Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

who is determined to open up closed
section of the northern country to the
use of its common inhabitants by a
road that is bound TO encroach upon
owner and summer resident. The mil
lionaire has charming daughter he
and the daughter modern young
woman of decided opinions-are at
deadly odds with the upstart road
maker. That is the situation. To over
come this hostility and reach the altar
Of marriage is the business of this
summer novel.
ALL-OF-A-sUDDEN CARMEN. BY
Gustav Kobbe, author of Modern
Women" etc. New York: G. Put
MANS Sons.
This somewhat broken little story
deals. by Implication largely. with the
idea that special environment may take
the place of formal training. A little
girl, a baby. is left at the stage entrance
of an opera house. Immediately she is
taken in charge by the company of
great singers, who, like the house
itself, have the permanence of an insti-
tuition. The little girl learns to sing as
other children learn to talk. Dramatic
action is the common medium of ex-
preston around her. The makeshifts
of the stage are the commonplace of
her life. All of it is of daily familiar
ity. None of il is strange. The climax
of the little story itself is that. in an
emergency. the young girl slipped into
the role of Carmen. as II she had been
Carmen herself without other prep
aration than the long intimate years
of her life in the opera house. The set
ting arranged here is of more finish
and completeness than is the story OF
the little Carmen. The latter is fit
ting light across "A la ok g round of dis
whose
to deliver bodily over 70 one the spirit
and the atmosphere of the life OF a
group of singers who are placed some
what permanently where they have a
chance to take root and grow.
DOING MY BIT FOR IRELAND. BY
Margaret Skinnider. illustrated
New York: The Century Company.
Now we have moved out of fiction
and into the very stern reality of the
recent revolution in Ireland. Margaret
Sknnider. an Irish school teacher OF
Glasgow. was in the midst of this
revolution. working with Constance
Gore Booth Countess de MarkievicZ
one Of the leaders of the uprising, the
organizer of the Fianna-those Irish
boy scouts of revolutionary bent and
ing as a Fianna. Margaret Skinnidei
came and went on more than one Sc
'cret and hazardous mission in aid oil
the Irish revolt. From within the move
ment the writer describes it's various
designs and the measures taken tc
materialize these. More than one of the
noted revolutionists appears here II
the very likeness of himself. urgently
busy over the emancipation of hi.
island. 1t is stirring personal &C
count. to whose writer one must pay
tribute for patriotism and courage
whatever may finally be said, oil
thought. about the capacity of IRELAND
for self-government.
PORTMANTEAU PLAYS. BY Stuar
Walker. Edited by Edward Hal,
Bierstadt. New York: Stewart 4
Kidd Co.
A significant phase of the modern
drama appears here. In an introduc.
ton to this group of one-act port
manteau plays, Edward Hale Bierstad
goes back to the invention of the
portmanteau play by Mr.. Walker
tracing the germ of this idea back Il
a toy theater possessed by Mr.. Walker
when he was a little boy. Step b.
step he shows the growth of this ide,
up to its materialization in the Port