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

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Eden Phillpotts. author of .'Brunel's
Tower" etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
rDEN PHILLPoTTs. for the
l. making of this novel. moved
out Of grave Devon over into
IL smiling Kent. The story light
ems and brightens. likewise. by
virtue of this move. The green alleys"
are the hop fields of Kent, and this is
another Phillpotts romance of industry.
Hundreds of lovely sketches depict the
attitudes and appearances. the moods
and feelings. of the long vineyards of
living green. The hop harvest de-
veiops a story of human interest. love
story as different from the usual Phil
potts romance as Kent is different
from Devon. Over in Devon the Phil
potts characters have very little IN
the way of personal volition. Devon
itself takes them in hand and shapes
them according to her grimly serious
designs. Here in Kent the men and
women. the boys and girls. are more
less under its domination, more the
shapers of their own conduct This
fact. no doubt, gives color to the
writer's claim of comedy Tor this IN
in his own outlook, Mr.. Phillpotts has
taken 4 day off, SO to speak, from his
work of interpreting Devon in terms
of human feeling and conduct 1t will
DO him good. 1t has already done him
good. as Green Alleys" SO clearly
proves. While this is not the greatest
of the Phillpotts novels, 1t will make
a more general appeal than many OF
his more characteristic works, and one
can easily imagine it taking its place in
common esteem as ore of his most
enjoyable stories
Aereeia Kelly. Illustrated by Alon
70 Kirnt all New York: The Cen
tury Company
Tho Kildares OF Storm are Kate.
widow Of Basil kildare. and her two
daughters. Storm is q Kentucky plan
tatioE. miles OF bluegrass land ard
mountain side. And this is the love
story. or love stories. of Kate Kildare.
Only the most adventurous of writer's
would undertake TO endow even so
sumptVous wman as Kate Kildare
with three lovers. all suing toeether.
and still expect readers to accept her
the wise and splendid creature that
she Is obviously intended to be. More
over. .Eo Of these lovers father
and son. And. still more, two Of them
pass on 70 become the husbands Of tte
TWO tldI StLalSr R.i Etfn are
outline Iifc an imnossieie and nope
."ss undertaking. No; so at all II Is
,,s uncon1mGnly t-illiant invention.
CONSISTENT ana plausible Throughout,
despite its bizarre outlines. Il is a
very human story. but its cha racters
are of a big pattern and behave ac-
cordingiy. In its beginning. and in the
person of Basil Kildare. it carries a
suggestion of "Wuthering Heights"
ana from beginning to end it moves
far above the common levels of motive
and feeling. This Is not so much a
novel as il is a romance, requiring
action as its medium of developm ent
and distance for its glamouring effects.
The daily life at Storm provides the
action. and Its aloofness wraps II in
the haze OF distance. Modern as the
story is Kate Kildare. nevertheless.
has something ulythic in her wise and
benign greatness
piNCUS HOOD. ~ Arthur Hodges
.s1tl,or Of The Essential Thing
Illustrations by Frederic r. Gruger
l,oston: Small. Maynard 4 CO.
Pincus Hood, art dealer. is New
York philanthropist whose love OF
mankind centers in eertain obscure
young artists whom business has
brought his way. 70 open up a means
~ which these STRUGGLING young fsl.