Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-19

and little later on there is a map which
traces The Town of Boston in New Eng
land. by Capt. John Bonner. 1872, aetati.
co.
The reader gets delightful glimpses OF
the social life of Boston in those primi
tive days; glimpSes which the author. ir
turn. got from the diary OF. Samue
Sewall. whom she calls the Puritan Pepys
From another source comes a Fascinating
peep at Sir Charles Harry FARMLAND
1.-The hero Of BOstOn's most charming
colonial romance" who became enamored
by young girl whom he first saw scrub
bns the floor of Fountain Inn, and whom
he educated and later married-after a
romance .unsanctfoned by book and bell
To the interest of the text is added forty
eight illustrations copied from rare prints
and portraits. with Dorothy Quincy
from portrait by Copley." for fronts
piece. The heavy. old ivory pages are
bound in shaded blues with a hint OF
colonial Boston traced in white and gilt.
FLOWER OF THE DUSK. BY Myrtle
Reed author of Lavender and Old
Lace etc. New York: G. =. Put
MANS Sons.
Admirers of Miss Reed will appreciate
Flower of the Dusk which is exquisite
~ bound In violet and gilt, and has for its
frontispiece coored picture from a
painting by Clinton Balmer. The interest
Of the plot centers in Margaret North,
who has been lame from birth and who
works INCREASINGLY that her kind father
may not know that his wealth has van
iShed and left them only the small cot
tage which was their former summer
home She is aided in this pathetic deceit
by an elder woman who has been robbed
of lifes greatest blessing and who COM
IL,
forgiving heart. There is a fairy god
mother who turns most Of the shadows
into sunshine. and who gives to Margaret
all the girlish pleasures her youth has
been denied. There are two love stories
running through the book to happy end
ing. The binding of the book is worthy
of better content.
THE MASCOT OF SWEET BRIAR
GULCH. BY Henry Wallace Phillips,
author of Red Saunders" etc. With
illustrations by F. Graham Cootes.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill
Company.
Jim FELTON,. a Harvest miner, with hope
behind and no prospect ahead. Is the
hero of this tale. And the girl back east
to whom he is engaged is an overpractlcal
young person who refuses to marry mm
merely because she cannot live on air.
The mascot who brings luck to the one
and loves daring to the other and happi-
ness to both is nameless scrap OF hui
manity who has been kicked through life
and is probably about to be kicked out OF
it, when he finds Hero Jim. And the find
ing makes the story. For general set
ting there is the country on the free side
of the Rockies, where everything is good
OF bad and nothing is indifferent. BY way
of detail there is Jim's raw chip of
cabin, with q mountain and a gulch and a
lot Of will flowers nGlUhhOrS
great silence all around and clean
blue sky overhead. Naturally there Is
mine-but that would be telling the story
Where there is a hero there must be
villain. If only to enforce the law of con-
trast, so Jim has for his opposite a ''gun"
who at times is addicted to the name OF
Smit. AS he appears but once, however.
not counting the time of the 1ynchlng,
he really isn't worth considering in the
same breath with that other monster, the
rattlesnake, that came near
Everybody else IN the book Is lovable
in his own rough way. For one. there is
Bud. the mail carrier. whom any Post
master General would be proud to intro
duce to the President. and for another
there is Capt. Hanrahan, who. with his
prospecting party. heroes every man OF
them, puts up mad race over mountains.
around precipices and almost across
chasms with death racing beside the
wheels every inch of the way. There.
beautiful of heart; and there also is fate's
messenger boy. as it were. the mascot. The
really good illustrations include fulf-page
cclored pictures of Jim in his sombrero
and of the girl back east whose married
life gives happy promise of a menu more
subst antial than hope and fresh air.
THE SCIENCE SERIES-THEW WORLDS
GOLD; It's Geology, Extraction and
Political Economy. BY L. De Lau-
n S11np-
rieure des Mines. Translated by
Orlando Cyprian Williams. Intro
duction by Charles a. Conant. author
of History Of Modern Banks of Is
sue" New York: G.. +. Putnam's
Sons Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
NJ De Launay's work is regarded
abroad as standard Of treatment. and
it's translation now places 1t within the
reach of American students of metallurgy
and finance. 1t breaches the triumph of
gold as the worlds great money metal.
Mr.. Conant, in his introduction to the
English version, calls attention to the
fact that steps yet remain to be taken
10 extend more widely the system OF
credit on the European continent and In
international exchanges. to the end that
the quantity of gold employed in given
volume of transactions may be decreased
and it's efficiency increased. This prob
lem he maintains is most important and
it's solution is aided by the light thrown
upon the subject by such works as that
of NJ De Launay. The French author
treats first of the geology of gold. next
of its geograp hical distribution in the past
and present, followed by the extraction
and dressing of gold and concluding with
an exhaustive treatise upon the economy
of the yellow metal. The author believes
that gold will after an indefinite and
perhaps long period rise instead of fall,
in accordance with the basic law OF ex-
changes rising in spite of the Industrial
progress which will make it's extraction
more economical. in spite of the more
complete exploration of the globe. in spite
of the continuous accumulation OF
nrevious outputs 1.-The chimerical
mower" he saws. "Of domineering CAPT.
tai. of gold which for long has COM
manded nature and governed the world,
NAV change hands violently or legally;
hut. whatever may be said, the time is
vet far off when it will vanish into
empty smoke, scorned, useless and de-
spised.
CHRONICLES OF SERVICE LIFE IN
MALTA. Edited by Mrs. Arthur r.
Stuart. New York: Longmans, Green
& Co.
Lady Malcolm Fearnaught was sta
toned in Malta" in the early ffties of the
past century and while there she saw
Maltese service life from the inside and
with a humorous and sympathetic pen
she later told Of it in a series Of sketches
or stories that, based upon fact, have
nevertheless the charm Of fiction. In
d.Sd IL may no suSpected there is much