Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-30

Gale. whose art in delineafif1g village life
has yielded many beautiful tales. has
never written anything more significant
or appealing than this, with its unmis-
taxable lesson that the observance of
Christmas lies in the heart, and that
spirit of the season that tells. and there
is no evading it and no denial. With its
artistic color plates by Mr.. Scion this
makes a charming gift book for the holi-
day season.
THE ROYAL ROAD; Being the story
Of the Life, Death and Resurrection
Of Edward Hankey Of London: BY
Doubleday. Page & Co. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
And how dost thou seek another road
than this royal road. which is the road of
the holy CROSSE This, from Thomas a
kempis. is the key to Mr.. Olivant's story
of how enlightenment came to a little
London cockney, shrewd urbanite, who
without faith, without knowledge, with
all the narrowness and insuiarity Of his
class. gains the truth AS to his own soul
through suffering and sacrifice. This is
gripping story. unpleasant. with no ap-
peal to humor. setting forth in plain,
sure strokes picture of life beneath the
surface in the great British capital. Is
there no chance for those who toll, and
struggle. and suffer. and starve in that
great metropolitan mass? Here is shown
the slender hold which. even the man
with job has upon existence. Teddy
Hankey was such a man, that blessed
mortal, lower-class Englishman with
steady employment. and yet when illness
came, and long idleness. he and his
wife and child suffered for the needful
things, because of England's great eco
nomic error. which has thrown SO many
human beings upon the very edge Of
starvation.
THE BOUNTIFUL HOUR. BY Marion
Fox New York: John Lane & Co.
Through many complexities this story
advances to carry through the history
of young girls development during
the latter part of the eighteenth century
in England. Charlotte Hume first ap-
pears as a heart-winning little fury, fly
ing into a passion because her almost
baby brother is being sent to school by
their father. Thus introduced, Charlotte
proves true to- her original appearance.
She is self-relant, fmpetuous, wonder
fully affectionate. and her life is lonely.
On the night of the day that the almost
baby brother is sent off to a distant
school Ito develop character" her moth
er. struck by an unjustly enraged hus-
band. fed from home and children with
her brother. And thus unmothered. Char
lotte was brought up in a girls boarding
school and tardily returned to her ia
Tiers house, to find conditions there
that repealed her and forced her to fee
back to the country. Then came romance,
and with romance tangle Of emotions
and motives and ss-purposes, but ulti-
mately with happiness gained. A vivid
picture of English society little more
than hundred years ago is incidentally
painted in the course of this divertng
narrative.
MEMOIRS OF DELPHINE DE SABRAN,
MARQUISE DE CUSTINE. From the
French of CASTOR Maugras and LIE
CITE. de Croze-Lemercier. With
Doran Company.
These memoirs reconstruct the person
aity of a French noblewoman who lived
and barely escaped death-during the
reign of terror. Many Of her letters are
splashed with guilotine red, but they are
far outnumbered by a correspondence
which mirrors the life of young, pretty
and frivolous woman who loves her chill
dren, but rather ignores a faithful hus-
band for the admiration OF other men.
Delphine's most useful lover was hum
BILE and unknown mason. who saved her
from the knife shortly after the eXecu-
ton Of Comte de Cuisine and her own ar
rest. This man had access to the death
warrants. and daily went through the
box in which they were kept to put that
bearing her name at the bottom of the
pile.
Glimpses are given of Feuche, Talley-
rand and Nine. de Stael and other celeb
rites of her time and of society under
the directory when 1.-The intellectual BAN