Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-25

ject powerfully and offers one OF the
strongest arguments for prohibition
that has yet been written. An inter
esting romance Is involved. with the
tale turning upon the lapse of the
memory of the man who, single handed.
changed the course of legislation and
won the fight for temperance.
ELBOW LANE. BY the author Of AL
together Jane" New York: Mitchell
kennerley.
A little girl living in Elbow lane had
no dolls because her grandfather. a
prophet Of local fame. thought dolls
were silly and unnecessary. So one
day she secreted some dough from that
which had been intrusted to her TO
knead and made from IT tho semblance
of child. for which she was punished.
but she was permitted to keep her
plaything until II shrank in the drying
and she buried 1t, with tears Then
came one who led her along tho path
Of self-discovery. and when he fater
died still another helped her until she
became a great sculptor. This story.
by the anonymous author OF a proceed
ing work OF success. Is of delightful
quality. breathing the spirit OF art II
presents several delightful characte
the spring fiction.
THE BUSINESS ADVENTURES OF
BILLY THOMAS. By Elmer f. Fer
ris, New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
Billy Thomas was a coward at the
beginning, afraid of the big porter at
the coffee and spice store where he was
shipping clerk. and SO he took a
course of lessons in boxing. to give
himself courage, and from that sprang
ability to face men without fear he was
able as a salesman on the road to make
business against adverse conditions
He went at craftsmanship thoroughly
and scientifically, REID books on the
subject. studied men. eschewed com
panions who wasted his time and
finally acquired wife. who helped him by
her maintenance of the higher ideals
This work is not so much a story about
Billy Thomas as II is Il treatise on sue
cess in SALESMAN ship, and yet every
young man who has work to do for
others or for himself would profit by
reading of it, for it breathes the
principles of square dealing, OF enter
prise and of progress.
THE THOUSAND SECRETS. By John
Selborne. New York: Mitchell Ken
nerley.
There are many mysterious develop
ments in this story, but the greatest
mystery of all would seem to be why
so complete a blunderer as the narra-
tor, Dick Dauntsey of the secret serv-
ice of London. ever came 20 be a men,
Der of SO important an organization.
Ordinarily the detective who tells
mystery story. however modest he may
be, manifests occasionally some sem
blance of restraint and some concep-
ton of professional duty, but this
blythe Young man founders along in
the mesh of plot and counterpart and
jostles against one Prime after another
until it is beyond Comprehension how
the British government could possibly
withstand the pressure of his absurd
performances. The story deals with
series of crimes committed by a scoun-
drel who is frank enough continually
to warn Scotland Yard In advance OF
every happening. by means of a series
of cryptic typewriter notes.
HILLSBoRO PEOPLE. BY Dorothy
Garfield author of THE Squirrel
Cage" etc. With occasional YER
mont verses by Sarah y. Cleghorn.
New York: Henry Holt & CO,
These are short stories. eighteen in
number. interspersed with poems, about
people in the hills of Vermont, chiefly
those of Hillsboro. They disclose the
tragedies and romances that lie be-
meath the gray exteriors of apparently
sordid, commonplace lives Several OF
these tales turn upon the theme or
sef-sacrifice and Self-imposed duties
that prevent the gra. .ica ton of ambi-
tions They are not all of modern times,
but some cover the Indian days and the
revolutionary period. They all reveal
a remarkable power of delineation and