Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-31
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THE BIG FELLOW. BY Frederick
Palmer, Author of The Vagabond' -
Illustrations by NJ. Leone Bracker.
New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.
Big in every aspect is the story of a
big man. It deals with the large facts
of life and with the great emotions James
Harden is not only a giant in stature. but
has q great heart and clear-thinking
mind. He hews straight to the line and
his results need no revision. The story
deals with his struggles for a competence
after graduating from college to find his
mother on the verge of bankruptcy, in
consequence of her sacrifices for him
He digs bitches for a dollar and half a
day: he takes dollar assignments from a
local newspaper; he stints himself for the
sake of others and all the time wins
friends and finally becomes a person
age.
The story takes the reader to the South
seas. where American enterprise is strug-
barbaric people. Obviously drawn in
some measure from the history of the
past ten years. this narrative turns upon
the American capacity for organization
and is tribute to the success of this
cOuntry's venture in the administration
binds the incidents together.
THE HERMIT AND THE WILD WON
AN; And Other Stories. By Edith
Wharton New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
Mrs. Whartons short stories are all
written with the same degree of care and
punctilious precision with which she pro-
duces longer fiction. In these seven tales,
ranging through all grades of society, she
displays her aptitude for holding her
readers attention to the last word. The
title story deals with religious fanaticism
in the old days of medieval violence. Two
types of the devotee are brought into
contrast. man and a woman. OF the
two. the woman is the greater and in her
death in penitence she leads the way for
her brother of a greater fame.
THE IMMORTAL MOMENT; The Story
of Kitty Tailleur. BY May Sinclair.
Illustrated and decorated by c.
Coles Phillips. New York: Double
day, Page & Co.
Mrs. Tailleur belonged to the world of
which society speaks obviously. She had
been thrown into it by temperament as
we'll as by circumstances. She was I'M
moral rather than immoral. But when
at last she met a man who awakened
her true self. she reached the height of
supreme self-sacrif1ce, which is the great
est morality of ALL In this book Miss
Sinclair departs radically from the field
which she so wonderfully occupied in
THE Divine Fire" But she displays
the same keenness of discernment and
writes with the same precision that mark
ed that other work. The Immortal
Moment" has the merit of brevity. Miss
Sinclair finds 1t possible to tell her story
in a short compass. using chiefly the
method of dialogue for her purpose.
9OO9. BY James Hopper and Fred. r.
Company: Washington: Woodward
& LOthrop.
The co-authors of this story acknowledge
fervor of indignation" but they claim
that they have prevented violence I'M
balance and injustice by using only facts
Yet in telling in this manner of the
career Of a convict they do not pretend
to be pointing to any particular man. The
things that happened to convist 5000 have
all happened the authors assert. to pris-
oners in American institutions. They have
merely brought together proven cases Of
order to present an Indictment of the
prison system of the United States. It
is q powerful accusation and much of 1t
is plainly true. The conclusion is in
evitable that we are going the wrong
way at the problem of the prevention and
in this work of the American prisons
Is true. those establishments are making
criminals and not reforming them. The
book calls attention emphatica to the
need of reform behind the bars.
THE HOUSE OF RIMMON; A Drama in
Four Acts. BY Henry Van Dyke.
New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons.
Washington: Brentano's.
DR. Van Dykes poetic drama was pub
lished originally in serial form in Scrib-
ner's Magazine and attracted widespread
attention by it's beautiful imagery, it's in
tense dramatic force and it's vivid pictures
of life in the ancient days. He tells a
story of war and love. the dramatic form
intensifying rather than delaying the
action. DR.. Van Dykes style was never
displayed to better effect
ACROSS EUROPE IN A MOTOR BOAT,
A Chronicle of the Adventures Oh the
Motor Boat Beaver on a Voyage of
Nearly Seven Thousand Miles
Through Europe by Way of the
Seine. the Rhine. the Danube and the
Black Sea. BY Henry c. Rowland.
Author of I'm the Shadow" Illus
trations by Herbert Deland Will
liams. New York: d. Appleton &
Co.
One does not usually think of Europe
as affording an opportunity for cross
country boating. but it is true neverthe-
less, that waterways exist which enable
those of leisure and with a taste for that
means Of travel to pass virtually across
the continent from northwestern Franco
to the eastern end of the Mediterranean.