Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-29

of the deep-seated springs Of common ac-
ton.
THE ADVENTURES OF A WOMAN
HOBO. BY Ethel Lynn, N. y. New
York: George H. Doran Company.
This is as plain a hobo adventure as
any tramp of the male persuasion could
Chicago to California. The equipment
is no more than a tandem-bicycle and
a husband. The incentive is the hard
luck of unhealth on the part of the
woman and no money on the part of
both. The account is the usual hobo
story-tramping in the off moments of
the wheel. riding when the tandem is
In compliant humor, stealing lift here
and there in an empty car or securing
1t with the connivance of some soft
hearted workman, sleeping by the
wayside. crawling into sheds and barns
out of rain and wind, stopping for a
day or SO now and then to work FOR
food-and SO on through the regular
program of the knights of the open
road. The distinction that comes into
this vivid account has its source in the
fact that this pair had for many years
prior to this strange journey been fur
nishing their minds with knowledge.
sharpening up their powers of sight
and insight. cultivating their sense or
discrimination and appreciation. open
ing themselves to the qualities that hu-
man nature sets out wherever human
nature exists. 1t is easy to realize,
therefore, that this is a unique record
wherein plain hardships take turn with
pure enjoyment of scenes that fil and
satisfy the eye, wherein rough en-
counters with people change places
with a kindness that is heavenly, In
deed. 1t is a stirring story of courage
and of the essential helpfulness that
exists among the tribes of the hard
up. More than this. it is a sermon
against the deadly fear that poverty
In or ~
ates to paralyze ones courage and his
power to do. This uneNaggerated tsis
is good for ANYBODY to read.
THE POPE's FAVORITE. BY Joseph
McCabe author of 1.-The Soul of Eu-
rope" etc. New York: Dodd. Mead
& Co.
This romance goes back for time and
place to the period of tine Borgias and
Rome. Around the figure OF Giulia Far
nese, mistress of Pope Alexander VI.
circle the tides of that era when Rome
was turbulent with the political in
trigues of the church. The romance
opens with the triumph Of Cardinal
Rodrigo Borgia over his enemies and
his accession to papal power as Alex
fashion with the ominous rise of
Cesare, natural son of the Pope. Be-
tween these points the romance spreads
out in the opulence of the daily life of
Rome 500 years ago. when the church
was the instrument of political power.
the field wherein material ends were
sought without scrup1e as to ways and
means The writer has succeeded in
making these dead-and-gone folks
alive. Giulia F'arnese is a woman of
imme diate and noble presence. The
Pope himself is kindly man, as well
as an ambitious and not altogether
scrupulous politician. Cesare and Juan
and Lucrezia Borgia, natural children
of Alexander VI. are vivid figures in
the brilliant affairs around them, and
the streets of Rome are animate with
the people, the sights and sounds of
half a thousand years ago. The ro
nance possesses. clearly, the double
excellence of the good story and the
Of an Interesting and sig
.....>....., ..cI IN .Lc life O., Rome.