Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-21

was a fashionable winter resort for Eng
ish people. Mrs. Anterior has wildly
represented the fashions. not only OF
dress. but of manners, speech, ideals of
that day.
UNCLE TOM ANDY BILL. A Story of
Bears and Indian Treasure By
Charles Major. author of When
Knighthood Was in Flower" etc.
With illustrations by P. Van f.
Ivory. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Brenrano's.
Uncle Tom Andy Bill speaks mainly for
boys; the adventures are of just the ma
ture to delight them. The old man tells
his story in the simplest. baldest language
possible, creating thereby an impression
of entire truthfulness. The interest is in
creased by the sweet and kindly person.
atty of this natural-boTn uncle and by
the comments and by play of the boys
and girls who listen to him.
WEIGA OF TEMAGMI. And Other
Indian Tales. BY Cy Warman. author
of The Last Spike" etc New York
ii. NJ. Caldwell Company.
Nr. Warman has deserted the field in
which he became known to tell a collec-
ton of stories about the Indians, among
whom he has lived. Many of them are
stated to have been taken down from
their own lips. 1t cannot be said that the
experiment has been a successful one
The stories lack either the poetry that
NAV have been native to them or any
special distinction due to the art of the
writer. In general effect they are monde
script.
HELIANTHUS. BY Ouida. author Of
Under Two Flags etc. New York :
ton: Brentano'S.
A curious interest attaches to this Ia st
unfinished novel by woman who, i'm her
day. achieved a remarkable popularity.
In STYLE it is a reminder of a fashion of
fiction which is fast becoming obsolete,
grandiose. inflated, naively convinced of
its own infallibility. The story was begun
at least ten years before the authors
death and was carried to a point yery
near completion.
The amazing character of such a con-
cept1on shows what havoc age and ill
ness had played with the authors iude-
lnent. There is general spirit of bit
terness and of acrid criticism of all mod
ern conditions which is more pitia BILE
than otherwise. But the book breathes a
remarkable visOr of feeling and is of
genuine interest in some of its phases.
ROSNAH. BY Myra Kelly, author OF
Little Citizens" Illustrat lions by
Wallace Morgan. New York: D. APP
pletOn * Co.
Miss kelly's venture into long fiction
has carried her into Ireland where she
finds congenial subject in the encounter
between the people of society and the
peasantry during the political troubles OF
the early eighties. She has presented a
number of entertaining characters, in
Guiding an interesting family of four sons
and a daughter. who have been separated
since childhood, not only from one an
other. but from their parents. the latter
being attached to the English military
service in India. Miss Kelly evolves a di-
Vert1ng situation by causing the daughter
of an earl to substitute herself for the
girl of this long separated family, and the
complications ensuing afford an opportu
nifty for some brisk humorous and dra-
matte episodes. The quaint humor which
mas characterlzed this authors shorter
fiction plays lightly through these uapes
MI Morgan's illustrations are sketcbv
ana efective. and. with them to assist
the reader is carried breezily through the
long out entertaining tale.
THE WAR IN THE AIR; and Particu-
larly How Mr.. Bert Smallways Fared
While 1t Lasted. BY II. G. Wells. au-
thor OF New Worlds for Old" Illus
trations by Eric Pape New YORK.
The Macmillan Company Washing
ton: Brentano's
quite in harmony with Mr. Wells pre-
vious performances in fiction is this view
OF the future Of International conflict
when the navigation Of the air has been
effected. He utilizes as his f1ctional CEN
ter OF interest young cockney who is by
accident carried off in the balloon of an
Engllshman who has invented a wonder
ful aeropiane, the secret of which he has
been trying to sell to the British or the
German government. Smallways falls
into the German balloon park in Fran
coma and. being mistaken for Butteridee
the inventor, he is whiSked off in a preat
alrshlp to America there to observe the
German attack upon the United States
Smallways survives the devastating strug-
gle. which rapidly expands into a world
wide war.
1t may be questioned just what use a
story of this kind is. 1t paints a vivid
picture of possible condition after hll-
man ingenuity has mastered the prob
lem of the air. But it cannot for a mo-
ment be conceded that society will crum-
bic up into such an impotent mass of in
dlvldual units as Mr.. Wells conceiyes in
this narrative as the result of a destruc-
tive general warfare. If his theory is cor
rect-assuming that this work is a serious
exposition of his views-the government is