Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-10

Rebecca West. illustrations by Nor
man Price. New York: The Century
Company.
osS of memory from shell
shock furnishes the foundation
% Eebecca Vests new story.
IL THIS accident clipped out com
pieteIy r-or1 the consciousness
OF Chris Baldry fifteen years of his ex-
isaence. a period that included wife,
a little son, an English home and pros
Porous business alliance. These years
gene. Baldry found himself back TO the
DAYS when he was in love with Marga-
ret Arlington an innkeepers daughter,
herself now the wife of a man of her
o$n levei in circumstance. This is the
situation The author expands il through
the coutrasted behavior of the two
women toward the bewildered and IN
happy Baldry- II is the seizure and con-
sfteru development of the two charac-
tsr-Kitty BaIdry. the wife, and Mar
Earet AlIington-under the stresses of
a'poIite population of the former and
eS . impaSsioned love for the latter, that
give the little story a decided distinc-
J 4 I'm These women are clean-cut in
4 OttIinc-each one so much herself, both
80 much women, too. that one forgets
them AZ fiction and follows them in a
Ttood Of fierce partisanship for the no
hiuty of the one. and in sheer contempt
fer the futiiity of the other. Yet, there
ntvcr was more human person thai
KITTY Baldry- a large majority OF the
vsves in the world would have behaved
about as she did. Margaret Arlington is
"a great charaCter-one of the few big
/ women. The Immediate background OF
4 this convincing drama Is an old Eng
/ lin home It's further background IS
/ = a-6 I'M n
-T.Essn the story ends. Chris Baidry IN
| his unhappy awakening is alresHy
turned There Is grim and ilfeiiEs
quality 10 the closing of the incfdent
7sTiter to the inevitable sequence OF ire
ultimate issue Admirable work
1sro,lszhout An absorbing human dr-l"' a
/ r,fojec1ed with originality and sym
E T,atfD-
WIFE Lucky SF:YFES. BY John Tasutor
|, Foote author OF "Dumb-beli OF
Brookheld." etc New York. d
Appleton & Co.
Eot III many a. day OF searching VIII
--son come upon a book of short stories
\ that esarpasses this one All of them
tie whole seven-are of such delicacy
ne understanding and of such work
i manly finish that one simply settles
5Swn into them. without a single an
/. noying pinprick of dissatisfaction any
where in the whole group. They are
i srnple stories-each of them picked OF
fvon the daily current of events-a
poiygaInous wife. betrayed grl. an
idyfIic love story of two musicians. a
loyal American girl of German par
eA6@-just simple things But each
one rs taken UP bodily into the com
IL pgete comprehension of the writer. and
i ont OF tins he projects the full content
| nf the matter in its own human ranf1h-
|. s$tfons and implications And the most
beautiful of these stories-if not actu-
l. ally the best one-iS not about a hui
utan being at all. II is about 2 horse
horse that tells his own story of past
achievements to man who knows
what this old cab horse is telling him
Z id such simplicity of meaning, in such
poetry of feeling Read it. IT will re-
i pay you in such fullness that you will
III rad ft~again. and then when some cue
irok 7n@unaekBtandnGS heart drops in