Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-16

the interference of Wally. a hare
Drained young man of twenty-six, who is
expected by his lawyer and trustee to
reach the age of discretion at forty. But
he shows peculiar business ability in his
mana cement of the frequent sales of
Palmer's house, the ultimate object of
which was it's restoration to the foster
son. For Camper. millionaire of Wahee.
had acquired the house by legal. though
questionably honest. means. ignoring
Palmer's common law rights. Not the
least important of the characters is Lee
Ching, the parsons Chinese man servant.
upon whom devolves the duty of making
known to Wally the existence of the
lost mine. and who is constantly brought
to the reader s attention as the motif
lending oriental color to the authors de-
sign of the plot, Many things may be
said of the book in as many different
ways. but none more true than that the
book is written about matters which grip
one with a fascination to the end, and in
style as pleasing and light and as full
OF clevernesS as could be desired.
GOETHE AND HIS WOMAN FRIENDS.
BY Mary Caroline Crawford, author
of Romantic Days in Old Boston,"
etc. Illustrated. Boston: Little.
Brown & Co.
The author of this volume regards
Goethe as being far from a bad man.
but on the contrary IAN astonishingly
good man, judged by the moral stand.
ards OF his own time" Indeed, in her
reckoning. the greatest crime proved
against him was that for ten years he
maze love on paper to a married lady
ten years his senior. With this I'M
derstanding it is possible to read this
account OF Goethe's love affairs with
eome degree of sympathy for him in
his amorous acknowledgements, although
the catalogue of his feminine fancies
is astonishingly long. In this work
the author undertakes to present in
Hfelike detail the personalities that
from time to time attracted Goethe
and inspired his work. Much is known
in all these cases and the author has
with pafnstaking fidelity drawn from
all available sources and presented q
series OF pen portraits and to show the
influences which affected Goethe
number of we'll chosen illustrations
add materially to the interest and val
lie OF this volume.
A WINTER SPORT BOOK. BY Regi-
Maid Cleaver. With an Introduction
by Rev. Hon. Edward Lyttleton. M
"A. London: Adam & Charles Black.
In recent years it has come to be quite
popular diversion to visit the Alps in
winter for the sake of the sports. In this
delightful volume Mr. Cleaver sets forth
in both text and inimitable drawings
some of the most comic aspects of skiing,
tobogganing and ordinary shedding of the
Alpine winter season. There is many
hearty laugh in these pages. for Mr..
Cleaver's style in both text and pictures
is calculated to provoke the risibilties of
the most sedate For it is true that some
people try the Alpine sports without the
slightest training and qualification, and
the result is some most diverting and
exciting happenings. If all the funny
things that Mr.. Cleaver shows in his pic
lures actually happen at st. MoritZ and
other Alpine winter resorts American
travel over there during the cold season
Will be greatly increased a result Of
this volume.
THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES: 4 Canoe
Journey of 1000 Miles in Search Of
the Caribou, Being the Account Of n
Voyage to the Region North of Ayl-
mer Lake. BY Ernest Thompson
Seton, author of Life Histories"
etc. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. Washington: Woodward &
Lotnrop.
into the arctic for the purpose of explor-
ing the prairies of that region and the
result is this volume. Compact with in
formation and full of human interest He
tells the story of his expedition with his
customary graphic quality and introduces
his readers to hitherto undescribed con-
ditiOns, telling of the flora and fauna of
this little known land Many pictures
accompany the text, some from photo
graphs. others large wash drawings in
Mr.. Setons familiar style, and small line
sketches, passing notes of animals and
their trails and the flowers and shrubs
An important and valuable contribution
to the literature of Alaska.
VENICE AND VENETIA. BY Edward
Hutton. author of The Cities of
Umbria," etc. With fourteen illus
trations in color by Maxwell Arm
field. and twelve other illustrations
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
Mr.. Hutton's familiarity with the We
netian region permits him to present