Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-19
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Hamilton. Boston,: HOughton Mifflin
Company.
Here the theory of service, of self-sacri-
flee, takes on an interesting and pic
turesque believability. One is in the habit
of RELOCATING this theme TO a twO-thou-
sand-year-old past. and of combining it to
another worldly fruition. On the con-
trary, this author, taking up an every
day set of actions and surroundings,
builds a strong and well sustained story
on our common deep-seated instinct
toward self-giving as the chief manifeS-
tation of love. The situation set is the
commonplaceness Of girls unsuspected.
unrequited love for her sisters husband.
tangle of incident, all bent to depicting
the honesty. tact. bigness and essential
nobility of the heroine of this one-sided.
secret romance. AT the very last, the
suspicion obtrudes that this girl is be-
coming slightly enamored of martyrdom
that she is sticking pins into herself I'M
necessarily, so to speak. But. on the
whole. she must be accredited with most
decent behavior
This is an English story. So, il Provi-
dence itself had interviewed, matters
would still have stood as they We're, for
the British parliament, torn and con-
vulsed time and again over the torturing
matter of a mans dead wife's sister. had
by formal act set its seal of contraven-
ton upon any criss-cross of family af-
lection such as this story reveals.
TAMSIE. BY Rosamond Napier. author
of The Heart of Gypsy" etc New
York: George III. Doran Company
George Borrow was rarely more explicit
about the details of gypsy life, nor more
&c MI
in telling this store of Tamsie AS a mat
ter of fact, Tamsie. delightful English
girl. is no more than story pretext for
the author to tell the thousand-and-one
interesting facts in her possession about
the life of the gypsy. The camp and the
moor-the gypsy and the English land
scape in its moods and meanings-are the
theme of this uncommon story. The plot
or the story is strain: the details are
abundant. full, satisfying. We-new-
worlders-have strange, mystifying back
throwings. This story will make a clean
homing to the hearts Of some-a few-of
those, who. inexplicably. breathe the air
of long-fOrgotten fireside.
WHY GO TO COLLEGE. BY CLAYTON
SedSwick Cooper, author of college
Men and the Bible" New York: The
Century Company.
The chief quality of this study in col
lege education is its mindfulness toward
the boy-or the grl-immediately concern
ed. coupled with its relative forgetful-
ness of the pure mechanics of the matter
as these are expressed in endowed estab-
lshments, courses of study and special
function. In series of observations
set down chiefly as anecdotes-this author
gathers up, out of ten years of purely
objective investigation of the American
college. a summary of it's salient features
and tendencies These point, hopefully, to
a steady drift toward the old-time exalta-
ton of the individual over the mass, and
toward the great teacher as the supreme
potency of college life, and subsequent
influence. A stirring and readable ac-
count of a commonly over-technicalized
subject.
IN THE COURTS OF MEMORY; 1855
1879, From Contemporary Letters. BY
L. de Hegermann-Lindercro IL
Illustrated with portraits, facsimiles,
esc. New York: Harper & Bros.
AS supplement to ones reading of his
tory this excursion into the courts of
memory is vivid and exhilarating ex-
perience. 1t Is like ones own eyes look
ing out upon some significant era. Made
up of the ceremonies of social and diplo-
matte life in France as these are set
down in intimate letters to personal
friends by this American girl, it sums
TO brilliant picture of the court of the
last Napoleon. The volume is admirably
calculated to accompany and vitalize the
history of France at the period with
which it deals.
WITH THE MERRY AUSTRIANS. By
Amy McLaren. author of The Yoke
of Silence" etc. New York: G. p
Putnam's Sons.
An engaging little story of open plot,
evil IL, ;valy
Austrian community much given to play
and picnicking; in their midst lovely
English widow cherishing a sorrow. Her
little son bereft Of rightful inheritance.
Entrance of the English heir. unmarried.
bent upon doing the right thing by the
boy. and so on. 1t is an explicit story
Astounding in youthful explanations of the
German tongue, of German ways, of the
ms and outs of what to its author APP
pears to be an intricate ENHANCEMENT
of affairs-a nice, wholesome, fresh, en-
couraging young story
THE RUIN OF A PRINCESS; As Told
by the Duchesse d'AngOuleme,
Madame Elizabeth, Sister of Louis
XVI. and Clery, the Kings Valet de
Chambre. Literally translated by
Katharine Prescott Wormley. IL
Illustrated with photographers from
the original paintings. New York:
The Lamb Publishing Company.
This work was first translated about
twelve years ago, and was issued in an
elaborate style, which placed it, however.
somewhat beyond the reach Of the aver
age reader. There has since Deen a de-
mand for the story of Princess Elizabeth
in style to permit a wider range of
reading, and the present volume is the
result, comprising the full text of the