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

class opera singers In particular being
very much greater than the supply. This
work is virtually symposium In which
many of the worlds greatest singers.
pianists, violinists and teachers tell of
their success. including such artists as
Jenny Lind, Christine Nilsson. Patti. Tet-
razzini, Maibran Melba Calve. Sem
brich, Nordica. Games. Farrar etc. The
chief lesson that is taught by these reve-
lations is that there are many avenues to
success. 1t is interesting to note that the
author adds a word of encouragement 10
those who have feared that the introduce
ing machines might injure the musical
profession. On the contrary, he AYERS.
this canned music stimulates the appe-
tite for still better things.
THE LADY NURSE OF WARD f. BY
Amanda Akin Stearns. New York
The Baker & Taylor Company.
G1impses of Lincoln and other notable
personages are obtained in the course or
the letters and diary entries of Mrs
Stearns who served as a nurse in the
old Armory Square Hospital in this city
from April, 1865. until more than year
later. The little volume in which these
extracts are printed will be OF great ~
terest to all veterans of the clNi' wal
who were stationed in or about w aslins-
ton during the middle of the great strus-
"
excellent concept of the conditions III
great military hospital before the GAYS
of antiseptic surgery. view OF the MAI
showing the old Armory building. no"
used by the fish commission, surrounoeu
nv hospital barracks and tents, forms an
attractive cover illustration.
CHILDREN. illustrated
by MilIicent Sowerby Wrltten IN
Verse by Githa Sowerpy. NE" III ~ :
Duffield & Co.
As long as the world has been. children
have shown certain characteristic tral's'
for it is of the nature OF man. Wiic'iiei
Old or young, to be true 10 type -"
this beautiful gift book. appropriate "
the holiday needs, are given verse char-
acter sketches of the children or pS-
sncient Rriton, the outlaw, the Jester ana
others all of them dear lovable little
folks very much like those we know TO-
day The author and the illustrator
have worked together in what may DC
surmised to be a sisterly cooperation
THE SEVEN AGES OF CHILDHOOD.
Pictures by Jessie Wilcox Smftr.
Verses by Carolyn Wells: New YORK:
Moffat Yard & Co. washington:
Woodward & LOthrop.
Miss Wells has written a delightful
parodic extension of Jaques' soliloquy'
while Miss Smith has accompanied her
verses with series of marginal sketches
and seven of her exquisitely truthful ana
artistic color plates. 1t Is only to be re-
GREETED that in the scheme or thihgs the
Continuity of Juvenile progression has
been broken by the intrusion OF one OF
the boy kind, while all the other charac-
ters in this march Of life are Of the
gentler sex.
THE STORY OF DUTCH PAINTING.
By Charles H. Caffin, author OF How
to Study Pictures" etc. New YORK:
The Century Company.
Mr.. Cafin's How to Study Pictures IS
appropriately followed by the volume on
tn painters of the Dutch school OF the
seventeenth century, a school which eX-
erted a marked influence upon the de-
yelopment of European art and is today
regarded as of the utmost Importance in
the worlds history of painting. Mr.Cdff1n
in his analysis of the conditions under
which these artists worked necessarily
touches upon social and historical affairs
Slightly, but in the main he describes the
ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the principal eX-
moments of the Dutch school in por-
traiture. landscape and representations of
the life of the people. More IMAM thlrtV
admirably reproduced examples of Dutch
art add to the value of the volume as
handbook and guide to the student.
TAG; or, The Chen Boule Dog. BY
Valance Patriarche. illustrated by
Wallace Goldsmith. Boston: l.. c.
Page & Co. Washington: William
BaIlantyne & Sons.
A bridal couple on a train become inter-
ested in a small boy who is tagged for
New York The child. Canadian-French.
has the dog, and the dog chews the tag.