Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-27

prosaic minds Of men and women who
do not believe IN fairies. But children
why silverboy and silvergirl 60 to the
Squirrel Wizard and to the All.Alore.
Ape. and after that to the Gentle Giant
and to the Moon Lady. to learn where to
and the Pearl Princess are trapped into
Slippery Spiders magic web and left
there to fatten for his feast, the small
reader isn't at all surprised. but merely
overjoyed, when the Moon King saves
the two. and marries Silvergirl at the
same time that her brother weds the
princess and the Moon Lady becomes
the Gentle Giants wife. AS to the find
ing of the silver door-well, that's a
secret that only the story can tell. King
Hansel the First is another delightful
youth who begins as q poor orphan
forced to seek his fortune, and who. by
following the wise advice of a rooster,
half-drowned cat and some bees in
and take possession their castle. In one
Of the dungeons he finds his dear father
and mother and little sister, who were
not dead, but bewitched by trolls
which everybody must admit makes a
happy ending. AS to ''the Star Prin-
cess one would have to live with that
eye-bandaged young heroine and follow
her under. the ocean to the cruel mer-
maids palace. and into the caverns of
the sea monsters and to the very first
wave Of the Waters Of the Sharks, to do
justice to the enhancing adventures
that beset her way to love and a royal
wedding.
THE CONFESSIONS OF ABsENE
LUPIN. BY Maurice Leblanc. Trans
lated by Alexander Teixeira de Mat
& Co. Washington: Woodward &
|, Lothrop.
These are detached bits of Lupin's ex-
periepcoc &C a lxpipbt orro NJ q coior< MON
erty and occasionally as a champion of
injured innocence and the victim of
wrong. This arch lawbreaker is always
engaging, whatever his enterprises There
are ten stories here, in no wise related
to one another and bearing only by In
direct references upon the previous Lupin
stories. They are all Accordingly inter-
esting and serve to make even more vivid
the character of Lupin.
LITTLE GREEN WORLD, A Village
Comedy. BY j. E. Buckrose, author
of Down Our Street." etc. New
York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Into the little green world went Lydia
Bell and her mother when the death OF
husband and father. after serious re-
duction Of fortune, compelled them to seek
economic seclusion. There Lydia found
affection, developing into love. Her first
conquest was Tommy Grant, small son OF
the rector, whose escapades and uncon-
scious Vaccinations in the aid OF Cupid
form the most diverting feature Of this
delightful tale. Lydia's conquest of a
young man popularity assigned as prospec-
tive husband of young woman of wealth
was shortly followed by misunderstand-
ing due to jealousy. Then things seemed
hopelessly involved, with the man and the
girl both engaged to the wrong people.
Fortunately. in Mr.. Bonnfng Lydia found
a true friend. though not a husband. "A
splendid bit of chivalry is performed by
Ronning, to the end that all is well when
the story closes. An intimate view OF
English rural life, with its gossip, its
privations, its social aspirations and its
trivial complexities.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. BY Jane
Bunker Illustrated by NJ. Leone
Bracker. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Mer-
rill Company.
Who owned the seven blood-red dia-
monds that Mrs. Delario. clairvoyant,
found in a box glued in her slipper on
her return from Europe? Did they come,
as she thought, from some supernatural
source as a reward for her occult serv-
ices Were they the property OF the En-
peror Of Germany, on their way to serve
as bride to secure the favor of Mexico?
Or were they the property Of some indfvid-