Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-02

Gardner Soper. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
70 flesh-and- blood girl could be
more real, or. more charming,
than Mr. Churchil's story girl,
Honora I.efingwell. A shade
vain, trifie spoiled. but beau
1ifuI clever and very winning is Honora
Confident of her high destiny, she moves
joyousy, the center and motive or lhis
story, that opens out from her wedding
day to disclose senstively realistic PIC
lures of modern marriage in that class
where wives are leisured and freed oS
the obsessed money-maklng orgies Oh
shadowy husbands. Honora, the bright
center of a charmingly iifelike group AT
Newport, innocently playing with Tre'
is swept into it's flames. Sef-hypnotlzed'
she in the spirit of high emprise. accepts
the scourge of the divorce court from
which she hastens to the man of her
heart. The gates Of their splendid estate
close behind them. locked by the Nemesis
of outraged propriety. and, despite hlsn
ideals and noble intent, these two stand
In the foreshadowings of mutual disaster.
Luckily. the husband dies. recklessN, as
he has lived The story much later ends
with Honora listening to a marriage pIo-
posaI from Peter. the real man or Tue
n
glorious second marriage may De
romantic in pathetic.illy chastenen WdH.
But third maria ge-h heavens. stu, TINS
Is Honora, SO long as there are nie,i'
aud Honora free the episode is likely
70 rerest itself indefinitely. One is i'm
pressed with the realism of this chronlcie.
with its delicate piquancy. its redeem.ns
crares its serious undertone ana IN pu.
slightly smaller measure. WIN the ahhi
If its literary Workmanship
THE DAY OF SOULS. BY Charles
Tenney Jackson. illustrated by faui
T. Meylan. Indianapolis: The Boobs-
Merrill Company.
To 90 down into a city. away down, IS
ahundantly worth while if one can bring
,p out of it the live and glowing some
thing that Charles Tenney Jackson has
lifted from these San Franciscan depths.
Following the underground. criss-cross
lead of John Arnold gambler and go-be-
tween complex of nobility and scurrllity,
one from start to finish is elbowed by Keen
human interests, native and unglossed
The city itself becomes live thing, glow
ing like a rich mosaic in its jostling con-
trasts of race and custom and PERSONAL
ity. Bizarre. maybe. II beautiful; now
and then. even weirdl. grotesque. a har-
lequin of towns. but all the time turing
and seductive. The story thrills with
real men and women living themselves
out in this materialistic. brilliant. tingling
atmosphere. This author possesses Won
derful picturing power, with amazing re-
straint in the midst of a riot of material.
For a canvas with positive. outcoming.
aggressive grip to it, read the description
of Kearny street and old San Francisco
at the opening of the fifth chapter
AN APPRENTICE TO Truth. 81
Helen Huntington, author of The
Sovereign Good. etc. New York:
G.. r. Putna ms Sons.
;s of
New England girl who leaves an over
crowded home to live. in the role of COM
panion. with a cousin in the city OF New
York. On the inside it is study of the
effects of certain relations and associa-
lions on the character of this girl. AS a
story il is interesting. well set. natural
In movement, and generally, though not
completely consistent and satisfying. AS
q study it is carried on in straight lines
by a mind keen to what human nature
will do under given sets of conditions.
This author has the power of delineation
and the art of making people. The open
ing picture of Vermont home and fam
lily is charming The portrayal of per-
sonalty and character is confident and
skillful. for instance, that of the pretty,
vain, shallow woman, preyed upon by ter
ror pretense and duplicity, by jealousy
and hatred of youth, in the face of her
own fading years and unattalned desires
At the end the story stumbles into mar
riage whose only conceivable explanation
is the authors good-natured Indulgence
toward a world that delights in this par
ticular contamination.
AN INTERRUPTED FRIENDSHIP. BY
f. l.. Noynich, author of 1.-THE Cad
fy' etc. New York: The Macmii-
Ian Company.
Several years ago this author wrote E
haunting story whose hero was the Cad
fly, Italian patriot, revolutonist. mounte-
bank martyr. The present story runs
through half its course in the quiet chan
mel of French country life. At this mid
die point the Gadfiy. resurrected and
something of a puzzle to one unfamiliar
with his previous existence enters the
story which he thereafter dominates to
its close In this reincarnatiOn he is still
the Italian revolutionist still the con-
spirator, the crippled masquerader and
finally again the martyr to his political
appearance is less the flaming spirit less
less in keeping with his environment
and so the second story, interesting
though it be. is less coherent and har-
monious, less poignant and compelling
than its predecessor.
A vAGABOND JOURNEY AROUND
THE WORLD; a Narrative of Per-
sonal Experience. BY Harry A
Franck New York: The Century
Company.
Even the lids of this book communicate
an anticipatory glow, for vaga bondage is