Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-08

THE DEFINITE OBJECT: A Romance
of New York: By Jeffery Farnoi;
etc. Frontispiece by F. Vaux Will
son. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
49, ESP1TE its texture of realism.
4 Jeffery Farnors new novel is as
ticism as are all the others Of
his stories Its effect of strik-
ing difference comes merely from a
change of date and setting. The romance
itself runs true to the Farnol type. For
this adventure the author moved out OF
the eighteenth century into the twentieth.
He exchanged the familiar greenwood and
the open road for lower New York
Mulligan's Flats and Hell's Kitchen. the
chief points of local interest. Then to
this quarter he introduced young mil
lionaire who appeared to lack nothing in
this world save definite object OF ex-
istence. In the flash of an eye, however,
life became most interesting and exclt-
ing matter Adventures fell over one an
other to meet him. And Mulltgan's open
ed out the romance whose Vicissitous
course brought to the front at one time
and another some very remarkable char
acters from the tenements and the saloons
The millionaire turns out to be modern
knight Grant. and the lady the good angel
of the Sums That is the Farnol stamp
the Farnol adaptation to modern condi-
tons. 1t is the atmosphere Of the quar-
ter. however. and the characters stand
ing out as a part Of this locality that
bring out a new quality in the work OF
this writer.
Rinehart. author Of tx" etc. IL
Illustrated by May Wilson Preston.
New York: George H. Doran Com
pany.
Bah herself explains that "a girl is
sub-deb the year before she comes out.
and, although mature in mind. and
even maturer in many ways than her
older sister. the latter is treated as
young lady. enjoying many privileges.
while the former Is treated as mere
child" adding II wish to place myself
on record that it is not fair" Not
withstanding the deprivatfons Of this
manifest injustice, Bah manages not
only to fill her own time to overflow
ing, but to see to 1t. as well, that her
tells her full and confidential story to
her dear diary SO the ready comes
into a quite perfect intimacy with Bah.
1t is an inimitable story. Mrs. Rhine
hart has created an adorable gtrl-one
who is every bit girl.
THOSE TIMES AND THESE. BY Irwin
s. Cobb, author of Back Home" etc.
New YORK. GEORGE II. DOEaH SOM-
pany.
Contrast is the thread upon which
these ten short stories by Irwin Cobb
are strung Here is a war story of
fifty years ago and one of tho present
time. Here are scenes and incidents
taken out Of the American life Of an
earlier day and others drawn from the
immediate things about US. Together
they Indicate the changes Of attitude
and ideal that have as a matter of
course come about. One meets, hap
PLY, old acquaintances here-notably
the roomy personality OF Judge Priest.
And in all Of them one-happily, too
meets Irwin Cobb himself, robust and
sane, with the art Of good storytelling
developed along peculiarly tonic and
wholesome lines.
WATCHING AND WAITING ON THE
BORDER. BY Roger Bachelor.
Houghton Mifflin Company.
A member of the Massachusetts
militia, Roger Bachelor. who is we'll
known in Washington. here gives q
popular account, from the viewpoint OF
the xuardsman himself, OF last years
expedition to the Mexican border. Tho
record concerns itself primarily with
the daily routine of that experience, .
routine carried out under as complete
a sum Of physical discomforts al can