Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-02

stantial book. whose Illustrations in num-
Der and character are among Its many
fine distinctions.
LOVE AND LETTERS. BY Frederic
Rowland Marvin, author Of 1.-THE
Excursions Of a Booklover,' etc.
Boston: Sherman, French & Co.
a book for the leisure hour and the
quiet mood. Out of an amazing store
house, the author brings to this meeting
a literary host to light up and beautify
the common experiences of life. Whatever
his theme, he sleeps it in the best that
literature has done for it. If it be love
and the messages that spring from this.
one feels that he has read the full cor
respondence of the great lovers OF the
world. If he elect to talk about his neigh
Dor, it is some delightful neighbor Of the
mind one with whom he has had count
less intimate confabS over the back fence
of their adjoining acres. If he discourse
of silence, 1t at once becomes sorry vo-
cal with the deep things that the best
have brought to the surface for our ce-
light A charming book that savors OF
sunny frontage and velvet shadows IN the
rear. A book that smells of apple blooms
and sounds of dr0ning bees. II one Is
losing the healing essay mood Of refec-.
ton and tranquility he should revive II
at once with just such a volume as this.
RECOLLECTIONS GRAVE AND GAY.
BY Mrs. Burton Harrison. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Washington: Brentano'S.
Mrs Burton Harrison's recollections are
more engaging than pages Of life itself.
For in life, no matter how high ones
excluding walls may rise. dull people,
generally average people. cannot be
estopped from walking the borders Of
ones demesne, thereby casting grotesque
and irritating shadows upon it. Mrs.
Harrison, in her act of creation, ex-
cludes all such past peradventure. The
result is, that this handsome volume
cotempOraneous pageant. in which are
gathered significant and important people
from our own country and Europe-hun-
dreds of these; writer's. explorers, scien-
fists, philanthropists. diplomats, states
men and general society, revolving wheel
within wheel with the precision of the
consultations in their orbits. A large
and rich experience gathered by sociable
nature and a divining personality. coupled
with the touch-and-go manner Of the
easy narrator, builds these recollections
into brilliant picture book Of one side
of American life.
KONIGsKINDER; or, The Royal Chill
dren. BY Ann Alice Chaplin, au-
thor of Wonder Tales from Wag-
ner," etc. New York: Harper &
Bros.
Out of Engelbert Humperdincks fairy
opera of 1.-The Royal Children Miss
Chaplin has made a word fairy story Of
del.cacy and charm, illustrating it with
scenes photographed from the. opera
itself, and showing by series of short
musical scores the motive under which
each of the magic scenes grew. Two chill
dren, the kings son and a lowly goose
girl. meet in an enchanted forest. Seized
in the enwebbing spell of the place they
thereafter pass together through amaz-
ing scenes and adventures fiddler,
witch, Swarms from every sort of fairy
tribe and all the other living things Of
wood and void bear thrilling parts In
these strange farngs. This is the heart
of the matter-a pure fantasy, through
which runs a single golden thread for
the wise to follow. In transposing this
to prose, Mss Chaplin has held fast to a
large measure of both music and poetry.
A charming thing.
THE CITY OF THE SOUL. BY Lord
Alfred Douglas. New York: John
Lane Company.
A very flawless set of sonnets, OPEN
throated and musical. The songs of this
volume possess a ripping ease, a fresh
and poetic intimacy with the near things
of ufe-nature and love. desire and JOY
the full litany Of youth. These ballads
and sonnets were written while Lord
Douglas was still an undergraduate at
Oxford. When was that? What has the