Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-29

lows may secure recognition and find
opportunities to exercise their unde-
niable gifts, this is the idea that takes
complete possession of Pincus Hood.
The opening up of this idea. the vicis-
STUDIES that wait upon it's development.
the ultimate rivairies engendered by
1t among society folks aspiring to
stand as patrons of the arts. and the
financial difficulties of whole-hearted
Pfncus himself-these form the general
outline of this delightful story. a
group of very real people, the artists
in whose behalf Pincus is making
phere that turns a humble cor.
ner of New York into a modest, but
most captivating, little American
Latin quarter. 1t is a genial story,
all through it, 1t calls to mind VIII
liam J. Locke when he is most him
self.
New York: The Century Company.
This is the writer's first novel The
air of literary sophistication which ii
SO clearly possesses comes. more than
likely. from the authors apprentice
ship with the short story and other
forms of composition. Not an easy
task. this that Mr.. Aumonier set him.
self here. To bring. ultimately. q
finely beautiful woman out of a dung
heap of heredity and environment is a
plain case of flying in the face OF
eugenist, biologist, evoiutionist. This
is. nevertheless. what Mr.. Aumonier
has done. He saves the soul of Olga
Rardel alive. by the simple expedient
of preserving in her. throughout the
storm and stress of her career, the IN
conauerable honesty with which some
remote lord of her life saw fit to en-
dow her The little London girl has
r. Ife
covered. she becomes an object of COM
merce. all the unlikely brood about her
bidding and intriguing for the control
of this possible gold mine. This is the
foundation upon which the writer fol-
lows the steady and wholesome devei-
opment OF the little girl to woman
hood through the sheer force Of her
own sincerity. The story deals with
rather than with its surface move
ments. though there is social incident
a-plenty to make attractive avenues
for this growth of rich personality.
The man back of this writer is way
wise observer, whose resources are
those of culture. whose outlook is to-
ward the upgrades Of life. and whose
medium is oftentimes poetic and all
the time singularly pleasing.
THE DUAL ALLIANCE. By Marjorie
Benton Cooke. Illustrated by Mary
Greene Blumenschein. New York:
pGuDlEGdy, rage x Co.
A live sparkle of Irish temperament
-porvades this somewhat improbable but
entirely captivating romance. That a
-oung woman joyously boyish enough to
be called Bob should decide to kill her
self because her father had died on the
eve Of her dramatic success is SO frankly
silly from the viewpoint OF world filled
with bereft people who bear their anguish
without fuss that one sneakngly hopes
the young actress may be posing to catch
the interest of Paul In either case she
succeeded as so delightful heroine de-
serves. Instead Of advising against sui
eide, Paul. who is her lawyer, suggests
platonic marriage; each to continue
individual careers for six months II at
the end of that time death still seems de-
sirable-Barbara accepts the proposition.
and the story tells the result
Three full-page illustrations and a well
painted frontispiece of Bob and Paul add
to the interest-value of the text.
SLAVES OF FREEDOM. BY coninssby
Dawson, author of 1.-THE Garde n
Without Walls" etc. New York:
Henry Holt & Co,
women are. without doubt, a bit
drunk on their new freedom. The un-
balance. the loss Of perspective. that
mark the peculiar headinsss-of -intoxi-