Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-28

4, in leafy greenery. Within, cool depths
for summer, ruddy hearths for winter
Before the fire kings armchair. miracle
of Florentine loneliness fianked on this
regal settling places. And Lemois mine
host-lovely old Lea to right OF him. and
a lovely young Mignon to left-nnelts into
this rich and ripened setting like wax
INTO mold. 'Yes-a great inn this inn OF
William the Conqueror at Dives and
unique the world over" housing. at one
time or another. half the famous of Ell-
rope-Moliere. Dumas. George Sand
Daubieny. among them. One savors the
keen delight with which this particular
author gathers group of his spiritual
kith about him in the most enchanting
of all the rooms In this most enchanting
of all Norman inns the famous dining
room. the 'Marmouset Adventure and
romance-in part reminiscent. and in
other part running along beside this
buoyant company-crystallize here into
crisp narrative. and tossing badinage
and swift-shuttling retort. to which is
added any amount of seasoned opinion or
all sorts of interesting themes The
quality of this delightful book comes out
in the word charm a blend Of elusive
graces. caught only as fugitive impress
sions-half taste, half scent-like the
bouquet of rare and ripened vintage.
MARTHA-BY-THE-D BY Julie NJ
Lippman. New York: Henry Holt &
Co.
Half an hour with Martha-by-the-Day
puts one on better terms with himself
and. incidentally, with the rest Of the
world. If this ungainly, unlocked. Irish
charwoman can do her daily choring in
an uncomfortable. even in a laughing
spirit: If upon her lean wage she can
house and feed her brood with more of
good cheer and good health than many
Il lady of learning and leisure can bring
about in her sphere; it, moreover, she is
aole to stand, ample, as both man and
woman OF the house when hard luck
strikes her own man; if, besides--and
here the real current Of the story sets
in-she can befriend a pretty girl whose
last nickel has been passed in, home her,
get her a job. supervise her courtship.
and subsequently stand as mistress of
ceremonies, so to speak, at her marriage:
why. if Enthusiastically can do these
things and a dozen others with them. we,
ourselves, can do a few such. or know
the way we feel about it after going over
this budget of sheer grit and laughing
invincibility. The book takes one in
hand, rolls up his sleeves. and sets him
to drawing in the long and silly line of
philosophy flung off somewhere toward
eternity, in order that he may cast 1t
into the pool of hour-byhour practice of
his soul. as Martha by the-Day has
learned 10 DO so SpIenu10ly.
BACHELORS COMEDY. BY j. E
Buckrose. author of Down Our
Street" etc. New York: George II.
Doran Company.
Being diffident man, and, besides, be-
ing a bachelor, and, still besides, be-
ing vicar. what could young Andy
Deane expect other than some such series
of befallments as actually waited on his
unwaywise steps round and about his
new living at Gaythorpe- on-the- Marsh,
OF the logical happenings sequent to this
provocative triangle of situation, Mr..
Buckrose here spreads out a fresh and
enjOyab array. A mildly betangled love
matter holds the reader anxious. in neigh
borly way, that the young cleric, for the
time being, set aside some of his inbprn
fears, in order to save Elizabeth the
shame of bringing him TO school to learn
the first love letters of open avowal. A
very narrow escape at length estab-
fishes the Rev. Andy as undisputed hero
of this romance, with a final happy ever
after to relieve the reader of what comes
20 seem personal responsibility on his
part to see young Andy safely through
Comedy, nodding and gleeful. dances
about this mellow garden patch of mild
adventure, and interesting to do in d
pleasant English countryside. Quiet
humors, and old-tiIne, sweet-herby doors
pie have achieved the difficult art OF be-
ing not only normal. peaceable law-ahid-
ing citizens, but of being, at one and the
same time, most engaging, spontaneous
delightful folks whom it is JOY to know.
CAVIARE. BY Grant Richards. Bos-
ton: Houghton Miff1in Company
Racy and relshful. this story-as cavi-
are is meant to be. Paris and New York
stage the affair A young Englishman of
not too much account, an American mil
lonaire, and his engaging daughter-all
in Paris-are the chief persons involved
in this swift complex Of incident. Love
for the young woman almost Immediately
floods the heart of the youth. To this
aspiring -in-law the father hands out the
rebuff to be expected from one who has
done things to one who, as yet has done
nothing. Thereafter the business of this
story is to bend itself to the service of
wedlock At about this point the mil
lionaire is kidnapped In the streets Of
Paris-not an improbable incident as any
morning paper proves. The abduction, or
de~ed from New York is to hold this
particular rich man in duress while an
other willy financier manipulates to his
own advantage the stock of the "M.chi-
gan and Illinois" In the meantime, how
ever. the young sutton. sent away to
make his fortune, crosses to the United