Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-21

not OF animal existence, without invid-
ious distinctions. take amazing parts,
play amazing roles. One has to catch
this book here and there as he can get
1T. It refuses to- stand still for ex-
animation and desies classification. 1t
has q beautiful front cover that looks
| exactly like sheet Of white birch, and
that is the only certain thing about 1t.
THE BLACK PEARL. BY Mrs; Wilson
Missioner" etc. New York: d. APP
pleton & Co.
In this romance Of the Arizona desert
Mrs. Woodrow scores a triumph through
her translation Of the spirit Of the desert
into the body OF the dancing girl, 'The
Black Pearl" The general plot here is of
the conventional type so familiar in sto-
ries Of new and rough corners of the
west. A Spanish father Of the girl, COM
monplace, foolish mother harping upon
her own early cheap actress days, a group
of neighborhood citizens chiefly Of
the adventurer stripe, bandit, sheriff
and his posse. unite and separate in a
swift succession of we'll known adven-
lures. The absorbing point of the story
is the authors poetic conception of the
desert and the vividness with which she
puts this vision of weird beauty, of mys-
terry, of lure and enchantment across to
the reader through the medium of the
dancing girls picturesque personality.
This girl, another Carmen, is an elusive,
mystifying, ensnaring daughter of the
great Arizona desert.
THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN. A
Book for Young Teachers. BY John
Writ Dinsmore. A. NJ, professor OF
pedagogy of Berea College; author
Of Teaching a District School"
New York: American Book Com
pany.
Unfortunately. there are still many
teachers with little or no specific train
ing for the business of teaching, many OF
narrow experience, many remote and out
of touch with others Of their craft. These
need, above everything else, an available
source sof instruction in the training of
children. something sound, plain and I'm,
mediately useful. The compact and well
ordered little volume in hand-a good
partner to this authors Teaching Dis
| trict Schools a study exactly fitted to
meet teachers OF this class. It Is con-
| crete study Of abundant and familiar IL
lustration The large essentials of psy-
chology, untechnical in their phras1ng,
here stand clear Of subtle abstract en-
| tanglements. A few basic principles are
| drawn In sharp lines OF frequent repeti-
ton. Methods DIRE described and plans
for the practice that perfects training
are freely and interestingly set down.
| It is. moreover. a readable book and one
calculated to be Of distinct service to the
class for which it was designed.
THE CONVICTIONS OF A GRAND
FATHER. BY Robert Grant. author
of 1.-The Reflections of a Married
Man." etc. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
tano's.
This grandfather somewhere in these
engaging reflections calls himself a social
philosopher, spectator, a chronicler. He
| is certainly all of these. 1t is not SO al
together clear, however, that he is more
than an assumed and literary grand
father Be this as it may, he is a wide
awake, far-seeing observer of men and
affairs. a most genial and faithful chron-
| icler Of innumerable interesting aspects
of the common life about us. A clever,
delightful book Of easy movement.
THE ART OF THE BERLIN GAL
LERIES. Giving a History OF the
! Kaiser Friedrich Museum. With a
Critical Description of the Paint
| ings Therein Contained. Together
| With a Brief Account of the Nation
| al Gallery Of Nineteenth Century
! Art. BY David C. Preyer, A. NJ.
| author Of 1.-The Art of the Vienna
Galleries." etc. Illustrated. Boston:
L. c. Page & Co. Washington.
Brentano's.
Berlins tribute to art assumes noble
proportions when revealed with the faith