Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-08

this original good intent. The result is
| that there stands here, within comforta-
| bic reach of the general reader. a COM
/ prehensive clear, simple survey of
the main facts and meanings of evolution
| The study. steadily mindful of it's pur-
pose and aim. is in the nature of an out
! line of the subject. But it is meaty out
/ line, not merely a bony skeleton A
sketch of the history of evolution, up to
| the time of Charles Darwin. introduces
! the work. This sketch holds no more
| than the chief points of elevation from
which in those earlier times were seized
only far glimpses and half views of the
whole stupendous vision. Coming up to
Darwin's time. the author gives, not too
learnedly, the central thought of evolu-
ton. it's underlying idea. This involves
the amazing story of adaptation. that
series OF compromises, by which life was
permitted to survive and. finally, to es-
tablish itself as individual and class The
author then tells one or more special
stories TO set out in sequence the pro-
cesses of evolutionary growth. Here is
the story of how the very highest class
OF animals came to be, the class to which
we belong. Here, too is set out the won
der story of the strange and far begin
nings of our friend, the horse And, be-
sides, the study gives an outlook into the
future of man. Here the law of evolution
expands to control the growth of societies
and governments and the other manifold
relations of men to men. 1t enlarges to
embrace within its direction the things of
the mind and of the spirit. as well as
those of the merely physical man. The
only hope that early readers Of the SUBJ
Ject OF evolution have of graSping it's CEN
trail idea, its essential facts, its general
meaning, is to come upon some broadly
organized. concrete view of it, where il
Illustrations and examples are abundant
f,y Tor
applications are practical and within the
concerns of the present and the immediate
future And these are the qualities that
conspicuously mark this discriminating
and objective study.
THE GOLDEN BARRIER. BY Agnes
and Egerton Castle New York:
Doubleday, Page e Co.
The problem that is presented in 1.-The
Golden Barrier" is not a new one. In
deed. it is one of the oldest that has ex-
listed since wealth and love began to con-
nict. A great heiress willful and thought
lessly intent upon playing lady bountiful
to struggling artists, poets. reformers and
the like, is sincerely and honestly loved
by the agent of her estate, a gentleman
who has undertaken this work in the
emergency caused by sudden failure OF
fortune. After maneuvers that cover a
considerable part of the story. these two
are married, and then the trouble begins.
A schemins aunt and a designing former
admirer contrive a separation between
the husband and wife and she returns
to her old extravagances and largesse
and he sets up bachelor quarters Ulti-
mately the twain are Joined again. The
story is not especially novel, but it Is
well told and provides delightful en-
tertainment.
Ell DORADO; nm Adventure of the
Scarlet Pimpernel. BY Baroness
Orczy, author OF 1.-The Scarlet PIN
pernel," etc. New York: George H.
Dorian Company.
Baroness Orczy can keep on telling sto-
ries of the Scarlet PimperneI as long as
her pen finds its way to the ink pot, and