Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-18

Of approach-they playfully call the fine
thing that he IL going to do, that they
are going to do, for the immediate world
about them. With amazing skill does the
| writer hold ones interest absorbed by
the way In which the discovery and use
Of these old letters serve to resurrect the
| man himself, and to wing his spirit
abroad so that hundreds unite to carry
out in his name the beloved scheme OF
robin Hoods Barn."
HURRYING FATE AND GERALDINE
By Florence Morse Kingsley, author
Of 1.-THE Singular Miss Smith," etc
New York: Franklin Bigelow Corpo-
ration.
It may be that 1t all came about this
way. Certainly, 1t is by no means safe to
give a positive mo" to anything that
may be ascribed to the multitudinous va
riety of human nature and human affairs
| And so, just as pretty Geraldine Farleigh
| stood facing homelessness. not only for
herself. but for her mother as well, and
| old Aunt Adelaide. and young brother
Nat, it may be that at that pivotal mo-
| ment the prince did arrive. 1t may be
| that by an act Of innocent deception on
his part and series Of mastery perform
ances he did rescue the old home for this
profitable rose farm At this point we
leave uncertainties for at least one sure
thing. The rest granted, there is no
doubt at all about the growth OF ro-
mantle love in SO persuasive partnership
as that Of making and maintaining fra
grant and colorful rose farm. All this
may have been. Grown resentful at the
| failure Of our own prince to arrive prompt
| ly. or to arrive at all. we have become
skeptical toward the whole beautlIui
| world Of ought-to-have-beens. and insist
churlishly, upon using the measure of our
own disappointments and disillusions upon
every sort of happy fortune that waits
upon the jewellers in books. And SO II is
only fair to assume that the happenings
Of this engaging story are well wltn ll
common acceptance as matter plausible
enough to win for no end of readers
pleasant half hour or so.
THE GOLDEN ROAD. BY L. NJ. Mont
gomery, author of "Anne of Green
Cables" etc With frontispiece in
color by George Gibbs. Boston: L.
c. Page & Co.
'sThe Golden Road is a Highway
through the land of lost delight" which
only children may travel. The young
people who skip and dance and sometimes
stumble along the especially golden way
that stretches from cover to cover OF
this refreshing book are merry pilgrims
with just enough faults to make them
lovably human, and who are good with
out being prigs. Felicity King conscious
of being the prettiest girl in the circle
around the wood fire in Uncle Alec S
kitchen, Is rather given to a superiority
which her brothers. Dan and Felix, boy
like, resent, but there Is gentle C1ciiy,
for contrast, and the dear Story Girl VINO
tells wonderful tales, and Sara Ray, VINO
has warts and whose mother always
makes her come home early, and Peter
Craig, the hired boy, and witch, and
deaf great-aunt whom the children try
to entertain at the tops Of their voices,
only, as 1t happens, 1t isn't Great-aunt
Eliza, but the governors lady who has
come to call-and dozen dehghtfui
grown-ups for a home background, in
GLIDING Uncle Blair, the artistic rolling
stone. and the dear, awkward man and
his dream wife. Also, there is young
Beverly, who tells about the beautiful
times everybody is having. And, always,
there is the Golden road.
YOUTH WILL BE SERVED. BY Dolf
Wyllarde, author of 1.-The Career of
Beauty Darling" etc New York:
John Lane Company.
The special muse who inspired this
author takes no stock in the adage-
doctrine that children should be seen
and not heard. Youth dominates every
page at the expense of the generation
that has gone before. Gillian Joyce. at
nineteen, Is the wife of a middle-aged
a baby son. The husband, on duty in
Africa, and the wife in London, creates
a domestic condition which allows Gil
Ian to wear her marital responsibilities
with girlish lightness. A desire to be-
| come a professional singer in spite Of