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

ing people so plainly told; never was such
story more interesting and effective in
the telling.
My only aim says the author of this
remarkable work. '''n putting this book
into English is to give the Americans the
means of forming for themselves al I'M
partial opinion of Haiti" 1t is an ade-
quate and noble aip. an homo to the pa
triot-author and to the Americans whom
he would have I-now his country, her
idea and aspira tons.
JOHN HARVARD AND HIS TIMES. Bv
Henry c. Shelley. author Of Liter
airy Sy- Paths of Old ENGLAND" etc
Illustrated. Boston: Little Brown
& Co.
those who are familiar with Mr. Shell
ley's scholarly and attractive book. Lit
erarS By-Paths of Old England" issued
last year. will find IN his new volume
John Harvard and His Times a book
OF similar interest. while for the sons eff
Harvard University it will have special
value. 1t is almost incredible. yet strictly
true. that this will be the first book to
be published regarding the young Engls h
minister, who. graduating from Emanuel
College in the English Cambridge en-
igrated to America and immortalizad him
self by founding the great university
which bears his name. Mr. Shelley has
brought to light great deal of valuable
material regarding John Harvard's par
entS and companions, his life in South
wark. where he was born. and in the col
lege where he was educated; has given
all the information concerning his l'fe in
America and the founding of Harvard
College that can be obtained. and has
furnished a fresh and vigorous picture of
the people of John Harvard's tim; s, with
analysis of their motives and their acts.
One of the most notable chapters in the
volume is that in which Mr.. Shelley elab-
crates a novel theory of his own to show
that the parents of John Harvard may
most probably have been introduced to
each other by William Shakespeare
WITH JULIET IN ENGLAND. BY
Grace S. Richmond. Illustrated by
Charles NJ. Relyea. New York
Doubleday. Page e Co.
A charming sequel to the chronicle of
Juliets Indifference" which tells the
story of that lady's adventures on the
other side. The captivating parsonage
does much to the amazement of the Eng
lshman and proves entertaining to Amer
leans.
SHEAVEs. BY E F. Benson. author of
Dodo, etc. New York: Doubleday,
Page & Co.
This novel is a study of that most diff
cult, much-abused situation in human ex-
per1ence-the love and marriage of a man
and woman ideally mated in all ways
save that of age-a book which will be
read, talked about and remembered. and
Will add to reputation which in Eng
land is already great, and growing in this
country.
THE TRUE LOVERS TREASURY:
Famous Lovers in Literature and
Art. Thirty-two reproductions of
famous pictures, accompanied by
poems of noted writer's, with text
by Carrie Thompson Lowell. author
of The Art Lovers Treasury" etc.
Boston: Dana Estes & Co.
This volume. which is the fourth volume
in the Lovers Treasury series. deals with
celebrated lovers and love scenes described
in poetry and art. Like The Nature
Lovers Treasury" it contains delightful
explanatory text by Mrs. Lowell. and is
pictured with a host of the most noted
cases of love from Daphnis and Chloe to