Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14

important one. and will doubtless inaugu-
| rate period of study of subject that
has been, to great extent, neglected
THE AUTOMOBILIST ABROAD. BY
| Francis Miltoun. author of "Rambles
| in Normandy" etc. With many il
Illustrations from photographs, deco
rations, maps and plans. by Blanche
| McManuS. Boston: l.. c. Page Il Co.
| Washington: Woodward & I.othrop.
| Everything the automobilst can want
to know concerning roads and routes.
hotels and all matters of food en- route,
| besides many other practical matters
which tourists by this most delightful of
methods would be interested in. is given
in this book. The special tours sketched
include the grand tour touring in
! France. tour in the Pyrenees. by Rhone
and Saone. by Seine and Disc. the road
! to the north. the Bath road in Flanders
and Holland. the Rhine road. besides other
! routes mentioned in the appendix. This
is another illustration of the fact that
the Page company has made a field for
itself with its admirable travel books:
THE Van RENssELAERs OF OLD
MANHATTAN: A Romance BY
| Weymer Fay Mills, author OF Caro-
line of Courtlandt Street" etc. IL
| iustrated and decorated by John Rae.
A Stokes Com
pany.
INDIA Van Rensselaer, the heroine of
this delightful romance of old New York
Is one OF the most captivating young
women imaginable. The son of the old
rory mouse who. in face of the triumph
of Washington. remained loyal to his in
aerted TRADITIONS. Is also a gallant figure.
serving perfumes and fal-lals at Gaines
IN hanover Square, he first saw his fate
Inc story OF their love, of the part that
| PRESIDENT Washington played in restoring
the scion OF fine old house to position
and to loyalty to the wing party, is
stirring one. The atmosphere of the
book is inimtabe, and the volume is
thing of beauty.
UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Rv
Elizabeth Robins, author of The
! Magnetic North" etc illustrated
and decorated by John Rae. New
! 1ork: frederick A. Stokes Company.
A delightful romance in which the
/ sparkle of the dialogue vies with that of
the tropical ocean. A charming girl
brightly tells her adventures, on both
sea and land. during journey from
San Francisco to New York by way of
| Panama. Her problem is. How to dis
pose OF handsome but fiery young baron,
| whose ardent manners are untouched by
american conventions. The situation is
both piquant and amusing, and the char
| acterS are most delightful
THE CONGO AND COASTS OF AFRICA.
BY Richard Harding Davis, FRGS:
author of Soldiers of Fortune" etc.
| illustrations from photographs by
the author and others New York:
| Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
| The opinions of so keen an observer as
/ ax-ic
portance in an analysis of conditions in
! the country toward which the civilized
world is looking today with a newly
awakened horror That the rumors of
| atrocities in the Congo under the admin
| lstration of King Leopold have not peen
| exaggerated will be the verdict of every
one who reads this book. In addition to
MS personal observations of the cruel..es
practiced upon the native hunters of red
! rubber the author has recorded the tes-
| timony of the Europeans who have been
associated with the work in various ca
pacities. The whole makes a convincing
| arrangement of the cynical SelfiShneSs of
Leopolds policy. More than that how
ever, Mr.. Davis story as would have peen
expected, is full of color and incident and
graphic description.
UNDER THE CRUST. BY Thomas Mel
son Page. Illustrated. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
! toH woodward ~ LOtnrOp,
Mr.. Page has not confined himself to
the field of southern life which he has
made so satisfactorily his own in this
| latest collection of short stories. New
| England and the west furnish setting and
atmosphere. AS the title signifies, the
| stories explore below the. crust of HUI
man lives and show the deeper motives
| the hidden feelings. These are some of the
I ha 1rt ion. rt1,-
are full of the sweetness and sympathy
for which his name has become synony-
nous.
THE ROAD. By Jack London, author
of The Call of the Wild" etc. IL
Illustrated. New York: The MacmiI-
Ian Company. Washngton: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
Every once in while Jack London
| says, "in newspapers, magazines and bio
graphical dictionaries, l run upon sketches
OF my life, wherein, deicately phrased
| learn that it was in order to study
sociology that l became tramp. That
Is nice and thoughtful of the biograpners.
| but it is inaccurate. I became tramp
| we'll, because of the life that was in me-
| of the wander-luSt in my blood that would
not let me rest
| The reading world is the richer because
| the author had both wander-lust and the
power of making his experiences live
again before staid people who have moth
| ing but vaguely remembered cravings for
the road when the sun is vagrantly
1 shining on one of the first days of spring.
kThe story is both interesting. as it was
bound to be. and Significant as the best
kind of an analysis of a class for Loboes
! as class are not able to tell of the
reason for the impulse to wander that is
| in their blood, or to communicate the
charms of vagrancy. All of this Jack
| London has been able - co. He tells of
the conventions of trampdom. its methods.
it's joys and sufferings. His hobo epic
| has the greatest value, because it is the
result of phase of his own nature rather
than the record of carefully compiled
sociological notes.
NOISES AND LICHENS: Popular
| Guide to the identification and Study
| of Our Commoner Moses and Lii
! chens, Their Uses and Methods of
| Preserving. By Nina L. Marshall
| author of The Mushroom BOOK"
| Sixteen plates in color. etc. New
| York: Doubleday, Page & co.
| A valuable and much-needed book, the
first adequate and popular work on the
subject. 1t will do much to encourage
the desire for more intimate knowledge
/ Of those beautiful srowths which every
/ where greet the native lover. ProfusaIy
/ and discriminatory illus trated the book
| is a treasury of complete information.
THE POLITICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM