Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-17

superlative people, what would have come
of ito Most probably poetry: Hes
just a mass of intuitions.' said Mrs
Abel. the rector's wife). Then the poems
ought to be in existence said I. so they
are was the answer: they exist in the
shape of Farmer Perryman's big rams
The rams are the direct creations OF
genius working upon appropriate mate
rial. None but a dreamer of dreams could
have brought them into being; every one
of them is an embodied ideal. Don't
make the blunder Of thinking that Snar-
Iey's sheep-raising has nothing to do with
his star gazing. It's all one. Shakespeare
writes Hamlet and Snarley produces the
ram, Thunderbolt. To call Snarley in
articulate because he hasn't written
Hamlet is as absurd as it would be to
call Shakespeare inarticulate because ne
didn't produce a Thunderbolt. Both
Hamlet and Thunderbolt were born in
the highest heaven of invention. Both
are the fruit of intuitions concentrated
on their object with incredible pertina-
city, Here is but sample of this
wholly searching quest of the human. this
broad gathering of essentials under home
Iy cloakings. this fresh and level out
look upon the great sources of life anu
hope.
REST HARROW: 4 Comedy of ResOlu-
ton. By Maurice Hewlett, author OF
The Open Road" etc. Illustrated
by Frank Craig. New YORK: Charles
Ward & Lothrop.
A few writer's have earned the privilege
to stray unchallenged from type and
norm into the vagrant ways of life.
These, however. by the sheer force of
genius or charm are released from the
r,rle-o thumb Mr.. Hewlett by his ex-
ceeding grace Is one of the few. The
Open Country "The Halfway House
and the present story complete three
volume novel. with the whimsical hero.
Senhouse. as the thread of continuance.
These are a record of erraticism, grace
full. clever, brilliant, it's people the play
fellows of a grim jester. The girl of this
story outside this story, either In life or
other literature. would receive scant con-
Sideration. but within it's pale she be-
comes the center of interest. sympathy
and unbounded admiration AS Maurice
Hewlett always calls George Meredith to
mind: so this Sanchia brings up carinthia
of Merediths AN Amazing Marriage"
The same impractical aloof devotion to
an idea marks both. the same disregard
of the various sorts Of wreckage lying
in its course, the same QuixOtic deter
minatiop the same Dianic purity. To the
main current of Mr.. Hewlett's work are
wide reaches of still water and clear
pools of naked beauty and truth.
DEEP IN PINEY WOODS. BY ]. w.
O'Malley. New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co.
A decadent turpentine farm in south
ern Georgia is the fresh field of this
clean-cut story. The narrative con-
Germs itself chiefly with the experience
of a young northerner, come down to
electrify this inert enterprise into pro-
ductive life. Throughout, the interest
centers in this trained. efficient fellow,
working out an industrial situation
with the certain exactness of a fine
and sensitive machine. to which are
added the best qualities Of young
manhood. There are few things more
exciting. more stimulating. than to see
human being solving his problem.
whatever it may be-. in the full and
complete possession of his own powers
The author has. drawn this picture with
the restraint of intimate insight The
whole atmosphere of the story is fit,
as clean and pungent as the pine
woods. The patriarehal cast OF the
southern family has almost archaic
flavor. At its head is one of the best of
southern men, with him an effective