Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

Inc century toihPohS-
T the close of this strikingly
~ impressive novel, John Be-
~ eardus its hero. is saying.
Gentlemen. am an apostle.
The gentlemen" are col
lese class identical in essentials Win
the one that Bogardus something IKE
half a dozen wears before had fled, in
disgust with himself. deliberately pre-
,,ared for the position of professor of
the romance languages young bo-
garlus soon discovered that it was life.
and not the romance languages, Tor
which both he and the young fellows
before him were clamoring. Having no
degree in that subject. and being an
honest man, he gave up his JOB and
went out into life to get the school-
ing that his destiny demanded. And
now he is back again. an apostle,
missionary from life. as it is. to the
youth shut up in the futile, exclusive.
pretentious mandarinlsm OF me col,
lege Between these two points John
BogarduS has done many things. some
of them are worthy and some not so
worthy. All of them are real He has
sailed the seas and tramped the nigh
ways He has earned his bed and
board by the pull of his own muscles.
by the care and control h, OF mis- ms own ~n
against the feelings and behavior of
real men and women: He has come
into a speaking acquaintance with the
Bosardus 4 young and lusty fellow.
a comely one withal. women have, as
a matter of course, been among the
most potent of the teachers of this
youth Some have led him along the
open road in the full light of day, and
some have gone with him into the by
and mistake have taught him as well
as righteousness and rectitude. But
in every event he s,,, is Earning rhs life ht
that is the sin of his elders-his
father his friends. his college pro-
fessors. And this is the point of the
story, that John BoGardus discovered
what his work ought to be. that he
went out and learned it, that he came
back to do it in manly fashion in re-
Spouse to the clamoring needs of the
young men around him. So. .--
This writer has the boy on his mind
and heart. All of his novels prove this
culpabIe neglect of the boy. against
the weak and vicious conspiracy of his
seniors TO hoodwink and stultify and
cripple him. This is stronger book
than Through Stained Glass" Es-
Gaping the didaCtic touch apparent in
the earlier novel. this one comes out
into the convincing ease of free and
Eelf-SuStaining naturaliSm.
THE HONEY-POT. BY Countess Bar
cynska. author of The Little Moth
er Who Sits at Home. New York:
L. P. Dutton & Co.
This particular honey-pot is the
stage of the modern theater The honey
IN the pot is the youth and charm, often
the helplessness, of the stage girl. The
bees are such of the male persuasion
as habitually swarm and buzz around
this bemusing pot of honey. The ro-
nance is. in the main, study of human
nature reacting to the peculiar stimu-
1us of theatrical life. Human nature,
at its best, is not an altogether lovely
thing In this set of circumstances it
appears to come out in the near neigh
borhood of its worst. In the main cur
rent of events the writer has placed a
couple of stage girls. a handful of
managers and the general public, gone
amusement mad. With this material
and by way of an Interesting and well
managed story, she sets out the salient
features of stage life for the mass of
girls of mediocre talent and unsettled
purpose who pass in and out of this
chosen for the purposes of this story is
an actress. AS a matter of course she
would not be. The talent of the one is
IN her coloring. in her shapeliness, in
her power to focus immediate admiring
attention to that part of the front row
Of the chorus where she stands. She
is lovable creature of big heart and
common grain. The other one is a
sistence as her gift. Both are good
girls. as goodness is commonly under
stood. That is. both prefer to be vir-
tuous. Deliberately one departs from
this overexacting way By accident.
the other remains in it. The writer
makes them SO humanity real, and such
perfect products Of their own separate
natures set in this common stress of
circumstances that the reader accepts
them comprehendingly and lovingly
Indeed. the point of this story is that
set out in the light of clearer under
standing. Added to this is the authors
felfe and fo inter sssfg 1 sss to
beings.
" ~ IfiIT :, By sy,o Frank Danny: author
Dodd, Mead & Co.
At no point in its course does Frank
Danby's new novel come out into the
broad daylight Of clear motive or coher-
ent plan or compelling action. Rather
does II, in workmanship and effect, al
CELL as in theme and atmosphere. cling to
The obscnrity that its title implies. It
may be that the trouble here rises
from the fact that the heroine of this
tale is a dead woman. and that the one
who tells her story Is certainly half
1Shu ndrBaIet Cdpel, beautiful and
distinguished as a clever novelist. died
suddenly and to a degree myeterious-
1y. Into her old home came the sec
ond woman, herself a writer also, and
the victim of maladles that drove her
frequently into drugland as an escape
from pain II was in this no-man's
land Of dragged dreams that she met
Margaret Capel. gathering from her
the facts that stand as the foundation
Of this romance The story itself has
no special distinction. either in it's sub
stance or in the manner Of its telling
That pretty and Turing woman
Hhould be loved passtonately and far
beyond her deserving by two excep-
has completely cleared her skirts of
divorce court dragKle, is not novel
situation. OF itself this 10 hardly ade-
Quate to the purposes of the serious
writer of romance. What this author
does by way of padding II and bolster
ing II 10 an outstanding attitude. is to
make use OF such dreams and visions
as drugs of one sort and another fash
ion in the mind. to touch these up with
psychic and spirituajistic manifesto
tons. to suggest that the writer of
Margaret Capers story is herself Mar
garet CapePs rein carnatfon- 1t is by
dint of these artifces that Frank Dan
by makes commonplace of society
over into somewhat tedious tumble