Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-28

dweller, of suggestive stimulus for those
who dream of some day having their
own country home. large or small. and
of practical value for those who are al
ready working out the same problems
that confronted these two happy laborers.
The keynote of Mrs. Hutchinsons ac-
count IS contained in this single para
graph from Chapter 1:
The woods. the virgin forest. must
never be disturbed: not one brown leaf
should be taken from it's rich covering
not one weak Seeding should be denied
It's growth but just as we found it, in all
Its natural beauty. so it should remain
And so it did remain, much to the bet
terment of everybody and everything
concerned For the wild things of the
forest lived and proSpered as never before
and their human neighbors found in the
natural beauty around them an ever
changing and ever fascinating study.
BOLAX; IMP OR ANGEL WHICH:
BY Mrs. Josephine Culpeper. Balti-
more: John Murphy Company. Wash
ington: Brentano's.
This very charming book will recon-
mend itself at once to a large and general
public because of its humanity and it's
humor. To lesser public. the faithful of
the Catholic Church, it will have a spe-
cial appeal as instinct with the spirit of
that faith and religion without being con-
troversial or pietistic. 1t is the story of
only a boy. an average bOy whose
small life still brings him into associations
that make for evil and good Mrs Gull
pepper Is evidently inspired at once by
maternal devotion and Christian faith.
THE WELDING. By Lafayette Nc
Laws, author of when the Land
Was Young" etc. Boston Little,
Brown & Co.
This is a new novel by a writer whose
southern training and affiliations have af-
forded rather unusual opportunities for
the study of conditions in that section. In
following the career of David Twiggs
Hamilton, the ambitious son of a Georgia
cracker, who receives his education
throuh the generosity of Alexander H.
Stephens, the author deals with many
events of historical interest, and gives in
innate glimpses of such notable men as
Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel
Webster, jefferson Davis, Alexander H.
Stephens, Robert Toombs, President Bu-
chanan. Horace Greeley, John Brown,
Abraham Lincoln, Gen. Robert E. Lee.
William Lloyd Garrison, Gen. U. S. Grant
and Gen. William T. Sherman.
ABE MARTINS ALMANACK. BY Kin
Hubbard With Illustrations by the
Author. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
Abe Martin tends to become maker of
household words. To quote the title page
of his Almanack it contains Timely
Hints to Farmers and Young Women.
Actual Facts About the Moon. Astrologi-
cal Lore. True Explanations of Dreams.
Famous Political Speeches. Rare Philo-
sophical Musings and Much Valuable In
formation Along Many Lines by Such
Notable Minds as Hon. Exhibitor Gale
Fluhart, Constable Newt Plum and his
son-in-law, Pinky Kerr; Tilford Moots,
Niles Turner, Miss Fawn Lippincut, Prof.
Alex. Tansey and Dr. Mopps, esq, to-
gether with hundreds of brand-new cpl
grams by Abe Martin.
The epigrams may be new, but the
friends are old, and with, at least the
genius of their wit we are acquainted.
There is a laugh here for every day OF
the year, and Sundays need not be
solemn.
LIFE IN THE HOMERIC AGE. By
Thomas Day Seymour, Hillhouse
professor of the Greek language and
literature in Yale University. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
DR.. Seymour's work is based upon a care
full study of the Homeric poems and all the
available material on the subject. But
in addition he has made much independent
research. The book is conceived and car
red out in a spirit of thorough scholar
ship. The point of view has been philo-
logical rather than archaeological, the eff
fort having been to discover from the
poets language what was in the poets
mind. 1t is safe to say that no such COM
prehensive attempt has before been made
The book is sparingly but adequately il
Illustrated.
THE CHRISTIAN YEAR OR CHURCH
kALENDAR. New York: The
Church kalendar Company.
The Church Kalendar is now in it's
thirty-second year of publication. 1t was
Bishop Seymour who said: The more
widely the Church Kalendar goes into the
churches and homes of our people the bet
ter. 1t is a teacher the year round" 1t
contains the tables of lessons of Scripture
to be read at morning and evening prayer
throughout the year, together with his
torical facts. ceremonies. 'vestments, or
naments, feasts. fasts, liturgical colors,