Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-14

Education. religion, government. laws.
punishments, the military systematic
whole whatnot Of national life spreads
here in an intimate and graphic piano.
rama over which the history Of the
country shines. Peeps into Chinese
Life" PLAYS and Play Actors" Money
and Money Lending" are among the in
full views, that this author projects. One
respects the authority Of this volume.
Mr. MACEDONIAN has lived in China and
worked there for fifty years. He likes
it's spirit. Out Of these fifty years the
author has reaped sincere respect and
admiration for the Chinaman- both as
he is and as what he is able to become
This sympathy is In the book. helping the
reaoer also to comprehension OF the
subject The illustrations are in keep
ing with the character of the study
intimate. everyday scenes Of Chinese
common life.
THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WOMAN.
By Ida M. Tarbell, associate editor
of 1.-THE American Magazine" author
of History Of the Standard OH
Company" etc New York: The
Macmillan Company.
Last year it was 1.-THE Child" This
year it Is 1.-The Woman Everybody is
on edge to tell her what to do and how
to do it-how to grow strong and beauti-
full, how to choose her husband and have
her children. how to run a home. and
achieve a separate career and lend a
hand in turning the world over. Scien-
tific charts to guide her in these various
lines, books and pamphlets. tracts and
sermons. clubs and conventions attack
her to right and left, before and behind,
In exhortation and urgency. In this mot
ley now and then message STANDS out
by way of some peculiar stamp OF excel
lence. Miss Tarbells little book does. 1t
is a plain and reasonable study in the
business economies-Or economies OF a
businesslike character@that may secure
a woman to a degree Of independence and
stability in the pursuit OF her funda-
mental use in the world as a woman.
There is no revolution in this study.
Rather a readjustment by which women
may organize their powers and oppor-
tunities in harmony with their surround
ings.
THE DOMINANT CHORD. BY Edward
Kimball. With a frontispiece in
full color from painting by Will
liam Bunting Boston: L. G. Page
& Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
Alice Huntington, only daughter OF a
man who counts his millions by. the hun
dreds, gives an opera party-Siegfr1ed.
The guests include her fiance, q worth
less duke, who so annoys the hostess
with his chatter that she suddenly leaves
the box, orders her automobile and
wakes up to find herself on the ocean.
In a boat. OF course, the abductor is a
man who loves Alice. And equally, OF
course, he has drugged both the chauf-
feur and the girl. The vessel in. which
Jules Verne voyaged under the sea was
a primitive craft compared to John Cor
don Craig's appropriately named Sa-
- To- hon yHyif
the Craig genius-to say nothing Of the
Kimball imagination-make motor boat
that can never be equaled until some
other writer with more imagination turns
a later model from the literary ways.
There are trips to the bottom Of tropic
seas, on one of which Craig boards Co
lumbus' sunken ship and brings back to
Alice Isabella's royal ring. which she
filings from her, but secretly picks up and
wears on a chain. At another time Craig
crunch his body. when Alice throws the
anchor and. contrary to accepted theory,
hits the fish. The two visit an island
and are captured by pirates. who put to
of which Craig knows more than any
man who ever lived outside the covers
of book-brings the Sabine to the res
cue. 1t is electricity that keeps the boat
in fresh meats, flowers and daily papers
from New York. And it is electricity
which enables Alice to state her case to
her father, who straightway puts a feet
on the high seas to find his child and
bring her home. A torpedo boat finds
them in Brazilian waters, but the girl
hates to be beaten in a race, SO she spurs
her captor on. They escape. but her ten
der nursing OF his wound-shark's teeth
inspires Craig to sacrifice his elaborate
scheme OF abduction. which included an
Island kingdom. and points the Sabine to-
ward New York and freedom. This
change startles Alice into the conscious
ness that she loves Craig. And love is
the dominant chord. 1t is an improbable
story. OF course, which the author does
not ask you to believe. But he tells it with
such delightfully."- breezy assurance that
the reader will accept every situation as
1t outstartles the one that went before
even the whim that makes Alice desert
her guests at the accommodating moment
when Henri" lies under pile Of furs
and the make-believe chauffeur sits at
the steering wheel. OF course.
SIDNEY. BY Francis
Deming Hoyt New York: Long
mans. Green & Co.
This is a novel with a purpose. It's
heroine is lovely and gifted daughter of
Mother Church. who refuses to marry
the man she loves because he is the son
Of an opposing creed. The purpose is to
bring them together in one faith fold.
Fred Drayton is assaulted and the robber
convicted. AS the prisoner is about to be
taken from the courtroom, Catherine Sid.
ney approaches him and puts a package
in his hand. Drayton misunderstands her
interest but learns later that it is entire
~ charitable in character, and that the
prisoner is the son of the woman whom
the girl has befriended. The knowledge
Of GATHERINGS goodness inspires her lover
to assist in works Of mercy that put him