Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-07


THE DANCE OF LOVE. BY Dion Clay
ton Calthrop. New York: Henry
Holt e. Co. Washington: Ballantyne.
Pepin d'AmLoise Jared forth to find the
one Woman. the open road before him.
folande, Clare, Phillipa, Anne, Gabrielle,
Margot. Cerise, Clarice, Nanetta, Madeira.
Anita, AEce-in turn the long road
brought into view. And it was an older,
travel-worn and travel-scarred knight
who at last crept into harbor. but one
who had learned a lesson which is the
Keystone to happiness His chronicler has
recreated for present. day readers the me-
oleNal atmosphere proper to Pepin's ad-
ventures. as well as the individual charm
OF each of the fair ladies. Underneath the
story Is the symbol of TIE quest for ideal
love upon which each human being con-
sciously or unconsciously embarks.
THE TREASURE OF THE CANYON; A
Story of Adventure in Arizona. BY
Victor Perard. New York: Henry
Holt & Co. Washington: BalIantyne
A young man goes out to Arizona as as
sistant in an expedition to discover the
remains of ancient cliff dwellers. A
strange discovery of legend of buried
treasure is the unexpected result of the
venture. An exciting pursuit follows. in
Wnlch tnere is quite enough danger to add
spice. The Treasure of the Canyon" is a
wholesome tale of adventure which boys
will enjoy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A Biographical
Essay. By Carl Schurz. With an
Essay on the Portraits of Lincoln. bv
Truman H. Bartlett illustrated.
Boston: Houghton, Miff1in &; Co.
This volume should prove, as the pub
fishers have intended, one of the most
adequate literary monuments to the great
est of the presidents that has yet been
seen. 1t is treasury in that the essay
by Carl Schurz is classic, the work of
Bartlett most discriminating, and the
photographers rare and fine Moreover,
it is enriched by poems upon the mask
and hands of Lincoln, by Richard Watson
Glider and Edmund Clarence Stedman
Carl Schurz was a close personal friend
OF Abraham Lincoln and Intimately and
confidentially acquainted with many of
the Presidents plans and policies: vet by
reason of his foreign birth and training
and early participation in European poll
tics. he was qualified to see the President
with something-of perspective that few
Americans could attain. His short life
"a A-iiiSo-h pOUllSHcu d score OIL years
ago has already taken its place as one of
the Classic short lives Of great men. In it
the succession of great events in Lincoln's
career is recounted with a mastery pro-
portion and understanding, and the per-
sonal Lincoln lives in it in all his many
sided humanity. Mr.. Truman H. Bartlett
the well-known sculptor. the author of
important works upon Rodin, Brimmer
ana M!llet, and for many years instructor
in modelling at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, has been an almost
lfeiong collector of portraits of Lincoln
and profound student of his physiog-
nomy. His keen analysis of Lincoln 8
features and his report of the illuminat-
ing opinions on the life-mask of Lincoln
pronounced by some of the most emf
nent sculptors of France will give the
reader an entirely new sense of Linco,n's
appearance and show him to have been in
body as well as soul a fitting man to be-
come, as he is now fast becoming, the
great typical American hero. The illus
trations have been chosen with the ut
most study and care, with view to re-
producing those which would convey to
the reader the most vivid and realizing
sense of Lincolns personality. They in
clude series of beautiful photographs of
the life-mask of Lincoln taken both from
the plaster and from the bronze, as well
as of the casts of his hands, and a series
of Photographic portraits, some of them
eACttuiiSiS rare, showing Ills appearance
in each year of his later life. Hackneyed
photographs and those obtrusively posed
by the photographer have been scrupu-
lousy avoided. 1t is not too much to say
that the book is worthy of Lincoln.
DAYS OFF and Other Digressions. BY
Henry Van Dyke. Illustrated New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop
Having defined. in the opening SKETCH
the true meaning of day off, which
very man should take now and then
DR.. Van Dyke proceeds in his own de-
licious sty.e, to loiter in true holiday
fashion through many different paths,
Whether he is telling about a Holiday
in a vacation spent in the Maine for
ests in the search of any game that
might come in search of the hunters
whether he is telling of His Other En-
gasement," which stopped a promising
marriage, or whethe- he is poking gem
IT, fun at some of the makers of nature
books through the medium of Little
Red Tom the spirit is always a holiday
might browse through such book in
their day off, There is the smell of
pine woods in his stories, cheerful COM
oanions of trail or fishing pool. and a
soothing qui 'tude that is an admira BILE
cure TO- nerve tension.
DARWINISM TODAY. BY Vernon L.
Kellogg. professor in Leland Stan
ford. Jr.. University. New York
Henry Holt & Co. Washington
Lowdermilk.
An admrahl. book for the layman who
would inform himself, not only about
the or giral theories of Darwin, but of
the rresent-day status of those theories,
whether they have stood the test of mora
recant scientific inquiry is DR.. Kellogg's
volume. The discussion is simple and
concise. The author gives an abstract
o tn harw man selection theories. to-
sether with the mere important auxiliary
ana Alternative theories of species form
ing. Ihere are special notes and exact
references, both to original sources and
10 the authors own observations and ex-
reriments.
THE LUCK OF THE DUDLEY Ora.
HAMS: As Related in Extracts From
EliZabeth Graham's Diary. BY Alice
Calhoun Haines. Illustrations nv
FRANCIS Day. New York: Henry
There are few hore sweet and whole
some stories for girls than this record
| of -four children and a mothe-' who
ARE very poor and keep boarding
house. not because we like boarders.
| Their brave struggle with poverty, their
unselfish efforts fer mutual help, the his
| tory OF the various Objectionable board
| ers with their several pecula tiles, the
| final discovery of the contract that me mi
| so much comfort and. happiness. will all