Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-12

strengthen the affection of their hanitual
readers.
Thackeray says:
Montague and HoweIs letters are my
bedside books. If l wake at night, have
one or the other of them prattle me to
sleep again. They talk to me forever
about themselves and do not weary me-. l
like to have them tell their old stories
over and over again"
| Miss Repplier in her Introduction says:
mo one has ever surpassed Howell IN
the narrator's art of snatching the right
precise details which can be trusted to
give value and vTaisemblance, of telling a
lively and unembarrassed tae.
Perhaps q sweet raasonableness of char
acter is a quality which, above all others.
holds our hearts in keeping; and so the
Familiar Letters are sure of their re-
mote corner on the book shelf, and the
gods, not always unresponsive, nave
given to James Howell the coveted boon
of being from generation to generation
his readers friend"
THE OPTIMISTIC LIFE; or, In the
Chearing-Up Business. By Orison
SWEET Marden. author of Tire Young
Man Entering Business" New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
A glance at the table of contents shows
the practical ground covered by DR..
ness is catching" and that one of the
most powerful of forces Is amiability. 1t
also treats of other things in a business
life-the need of proper vacation seasons;
keeping grip on things; leaving ones
troubles at the office; the difference be-
tween work and dtudgery; the cost of an
explosive temper, keeping fit for work-in
brief there a-e thilty-eight of these chap
tiers. each going straight to the mark in
very few pages. and saying things that
stick. DR.. Marden's books might almost
be called the Wade Mecum of the toilers,
and their value as incentives to success
cannot easily be overestimated The
present book is especially comm endable
in that it is devoted to preaching the
higher success-the kind which uplfts one
and gives him the right perspective in re-
latiOn 10 his fellowworkers.
MADAME DE sTAEL AND BENJAMIN
CONSTANT. Unpublished etters.
Together with other Mementos
from the Papers left by Nine. Char
lotte de Constant. New York: G. P.
Iutnam'S Sous Washington: Wood
ward Il Lothrop.
a great granddaughter of Nine Con-
slant by her first marriage to Baron de
MarenholtZ unearthed from the Maren-
holtz archives some hitherto unpublished
letters written by Nine de Stael to Con-
slant after their rupture. In them much |
OF her passionate nature breaks FORTH and I
in the midst Of her keen interest in poll |
ties comes her constant cry that that most |
incOnstant of Constants has ruined her
life Besides these letters, the editor, |
Baroness de Nolde, has added many de- |
tails of the lives of both Nine. de Stael |
and Benjamin Constant, which she gath
cred from her grandmother, the wife Of
Mime. Constants son, the Baroness de |
and this book as a whole !
forms an interesting complement to what |
oil RI i,xny liclnI
two of the most notable personalities of |
the era in which they lived.
THE RUBRIC SERIES: The Canticle
of the Sun of st. Francis of Assist |
The Declaration of Independence, |
with facsimile signatures of the |
"Signers." The Constitution of the |
United States. Lincolns Gettysburg |
Grafton and First and Second inaug- |
ural Addresses. Washingtons Fare
well Address. The Rubaiyat OF Omar |
Khayyam. New York: DuMeld &
Co.
According to Webster, ''rubric" comes
from ruber (red)-that part of any
work in the early manuscripts and typog
Apply which was colored red. to dis
inguish it from other portions. Hence |
hat which Is established or settled, as by |
The little volumes of the Rubrc series
Ire Planned 10 give the readers various !
good things that are established or set
led by authority" in a handy form. Es-
oecially the design Is to include things
which are unget-at- able-things which
everybody ought to know" but usually |
Doesn't.
Each volume is printed in two colors,
With appropriate marginal decorations es-
'ecially made for It. and bound in
hapely formal. They have been well Sc
ected. The CanGicle' Is the most ia |
nous of the writ ngs of st. Francis and
lothing need be said as to the superiority I
II Fitzgeralds fifth translation of the
'Rubaiyat," which is used over all other
Tersions The American texts are those
which no patriotic citizen can afford to
orget.
THE SOUL OF THE BIBLE. Being Sc
lections from the Old and the New !
Testaments and the Apocrypna. Ar
ranged as synthetic readings BY
Ulysses G. B. Pierce. Introduction
by Edward Everett Hale Boston:
American Unitarian Association.
In this compilation, which the author
has very fifty named THE Soul of the
Bible he has done one Of those things
which make the reader wonder why II
was not done before, SO evident is It that