Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-01

chapter. Photographs taken by Mr.
Johnson intersperse the text. with 9
picturesque reproduction of IAN old
Dutch porch in New Jersey" by wa,
of frontispiece.
MOTHER GOOSE, The Old Nurser,
Rackham. New York: The Century
Company.
I Arthur Rackham having illustrated nu.
| merous chiIdren's classics, 1t was inevi-
table that he should try his hand on
Mother Goose" His pictures have been
running for some months past in the St
Nicholas and are now reprinted, with adj
ditions. in volume that every child will
want. Never was Mother Goose book
presented before in such attractive style
In addition to the full page color plates
in the characteristic Rackham method
of soft tones and grotesque lines there
are many black and white pictures inter
spersed in the text. This is a Christmas
book of the highest quality.
THE RUSSIAN BALLET. BY Eller
Terry. With drawings by Panels
Colman Smith. Indianapolis: Bobbs
Merrill Company.
Miss Terry has written here a series OF
brief essays on the work of the Russian
dancers, who have diverted the people OF
Europe and America during the pas,
few seasons, and accompanying her text
are numerous pictures by Miss Pamela
Colman Smith, which vividly catch the
spirit of the dancers and reflect the at
mosphere which they create. Miss Terry,
in her text, displays a keen appreciation
of the methods employed by the dancers
and the motives animattng them In this
form of expression.
rKxE nnnyrnuurS ~, rUrNrn ANu
SOUTH AMERICA, Their Resources
Industries, Sociology and Future
By e. Reginald Enock. +. II. q. s.,
author OF THE ADdes and the Anna.
ION With sixteen illustrations and
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
tano's
bers it-when Latin America represented
a tumble of colors that somewhat i'm
pertinently insisted upon splashing the
lower corner of our map. Then the Pan
anna canal made its very literal mark in
the same vicinity, and, 10: The colors
have doomed into vast republics which
now assume the Importance of next-door
neighbors The author of the present
work, whose knowledge of his subject is
authoritative in that his eyes are UNI
prejudiced and his pen impartial. gives
assurance that they are neighbors whose
friendship is worth cultivating, since
not counting the pecuniary advantage
their vast lands rich with unpicked re-
sources may be to us-''They are not pec-
pie set in their ways. or arrogant, stolid
selfish or stupid, but are grateful and
eager, and the man with any Spanish
blood in his veins. even in the most re-
mote regions. welcomes the traveller and
the newspaper, and looks to the future y
He tells us that whether among the
upper classes or whether among the poor
and unlettered, 1t is noteworthy that the
vulgar type of woman Is not produced by
the Latin American civilization to the
same extent as among the Anglo-SaXon
or Anglo-American people, The Latin
American mother has not learned to limit
the number OF her family. This is 'the
result largely of the influence of the
Roman Catholic religion, which retains q
strong hold of the sex In those lands =
She is devoted. self-sacrificing mother
but allows herself to grow stout and
needs our knowledge of hygienic matters
| to keep her figure with the trimness OF
her North American sisters. AS to the
man. Spanish or Indian, his virtues and
vices make UP the web and woof of the
history OF Latin America, and are spread
out, Il fabric of high lights and blackist
shadows over the five hundred pages Of
the book--to which must be added the
scenic realism of full-page photographs