Evening star., 1914-11-14
itude that so thoroughly animate this
beautiful story Of Abraham Nitric Rih-
bany's life.
WITH POOR IMMIGRANTS TO AMEl

WITH POOR IMMIGRANTS TO AMER
ICA. By Stephen Graham. author of
With the Russian Pilgrims to Jeru-
| salen1," etc. Illustrated from pho
tographs by the author. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
So long as Stephen Graham's SEEM
| icgly incurable vagabondage takes eff
| feet in jottings and records of this
fresh and genial quality, it would be a
pity even to attempt his cure. This
story of his journey to America in
company with ID steerage load of emf
grants is as intimately human and
| sympathetic, as vivid and appealing.
as anything that this writer has hith-
erto done along similar lines. Leaving
| Liverpool with motley lot of Rus
slams, Jews, Germans. Swedes, Firms
| and English. he joins in the life Of the
| steerage with friendly abandon. Out
! of this curious companionship he draws
| hundreds of observations, sketches in
Vulnerable pictures, and throws many
| a sidelight upon life where 1t is lived
| openly, free from pretentions and dis
guises. Upon landing, the immigrants
are not done with this friendly vaga-
bond He fingers about New York,
studying his new friends, SO dazed and
afraid of the strange whlrling life
about them. And what he sees he sets
down in graphic anecdote for the ben
eft of readers. Leaving New York,
Mr.. Graham makes his way across
country in the trail of the army OF
aliens. stopping where groups of these
have left the main body. getting into
| touch with these, listening to their
stories marking their illusions ana
their establishments At chicago tne
tramp turns gentleman and takes train
back to New York, where after DAYS OF
pure pleasuring he sets sail for Europe
Back to Russia. From the most for,
ward country to the most backward
country in the world: from the place
where time is money to where the
trains run at eighteen miles an hour;
from the land of Edison TO the iana
of Tolstoy; from the religion OF pm,
anthropy to the religion OF suIei,ns
is the somewhat exaggerated contrast
hy which this writer sums the impress
sions of his tramp with the American
Immigrant.
THE SUNNY SIDE OF DIPLOMATIC
LIFE: 1S.5-1912. BY l.. DeHeger-
mann-Lindencrone, author OF Inc
Courts of Memory" Illustrated
New York: Harper & Bros
These are delightful letters. Easy.
informal. abounding in humor and
plentiful in wit, they present the social
side of diplomatic life in Washington,
Rome. Stockholm, Paris and Berlin,
with a yivacity that delivers them to
the reader in perennial freshness.
Hundreds of distinguished and inter-
esting persons meet here in the rich
pageant of this social life. Here are
kings, princes, presidents ana empe
rors, here are singers and writers and
! painters, with no end of compelling
personalities besides. The writer s
sustained sense of proportion under
circumstances calculated to interfere
with the integrityso of this sense is the
distinguishing mark of these reminis-
cences The whole constitutes bril-
liant story that stands easily with the
best of writings of this class
BIG TREMAINE: A Novel. By Marie
Van Worst, author of THE Girl From
His Town." etc. Frontispiece by w.
b. King. Boston: Little. Brown &
Co.
Big Tremaine is a prodigal of the
glorified sort, come back to Virginia
after an exile of fifteen years in South