Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-19

which Fannie Hurst develops her
moving pictures of one side of New
York life. Shop girl and travelling
salesman serve here as hero and hero
inc. slang takes the place of language.
courtships go on in the open of the
breezy trolley car speeding joyously
toward the sea. with Brighton or Co
ney Island as the happy goal of loves
adventure. Now and then the writer
forgets her story while the characters
engage in some particularly revealing
line of conversation. And the TODD is
rather overlong for the incident that
started it. But one is not inclined to
be captious over this for the reason
that. while waiting for things to move
on again, he is getting many glimpSes
Of warm hearted and WORTHWHILE
folks under this amazing mixture of
manner and speech. These stories are
not studies OF the citys poor nor are
they fables of the city's rich They
are. instead. pictures of a class in be-
tween the TWO. a class whose traits OF
race are objectified in a most SYM
pathetic manner through the common
place doings of everyday life.
DEsMOND'S DAUGHTER. BY Maud
Diver, author of Captain Desmond
V. c. etc. New York: 6. +. Put
mans Sons.
Another of Maud Divers Interesting
Anglo Indian stories. The daughter OF
Desmond here shares honors with her
father in the exciting Tirah campaign
wherein. once more. the Englishman
reasserts his dominion over the uneasy
and resistant tribes of the east This
is said to be. in its essentials the true
story of the Tirah uprising. Be this as
il may. it is an obviously competent and
artistic dramatiZation of the East In
dian country in one OF its troublesome
turns against its British rulers II is
IT,
but with the situation. this and her
vivid comInunica bility. that makes this
writer so convincing in these tales OF
the east. The background here and the
atmosphere are the great effects of this
story. To be sure one likes the action
itself. Desmond is an old friend. and
a hero, besides. for whom one can have
only admiration. And Desmond's
daughter is n close. second to her IA
Their. The love story is concerned in
part with making soldier out of q
boy, at times an uncertain process, bu,
one which. in the end. turns out rattle,
more successfully from the heroic
standpoint th1n the reader likes to &C
cept. India. the English in India, is
this writer's field. And, so far. all will
agee that this field Will bear many an.
other novel at her hands.
BODBANk. BY Richard Washburr
Child. author Of Jim Hands" etc
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
Bodbank is a Mississippi river town
The Phoenix" which figures here i,
not bird-it is hotel In bach
room Of this hotel the leading citizen.
of Bodbank were wont to gather
These are some of the stories of Bod
bank events and Bodbank character,
that were spun in the back room o.
the Phoenix. This is the means use<
nv the writer to give unity n fhI
book. One after another-the doctor
the lawyer. the river pilot. the school
master. the undertaken, the appl'
king and others-spins his yarn. Som,
OF these are laughable stories, som,
are subtly humorous-iike That
Good" some are profoundly touch
ing-like my Boy" All of them ar
carefully worked out into genuine
short stories. as all of them are file,
with insight and feeling. There is
markedly masculine quality here that
naturally. turns these Phoenix tale
over to the readers who like the rug