Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-21

instead of burden. and with one of these
books in the kitchen library 1t is possible
tic and attractive providing. No more
appropriate gift book could be desired for
the conscientious hostess.
SOOthe to Slumber and Bring Sweet
Dreams. BY Stella George Stern
Perry. With frontispiece. cover and
border by s. ID. Runyon. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Most bedtime stories for children are so
interesting and exciting that the young
listener is thoroughly aroused and sleep
is driven far away. This book is spe-
cific sleep producer. There is nothing of
tragedy in these stories. Rather are they
mild and gentle to the extent perhaps OF
pointlessneSs. viewed literature, put
their peculiar charm lies in the careful
selection of words to make them Groom In
the ears of the little one. They summon
the sand man and send the drowsy young
auditor to Sunderland with mind filled
with pleasant thoughts and ideas.
ADRIAN SAVAGE. A novel by Lucas
Malet, author of Sir Richard Cal
mady.'' New York: Harper 4 Bros.
Four people principally occupy the stage
on which this drama OF temperaments is
enacted, an Anglo-Frenchman and the
French lady of his affections who are
calmly sensible and ultimately HAPPY: an
eccentric young French artist whose Grip
pied brain ultimately leads him to an ex-
cess OF imagination narrowly escaping a
tragedy; an Englshwoman Of about thir-
ty, who, without the least reason. believes
her cousin to have fallen in love with
her. and constructs romance which
finally costs her her life. The scene
shifts alternately from France to Eng
land with characteristic environments: In
France a fashionable artistic setting and
in England rural provincial atmosphere.
The young Anglo-Frenchman is sum-
moned home from Paris to administer
the estate Of a deceased cousin whose
twin daughters are left an immense for
ance with the briefly Junior sister. who
has previously been rated as incapable
of independent thought and action. Her
development after the withdrawal OF
parental restraint is an excellent bit OF
character work. The pursuit OF the
brother of these two young women,
derelict long ago driven from home and
for time believed to be dead. con-
stitutes an interesting incident. In part,
the story is told through the medium of
the diary Of the unattractive sister, who
has conceived an unrequited love Tor
Adrian Savage and believes herself to be
loved in turn by him. Quite superior
to the affair in chief in enlisting the
reader SyHlpdtHctlC dttCieAoh Ills,
hopeless attachment. A suggestion OF
occult phenomena becomes striking ele-
ment in the development of the story.
Altogether an excellent and entertaining
bit of fiction.
INTERVENTIONS. BY Georgia Wood
Pangborn. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington:
Woodward & LothrOp.
Fourteen short stories comprise this
volume, largely dealing with the rela
tons between children and their elders.
Some are little more than sketches, others
well rounded constructions. The opening
tale, "A Tempered Wind is a surpass-
ingIy effective narrative of a city waif
finding refuge in the arms of a motherly
woman: THE Rubber Stamp is a nurses
dramatic account of how a woman