Evening star., 1919-09-21

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eternity upon Which he has entered
of the readjustments Of those left be-
hind to a finer conception of life day
by day, and Of life in its long outward
life Of the Soldier on the other side.
dwelling upon its tranquility. its
freedom, its joy. It's climax comes
with the message that carries from
him back to his isl. wife on on this TIL std,s sids;
! manifestations Of Himsel:-then we
! cannot cease to exist. We move out
and up toward our source Of being.
| And the way behind us is not wholly
! closed 1t is open to a meeting be-
/ tween those who have gone on and
the pen-spirits of those who remain.
One hopes that this is true.
UNCONDUCTED WANDERERS. BY
Rosita Forbes. illustrated. New
York: John Lane Company.
| 1t is the "unconducted" character
Of this excursion, the go-as-you-
please nature Of the performance.
| that gives to this account Of travel
it's unmistakable charm. Not that
there is lack Of substance in the re-
port. Not at all that. for at every
stage Of the long journey there IS the
accumulation of such general Iacts
as set one particular place on from
i all other places, and the setting OF
/ these facts down in their own colors
and proportions and significances.
| But. after all, it is the spirit OF this
adventure that captivates the reader
and delivers him over to real regret
| that he, too, could not have gone
! along in the company OF these two two
! enthusiastic women In their trip
| around the world. Yes, two women
young at that-turning off this trick
| with an easy gayety that is irresist-
ible. These are two war workers
young English women-who have
run away from months OF work and
weafiness. Across the Atlantic and
the western continent ITSELF then into
the Pacific, where the most interest
| ing part of the grand tour centers in
| the islands, where the natives. the
general customs, the natural re-
sources unfold magica1ly under the
humor of this pair of travellers. The
pesky incidents of travel-paS Ssports,
| tickets, time tables, customs. connec-
tions and the like-sink out of sight
here, leaving only the cream of pic
Home by way of java. sumatra,
China, Japan-but the homegoing is
left to ones Imagination. while the
| intoxicated pair are weighing the
spell of such liquid syllAbfes as Shi-
monoseki, Kyoto. Fusan. Indeed, one
at all-rathef hoping that they did
not. and that one. later. will hear
more OF this delectable going about
! and picking up the choice colors o;
such an Aim1ess and deliberate and
altogether ideal vacation.
CAKE UPON THE WATERS. By Zoe
Atkins. Illustrations BY Lucius w.
| Hitchcock. New York: The Gen.
tury Company.
| A pleasant little nun Of story that
| engages itself with the altogether
Irresistible Kitty Davenant-young,
widowed. rich, spendthrfit. To keep
Mistress Kitty within financial
| bounds. to save her from her own
! open-handed besetments, Is the busi-
ness of everybody concerned in this
| sprightly adventure. It goes without
saying that the widow IL bewitch-
ment Of beauty. Otherwise her train
Of male attendants would have been
| out of sight, out Of existence. Well,
the story, In outline, holds the Da-
| moclear sword Of bankruptcy ready,
day and night, to fall upon the lovely
| neck of the prodigal widow. Still.
gifts flow from her hand to the most
| last moment, when things could not
| by any stretch of the Imagination be
! financially worse for the young wom-
| an-just then an old woman. bene-
fciary of Kitty's careless hand. dies
and leaves her a fortune that her
| widest outbreaks OF wastefu1ness
| cannot make dent in. A fairy story.
to be sure. A prince and wedding
| complete the animated fable. Some
| rather lifelike ana clever people now
and then EivA L hint Of reality to this
otherwise imaginary performance.
PARTNERS SF THE oUT.TRAIL. BY
Harold 1indloss. author Of '"The
Lufe OF the North" etc New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
The Bindioss novels now number
thirty.two. And this one. like the
majority OF its predecessors. is drawn
from the great northwest, region
to which ths author appears to be
inalienably wed-a region whose aus
terity Of temper he knows to the
heaft and against which he delights
to set up the ingenuity and endurance
Of 1usty men. This particular adven-
ture OF the north has to do with the
hard and dangerous life Of the tele-
| graph linesman, whose business it is
to keep communications open between
the isolated settlements Of the in
terror and the outside. A mining
venture Of dubious outcome adds
| greatly to an already full program of
action. One Of the three partners in
the enterprise IL a woman. And it
is the pure sporting spirit of this
| girl that gives to the whole its prine e
| appeal. Jim Dearhaf1, one Of the part
ners, is an Englishh1an. Coming sud
denly into an English inheritance he.
| England. There the atmosphere
changes completely-as q matter of
| course. The old a1sterities and SIM
plicities disappear. There are now
| two women In the world and Jim
| Deafham gets bewildered. Of course.
But after some very natural difficult
Ties over what really ought to have
to do, the matter comes to the ending
| that readers insist upon having, no
matter how allen this outcome may
be from the straight logic of events
in the unfee1ing world outsid of
novels. This Is genuine Bindloss
romance--just knack of story tell
! ing combined with very real feel
, ing for one particular corner Of the
earths surface.
THE HOUSING OF THE UNsKILLED
| WAGE EAHNER. BY Edith Elmer
! Wood. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
The family Of every workingman in
the United states should be housed in
deceney and comfort. This is the