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

whole a study of the origin and develop
ment of those ideas in civil government
which have Influenced the growth and de-
velopment of the United States as a world
power among the nations. He discusses
such topics as the rights of human ma
ture. racial types of equality. government
by consent and the discipline of liberty,
parties and party spirit, etc.
SHELDON JACKSON; Pathfinder ard
Prospector of the Missionary Van
guard in the Rocky Mountains and
Alaska. BY Robert Laird Stewart
DID,, professor in the theological
Seminary of Lincoln University. PA. !;
author of The Land of Israel. IL
Illustrated. New York: Fleming H.
Revell Company.
Sheldon Jackson's work in Alaska
among the EsquimauX has been more than
that of the missionary. He has been
deavorer for the physical as we'll as the
moral uplft of a crude people. He is
best known perhaps in Washington for
his efforts to transplant reindeer from
Asia to Alaska for the support Of the
population, having delivered numerous
lectures in this city on that subject But
it will be found from this intere sting
career in the extreme northwestern
country that the reindeer experiment was
only a small part of his enterprise. He
has been teaching and building schools
and establishing missions up there for
years and a large part Of the improve
ment noted in the condition of the natives
is due to DR.. Jackson's self-sacriticing
labors. But not alone in Alaska has he
been busy In the interest of the better
ment of America. He worked for years
to- doh <nI Sn1o
rado Arizona. New Mexico and Nebraska
in the days of Indian struggle and danger
and so when he went to Alaska in 1877
he was well equipped for this frontier
endeavor. DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler has
said that when the future historian writes
the religious annals of the backbone of
tie continent. the Rocky mountains. he
will give the foremost place to Sheldon
Jackson, Pioneer of the Cross DR..
Stewart has told the story of this busy
life sympathetically and Interestingly
with many Illustrations that give an add
ed value to the work.
MOTOR FLIGHT THROUGH
FRANCE. By Edith Wharton. Illus
trated. New York: Charles Scrib-
ners Sons. Washington: Brentanos.
When writer of the capacity of Mrs.
Wharton for making all her subjects
wildly. humanity interesting undertakes
TO be an exceptional book. Such is the
work which is now issued by the Scrib-
ner's. The trip itself which she describes
was through an especially entertaining
country, from Boulogne to Amtens, to
Beauvais and Rouen, to Fountainebleau,
through the Loire and the Indre country
to Nohant and Clermont, into Auvergne
and Royat and Bourges; then from Paris
to Potiers and hence to the Pyrenees,
through the Rhone valley to the Seine,
concluding with a brief flight to the
northe astern part of France and the low
countries. 1t would be unfair to say that
this work has guide book value, for the
mere name guide book is repellant to
many readers. But guide written by
one who expresses a volume in a para
graph is we'll worth while, and with the
novel and handsome illustrations this
educational but entertainment qualities of
high order.
BUTT CHANLER. FRESHMAN. BY
James Shelly Hamilton. New York:
D. Appleton & Co.
This wholesome. brisk story of college
life will appeal strongly to the younger
readers. 1t tells of the class rushes and
hazings and the sports of college and
thus reproduces the hearty vigor of the
Anne rican youths during the educational
peTlOO. Inc central character is d
manly young fellow who makes good"
IN A NEW CENTURY. By Edward
Sanford Martin, author of "a Lit
tile Brother of the Rich" New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Brentanos.
Mr. Martin treats in this volume of the
idiosyncrasies of Americans in a humor-
Gus yet subtly serious manner He dis
cusses, for example, noise and canned
food" treating those two as factors of
our hurried modern existence. He plays
lightly with the theme of riches and IN
delicate way indicts the American people
of SnobbshneSS His humor, however, is
kindly and his little essays on the ten
denotes of the new century and the results
of too much success are easy and
graceful Those who like to see them
selves as some others see them in a mass
will welcome this book.
THE NIAGARA RIVER. BY Archer
Butler Hubert, professor of Amori-
can History, Marietta College, au-
thor of The Ohio River With AlaI s
and Illustrations New York: G. p.
Putnam'S Sons. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
There are so many interesting phases
of the great cataract of America that this
large volume Is none too extensive to en-
brace them and to give an adequate
conception of the wonder of nature. Prof.