Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-05

matter with that of foreign countries Is In
forming and suggestive, within the limits
ferent points OF view. The exposition
closes with q setting forth of the princi-
pies and purposes of conservation, coupled
with the moral and patriot aspects OF
the subject. Appendices embody "a, the
declaration OF governors for conservation
of national resources:s(2, the proceedings
Of the North American conservation con-
ference; Cd, the purposes of the National
Conservation Association. Charts and
maps give graph accounts OF distribu-
ton and production-both absolute and
relative-in time, as we'll as in area limits.
Pictures show interesting facts about
forests. denudation and demonstration. the
suggestive gathering. of q single phase of
our economic future. This volume Is
only another example of what writer's and
publishers are doing for a real national
ism by waysof public education.
Amelia f. Barr author OF "The
Hands Of Compulsion," etc. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
Amelia Bars new novel takes on the
habit of the fairy story. Here Is the
same stress of things uncomfortable, here
the same magic turn to ease Of circum-
periority to human nature and the logic
plausible sequence to entertain strange
and vagrant happenings. Setting out with
the marriage of beautiful, gentle wom-
an to a selfish Scotch boOr and his
mother. the story moves along the COM
monplace, unarousing plane of the
mother-in-law in affairs matrimonial. The
wife's ever-delayed flight and her pursuit
by the husband prOlopg the action. which
closes with repentance, remarriage, re-
constructed husband, and the forecast of
I, I.,Y11y 0f tt1a
story busies itself with the making of a
dull. mean-spirited. bad-mannered man.
the weak tool of a harridan of mother.
The last fragment of it-and this Is the
point where the fairy grows busy with
her wand-presents this miraculous over
turning of disposition and habit and
draws an idyllic picture of the united
future of these two.
THE BOYS DRAKE, Story Of the Great
fury. BY Edwin NJ. Bacon. author
OF The Boys Hakluyt." etc. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Washington: BrentanO's.
Barely to chronicle the deeds of Eng
lands great navigator is to write his
tory which any story-loving boy will read
for the sake of it's adventure. Mindful
% the average youngsters aversion to
lessons out of school: the writer has
given to his facts a dramatic glamour
that makes the book as enticing as II 1t
were fiction instead Of an accurate biog-
raphy of the first great admiral Of the
English navy.
No attempt is made to sugar-coat the
character of the famous sea fighter. The
boy reader Is made to know him as he
was in Hfe-a lawless rover. a buccaneer
of the Spanish main, a hero who was not
always good. but was nearly always sue
cessful, and who, was often kind when he
might have been cruel. In addition to
the attractive text are a. number of IL
Illustrations depicting the days and scenes
in which Drake lived: a portrait of him.
self after being knighted by Queen Eliz-
abeth: old drawings of battleships of
1883. and a map OF brakes West Indies
expedition in 1856.
THE ANNALS OF ANN. BY Kate Trim
BILE Sharber. With illustrations by
Paul J. Meylan. Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
Ann is so very like other AIMS who live
in the world instead Of book that the
resemblance is that of twins.
Throughout the pages of her diary
written in behalf Of her grandchildren
one gets a glimpse Of natures own preco-
cious child-woman who surreptitiously
chaperones the rOrnauceS of grown peo-
pie because the time has not quite come
for romanceS of her own. The sleuth-
like vigilance with which she pursues
each courtship that goes on In her We
cinity is calculated to startle alike the
couples who provide material for the an
nails and any we'll regulated grandchild
who may read them later on. Ann is an
infectiously gay and shrewd young per-
son who snaps off epigrams with the
woridliness of cynic and the abandon
Of a child who pors a paper bag. She
madly worships Byron, and it is her IA.
miliarity with books and her general
understanding of the ways of life that
might, perhaps, cause man reader 10
blame the author for spelling the reality