Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-27

before the world a clearer, compieter.
truer expression of himself in relation not
only to his own time, but in relation 20
all time.
EMILY FOX-SETON. BY Frances Hodg.
SoE Burnett author of 1.-The Shut
tie etc. Illustrated by C. D. VIII
liams. New York: Frederick a.
Stokes Company.
A pleasant, level story of English Hfe,
worth about a couple of hours. A well
born. impecunious girl, compounded chief
~ of unselfishness and incorruptible good
nature, becomes. through these qualities,
the half friend. half paid attendant to
the keen. sophisticated old woman of
title without whom no English tale seems
able TO move along it's course The
story makes clear case of saving ones
life by losing It, for Emily. in her chosen
office of self effacement while promoting
the comfort and happiness of every one
about her. all unconsciously, and quite to
her bewilderment, wins not only the ia
vor. but also the name and title, be-
longing to the wife of the Marquis of
heights nor depths. Conditions and cpl
sodes to set off the devotion of this lady
TO her lord approach the former: clumsy
and futile attempts against her life by
her noble husbands dissolute nephew
deprived through this marriage of in
latter-but, wthal, it pursues an even
way.
IN AMBUSH. BY Marie Van Worst.
author or The Woman Who Tolls. '
etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincotr
Company.
Part I. A Klondike mining camp. In
II score of men, each with something
to remember and much to forget. One
man, singular in bringing his recolhc-
tions along with him as the seduced wife
of an old partner. Jealousy, an effect of
overstrain on the already taut constancy
OF this one woman of the camp. Murder.
AS penalty, a death-sure trail to Dawson
for the self-condemned murderer and his
paramour. Part II. An eventful sea
voyage and Cairo. There. an American
of spendthrift wealth and picturesque
personality becomes the point of inter-
est in this fascinating. bewildering flow
and blend of oriental and occidental life
Part III. British campaign against the
natives in the Egyptian desert A war
correspondent forging to the front
through miracles of reckless daring and
marvels of military sagacity. Here, in
the desert. the story waits long; waits
for the close of the campaign, waits for
a kentucky girl to come down from Cairo
to meet her wounded lover. whom she and
the valOrous WATERMAN nurse back to
life. waits to work up all sorts of Hichen-
like desert atmospheres that play the
mischief with the love matter of the oc-
casion. Part ". Kentucky blue grass.
The girl home from Egypt In her train
three suitors, the original one, the war
correspondent and a native Kentuckian
who has travelled the world over in venge-
full quest of the murderer of his brother
in klondike mining camp. The tie
that binds these diffused parts is the
identity of the banished miner, the rich
American at Cairo. the fighting corre-
spondent and the second Of this trio of
suitors for the hand of the one girl
Here the native assets of kentucky-a
beautiful woman. feuds, a fleet horse.
bloodhounds. whisky-contribute to
melodramatic development and finish.
To be sure, the world shrinks daily
through the ever-increasing ease of COM
munication. but. even SO. this compre-
henSive world circle OF adventure makes
one long for a magic carpet of transport
taton. One longs, too, for other con-
ditions; for example. for more consistency
in the conception of character, for more
coherency of structure and more re-
straint in all respects.
INNS AND TAvERNs OF OLD LON
DON, Setting Forth the Historical
and Literary Associations of those,
Ancient Hostelries. Together with an
Account of the Most Notable Coffee
Houses, Clubs and Pleasure Gardens
of the British Metropolis. BY Henry
c. Shelley. author Of "Untrodden
English Ways etc. Boston: L. c.
Page & Co. Washington: Ballantyne
& Sons.
So many of the old landmarks of the
British capital have been destroyed in
the march of progress that an adequate
description of the inns and taverns of
the city possesses a historical value in
addition to it's literary charm. This work
by Mr.. Shelley, who has made special