Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-26

piled this lack with a work that should
be read by every wearer OF shoe leather.
regardless of technical interest He COW
ers the field thoroughly. appropriately
including u history of footwear and COM
prehensively touching upon all the means
employed and the processes Of preparing
and handling m terials. He extends his
work to include not mercy leather. but
rubber footwear and kid glove manufac-
ture. This volume will serve as a text
book in technical schools but has a def
mite popular interest in addition.
ster. With illustrations by the
author. New York: The Century
Company.
Imagine a seventeen-year-old orphan
who has spent all her life in an tnstitu-
virtual independence and placed In COL
leee. to be given an education at the eA-
pense of a kindly gentleman who. as
trustee Of the ''home.' has become inter-
ested in this young person. Her only re.
acknowledgment to her benefacfor Inc
letters thus written form Miss Webster, 8
story in this case. with the exception oi
a SINGLE Introductory charter Her 10y,
tere are not of the sort that one vow
expect from a young person thus oiuckeo
from an appa -ently hopeless situation 10
the author of her new state of happlness.
Not at all awed bv his wealth ana sup
posed age. che addresses him In tnese
epistles with naive breezh'ess ta,
would Greatly have shocked her principa,
back at the orphan home had enc redu
anv of them. Out of this one-sided cor
resporTence comes romance me ns'uIe
of which it is quite nnfa'r 70 suggest hele'
but which gives Miss Websters stoIy az,
appeal that all readers Of Patty VIII
understand.
THE PROVINCIAL AMERICAN: And
Other Papers. BY Mered TN NlcnnI-
son. Boston: Houghton, Miffiin
Company.
These essays have appeared In masa-
zines, but are well worth perpetual n"
in book form. The authors opening
admission that he is himself pro-
vincial American, and his closing con
LESSONS Of a Best Seller" give to ms
work a personal touch which 1ustines
his admiring reader in the belief that
the church-goirg and business prob
LENS of one "Sm'th'' are the pronlems
Of Mr.. Nicholson rather than or the
man whose average first name Is John.
Each of the eight ESSAYS are on some
tonic of general interest. and all are
written with the skill which enables
the author to consider lite from. the
new point Of "best seller.
RUSSIAN WONDER TALES, With a
Foreword on The Russian Ska.ki.
By Post Wheeler. Lift. D. Contain
ing twelve of the famous B'1ibln H.
lustratiors in color. New York: The
Century Company.
The book entities Mr.. Wheeler to d
JUNIOR partnership in the fairy-roik nrm
of Andersen and Grimm. In an historical
ly valuable forewerd he explains that the
myth tales of Russia, handed down py
constant repetition. from generation to
a possession common to peas
ants hut and princes palace from a
time when history did not exist. are To-
day almost as much part OF the lie OF
the people as the lan~uaee itself Ihese Sc
iected tales are SO fascinatingly told that
even the official "Once unon a time" va
res It's thrill at the opening of each
story ''Tzarevitch Petr and the Wizard
had their magic do'ngs. In Old. oiden times.
when Gods world was full of wizards
ran sweet milk" while THE Little
Horse lived in ancient
DAYS "across the wide sea-ocean. on the
further side of hi"h mountains. bevond
thick forests. In a VILLAGE that faced the
sky" in accordance with the Rhadaman
than law of F'ai-ydom. wickedness is old
and ugly. while youth and beauty live
happy forever after. That this unversality
of fairy ethics NAV be attributed tn a
common source g suorested bv ind'vtd-
ual touches of kinehip. here and there.
1.-The Feather of F'nist the Falcon" is
of the Beauty AMI the
Feast" Cinderella crons out in WAS
siI.ssa the Beautiful" and when the ter
~'hle witch in the same tale cries out her
"Fooi Foo! I smell smell that Is Rus
SIAN" she rla'nly inf~in"es on the blood
crrdl'ng rights Of that British GIANTS
"Fe, 70. Fl FUN. l smell the blood Of an
En- 1ishwan!
Added r. its literary delight. the boob
g beautifully nictu-ed in. colors and
bound in pleasing shades of brown con-
trasted with green and blue.
sPRAGUE. By Francis
Iynde. illustrated by E Roscoe
Shrader. New York: Charles Scrih-
ner's Sons. Washington: Brentano's
Readers of Mr.. Lynde's previously pub
lished stories of western railroading will
recognize many of the characters who
figure in this series of adventures. "Sci-
entific Spraeue." chemist of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture. used by the govern
ment for researches of a more or less de
tective character works into these ra,-
penings as the friend of Supt Maxwell,
who commands the Short Line division
OF the Pacific Southwestern system. The
Transcontinental system has cast avari-
c.ous eyes on the Short Line and under-
takes by various means to gain possess
wits end to thwart these schemes and
finds Spraeue's skillful processes Of de-
duct'on and readiness of resource a bull
Wa Of defense Plot after plot the sc
two thwart until finally they catch the
conspiring opposition with the goods on