Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12

iniscences. Nine. Mouchanow owns to
complete ignorance OF the politics OF
Russia: therefore. she appears to be
thrown upon the uninteresting daily
details of domestic life for an inter-
probation of the czarina. The stages
by which this royal parsonage estab.
lished herself in the hearty hatred OF
the Russians are clearly defined. arous-
ing ones pity that matters 80 trif1ing
could have summed to SO monumental
effect as the hatred of whole country.
The children of this household make
bright spot in this otherwise drab &C
like other children. Nicholas II is set
aside as mere tool-yet one finds him.
self sorry for a man who is blamed for
not fitting his job rather than for any
active evil of temperament. One feels
like saying that the account would
have been richer and more Illuminating
in the hands Of more discerning in
terpretor.
PROFESSOR LATIMER's PROGRESS,
A Novel Of Contemporaneous Ad-
venture. Illustrations by J. Orms-
bee New York: Henry Holt Co.
Prof. Latimer was in a bad way. The
war had obsessed him. He ate and
drank war; he slept and dreamed war,
awaking only to eat and drink more of
it. Shepherded by the capable wife
that a good Providence appears to allot
to dreaming and impractical professors.
DR. Latimer. when we first saw him,
was being bundled Off into the country
by his efficient spouse with injunctions
against newspapers. letters or any other
sort of communication with war
ridden world. So, for three weeks, the
professor tramped crossroads and by
paths in a haphazard up-country vaga-
bondage Of walking at ease. of eating
whenever hunger nudged him, and of
sleeping wherever the sandman pointed
out a good spot for slumber. And we
went along with the professor. De-
spite the lack of touch with the out
side. that was a most stirring three
weeks. one in which mere silent part
ners. like us-and unimaginative folks
at that-were kept on the jump with
the adventures Of the genial professor.
The first situation in which the pro-
lessor excited in us surprise and ad-
miration was that Of the 1lm company
incident. There was the company in an
out-of-the-way place building up the
And without any preparation at all the
professor ousted the heroic film father
just to show him how parental fury
does behave when II COMFORTS itself as
it should That is a sample OF the
things with which the professor filled
up a three weeks for us. in the wilds
of up-country. where nothing at all is
supposed to happen. Needless to say
that out of the fun and the lightning
changes of role into which the good
man slipped with incredible ease and
success the three weeks went like the
wind, and that the professor-and We
returned to the monopolies of war with
composure and with fair share of
| ustaining sanity. A diverting inven-
! ton that increases the readers stock
| Of good things by the acquaintance and
! companionship of one most lovable
professor.
AN AUTUMN SOWING. BY E. F. Ben
son. author of "Dodo," etc. New
! York: George H. Doran.
! Sir Thomas Keeling. unsentimental
, and hard-headed. both as business man
and family man. This is the chief char
/ acter in Mr.. Benson's new romance. In
| the Office of Sir Thomas there Is his
| secretary. the very attractive woman
without whom there would have been