Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
Reviews of New Books

+, silent habit and unplayful mood the
younger is a joyous lad. gone on
| soon to train for soldier in tne
service of his emperor. During MS
| beautiful country woman much younger
than himself. BY and by MS trai IN.
| ing done. the boy returns to his
| home. The two young folks are much
| together. and between them Iote
! springs naturally out of the eager
| play time of their common youth. The
! story ends in tragedy. the TWO
! brothers meeting death together IN
| the rushing mill-race. The girl. SUP
| ject of suspicion and hatred, becomes
| in time the "miller-witch.' and legends
grow up around her with the passing
of generations. The art of the tale
is Sudermann's art-prolific of moods
and atmosphere to support the action
and to deepen the effect. 1t is a ro-
nance of gray groundwork over
which play flashes of sunlight and
patterns of beauty. Romantic out of
its German origin. bit sentimental
out of the same Source-but true art.
nevertheless. in its main lines of con-
ception and development.
ADVENTURES IN PROPAGANDA. By
Heber Blankenhorn. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company.
This volume of letters by Capt.
Blankenhorn brings into. general view
another of the novel methods of Of
fensive produced by the present war.
The plan projected in outline here
was ready to go into effect when the
armistice halted all war activities.
1t involves a program for the sys-
tenlatic bombardment of the rank
and file of German soldiery with lit
erature setting forth certain facts
of which the boche had been either,
deliberately kept in ignorance or
about which he had been purposely
method OF assault was. obviously, to
convince the German soldier of the
futility of further resistance through
a disclosure of the supreme fact that
formal and spirited letters are taken
up. in part. with the work of the
United States military Intelligence
division in collecting material for
this propaganda, in organizing il, and
in planning times and circumstances
for its most effective use. War ad-
ventures, and ventures, crowd the
way to. this new mode of warfare.
Ihese come out in striking sketches
throughout the course of these inti-
mate and deeply interesting commun-
ications.
THE TALE OF MR.. TUBS. By J.E.
Buckrose. author of "A Bachelors
Comedy" etc. New York: George
II. Doran Company.
Fiction would be lamentably poorer.
than it is if some inspired story
teller had not invented-or distilled
from life-that particular brand of
human being who, designed to be a
grandmother, finds himself cast to
the role of kindly old bachelor;
warm tn
cheerful bearer of everybody's bur-
dens. Mr.. Tubbs of the many ad-
ventures set down here stands well
toward the head Of this class of in
nocents. on for holiday at the be-
out of it with a digging list of ex-
perlences to his account. An abused
servant girl takes him for q house
or refuge A bedraggled cat adopts
Nun MI as a rescue agency. Elderly
WIDOWS eye him as possible last
chance. Thieves make use of his
quarters to hide their plumber. Po-
llcemen trail him for a crafty thief.
Hotelkeepers steer clear of this sad
Don Juan. One persona very charm
ing young woman-understand the
victim Of this delightful man on
about every page OF this varied ad-
venture So when the holiday is over
Mr.. Tubbs has wife to guard him
o6dihSt tne goodness of his own
heart Just an amusing comedy of
errors that permits one to make the
acquaintance of good Mr. Tubbs.
ACCORDING TO ORDERS. Bv z
Britten Austin, author of 1.-The
Shaping of Lavinia" etc. New
York: George H. Doran COMPANY.
A group Of highly dramatic stories.
each Of which presents some aspect or
phase of the war as it looks to the
German soldier and officer. What Mr.
Austin has done is to animate the
German military training and the
German psychology with one or an
other of the facts of war-a subma.
rine attack, an onset from the sky. a
battle. the devastation Of a town
bombardment. With this material he
has produced some very remarkable
bits of war realism and some iilumi-
mating interpretations as we'll. Clean
cut, well-knit, thrilling stories of the
war that present in a brilliant manner
intimate and consistent pictures of
the automatic workings of the great
German war machine.