Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08

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book human and literary interest that Is
| certain to gain il very large circle or
| general readers hes dos those to whom IL
| is nominally addressed.
THE SONS or THE >EIGNEuR. Ry
lteIen wallace author of The Great
est of These" New York: The Out
ing Publishing Company.
The ever fascinating tale OF the wander
| ing of Prince Charles aftcrward To be King
Charles land the royalist plots for his
restoration has furnished Miss Wallace tho
| central point of her story. The scene is laid
! in the Island of Guernsey. where the tur-
| MOL and unrest of the commonwealth md
an echo. The beautiful widow of a royaIist
| hero finds rest after shipwregk on tho
! island. and afterward prarrics the s., gucur.
! me TWO sons OF the seiEucHr and the lovely
daughter OF the royaliSt are the chief actors
IN story of intrigue, love and hcroism.
| The romance is an interesting one. but il ia
| married often by ohscurities In the text
due-eIther to poor pruofredding or to care
| lesshess OF the authors sentence structure.
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING IN OUR COL
| EEGES. BY Clarence f. Rirdseye.
| New York: The Macmillan Company.
| washington: Woodward u Lothrop.
MI Birdseye. who is an Amherst grad
uate of 1874, has for over five years been
| thoroughly investigating the students
| problem In American colleges from the
| standpoint of the student himself rather
4 than from that of the college authorities
or alumni. He has made a mastery analy-
SIS or the strong and weak points of coll
lege athletics, and shows clearly why what
he calls the one-horse power professional
coach often has so much more influence
with the student body than the fifty-horse-
power faculty, with its archaic marking
| system He also carefully analyzes the
| princeton preceptoral system, the new
| educational methods at the Carnegie TECH
| meal schools at Pittsburg Pa, the report
| VI lhe committee OF the faculty as TO stu
| dent conditions at Harvard and many
| other interesting aspects OF the student
| problem that have never been before SO
sympathetically and clearly examined from
| the students standpoint.
| AT Harvard only per cent of a stu
cents whole year Is spent in the lecture
| or recitation room, and therefore 95 per
cent away from the direct influence of his
| professors. Mr.. Birdseye demonstrates
| that 1t is this time outside of the class room
"hlch dominates the other per cent and
| hence the Students course at college. thar
| IL Is this outside life which TODAY is neg-
lected and that from this neglect largely
| comes the existing dissatisfaction with col
ieee courses His discussion of the stu
| dents home life, distinguished from the
| college community life is entirely novel
| ana unlocks many mysteries as to failures
| IN coliese, appealing most directly to those
parents VINO have disregarded this four-
| year period of their sons home life He
treats TINS college home life not only with
me analytical mind of the trained lawyer,
| pul also with the sympathy of the parent
! who has sent his own children TO COLLEGE
! WI. biruseye SHOWS from the history OF
the earlier colleges their great power in
! training the mental and moral character of
Student
ing Is now lacking in the huge institutions
! ne discusses present college and business
| CONDITIONS, the effect of the Greek letter
!rateInlues upon the college home life or
the students, and offers many suggestions
draWn from his own Investigations for re-
storing a proper training of the individual
! sLuueiit. Inc discussion of the present evils
| OF college, life Is complete and convincing.
| ana evidently made by one who knows his
supJecl thoroughly from the students
standpoint, and knows more than he tells.
ihE T Bird OF TINE. By Mrs. Wilson
ow' New YORK: Mcclure. Phil
Ups " CO. washington: Woodward a,
Lothrop N
"A study OF the feminine from all angles
| and IN all moods. epitome of the woman
OF today-that surely is a theme to attract
all women and some men. The author has
developed her subject by means OF "conver-
| satlons with Egeria" on 1.-THE Woman OF
| t1fty," The Quality of Charm" THE Fem
inlne temperament and like topics There
"a, moreover, the connecting thread of a
| uoupe rove story to give unity to the hook
MRS: woodrow, together with a keenlv an
| aytlcal mind has style which in its clear
ness and fexibility is adapted to the devel-
| opment of the most intricate shades of
| thought She has, moreover a delicate
fancy and distinctly poetic charm
THE TRAINING OF THE HUMAN
| liant. By Luther Burbank. New
| YORK: The Century Company
80 full have the papers and magazines
been the last year or two of details Of
| Luther Burbanks life ard work that many
of the more interesting and i'm. orient facts
| of his aims and his accomplishments are
well known. His new THE Training of tho
Human Plant is the fruit of years or
study, of experimenting, of observation and
of earnest, aspiring thought and work If
is not sensational book, but it is so sue-
gestive and inspiring that it should prove
an epoch making little volume.
Upon Americans, Mr.. Burbank urges rests
the obligation to produce the finest race
ever known-a result easily within their
power If they will follow the teachings of
nature. What these teachings are how
best to follow them is the subject matter
of Mr.. Burbanks book.
There is no such thing in the world
the California plant grower sa.-s earnestly.
predestined child-predestned for heaven or
hell.
There Is not a single desirable attribute
which, lacking in a plant. may not be bred
II - 1t. Choose what Improvement you
wish in flower a fruit or a tree and by
crossing selection, cultivation and r sist-
ence you can fix this desirable trait ir-
revocably. Pick out any trait you want in
a child granted that he is normal child
shall speak of the abnormal later-be it
honesty, fairness. purity, lOvableness in
dustry, thrift, what not. By surround ng
this child with sunshine from the sky and
your own heart by giving ihe closest com
munion with nature. by feeding this child
well-balanCed, nutritious food by giving
it all that is implied in healthful environ
mental influences, and by doin., all in love,
you can thus cultivate in the child and fix
there for all its life all of these traits"
But the book is too rich in meat to make
quotation easy or just-it must be read.
once for its interest, many times for its
wealth of suggestive discussion.
RED RUSSIA. By John Foster Fraser.
With forty-eiSht full-page plates from
photographs. New York: The John