Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-12


nizable in kind by all who have been
abroad with Uncle Johns unbushing kind
IN treatment are all her own. The author
of Susan Clegg has a manner that imme-
diately induces good humor, and the wheels
or Uncle Johns whrlwind ambition ito be
looking at something else" are well lubri-
Gated with Chuckles.
PRINCESSES AND COURT LADIES. Rv
ArVede Barine. author of The Youth
of the La Grande Mademoiselle" Au-
thorized- English Version. New York
G. 2. Putnam's Sens Washington:
woodward & Lothrop.
This very sumptuous volume contains
accounts of the careers of Marie Mancni,
Christina of Sweden, an Arab princess,
the Duchess of Maine the Margarine of
Bayreuth. If the reader ever had the idea
that the lives of ''princesses and court la
dies are to be envie1, his mind is disabused
of the notion. For, warped by too much
power and adulation. or cramped and
starved by the lack of it. in each of these
lives the departure from the normal is a
source of misery. NJ. Barine has analysed
very shrewdly these diverse personalities
and has presented them wildly to the pub
lie. To the usual reader his work must
convey much unwritten and intimate history
or which he was formerly ignorant The eX-
traordinary caprces of Marie Mancini. her
amazing love affair with the young Louis
XIV and her subsequent career are told
with the most compelling interest. as is
also the life of the brilliant. unbalanced,
abnormal Christina. The book is beautifully
bound andaprinted and illustrated with re-
productions of rare old portraits.
4 MAID IN Already. By Ralph Henry
Barbour. author of kitty of the
Roses" With illustrations by Freder-
lex j. Won Rapp Philadelphia: ]. B.
Lippincott Company.
AS the titles indicates. this is the s.ory of
the meeting in Arcady-a perfect Already if
its actual location is in New England-of
the lovers, who, from time immemOrial
have been the proper inhabitants of that
enchanted region. The innocent artfice
with which a most fascinating young wo-
man attracts most willing youth. her re-
morse and shamefaced confession, and the
gallant sweeping away of Scruples by her
ardent lover, are themes proper to be dis
CuSsed under cool shade and to the sound
of running water The story is most
charmingly told and the book is richly and
artistically produced
THE ONE WAY OFT. BY Bettina Won
Hutton author of Our Lady of the
Beeches." With IllGstra tions by Har--
rison Fisher. New York: Dodd Mead
& Co. Washington: Brentanos.
sophisticated and most reprehensibIe
young man, whose sole recommends ton is
wholly illogical lovableness which makes
him irresistible to women. finds that mar
riage IS apparently "the one way out of
his financial difficulties. He offers to be-
stow his heart upon successive and diverse
women, only to be successfully rejected. A
freakiSh turn in the tide brings simultane-
Gus retractons and an acceptance. He has
been debarred by his own code from pro-
posing to the one girl whom he does love,
because she is so young and so innocent as
to be sacred to him. He seeks refuge In
flight. When he has proved utter failure in
making his own way. a chance illogical
as everything that has governed his career,
a golden return from stray past kindness,
takes him back to London. There. after
apparent disappointment. he wins the eX-
Quisite flower of maidenhood of whom he
had despaired. AT which. for no apparent
reason. the reader reioices. AS the author
says, Possibly for the salvation of his
soul, possibly because only such as he, such
as he was could make her happy. At all
counts so it was. and because l like him
| am glad 80 1t will be remarked
that the author is a woman.
BOB HAMPTON OF PLACER. BY RAN
fall Parrish, author of When Wilder
ness Was King" illustrated by Arthur
|. Keller. Chicago: A. c. McClurg & Co.
This is a strong and moving story of
frontier life in the TUs. eliminating in the
tragic story of Clusters last charge. 1t
opens and closes with an Indian massacre.
Between those two events Is the record