Evening star., 1912-06-15

In Old DOMINION development. Inc au-
thor Of this volume undertook the
work out of curiosity regarding his an
tecedents. but continued despite diff
culties. until he has produced work of
real Importance. His researches car
ried him through the documentary col
lections of Virginia. some of them be-
ing in a sad state Of dilapidation. But
despite obstacles he has produced a his
tory of the Ficklin family that will be
fnterestir~ to a great many people.
BEDTIME STORIES-LULU. ALICE
AND JIMMY WIBBLEWOBBLE. By
Howard r. Garis. author of Those
smith BOYS etc Iilustrauons m :, =, rsn ny
Company.
There is always a demand for new
childrens stories. and particularly
stories about the creatures Mr..
Garis originally told these stories in
Newark, n. J., anI was persuaded to
put them into book by the delight
with which the young readers of that
newspaper received them. The chief
characters in these tales are geese and
they have some rema rkable adventures
and get into all sorts of comical
scrapes. Ever child who loves TO hear
about the doings of birds and animals
who can talk will be grateful to Mr..
Garis for offering this entertaining
book.
SUFFERS SHORT SPEECHES. Care
fully Compiled from the Records Of
Congress. with Other Ohicinl Data
and a Brief Biographical sketch. BY
George W. Blake OF the New York
Times New York: J. S. Ogilvie
Publishing Company.
Representative Sulzer seldom rises to
speak in the House of Representatives
or elsewhere without presenting mat
ter of Importance and presenting 1t,
too, in the most attractive form. He
Is one of the best extemporaneous
speakers in the House and he also on
occasions, prepares his addresses with
care. In this volume are given seven
ty-seven speeches. which have been
heard at one time or another In the
House or at meetings. They are pre-
ceded by few chapters which deal
with the man and his record, including
a brief biographical sketch. So wide is
the range of Mr.. Suffers interest and
activity that these "ages cover prac-
tically all phases Of modern political
questions.
THE UNDER TRAIL. BY Anna Alice
Chaplin. With illustrations by Mar
tin Justice. Boston: Little, Brown
& Co.
Miss Chap'n, who to her writing adds
anu dIl eSldDllSuou OH
the stage-she is a member of Maude
Adams company-has been writing for
several years. Her earlier work has not
been altogether fiction. and she is the au-
thor of a delightful book for little folk,
called "The Nowadays Fairy Book But
in her latest work she fails to get it
across" to use a slang expression of the
stage. "The Under Trail is a compound
of the wildly improbable. the absurdly
impossible and the frankly melodramatic.
1t is idle to endeavor to convince the
reader tuat girl who could do the in
sane things done by Juliet Gray could
ever be success as a nurse. The scene
of the story is in the mountains of west
those mountairk can be deceived even
for moment by the stage setting of the
tale. Withal, the story entertains even
while creating an attitude of total disbe-
lief and unrealism in the mind of the
reader.
TOBY: 4 Novel Of Kentucky. BY
Credo Harris. Boston: Small, May
nard & Co.
Here is tale of the sort that leaves
good taste in the mouth. Nobody could
call the story great one: but it is an