Evening star., 1915-07-11

ROM the high caves Of the barn
snowy feather out of the
- wing of a nesting dove drifted
down through the white moon
light to the feet of Michael
Strangway. Back of the open door
way where he stood, the big barn
deepened to a black and boding cave.
noosed rope dangled from one of the
great beams in sinister seduction
Michael was running away from things,
from the burden of a parsons life
turned to wayside taunt, because in
the work of being a parson he had
forgotten to be man. So Michael's
wife had slipped over into a real mans
keeping. And the English peasant
folks of the parish made open jeer at
the parson as he passed by, not so
much for the immortality in his house
hold as for the weak behavior of the
head of that house. y man would have
beaten the woman into submissive ado
ration, and a man would have trounced
her seducer soundly and have thrown
him. complete wreckage, upon the COM
mon dumping ground of the hamlet
So Michael was running away. Then
the loveliness of the moonlight flooded
his heart. the bit O. love- from
birds wing restored his kinship to the
WOTlu f1e remembered Wndt a tlHy
girl. her hand in his, had said to him
little before. in the wonderful child
wise way. He recalled the dumb but
enduring agony of dull peasant be-
cause his wife had died and how he
had said to the parson: Ties empty,
zurr; but I'll get on some'ow." And
the play comes to an end with Michael
praying. God of the moon and the
sun. of joy and beauty, of loneliness
and sorrow-give me strength to go on,
/
three acts leading to this climax de-
velop in the surprising simplicity and
excellence of structure that mark all
OF the Galsworthy plays. AS bit of
life it is, too, a deep-seeing and SYM
pathetic disclosure of the recesses of
the human heart.
WE ARE SEVEN, q Three-act whim-
thor of The Poor Little Rich Girl"
etc. New York: The Arrow Pub
fishing Company.
Diantha, the heroine of this anus
ing farce. is a young woman who has
come under the complete control of
the latest word in the new education
of women. Diantha is femininism
itself. personified in very pretty and
engaging girl. Eugenics, however, is
the heart and soul of Diantha's new
devotion to the cause of her sex and
the race. Sne DeueNeS In euSenlCS, ana
believes nightly in her own personal
destiny as the mother of men. Already
in her minds eye, to be sure-sae
sees herself with seven fine eugenic
children as her ultimate achievement
in the worlds work. So real is this
splendid family to Diantha that she
talks about them in a most diSconcert-
ing fashion to those who have not kept
pace with Diantha's dreams Sne tells
them stories, makes clothes. for them
to for hair
ment. perfect mother of merely po-
tential children. A conservative aunt,
brought up in an earlier school of
feminine propriety. is naturally scan
head and front of every sort of organi-
zation designed to liberalize the views
Of women. to loosen up their speech
and to free their actions. But the
highly perturbed aunt insists that
D:antha shall have an escort to accom-
pany her to the unneard-of places
where her activities take her. More
over. this escort must be deaf and
dumb. since no man in possession of
all his senses could be expected to
comport himself in a safe and sane
manner in regard to the free-speaking
Diantha. Even at this point it is easy
TO see the absurd and laughable hap
penings that can be made to spring
appears to have missed none of these.
Good fun, a breezy humor and a keen
and delicate wit play throughout this
enjoyable farce in a manner to delight
and refresh the reader.
THE UNvEILING. By Jackson Boyd.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
This poetic drama-half dream, half
prophecy-deals with the powers of
good and evil as these war against
each other for the mastery of the
world. This theme the writer has
brought out of classic days and set in
the present. surrounding it with mod
ern circumstance, and moving it to It's
issue by means of the full complement
of modern life and outlook. Politicians,
male and female. laborers of both sexes
agitators. strikers. soldiers. l;tigants,
clerics. students and plain folks-the
whole human motley. in a word-are
here brought alternately under the
powers of the gods of light and dark
ness. The progression moves toward
the things of the light. toward ideals
of righteousness. with 4 deal OF philo-
sophie and poetic discussion of the ma
ture of truth and the quality of love,
ambition. religion The five acts of
the drama. are bent to the task of un-
yelling nature. revealing life and caus-
ing reality to stand distinct from the
mere appearances OF reality. The whole
il serious and picturesque drama
phrased in the images and inventions
Of poetry.
EDGAR CHIRRUP. By Peggy Web
ling. New York: c. r. Putnam's
Sons.
Though it is worked out in the man
ner of the most exacting of realists,
this novel. nevertheless, remains one
OF quaint favOrs and reminiscent style
1t Is the life story of Edgar chirrup.
From the time that he left his cradle.
Chirrup was given over wholly to the
great game of make believe. No per-
son or thing came little Chirrup's way
that he did not, sooner or later, jump
into its skin. so 20 speak, and present
its peculiarities with an astonishing
ndelity. Very early in life Chirrup
soberly announced that he was going
10 be an actor. And this is the record
of the development, OF the genial
comedian and OF his career upon the
stage. 1t IL j charming book OF quiet