The Washington herald., 1913-09-07
RN A. ID. Jacobson.

A THOUSAND MILES AN HOUR: By Robert c.
Givins Around the World Publishing Company,
Chicago.
The title Mr.. Givins has given his
latest book is briskly suggestive OF the
rapid movement of his ingenious plot.
The time of his story is 1925, and the
opering scene is laid in Bermuda, where
an sirship, very wonderful even Tor
that day and generation, when, OF
course aeronauJics have progressed
far beyond the standards OF excellence
of today. makes its ascent for voyage
on which its interesting crew runs al
most the whole gamut of experience.
The operation of the airship is upon
p plan which makes possible an ascent
10 an altitude where the earth's force
of gravity is overcome The author s
narrative explains:
AS they scared beyond the limit of
the earth's attraction, no decided
change was noticeable in the car. After
an altitude of several miles was
reached. every one became slightly ex-
hiIarated. and all were singing, laugh
ing, cracking Jokes, and making fun.
Even the staid wizard of the air,
ChiIds. made fun of their trip, and
laughed at every little incident like an
enthusiastic scGoOlboy.
Too much oxygen remarked
Childs We are becoming excited.
Then. turning a small lever in his con-
Genser, the fun subsided, and the engi-
neer got out his chart.
Ten miles above the earth an
nounced CarboneL I believe we have
row reached the limit of gravitation.
I'VE are now virtually so high that
we are out of all power Of the earth to
attract the airship TO any extent and
carry us with It. Don't you see? Look
through the glass said Carbonel, ex-
citedly. The sea is rushing past
wonderful! Marvellous" exclaimed
Huntington.
"An peered by turns through the re-
volving telescope. The sea rushed fI-
rlously past them.
Why, can II be possible exclaimed
Carbonel, we are entirely out of the
limit of gravitation?
Not by many miles, said Childs;
but my gases answer
Huntington inquired: How fast are
we going?
"Carbonel smiled. We are station
ery, but the sea is going a thousand
miles an hour. The world. you know,
goes faster at the equator-a little over
a thousand miles an hour, but here not
unite a thousand. The world being
IS 900 miles around at the equator, 1t
is not so much where we are. The
world is going east on its axis; we are
not moving"
The adventures and misadventures
carry the travellers into Japan, which
is described at length; to Russia, where
Carbonel is arrested as a spy, only to
escape through the use of a marvellous
chemical preparation which renders his
guards helpless; through Europe. and
finally back into the United States,
where the plot which includes love
story, is brought to a happy ending.
THE BOOK OF EVELYN: BY Geraldine Bonner
Illustrated. The BobbsMeTrin Company, Indian
apolis Price SIS
Geraldine Bonner has always seemed
to have a sympathy, unusual in wom-
an, for the demi-monde. Her heroine
in Rich Mems Children" was a wom-
an of this walk of life In her new
novel, The Book of Evelyn" Lizzie
Harris, or Liza Bonaventura, as she
chooses to call herself for her career
in grand opera, is not precisely that
type of woman, but in general ways
she belongs to the same order. She
is Iovable and in many ways admir-
able. In her Miss Bonner has Gre
.ated q strong character, and, though
she is not the heroine of the story,
shs q the moving spirit Her one stem