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

Pigs immortal. By the time the methods
4 of Perkins In dealing with mineral water.
| real estate, automobiles. love affairs. cap
| sules. poetry. novels and comic opera are
| completely unfolded the budding advertis-
ing agent, while he may never hope to
emulate the genius OF the great original,
has in hand infallible manual of the
| subtle art of taking In the public. The
joke, which is merry one, is not 80 much
on the method on the populace that de-
| lights to be buncoed. Mr.. Butler is in
| infitable.
THE DIARY OF FORTY-NINER. Ed
tied by Chauncey /. Garfield. New
! York: Morgan Shepard Company.
Elaborate illustrations are said to have
| been prepared from contemporaneous
| sketches for this rather unusual Diary
| but the drawings met a common fate in
| the San Francisco fire. No Illustrations
| however. necessary for volume so
| full of vivid pictures as is this. The story.
| with every possible semblance of verisimili-
| tude presents incidents of personal ex-
| periences with a rapidity and appropriate
| frankness that well portrays the brutal
| passionate days of the gold rush. 1t is
| virile.
| WHO'S WHO, 1907; an Annual Biograph-
| ical Dictionary Fifty ninth Year of
| Issue. London: Adam & Charles Black.
| New York: The Macmillan Company.
| Washington: Brentano's.
| The English edition of Who's Who" ap-
pears this year in it's usual red binding
| Its arrangement of advertisements, index,
| authorizations, royal family, obituary and
biographies is familiar. Occurrences later
| than the Both of September. 1906. are not
| recorded. The tables which at one time
| formed the first part have been deleted
| and with additions are now issued to save
| space for biographies as a separate year
| book.
CHARLESTON, THE PLACE AND THE
PEOPLE. By Mrs. St Julien Ravenel.
| author of Life and Letters of Eliza
| Pinckney" etc. With illustrations by
| Vernon Howe Bailey New York: The
Macmillan Company. Washington: w.
| H. Lowdermilk & Co.
| Few cities in the United States are more
| interesting in their past and picturesque in
| their present than the seaport of South
| Carolina. The romantic charm which has
| always distinguished the aristocratc old
| city, and was especially felt during the first
half of the nineteenth century when the
| wealth and beauty CT the south f1ocked
| there as to a metropolis and pleasure re-
| sort in one has become a tradition which
| brghtens with age. 1t has given material
| to the author of a recent novel which has
| helped to revive general interest in the
| place and the people of old Charleston
! and in the new and vigorous Charleston
| which has lately attracted increasing notice
| as an energetic factor in the prosperity of
1 its part Of the Union.
| In view of this literary and artistic as
| well commercial revival of interest in
\ the city, Mrs. Raveners book is most time
| ly. although its "reminiscences end with the
| surrender of the city at the close of the
civil war. She says she has simply chosen
| from the story of its $50 years such events
as seem to her to have had most to do in
shaping the fortunes of the men who made
| the town or best to illustrate the character
| of their children who have lived in it,
The illustrations are in keeping with the
njaI n no
hooks and corners of the old city, glorified
| by an artists pencil. In addition to these
| sketches many photographs, have been re-
produced as plates illustrating historic parts
| of the town, buildings still in existence and
other interesting features The illustrations
are very charming.
TOLSTOY ON SHAKEsPEARE. a Critical
| Essay on Shakespeare. By Leo Toll
| stoy. Translated by " Tchertkoff and
| l. F. NJ Followed by "Shakespeare's
| Attitude to the Working Classes by
| Ernest Crosby, and a letter from G.
| Bernard Shaw. New York: Funk &
| WagnaHs Company.
| Sincerity is the keynote of the tone which
| Tolstoy takes to Shakespeare, and for that
reason if for no other. his comment would
| be worthy. He says: My disagreement
| with the established opinion about Shake
speare is not the result of an accidental
| frame of mind nor of light-minded atti-
| of many years repeated and insistent en-
deavors to harmonic my own views of
| Shakespeare with those of the established
| amongst all civilized men of the Christian
| world" From his youth to the latest test
| of reading Shakespeare to which he has
| subjected himself in his seventy-fifth year
| the Russian novelist confesSes that mot
| only did I feel delight. but l felt an
| irresistible repulsion and tcdium-" Finally
he concludes: Il believe that shakespeare
| cannot be recognized either as a great
| genius or even an average author.
| Tolstoy after an examination of king
| Lear asserts that any one not under hyp-
| motto suggestion must find the drama ABB
| surd" as 'Pericles, The Tempest,
| ''Cymbeline.'' ''Troilus and Cressida are
'.senseless" The curious course of the
reasoning is entertaining. Shaw.s letter is
| piouant and Crosby'S fairly amateurish.
| The three articles are provocative Of dis
| cussion.
A MAGICIAN FOR ONE DAY. BY Tudor
| jerks With Illustrations by John K.
| Neill Philadelphia: Henry Altemus
| Company.
Mr.. jerks waves a wand and instantly
rare sights begin to formulate themselves
| for the wonderment of children. In his
Magic Wand Series. in which there have
| been The Mage Wand" Romero and
| Julietta" THE Prince and the Dragons
| 'Timothy's Magical Afternoon" and THE
! Rescue Syndicate" the present booklet is
| one of the most compelling for young read
ers. There is nothing more delicious than
a true Jenkensian flight Of fancy.