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

stand out in complete reality of ap-
pearance and personality. Taken by
and large. these elect people are much
| like the folks outside The wives of
the wise men dress up and go about,
not wholly despising little gossip
now and then, nor sly comments on
one anothers clothes. The savants
| themselves are much like other men
shade finer perhaps. but of human
strain that commands belief. AS in
| all compact bodies. bonds gall the spirit
here and there. so here the more or less
serious efforts toward comfor BILE ad l.
| justment move this uncommonly en-
gaging story along to its realistic and
highly dramatic climax.
AVERAGE JONES. Samuel Hopkins
Adams author of The Great Amer
lean Fraud" etc. Illustrations by
NJ. Leone Bracker. Indianapolis
Bobbs Merrill Company
1t is to be hoped that Average Jones is
only practicing in the exploits which are
described in the volume that Mr. Adams
has just given to a public that should
be grateful to him for creating a new
character in detective felton, For
judging from the facility which he de-
velOpS in the course of these little adj
ventures in the solution of mysteries he
should become one of the most fascinat-
ing of modern tracers Of criminals Start
ing in his professional career as "Ad-
Visor merely to obtain an interesting oc-
cupation while waiting to become final
possessor of his uncle's great fortune, he
develops into an extraordina riy keen
analyst The strangest announcements in
the newspapers are brought to his atten-
ton and cause him to run some very in
teresting facts to earth. There are ten
OF these episodes and Of such & variety
that the volume becomes increasingly in
teresting as it is read. Average Jones is
an exemplaf of the value of sharp obser-
walton and shrewd deduction. He is al
together one of the most enjoyable story
detectives ever introduced to the public
James Oppenheim. New York: Har-
per & Brothers.
Joe Blaine, a fire in whose printing
shop caused the death of a number of
working people, discovered that he
really knew nothing whatever about the
world. Defeating himself to the cause
of the dead girls" he went out to
find for himself how the men and
the women and children who labor for
their living make both ends meet. and
he was shocked to discover that their
margin of safety was small. From a
prosperous. contented employer he be-
came an agitator for the rights of the
wage earners publisher of weekly
paper in the interest Of and named for
the "Nine-tenths.' the submerged, or
ganizer of strikes, defender of arrested
pickets. Mr. Oppenheim's proposition
is that it sometimes takes a personal
cataclysm to bring enlightenment, SUCH
as the fire that awakened Joe Blaine
from his complacent acceptance of the
industrial situation and made of him a
vigorous. radical protestant against the
inequalities of present day relations The
story contains a romance that does not
check or materially affect the develop
ment of Joe Blaine's new concept Of
the social situation. 1t does not lead
to a solution Of the present problems,
merely stating them in dramatic terms.
ROSE OF OLD HARPETH. By Maria
Thompson Daviess, author of 1.-THE
Road of Providence etc. With
illustrations by w. B. King In
dianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company.
The autGor dedicates Rose Mary to her
mother and the whole book to her grand
mother. This is a unique distinction be-
tween the character and the tale that Is
quite amply justified by the fact that
Rose Mary is supremely individual ere
ation. while the story is excellent in it