Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-15

accomplishment The book makes it
clear that not one in a million 1t fitted
for this work. even supposing 1t to be
unimpeachable in its purposes and
plan. 1t develops the fact, moreover,
that the system Is calculated to pro-
mote dishonesty, lying and graft
among the poor. In word, this con-
crete story is a refutation of any claim
thing beyond a hand-to-mouth make
shift, coupled with a suggestion that
the fundamental case of the poor lies
in an economic readjustment of the in
ANCHORAGE. By Florence OImsted.
author of "a Clustered Romance"
etc. New York: Charles Scribners
Sons.
This is the story Of a quiet neighbor-
hood, whose peace is broken by the adj
vent of that traditional mischief-maker
tho girl from somewhere else. With
out this girl to set up an illusion Of
love in the heart Of the hero. he, more
than likely, would never have walked to
the fact that he really was all the time
truly in live with the neighborhood
friend of his whole life. 1t is a famil-
lar theme; one, too, that Is firmly based
upon one Of the many inexplicable
kinks In human nature. The writer de-
velops 1t in the realism Of small-town
interests, out OF which half a dozen
characters emerge in a perfect life
likeness of behavior and distinct per-
sonality. An Indian summer romance
Is the elimination of what was in the
beginning an infatuated mismating.
The work Is even and sustained
er order OF fiction
STRANDED IN Already. BY Francis
Lynde. author of After the Manner
of Men," etc. Illustrations by Arthur
E. Becher. New York: Charles
Scribners Sons.
Kidnapping is q commonplace and fly
ing machines are no rarity. But to
make the latter the instrument Of the
former, even in a summer novel, puts a
good deal of strain upon credulity.
however accommodating the mind of
the reader may be. But If one is able
to swallow this first Gargantuan fact
the rest is easy. Indeed. one is almost
Immediately a zestful partaker in the
swift adventures of the young man and
woman whose Already is the depths of
Canadian wood. it's ony trail a rushing
river, beset by falls ranging all the way
from pesky little rapids to leaping
cataracts. The racing action and siren
uous chances of the situation hinge
chiefly upon the hustle for food and the
negotiation of the turbulent river as a
means of exit. Alongside, too. there is
the business of getting acquainted and
falling in love. For. you must know,
when they came to In Already. supplied
by their villainons abtiuctor with
domestic impedimenta consisting only
Of canoe and a greatly restricted
commissary. Since the object of the
abduction was delay and not annihila-
ton. the story comes to an end, as a
moral story should. just in time to
thwart the Villains plan to divert to his
own uses an English fortune for whose
heirs search was being made. The
story Is a robust adventure of the OPEN
It's improbabilities are merely subordi-
nate stage business that do not in any
way subtract from the vigor of the es-
sential action. Readers will like 1t for
Its fresh air and sturdy movement and
stirring incident.
THE NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL IsCov-
FRIES. By Camden NJ. Cobern.
d. D.. Lift. D. Introduction by Ed
Guard Naville. professor Of archie
ology at the University of Geneva,
Switzerland. illustrated. Funk &
Wagnalls Company.
This big. beautifully illustrated vol
ume embodies such recent archeologi-
cal discoveries as have a direct bear
ing upon the life and times represent
ed by the New Testament and embodied
In the primitive church. From these
first hand sources the author recon-
structs and sets down before the read
or in their living reality the life Of a
time and OF a people that has become
legendary and unreal. This readable
account recreates the early Christian
centuries. showing what the people of
about, Of what mold were their ideas
about religion in it's bearing upon life
and death, of what their art and their
literature consisted. what were their
curiousiy modern is much Of this rev
citation. These unearthed records bear
witness to the fact that four and a
quarter centuries before Christ the new
There were sufrragists in those distant
days. There were plutocrats, too. all
busy, as now, in shaving of from their
legitimate Inheritance tax. The high
under imperial Rome and Cleopatra's
"hirod Gtrlg" mado 4 stand for their