Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05

Colne" is the story of the
flower nursery with glimpses. also. of
the nearby oyster fisheries of the Colne.
The setting of the new novel is a sun
nier and more flexible one than are
those of the two earlier stories. 1t pro-
duces more companionable people, char
acters of less pronounced popularity.
Therefore, it will engage more readers
than its somber and somewhat rigid
predecessors. The science of flower
growing and the art of the landscape
garden are brought out here in great
detail, while an astonishing fund of
knowledge on the subject of oyster Gull
ture falls. also, into this industrial set
ting. Within this field of activity there
are related groups of men and women
who are, taken all in all, the most in
teresting people that Mr.. Phillpotts has
yet created or reproduced. There is a
greater variety of personality, a great
er versatility in handling the type than
one recalls otherwhere in his work
Enough of action to bring out the sub
stance of these people carries them for
ward IN way to make clear the
marked individuality of each For the
artistry of it's back ground, for it's pow
er of comment on outstanding features
of social life, for its touch with MANY
of the striking ironies of life, and for
stands at the head of the Phlllpotts
novels.
THE SORRY TALE: Story of the
Time OF Christ. BY Patience Worth.
Communicated through Mrs John H
Curran. Edited by Casper S. Yost
New York: Henry Holt e. Co.
The strange source of this story gives
it its first appeal. That the mystery of
should again come to the surface in an
other story communicated to Mrs. Cur
ran. is, in and of itself. enough to excite
keen curiosity and attention 1t is, how
ever, the quality of this story that
stands. after all. as the chief mystery.
For il is without doubt a remarkable
work of fiction, an example of literary
art The story, a long and involved in
vention, is of the time of Christ And
among its many historic fgureS-those
of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Plate.
Herod. Peter-that of Jesus Christ
stands pre-eminent. Particularly is the
book rich in the story of Christs early
boyhood. Beside Jesus is another per-
son, child and man. His name is Hate
He is the son of Tiberius Caesar and a
Greek slave, who, driven from the city,
gives birth to her child outside the
walls Of bethlehem on the night when
Jesus himself is born And Hate is the
feeling under which the little outcast'
life is shaped. Over and over again he
comes in contact with Jesus and-at the
last-they perish side by side on the
cross. The story is too long for general
reading, and at times too archaic for
pleasant reading. But, despite these
minor barriers 1t is a work of great
beauty. finely noble composition
THE BOOK OF SELF. Bv James On
penheim. author of Songs for the
New Age" etc. New York: Alfred
a. knopf
1t is Infinitely difficult for one to
know the truth about himselfs And.
hnaily Knowing tin part at least
1t is well nigh impossible to admit
this truth. either to or about himself
Mr.. Oppenheim's new book OF poems
marks the point where a man, and a
poet, has gone down to the place where
he really is. down beneath all the
things he thought himself to be, all the
things that the world thought he ought
tc be. From this place he has brought