Evening star., 1914-11-21

the wreckage of other victims of the
sea. Here these two men lived for a
time in increasing comfort as they
came in among fresh wreckage wom-
an. barely alive, young and beautiful.
Contention arose between the two men,
DR.. Dale constituted himself her pro-
. tector. but the other became prosecutor.
and enmity dwelt in the desert island.
followed by peace and love and final
release. with this theme Mr.. Oxen
ham deals most divertingly and puts n
new tone to the castaways of the seas.
THE CITY OF NUMBERED DAYS. BY
Francis Lynde. illustrated by Ar
thur E. Becher. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
tano's.
Mr.. Lynde has a way Of making his
stories of engineering and business en-
terprises particularly vivid. and in '"The
City OF Numbered Days" he has reached
his high mark for tenseness of situa-
tion and vividness OF narration. A
reclamation engineer has been commits
stoned to construct a great dam across
valley to give water to a wide reach
Of country beyond. Along comes a
New York millionaire promoter with
his daughter and son in motor car.
diiu NC Secs great pOSSlNliitieS IOr Otnef
great forms of enterprise than that Of
impounding and selling the rainfall
The two men conflict in purpose from
the beginning. The engineer persists.
desnite temptations until at last for
reasons that are sufficient for himself
he yields far enough to fall somewhat
into the power OF the promoter A
booming city is built at the foot of the
dam. city that II the construction
work continues must in the course of
a fytrna Ia
Political influences are employed for
and against the engineering project as
AGAINST the land hoom and the city's
life. A love story is interiected to give
the story a romantic appeal. but the
chief concern is in the struggle be-
tween the engineer and the unecrupu-
lous promoters who are trying to
make heavy profits out Of the land
greed and gold greed Of gullible
public.
PRIVATE AFFAIRS. Ry Charles Nc
Evoy, au'hor of Grass Feces"
Boston: Houghton Miffiin Company.
conservative. regulated English
family is here presented, q family un-
der the strict domination of petty
tyrant. the husband and father. who
cannot conceive the possibility Of his
daughter marrying one of whom he
disapproves. who abhors anything sug-
gestive of publicity, who cherlshes
privacy as a fetch. The youngest
daughter Is talented and at n school
dramatic entertainment she attracts tho
attention of a great london MANAGER,
who sees her possibilities as the nor
trayer of q role in drama soon to he
produced. His munificent offer OF SAL
sry for this tyro's services anna zingly
changes the point Of view Of the father,
and thus the girl becomes an actress
almost before she has put up her hair"
The girl falls in love with the man.
Is man of family. and meanwhile a
serinus-ininded. affauant member Of the
nobility becomes infatuated with her.
The story reaches It's clinaax in tho
girls discovery that her adored one Is
married and then the shadow Of the
perfectly acceptable young ncbleman
falls upon the screen and her prob
lens are solved. The broad feature Of
this work is the picture that 1t pre-
sents of characteristic middle-class
English family bound by the laws of
social conservatism.
THE VANISHED MESSENGER. By E.
Phillips Oppenheim. snthor of "A
Peoples Man." etc. With illustra-
tions by c. II. Taffs. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
OF particular interest. now that war
fs raging in Europe. is this tale by
Mr.. Oppenheim, who is never happier
than when dealing in international
problems and propounding political
mysteries. A hopeless cripple, made
so by the act of his own brother in
past years. at one time an attache of
the British foreign Office, is employing
his enforced retirement and great
riches in playing at intrigue. His pas
sion is to acquire the secrets Of the
powers and his agents are at work
throughout the world. An American is
on his way to The Hague to attend q
meeting of representatives of the great
money interests to prevent an outbreak
of war between the great nations. The
Machiavellian plotter in his eerie on
the east coast of England contrives his
detention and out of this case develops
a most complex situation. which Mr..
Oppenheim evolves to 4 solution with
characteristic cleverness.
THE. TEETH OF THE TIGER. BY
Maurice lie Blanc. Translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. IL
luetrated by Gordon Grant. New
York: Doubleday. Page & Co.
This latest "Arsene Lupin" story
takes up the career Of that remarkable
parsonage after his supposed death on
the Italian coast and his services un-
der another name in Morocco. He re-
appears at a time when certain papers
relating to the will of Cosmo Morning.
ton, lti-millionaire, are to be OPEN
ed by the Partisan prefect of police.
To trace this narrative even in the
barest outline is impossible, for Mr..
Leblanc has compacted into The Teeth
Of the Tiger" an exceptional amount
OF complication and an amazing sue
cession of situations Lupin, under his
new name Of Perrena, Is actuated by
the purest motives to prevent crime, to
insure the proper inheritance of the
Mornington millions and ultimately to
save from the tolls of an unscrupulous
villain a young and beautiful woman,
who for a time appears to be his mortar
enemy. 1upin is repeatedly check-
mated and apparently broght to the
end Of his resources, but always. as in
his past career, he extricates himself
and confounds his enemies. There is
no dull moment in this most thrilling
Of the Lupin stories. 1t may be noted
that Lupin Is fully in the possession CT
liberty and all his faculties at the close
Of the story, SO there Is no reason why
further adventures regarding him
should not be narrated.
ROUND THE WONDERFUL WORLD.
BY G. e. Milton. Author of The
Book Of London" etc. New York:
G. r. Putnam's Sons.
The author creates the impression
that he Is travelling around the world
for the purpose of showing Its Won
ders to a small boy. who is his only
This happy comradeship
makes the journey so freshly natural