Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-01
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| the steamer from Italy to England. Dark
some doubts as to his own innocence OF
the crime itself begin to form in the read
er's mind. Mr.. Hornung so adroitly MAIL
ages his text that the truth of the mystery
comes with unheralded surprise at the
climax. This is a good bit of work Tor
brief entertainment.
! Archer Frost. Illustrations by How
ard Mccormick New York: Double
day, Page & Co. Washington
Woodward Lothrop.
Upon six men. sitting in the club at
Durham, Natal. a native witch doctor
launched his curse because one of them
had kicked out of his hands a bowl of
coins after an exhibition of native magic.
All six of them were to die. One of them,
an American. having offended least was
to be last to go. Having said this, the
witch doctor disappeared. and 10, one OF
the six sat still and stirred no more. The
curse had begun to work without delay.
One by one five are taken. For a time the
fifth stands between the American and
the curse. and he, being a man of great
means, takes every possible precauton
to hold him faithful and to keep him in
spirits. Then, from distance he hears
that the man between" Is dead and the
curse looms om.nously near, and he sets
forth ainlesSly seeking forgetfuiness back
in his own country. BY a chance. one night,
he comes upon the solution of the mys
terry, and he finds life suddenly invested
with joy again. because one whom he
had thought lost to him forever is re-
stored. AS 1T turns out there is nothing
mysterious or supernatural about the
case, Just a shrewd case of matchmaking.
In the telling of the story Mr.. Frost has
given vivid impression of life in South
Africa. particularly the unfortunate Eng
fish people stranded there because it is
cheaper TO live there than at home. while
they lack the means to keep UP their end
i'll their old circumstances.
THE HONORABLE MIR. TANNISH
By Jeffery Farnol. author of THE
Broad Highway, etc With illus
trations by Charles f.. Brock. Bos-
ton: Little, Brown & Co.
These are the days of hard riding and
hard drinking men; the days of dueling.
powdered wigs, dandies and heavy gam
bling; the picturesque costume days of a
hundred years ago. The Hon. Mr.. Taw-
nish came as a suitor for the hand of
Mistress Penelope Chester. self-wilied
miss, who ruled her father and his
friends. her self-appointed uncles, with
a tyrants dominion. Mr.. TaWnish was
not popular with the male members of
this group but he performed certain hard
|, set tasks ultimately to Their satisfaction,
reduced to submission the most danger
GUS bully of the neighborhood proved
himself in every respect man, and
amply earned his title to the hand of
Mistress Penelope. Mr.. Farnol tells this
story with his usual grace.
FOOL AND HIS MONEY. By George
Barr McCutcneon, author of "Graus-
tark," etc. illustrations by a. l.
Keller. New York: Dodd, Mead Il
Co.
There can be no doubt that John Bel
lamy Smart, popular novelist and his
rich uncle's heir, amply qualities for the
title role in the abbreviated. adage. He
showed himself feol at the outset by
undertaking the purchase of half-ruined
castle on the Danube and then showed his
further folly by submitting to the i'm
positions of tourists and friends who made
his place a common stamping ground.
Again he demonstrated in this capacity by
allowing himself to get mixed UP in the
misadventureS of an extremely pretty
young woman who had secretly settled
herself in one of the wings of his castle.
After that his follies became too numerous
for present citation. but withal the fool
is interesting and his adventures are eN-
citing enough to keep even All impatient
reader busily at work on the chapters