Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-01

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SCARS ON THE SOUTHERN SEAS. A
Romance. By George Bronson How
ard, author of 'Norroy, Diplomatic
Agent ETC. New York: B. w. Dodge
4 Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
Scars on the Southern Seas" are in
CURED during a skirmish-ingeniously in
vented by the authoritarian the United
States and Japanese insurrectionists over
the Philippine situation. Several gallant
young American gentlemen, some trans
atlantic ntriguers and plucky and
charming American girl take part in the
action. An interesting love romance is
developed in the intervals of more stern
events. in the course of which scars are
made and scars are healed. The story is
spirited and rapid.
THE SEA-CHARM OF VENICE. BY
Stopford A Brooke New York: E.
z. Dutton & Co.
The beauty of the past and the present
which Venice has acquired from her mar
riage with the sea is fittingly celebrated
by Stopford Brooke's glowing text. The
shifting scenes on the canals, the magic
wrought by mutations in light and color
the pageants and ceremonies derived from
her sea empire, as well as the records left
by artists and poets-thesa and many
other themes are wrought into a haunt
ing picture.
RACE LIFE OF THE ARYAN PEO-
PIES. BY Joseph p Widnsy In
Two Volumes, New York: Funk s.
WaSnalls Company.
In this comprehensive and scholarly
work the author has conceived. Of the
Aryan race as great stream, diverse but
unified. Beginning with the Asiatic Pc
Rod, he outlines in chronological order
the various emigrations into India south
ern and western Europe. and finally into
America. from all of which has resulted
ancient and modern civilization He
shows how, with certain original char
acteristcs. the race has become modi-
fed in each case by the conditions of its
environment This field of inquiry has
never before been traversed in systematic
order. The entire work is permeated by
the authors conception of the race as a
distinct individuality: not the
Vedas." he says. mot the Avestas, not
the Had, or the Nibelungen or Beowulf.
but The marvellous tale of what the
Aryan man has lived-how he has SUBJ
dued the wild and waste lands-how he
has made the desert blossom as the rose
how he has built up empire with ak
and plow-these are his true race epic"
THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE. Or
timstic Studies. BY Ellie Metch-
nikoff. subdirector of the pasteur
Institute, Paris. author of The Ma
lure of Man" The English rransla :
ton edited by +. Chalmers Mitchell.
A., DSc.OxOn. Hon. LID FRS
Secretary of the Geological Society
of London. etc. New York: G. p.
Putnams Sons. WashinEton Wood
ward q Lothrop.
AS a leader of the Pasteur Institute. no
less than for his important contributions
to science and philosophy, Prof. Metchni-
koff is entitled TO be heard with attention
He has been able to proclaim himself an
optimist, and found, in biological science
for the present generation hope, or at
least an end toward which to work and
for future generations a possible achieve
ment of that hope. Three great evils that
hang over the world are disease old age
and death. Modern science has already
made vast strides toward the destruction
of disease, and no one has more right 10
be listened to than a leader of the Pasteur
Institute when he asserts his confidence
that rational hygiene and preventive
measures will ultimately rid mankind OF
disease. Prof. Metchniokff's discovery OF
the cells in the human body, known as