Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-28
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HEARTS AND CORONETs: 4 Story for
Young People. BY Alice Wilson Fox,
author of 'Diana's Decision" etc.
New York: The Macmillan Company.
Washington: Brentano's.
OF the fairy story sort this. where
FEASIBILITY and reason considerably stand
aside to let it be seen that anything can
happen, and can happen over and over
again. despite the forbidding and dis
couraging dictum of Mr.. de Morgan to
the contrary. In outline, this is the story
of an obscure English girl, from whom
a lineage of high degree lies hidden In
the possession of fine English family, II
as unconscious as she OF a diverted
descent. Through the accident of a
storm the girl comes into this great house,
into the presence of this noble family.
Acquaintance and friendship follow, and
by and by. through the evolution of the
plot, discovery of the truth. A some
what threadbare plan, but the' interest,"
and charm of this story rest IN the peo-
pie, and not in the plot. Here are oe-
lightful personalities wrought by the me
workmanship of gracious, unSelflsh caiiy
living. And for once, at least, hlgh
motives bring their own reward R1ght
here is one of the places where the
fairies grow busiest, unwinding TINS per-
picking coil and laying it straight 10
make a clear path for the happy marriage
Of this lovable girl to the oldest son,
anchoring the line past unsettling ana
opening a beautiful vista of ''happy ever
after A good story. fresh and fragrant
addressed to young people To older
folks as well, it makes pleasant re-
lief from the stupid routine of things
that are forever and forever reasonable
and true.
FIRST LOVE. BY Marie Van Worst, au.
thor of 1.-The Girl From His Town,
etc. Illustrations by f. Graham
Cootes. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
This story rests upon the generally &C
copied notion that. at some time within
boys growing years and as fore-order-
ed part of the furniture of his emotional
establishment, he is to fall in love with
a woman-preferably married-much older
than himself. Many more or less inter-
esting If not deeply important, novels
have been cut after this pattern. The
distinction of the present one over the
large majority Of its.prototypes is that ii
is relatively decent and wholesome. The
shape of the human mind commonly runs
a situation of this sort into SO INDUSTRIOUS
q mold that merely a look upon it is
misery. Mountain piled upon mountain
--"Ossa upon Pelion,' as it were--is a
UedU leVcl 10 the QeptHS Iedu
into the nature of woman who even
innOcentiy and unconSciouSly rouseS the
spirit of chivalric devotion in a youth.
Tongues wag. or Toll from the corners of
driveling mouths. according to sex; eyes
leer or scorch, by the same token-and
the yellow novel grows Here, however.
is novel with no yellow in it. story
about a. lusty, growing, bodily boy, in
whom hero and knight, and minstrel, and
wrestler, are having it pretty much their
Iyr ND nh se- f,r1l
beautiful, poised woman, with ashes in
her mouth and laughter on her lips No
wonder about the boy. No wonder about
the woman either-a wise and rich wom-
marries q pretty girl and children crawl
over him teasing for candy and tops. The
woman-one does not recall the woman.
MASTER AND MAID. By Mrs. L. Allen
Harker. author of Miss Esper-
ance and Mr.. Wycher1y," etc. New
York: Charles Scribners Sons
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
It Is not always the pleasantest thing in
the world to have a casual friend who
imposes himself or his family upon you
without consideration or notice. Espe-
cially embarrassing are the consequences
of an abiding friendship which causes an
attractive young girl to be suddenly con-
signed by her father to the care of a
middle-aged housemaster of an English
school. A boys school would not be
ordinarily chosen as the most suitable
place in the world for an attractive young
woman's temporary stopping place. but
this circumstance evidently did not enter
into the mind of the distinctly casual Mr.
Clonmell when he dispatched his daugh-
ter for Tony Bevan to safeguard for half
a year. Every reader of novels will per-
fectly well understand that this is but the
beginning of Mr.. Bevans assumption of
n rntQtinnShin
every reader will equally well understand
that the way Of these two to that point
Is beset with doubts and difficulties and
delays But Mrs. Harker has a way of