Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-25
A WINGED VICTORY. BY RIM Lovett.
New York: Duffield & Co.

comradeship between men and women. Its
co-educatsonal universities, 1t has attracted
many of the best writers. This attest
novel, a really noble piece of fiction, is It's
exponent. The record of the development OF
Dora Glenn, strong in her essentially wom-
anly traits. is tribute to the best possibili-
ties of the American woman. just as that
of her sister Linda is an admission of some
of the worst. The position that Dora holds
throughout her history, the place that she
holds in the lives of the two men who love
her, is Something that 1t would be impos-
sible for a European to comprehend, any
more than he would understand the fear
less innocence and the self-government OF
the young men and women at the univer-
sity. "A Winged Victory Is, moreover,
strong, moving, human story.
PLANT BREEDING: Comments on the
Experiments of Nilsson and Burbank.
By Hugo De Vries, professor OF bot
any in the University of Amsterdam.
Illustrated. Chicago: The Open Court
Publishing Company.
scientific book in simple language
of special value to botanists. horticultur-
lists and farmers.
Under the influence of the work of Nils
son. Burbank, and others says the au-
thor's preface, 'the principle of selection
has, of late, changed it's meaning in prac-
tice in the same sense in which 1t is chang
ing its significance in science by the adop-
ton of the theory of an origin of species
by means of sudden mutations. The method
of slow improvement of agricultural varte-
ties by repeated selection is losing Its re-
liability and is being supplanted by the dis
covery of the high practical value OF the
elementary species, which may be isolated
by single choice. The appreciation or TINS
principle will, no doubt soon change the
whole aspect of agricultural breeding.
Capitalization is the scientific and arbi-
trary combination of definite characters. 1t
does not produce new unit-characters' IL Is
only the combination of such that are new.
From this point of view the results OF Bur
bank and others wholly agree with the
theory of mutation, which is founded on
the principle of the unit-characters.
This far-reaching agreement petween
science and practice is to become basis
for the further development of practical
breeding as well as for the doctrine OF
evolution. To give proof of this assertion
is the main aim Of these essays.
THE LORDS OF THE GHOsTLAND, A
History of the Ideal. BY Edgar Saltus.
New York: Mitchell kennerley.
Under this effective title Mr.. Saltus has
collected characterizations of the various
deities which, since earliest historical an
tiquity, man has worshiped. He takes up
In order Brahma of India, Ormuzd OF the
Zarathustrian religion of Persia. Amon-Ra
of Egypt, Bel-Mardu Of Assyria. Jehova OF
the Jews, Zeus of the Greeks. Jupiter OF
the Romans, and concludes with discus
son of Christianity. Just what fatality 1t
1t is which leads Mr.. Saltus. the most frivo-
lous and spectacular of artisans. to haunt
the realms of abstract speculation, as ne
has been doing lately, 1t Is difficult to deter
mine With some traces of the author 9
characteristic cleverness of phrase, In gen.
eral the book is little more than q pracucai
and simple compendium or information
about the external phases Of these religious
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CASE, The
Experiences of NJ. F. Goron, ex-Chief
of the Paris Detective Police. Edited
by Albert Keyser. illustrated Phila,
delphfa: ]. B. Lippincott Company
This book Is billed as a collection OF
true detective stories." by reputed ex-
chief Of Paris detectives. The translation
is somewhat free, as witness the use OF
'.You bet" and other American and Eng
lish colloquialisms. and, according TO the
editor" is the result of patient coliabora-
ton. He says that getting hoid OF hi tnick a
Ieather-bound volume, Goron said: ihs Is
my diary" :.
Your diary. and you never thought OF
publishing It? $500,
The next morning they conHSenceo WORK,
and the book Is the result.
ACKROYD OF THE FACULTY. BY
Anna Chaplin Ray, author OF Hears
Brown E. Co.
novel of life in one of the larger
American universities, embodying study
of social maladjustment. intellectual
yigor brings the hero, born of the masses
and wholly loyal to his kin. into close con-
tact with a social class for whose lie ne
had had no previous training. The book
seeks to show the effect OF the conscious
ness of being an entire misfit upon man
too proudly sensitive , to d modnry oy one
Like all of Miss Rays stories, the BOOK
is distinguished by bright. entertaining
dialogue.
DUI, CIBEL,A Tale of Old Salem. BY
Henry Peterson, author OF Pemoerton,
or One Hundred Years Ago" Illustra-
lions by Howard Pyle. Philaoeiphia'
The John c. Winston Company.
The terrors of the Salem witchcraft mad
ness form the framework of Mr.. Peter
sons story. In the peril of the heroine, ac-
cused, from motives of jealousy, by one
of the circle of young girls who made the
charges, it is shown how almost impos-
sible 1t was for any one suspected OF
witchcraft to escape. A curious feature OF
the volume is the use OF some illustrations
of Howard Pyle, which We're usea In
recent issue of one of the magazines 10
illustrate quite another story.
THE CAVE MAN. BY John Corbin. New
York: ID. Appleton & Co.
The novel whose fortunes turn upon the
operations of "high finance is a feature
of the times. In this case 1t is an enormous
motor trust which constitutes the octopus.
There are in, the story, the good and the
bad .financier and the weak one, and pair
of attractive girls to distribute the faurels
at the end.
THE UNSEEN JURY, A Novel. By Ed
ward Clary Root author of Hunting
ton, Jr" With illustrations by Phil
lipps Ward. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company.
The events leading UP to a murder trial
and eliminating in it furnish the author
of 1.-THE Unseen Jury with dramatic eff
fects. That the lawyer for the defense is
trying to save his own rival, and that he
believes success to mean the loss of the
girl he loves is one of the strong features
of the story. There is series of unex-
pected developments which ends only with
the book.
THE MORNING GLORY CLUB. BY
George A. Kyle. With frontispiece
in colors by Arthur o. scott. Boston:
L. c. Page & Co. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.