Evening star., 1913-11-29

| unenlightened tribe it signifies a call to
arms; 1t Is a sort Of native drum If may
so express it, explained Aping-Ayres i'm
provising blandly as he proceeded. "And
why do make you think of such funny
| thing?' persisted Philip. Because" re-
piled Aping-Ayres with a solemnity of
conviction worthy of an inspired prophet,
| because l think you are destined to beat
a drum and ! am equally convinced. my
little friend, that one day all the other
natives are going to listen to you This
was the beginning of the beautiful
friendship between this stray child of
genius and Robert Aping-Ayres. bril-
liant. drink-loving. irresponsible, ire
sistible Aping-Ayres. With the two to-
gether there follow delicious days in
Chelsea. in Orpinton, and in far Morocco.
with finally that sad night in Morocco
when little Tinwhumpinny of the gallant
heart stole away to find his friend in
whatever danger might have befallen
him. This is a big and brilliant story
Its one truly inimitable character is the
beloved vagabond, Robert Aping-Ayres
laborious. in the making of little Tin
whumpinny, though in the main the boy,
though a wonder of instinct and lovabil-
ity. is still boy. The friendship be-
tween the man and the boy is perfect
idyl. The mystery of Tinwhumpinny's
birth is. upon its disclosure. as revolt
ing as 1t is superfiuous. This is Mr..
Paton's first novel. With the natural
Christening that the world gives so free
ly, his next one should be a great novel.
THE MASTERY OF GRIEF. BY Bolton
Hall. author of Things as They
Are" etc. New York: Henry Holt
& Co.
This little book. being offered to those
who sorrow, is by this token, sooner or
later, offered to everybody. It's sole aim
is to set some little spot of solid ground
upon which one may stand when the
world is falling into wreckage about him.
The helpfulness of it lies in the fact that
1t is a book of good courage, one that
faces the great raged,es-death and
those things that seem worse than death
in the belief that the world is an or
dered place and not the foot ball of ca
PRECIOUS malice, and that these things
must have a place not merely in the
general scheme of existence, but place
in ones own particular existence. Mr..
Hall writes with insight and sympathy.
Nor does he rely upon himself alone.
From one and another source he gath
erS the wisdom and the serenity that
from a discovery of some of the high
uses of grief. Is it a religious book ?
Yes, religious in the nearby sense. Is it
mystic book? Yes, a mystic who is still
within our reach and following. This is
one of the inspiriting day-by-day books.
use of ourselves when we most need our
selves.
THE MAN WITH THE IRON HAND.
BY John Carl Parish. Boston:
Houghton Miff1in Company.
Hero-loving American young folks are
sure to be keen to this volume of hero
tales. To those in particular living in
the great valley of the Mississippi the
book will have q very peculiar and spe-
cial meaning. For the Mississippi valley
is the stage of these stirring adventures.
Set back more than two hundred years.
this stage is peopled with Indians and
white men-Span ards, Frenchmen, Eng
liShnen-Settlers, explorers, traders, war
riors and priests. Stirring and dramatic
action, action of amazing variety and
ha sard, rounds into one and another story
of heroSm and daring. What is most i'm
portant, too, is that these are all true
stories. each of them drawn from the
verified first-hand records of history. The
finely robust imagination of the author
has terminated this period and these
scenes in a dramatic and colorful pa
geant of the past of this region.
ALMA MATER; or the Georgetown
Centennial. And Other Dramas. BY
town Visitation Convent Washing
ton, D. G.
The Visitation Convent in Georgetown,
mellowed by time, but ever youthful in
spirit, was signally honored by her daugh-
ters, who gathered from every state in