Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13

profession. she is by preference a writer
OF advanced views concerning women.
Living in a bachelor way, this young
woman at the days end receives all man
neT OF men and women, oddities possessed
of vagaricus ideas. Here, lying a di-
van clad in kimono and haloed by CT
garette smoke of her own puf1ng, the
girl gravely discusses subjects which ma
ture and genuinely kind-hearted, charita-
BILE people are quite certain she can know
nothing at all about. NervOusly insa tia bic
for work, in the between whiles of teach-
ing and salon-ing she dashes of brilliant
prophecies for woman and confutlng ar
guments against the overload. Avid for
complete knowledge of the human and IN
a search for motives and promptlngs,
she engages as tutor to dazzling denizen
of the underworld. incidentally here she
accomplishes rescue and an upItt.
When upon occasion some mere woman
flies into Jealous fits that her spouse Is
forever at the feet OF this sapient maiden
the girl comes right to the point, easily
convincing the mistaken woman of her
own integrity besides showing her no" TO
do her hair and clear her complexion as
a probable cure for the husbands wan
derlust There are pages and pages OF
familiar argument going along with TINS
general activity. If the whole were not
cast in so grave mold to which respect
must be given. it's deliciously pert abb
surdity would make for amusement
WHEN LOVE CALLS MEN TO ARMS.
An Autobiography of Love and Ad-
venture, TruthfulIy Set Down by
Rorie Maclean. Laird of kilellan. in
the Seventeenth Century, and Here
Rewritten from the Original MS.
into Clearer English. BY Stephen
Chalmers, author of "The Vanish
ing Smuggler." etc. illustrated by
Howard Chandler Christy. Boston:
Small, Maynard & Co.
A ship from the fleet Of the armada
stressed by wind and tide to the Scot
fish coast. where in turmoil of mutiny
it lands a Spanish Don John, starts off
this stirring tale. Don Johns Office in
the adventure closes, Enthusiastically,
at the ingraft of Spanish strain to High
land blood. In a swift fight of years,
maiden, blend Of Spain and Scotland,
stands at the center of as red a strife as
ever Helen could boast. or any other of
a long line of trouble-making sirens. A
perfect welter of warfare keeps the mar
tial pibroch wailing by night and day,
and the ugly claymores, Outnumbering
the trees of the forest, drop heads from
clannish shoulders like the down-tumb-
ling of autumn leaves, as Campbells and
MacDonalds rush to mutual slaughter.
Mr. Chalmers uses the familiar pains
taking and roundabout speech supposed
to represent the tardy talk of the inlet
tered Scot of that early time. Mr.. Christy
in his work of illustration makes much
of a plaid scarf. Barring the plaid. this
early Scotch lass looks as up-tO-date as.
and moreover quite like, Mr.. Christys
only girl.
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; Con-
else History of it's Causes, Prog
ress and Results. BY John Formby.
With siXty-siX Maps and Plans.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Washington: Brentanos.
Though there is nothing in the way OF
an identifying biographical note to indi-
cate the nationality of the author of this
work, it is obvious from the beginning
that Mr.. Formby is an Englishman His