Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
READING FOR OLDER GIRLS
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Schloss Adlerstein. the Debatable Ford and
the days when Robber Barons held their
sway. all with the aluring title of The Dove
in the Eagles Nest, If we wish to hear
more of Germany. we have at our command
Guerber's Legends of the Rhine" and we
may gather round the hearth fire and listen
to these old, old, stories told by wandering
MINISTRIES in the days long gone. Anon per
haps we may enjoy Henderson's Short His
tory of Germany"
Where Love Linsers
IF we prefer the southland, we may venture
George Eliot's "Romola," with its stirring
picture of Savonarola and its splendid type of
womanhood in the person of Romola Then
June" a delightful picture of Venice with a
thread of love story. Is our traveller not ready
now, think you. for Hopkinson Smith S Con-
dola Days" illustrated in his own charming
fashion Venice romantic with all her in
toxicating breathless melody and beauty;
Venice in the glorious morning sunlight; Ven
ice with the moonlight, the music the steady
dip of the oars3
Cross the blue waters of the Mediterranean
and visit the Alhambra with Washington
Irving: bask in the Spanish sunshine and
live. over again those days of chivalry and
knighthood. Go to your book shelves and
take down Lockhart's Ancient Spanish Bal
lads; read the Moorish ballads; read the
Cid; and learn the story of Spain and her
ancient glory, never knowing when nor how.
Then, if you like, turn the page and see her
boosted chivalry held up for the world to
laugh to scorn in Cervantes Don Quixote. y
Let the welkin ring over the adventure of
this dear deluded Spanish gentleman with the
frolcSome windmillSe
On our return we pause but moment before
we reach the land of our mother tongue, and
this only in passing, to have a glimpse with
Clifton Johnson Along French Byways,"
and to see a face all haggard and drawn.
FRI ned in he IF AN OH
Clifton Johnson shows bits of France out
of the beaten path, and he gives true pictures
not in words alone. but brought away by that
modern wizard the camera. In his P1cc1-
flower, doomed to death in the prison yard
the heart hunger of the man prisoner, and the
| mercy of the gracious Empress.
In the Mother Country
WHEN we have crossed the Channel. we
w turn with pleasure to the land and the
people whom the world has delighted to honor
Our memory strays to the days when all men
turn to the old old ballads to Chevy Chase +"
and Robin Hood" to Fair Rosamond"
and The Nut-brown Maid" But thi- is
only beginning. and we open with sigh of
contentment those charming idyls of English
country life written by Jane Austen,-books
filled with the thoughts and feelings of gentle
home loving people, going their daily round
of homely tasks and duties with an atmosphere
of peace and simple pleasure too often missed
in the world of to-day Emma" Sense
and Sensibility," Pride and Prejudice" -
these titles give scant prophecy of the vast
treasure of content to be found between their
covers.
Now we visit THE Mill on the Floss"
hand in hand with Maggie Tulliver with her
elfsh. misunderstood childhood, and her
heartbreaking, misguided grlhood, leaving
her at the last. stronger and better for the
little candle of charity she has given us for
our own. Has our little lady tramped the
rugged mountains and deep valleys of Devon
shire? Then we shall fare to the land of the
robber Doones; of John Ridd, the sterling
one, and Lorna, the brave and true. Yet
another friend we have who dwelt on the
coast of Devon, Sir Amyas Leigh, the bold