Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05

to change is a point that involves the
action to an interesting degree of conf
plexity. There is good character work
here-a consistent holding to the type
the labor and the love issue are in
keeping with the conditions in which
they are set. The story, as whole. is
a more than commonly appealing one
as well as from the inherent interest
and Importance of the theme.
TO THE LAST PENNY. BY Edwin Le-
fevre, author Of Wall Street Stories"
etc. New York: Harper & Bros.
The story moves along so vigorously
in the new business roads being cut
through industry by idealistfc young
men. and Thomas Leigh COMFORTS him
self so manfully in the business of the
Tecumseh Motor Company. that read
er has not the heart to cavil at the in
security of the foundation stone upon
which the full development rests, That
Thomas Leigh should believe his father
to be an embezzler, whose defalcations
he is struggling like a Trojan to make
good. may be good medicine for some
young fellows. That the father should
permit this mistaken notion to remain
uncorrected may be the way of an oc
glazing improbability after all. So, the
best way is to forget it. for Tommy
Leigh is all right, and what he does to
make straight the crooked ways of the
Tecumseh Motor Company furnishes
one with good, clean chapter of bust
ness activity in the devious ways OF
modern enterprise.
THE RUsTLER OF WIND RIVER. BY
G. W. ogden. Frontispiece by Frank
Schoonover. Chicago: A. c. Nc
Clurg q Co.
There is a strong tincture of feudal-
ism in this romance of the northwest
A cattle baron, as Indifferent to law
and as free with the lives of his enc
mics as any lord of the middle ages. is
the source of the main action here. OPP
posed to him and giving direction to
the action is group Of homesteaders
striving to maintain the lawful occu-
patton Of their farms. At the head of
these is the hustler" who, as matter
of fact, is no ruStler at all, but, instead,
a determined and energetic fellow, who
is bent to the job of resisting with law
and order the lawless usurpations of
the big cattle man. 1t is not a new
theme, nor is the setting a very fresh
one. However, by good use OF the re-
straining hand, by holding back from
the lavish treatment that 50 commonly
affiictS the romance OF the west, the
writer has produced an energetic and
yirile story, that, IN the nam, is free
from an oyert4A on the acceptance of
the reader.
FOR FRANCES: with the
American EscEdriile at Nerdun. BY
James X. Mcconnell, serEeant-pilot
in the French Flying Corps. Illus
trated from photographs through
the kindness of the Mr.. Paul Rock
Well New York: Doubleday. Page
& Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
One day a young man Of Carthage.
y. c., said to a friend; These sand
hills will be here forever, but the war
~on't-so I'm going" and his book tells
what happened after he joined the for
eign legion in France. The spirit of
adventure which started young Nc
Cornell to the war zone soon gave way
to the usual conviction that the French
people were fighting for liberty against
odds. Inspired by such chiv-
alrous valor he gave up the ambu-
lance service and enlisted in the flying
corps. which was equivalent to offer
home letters the author gives forceful
of the bravery of men
French, British and Americans-who
fight death in the air. Ignoring his
own service. which must have been of
marked value since, at the time of writ
ng (l915) he had received the grade of
sergeant pilot 'in the finest army in
he world" his praises are for his COM
-ades of the escadrille.
There is a tribute to Kifin Rockwell
ng corps ito pay my part to Lafayette
md Rochambeau." and whose air duel