Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-18

tell. The one she favors in her heart is
diffident and hesftating. The other is
adroit and daring, Greek financier with
endless means. Indeed. he buys up an
American invention at a very high price in
order to be in position to satisfy Mar
garets claim against the owner, her only
inheritance from her father. Then he turns
over half a million dollars to her credit,
That is the way Logotheti makes love. And
his other methods are equally opulent, orr
entail daring. Unfortunately the story
closes before he has exhausted his opportu-
mites for evil.
novel should have been so seriously marred
by totally inadequate illustrations.
A CORNER IN WOMEN; and Other Fol-
lies. By Tom Mason. New York: Mof-
fat, Yard & Co.
This delightful volume of collections from
the pen of Tom Mason gains It's title from
the opening sketch, reprinted, as are the
other contents from Life, in which the
works of this versatile humorist form a
leading, indeed, a dominant, feature. That
sketch set forth the state of things in the
event of a sudden corraIling Of all the wom-
en- by a great syndicate. New York with
out a petticoatl Think of it! Inconceiva-
BILE? Well Mr.. Mason pictures the pos
sibility in terms of such dramatic inten-
sity and such side-splitting humor that
one Is llCiiHGu 10 waive all the logic OF
the case and accept the hypothesis. And
the other sketches and verses are in the
same high key of suggestive absurdity
touching caustically upon the foibles Of
our times, the financial frenzies, the motor
mania, the political corruption. In this
presentation the text is delightfully."- sec
onded by a series of Illustrations by C. AL
Ian Gilbert, Raymond NJ. Crosby, John
Cecil Clay, E, w. kemble, r. X Hanna
jr, ]. M Flagg, +. w. Read, A. D. BIash-
field and others. The cover design, close
set galaxy of beautiful faces, is by Charles
Dana Gibson, who also furnishes a frontis-
piece. The whole volume is a delight to
the eye and the mind.
oness Orczy. Illustrated. New York:
G. P. Putnams Sons.
1.-THE Scarlet Pinpernel'' is the symbol of
the leader of a society of chivalrous young
Englishmen whose self-constituted mission
it was TO aid the doomed "aristocrats' of
the French revolution to find harbor in
England. The secret of the hero's identity
Is one of the complicating elements in
really absorbing story. The reader is well
pleased when, in the clever denouement,
the Scarlet Pimpernel' is at last out of
danger. In It's stage version the story was
success of the last London season.
Garlic Litsey, author of The Love
Story of Abner Stone" Illustrated
from drawings by Charles Livingston
Bull. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Here is one of the mature books that
follows the lines Of nature herself The sew
en- stories do not traverse the bounds of
truth or probability. They relate to the ac-
tons of a mother fox. hawk. gray wolf,
q wildcat. a raecoon and a coon dog and
sheep dog that has gone astray. Mr.. Litsey
writes with force, tenderly at times and in
tensely dramatic at others. His descrip-
ton of fight on tree bridge between
raccoor and coon dog is an exceptionally
vivid passage.
THE RECKONING. BY Robert w Cham
bers, author of Cardigan" &c. Illus
trated. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
This is the fourth in chronological order,
the third to be published of Mr.. Chambers
series of romances dealing with that part
of the war for independence which particu-
larly affected the great landed families of
northern New York. The first part of the
story is laid in beleaguered New York, the
latter part amid the harassed frontier set
Elements. In the New York scenes, inter-
esting as they are, there is not the scope
for Chambers characteristic freakish
charm. They are of necessity more con-
ventionally initiative. When the narrative
approaches the frontier 1t breathes fuller
life as Elsin Grey grows into a fuller wo-
manhood. With her development there is
room for the tender chivalry which dis
tinguishes the authors attitude toward
women. In the woodland scenes there ID
Imaginative insight and the two sides of
the Indian character, the poetry and blood
frenzy, are impressively given. Walter
Butler, the villain. Is not altogether con-
yincing. Mr.. Chambers optimistie spirit
deals with villains somewhat perfuncto-
rily.
THE JEWISH aPECTRE. BY George H
Warner. New York, Doublt.tssy, Page
8 Co. Washington: Woodward s.
Lothrop.
Mr.. Warner has written a noteworthy
book, iconoclastic, forceful- He follows the |
Jewish people throughout their history and
defines their place In the crises OF con-
temporary eastern and Jewish civilization.
He Sits from the mass OF traditional and
sentimental superstitions about the race
those traits which he considers native to |