Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-16
port herself during these troubled times
of revolution

port herself during these troubled times
of revolution.
WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN.
BY James Whitcomb Riley. Illus
trated by Howard Chandler Christy.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-M Merrill Com
pany.
1t may be that James Whitcomb Riley
will write no more Recently from In
d1anapolis came the shocking news that
I he had suffered a stroke of paralysis, and
perhaps this poem. printed in attractive
holiday form. with many of Mr.. Christys
drawings, will be the last from his pen.
II teiis a rural romance in the familiar
INDIANA dialect. and with the same
sweetness and dramatic force that have
made the Hoosier poets works immensely
popular
FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO THE
HOME OF OMAR kHAYYAN, Trav-
els in Transcaucasia md Northern
Persia for Historic and Literary Re-
search. BY A. V. Williams Jackson,
author of Persia. Past and Pres
ent. etc. illustrated. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
To know the east like a book and to be
able to write book about 1t is so rare
combination, even in these days of
| world-touring. that Prof. Jackson's work
eral reader.
The average traveller to the orient may
make the trip from the metropolis of the
the ottoman empire to the tomb of the
Persian poet and come home with men,
cries to last him his lifetime. but one
must possess the genius of research to
find in the journey the treasures of in
cident historic and legendary. which en-
rched every step of the authors way.
The chapters descriptive of Persia, its
long, long past and problematic future.
are Of keen interest, in view of the ex-
citing conditions of that nations inn
mediate present. The verify of the
adage concerning the prophet and his
country must have impressed the author
as he made his pilgrimage to the tomb
of Omar khayyam. since of the natives
he met on the road to Nishapur "only
a half dozen would know of Omar, and
then as DR. Khayyam' the scientist and
astronomer whose computations reduced
the year to better reckoning: they might
possibly add that he was a philosopher
and sage. but none would remember that
he was poet The sarcophasus
shrined in an arched wing of a mosque
scription. but every one knows that 1t
Is Omar's grave. A substantial evidence
of certainty is furnished by 'vandal
scribblers' who. doubtless in difference to
the poets belief that flowers would
desecrated 1t with random scraWls, and
have also scratched their names upon
the brown mortar of the adjoining wallis
To the educational and literary value of
the text are added more than 200 Illus
trations, many of them from photographs
taken by the author; copious footnotes
and a map. The book itself is beauti-
fully bound, with a colored view OF
Omar's tomb pictured on a background
of olive green and gold
DAVID CROCKETT. Scout. Small hoy,
Pilgrim, Mountaineer. Soldier. Bear
Hunter aud Congressman' Defender
Of the Alamo. BY Charles Fletcher
Allen. With illustrations by Frank
McKernan, and portrait. Phila-
delphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.
The story of David Crockett is per-
ennially interesting to young readers.
The career of the pioneer and scout
was filled with adventures of the kind
that boys particularly like to read
about In this volume the story is re-
told for the benefit of Young America
with the idea Of giving a better un
derstanding of the life and motives of
the man who did so much to push back
the frontiers of the republic. frontis-
piece in color and other illustrations
give the work a value as a holiday
gift book.
WALLY: A story Of the West. BY Guy
Steely. Frontispiece by w. w. Faw-
cett. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Though chronicled by historians de-
scribed by novelists, limned by artists
and sung by bards, the west still retains,
under the guidance of Mr.. Steely, suffi-
cient charm to delight the reader OF oval
ly' Not only are the characters and
their discourse worthy of appreciation
and calculated to engage ones interest,
but ones curiosity is held in constant sus-
pense until the conclusion Of the story for
fear that the lost mine covered by Par
son Palmer's house. a hill near Wa
hee, New. be possessed by other than
it's rightful owner. Palmer's foster son.
The latter is saved from being victim
of his extreme ideals of honesty through