Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-14

him as he lies in the first stage of recov-
cry from paralytic stroke. The whole
case becomes involved, and the solution
is not reached until the final chapter. a
somewhat quixotic proposition to surren-
der the diamond necklace in order to save
the feelings of local clockmaker whose
cousin has proved to be defaulter some
what mars the plausibility of this other
wise well. constructed narrative.
BOAT BUILDING AND BOATING. By
d. c. Beard. With illustrations by
the author. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
tano's.
Probably every boy at some time in
the course of his development has
longed to build. or at least to own, a
boat. Mr.. Beard is the friend of all
such boys. In this little book he tells
just how to put together a wide range
of rowing and sailing craft. from the
simplest raft and the 'legomoran" to
the spry little motor boat. illustrated
by carefully prepared designs, 1t ex-
plains everything SO wildly that any
boy with few tools can contrive some
soft of craft. Instructions are also
given in the handling of boats, SO that
those who make them can afterward
use them safely.
JOEY THE DREAMER; a tale of
York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Into Clay court comes young man
with first an idea of social investigation,
but later the desire to do something to
amelorate the conditions of these hard
working, ill-paid. scantily nourished in
habtants. He has been preceded by a
young woman of his own class, who is
herself serving as a missionary OF hope
and helpfulness. Their affections center
upon Joey, a miserable little product of
the Sums. half-starved offspring OF
drunken parents, who greedily wait for
his pitiful weekly wages in order that
they may fill the can and carouse. Be-
sides there are Freddy, who plays the
violin and is on the eve of emancipation
into an artistic career, and Della, CO.
who longs for the lights and colors or
the gay life. tragedy is enacted IN
Clay court. A wage cut at the factory is
announced. strike is ordered and mob
sulting police charge. thrown bomb. a
battle and slaughter. In this wildly
dramatic presentation Mr.. Uyen. abjur-
ing the usual method of the novelist, sets
forth too clearly for question the condi-
ton of the tenement world, showing the
ferment that is now working in the mass,
the awakening of the class consciousness.
the blind but gradually more intelligent
seeking after remedy. There are tene-
ments by the tens of thousands like those
in Clay court. and there are countless
numbers of little children like little Joey.
like him in bodily surroundings, but not
in the spirit within them. Nothing more
appealing has been given to the world in
late stories of the poor than the con-
GLIDING chapters of this work. which deal
with Joey's first realization that there is
something more in life for a small boy
than hunger and suffering.
THE LIFTED LATCH. BY George
Vane. New York: John Lane Com
pany
This is one of those stories that, start
ing with a premise of certain misfortunes
and misdeeds in the past, are by sheer
craftsmanship worked around through
condolences into a problem. 1t may be
that OCCASIONALLY the circles of life are
thus completed. Possibly the child of an
unfortunate young woman in after life
becomes, with no thought on either side
of relationship, the private secretary of
her ambassador husband. Perhaps 1t
may be true that now and then such an