Evening star., 1912-11-16

accomplished. Mr.. George, originator of
the Junior Republic idea and the inventor
of the original republic at Freeville,
n. y. provided the data and the ideas
for the volume, while Mr.. Stowe has put
these materials into form. Mr.. George,
having demonstrated by years of practice
what can be done in the way of boy
director Of the National Association OF
Junior Republics, which aims to co-relate
the work of the widely separated repub-
lies and to establish at least one such In
each state of the Union. MIR. Stowe is
secretary of this association. This work
Is an Interpretation of the real meaning
and significance of the training of boys
undertaken at the republics. and gives
an outline of a practical method by winch
the principles that have already proved
successful in tho reformation of boys ana
girls may be applied to law-breaking
adults. This is distinctly Il work of
hopefulnesS.
FROM MY HUNTING DAY-BOOK. BY
His Imperial and Royal Highness
the Crown Prince of the German
Empire and of Prussia. New York:
Holder & Stdughton.
These are just pages taken from the
hunting diary of a man who loves open
air sport and to whom nature, grand and
beautiful. is an ineNhaustible source of
delight and joy The Crown Prince of
Germany. who submits this work to a
doubtless eager public with the foregoing
words by way of preface confesses
to small literary merit and speaks
indeed, of his hunting prowess with
somewhat surprising modesty. He tells
of hunting. elephants in Ceylon and
tigers in Indian before proceeding
to the nearer and less dangerous
E.1rr0np a
written without pretense at literary
style and recites the outline of killings
graphically. The illustrations are excep-
tional!y fine. being heavily mounted re-
productions from photographs.
CAPTTALIZATION:a a Book on Corpora
tfon Finance. By w. H. Lyon. attor-
ney at law and professor of finance
in the Amos Tuck School of Ad-
ministration and Finance, Dart
mouth College. Boston: Houghton
Miffiin Company.
Herein are presented the methods and
underlying principles Of corporation
finance, dealing principally with the Sc
curities of corporations, the amounts OF
their issue and their relation to one an
other. The work is suitable for use as
text in a collegiate course in economics,
presenting strongly the point of view OF
the corporation manager, though without
argument. This is a clear glimpse be-
mind the scenes of big company manage
ment.
THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM:
NOvelixed From the Play. BY David
Belasco. Illustrations by John Rae.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Just why it was deemed advisable to
transform the play that has been running
SO successfully in New York into a novel
instead of presenting it in It's original
text cannot be determined. Surely the
plays text itself is, after all, the thing.
Rarely is a dramatic production success
fully transmitted into story form. The
mediums of expression employed are
wholly different. Descriptive scenes that
in the dramatic version are plainly rem
dered by Indication or by action become
wooden and unconvincing when described
by the ay-transforming novelist. The
construction inevitably loses something of
ter Grimm describing the revisiting
after death of the scenes of living actlv-
ity on the part of a singular old Dutch
florist. has made a deep impression on
the public to the extent that it has been
seen on the stage. An old man dies. be-
lieving that his dearest wishes are to be
gratified. Returning after death, MS
spirit finds that treachery is afoot. The
unseen but seeing personality of Peter
Grimm struggling for expression and IN
fuence, finally affects the living and brings
about conditions which the old man SO
intensely desired in life. The supernatu-
raj has been deftly, convincingly ham
died in the play, but loses somewhat In
the novel form.
A CRY IN THE WILDERNESS. BY
Mary Z. Waller, author of THE
Wood Carver of 'Lympus." etc. With
a frontispiece in color by Arthur L.
Keller Boston: Little, Brown Co.
A girl, ignorant of her parentage, sick.
poor and entirely alone, answers an ad-
vertisement that takes her from New
York to the Canadian woods. The diary
Of her earlier experiences in Work-hunt-
ing is so natural in it's privations and
youthful longings that it might have been
written by any other clever girl who fights
her bread battles in the world instead of
between the covers of book. The same
descriptive realism gives snow-white
and summer-green to forest primeval,
and peoples an old manor house with men
and women who are flesh and blood. This
paradise of Canadian nature and literary
art however harborS theme which Sug-
aestsc the serpent of that other Eden.
From the moment the heroine meets the