Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-05
BOOK REVIEWS.

THE STATUE; Story of International
Intrigue and Mystery. By Eden
Phillpotts and Arnold Bennett. IL
Illustrated by T. Il. Hanna. New York:
Moffat, Yard & Co.
Where something surprising happens
every minute there is no room for a yawn,
and where the something surprising is
done by men whose virtues and crimes
alike are of colossal proportions the i'm
possible yawn becomes replaced by a gasp
of wonder. OF such a nature is The
Statue" A group of statesmen and finan-
ciers juggle with European politics. Out
OF the contending interests develops a
murder which disrupts families and near
ly causes the separation of an interesting
pair of lovers. The swift changes of point
of view the momentary development of
unsupported motives. the utilization for
purposes of romance of the perpleXties
of modern economic conditions and of the
wonders of science make the story of
more than the usual interest. There are
several characters of quite distinctive
force and individuality. Whle~the main
object has been to produce good story,
the characterization of The Statue pre-
vents it from belonging TO the most
ephemeral class of fiction. The action
eliminates, as il begins, in a mysterious
room built high in the head of a colossal
statue of Energy. This is the conception
of Carl Courlander. a great and enigmauc
genius among English fnanciers, and
upon its true purpose depends much of
the plot
By RIGHT OF PURCHASE. BY Harold
Bindloss, author of Winston Of the
Prairie etc. With Frontispiece in
ColorS by Alfred James Dewey. New
York: Frederick a. Stokes Company
\ marriage which is made with none
hut no
does not offer a very promising field to
tho ideaIist. Under its terms a beautiful!
young English aristocrat is removed to
the hard conditions of a new country,
where physical labor is the lot of all. and
brought into association with man for
whom she believes she feels nothing but
contempt. Husband and wife experience
the exciting uncertainties of growing
wheat for fuctuating market Danger
from the forces of nature and from law
less men, who must be dealt with accord
ing to the strength of manhood not of
law, bring the two together. AT last the
woman is able to let her conventional
standa dis go before her recognition of
real manhood The result is red-plood-
cd and vital happiness where there had
been but the promise of disaster. The
book Is a forcible picture of the great
vheat-growing industry. its dangers, I'M
certainties and fascination.
PHOTOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEO-
PIE. BY Tudor jerks. author of
Electricity for Young People" With
Sixteen Full-Page Illustrations and
Twenty-Five Diagrams. New York ::
Frederick y. Stokes Company
This book presents not only the methods
Of successful photography. but the rea-
sons underlying the various processes. II
gives to the practice of photography an
additional fascination and SupDlies the
Young reader with a foundation which
enables him TO read other Photographic
literature with profit instead of confusion
and 10 choose intellgently his camera,
lens or chemicals. MIR. jerks describes
the use of the camera, the working of it's
various parts, the process of negative de-
veIopment. toning developing the print
and mounting. He then treats the various
phases OF photography separately in
greater detail-eXpoSure. what to take and
how TO take il, developers, printing pa
pers, etc. Two chapters are given to the
history of photography and another TO
the chemistry.
COFFEE AND a LOVE AFFAIR; an
American Girls Romance on a Cot
fee Plantation. BY Mary Boardman
Sheldon. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company.
That the romance of coffee growing
should be 80 stimulating to another sort
OF romance would not occur 10 the super
6cial thinker-even though he, too, had