Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-28

taken from his chieftain father on the eve
of the elders hanging by the British and
sent to London. has become educated IN
medicine and returns with the idea OF
ministering to his people Speaking Eng
lish perfectly. he knows no word OF \ afnr.
and he has great difficulty establishing
himself in the land of his birth. The
English girl appreciates the TRAGEDY OF
the situation. but "A complexity develops
which arouses al the bitterness OF pref
udice and necessitates her return to Eng
land. The scene is laid mainly IN the
sanitarium in the Karoo kept by an IN
ebriate physician. Mr.. Gibbon tells his
story with sure pen and keeps his read
ers interest and sympathy He presents
some rema rkable descriptions of scenery.
MOTHERS TO MEN. Ey Zona Gale,
author of FIR. endship Village. etc.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
The chapters that comprise this volume
have been printed in detached form in
magazines. and are now run together
with enough to make a story through
the addition of some other material that
supplies a consecutive interest. Miss Gale
has already made Friendship Village IA
NOUS, and readers by tens of thousands
have learned to love Calliope Marsh. in
whose words the greater part OF TINS mar,
rative Is told. Miss Marsh Is good
story teller, with many etcentricities OF
expression and a simple heartiness OF
sentiment that establishes immediate
sympathy. Through her the author after
giving one chapter in her own words. tell
ing how little Christopher came to Friend
ship Village. and was left there by his
father to find a home, is content to let
Calliope carry on the account or various
social movements in the village and the
development of a most satisfactory ro-
/! nance between two attractive young peo-
pie No one can help being benefited by
reading a Friendship Village story.
There is a wholesomeness about VI SIS
Gales fiction that does excellent mis-
| sionary work for the cause Of humanity.
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT LOSE.
! BY Richard Harding Davis. Illus
trated. New York: Charles Serb
ner's Sons Washinston Bren-
tanO's.
Five short stories are utilized to make
| this book, they being the following: The
| Man Who Could Not Lose MY Buried
| Treasure" The Consul, THE Nature
| Faker" and '"The Lost House" The first
| third and fifth are the best. the others be-
! ing rather trifling in nature. The Lost
| House. was undoubtedly suggested BY
| the engagement in London between the
| police and the guards and couple OF an
archists in house of Stepney. where ioi
several hours the forces of law and or
| der were defied by the besieged man. Mr..
Davis has been at little pains to conceal
| the likeness between this fiction and the
| fact. THE Consul is an artistic and
| dramatic sketch of a veteran of the con-
sular service who has been marOoned al
| a miserable South American post after
| years OF faithful and efficient service.
OLD LAMPS FOR NEW. BY +. V.
Lucas. author of MIR. Ingleside,"
! etc. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Brentano's.
| The appreciative reader who makes
his delighted way through the pages
Of this dainty volume is prone to feel
at the close that he might himself
| have written what Mr.. Lucas set forth.
There is nothing particularly profound
! in these little essays. nothing that
| could not have been observed by any
passer along the ordinary walks of life
| or culled from the pages of books. But
| let the aspiring reader try to write
| matter OF this sort, and he will find
great difficulty between the artistically
4 obvious and the construction Of it as a
| literary entity. Mr.. Lucas has to a
superlative degree the art Of say