Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-11

for each of fifty widely distributed cor..-
mon Towering plants; also how they get
their names and how to know them from
the remarkably accurate drawings OF Mr..
Beecroft, a skilled botanist. These are far
superior to photographs for purposes OF
identification from nature and combine
decorative effect with accuracy Each OF
the fifty flowers has page of accurate
botanical description In addition to its
story, and in many cases there Is added
some well-known appropriate poem Thus
the book is suited for varying ages. and
every member OF the family can obtain
profit. The colored plates are of unusual
merit.
HEART MELODIES. Edited By Mary
Allette Aver, editor of Daily Cheer
Year Book" etc Boston: Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Company.
Miss Ayers wide research, excellent
taste and unusual intuition in choosing
| gems of thought in prose and verse that
cheer encourage and uplift have become
known throughout the country. and the
| beautiful third volume of choice selections
| by this gifted woman is sure to be sought
| as book to be kept near at hand by
| those who recognize the value OF minister
| ing to the mind by the noble and gracefully
! expressed thought of others, and who wish
| a worthy and pleasing token for friends at
Easter, holiday season or on any occasion
| for remembrance.
GROVES DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND
MUSICIANS. Edited by ]. A. Fuller
Maitland, MA. F.S.A. In five vol
| umes. Vol III. New York: The Mac
milan Company. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
The revision of Groves Dictionary has
| now proceeded as far as the third of the
| five large volumes. The thoroughness with
which the work has been done. and the
| great Increase in its usefulness, become in
| CT asingly apparent with each succeeding
volume Volume III contains considerably
| more matter of particular interest to Ameri-
cans than either of the preceding volumes.
Perhaps the most important of the articles
! on American subjects are the biographies,
accompanied by portraits, of Edward A.
Mcdowell, John Knowles Paine and Hora-
| Ito Parker, and articles on opera in America
| and American journals of music. The vol
ume opens with Joseph Mas and closes
| with Henry Purcell, and the text. cuts and
Illustrations in general are excellent.
THE BOOK OF VEGETABLES and Gar
den Herbs; A Practical Handbook and
Gardener BY Allen French. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
| This book gives complete directions for
growing all vegetables cultivable in the cli-
| mate Of the northern United States. Besides
| a description of each plant, its habits, value
and use. the book contains detailed cultural
directions, covering the soil. planting dis
tances, times for sowing thinning and
transplanting, fertilizing, picking, winter
protection, renewal. storage and the man
agement Of diseases and pests The direc-
tons are In accordance with the latest
scientific practice There is much in the
/ fOr VII tcl, I'd will In
vain in the ordinary handbooks on garden
| ing; while obscure points of cu..ure, often
necessary to success with particular plant,
are fully covered. The book is a departure
| in yegetable-garden literature. It does not
generaliZe. Leaving the description of gar
| den processes to the general handbooks, 1t
considers the vegetables not in classes but
| individually, according to their Importance.
THE MAYORS WIFE. BY Anna Kath-
arine Green, author of The Woman
in the Above" With illustrations by
| Alice Barber Stephens. Indianapolis:
) The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
The author has departed in this story
somewhat from her characteristic method.
1.-THE Mayors Wife" is not a detective
story, but rather an account of the I'M
yelling of a mystery. The beautiful wife
Of an ambitious man, mayor and candidate
| for governor is threatened with some hid
| den doom. A clever and resourceful wom-
an Is called In by the husband to discover
| the cause of the haunting shadow and to
| help his wife. The story is cleverlv manip-
ulated to suggest all sorts Of complications
mystical or sordid. With the indi resolu-
| ton it is seen that all the clues have been
| pointing to the only reasonable solution
1.-THE Mayors Wife" is admirably con-
| structed to create and maintain an i'm
preston Of suspense and mysterious ter
ror.
THE EPIC OF PARADISE LOST. Twelve
essays by Mariana Woodruff. New
York: G. p. Putnam's Sons. Washing
ton: woodward q Lothrop.
These twelve essays grow out of the idea
| that the epic form is essential for the ex-
pansion in literary art of the theme of the
| origin of evil. The epic background, method
and characterization in Millions great poem
are discussed, and the evolution of the
classic into the Christian epic is traced In
the last essay of the volume, tie conclusion
is reached that in Milton's feeling for nature
lies at once the secret of his epical attitude
and of his lyrical force. Here also lie the
explanation of the power he welded I'm
France and Germany and the source of his
all-pervadng influence in the English lyric
since his day.
| WATER WONDERS EVERY CHILD
SHOULD KNOW. Little Studies of
Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain, by
Jean NJ Thompson. Illustrated from
Photographs by Wilson A. Bentley.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Washington: S. Kann. Sons Co.
This is a most fascinating book. The
author a well-known teacher, tells most in
terestingly what science has discovered re-
! garding these familiar marvels; and the
Photographic illustrations, seldom equaled,
show snow crystals and other water forms
as revealed by the microscope almost in
credible in variety and beauty.
LABOR AND CAPITALS A Letter to a
Labor Friend. By Goodwin Smith,
Del. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
The basis of this little book is a letter
written by Prof. Smith, which received a
warm welcome in some quarters as an at
tempt to mediate between capital and
labor. 1t has been entirely rewritten and
very largely amplifed for its present pub
lication the author having given special
attention in his revision to that portion or
1t which deals with socialism and cognate
theories.