Evening star., 1918-03-24
Reviews of New Books

ster" This war book bears the dis
tinction of being a medium wholly
worthy of the impressions that it seeks
to impart-
YOUNG FRANCE AND NEW AMER
ICA. BY Pierre de Lanux. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
III. Pierre de Lanux spent the past
year in America This book brings to-
gether in tangible form some of the
reflections of this Frenchman upon the
possibilities of future in which the
youth of France and America may unite
in an intellectual and material brother
hood. Primarily the book is addressed.
therefore. to the young men and wom-
en- of America who have friendly reach
ent life of France. The object sought,
as a study of the book in hand makes
clear, is to discover between the two
countries common tasks and common
obligations which the youth of both
nations may sense and seize upon in a
concert of attitude and action. In
pursuance of this purpose the writer
sketches the outlines of the present
French generation, summing in this
sketch the elements that have pro-
outline applied to the present of Amer
lea, he draws from the two a common
foothold for cooperation This CO.
operation Is, in the vision of this writ
er, to be substantial and concrete on
the one hand, and, on the other hand
ary sympathy and exchange. The out
look is a sincere and penetrating ex-
animation into the common physical
situation. as it is also an equally dis
cerning study of the psychology that
points upon a full cooperation of the
youth OF these two countries.
GUDRID THE FAIR: Tale of the
Hewlett. author of The Forest
Lovers" etc. New York: Dodd
Mead & Co.
Hewlett again animates and puts into
| modern phrase an old Scandinavian
legend. one of those that circle about
the saiIings of the Norsemen to the
coast of North America There is, how
ever. but a faint favor of the history
of that discovery here. for the authors
preoccupation is clearly with Gudrid-
with her beauty. with her straight and
simple Icelandic nature. with her low
ers. and her three marriages, all fore
seen by the unholden eyes of the great
soothsayer. 1t is direct narrative, a
cool and uninvolved account of life
| that walks in the open. What the au-
| thor has done is to bring into the
| warmth of living company the aloof
| and unreal people of a remote time and
place. 1t is favorite task with him
and to il he brings the wizards power
| of evoking light and life and color
| human passions and human activities
| from the legends and sagas of the cold
| and repellent northland.
THE COURAGE OF MARGE O'DOONE
! BY James Oliver Curwood, author
of THE Danger Trail" etc. Fronts
piece by Lester Ralph New York:
Doubleday. Page & Co.
Another of Curwood's romances OF
| the northwest. Illimitable and un-
| friendly snowhelds. impenetrable and
menacing forests. thwarting torrents
Indians. trading posts. outlaws, a mis-
sioner. a man self-driven from civiliza-
| tion into this inhospitable land, a
| girl and dog. These are the elements
| that go into these Curwood romances
| And the art of the story teller goes
| into them, too. 1t is this art that
| makes new and thrilling combinat tions
| out of the unchanging set Of elements
| Then, too. there is the dog-half wolf
| half dog-now Kazan and now Bare<
] the son of Kazan. The dog alone Is
enough to support any number of these