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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-26
A Millennium Club.

s.
Millennium! One way to bring about
the millennium Is to have nothing to do
with any article of food or clothing that
is produced by the torture or death OF a
living thing. \ company of women in
Boston organized upon this platform as
the Millennium Club has aroused consid-
cradle interest among manufacturers and
importers The members have pledged
themselves to eat no meat, to wear no
kid gloves, leather shoes, slippers or belts.
aigrettes. wings. quilts or shell combs.
But in making no distinction between
things tortured or things killed for food
or clothing the club plumbers. The mil
lennium does not come in this way. Ii
some things In this world We're not being
constantly killed their survival and rapid
multiplication would be productive OF
anything else but millennium for the
higher orders OF life. Swat the ny ana
crush the snake and smoke the mosquito
10 death.
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the real he. slipping adroitty out OF the
sleeping carcass, was of and away 10 the
Cave of Lost Starlight the glorious
prison in fairyland buif for MN by tle
wizardry of the poet who wrote this beau
tiful story. If You take no stock III
fairies, let this book alone. II, to YOU, a
primrose by the rivers brim IS just vel
low primrose let the book alone. But II
on the other hand. the best of this world
is the world of dreams. and lmaslnlngs'
and fancies. take the Starlight Express
along with "Cousinenry" Henry Rogers),
Jane Anne Monkey and limbo to the de-
lectable land of nowhere.
THE DREAM GIRL. BY Ethel Ger
trude Hart. Illustrated by Gordon
Grant. New York: Doubleday, PaGe
d. GO. WashinSton: Woodward &
Lothrop.
One reads along through this open
correspondence. puzzling TO remember
where he has before met this familiar
seeming girl. the dream girl of these
letters. Some other time. some other
where, he has come across her doing this
very same thing-writing bright letters
to while away the boredom Of q strange
young man during the tedium of mending
broken bone. Then. just as now. one
recalls diInly. the letters were written
most agreeably to both. III the simple
emotion of plying on the one hand. OF
Delll6 pltleu on the OlneT IneI, again,
jus, as now. they grew warmer, and
warmer. and warmer. At the end OF this
correspondence it turns out that there is
no dream girl" Then-why. of course!
it is ., arjorie Daw' that mothers this
fresh young story, and Thomas Bailey
Aldrich is its grandfather. 4 not un-
worthy child OF fine forbears.
THE AMBASSADRESS. BY William
Wriothesley New York: George H.
Doran Company.
Almost any diplomatic circle taken up
in it's official and social appearance looks
like picturesque and fruitful theme for
the novel writer 10 take any one of
half dozen clever literary turns upon
Mr.. Nriothesley chooses this inviting
subject as the warp of this story. BY
sheer bad luck. however. he, at the
very start. sets himself a heavy handi-
cap. This consists Of an attitude &c
which his powers are ill-suited. Most
ambassadorial duties may be performed
by q discreet fOotman. a discriminating
major-domo, q competent secretary, Is
the fundamental assumption. With dip
/! lomatic work SO assigned, nothing but
playtime remains for the diplomatic fam
lily itself. But play may be made q
, very stimulating and engaging matter
Some one-say Oscar Wilde-would
upon this foundation. have built clever
comedy, with wit, and ceremony. and
beauty. attending its exposure of the
yoids and vacancies of the situation. Mr.
Wriothesley does not play easily an6
naturally. So in this respect, the story
rolnps a bit. The talk chatters. The
dollars too openly before the woong be-
gins. The firtations are of the below
stairs variety. And such a hero!-his
picture showing weak chin n vac
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about criticising severely the leaders
on the respective sides for tactlcai
errors. as, for instance. in the case OF
Hooker at Charlottesville, where
more president leader would have seen
his way clear to crushing victory IN
stead of suffering a humiliating de-
feat. Again at gettysburg, the story
of which is told wildly and compre-
hensively. we find blame and praise
given to both the Federal and the Con-
federate officers. The work is profuse-
ly illustrated with maps inset with
text, while larger scale maps are
pocketed at the back of each volume
for a more comprehensive view OF the
larger situations. 1t is to be hopeo
that Col Livermore will continue this
work to conclude the story of the civil
war.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TITANIC,
BY Col Archibald Oracle. author OF
The Truth About Chickamauga-
Sixteen illustrations. New YORK:
Mitchell Kennerley.
When the Titanic sank little more
than a year ago. carrying down the ma
jority Of her passengers and crew. one
Of the most remarkable stories told by
the survivors was that related by Col.
Archibald Oracle of this city, who went
down with the ship and found his way
to capsized boat and thus was saved.
remarkable experience thrilled the coun-
try. as it was related when ne reached
New York on the Carpathia a few days
after the catastrophe. Col. Oracle died
on the 18th of December last, leaving I'M
finished the manuscript OF book on the
Titanic disaster. 1t was, however. sufii-
GENTLY completed to warrant publication
with no more than a general editing. A
final chapter had been Planned. reviewing
the whole tragedy in retrospect. but the
publication of the work in its present
form is fully justified as a vivid, dra-
matte, personal document 1t is Illus
trated with numerous photographs
PIONEERS. BY Villa Sibert Gather,
Boston: Houghton Miffiin Company.
Miss Gathers latest story deals with
life upon the Nebraska farms. This is
the result of painstaking study of con-
ditions in that country, particularly
among the settlers of foreign birth and
their descendants She tells here Of a
remarkable woman, Alexandra Bergson,
who. at her fathers death. In circum-
stances most depressing, undertakes to
keep the family together and to hold the
land that the patient SWede had SO
hardly won. These We're in the days OF
struggle before the soil had yielded its
richness; the days of heavy mortgages
and crop failures and much shifting and
surrendering. Alexandra saw the posi-
bilities and remained. buying when others
sold extending when others contracted.
until after long years she became the
richest landowner of her neighborhood
a pioneer in the adoption of improved
methods and the application of advanced
ideas of farming. \ romance is woven
into the lives of these people, with a
gruesolne tragedy close at hand. Most
of the participants in this tale are Swed-
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nous brow" .He is dull. He is proud. he
is arrogant" The author, mere man.
sets himself a miracle here. and natural
ly. fails to perform II. III" heroine. the
ambassadress, an American. Is of SO
exceptional Il character as to make her
to all intents and purposes non-existeh!-
One may accept this story as an hour
diversion of the lighter sort but he hes
itates to take it as a dependable picture
of diplomatic life at Berlin. or any 9th
er place, for that matter.
THREE WEEKS IN FRANCE. BY
John l.. HiGinbotham. Chicago:
The Reilly s. Britton Company.
The author has given to his pilgrimage
through France the same literary charm
and spontaneous ,humor which invest his
similar trips abroad allowing three
weeks each to Holland. Belgium. and the
British Isles. Without touching Paris in
his present tour. which begins from ne"
York via a French ship TO Havre, the
writer takes in Rouen. where occurre ,
the most diabolical act since the Cruel
fixion. the burning of Joan OF Arc !;
Charities 1.-The granary OF PavlS Mont
St Michels to the abbey. Whlch. 1ounueu
by sanity instruction in 'uS, is having IT'S
interior restored to death Then to
many chateaux, cathedrals and other
ancient repositories of French history,
with a visit to Lourdes on the way 70
other places of interest and charm, Wnich
means every city. town and Vnlage 70
Fontainebleu. entirely surrounded Dy
forest and tourists" where the delightful
ramble ends. The pilgrim who has gone
| before will enjoy the descriptive accuracy
and intelligence of viewpoint which MT.
Higinbotham gives TO his chronicilnss !:
the expectant tourist will IND heip1ui
| hints in the matter of trains. routes ana
| other incidentals to comfortable travel,
while for the reader whose only touring
is by his imagination. the book is as re-
alistic as a moving picture show. Whlie
many artistic photographs OF scenes ana
| types intersperse the text, one cannot
i help wishing that a writer who has made
| himself SO personally companiOnable had
put his portrait on the frontspiece page.
| instead of the pretty, but not nearly so
interesting picture, In the Pyrenees.
PILGRIMS OF THE PLAINS: Romance
| Of the Santa Fe Trail. BY nate a.
Arlington. Chicago: +. 6. Browne
& Co.
! The old Santa Fe trail has been fol-
| lowed by earlier writer's. who have IN
vested every step of that way between
civilization and the ancient Spanish city
| with adventures that make up the history
| and romance of the growing west. The
author of the present work is a worthy
| pilgrim in the footsteps of those literary
! pioneers The interest she imparts to
| each page represents her ability TO tell
| q story and environment adds the happy
| chance of atmosphere. But the more
| solid addition of historic value was
gained by years of delving into authorita-
/ tive data that ranged from government
records TO talks with those who have
| travelled the long road to Santa Fe be-
hind their oxteams," and the making
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ish, French and Bohemian. and the story
is valuable apart from Its distinct liter
airy quality. in instancing the composite
character of the people of the middle
west.
THE WRESTLING MAN. BY Maximil-
ian Foster. illustrated. d. Apple
ton & Co
An American and his son are living in
retirement, amounting to concealment. in
a small French town. A man comes
whistlng a certain tune. and the Ameri-
can is panicstricken. His son, accus-
toned since childhood to fight from place
to place. is mystified. The father dies on
the sandss when about to meet the whis-
ting man. and the son returns to Amer
lea determined to solve the mystery OF
his fathers exile. He finds himself en-
meshed in complicated Wall street in
trigue. leading back to crime OF when
his father had been accused, and from
the consequences of which he had fled
The action in this country is compaSsed
within few hours, and IN that time the
mystery is solved. romance is devel-
oped, Wall street experiences a spas
modic panic with quick recovery. culprits
are exposed and justice triumphs. This
is moving, entertaining story, written
with all OF Mr.. Fosters skill and per-
SuasiveneSs.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LAUGHTER.
BY Boris Sidis NJ. A. Phi. D., M. d.,
author of 1.-The Psychology of Sug-
gestion," ETC. New York: ID. Apple
ton G. Co.
With expert mental analysis and an in
! finite. patience of literary research this
study investigates the sources OF mirtn.
the conditions in which it is natfvely set
and upon which it thrives, the uses 1t
serves to the personal and general life
OF the individual, the service it has done
in literature An exhaustive study, whose
method is spread out before one as this
gathers and defines the principles that
! underlie and control the human function
of laughter. Art and religion and daily
| life. Mother Goose and Aristophanes.
! Alice in Wonderland and Juvenal and
| host of others Of their intent meet
| here in exposition of the ludicrous as ii
| expresses itself in comedy, wit ridicule.
humor mere nonsense. The book is
| readable and interesting study of life and
! literature through the medium Of laugh
| ter. 1t is also a definition of principles
and an illustration Of the scientific
method OF study.
THE DISTANT DRUM. BY Dudley stur-
rock New York: John Lane Com
pany.
E; The matter opens in fair promise at
match about to begin. 1t looks, for. the
| first chapter. as If the stage were set
| for one of the better and more interest
| ing sort of social performance. Almost
| Immediately, however. the affair takes
| a downward turn from which it does not
regain its initial level. The development
and end are sensational mess That
/ the story is founded upon an actual
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ucational subjects. With the insta ton
of picture apparatus throughout tne big
cities of the country the demand will in
crease greatly. it is expected.
The old fashioned stereoscOpe was the
carly forerunner OF the present motion
nicti1re. This little instrument is still
an important factor in the teaching equip
went of a large number of schools In
America Travelling libraries of the
little double pictures are sent from one
school to another. and the pupils have a
chance to see photographs taken in DIFF
fnrent countries and of different indus
tries in a fairly clear manner.
The stereoscope was followed by the
stereopticon. This at first furnished only
the Hat effects, but later was able to
show. colors This instrument was in
turn followed by the Kaleidoscope, which
has been superseded in the opinion of the
educators only by the motion picture. The
Kaleidoscope presented an advantage over
the stereopticon inasmuch as post cards
.,,d nictures in books could be shown by
meaps of IT, and in colors.
As this does away with the slides nee
essary for the stereopticon, it eliminates
considerable expense.
The stereoscope and the Kaleidoscope
orc both in favor among the Washing
tor, educators. Many of the schools at
,,,.asant have either of these Instruments
ia In the high schools illustrated lee
lures are given frequently. Sometimes
this is done by teacher in the school,
h,,t oftan one of the pupils prepares a
i ~, an a subject of peculiar interest
- tha school and delivers It.
Tha two instruments named have n.
r.ad, demonstrated the success of this
method OF enhansins a course of study.
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With a lecture OF half an hour and the
aid Of pictures a teacher Is often able 20
demonstrate clearly to class informa-
ton that would take many times longer
and prove many times more difficult il
taught only through the use or books on
the subject.
Basing their Judgment on the success of
these two devices and on what they have
seen Of the motion pictures. the educators
here are unanimous in the opinion that
motion pictures will widen greatly the
scope and methods of education. Prob
ably a few years hence they will be won
dering how they ever got along with
out 1t before.
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FIGURE 4. THE PLANET JUPITER,
SHOWING TWO OF THE MOONS
PASSING OVER THE DISC tAT a,
AND THE BLACK SHADOW CAST
BY THESE MOONS CAT s. AS VIEW
ED IN AN INVERTED TELESCOPE.
remains the most interesting object for
observation i'm the evening sky. This fiat
tened, rapidly turning ball. with its deli
cately tinted, ever changing bands and its
more irregular areas of vapors which
are ever moving and altering their shape
on the surface of the immense hot world,
forms in fact one of the most interesting
of all the objects in the heavens. 1t was
thus that our earth was ages ago. AS
we look at this younger world We cannot
but speculate on what It shall be when,
in the far ages of the future, it. too. will
have become a solid and temperate
planet, though a far larger world than
ours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-26

the brilliant Antares, that most
beautiful member Of the group
of summer stars known as the Scorpion,
glows redly a little farther toward the
west, while high overhead there rides
the deep blue Vega, the brightest Of all
the northern stars. In the west We see
the ground while in the east there now
reappears the Great Square of Pegasus
and the beautiful Andromeda. whose
great nebula is one OF the most remark
able objects of the heavens. The Won
derful summer branch of the milky way
has now risen so that it passes almost
through our zenith. and with Its wonder
full lanes, star streams, clusters and star
clouds presents a region OF inexhausaoie
interest for our exploration.
This is the month of the August shoot
ing stars. that great stream OF yellow
ish, swiftly moving particles which first
entered our solar system, probably in
the form of a comet which passed ex-
actIy across the path of the earth. many
ages ago. The month is unusual also IN
having two new moons, the second u
which will partly hide the sun and mus
cause an eclipse. This eclipse is the nrst
of three which VIII occur Of 'ii No.
val Of two weeks apart, but IL WILL
unfortunately. only be visible from
small region lying near the arctic zone
of the earth.
X I;
This is perhaps the most generally
known of all the meteoric showers De-
cause il returns with great regularity
every year: il is not, however, very
dense shower: that is, the shooting stars
do not succeed each other so rapidly
as the inexperienced observer would
probably EXPECT. The greatest number OF
these will be seen on the night of August
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of a map of the trail (which hung on
the wall before me as I wrote
The heroine. Deya. with her invalid
brother and a party of sturdy frontiers
men that includes a professor who
evolves into the hero before the journey
comes to it's end. make the trail in the
early days when Indians were a menace
to be reckoned with by all travellers who
dared the plains. There are picturesque
camping places in natures isolation be-
yond the edge of civilization, exciting ad-
ventures with indians and Mexicans, de-
lightful nights at far-between shelters
along the trail, and a happy ending that
brings love to Deya, health to her
brother and dear homecoming to both.
A real interesting innovation, as stories
go, is the introduction at intervals
throughout the book of the words and
music of Barbara Allen,'' Captain
Kidd 1.-The Brown Girl and other old
time ditties one seldom sees in print.
THE STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR: q
Concise Account of the War In the
United states Of America Between
1861 and 1865, In Continuation Of
the Story by John Goldman Ropes
BY William Roscoe Lfvermore, col
onel United States Army. member OF
the Massachusetts Historical So
ciety. With maps and plans Part
III, two volumes. New York: G. p
Putnams Sons.
Thirteen years ago John G.. Ropes,
who had undertaken the history of the
civil war at the instance of his friend
the publisher, George Haven Putnam.
himself an author and veteran of that
conflict. died after having completed
two volumes of his work. covering the
operations Of 1861 and 1862. He was
Ia lawyer in Boston who had under
taken the study of military history as
a diversion and a special research, hav-
ing been physically disqualified from
participation in the war between the
sections. His death left incomplete a
work that promised to be the most
comprehensive and trustworthy analy-
sis Of the fighting during the civil
war, and it is fortunate that SO com
potent an authority as Col. Livermore
should have undertaken it's completion.
A student OF military subjects and an
author of numerous works he is per-
haps the best man to have carried on
Ropes great enterprise. In the pres
ent part comprising two books. he
deals with the campaigns OF 1863, to-
gether with the operations on the Mis-
sissippi from. April. 1862. carrying the
story of the war along as far as Get
tysburg. This Is no circumstantial. de-
tailed history of general maneuvers
and small incidental conflicts, but ii
proceeds on the plan of selecting the
larger and more conclusive engage
ments, drawing them III close analysis
and at the same time pointing out their
relation to the general progress OF the
conflict. Col. Livermore follows Mr.
Ropes plan Of drawing for his infor-
nation from the reports of commanders
on field sites, giving >copious references
We see the minds of commanders al
work. their mental processes disclosed
in their confidential communications
and their observations to comrades and
| colleagues. No hesitation is shown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-26

by the moon. Were we at the center Of
the earth we would thus see the bright
star Spica Cat d., hidden August Z. and
the red Antares Cat E), hidden August
TO- These bright stars would instantly
disappear when they were reached by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-26

For Summer Excursions.
From Punch.
From a secondhand book CATALOGUES:
Dickens (C)--Pic-Nic Papers"
Just the thing to wrap sandwiches In.
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FIGURE s. REGION WITHIN WHICH
THE PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF
AUGUST 81 MAY BE SEEN ALONG
THE LINE c n NJ THE ECLIPSE BE-
GINS AT SUNSET; ALONG Il NJ IT
ENDS AT SUNSET; ALONG c K n
THE MIDDLE OF THE ECLIPSE
OCCURS AT SUNSET WITHIN THE
AREA r NJ A THE ECLIPSE WILL
BE WHOLLY VISIBLE.
and would suddenly shine out again at
the bright edge when the moon had pass
ed a distance eastward equal to it's own
diameter, about one hour later. But I'M
fortunately we in northern ATTITUDES are
so far above the equator of the earth
that we will look over the upper edge of
our satellite and will not see these bright
stars hidden. Similarly. August -. the
moon will pass directly across the beau
tiful group of morning stars known as
the Pleiades. hiding from us one star OF
this group after another, but this most
interesting occurrence will also not be
seen BY u.s. as it will occur at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon when neither the moon
nor the Pleiades arc above our horizon.
I:
August 81. at three hours fifty-two min
utes pm the second new moon Of the
month will pass over the disc of the sun,
hut this phenomenon can only be viewed
from the region shown in figure 3. Two
weeks later. on the morning of September
"a. when the moon has reached point
of the heavens directly opposite the sun.
If will pass into the earth's shadow and
he totally hidden, and again September
20 il will partly hide the sun from view.
Thus its path now lies in such position
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Two New Moons
This Month Many
Shooting Stars August
10 to l3-Eclipse Of
the Moon Visible Only
in the Arctic Zone.
By Prof. Eric Dooittle Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.

'HROUGHOUT this month the
agnifice emit planet Jupiter
shines low in the southern sky;
the brilliant Antares, that most
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in successive months are no: the same
Although it roughly follows the pain pur-
sued by the sun and marked BNIC in fig
ure /, it is sometimes no less than hve
degrees above or below this path, anu
therefore at different times any star lying
within this distance of the 'path OF the
sun may be hidden from us, or occuited'
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Henry Rogers, man of affairs and tre-
mendously successful as such. is the hero
OF this story. But il is az neither business
man nor rich man that he figures here. In
order to qualify for chief place i'll this
grand enterprise, Mr. Henry Rogers had
10 run away from his directorsrips. and
schemes. and money-makings, back into
the place that the heart OF his boyhood
knew. This getting out of himself was
an interesting feat IL took place-it al
ways does-when he was asleep Then
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BOOK REVIEWS.
GERMANY AND. THE GERMANS;
Erom IN American Point of View.

From IN NmtVIrHu 1Us"s = ..,rt =
By Price Collier author OF me
West i'm the Fast" etc. New ORR.
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-26

ish, French and Bohemian. and the story
is valuable, apart from its distinct liter
airy quality. in instancing the composite
character of the people of the middle
west