Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15

THE CUP OF FURY. By Rupert
Hughes, author of the ."Unpardon-
able SIM etc. Illustrations by
Henry Raleigh. New York: Har-
per & Bros.
IKE THE objectionable Sin"
Mr.. Hughes new novel is a
war story. It's objective is to
make dramatic exposure OF
German war work by way of agencies
outside of Germany itself. The work
of spies, on the one hand. and that
of malicious INSTRUCTORS of industry,
on the other. move the matter for
ward. London and United States ship
yards provide the setting for this
development. In the middle of things
) is-naturally-a woman. Marie Louise
this is the girls name-is a good
hyoung person, intensely patriotic
beautiful, and, despite high degree
of social sophistication, innocent to
an extent that practically precludes
any one at all from being at home IN
her thinking chambers. No other
opinion of Marie Louise can possibly
arise out of the experience of fol-
lowing her through the course set
down for her here. From first to last
she Is a tool A tool, too. out Of situa-
tions so clear in evil design that any
ordinary ten-year-old girl would i'm
mediately have smelled rat-very
old and very dead-where Marie
Louise shifted only rose and lily
wonders now and then in the read
ing If it is not an incidental intent
of the author to show up. by way OF
this war romance, what muddlerS
in matters of public Importance: This
is a romance, as well as war drama
of substantial fact. for, In the out
come, Mr.. Hughes has undertaken 10
marry Marie Louise off to fine up
standing young American shipbuilder
And he does it, too-after Marie
Louise has, indirectly. blown of one
of his arms through the work OF her
own rascally brother in-laW OF a
Iaborer. AS he does in all of his writ
ing, this author has produced some
finely realistic work here. He SENDS
it forward. also. with energy and d.
with picturesque incident and sub
stantial human beings. But-one is
not able to take over Marie Louise.
Perhaps, though-just perhaps-Maris
Louise is true enough TO resent anu
deny.
MISS FINGAL. By Mrs. w. X. Cnf-
ford. New York: Charles Scrlo-
ner's Sons.
The essential groundwork OF tnls
novel grows out of one of the many
theories that a passionate human de-
sire has created concerning the con-
tinuance of life beyond its brlef per-
sonal existence upon earth. Largely
by suggestion, Mrs. Clifford object-
fies here the division of soul at
death, one part passing out into the
uncharted future, the other part re-
manning TO recharge the Pickering
personality of kindred spirit on
earth. Miss Fingal, the heroine or the
tale, is the legatee of this reanlmat-
ing and directing life force. The outer
concern of the novel has to do with
Miss Fingars inheritance of a for
tune, with her consequent emergence
from her tiny shell of Battersea
fiat into the larger circumference of
London social life. A curtously I'M
alive person is Miss Fingai-unin-
teresting to the reader for many In
troductory chapters Of her history,
just as she was barely acceptable to
the new friends that Uncle Johns
fortune brought to her out of London
and roundabout. To support the read
ef in any sort of hold upon the mat
ter in hand. Mrs: Clifford makes a
particularly bright and persuasive
pattern of the surroundings of this
young woman of SO unappealing
monotone. Vivid folks encompass her.
Bright spots of London life illumin-
ate her Dramatic incidents approach
her. But, by and by, Miss Fingal stirs
to the charm and sorrow of a woman
young. beautiful, deserted. the
mother of two babies. Thereafter,
the story is busy with the birth of
Miss Fingal to the joy of friendship.
to the rapture of vicarious mother
hood. brilliant surface theme and
an obscure undercurrent of theory
come together here under adroit
treatment to the consummation of an
absorbing story.
INDIA's SILENT REVOLUTION. BY
Fred B. Fisher, author of Gifts
From the Desert" etc. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
From the standpoint of an Ameri-
can Mr.. Fisher offers here a piano.
m mic outlook uDOn the Dresent