Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-01

| MS own, taking with him only old
Martha. the adoring and faithful Irish
nurse OF his childhood. The one I'm
oreakable rule OF this new household
was that he was to see no one but her
| was 70 be seen by no one but her. After
| time, to ease his growing loneliness he
| invented friend for company on his
long and solitary walks. Then he in
vented another. and another until the
NUMBER grew so great that he hit upon
the lucky notion of setting up a model
community III the broad valley stretching
oeioW ms own high-set house. This he
olo, OUT II was great secret. Old Martha
! was upon no account to know anything
about 1t. For SO delicate was the 81 ua-
tlon. so fragile was the quality of these
companions that If you touched them
! as ne himself could do to keep them from
fading away before his very eyes Much
OF this fanciful adventure into the world
/ or make-bflieve has to do with the bust
ness of these pattern citizens of this
truly utopian town IT appears to he
upon the whole somewhat enviable ex-
pertinent. suggesting that almost any one
might improve his surroundings by the
sehs' pie ana SIMPLE device. of inventing
his associates. The story comes to a
HAPPY close by the Intervention of a real
young woman of such quality as
slightly TO disarm the advocate of a pure
imaginary set of friends and acquaint-
ances Mr. Chapmans pictures help one
materially to feel the elusive quality of
THESE friends OF the boys exile.
'''s FAIHEH.s WIFE. BY j. +. Pat
terson. author of Fishers of the
Sea" etc. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Company
The title of this romance gives one its
general outline as we'll 1t, besides. in
dicates pretty clearly that it is a story
OF disaster And such ii turns out to be-
When Aaron Rugwood married his ward.
barbara. younger playmate of his own
SON he set the very form and feature
or the punishment that would come to
MIN. Mr.. Patterson develops this do
mestc drama at close range. within eve
sight and earshot of the people who ami
mate II. setting down what he sees and
heirS without misconstruction or exag-
seration. The effect of this fine fidelity
Is to make the whole circuit OF events
as real as those of ones own neighbor-
hood, and much more revealing. since ii
is the business of the artist to deal with
meanings as well with appearances.
In addition to making believabie human
beings who here work consistently out
step by step from their own natures and
surroundings, this author has painted the
rounded and lifeIike picture of a fresh
corner OF the earth. In the North sea,
just off England and not far from the
mouth of the Thames. is the island of
Foulness-a deep-sunken spot lying no.
where more than d dozen feet above sea
level, a place of salt marshes of bitter
winds, but. despite these, a place also of
good freeholds. among which is the cus-
tered hamlet of Foulness. The islanders,
like the people of isolate places. have held
steadfast to their own ways. to a certain
bare, unoverlaid quality OF character
which reflects from every angle the tenn
per and spirit of their sea-hedged home.
1t is of these people, of this place. that
Mr.. Patterson makes this island chron-
Gle. The story itself is one of sober
strength. But the peculiar triumph here
comes from the way in which the author
knits the gray and wind-swept setting of
these island folks into the quality of their
blood and the shape of their thoughts
and the measure of their actions.
YOUR CHILD; Today and Tomorrow.
BY Sidonie Matzner Gutenberg. In
PRODUCTION by Bishop John II. Vim
cent, chancellor of Chautauqua In
stitution. Illustrated. Philadel-
phia: ]. B. Lippincott Company.
Mrs. Gutenberg appears to have made
a thorough, formal and scientific study of
children And what is better, she ap-
pears to have recovered from the worst
of this. Having completely sloughed
every sign of the analysis and outlines
and tables and diagrams of such study,