Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-14

SELL Soart from her strong and appeal
ing persc<sality. Indeed, so individual
does Rose Mary become that masculine
readers VIII be prone to feel sense OF
perhaps unconscious jealousy of the
young mining engineer who is so fortu-
nate as TO fall under her care when he
is taken i'll near her home and is car
ried unconscious to it. Rose Mary is
one OF those women who love all hui
mainly, but this does not mean that she
Is incapable of a very genuine affection
Tor one person. and the only anxiety one
feels In reading this disappointingly brief
novel is lest she may be forced by cir
cumstances into an alliance that would
De altogether unsuitable. Around Rose
Mary are grouped some kindly, whole
some people, her uncle and aunts, her
little cousin, Stonewall Jackson: her
neighbors. good people all. who are ami
mated by the most genuine friendship
and by answering loyalty. This is the
kind of book to make all who read ii
feel better toward the world.
cUPID's FAIR WEATHER BOOK: In
Guiding an Almanac for Any Two
Years tTrue Love Ought to Last
That Long,. BY John Cecil Clay
and Oliver HEREFORD, direction of
Daniel Cupid. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington
This is the second volume Of the
Cupid's Almanac, and is dedicated ITO
All Good Hearticulturists." Mr.. Clay
has contributed the pictures and Mr..
HerfOrd the texts, now a bit of prose
and again verse. The pictures are ar
tistic and attractive and diverting and
Mr.. Herford is in his best vein of kindly
cynicism. This is book to add to
the gayety of life.
THE DUTCH TWINS. BY Lucy Fitch
Perkins. Illustrated by the author.
Boston: Houghton Miffiin Company.
The hero and heroine of this delightful
little story of child life in Holland are
Christopher and Katrina, Familiarity
known as Kit and Kat. These two young
sters have some interesting adventures
that show many phases of life in the
Netherlands. The author has artistically
and graphically illustrated her own text.
SOME CHEMICAL PROBLEMS OF TO-
DAY. BY Robert Kennedy Duncan,
director of industrial research and
professor of industrial chemistry at
the University of Pittsburgh and at
the University of Kansas. Illustrat-
ed. New York: Harper & Brothers
Chemistry has become 80 definitely ap-
gible item of college or university curric-
branches Of education. Prof. Duncan IL
illustrates in this volume how great is the
value of the chemist in the modern
economic equation. A brief chapter on
the prizes of chemistry gives his reader
a rapid glance at the field of invention
and discovery in the industrial arts that
the chemists of today are covering. He
then proceeds through the more technical
phases of the subject. considering the
question of the atom and the WHITTIER
ward of matter" the chemical interpre-
tation of life, the beginning Of things to
the trend of chemical invention. He
treats. for instance Of what chemistry
is doing for business and society and of
camphor as a revolutionized industry.
He shows how important has been the
work of the chemist in the making of
bread and how Intimate is the relation
ship between the chemical laboratory and
the American manufacturing plant. A
most interesting disclosure of what is
being done in educational lines is con-
tanned in a chapter on the relation of the
University of Wisconsin to the state,
comprising a report which the author, at
the request of Gov. Stubs of Kansas,