Evening star., 1915-02-28
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In both substance and form. this is Just
the kind of book that should be used
to open up to young students the won
der-world that the partnership of
science and industry is producing inn
mediately around them. No romance
can surpass il in charm, nor in its
power to stimulate the imagination.
And in addition. too. IT as a mine of
useful and most important informa-
tion.
THE HAUNTED HEART. BY Agnes
and Egerton Castle. authors of The
Pride of Jennico.' etc. illustrated
by G. III. Taffs. New York: ID. Ap-
pleton & Co.
II Norma Maclvor had been like any
other woman she would. then AID
there. have had II ou. with Ian Mac
lvor. And. in that case. it is more
than likely that the matter would
have slipped off into the ample limbus
set apart for the frailties and infideli-
ties OF husbands. Then the two would
merely have Joined the great process
sion on the common highway of mar
ltal makeshifts and compromises.
There is nothing on earth to do with
troublesome secret except to let il
go. Holding IL works all manner OF
mischief. STILL IL Norma MacIvor had
told Ian what she knew we should not
have had this story of a fugitive wife.
with the false color of an elopenent
about her flight. There would have
been no divorce, nor the remarriage
of Ian. nor the great doings on the
new wife's money at Castle Stronaven.
nor Ians death-stricken with Norma
fastening from her Italian retreat to
help him over the river with love and
grief and forgiveness. Nor should We
have h | that mastery bit of artists
work that describes the burial OF the
master of Strongaven by the loyal
q n SD an saf Nh.
this story is commonplace and current.
Wives. and sometimes husbands. are
forever finding out. by means more or
less accidental. that the strain of mat
rimony turns naturally toward ease
ments of one sort or another. The
trouble that follows these discoveries
is often sordid. sometimes banaL Here
it turns into highly romantic ad-
venture. The Scotch of the sLory-its
landscapes. its customs and the charac-
ters of Norma and Ian MacIyor-con-
tributes this element, and gives to the
romance flavor of old Scottish tales
Now and then a character here is out
of drawing. now and then series of
events LACKS complete plausibility But
upon the whole. people and place and
incident come together in a pictur sque
and well ordered scheme of entertain
ment.
MEMORIES OF FORTY YEARS. BY
Princess Catherine Radziwill. IL
ii n
Wagnalls Company.
The position of Princess Radziwili
gave her exceptional opportunities for
observation and study a the courts of
England and Germany. as well as in
her own country of Russia. And into
this volume she has gathered with
free hand the recollections of some
thing like half a cent. y. A host Of
names appear here. the large majority
of them possessed by people whom all
the world knows at a distance. and
whom the world would like. well. to
opportunity. Here. at hand. are kings
and queens. princes and princesses.
lords and ladies. courtiers and poll
tfcians. diplomats and poets and paint
ers and writer's. And the lady who
names them to US, the Princess Rad
twill. is woman through and
through Mistress of completely
feminine observation, the princess per-
mits no person, however high he may
stand in the worlds esteem, to get by
with any little pretension about him.
He may sail past srandly in the belief
that his wig is on straight. But the
lady points this detection out. not for
getting to state that it is a wig. And
as for teeth. or arrs. or legs. or hands
that are false, they have not the ghost
of chance to evade the Argus eye
of the princess: no. not even il a king
wears one or another of these manu-
factured members. A hundred good
stories are in the volume. the most OF
them given out with sort of black
eye intent. The judgments are per-
sonal The general standard of these
is 'T do not like thee. Doctor Fell or
It do like thee. because thou hast been
most gracious to me-. :. sparkling
work? Yes. very sparkling. and bound
to give no end of entertainment to
great many readers of the doings Of
great folk.
Two Lessons ON the Origin OF HUI
man Nature. BY J. Howard Moore.
author of THE Universal Kinship.''
etc Chicago: Charles H. Kerr &
Co.
The beginning of life"-nature's
most inscrutable mystery-is herein
explained SO far as finite science may
know. The Lessons" were originally
given by the author before the stu
dents of the educational Institution of
which he is instructor of ethics. and
are classed in two parts: physical and
mental. The most casual reader knows
his thimbleful concerning the ORIGIN of
man. but it is seldom that the vague
beginnings of things are nut to him.
as here. with the forceful simplicity of
proven facts: That man was a tropical
animal originating somewhere in
southern Asia; that the architecture of
his mouth and digestive organs, and
the child's natural preference for fruits
and nuts shows the eating of meat to
be an acquired practice. and that the
unexplainable instincts of the man and
woman of today are but the ghosts
of banished generations" In an i'll
Eliminating chapter on The General
Ideas of the Child" the author de-
scribes the youngster who lives out
side of a book with such accuracy of
realism that the reader may be par
doned the assumption that his own
boy has served for a type.
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