Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

purpose during her regime. Neither
criticism nor praise could move her in
her determination to set the precepts
of prohibition before the people of the
country.
Mrs. Hayes was of a bright, happy
temperament Sunday was observed
with religious care, and along with her
love of books was a passion for flow
ers- botaniSt of more than amateur
pretensions, Mrs. Hayes gave express
sion to her love of wild flowers by en-
deavoring to perpetuate the colors
growth. form, etc, of the fora of the
United States on her china; and the
set of dishes she ordered for the White
House was therefore one of the most
original and distinctive in design of
any that has ever been bought for 1t.
Her husbands chief amusements
were riding horseback and raising
chickens, and he also enjoyed poking
about old shops and stores in search
of antiques and curios.
With the coming of President Nc
Kinley was revived Martha Washing
tons love Of knitting, for Mrs. McKin-
ley made this her chief pastime. ard
countless charities and church projects
received donations of knitted articles,
which were sold at fabulous prices be-
and Peter Force as a most efficient COL
lector and compiler of historical ma
terials Around these are gathered
many lesser writer's. all of whom are
considered in proportioned Geographic
view of their special achievements and
subsequent influence on the writing of
history. The book is a valuable criti-
cal summary of historical production,
as 1t is also a useful chapter on the
development of method in this field
The manner of treatment is clear and
informal-a most interesting manner.
HATCHWAYs. By Ethel Sidgwick.
author of "A Lady of Leisure" etc.
Boston: Small, Maynard Co.
Miss Sidgwick's new novel is a piece
of life rather than a story about life.
There is here no indispensable story
thread. no preconcerted line of move
ment. no cumulative action, no set
group carrying this line forward to it's
issue. In that sense 1t is not a novel
at all. What the writer has done is to
take up in its totality Of personality
and circumstance an English country
estate. ''Hatchways," of her own Sc
lection or construction. Around this
place life moves staidly and undramat-
ical1y. There is neither stress nor sus-
pense of action, no hero. no heroine. no
great heights, no disturbing depths.
People-and all of them as alive and
interesting as one has right to ex-
pect of the class which they represent
meet and talk and eat and play and
work in the full SAVIOR of a funda-
mental human nature trimmed to the use
of intelligence and culture. One
its behaviors, which are more often
subtle than obvious. very stmulat-
ing influence. This must have been an
invention infinitely more exacting in
the production than the conventional
line of fictional development. So well
has it been accomplished, however,
that its effect is that of a little section
Of life in which the reader moves with
no sense of difference between his own
aliveness and that of the people with
whom he mingles here:
GLIMPsES OF THE COSMOS: A Mental
Autobiography. BY Lester F. Ward
Ii. d. New York: G. p. Putnam's
Sons.
This is the fifth volume of the Lester
F. Ward series, 'Glimpses of the Cos
mos" The writer's minor contribu-
tons to the literature of science for
when Mr.. Ward had reached the age
of f1fty-two. are included in this pub
LEGATION. These publications consist of
addresses. essays, discussions, notes,
comments and critical estimates on a
wide variety Of scientific subjects.
Among them is discussion of the
political ethics of Herbert Spencer"
"Hegel on the State" The Relation
of Sociology to Economics" Christian
Sociology" "Plutocracy and Paternal-
ISM Ethical Aspects of Social Science"
and Social Forces"-these indicating
here. To each article is added the
date of it's production and a brief
sketch of the circumstances under
which it originated and was carried
forward. 1t is this fact taken in con-
nection with the authoritative nature
of the articles themselves. that gives
the series its great significance as a
mental autobiography.
JOAN: A Romance of an English Min
ing village. By Amelia E. Barr,
author of THE Bow of Orange Rib
bon," etc. Frontispiece by Stockton
Milford. New York: d. Appleton &
Co.
To her long list of engaging novels
Amelia Barr here adds a romance of
Yorkshire. using the English coal
mines and the life of mining viii
lage as the groundwork of action and
interest. Her own early years hav-
ing been spent in the British Islands,
the writer local SCeIeS OIL
England and southern Scotland are
in their content and flavor
Within this setting of the mines a ro-
nance of conventional pattern is sde-
yeloped, wherein an ancient family.
fallen upon such barren days as to
place it's survivors among the miners
IF the village, is rehabilitated and
again set in high places. Joan, the
miners daughter, is the heroine of
this romance. and the squire in the big
house on the hill is its hero. AS the
miners daughter and as the squire's
adv. Joan is big-hearted woman. of
straight and simple lines of feeling.
md Of a divinely tinged order of self
The character of Joan
md the scenes from Yorkshire life are
the fine features of this generally
pleasing invention.
BETTY TREVOR. BY Mrs. George De
Horne Valley. author of "A College
Girl" etc. illustrated by f. p.
Kinsella. New York: q. 2. Putnam's
Sons.
We saw Betty Trevor on Connecti-
tut avenue car one day last week. Just
bout seventeen, fresh and bloomy as a
peach, dressed as well and sensibly as
he mother Of that kind of girl would
rave her dress. Betty had the most