll
known contributor to the London papers and
is the husband of the popular novelist, e.
Nesbit.'' 1t Is to their daughter Rosa
mund that these letters were written. The
intellectual interchanges between father
and daughter are more intimate and frank
than is usual in that relation. and refer
to those problems which present themselves
inevitably to an intelligent girl of eighteen
The point of view is unconventional but
it is the one held by most modern men who
think. AS one of the closing letters has
Eyes, the man will do 1t is evident that
story is involved in the letters, and it is
good one.
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; the Wild
Duck. The collected works of Hendrix
Ibsen. Copyright edition. volume
VIII. With Introductions by William
Archer. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons.
An additional volume to the Scribner Sc
ries is another step in the publication of
notable edition of Ibsen's works. When
finished 1t will have the distinction of being
the only complete English edition. The
TRANSACTIONS of the plays were made by
William Archer, whose versions were ap-
proved by sfhe poet himself. The volumes
have all been thoroughly revised and re-
edited for this edition by Mr. Archer, who
has also written for each of them new
introduction. partly biographical and partly
critical. The publication in recent years of
letters and documents relating to Ibsen and
his plays has made it possible to give more
fnlIy than ever before the circumstances