Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. A System
Of Training for Men Entering Upon
Trade and &c. comms s Ry nario rS
assistant professor. Dartmouth Col.
lege. Boston: Houghton. Mffdfn &
Co. .
This book. with. the rest Of the series
owes its existence to the prizes Offered
by Messrs. Hart, SchafEner & Marx OF
Chicago for studies Of economic and com.
nerciAl subjects. The author won the
| first prize for the year 1905. :
BY NEvA's WATERS. BY Sohn r.
CARING, author Of The Shadow OF
the Gar" Boston: Little. Brown &
A SUPPOSED intrigue in the life OF
Alexander the First, Car OF all the Rus
sias. makes the backbone OF a distinctly
sensational story There IL assassination
and awordplay and wrongly assorted love
affairs, somewhat perfunctorily adjusted
in the end-all the necessary ingredient.
to a romance Of this type. =. -,
FOR MAIsIE. BY Katharine lyman
author of '"The Dear Irish Girl" etc
Chicago: A. c. McClurg &, Co.
For Afaisie'' old Kit Wells makes his
fortune and regulates his hates. and hi
loves. ana .for Maisie'' he and some othe,
oddly matched people CLASP hands In rec.
| onciIiation at the end. The story Is q
| wholesome one and the character Of Kii
| Is strong and convincing. ..
A wOMAN's JOURNEY THROUGH
THE PHILIPPINES. BY Florence
Kimbal1 Russell. author Of Born to
the Blue" etc. Boston, 1. :. Page &
Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop. ,...
The authors journey through the Phil
| ippines was on board cable ship that
linked together the strange lands seen
en- route" Lie on a cable Ship says
Mrs. Russell. would be a lotus-eating
dream were 1t not for the cable. But the
cable, like the Cam-u-el In Mr.. Kipting' 8
Oonts,' is - g -.
"a devil an ostrich an orphan
child in one.'' --s. ..
It may be true that the cable compli-
Gated existence for it's guardians In the
Burnside, but since it led SO bright an
observer and SO clever a narrator as the
islands where the coming Of white peO-
pie was an unprecedented event. the
reader will be grateful for every freakish
kink of the steel rope that meant consult
Is thoroughly charming travel story.
full Of incident and uncommonly. full Of
good stories, told with vividness and
humor.
THE SEVEN AGES OF WASHINGTON.
author Of IL. s. Grant, Bog,
raphy." etc. Illustrated New York:
The Macmillan Company. Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Mr.. Owen Wister's new book, 1.-THE
Seven Ages Of Washington" is in it's own
way quite as remarkable az anything he
has ever done. Although he is known
pre-eminently as novelist. in all his
work it has always been possible to see
the student and the historian. 1.-The Vir-
ginian." for instance. capital story that It
was. had the further merit of being the
most authentic account we have Of the
far west twenty years ago: and no less
an authority than Mr.. James Ford Rhodes
has borne public testimony to the value
Of Lady Baltimore" az q representation
Of conditions In the south since the war.
On the other hand. it may be said that his
latest book is all the better biography for
being as it 30 evidently Is the work Of a
man gifted in psychological analysis and
the depletion Of character. Mr.. Wister's
theme is Washington the man rather than
the soldier or statesman. To many Amer
leans our first President Is little better
than an abstraction. and he probably ap-
pears to majority Of people being Of
rather cold and inaccessible virtue instead
of a man full Of human lmperfections as
wen as human capabilities. Mr.. 'Wister
does not believe In placing his hero on a
pedestal SO high that he Is no longer In
touch with common mortals. From
Washingtons own writings. from anec-
dotes and contemporary records. he has
constructed a picture Of the man as he
was in his everyday life, and has shown
how his achievements were the natural
result OF his Individual character. It is
perhaps not too much to say that ne 10 the
first biographer to make washington. q
wholly human figure, and his portrait Is
SO convincing that one is tempted to call
it final.
The idea Of dividing his work into .seven
periods was happy one, particularly. as
the first period deals with the ancestry OF
Washington and the last one with his
Immortality Between these come the
chapters devoted respectively to child
hood. frontier life. Mount Vernon the
revolution and the presidency. each with
its appropriate and representative illpstra-
large one. but its value is in inverse pro-
portion to its bulk. Here at last Is the
biography which will give the. reader
better conception Of Washington's life
and character than any other single WORK
in existence.
LOVE IS THE SUM OF ALL A Plan
tation Romance BY George Cary
Eggleston, author Of dorothy
south" ETC. Illustrated by Hermann
Heyer. Boston: Lothrop. Lee &
Sheppard Company. washington:
Ballantyne. 80
A plantation romance this Is, as the
caption indicates, but 1t Is southern
plantation under new conditions and with
the new problems to confront. Warren
Rhett, the son of a typical southern
planter, comes back, having made his
way in the business world. to extf,cate
his stepmother from the financial ruin
that confronts her. Having attempted to
bring order out Of the chaos wrought by
irresponsible free negro labor. he. solXes
the problem by importing an organized
band of Italian workmen. This is. not the
only work that this very capable young
man finds to do. But the second problem
relates to the affairs Of lovely. girl
and that makes the romance Of the book.
HIS WIFE. BY Warren Cheney. author
of 1.-The" Challenge" etc. with q
frontispiece. by Frank .E. Schoon-
over. Indianapolis: The Bobbs.M Merrill
Company. .:
There is a strong primitive charm in
"r1is Wife, The men and women in 1t