Evening star., 1914-06-06


hot merely the body of the thing but
tather the body alive with its spirit
fhe face of the desert fringed and
broidered with emerald green, the
1.eities, the walls. the relics. the tombs.
the people the living present, are
PROVIDED with the multi-colored events
that have made them what they are
6he whole journey is a wonderfully
bicturesque evocation of the past
Weary and draggled with time, but here
Ind there bursting into brilliant bios
korns of modern life and activity. This
Is poetry as we'll as fact. and because
It is poetry it is the most impressive; MP e;
FScenes and Visions and "On the
kIat'-a thoughtful survey of islam
hre among the themes that come out
to meet one here One does not re-
all more satisfying travel book. one
Woodberry's North Africa and the
Desert"
bNE YEAR OF PIERRoT. By the
mother of Pierrot. New York: G. P.
Putnams Sons.
This beautiful story is told in an
ecstasy of motherhood. 1t is the story
bf that one lovely year when little Pier
rot, coming out of the void. filled every
oay with gladness from April round to
April again. And when Pierrot was gone
The .fittle mother in order that she
might never lose even one moment OF
that blessed twelvemonth wrote down
everything "the big things and the lit
lie things because I could not tell which
~ereAwhich-" Reading, we. too, slip into
The adorinc group banded about little
Pierrot-with the big man, Monsieur JACK
Martin. and gruff old DIR. Jambeau. and
kindly Jean with his prickly shelled. soft
hearted wife. with the postnan and Gas
ton the thief. with the noble lady and
the great dog, Sport. The perfect feehns
bf this story. its exquisite grace and a
rarely simple structure make Of it an
9ndescribably beautiful thing.
fHE real. BILLY SUNDAY; the Life
and Work Of Rev. William Ashley
Suaday. ID. D.. the Base Ball Evan
ref1st. By Elijah P. Brown. D. D.
New York: Fleming H. Revell Com
paBy.
Nnyzadequate version of Billy Sun
Hay'slife can hardly come under the
bead of the plain story. And Mr.
Browns study of the great evangelist
Is plain only in the sense that it
holds to the obvious facts of this as
tonishing career. without any attempt
j. subtle psychological analysis.
IN short order the biographer passes
III birth and boyhood of Sunday, and
htoyes swiftly to the conversion of the
pase ball player and his immediate
plunge into religious work. In terms,
terses and vigorous as Sundays own,
fir. Brown sketches the peculiar meth
DDS Of the evangelist and paints glow
lngly. the electric effect Of the man
npon the multitudes that swarm about
PIN. sAs a direct illumination of the
banner of worker that Billy Sunday is
khree. of his sermons and any number
kf his sharp and telling sayings are
kdded to the biographer's study. 1t is a
kramatfc story. and one that serves to
Expand passing glimpses of the man
and his work into complete and
Intimate association. but by an affinity
H temperament as well, Mr.. Brown ap-
bears to be fitted peculiarly for the
work of interpreting Billy Sundays
him and mission and for making rec
brd OF his amazing career.
WHERE NO FEAR WAS. BY Arthur
Christopher Benson, fellow of Mag
dalene College, Cambridge. author
of From a College Window" etc.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
For these essays on the nature and
effects of fear. Mr.. Benson has. in large
measure. drawn upon the fears by
which he himself at one time or an
other, has been beset. The fears of
childhood. youth and manhood. in his
drst and largest consideration, are
those of his own earlier and later days.
From this immediate and revealingly
personal portrayal of the shapes and
behavior of fear the study broadens
into an examination of 1t as the COM
mon possession of mankind. And In
stead of it's being an unmixed evil. fear
Is shown here to have played an
| enormous part in the progress of the
human race. since the resourcefulness
and invention Of man have been de-
Seloped largely through his terrors.
Reverting again to the personal: Mr..
,alrn hrfa efV, nf Nv
johnson. Tennyson. Ruskin. Carlyle.
John Sterling and Charlotte Bronte, as
each of these was powerfully and per-
sistently influenced by one or another
shape of foreboding. Sincere and in
| innate self-revelation. seasoned opinions
mellow judgment. and very fluent and
from Mr.. Benson. and all this is what
he gets IN large and full-fiavored meas
ure from this group Of essays on the
evil and the good that lie together in
fear
CHILD OF THE ORIENT. BY
Demetra Vaka. author of "Haremlike
some Pages From the Life of Turk
ish Women" etc. Boston Houghton
Mifflin Company.
Demetra yaka the wife of Kenneth
Brown, the novelist, is an American now.
But she was born a Greek and lived her
early years IN close intimacy with the
Turkish home life of Constantinople.
where her ancestors for hundreds of years
,had been part of the official establish
ment Of this eastern city. THE Child OF
the Orient is the story of that early
life. Fresh in substance and unique in
its approach. the story is told naturally
and simply and with a good deal more
than common charm of manner. In ad-
dition TO story interest and literary value.
the book contains authentic glimpses OF
Turkish social customs. and attitudes and
habits of thought that are well worth
Knowing as they are hard to obtain.
EDEsMAN &. BY Mary ]. H. Shrine.
author of "a Stepson of the Soil,''
etc. New York: The Century Com
pany.
David Bold. son of English soil and
more directly. Of the peasant pair Viii
liam and Esther Bold. is the center of
this story which runs alongside of
David's rise from his humble lot to
schooling. and learning and finally to
the friendship of scholars and people OF
place. And the story turns upon what
all this did to the inside of David, upon
how it affected his feelings and actions
toward the home folks. outwardly SC
far away from him in these later years
The story is, in word the proving
of David. But diffused throughout this
movement is very sincere and feeling
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