Evening star., 1912-11-09

ford Is a despised and alien daughter-in-
law and the grand-baby, Tony. COM
pact play this, moving along its track as
unSwerv'ngly as an engine on Its rails
it's people. bodies Of flesh and blood and
feeling and impulse like the rest OF US.
It is a lean and sinewy play, not an extra
ounce upon it from beginning to end.
GUTTER-BABIES. BY Dorothea Slade.
Illustrations by Lady Stanley. Bos-
ton: Houghton Miff1in Company.
These are pictures, not stories though
from one and another of them little story
threads flutter out to take firmer hold
on the heart Of the reader. Photographs
and sketches make up this volume, with
now and then a soft pastel to catch the
altogether inexcusable love!iness of some
one of these waits of the gutter world.
Out Of this London East Side, with
which she is obviously well acquainted
Miss Slade gathers up the pOlgnancy or
the great gutter nursery Of every crowd
ed city. The illustrations of this book
are Of a piece with the word pictures
marvels of fidelity and feeling, pictures
that tingle with life and action
BIsMYA, OR THE LOST CITY OF
ADAB; a Story of Adventure: a:
-
Oldest Of the Buried Cities Of Baby
Ionia. BY Edgar James Banks, Ph.
D. With 174 illustrations. New
York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Student-interest will naturally center in
the excavation of this "oldest of the
buried cities of Babylonia"; but the gen.
eraI reader will enjoy most the journey
to Bismya, because Of its associations
with Old Testament patriarchs, spectacu-
lar kings Of legendary splendor and OF
the thousand wonders Of the Arabian
Nights 1t is a way that takes in the
RUNS Of Homeric Troy. the silver mines
where "old King Croesus obtained his
wealth.; the tombs of Gordian. of the
famous knot, and Of Midas, who turned
all he touched to gold.
Out in the desert, bit from Bagdad,
one comes to the tomb of joshua, VINO
made the sun stand still. Later on there
is a visit to NebuchadneZZaT palace.
and after that a trip to the tower OF
Babel. whose subterraneous secrets ex-
cavatiOn has vet to unve1l. Hafun-a al
Rashid would doubtless fail to recognize
his glorious Bagdad in the narrow
streets. squalid huts and filthy people
of today, but the writer's enforced stay
gave him the privilege of studying ancient
minarets, walls and other tokens of the
glory that gave the old city Its name.
The history Of the explorers enorts TO
secure a permission from Turkey to eX-
cayate makes a chapter Of disapnoint-
ments and enforced delays, but that his
patience was more than rewarded IS eNi-
denced by the results obtained: per
feet marble statue and TIE fragments OF
other statues; hundreds of fragments OF
stone vases engraved. inlaid and lnscrlD-
ed: gold, copper and ivory objects; sew
eral thousand tablets of clay; the graves,
the weapons of war, the temple. the
palaces. the private homes the houssholu o.
utensils: even the games and toys or the
children unite in forming distinct pic
ture of the life and civilization of the
people of Babylonia of five thousand and
more years ago." And the telling of all
these priceless finds makes thrilling
story. The many illustrations include the
stone image of Da-uda. the oldest
statue in the world,'' which is also gold
hlazOned on the books cover OF dark
blue.
THE STORY OF THE RENAISSANCE
By William Henry Hudson author OF
IAN Introduction to the Study OF
Literature" etc. Win elght iuli- =
page plates. New York: CasseH q
Co., Ltd.
1.-THE Renaissance meant many things.
But beneath them all it meant funda-
| mental change in mems attitude toward
themselves and the world" To record
| the epochal merging Of the medieval into
the modern would be to overflow the
| boundaries of any one volume, and for
that reason, the author explains, he has
confined his attention almost entirely to
the story of the Renaissance in Ita'y,
France, Germany and England Inc
new birth, in relation to discovery and
invention; the revival In learning, reli-
gion, science, philosophy and art, is con-
| sidered In a series of chapters which
| bear witness to a Students Infinite pa
tience and a writer's ability to put his
| Weld in words. Portraits Of Shakespeare.
Bacon, Luther and Erasmus reproduced
! from famous paintings intersperse the
!, text, together with samples or the work
of Raphael and Michelangelo. the
frontispiece picturing st. Peters at
| Rome ION the occasion of a papal fes-
tivity."
DOUGLAS. BY Hiram w. Hayes,
author of "The Man of Clay" etc.
WASHINGTON: The Howerton Press.
This is the true story of one mortal
man-thc story of his comings-in and his
goings-out, his fortunes and his mis-
fortunes, his triumphs and his disap-
pointments, his hopes and his fears, his
quests and his discoveries and his prog
ress out of the darkness Of despair into
the broad sunlight Of faith and under
standing"
The tale is preceded by brief introduc-
tory chapter which presents Douglas, the
| central figure of these incidents, as writer
of. a newspaper article on the volcanic
disaster on the Island of Martinique. He
| is possessed by an overwhelming fear OF
death that has beset him for years and
driven him into excesses and adven-
lures. He travels in Persia and has some
| thrilling experiences there, especially In
!.