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

unidentified son becomes the rival OF ms
own unsuspected father for the hand OF
the stepdaughter of his mother. Maybe
furthermore. that unsupported father may
have been the betrayer OF such young
mans foster sister. OF whose murder ne
was unjustly accused. tried and at nrs'
convicted and then acquitted. This bare
suggestion of some Of the bits OF literary
dovetailing by means Of which this mover
is constructed may give SUFFICIENT out
line to indicate that it is an interesting
example of artful fiction.
MISS 31s; a story in season and out OF
season. By Rupert Hughes New
York: Fleming II. Revell Company.
Santa Claus is really twin to Old Nick
Miss 31S is responsible for the discovery
Looking down from the balcony of the
mammoth department store to the mael-
strom of Christmas shopping below. this
veteran of the corset counter initiates
her friend Myrtle into the pandemoniun
of gift-hunting-very much as Virgil
showed the Inferno to Dante:
Look at that big bluff-made out OF
paper-musshay and holler inside. He's
always fat and he always grins; but he's
the original Con man and I'd like to swat
him on the map. Keep your eye on the
crowds. and for every kind void you hear
spoke and every Christmussy thought You
hear thunk I'll give you a nine-dollar
bill. This store will be like the battle OF
Gettysborg the last three days. They re
only skoimishing now. ITs ghassly. Moi
tie, it's absolutely ghassiy. If all this
money and woik was spread over the
year it would give thousands of poor
dubs jobs all the time. instead of grindin
'em to death for three weeks in the name
Of religion
No. II isn't wiilful sermon. 1t is mere
ly an outbreak from that vinegar cruet
LIZ Mooney, who calls herself Lisette
Moo-nay!
One long-ago Christmas the great mas
ter of literature pictured the misery
wrought by a Scrooge. In the same spr-
Ii, yes, and with something OF the same
power. Mr.. Hughes dares to voice the
And. as he explains it: What nobody
would care to read and nobody would
dare to publish ought to be well worth
writing
Miss 31s'' is a buoyant little story OF
laughter and love. with humble happiness
for everybody at the expense of self-sac-
rifice by one. The one is Liz-Miss Lisette
Moo-nay.
THE SYLVAN CABIN; A Centenary
Ode on the Birth Of Lincoln, and
Other Verse. BY Edward Smythe
Jones. With introduction by Will
liam Stanley Braithwaite. Boston:
Sherman, French & Co.
The author Of these poems is an in
teresting example of the persistence with
which a man in search of an education
will pursue his object despite all obsta-
cles and disbursements. a native of
Mississippi, he attended the public schools
of his state and afterward went to a
denominational academy. Dissatisfied
with the facilities afforded him for the
development of his talents, he worked
his way to Louisville. KY, and thence
to Indianapolis and finally reached Cam
bridge, Mass, going part of the way on
foot. His ambition was to enter Har-
ward University, but when he reached
Cambridge he was out of funds and was
arrested as vagrant and sent to Jail in
July. 1910. The next morning a poem of
unquestionable merit was found in his
possession and his case was dismissed.
He is now a student I'm the Boston Latin
School. and is seeking to provide funds
for his collegiate work and for his later
course in Harvard through the sale o:
his volume of poems. Though the rep
resentative of race which has already
given Paul Laurence Dunbar to tn
world, he strikes an even higher note in