Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-26

| lean legislation promises are large topics
of full consideration and plausible conjec-
ture The volume, addressed not only to
lawyers. but to the business and political
world also. is direct in treatment. illus
trative. and, so far as possible, untech-
meal. The study constitutes another dis
| tfhguished example Of the means OF prac-
teal education offered to the public by
, high scholarship and special authority
| turned to the service of the democratic
| state in the interests Of intelligent citizen
ship.
LET THE ROOF FALL IN. By Frank
Dandy. author of The Heart of a
Child" etc New York: u. Appleton
| The melodramatic intensity of this title
is misleading 1t inclines one to lay the
book aside for some half hour OF hasty
gathering up by means of the first chap
ter and the last. with one or so in be-
tween That would be a loss. for this Is
an uncommonly interesting story OF
sort, and besides well written one,
whose title covers but a minor branch OF
the main current. If, taking the autnor
at his word, one were to interpret the
story by it's name, it would center ABOUT
the frenzied efforts Of heartbroken. en-
FILTERED Lady Ranmore to despoil the an
cestral demesne and castle-right mere
the title takes effect-whose restoration
and enrichment, up to her only sons
,, death, had been the moving power OF her
life The real story is that Of yicar1ous
restitution. Beautiful Rosaleen ODa!v,
modest and grateful dependent waiting
upon her ladyship at the castle. ians q
victim to Lord Terence Ranmore unon
whose sudden and tragic death Derry
Ranmore. the new lord. partly IN deFo-
ton to his house. partly IN devouon "
Rosaleen, makes her his wife and covers
her secret This as a situation Is quite
enough to warrant the welter of mlsun-
Outstanding and suffering that 1oiioWs'
and rather mere than enough to insure tue
propitious close. The plot OF inns stoIS
is of the romantic sort. where the pul
suit of certain effects calls for something
of violence to the course or naturai
events. giving an apocryphal cast 10 paris
of the action. Compamonlng thls. tMelo
is. curiously. the finest realism OF lnci
dent character and Atmosphere: ST. 81
story in general, with exceptional dis
tinctiOn of parts.
THE REST CURE, \ Novel. BY ". b.
Maxwell. author of seymour la Ia
ton" etc. New York: D. Appleton
& Co.
\ grim story. so true. and so we'll told
v;t,,al that the reading of it counts
chiefly for depression and regret. There
America at least to find men gone mao
in the n,rsuit of what each calls success.
John Barnard the deluded man OF THIS
s.orv &c all about town. If by some
magic the trail of these insane men could
show concretely what they have lost or
consciously thrown off in stripping closer
and closer for the race what a wreck
age of health would strew this backward
rs
oven 70 listen. to understand, to sympa-
thize. to be genial, to be kind or help-
ful. what a dropping off of leisure, or en-
ioyment. of Appreciation; what oui'IiIs
Of the man in d sharpening Oh tie ma
chine. So with John Barnard; % his c uc.
of the frenzy seized an NJ. P.-hlS sue
cess-and all the rest of him gone. Iheh
followed a fumbling attempt at restora-
ton. a childish groping after the los'
treasures, but John Barnard Is TOO 'Ieu,
much too tired to stay IN the "oi'u-a''o
SO he dies.
RIBBON ROADS; 4 Motor Tour Abroad.
BY 4. T. and b. r. Wood. With ~
illustrations and maps. Ne" 1orh'
G. p Putnam's Sons.
There are no ruts in these Ribbon Roads.
Nearly every mile of the 5000 winds
through fresh scenes that the map-oouho
traveller misses. The two motorists VINO
made the trip together began with run
along the southern English coast, ana
after that TO Scotland. Ireland. Holland
across Germany, over the Alps to Italy
and then to Paris as a grand finale The
Journey meant visits to cathedrals and
! abbeys, spins over ancient bridges and
halts at ruins that were castles ana
churches in William the Conquerer's day.
An insistent camera caught each place OF
historic interest, together with bits OF
scenic beauty along the way. The authors
must have been blessedly exempt from
the accidents that most literary motorists
feel called upon to chronicle. for In a
foreword of tribute to the motor car