Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

ing Of this delectable and enduring
stronghold Here are essays on poetry
| in its relation to life. on art IN us Dear
| ing upon morality. on education IN Its
| essence and use. on sympathy. n nas,
experience, and on all the other essen,
| tails OF a full preparedness for high ana
| joyous living. The friends and fnumateS
| Of Mr.. Benson all over the world Will
| find here, in undated flow. the cheeriui
| philosophy. the buoyant outlook the wise
/ ref1ectiveness. the simplicity and grace
| that have already endeared him 10 d
| multitude of hearts.
THE DESIRED WOMAN: A Novel. BY
Will N Harlem. author OF WeSteI
felt" etc New York: Harper q
Brothers.
1.-The Desired Woman completes a
bakers dozen of Georgia stories by MI
Harden. These. together. make store
of fresh entertainment for the not TOO
serious reader. They set, also, tnou-
sand-and-one expertly chosen points from
which to approach the Georgian and De-
come acquainted with him at home. !hey
have, besides, created substantial ana en-
during types of local character and scene
| in an otherwise UNEMPLOYED place
The much-desired woman of this gooo
romance is a Georgia mountain girl,
sensible. warm hearted. and. of course.
| beautiful. The quality OF the men deslI-
! ence Of this desire, with the various ways
in which it made itself known, direct the
course of this adventure and shape IT'S
end. The wooing of Dolly Drake Is
enough like all wooing to make 1t per-
sonally interesting to readers whether
these are facing upon the past or upon
the future. AS revealer of character
the mating impulse has no rival. The
author knows this, and uses 1t to ad-
mirable advantage in fashioning the peo-
nf hi rnnrfqhtn
Harden works with both hands on the
setting of this Georgian romance. drawing
an inclusive picture Of southern scenes,
the mountains here and there the plains,
that of the city jewellers. easy content
on the one hand and, on the other, the
thrush of fresh enterprise.
A hand-in-glove touch with both the
old south and the new, great skill In in
terweaving these, and the ability to tell
a good story, pass these Harden novels
beyond mere entertainment and give
them permanent interest as transcripts
of southern life.
THE WAY OF AMBITION. BY Robert
Kitchens, author of 1.-THE Garden of
Allah" etc. Illustrated by J. H
Gardner Soper. New York: Fred
erick A Stokes Company.
Mr.. Kitchens makes long story of the
way In which a young woman. with only
lnmitigated se1f-confidence as a quail
fication for the work. took 1t upon herself
to shape the career of a young composer
according to her own notion of what
career ought to be. AS q start in the
schooling Of genius to the ways Of the
world Chairman Mansfield, delightful
and ambitious member of the exclusive
literary and artistic set in London. mar
ried the obscure musician Claude Heath.
Then followed years of persistent, half-
playful bullyragging at home to divert
a very real genius into the turbid current
of popularity. Going along with this was
no end of scheming on the outside by
Chairman to lure patrons and make
market for the music that Heath him
self SO heartily despised. The story ends
in the inevitable disaster that this course