Evening star., 1907-11-09

Broad. low brows. in which the sleepy
looking brown eyes were set far apart: o
mouth that did not err on the side OF
SnallneSS, with lips full and curved; out
lines of form now statuesque, but likely to
necome coarse In a not far-distant f!-
-ure-- Consistent in every word aud
movement throughout the story. she is
always the peasant, with a peasants cum
ming and elemental ideas of the va.ues of
things-and with a PEASANTS appetite.
The element of the supernatural in the
ancient crime which Is the heritage of Pa
lazzo Vital is utilized rather as mate
rial 'Zation of the evil that exists in Girls
tina. To Fabrizio 1t is a sinister influence
to be fought against; to Cristina it is an
i.npe ling force which is in tune with her
own des res. Mr.. Bagot's method IS SO
quiet, 50 free from melodrama, that It is
only with the last word that the reader
recognizes how strong is the current that
has been bearing him along.
LINCOLN IN THE TELEGRAPH Of
FICE; Reco,lections of the United
During the Civil War. BY David
Homer Bates, manager of the War
department telegraph office, and
cipher operator, 1s61-1s66. New
York: The Century Company.
a vigorous literature is growing up
around Lincoln. The world never seems
to tire of gaining new positions from
which to view his personality from a
new angle. Mr.. Bates is to be thanked
for gathering together these recollectons
of an important phase of the Presidents
life during the most trying days of the
war. The history of the telegraph serV-
ice is interesting in itself. from the light
ii casts on military operations. Certain
points regarding the relations between
the War Department and White House
and the general commanding in the war
are affected by the revelations of tele-
graph messages. There arc NV chapters
n the assa assinatiOn conspiracy. But the
passages that will be most eagerly sought
are those in which Lincoln himself ap-
pears, his bearing during critical times
the stories that he told, the circumstances
under which he wrote the first draft OF
he emancipation proclamation his per-
sonal re.atiOns with his su"ordinates.
There are several good Lincoln stories,
and abundant evidence of the impression
he created on the young man who sent
OF inte, preted kilograms for him.
NINEvEH AND OTHER POEMS. BY
George Sylvester Niereck. New
York: Moffat Yard & Co.
Whatever prejudice may Be produced in
4 rcticent and simple mind BY the ever
aggressive Teutonic egoism of GeorgA
Viareck, it must be confessed that even
TX tiS Soiiy Poc-i'- an tiiths IN tiSt' uoiA'
is Juvenile with dramatic impersona-
ton at times of maturity-there is occa-
sionally the tonic note of real postry. TIE
general impression Is one Of large
-oung sensitive nature, sadly undsciplined
and astray. 1t is to be expected that the
airs are reminiscent, the metaphors hack
neyed and the prose intrusive, but If
there were not something else there would
be no need of calling attention to the
usual and patent signs Of beginning. 1t IS
more unfortunate for the young man
after speaking of his experiments in new
forms to say, Il have extended the
borderland of poetry, into the domain Of
music on one side. into that of the intel
Iect on the other. The
Tyre, henceforth obeying only a master
hand, will slip from the grasp OF the
tyro, and poetry become once more the
vehicle of great thought" and then open
his volume with a series of sonnets. Ere
quently, however. in verses tame pr
nasty there is one line so beautiful that
the critic must become humanitarian and
desire to rescue pure a poet to sanity
and devotion and art. The young man
has dedicated his book to LIE Gallienne.
THE OvERMAN. BY Upton Sinclair,
author of The Jungle" With from
tispiece. New York: Doubleday,
Page & Co.
The author of "The Jungle" has not
taught the public to expect the mystical