Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-24

in this praiseworthy corrective endeavor.
THE VISION AT THE SAVOY. BY Wini-
fred Graham. author Of Angels and
Devil and Mem. sc. New York: Flem-
ing H Revell Company. Washington:
Woodward * Lothrop
Jane Cardigan rich, beautiful vIvacious,
unconventional unmarried, lived the life
of careless pleasure pursued by the idle
classes OF London's upper social stratum.
She whirled through her brief career with
apparently no thought save for getting the
most enjoyment out of the day. No one
quite interpreted her, for she reserved her
real self for her own study. Her young
nephew was her idolized companion, and
when she died, at an early age. she left TO
him all her wealth, with an injunction to
devote it to the rescue of the thoughtless
rici While he CROPPED. still half-stunned
By her death, this young man one night
saw Jane in a vision. and he understood
from tie look in her eyes that she was
urging him to his mission.
'ThoughtIess, careless votaries of pleas
ure. for these Jane pleaded. for souls too
rich to be saved! She was commencing
them to Arthur, entreating him to rise up
as missionary TO attract not the sordd,
the criminal the drunkard but the men
and women whose lives were as her own
and his in the thoughtless past"
Later Arthur tried to explain his purpose
TO his mother a worthy woman, intensely
interested in the conventional lines of Chris
tan charity. He said:
Only see how you tempt the poor to go
to church. that they may hear good words
and possibly be the better Prizes for the
girls, buns for the mothers, all kinds OF
benefits to draw them to God. The rich
are never tempted to attend a place of wor-
ship. never sought or induced. You can't
give them buns or prizes, but you can, If
YoU viii, excite their interest and Curl
osity.'
lie built temple which rivaled the
worlds most perfect structures as an
architectural marvel 1t was gOrgeouSly
and tastefully QUILTED with armchairs for
the auditors, and retinements of every kind
to enhance the effect of the ceremonies.
Therein he assembled the curious denizens
of Mayfair and presented to them the most
eloquent preachers of all CreedS. His work
d phenomenal success. Jane Cardi-
gan's Temple had justified it's conception.
This is a highly suggestive story, ad-
mfrably written. with keen. satiric touches
and many delicate passages
THE SACRED CUP. By Vincent Brown
author of "A Magdalen's Husband"
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
The bachelor rector of LamberfeId has
taken into his home the child of a young
servant born out of 'wedlock, and his
bishop, receiving an anonymous letter
sends for him to suggest that the infant
were better sent to an institution The
rector demurs, because he hopes to bring
the father of the babe to realization of
his duty. The issue becomes complicated
in short order. The village of Lamberfield
is greatly agitated. a young man is held
falsely under suspicion. Evidence which
steadily accumulates to point to another
but only in the eyes of a very few. This
other man is the favored sutton of the beau
lot. h.
tor is torn in spirit as to his duty to the
bishop, to the heiress, whom he secretly
loves; to the wrongfuliy suspected young
man and to himself The drama moves to
a tragic conclusion, douby so in a sense
for not only does death take hand TO
simplify the case, but the rector's
science compels him finally to solve the
problem in a way which involves a serious
sacrifice It Is a pitiful tale that IS here
told, a tale to remember, suggestive of the
worldly considerations which sometimes OBJ
tain in the government of religious organi-
cations. The author has offered espe-
cially interesting assortment of diverting
characters.
\ LADY IN WAITING, Being Extracts
from the Diary of Julie de ChesniI,
Sometime Lady in Waiting to Her
Majesty Queen Marie Antoinette. BY
Charles Woodcock-Savage. New York:
d. Appleton & Co.
Somewhat deliberately the author of this
the French terror explains how the diary OF
Julie de Chesnil was discovered by an
artist connoisseur in an old cabinet which
he had purchased at sale. This is the
least interesting passage in the narrative.
Mademoiselle IS a diverting young person,
fairly faithful to her resolve to confide all
her experiences and emotions to the pages
of her diary, but strangely forgetfui OF
some of the most exciting happenings of the
dramatic period when she was a self-in-
INJURED prisoner with her parents and grand
mother in the house of a faithful former
servant of the family. She speeds over
other parts of the bloody reign of the gull
lotine in order TO arrive at the opening of
the Napoleonic era, which permits a re-
sumption Of her romance, rudely inter
rupted. Her naive comments on the rise
of u ? tide of revolution in the earlier pas
sages are entertaining She portrays Marie
AntOiuette as a creature altogether lovely
and uudeserving Of the fate she suffered
The story ends happily
DISPLAY. BY r. E. S. spender London
and New York: John Lane.
Here is the typical English novel of
'cleverness." It is an interesting specimen,
hard TO read, harder to understand and
harder still TO appreciate. There must be
a demand for such as this in England else
IT and similar works would not be printed
The demand probably comes from the ultra
literary sets, with a taste for the Greek
classics and for subtleties of humor too far
buried beneath the surface of rapid-fire dia-
lOgUe to be readily discerned by the aver
age reader. 1t is difficult to say what it is
all about There is fairly definite propo-
SitiOn i'm the main. that a certain London
newspaper publisher undertakes to enter
tain his readers and incidentally to boom
his circulation by discovering in Africa the
original of Sir Thomas Mores Utopia"
This is hardly the sort of sensation one
would expect from a Notwithstanding
sensational newspaper. but ii seems to have
answered the purpose, and it resulted in
the dispatch OF an expedition of skeptics to
the scene. This central proposition is
chiefly utilized as a means Of assembling a
C0tcrie of clever takers, who discourse
on all subjects under the sun, political, lit
erary. sociological, personal and financial.
one chapter IS as sequential as another.
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