Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-04
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

II.
York: Mcclure. Phillips Co. Washington:
Woodward & LOthrop.
There Is hardly a dull passage In this
novel of modern life in a small town in
western Pennsylvania 1t Is filled with In
cidents and tense with possibilities for
tragedy. At the same time a subtle humor
is current through the pages and the HUI
man interest Is never allowed to flag. AL
together THE Triumph does not belle Its
name. Its plot centers around the efforts
of young school teacher, orphaned daugh-
ter of a clergyman. to secure competence
for herself and her younger brother by
means of an oil well. Ingenious stratagems
are employed to bring several factors to a
focus In a thrilling fight between the viii
layers. incidentally a striking portrait
is drawn Of a young lawyer. of q
plutocrat. who has taken the field in the
nearby city against the gang of corrupt
politicians in charge of municipal affairs.
The description of the magnificent country
home of this young mans parents and their
anxiety to build 1t in cOnsonance with the
standards of rural elegance and taste is
highly amusing. The Triumph Is likely
to strike popular chord during the sum-
mers novel reading.
TwIxT COD AND MAMMoN. BY William Ed
wards T1rebuck author Of Miss Grace Of All
Souls etc With a Memoir OF the au hor by
Hail Game. New York: ID. Appleton Il Co.
Mr.. Tirebuck died three years ago at the
age Of forty-fve. as MIR. Game states in his
predatory memoir. He had had a varied
career, with many downs and few ups.
but he gradually ascending and al
though his posthumous work does not strike
the reader as exceptional, yet 1t gives evil
dence of faithful efforts to portray modern
English and Welsh life in an ecclesiastical
atmosphere. Mr.. Game himself, although
confessedly a strong admirer and intimate
friend of the author declares the theme
hackneyed. But 1t does not require his note
of appreciation to enable the reader to dis
Germ exceptional descriptive qualities in the
rural passages. The story bears upon the
conflict in the soul of a young clergyman.
caused by the appeal of pure love and his
fondness for the riches Of life. Yet he il
not avaricious. He loves money for what
1t will enable him to do for the advance
ment Of the church. Mammon Is typified
by middle-a ged spinster of means who
finally wins the clergyman for husband.
But her triumph and his surrender lead to
a tragedy, and the moral of the story is
brought to most penetrating point. $50,
THE SOCIAL COCKATRICE BY Frndert, k W.
Eldredge. Boston, LOthrop Publishing Com
pany.
Matched from the egg Of a cock the cock
atrice was of old believed to be serpent
" y.
ard III Shakespeare says:
"A murderous cockntrice hast thou hatched to the
word
Whose una voided eye is murderous.'
Beatrice Cameron was cockatrice
She lured men to death, ply steal or moral,
by the power of her personality. She used
them for her social advancement. Desire
for recognition by the highest circle in the
metropolitan society had become a mania.
She sacrificed everything to that end. adopt
ed the most extraordinary measures to at
tain 1t. and finally, after strewing her path
way with the bodies of her victims. she fell
herself. slain by the hands Of her own sis
ter whom she had wronged most cruelty.
Extravagant as 1t Is. overdrawn most
Garishly In places and tragic beyond the
possibility of belief in It's realism, yet this
novel Is not without it's strikingly sugges-
tive force. 1t satirizes most grimly the
crazy chase for social power 1t hints at
the methods of exploitation and advertise
ment adopted by aspirants. Some of the
passages are gruesome. The author spares
neither his colors nor the feelings of his
readers.
PEGGY ONEAL. BY Alfred Henry Lewis. author
Of 'wolfvile." etc. illustrated in colors by
Henry HUT. Philadelphia: Drxel Biddle.
The romance of Peggy O'Neal is one that
always fascinates Washingtonians. many
of whom have listened to old people telling
of their own personal recollections OF the
social war which ragged around the wife of
Jackson's Secretary of War and which
threatened the success of his first admins
tration. Mr.. Lewis. who was stationed here
a newspaper correspondent long enough
to enable him to gather much Information
relative to that episode. has turned out an
entertaining novel ba sed upon the scandals
of that period. the personality of 1.-The
O'Near' and the political intrigue of which
the social war was the cloak. But his
method does not commend itself He
doubles too often on his tracks in telling
the story. which is put into the mouth of
a participant in the action. close friend of
Jackson's. Thus. having presented as an
initial situation the first meeting between
Mrs. Eaton-Peggy ONeal-and the story
teller, he checks the rendering of the Incl
dent for eighty pages or SO with prelimi-
naries and "reminiscences But despite this
fault. which is serious handicap. the
story is wildly told and affords an intimate
view OF that period and its most interesting
social event.
THE UNWELCOME MRS HATCH By Mrs. Bur.
ton Harrison. New York: D. Appleton 4 Co.
? Mrs. Hatch was the name chosen by a
New York woman who had been divorced
in consequence Of her jealous folly, and
had gone to the Pacific coast and there had
established herself in a respectable and
profitable business Reading in the news
papers that her daughter. whom she had
not seen in many years. was to be married
she sells out and hastens east Her efforts
to see her child again involve difficulties,
and reveal the true character of her for
ner husband. who has married a vulgarian
and is now intriguing In the matter of his
daughters marriage for financial purposes
of his own. The plot thickens" with re-
markable rapfdity. and leads to satisfac-
tory climax. The story Is brightly written
and seems almost to have been prepared
with view to dramatization, 80 clearly
defined is the division into four sections.
1t is the fourth item In the Applet NOV
elette de luxe" series.
A FEW REMARKS. By Simeon Ford New York:
Doubleday. Page Co. Washington: William
Rallantyne 4 Sons.
Simeon Ford. from the ranks of compare
tive obscurity to which his position as the
proprietor Of an old-fashioned New York
hotel seemed to force him. has within
few seasons leaped into almost national
prominence as an after-dfnner speaker.
His method Is Individual He does not
rely upon funny stories. but scores his