Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-11
BOOK REVIEWS.

BENDIsA; A study In Prodisahty. BY
Maurice Hewlett, author or ne
queens QUAR-" etc. New York:
Charles sScribner.s Sons Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
- rARDLY ever is "a Hewlett ro-
nance, roomy enough or rigid
enough to hold within its, own
metes and bounds all the peo-
pie with whom it has such
a,t~h,fui and absorbing to do Some
ona mr. other. or more, of these is pretty
csr,air 10 leap across into succeeding
,d,onture Mrs. Lancelot' is case IN
,,oir+ Won remember that this story
,,ds with Mrs. I.ancelot running away
,,.,th the widowed curly-pated poet, Ger
,.as. poore. leaving both the husband and
that powerful friend. the great Duke OF
I,l,.;zas in a common sorrow that was
tempered by the deep-down convictioh
80 tho o,,een could do no wrong. AS
might have been foreseen, knowing MT
,Ior1at, this was by no means the last
81 tho matter. While the story in mana
i = brilliantly characteristic study OF
Lord Bendish as one who spends life ana
friends and even himself, in, the pursuit
of Measure and his own glorihcaton' IL
Mrs I,ancelot Lancelot dead. tardliv'
. ,s the poores-G ervase and Mrs. Lance
lot mother of the two little Poores-
with the faithful and still loving DUKE
of Devizes-that reappear IN inns s'o
as i'm part the nemesis that IoiloW0 e',u,
for the time heing. eXtinsulshes ,a ane that
lord But no one has any ldea 'ha.
Rendish Is under permanent echpse. III
half a year or so another HeWlett ho'e'
will come out with Bendish piasIns
secondary role, even as Mrs. a, this
and her small court are doing IN ti .Is
one Each new novel is leavened VIII
a ninch Of Yeast from the Old benaish
story lies in the early last centuIS' ~.
tuaI and hStitious folks hobnoo III II oi,
terms of equal reality. Tom Moore ana
eigh Hunt at least are here with no
pretense of making up others are mere
i'm half disguise. AND SOME are me- ma,
featured out of whole ciotn. DehulS .
himself fiery reformer, satiricai poet,
1850 lover az women. colossal egoist. is
a speaking likeness of Lord Byron. Inc
whole is of the familiar Hewlett pattern;
nothing much as story, hseu en-
straight in its general grasp Vi nui"I i,
nature. grimly humorous and ABOVE an,
far above all surprising in its Wlzarors
of mere words.
D.vID MALCOLM. Fly Nelson Lloyd,
author of The Soldier of the. VAL
IeyS' etc. New York: Charles Scrip
ner's Sons Washington: Nood"dro
& Lothrop.
Some day, when YOU are feeling around
for a good story to read choose DaNio
Malcolm. David" will rest You after
the sHrfeil; of human document stories
and social. problem novels. 1t Will re-
fresh you. too. on the other hand from
that. tired feeling which the sentimental
and improbable nonsense of the average
popular novel has induced Davld tens
his own story. From It's hrst csap.ei'
where he, a lad of ten, goes a-hsnihs'
10 its last one, where, out of far WANDER
ings and with substantial winnings, ne
comes hack with Penelope ana tnel,
boy TO the dear home valley, there is d
paee-by-page delight in the opening out
of David MalcoIms life, Upon the per-
fectIy plausible experiences of robust,
ambitious determined, clean and capaple
fellow Mr. floyd has built an interest
ing and stimulating romance. One itkes
narticuIarIT the focused movement of
this story. There are no tedious delays,
no laundering side-trackings here for ex-
plantations and thin-spun analyses he
likes equally well, too, the Effectiveness
of the people-all of them. from the coun-
try group that figured in David's boyhood
10 the more cosmopolitan associates of
his manhood. IL one were to name the
persons in this romance whom Mr.. Lloyd
has made conspicuously vivid ana COM
plete he would pretty nearly exhaust
the list of characters. for each, In ms
place and role, is a very convincing real
ity. Scenes from New York social life,
from London, from. the war front in AZ
RIGA. and with the Turks, enrich the
background of this bright story. And
over she whole deep feeling for, the
poetic i'm life and nature spreads its
softening and beautifying bloom.
THE BUSINESS OF LIFE. BY Robert
w Chambers. author of The Streets
Of AscsTon" etc. Illustrated by
charles Dana Gibson. New York: ID.
Appleton & Co. .F ~
The Business OF Life" is. one cafcd-
lates Nr, Chambers best story. Like
the rest Of The family of Chambers
novels this too. is a modern adventure.
running along beside the men and women
OF the present with little. If any. exag-
Seration of either their virtues or their
frailties, This drama of fashionable life
rounds ~ in its complex of situations
and SCENES about the average number of
WORTHWHILE and worthless folks. and sets
these out in picturesque and interesting
lifelikeneSs. BY clear right the heroine
of this tale stands above both her inn
mediate; saFr91ndin@s and above the Fest
of the chambers. Women wherever these
may be found. Jacqueline Nevers is a
girl 10 admire. to remember, to call back
again, just as one does some exceptional
- fine girl in real life who is doing her
her own life in "a big. commonsense, beau
tiful way. This authoT~has an undeniable
gift for telling a close iointed, energetic
pictorial story. one. too, that arrives I'M
failingly at the place which it. from the
first page, sighted as its only fit and
proper destination. And this, one takes
il, is the supreme test OF the novelist All
the rest Is hlling. personal taste and bent
individuality One is sure that, in every
case, Air- Chambers. is telling just the
kind of stery that he wishes 10 tell, what
ever the ultTa-literafy may say of these
stories. In other words. he is possessed
OF the amiable intent and prompted by
the practical desire 10 write such stories
as the great majority delight to read.
NEW IsNGLaND AND NEW FRANCE:
Contrasts and Parallels I'm Colonial
History. By James Douglas, LID.
author of old FRANCE in the New
World.3 etc illustrated. New York:
G.tPs Putnam's Sons,
BY way. OF this scholarly and erigina
INVESTIGATION the student of history. and
the Gseneral reader as weu is permitted
10 ses the French and English coionists
in America side by side and at Close
range. Lined up at the right hand and
at the 1eft are, first, the motives. the
sharply contrasting motives. that drov,
these French and English men away