The Washington herald., 1918-03-17

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settled. Give me a good love ST
about the sugar famine or the comi
Robert W. Chambers books
almost any author a show that can
teed $50 pages thick with not duI
'Of course | used to con6ne l
Spaldins's library of sporting man.
But those days have passed.
Good night, yes"
Curwood's Latest L. "PippIn."
The Courage OF Marge o'Doone"
is a story Of the North, told in such
a manner as to hold the interest Of
the reader from the beginning TO the
end. 1t opens with a snowbound train,
and introduces As a leading figure q
young man who had worshipped beau
ty in a woman only to find her soul
less.
Having no more interest in life, he
finds himself wandering in order 70
forget, il possible. the unpleasant
memories. He becomes acquainted
with The Little Missioner" who
helps him to get q new hold on life
OF course there is THE Girl who Is
introduced in a novel and interesting
way. She is young, beautiful ana
fearless. A wonderful example of
womanhood. This story Of love. dan
ger and herolsm has a happy ending
in a camp meeting far from the
bounds of civilization.
Mr.. Curwood is adept at story tell
ing. especially those about the Far
North, most prominent of which are
''Baree, Son of Kazan." ''The Danger
Trail and The Grizzly King" His
latest book is from the press Of Dou-
bIeday, Page & Co. Price, $40 net.
"sImba."
From the opening chapter, in which
Stewart Edward White describes the
herdlng of cattle by black. boys on a
grassy veldt in mid-Africa, ''Simba"
is teeming with local color Of the
dark" continent.
Whites style Is distinctive.
In this book especially he brings be-
fore the reader a wealth of detailed
African life, in which he describes the
ruses, strategies and generalship Of
genuine statesmen of African tribes,
in such a manner to make a civilized
American envious of savage" civili-
zation. Details are all interesting be-
cause of their unusualness.
"Simba" is the tribal name for lion.
The young savage receives this name
from Culbertson, hunter Of the ele-
phant."
The book Is written in a clear, sim
pie, but profoundly powerful fashion.
Throughout the story runs the charm
of the writer's outdoor personality
and his intimate knowledge of those
about whom he writes.
"Mary, Mary"
In Mary, Mary" by James Ste
phens, from the press Of Harper Bras,
we have q real story of that young
Irish school which, Celtically speak,
ing, blinks no facts aud believes
all fairy tales.
Mary. Mary" is not Miss Con-
trary. She is golden headed Mary
Makebelieve, of gray old Dublin.
Some of her dreams come true and
SOiHe VI lneI Tctudin just uTcduuS.
OF the plot of the book, nothing
need be- said except that 1t is an
example of the fact that plots do
not count at all in the making of
q book and that atmosphere is
everything.
Too much cannot be said for the
enveloping atmosphere of the story.
Mary Makebelieve. with her seeking
gray eyes, is the central figure;
but there is always the feel of the
presence of the prosperous world
above her and that other world be-
meath her, peopled by, "men and
women whose very lives are tricks.
people who do not know how to
live except by theft and violence;
people who are born by stealth,
who eat sy subterfuge, drink by
lodges, get married in antics, and
slide into death by strange sub
terranean passages"