Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11

delightful tale of suburban life. Aided
and abetted by some remarkable photo
graphs. Mr. Butler has set forth the joys
and tribulations of that form of existence
in his own inimitabie style. and II will be
a dull reader. indeed who does not lay
the book aside with a sense of gratitude
for most enjoy fable hour.
AESOP'S FABLES. Illustrated by f.
Boyd Smith. New York: The Gen.
tury Company.
This edition of Aesop's Fables is ex-
ceptionally artistic The text is presented
on green bordered pages, while the illus
trations are of unusually high order OF
merit. Without descending to the low
comedy which often marks pictures in
reprintings of Aesop. these are distinctly
humorous. The volume forms a most at
tractive gift book.
THE LAW OF DEPOSITS. BY Fred W.
Weitzel LII. NJ, OF the District of
Columbia bar Washington: Econ
omy Publishing Company.
Mr. Weitzel has served as legal adviser
to the controller of the currency, and in
this capacity has learned the need of
practical work for the Information of
bankers attorneys and business men,
treating of the law with relation to bank
deposits to explain the statutes that have
been written on the subject, and, in case
of conflict. to indicate the law in each
state and the more favored practice. This
work represents wide research. and is
likely to be found of practical value not
only to bankers. but to every person who
has a bank account.
IN THE SHADOW Of ISLAM. By De.
metra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth BROWN.
Illustrated by f. Pollak-Ottendorff.
Boston: Houghton Miffiin Company.
A young American woman. late of Rad
cliffe College, going to the land of the OF
toman with altruistic aspirations and
messages for her yelled sisters of the
harem. but encountering there the fierce
ephemeral affections of a leader of the
Young Turk movement, furnishes under
the guidance of an able hand story
pregnant with oriental color and increas-
ing i'm interest to the end with slow
crescendo. Few are sufficiently courageous
to attempt to fathom the oriental. The
outcome of such an attempt, the seduc-
tiveness of the eastern charm, and all
conditions contributing to increase the
fascination of the east for the western
mind, have not failed to have effect on a
young Boston woman confronted with a
well educated young Turk Of physician per-
lection and beauty. His call is irresistible.
Rarely is the cleavage between races shown
to be so vast as the gulf between an
ference, the struggle between the prlm-
tive and civilized woman raised by the
call of the primitive and semi-barbarous
Osmanl and the fatalism of the east,
are admirably depicted in a story no less
interesting because of its being something
more than an ordinary novel, one in
which the call of the wild is conquered.
MY ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE. BE-
ing the Record Of the Expedition
that First Reached the BOreal Gem
ter, 10O7-10O0, with the Final Sum-
mary Of the Polar Controversy. BY
DIR. Frederick A. Cook. New York:
The Polar Publishing Company.
There is no more satisfactory way of
presenting this volume than by saying:
This is a book written by a man who
some time ago returned from the frozen
seas with the announcement that he had
attained the north pole and was receiy-
ed with acclaim as great discoverer,
and who later was denounced throughout
the world as pretender; who in the face
of a storm of public Indignation went into
retirement, emerging after months and
declaring that he may have been mis-
taken about the polar attainment SO
great were his sufferings in the arctic re-
gions, and who now asserts again that he
did in fact reach the point Of no longi-
tude 1t is useless to characterize the
work in detail. Certain well known facts
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comment that could be made here. such,
for instance, as the vigorous reputation
of Cook by the people of Copenhagen on
the occasion of his recent return to that
city. The author presents himself as an
aggrieyed and injured man. He declares
that his honors have been filched by an
other and he engages in direct compari-
sons between himself and that other ex-
plorer to whom have been definitely and
formally given the Iaurels of polar dis
covery" 1t is not to be denied that this
is well written document, readable on
every page and most adroitly phrased and
planned. 1t may make converts to DIR.
Cook. 1t cannot, however, seriously at
feet the judgment of the world upon this
question, which has for many months
been regarded as definitely settled.
BROADWAY. BY F. B. kerfoot. Draw
ings by Lester G. Horribly. Boston:
Houghton Miffiin Company.
New York has grown to such size