Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-30

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menagerie any domestic
litter that the rising young writer
might indiscreetly have accumulated
at some earlier stage of his career
Therefore. when Meadows went d week
ending down to Crosby Ledgers in the
wake of Lady PUNISHABLE. or shot up
the Scottish moors under the same
magnificent patronage. Doris Meadows
for the most part remained at nome.
And throughout the prodigious social
to-do over Arthur Meadows his wife
would doubtless have remained wom-
an of no importance had 1t not been
for two happenings. stopping by her
self in London while the others had
gaily gone a-Maying elsewhere. Doris
with characteristic energy rescued the
Honorable Herbert Dunstable. decad-
ent scion of the house of Dunstable.
from the clutches of Madame Elena
Observation-Disclosures Mary FINK. or
was II Jane Blink" And again. by this
time Lady Dunstaple had wrung the
young writer dry and was ready for
new sensation SO. parity out OF
gratitude 70 Doris and partly out of
e boredom with Doris husband. she cool
IN RELOCATED Arthur Meadows to the
ranks and exalted his wife to the SUI
preme place in h.r consideration FROM
Mrs Ward "A Great Success Is Il neg
1iribIe output. despite the fact that
LADY Dunstabie is admirabl type
and Arthur Meadows. in lesser degree
is also a rounded and lifelike inquire OF
the ambitious and easily battered
Young literary man. one takes II Tor
yrauted. too that the background of
English society," clannish. unfeeilng,
mannerieSs Combination-iS also true
to fact
THE LIGHT THAT LIES. BY George
Barr Mcl'utcheon. author of "Grau-
stark" etc. Illustrations by r.
Graham Cootes. New York Dodd,
Mead x Go.
A woman in the casa young and
pretty woman in the case-piays ducks
and brakes ultimately. SO it is said.
with the pure intent toward Justice
that both judge and jury are supposed
to possess II is upon this assump-
ton that Mr.. McCutcheon builds the
clever and entertaining story IN hand
Sampson is a juryman and TINS rs
SIMPSONS account of the trial of James
w. Hildebrand for embezzlement. a
case of magnitude Accompanying the
old gentleman who is under this seri-
lovely young woman. touChingly ten
der toward the old man. The trial
proceeds in an outward decorum. out
underneath a pretty general demorali-
cation is setting in through the pres
sure of sympathy. The lawyers are
urbaHe. the Judge benevolent. and each
juryman knows past dispute that IN
some wholly unexplainable manner
this lovely girl is depending upon him,
just him. to save her grandfather. The
final deliberations of the jury are in
imitably amusinS-and human. ON,
VERY human. The old man is unqueS
tionably guilty. But justice has skunk
into corner and mercy is posiuring in
Requirement before them. The ipshot
of the matter is a plea for clemency.
And the Eoung woman in nutter OF
aaorau.e JOY. nurrIes away. leaving a
spretty lovelorn lot in the courtroom.
The next year. out in California, Samp-
son meets d friend press man. who
dragS him of Summarily TO the famous
forgery trial of Nictorana Rodriguez.
as fine grandee as old Granada itself
could produce. Beside Rodriguez sat
why. his daughter. of course. Senorita
Isabella Consuelo Maria Rodriguez,
The same Ioveliness. the same solicit
gtude. the same gentle radiancy- most
eleverly developed and entertaining
comedy OF the law.
BY MOTOR TO THE FIRING LINE. BY
Walter Hale. illustrated by the
author. New York. The Century
Company.
In June ana July Of last year Walter
Hale. the artist, in company with
owen johnson and Arnold Bennett.
the novelists. was with the armies
of northern France This book is
made up Of MIR. ,IIaie's notes and
sketches gathered at Rheims. at Arras.
and at other points where the works
OF medieval art were being destroyed
h. he ar Ia # hH ~ L:.i.