Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-17

evanston Howard. New Ork. DOu-
bleday. Page & Co.
-I HIS is a great story. 1t is
great In its poignant truth to
human nature, in the depths
to which it takes its unerring
way. in its austere beauty. in
its transparency as a medium OF reahs-
tic portrayal. IN its SURPRISING simplicity
of design. It Is a picture of swedish
peasant life. In specific purpose 1t IS
the story of Jan Anderson of Ruffuck
Croft and his little daughter, Glory
GoIdie. Beginning with the birth OF
Glory Goldie, that moment when a
beating heart of Joy fills the breast
of Jan Anderson, the story progresses
In a rapture Of father love, in some
thing like a divinity of comprehension
and tenderness The first of the narra-
tive pictures warmly the rare COM
partnership of Jan and his little daugh-
ter. Then. in the course of few
years, Glory Goldie goes away to Stock
holm to enter service for the sake of
helping to save the threatened tenure
of Ruffiuck Croft. And the years go
by, more than ten of them, years of
uncomplaining trust on the part of Jan.
Strange rumors drift in from the big
city but these never reach Jan, nor
would they have touched him had they
come his way. Then his imaginings
come to his aid. imaginings of the
spiendor that in the distant city is
waiting upon the life of little Glory
Goldie. So, in time, Jan takes on the
dignity OF the Emperor of Portugal
liza to comport with the state to which
his daughter has risen. Always he is
waiting, in his fancied pomp, for the
return OF the empress" 1t is q heart
aching story of surprising love, OF I'M
questioning faith-a kind OF divine
story.
THE VERMILIoN BOX. By E. v
Lucas author of zone Day and An
other" etc New York: George II.
Doran Company.
Mr. Lucas here sets up letter box
OF his own. After selecting his CORE
spondents and sketching. in brief.
their various relationships and stand
ings as English men and women, he
sets the mails in motion developing a
picture Of the average English group
in it's several-sided frontings upon the
war. The vermllion letter box. in the
end. sums pretty fair estimate of
English life in this crisis The whole
dislocated domestic life is portrayed
here. in the unusual pursuits Of the
women, the stress of the men-folks at
the front or on the eve OF leaving for
the front in the unhappy dilemma Of
the man still young but yet too old for
active service, in the hurried mar
riages. in the tension OF awaited war
news Happily. Mr.. Lucas plays little
here ia broad sketches Of certain Uu-
falling types-the man who knows
that the country is going to the dogs.
aud the one who is sure that he has
very special gifts Just suited to the
need of England in her extremity, and
the poet who uses the war for his par
tirular business OF getting along. A
pleasing love story follows the soldier
Ing OF young Toby starr. who does
eplendidly fine things at the front in
the modest manner OF the average Eng
l.shman. Richard Haven. philosopher.
observer. genial humorist and wise
man generally. is, really. SO much after
the pattern Of Mr.. Lucas himself that
one falls in the way OF waiting for him
10 talk about the war and its bearings,
In order 10 find out how Mr.. Lucas him
self is looking at the matter. 1t is
most pleasing book and one that Is
very welcome in these oppressive and
stressfui days.
THE HUNGRY STONES, And Other
Stories BY Rabindranath Tagore,
author of THE Crescent Moon" etc.
New York: The Macmillan Company.
English readers. more or less famil-
lar today with tho poems and plays of
Rabindranath Tagore. have. by way of
this volume. an opportunity to test the
quality of his short stories also. The
thirteen published here show wide
diversity OF theme. though they come
into fair unity through the fact that
the most. il not all of them. tell two
stories in one There is the outer and
more obvious fact. culled from the COM
mon incidents Of Hindu life. and under
this surface appearance there is the
real story revealing some universal
quality OF nature, some undercurrent
81 the real dssign OF Life. some general