Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-07

have to wait until you ~
reach the most exciting Gle roh, pox+o,
part of the story before
you become really
quainted with this very remarkable man.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has always been
distinguished for his characterization. In
this respect he has no superior among novel
lists. He even succeeded in making Sherlock
Ho1 lines a reality, one of the most familiar
symbols in common speech. And yet.
when you come to measure the great de-
tective you find that he is really an abb
straction, and not human at ALL
InTHE LOSTWORLDt the characters thus
far introduced are human, intensely human.
Next week you will meet the two men who
complete the quartet that made the perilous,
thrilling journey into the unknown part of the
world where prehistoric life survives, and IN
their way they are as strongly individual as
Professor George Edward Challenger.
who will take your breath away in this num-
Der
Next week you will learn exactly how the
expedition came into being and how its per-
sonnet was made up There is graphic, ex-
citing account of big meeting. Maybe it
will not impress you at first so deeply as it
should; but later on you will recall that lively
meeting very often. You will find that the
public generally was much more skeptical
about the undiscovered land with its strange
monsters than you could possibly be. 1t took
a fighting man like Professor Challenger to
withstand the bitter attacks.
Of course you will read THE LOST
WORLD very eagerly; but you must
save time for other features in our next Sun
DAY MAGAZINE 1t is truly distinguished
number. one of those which manage to reach
the high plane we are constantly striving to
attain.
MAKING A NATION WHISTLE is by
Charles X. Harris. who has made more peo-
pie whistle than any other man in this coun-
try. He has written more popular songs, and
made more money out of them, than anybody
else-and he can't distinguish one note from
another on the piano. He depends wholly
upon his ear. If you are old enough, you
know about After the Ball, his first and
biggest success,-a million and half copies
of it were sold,-and he tells how he COM
posed it when he was a schoolboy. And you
know. perhaps, his " Two Little Girls in Blue
and mid the Green Fields of Virginia.
lust Break the News to Mother, Some
where" Hello. Central, Give Me Heaven,
and never so many more the nation has
whistled. Mr.. Harris has definite and
mighty interesting ideas about song writing,
and that is probably the reason he is more
successful than any of the hundred and fifty
thousand other people in this country who
are trying to write popular songs.
DYNAMITE JOHNNY O'BRIEN con-
- cudes his narrative of adventure and
history in our next SUNDAY MAGAZINE. If
you have read any of the instruments. you
will be sorry they are ended Next week he
tells how he nearly carried out what would
have been the browning achievement of his
career for which he was to receive half
million dollars. This was nothing less than
the rescue of Captain Dreyfus from Devils
Island. He had his plans all made,-and
there isn't any doubt he would have sue
ceeded, but before he could act the French
Government anticipated him and transported
Dreyfus to Paris for the trial that ended in a
Scotch verdict.
THERE will be another of the admirable
health articles by DR.. Eugene L. Fisk,
who writes about science as if it were fiction,
so interesting does he make his important
talks.
THE BLACK COBRA is one of Michael
Whites stories of India. AS in some of
the predecessors, he contrasts modern science
and engineering with the hoary old tradition
of ancient civilization. Of course there is a
love story in it, too.