Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-21
character and is profusely Illustrated
with portraits of singers in various roles

character and is profusely illustrated
with portraits of singers in various roles.
BENJAMIN OF OHIO; a story Of the
Settlement Of Marietta. BY James
Otis. New York: American Book
Company.
This is the story of boys trip from
Massachusetts to the ohio country,
being particularly adapted to school
readers purposes and incidentally con-
veying valuable information for young
students of history. with many pictures
to whet their interest and relieve the
work Of the tedium usually caused by
the study of school book The story Is
told as a narrative and follows the FOR
tunes Of a youth over the hard roauS
and treacherous waters leading to the
Ohio land.
THE FORTUNES OF THE; LANDRAYS.
BY Vaughan Hester. Indianapolis:
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
The popularity attained by Mr.. Kester
through his later books. THE Prodigai
Judge" and 1.-The Just and the Unjust,
is responsible for the reprinting OF Tine
Fortunes Of the Landrays," first pup
lished in 1908. The story is one that
takes the reader through the pioneer
days of Ohio. the sweep and swirl of the
gold excitement of the late 4Os. the war
between the states. and down to our own
times-a pretty generous period Tor any
writer to cover within the limitations OF
a single volume. The misfortunes OF the
Landrays might, perhaps. be a more mt
ting title these misfortunes beginning
with the murder of the two Landrays
with whom the reader meets hrst and
continuing until the closing pages or the
final chapter are reached. Nevertheless
1t is an absorbing story. of the straight
forward, biographical school of fiction
that reads as convincingly as fact II
might perhaps have been better had the
publishers re-edited the story and print
ed this edition from new type instead OF
using the old plates. Certain crudities OF
style. the mark of the immature writer,
might then have been smoothed over,
and it is certain the book would not have
been so full of typographical errors.
AS HE WAS BORN. BY Tom Gallon.
New York: George II. Doran Com
pany.
When Uncle Mapletoft called on his
nephew, Felix Delany, in his London
studio to find out how he was getting
on, not having seen him before, he was
received so vociferously, not to say rude
ly by the scapegrace and his assembled
will bequeathing his large fortune in a
most peculiar manner. This will made
young Delany the heir upon condition
that by a certain date he should enter
the village of which Uncle Mapletoft was
leading citizen. clothed precisely las he
was born" and was to maintain himself
for thirty days within the precincts of
the village without asking directly for
assistance or making known his heir
ship. 1t took Felix about half an hour
to get a blanket, and from this blanket
he progressed with surprising rapidity
to the possession of a presentable ward
robe, but meanwhile becoming involved
in complications that led to romance and
finally to apparent defeat financially. The
story moves with brisk cleverness and in
wolves some highly ludicrous situations
that are skillfully handled. The climax
is satisfactory if not altogether unguess-
able.
DEUTSCHE HEIMAT. Edited by Josefa
Schrakamp. Illustrated. with notes,
conversational questions and vo-
cabulary. New York: American
Book Company.
simply in German a general survey of
the German nation which will be of
value to the student in his subsequent
reading. It treats the various divisions
of Germany in geographical sequence and
gives short descriptions Of natural seen
cry, national and local customs. student
life, important historical events, famous
buildings, the traditions and tales asso-
ciated with them and numerous poems.
An appendix contains a selection of prov
cribs and travel dialogues, and treats of
the political constitution of Germany,
money, units of measure, inventions, etc,
the whole followed by a series of ques-
tons for use in conversation.