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

with him. For gambler or no gambler
Peter Sanders is an interesting companion
with an amused and an amusing outlooh
upon men in their prodigious preoccupa
mouse and the beautiful library which was
his chief joy. Peter became a wanderef'
no sooner settled in one place than, idehti,
fed as the infamous gambler. ne moved
places-in France, England, Egypt ana
America-serve the purpose OF revealing
more and moro of this friendly ana nu-
name fellow upon whom respectable fotks
bring down their mighty disapprovai one
likes him tremendously and is more tnan
glad to bear him company. Indeed. when
at rare intervals some person is more
inclined to think OF the man tnan the
gambler the reader gets a distinct per-
sonal glow. as if, somehow. Peter Sanders
were his own care and responsibility.
And no one-saves Peter himself and pos
sibly his Incompatible mans more
delighted than the reader when the ban
is lifted and he is permitted to go back to
the old house, which he no longer mas a
desire to use for other purpose than that
of genuine home
THE MAN WHO SAW: And Other
Poems Arising Out of the War. BY
William Watson. New York: Har-
per & Bros.
Though these are war poems they
are not. as one might expect them to be.
poems of action. Rather do they con-
stitute a commentary on the main de-
Liege, Termonde. Rheims-and upon
some of its collateral aspects as Well
1.-The Man Who Saw" is, obviously.
tribute to David Lloyd George
man to stir and spur
Men TO ahaict them with benign alarm.
Harass their sluggish and meager blood.
Till. like himself they are hungry for the goal:
man with something of the rraRginess
That euadx to their loud leap the mountain
streams.
One of the nineteen sonnets OF the
volume is addressed to the United
States II was written in tried and
unhappy hour. The poet VIII, no DOUBT.
be glad to forget it now
Great. q majestic nation. great 10 calm.
Great. when old POUNDS dissolve. TO tower apart,
There beyond Europe's throes. and with IA heart
At peace, from northern pine to southern palm,
Great. in glad harvest time. to send the psalm
At mutter Of far cannon: and when the Mart
Rocks to and fro delirioHs. great Is calm calm.
or boundless sway. forhears not to lineage
Wars wolves shieldless youth and guardiess
Greater q nation greater than is ire!
DON then thy placid mien: unleash thy rage.
Aud scar and blast him with thy lips of FIRE.
THE ECHO OF VOICES. By Richard
Curle. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Nine short stories by Richard C-lrIe.
who hitherto has devoted himself chiefly
to a critical appraisal Of the fiction of
other writer's. He is the ardent adnlirer
of Joseph Conrad. the advocate of that
purpose In fiction which Conrad repre-
sents A realist. like Conrad. is Richard
Curle himself. He is a delineator Of that
interior realism. of those states of mind
that, common to many, are realizable
through the concrete experience Of the in
dividual. A set Of actions is to him negli-
gible. save as an illumination Of the con-
dition of mind, the motive. out Of which
action takes Its direction and force. 1t is
the secrets OF the heart-of the heart of
man and youth-that furnish the field for
the inventive faculties of this in-seeing
writer. A direct and energetic manner.
coupled with an Unsuitable curiosity to-
ward every sort of human manifestation.