Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22
Reviews of New Books

of the relations that exist between the
Asiatic peoples and those of the west
ern hemisphere.
TAKE 1T FROM ME-: A Look In on the
Other Fellow. BY Vance Thompson
author of Eat and Grow Thin" etc
New York: Fleming H. Revell Com
pany.
He comes and goes-the other fell
low. He passes you in the street. He
sits beside you in tram car or trolley.
He works at your bench or plays in
your tennis court. Take a look at him.
Take it from me that your life and its
destiny are not yours-they are in the
hands of the other fellow This is a
Vance Thompson statement of the logic
of human relationships, and it is upon
these inevitable relationships that he
discusses in "take-it from me vein
ones duty TO the multitudinous other
fellow" of his immediate and more re-
mote environment. These pounding
tatements-whethet they are about
business. or religion, or education. or
politics. or bringing up the children. or
getting acquainted with your next-door
nation-are all a part of his philosophy
of "otherfellowship. There is senti-
ment here. plenty of it. but not a grain
of sentimentality. There is a keen
knowledge of men and of affairs. There
is big sweep of mind, a wide range. of
outlook. 1t is good stuff. all of it--first-
rate for plain everyday use.
THE SHELTERED sen. BY Madge
Mears, author of The Jealous God
dess" New York: John Lane Com
pany.
A story that may saleiy lay ciaim 10
both originality and power. In man
her as piausioie ana convincing as ihe
a 10
oeNeiopihehe IS dramatic III eheci' the
writer transfers 10 woihah-a siri at
tiia'-the roie Vi protector anu suppoi'
e , az ny asciipeu 70 MAJ III ou'i,me
bringing. who. under a set of strange
but not impossible circumstances, as
sumed the care of a young man who in
her company was crippled by railway
accident. For year, or during the
boys recovery, the girl worked for the
support of both of them. Just friends
they fell. as matter of course, under
certain suspicious, put, pelhg down pc
low the level of respectability, where
the struggle for food Is the interest
that aosorns all othefs, the3 escaped
the punishments that the respectable
impose upon one another Under this
ironic title the author develops this
forceful and appealing drama In dem
onstration of the common fact that
women can. and often do assume the
role of protector and provider TO some
dependent male. incidentally, there is
a suggestion here, too. of the whole
some release that may follow slipping
out from under an overburden of con-
ventions.
MADAME PRINCE. BY w. PETIT Ridge,
etc. New York: George H. Doran
Company.
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sunnort herself and her. four children
annears. upon the surface TO make a
bumdrum novel theme That denends
wholly however upon the kind of
woman this is-upop the kind of chill
drar The children are of tho nsual
sort calculated to be, by turns, the
torment and delight of their mother
All except Phyllis. Phyllis is joy from
start to finish. It is upon Madame
Prince herself that this realistic story
depends for it's susta med power. TAX
ing the common Qualities of human
nature the big and LITTLE traits to-
gether and adding 10 these an extra
allowances of courage common sense
and good nature. ME- Ridge creates a
real woman whom If does one good TO
know The childrap ave n roIIickipp
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