Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-01

musicianly girl. playing with great feel
ing and finish. Somewhere in the story
one of the characters says of her. "If
Miss Honeychurch ever takes to living as
She plays 1t will be exciting both for us
and for her As far as the reader is
able To discover she never does SO take
TO living. This is bright and clever
story whose humor is of the extra-dry
sort.
THE PRICE. BY Francis Lynde. au-
thor of THE Tanning Of Red Butte
Western" etc. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
The outside of this story is the pursuit
of a thef-an exciting pursuit. baffled
and at the last abandoned Modern bri-
gandase in the form OF bank robbing Is
sufficiently common to suggest that this
adventure may he the good story-tellers
dramatization of some record of fact
culled from the columns of the press. The
crime gathers Individuality In this case
from the motives and subsequent intent
of the criminal, BY nature an idealist,
in politics socialist, obsessed like his
class b. the vision of grinding poverty
set ha.kIy against fabulous wealth. he,
through a clever stratagen. holds up the
president of a bank in open day and walks
off with S1"Hn. consecrate to the pur-
poses Of ameliora:ion. Far from calling
this a crime he puts around it the halo of
righteousness. The law. however, takes
an opposite view of the matter. and the
chase begins The wit of the individual
bent on saving himself. the ingenuity,
the quick shift. the actors part in this
neck-andneck race set off against
the myriad-sided automatism OF the law.
The inside of this story Is very impor-
tant and arresting matter. Starting out
in the glow Of altruism and self-right-
eousness, this hero. in the interest of
mere personal liberty. finds each day de-
voted to suspicion deception, lying. the
terrOrs of the magination The very
articles of disguise become a degrada-
ton. Food is a nausea. Sleep is a torture
of dreams. More than once the swift i'm
pulse toward murder rises All this takes
frightful and conscious toll OF manhood
At last. to save his soul, the man accepts
the current price of his act, and out of
wning security and prosperity, hands
himself over to the law. A love story of
unusual order moves In this general ac-
ton, often directing it. sometimes con-
trolling it.
THIEVES: \ Novel. BY AK. author Of
Adventures of Nice Young Man"
New York: Duffield & Co
Told that this is among the most mod
ern Of stories. one does not need to read
it to learn that these thieves are mil
lionalres. The den of this particular band
is Pttsburg. though it might almost
fifty have been New York, or San Fran
cisco, Chicago. The thesis comes out
in some ones talk-'They wanted to crush
a good man. simply because he urged
some honest reforms: they trumped up
charges against him, had a bri5ed mayor
and chief of police to trick and involve
him. and so on. and SO on. The action
advances by these tricks and involutions
on the part Of rich wickedness to crush
virtue. Not so much love story in its
full intent as it is an exposure of crime.
it nevertheless carries the issue of love
as one of its minor means Of subsistence.
While the novel has a certain crude
virility it is neither good drama nor
good literature. 4 story built on some
of the fine and splendid things that rich
men are doing. would not In the present
state of the public mind. be popular
publication, but ii would be a keen re-