Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-22

Teeny and Tiny, Tony and Tim, the
four children of Mrs. Ramsay, whom
John. for good reason. always called
Mrs. Jellyby. When. too. In the course of
having spent her part Of the substance
of things in assuming the responsible
ties Of life bringing with her two adopt
ed daughters. in proof. no doubt. of the
sincerity of her motives. John might
then perhaps be said to function prop
erly az the head of household. The
legal domestic status of John Winter
bourne Is of little account. however.
he is the head and front of one of the
best stories to be found anywhere.
Throughout this New Egland tale, and it
is truly Of New England, there runs
most rare and beautiful. 1t sets one a
puzzling to think how it came about.
Ones notion of the New England story
is something different from this..that 1t
is thinner thing rooted in a juiceless
SOIL Yet this is not exotic. 1t, too. is
Of the soil, but it lifts and stretches into
the glow and scent of things above 1T.
1t plays more, plays itself into radiant
grace and strength.
ROMANTIC CALIFORNIA. BY Ernest
Peixotto. Illustrations by the au-
thor. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. Washington: Brentano's.
1t does not seem possible that any
thing new can be written or pictured of
state whose literature is already so
rich in history. legend and romance and
whose art is of a variety that ranges
from gold medal canvases to penny post
cards. The author has. however. given
to his work the charm of an individuality
that will appeal alike to the artist and to
charm that combines the glamour of
sentiment with the accuracy of a guide
book.
Touching lightly upon it's discovery by
Spanish navigators and noting at length
the Latin atmosphere of southern Cali
fornia. the writer takes his reader up
and down the coast to visit the chain of
missions. whose ancient walls and crack
ed bells are scarcely more than souvenirs
of the past-into the country that Bret
Lobos. whose bleak cliffs. wind-distorted
cypress trees and thunderous sea surf
are embodied in chapter. Stretching in
the Inferno; up into the painless soli-
San Francisco as a base for off-tangent
trips that include a whiz up the crook
eldest railway in the world to the cloud
caps of Mount Tamalpais: a tug voyage
to the Farallones that are not really
way off dream islands. but just SO many
Jagged rocks rising from a foam of sea,
and then to that especial redwood for
est sacred to the midsummer jinkS'' OF
CALIFORNIA; Bohemian Club To the value
of both text and drawing Is added an
artistic binding Of dark green that serves
as a background for a water color view
of one Of the Junipero missions, which
Mr.. Peixotto SO picturesquely describes.
A. VOICE FROM THE CONGO, Com
prisinE Stories, Anecdotes and De-
scriptive Notes. BY Herbert Ward.
With illustrations from photo
graphs, sculpture and drawings by
the author New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington:
Brentano's.
1t is a voice that knows whereof it
speaks. 1t belongs to a man who went
to Africa to crafty his love for adven-
ture and who says of himself by way
Of introduction:
II took to Africans from the first. l
was young, full of life and high spirits,
and regarded every one met as friend.
I'm this free and easy way ] entered into
the lives of the natives. Hence my eff
forts to learn their language in order
that might know them better
To do Justice to the authors expert
ences one must read every line of the
more than three hundred pages Of his
book. To skip a paragraph would be to
miss some genuine truth learned by per-
sonal contact with a race whose disas-