Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16
THE LIBRARY TABLE
By the BoOklouer.

Travel books on the Black Hills,
hitherto not numerous, should now
begin to appear One little book al
ready in -rint, if not to ] = commended
for charm of style or originality IN
method, at least gives abundant IN
formation about that section of the
West chosen by the President for his
Summer home of 1927. "Beautlfui
Black Hills is by o. w. Coursey OF
Mitchell, s. Oak, who is also the au'
thor of who's Who in South Da'
kota." The geography, geology. his
tory. sociology and scenery OF the
Black Hills region furnish the subject
matter. Verendrye. the French eX-
plorer, came from Montreal To the foot
| of the Black Hills, near SturglS, on
January II, 1743, and may have been
| the first white man to view the couh.
| try. The Black Hills became part OF
the United States through the LOUIS
| lana purchase, but treaties were also
made with the Indians concerning the
| Territory. Horatio n. Ross, one Oh
Gen. Clusters mining engineers, as
covered gold on French Creek, near
| the present city of Custer, in july
1874 Much of the later history OF the
Black Hills is connected with certain
| picturesque and daring personalities
whose life stories are given with soIiie
detail. Among them are MRS. ANNE
d. Talent, intrepid pioneer OIL the
| Gordon StoCkade party, 10 WHOM q
| monument has been erected near INV
grayeled highway below Custer; capt.
| G V. Gardner. who built the nrst
frame structure and opened the nrst
grocery store in Deadwood, brought
the first quartz mill and the first hour
mill to the Black Hills, and otherwise
PLAYED a prominent part IN the deVer
ODment of that part or the 0tdte,
| "Preacher Smith," who was muIuelnu
| by the Indians; WIG blii IN 49,
| famous gunman. who killed eight men
sinoIe.banded on one occasion, ana
Gala nifty Jane" almost equally Ia
NOUS gunwoman.
| The scenerv of the Black Hills mas
all the variety offered by Nature. WI.
| Corrsev saws: Even God must nave
emiled with contentment when he mn
iehod creating the Black Hills mar
new Peak, 7,242 feet high. is the hlsh-
est peak of the Hills, but the view
from it is not so enhancing as q
view from the top of Mount RooseVelt
near Deadwood." Seven mics 1Toih
Custer and three miles from no,
new Peak on an airline" Is Sylvan
lake a mile and quarter above sea,
! level "The lake covers 40 acres, ana
is hemmed in by towering furroW-
faced boulders. The water in II Is
cIear as crystal" The Black Hills
region abounds in canyons and caves
"Snearfish Canyon and Rapid Canyon
are the two most picturesque val
leys in the Black Hills with their
winding crystal creeks at the bottom
and their fringe of rocky lodges at
the top. Both canyons are traVerseu
bv acknowledgements by the Burning
ton. and Rapid by the Northwestern.
AS a result tiny villages at adVahta-
geous places are springing up IN poln
canyons" Wind Cave, Crystal cave
Jewel Cave and Jasper Cave are the
finest of the caves. The Black Hills
climate we are assured, is "a climate
peculiar to that region alone, and I'M
| surpassed in health-giving properties
anywhere in the civilized world: -
Some other books on the Black Hills
are THE Coming Empire" by Hora'
ito n. Mcguire; Ha-Sap-Pa,' by
Father Rosen; 1.-THE Black Hills, or
Last Hunting Grounds of the Da-
kotahs," by Mrs. Annie d. Talent;
Forty Years Prospecting and Mining
in the Black Hills" by Frank Hebert;
Handbook Of the Black Hills" by
G.. G. O'Harra, and "Black Hills
Trails" by Brown and Willard.
| X X y x
Sherlock Holmes, several times re-
tired or deceased, is again resuscitated
and rejuvenated. AT one time he fell
into a crevasse in Switzerland and
the news of his death was received
in his London haunts, but the public
| mourned him so sincerely that his
creator revived him and brought him
back to professional activity in Tine
Return of Sherlock Holmes" Then,
doubtless thinking that his long years
in a nerve-racking occupation had
earned him a rest, Conan Doyle al
lowed him, in His Last Bow" to
retire from practice as private de-
tective to his country estate. Now,
in 1.-THE Case Book of Sherlock
Holiness" the melancholy, opium tak-
ing, violin-playing. inductive reasoner
returns to public life and unravels
IL more mysteries. The IL stories
in the volume are as original, as hor-
rible, as full of evil villains and in
nocent victims as any Of the earlier
Sc tales about Sherlock Holmes.
"The Lovely Ship" by Storm Jane
son. is a saga of shipbuilding in Eng
land of the COS and 70s. Little Mary
Hansyke lat the age of 8, stand
ing in her uncle's shipyard at Danes
acre. sees the John Carton, lovely
ship, move slowly down the harbor.
while the brass on her mast flashes
in the sun. This is the beginning OF
Mary's interest in ships. At 10, she
tells her uncle, Mark Henry Carton.
that she would like to build ships and
when he teasingly retorts, You
can't build ships in petticoats," she
says: you don't build the boats your
self. I wouldn't, either. I'd tell
them what to do. know few things
about it already" Mark Henry Jok-
ingly says he will take her into the
firm in five years. Mary waits only
two years and then rides over to
Danesacre from her fathers home on
the moors, and applies to her uncle
for a place in the firm. His only re-
ply is. Don't be silly" and her "house
of life came down about her ears"
But Mary does not forget. She mar
ries a roue of her fathers age, be-
cause there is nothing else for her to
do. with a father who does not care
and a mother who has deserted her.
After a couple of years she is left
widow with a baby son. She packs
all her possessions in Il small nail
studded red leather box and. in an old
barouche, drives with her baby to
Danesacre. In her uncles office she
places the baby in a chair and, stand
ing before his desk, again demands
a place in the firm. I'm IS now"
she says, but that's not too old to
begin" With a grunt of admiration
he takes her on and then for 10 years
proceeds to work her like slave, pay
ing her an apprentices wage, but he
trains her. AT the end of that time
Hank Henry Carton dies and Mary
finds that he has left her all his mon
ey and "the Line, the Yard and the