Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-28
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Zuyder Zee can be obtained from a single
book. The people. men, women and chill
dren: their occupations and pastimes,
their land Of canals and level fields. their
old-world houses and historic institutions.
heir art and color are so skillfully select
d and suggested that the reader feels
himself upon an intimate journey.
AMERICAS INSULAR POSSESSIONS.
By c. H. ForbeS-Lindsay author of
The Philippines" etc. In Two Vol
umes. illustrated. Philadelphia: The
John c. Winston Company.
In this exhaustive treatment of "Ameri-
cas- Insular Possessions the Philippine
Islands have been accorded a separate
volume, Vol. II. Volume I includes the
Great Antilles, Porto Rico. Guam, Hawaii,
A disproportionate amount of space has
been accorded to Guam, because there is
nj popular account of that little island
extant. The reputation of the author
is borne out in the tnoroughness with
which he has developed his subject. The
Illustrations are exceptionally interesting
THE ART OF THE PRADO, n Survey
of the Contents of the Gallery. to-
gether with Detailed Criticisms of
It's Masterpieces and Biographical
Sketches of the Famous Painters
Who Produced Them. BY Z. S. Rick
etts. illustrated. Boston: l.. e. Page
& Co. Washington: Brentano's.
Owing to the influence of the art-loving
Spanish kings. from Ferdinand II to Phil
ip V. the Prado is peculiarly rich in ex-
amples of the great native artists. While
Rubens, Van Dyke, Titan. Vatican and
other foreign painters are well represent
ed the glory of the collection is the mas
terpieces of Velasquez and Murillo.
AUSTRIAN DRAMA. BY Gustav
Pollak New York: Dodd. Mead &
Co Washington: Brentano's
In this volume on Franz Grillparzer
and the Austrian Drama" Mr.. Pollak
presents the first comprehensive biogra-
ply and critical estimate of the great
Vienna dramatist in the English Ian
guage. Grillparzer's masterworks. with the
exception of 'Sappho''-which Byron, in
1921, spoke of as superb and sublime
have to this day been inaccessible to Eng
lish readers. Mr.. Pollak has in his vol
ume given copious metrical translations
from nearly all of Grillparzer's plays, and
he has, in his narrative of the poets life,
thrown a vivid light on the social, poll
cal and literary conditions of Austria dur
ing the Metternich regime. whose perse-
cutions embittered Grillparzer's youth
and manhood. We have in Mr.. Pollak' S
pages the Iecital Of the poets contact with
Metternich himself. with the Emperor
Francis, with Goethe. Schubert and Beeth-
oven. with Heine, Rossini and other celeb
rites. The story of his lifelong friendship
for Katharine Frohlich is one of the most
interesting and touching love episodes in
literary history.
In his chapter on Ferdinand Raimund
and Ludwig Anzengruber. Mr.. Pollak in
PRODUCES two dramatic poets of peculiar
charm to English audiences. Here. too. he
has in his metrical and prose TRANSACTIONS
touched upon virgin soil.
Mr.. Pollak, himself a Viennese by
birth, has been lifelong student of the
literature and political history of his ma
tive land.
THE COURAGE OF BLACKBURN
BLAIR. BY Eleanor Talbot Kinkead,
author of THE Invisible Bond" New
York: Moffat, Yard & Co.
This novel deals with life in Kentucky
at the time of the Goebel tragedy. 1t Is
a love story of much charm. Its action
flows from the false and unrelenting
public sentiment which demands that a
man stand ever ready to take the protec-
ton of his life and honor into his own
hands. questioning the courage of one
who will not fight upon certain proVoca-
ton, no matter what the circumstances.
The scene is laid in the Bluegrass region,
In and about the old town of Lexington.
OUR COUNTRY HOUSE; How We
Transformed a Wisconsin Woodland
By Frances Kinsley Hutchinson.
With nearly two hundred 1llustra-
lions from Photographs by the Au-
thor. Chicago: A. c. McClurS & Co.
This book is not as the title would sug-
gest, another volume of advice to those
who contemplate building in the rural
districts, but is a most interesting, al
most idyllic, narration of the experiences
of a nature-loving couple in the creation
of a charming estate. Two people with
an Unborn love for the things that grow
blessed with enthusiasm ana sufficient
of this worlds goods to carry out their
ideals plan and build beautiful home
in the midst of virgin forest by the
side of a Wisconsin lake. The execution
and accomplishment of their joyous eff
forts Is charmingly and instructively re-
corded in word and picture IN this attract
i've volume which is at once book of
CHEEKY entertainment for the tired city