Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14
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known to be without lovers? Flirtatious
Dolly. gentle Lewis and last and most re-
luctantly, Brunhilde herself succumbs. The
story is full of graceful fancy and tender
sentiment John Holly is shown to be. not
an alien. but of the blood of the SOUTH and
the south claims its own. Miss Fuller is
mistress of dainty art and of gift of
humor. 1t might be suggested that the con-
slant fire of Language in which the
darkies indulge is a tri1e too strenuous for
daily living. 1t shows the temptation of a
clever and inventive author to be somewhat
too clever and inventive. But that Miss
Fuller has gfasped the true character of
southern life, with its lovable foibles. Its
lightness and charm, together with its ca
pacity for self-forgetting heroism, even this
little comedy shows. The perpleXities OF
the southern housekeeper, with her horde
of irresponsible grown-up children in the
kitchen, are particularly true to life.
GLEN. By Edna Kenton, author of
What Manner of Man" New York:
The Century Company
That America has it's class distinctions,
more intolerant, If somewhat less inevita-
BILE, than those of older countries is not
even debatable point today. Glen Merritt,
the daughter of a sporting man and an
actress, because her father when he be-
comes rich wants her to have the best that
he can give her, is brought into contact
with an ultra conservative and ariStocratic
New York set. Glen is unconventional,
and her speech shows the effect of the in
discriminate associations of her carrier
youth. But she is beautiful and immensely
vital-''She might have been the pr!meVal
woman, says one of the men in the story,
walking untrOdden sands, pressing the
springing earth when the world was young
she was so nobly unashamed and so purely
human 1t is not wonderful that Reggie
Wines, the young son of fastidious
mother, should have lost his heart to such
a being. Ii is also not wonderful that the
mother should have been unable to be en-
thusiastic over her sons choice The So
cal war that follows, with its subtle per
secution and its heart-burnings Is natural
sequence. The girl has an opportunity to
show, in the manner in which she meets
the situation as well as in the dark days
that come to the Wines household, of what
elements she is compos ID
The author has dealt with the social ques-
tons involved in her story with skill
full and a light hand. The development of
Clem's character shows careful, consistent,
If somewhat uninspired, work. The book
is a careful study of the me eting of tenn
peraments rendered antagonistic because
circumstances have made it impossible for
them to understand each other.
TO HIM THAT HATH. By Leroy Scott.
author of THE Walking Delegate"
frustrated by sigurd Schou. New
York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
What the fiction mill would do without
the plot-grist of the man who nobly takes
upon himself the burden OF a friends guilt
the novel consumer shudders to contem-
plate. In this. case David Aldrlch dis
covers. after the death of his friend, Philip
Morton. that his friend has been guilty Of
weakness which, under stress of the
blackmailer, has led him into crime. Philip
Morton is the head of st. Chrstophers
Mission. The knowledge of his guilt would
take light away from hundreds of lives
into which the fervent philanthropist has
brought it. David feels that his life is,
comparatively, a useless one. The suppo-
siton of his guilt would hurt only himself.
Therefore he takes upon himself the shame
of crime he did not commit. When he
leaves Sing Sing, his term finished, he
meets the problem of trying to live an hon.
est life, with the prison stigma upon him.
The record of his struggles and the friends
he makes in the under world to which he is
sentenced. his despair and his ultimate rise
into more useful service than he could
have hoped for without his bitter expert
ence. the love that compensates him. makes
an interesting story. The book is full OF
well-conceived characters. The Mayor of
Avenue B is a real and distinctive per-
sonality.