Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-23

lett. Illustrated and decorated Dy
w Hyde. New York: Doubleday.
Page & Co.
AURICE HEWLETT is at his
"a best when dealing with theme
tvH rich in color and strong in its
Il ~ pulsations of sentiment. HIS
style is best suited to southern
European setting and in this story Of the
Spain of about fifty years ago he paints
vivid picture of revenge, devotion. love
and self-sacrfice The Spanish tempera-
ment is elementary in its directness and
force of intention Mr. Hewlett notes in
his first word the fidelity to circumstance
which marks the Spaniard above all other
Europeans, the disposition to take facts
as they are without apology. Certainly
in the story he tells there is directness
Of action which bears out this thought.
a young Sraniard is travelling astrlde
a donkey across the hot country, IN
spired by the single thought of oVertak-
ing and killing his recreant inamorata
Before he meets her an Engdsnman.
touring the country for pleasure, res
cues her from squad of rufflans. The
three thus thrown together by fate meet
on the edge of cork forest. where the
wouid-be slayer is himself siam.
Thenceforward the story proceeds brisk
IL and always interesting through the
avenging pursuit of the victims father,
the trial of the slayer and the sentence
of the court 10 climax as dramatic as
anything which Hewlett has ever writ
ten. The story spells fate as it works
out its mysterious way IN the lana OF
love and revenge.
"REMINISCENCES OF SENATOR WILL
LIAM NJ. STEWART OF NEVADA.
Edited by George RothweIl Brown.
New York and Washington: The
Neale Publishing Company.
Senator Stewards career has been init
mately identified with tine building of
the west. and the story he tells in his
"reminiscences is in large degree his
torical. Few men ever came to Wash
ington in public capacity who have en-
joyed a greater variety of experiences
than this veteran of Nevada. His rise
from a poor farm boy to man of great
wealth. from obscurity to position of
Importance in the political organization
of the country, is not particularly excep-
tional. but the circumstances of Senator
Stewards active life have been unusually
interesting. In this work he tells vivid
ly the story of his connection with the
war administration of Washington when
as a member of the Senate from the new
state of Nevada he was a lorce for the
preservation of the Union. Much of the
hitherto unwritten history of that thrill
ing time appears now in this volume.
Outside however of the political sig
nificance of the work. there is a strong
personality about every page. Here and
there the author tells the story about
some prominent parsonage which rather
upSets the previously acc 2pted tradition,
but Mr.. Stewart writes with a fearless
frankness that carries conviction. His
"reminiscences of such men as Hamlin.
John Sherman. Ben Wade. Fessenden,
Reverdy Johnson. Andrew Johnson.
Grant. Lincoln. Chase. Summer. Greeley.
Farragut. Sheridan and host of others
throw numerous sideights upon the rec
ord of period of American history in
which great forces worked momentous
results.
ON A MARGIN. A Novel BY julius
Chambers. New York: Mitch III Ken
nerley.
Mr.. Chambers. who is well-known
New York journalist has had a wide ac-
quaintance with the financial and polr
ical history of the country during the
past two decades. but he is rot gifted
with the constructive quality. as far as
his work indicates sufficiently to warrant
him In putting his views of affairs in fic-
tional form. There are some briskly
written and interesting chapters in ON
Margin but much of the story is dis
Jointed and detached. and 1t is at times
difficult to understand why this particu-
lar form was chosen for it's narration.
THE BOND. BY Meth Boyce, author of
The Eternal Spring" etc. New
York: Duffield & Co.
There are some very human passages
in this story and the people who figure
in it are unquestionably of the sort to
be met with in the ordinary course of
events. They love. quarrel. make up.
quarrel again ard have rather fussy
time of life altogether. In the end every
n nty Sc
married couple in whom the interest of
the story centers. but the reader has no
guarantee that new cycle of quarrels
and reconciiations will not be inau-
gurated in the time to come Miss
Boyce has happy faculty of making her
characters talk like people. and if she
could make them do things that were a
bit more significant she would produce
book of great power and commanding
interest.
SOME LADIES IN HASTE. BY Robert
w Chambers. New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.
Mr.. Chambers is an artist of the eccen-
trio school. delighting always to take
fantastic pictures and to present human
ity in more or less distorted but always
interesting lines. In the related but not
closely identified stories which are tied
together into this volume he sets forth the
dangers and results of powerful mental
suggestion. when exercised by a COM
petent performer in that occult science
upon susceptible individuals AS "A result
of the enterprise of Mr.. Manners nine
people beside himself are shaken out of
their usual habits and made over into
practically new characters. II happens
with the nicely of balance which the story
teller is always permitted to indulge in
that these ten are evenly distributed be-
tween the sexes, with the consequence of
five apparently satisfactory matrimonial
engagements accomplished by the time the
last page is reached. 1t is all told in Mr.
Chambers most delightful style.
THE ROMANCE OF THE REAPER. By
Herbert y. CasSon, author of The
Romance of Steel" Illustrated from
Photographs New York: Doubleday.
Page Il Co.
The story OF the American reaper is the
epitome of invention and progress under
the western inspiration. machine that
has replaced the sickle of the ancients is
more than a mechanical achievement-it is
vital. tremendously significant economic
fact. II has made possible the feeding of
great numbers OF people without seri-
Gus disturbances such those that
formerly resulted from crop failures The
mechanical reaper has opened for cult
walton enormous areas of land which
could not possibly under the old conditions
have been TILED properly. The men who
made the reaper what II is today were
wizards potent as the necromancers of
old. Just at this time the story of the
reaper has its special significance in its
bearing upon the great trust problem. Mr.
CasSon has told this tale from the po!n,
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