Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-31
PRINCE PIERRE TRoUBETZKoY.

the development of the story follows the
amazing development of his faculties and
sensiblities through the experiences OF
travel, through his friendships with cult.
waited people, and through two successive
love affairs with two types of girls. The
evolution of the hero from a provincial
New Highlander, self-cons cious and mar
row in his sympathies, to sympathetic
citizen of the world, sensitively open to
all the beautiful possibilities of living is
one which must convey a message to
many like Shut-in soul. But in the de-
velopment of the theme the authors con-
scientiousnesS is great as to become
almost painful. The successive changes
wrought in the point of view of the es-
capped coffee and spice clerk are so mi
nutely described that certain passages OF
the book have elevated the obvious into a
cult. 1t will not do. however. because of
this, to neglect the book altogether. Ger
tain shades of feeling and emotion are de-
scrbed with a degree of intuition that
makes the book, in part, at least worth
while.
BARRY GORDON. BY William Farau-
har Payson. author of John Vytal."
etc. Illustrations by Harry Towns
end. New York: The Mcclure Com
pany. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
Mr.. Payson has written a strong story
in which he shows how manhood may be
evolved out of wild and perilous material.
Barry Gordon is the heir of an old family,
each man of which, in addition to noble
and winning qualities, has had some
wicked and dangerous strain. He is
warned of the coming struggle by his
father-dying because he has never been
able to conquer his own beSetting sin of
drunkenness. Barry is the sport of his
own evil tendencies until he finds a force
strong enough to induce him to harness
his great powers and work for righteous
ness. This force he finds in his love for
a girl of rare and beautiful type. I. is
only when, believing he has lost her, he is
still able to put temptation away from
him that he is sure he has conquered The
romance takes the reader into wild and
stirring scenes, in this country, in Europe
and In Africa. 1t is a good story and a
convincing study of vivid personality.
PICTURES OF PARIS AND SOME
PARISIANS. By John n. Raphael
Containing A. Illustrations from
Drawings by Frank Reynolds. Lon
don: Adam and Charles Black. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
Washington Brentano's.
Paris has always been an attractive
theme for those who have visited 1t pos
sessed of an eye for the picturesque and
talent for description. In this little vol
ume are given some brief impressonistic
sketches of the unconventional aspects
of Paris life, with numerous illustrations
by Frank Reynolds, an exceptionally
clever Engishman. The guide book has
been cast far away by the author who
has drawn his pen pictures of the French
capital with a frankness which. however,
at no time oversteps the bounds of pro-
priety.
THE CALL OF THE CITY. BY Charles
milford Robinson. author of Mod.
ern Civic Art New York: Paul
Elder * Co
Mr.. Robinson's fame is widespread as
an authority on civic improvement. lie
stands for municipal beauty. for urban
esthetics, for the uplift of the city beau
tiful. In these essays he appeals to the