Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-25

in the empire. tracing the effects of
the food blockade, describing relief
measures and exalting the spirit Of
Hungary under the awful stresses of
the war. It Is timely book as well
as q thoroughly competent and au-
thenttc one.
THE HCNDREDTH CHANCE. BY
Edith NJ. Dell, author Of THE Way
Of an Eagle" etc. New York: G. p.
Putnam's Sons.
A marriage Of convenience forms the
groundwork Of this novel. Its variation
from type arises out OF the abysmal
disparities existing between the parties
of the first and second parts. The bride
10 near-titled parsonage. having a
brother, Sir Something Or Other. The
Lord Somebody's racing stud. Poverty
and the crippled brother Of the bride
furnish occasion for the marriage. The
horseman is a splendid fellow. Any
one might be proud to have made him.
The girl is a fool, Just that kind of
immemorial performed prodigies Of
serve merely to show the astonishing
resources and the indefatigable zeal
of the only worth while person in the
book. And he Is eminently worth while,
SO much SO, that he tides one trium-
phantly over his WEAKNESS with the
other folks of the story. causing him
to look back over the whole as rather
superior performance.
DROwSY. BY John Ames Mitchell, au-
thor of 1.-THE Last American" etc
illustrated by Angus Macdonald and
the author. New York: Frederick
A. Stokes Company.
1t Is fascinating thought, one that
artists of all sorts find it hard to keep
away from. II telegraphy can emanci-
pate itself from wire and cable. send
ing messages with only the air as
medium, why may not thought and
spirit-the essential part Of man
denying space. come into direct and
satisfying communication with that
other spirit Of which it ia the separat-
ed but inalienable part? This is the
theme Of Mr.. Mitchelrs novel Drowsy
is the little son of a gifted singer and
q young American. From his mother
he takes the gift Of gathering thought
without the intermediary of words.
With the mother this becomes beauti-
fully manifest when, hidden in an
Italian villa with her lover. who is
temporarily deprived of speech, she di-
vines and reads mind in his own exact
meanings and Implications. Later.
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mother. the boy manifests the same
power. drawing the thoughts Of his
mother across the sea to himself and
his father. A fair degree of interest
Ing and pertinent incident carries this
thought forward to an ever wider and
wider outlook upon the possibilities Of
human communion through the regions
Of space.
THE SECRET WITNESS. BY George
Gibbs. author OF THE Paradise Gar
den." etc. illustrated by George
Brehm. New York: D. Appleton &
Co.
There is more than a suspicion that
the crime at Sera3evo. Bosnia, in June.
1914. which precipitated the great war
was instigated by others than Balkan
plotters. and that there was direct
relationship between that assassina-
ton and the plans OF the central
powers to precipitate the conflict for
which one at least of them had long
been preparing. Mr. Gibbs most In
teresting story deals with conditions
chiefly antecedent to the Serajevo shoot
ing, with young Englishman and an
Austrian girl as the chief hgurea There
are German spies and Austrian secret
agents and the story In always In nc.