Evening star., 1919-01-19
Reviews of New Books

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taken by name and occupation out
of the current life OF the city and
state. The writer is, obviously, OF
the reformer type, SO, as a matter OF
course. the story slants off to one side
rather more, perhaps, than the facts
of the case actually warrant. How
ever, 1t is a wide-awake and read
able story.
THE GOLDEN BoUGH. BY George
Gibbs, author Of THE Secret Wit
ness" etc. illustrated. New York:
D. Appleton & Co.
A whirlwind adventure, with warning
stage upon which hazard and escape al
ter1ate in quick succession. A secret
soc6ty of prodigious scope and power
furnishes the medium for bringing to-
gether German, American, Russian, with
minor odds and ends of outlying peoples.
Once together there is a grand to-do of
personal intrigue among the various ele-
rients of this company. Murder and
theft are the prime channels Of advance
here, with a much interrupted and be-
deviled romance doing it's best to get
along in this bedlam of adventure. II
you are keen to have things happen and
are not overparticular about causes
and sequences you will read this story
without pause from the first page to the
last.
WHEN THE COCK CROWS. By wal
dron Baily, author of THE Heart of
Blue Ridge" etc. Illustrated by
C. w. Gage. New York: Bedford
Publishing Company.
From highly improbable beginning
Waldron Baily here finally works out
a line of action that enlfsts the in
terest of the reader and. to degree.
causes him to forget the distaste with
which he set out on what looked like
an unbelievable bit of nonsense work
And, to the end, it must be admitted.
1t is not the ingenuity of plot that
engages the reader. 1t is, on the con-
trary, the subordinate elements-the
background. the atmosph ere the char
acters presented, that win out to his
satisfaction and entertainment. The
action follows kidnapping, a murder,
the vagaries of a. man who is a dope
fiend as well as a doctor, the reclama-
tion of this man, the pursuit of the
crime, the instrum mentality Of the alb
Quoted girl in this work Of general
regeneration. However, the story is
good for a half hour of easem ment
wherein one enjoys the simple philos-
ophy of an engaging countryman and
delights in the atmosphere of re-
mote region of the southern coast
line.
SONGS OF a MOTHER. BY Marietta
NJ. Andrews. Illustrated by the
author. New York: f. P. Dutton
&5 Co.
A little book of verse in which
mother sets to measure, primarily,
first her love, and next her comrade-
ship for her son. Around incidents
reaching from the boys babyhood on
to his grown-up years the verses
ness. This Is not ambitious verse.
Maybe it is not, according to the
judges poetry at all But it Is very
dear and engaging, very readable and
communica BILE. A record of the emo
tions OF one mother toward her son.
it turns out to be, in effect, the songs
of every mother to every son.
THE ROMANCE OF THE RED TRI-
ANGLE; The Story of the Coming
of the Red Triangle and the Serv-
ice Rendered by the Y. NJ. c. A. to
the Sailors and Soldiers OF the Brit
ish Empire. By Sir Arthur X
Yapp, X. B. e. New York: George
II. Doran Company.
THE CITIZENS LIBRARY-BUDGET
MAKING IN A DEMOCRACY: A
New View Of the Budget. BY Ed
ward A. Fitzpatrick, Phi. D.. draft
administrator of Wisconsin, etc
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
APPLIED EUGENICS. BY Paul Po-
pence, editor of the Journal of He
redity. and Roswell Hill Johnson,
professor in the University of
Pittsburgh. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
THE MONEY-MAKER; The Romance
of u Ruthless Man. BY Irving r.
Allen. With illustrations by Rob
ert w. Amick. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co.
PUSHING WATER. BY Eric P. Daw-
son. lieutenant. r. N. v. R New
York: John Lane Company.
THE PEOPLES PART IN PEACE;
An Inquiry Into the Basis for a
Sound InternatIonnlism. BY Ord
way Tead, bureau of industrial re-
search, author of Instincts in In
dustry." New York: Henry Holt
& Co.
THE TRAFFIC IN BABIES; An AnaIy-
sis Of the Conditions Discovered
During an Investigation Conducted
In the Year 1914. BY George Walk
er. NJ. D., chairman of the Maryland
statewide vice commission. Balti-
more: The Norman, Remington
Company.
THE BANKER AT THE BOARDING
HnTGE Rv Monfcapnarv Pollfps
author of Money and Invest
ments," etc. Illustrated by Frank
T. Merrill. Boston: Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Company.
THE WRITING AND READING OF
VERSE. BY c. E. Andrews, NJ. A,
Phi. D.. assistant professor of Eng
lish in the Ohio State University.
New York: D. Appleton & Co.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CRU
SADIE. By Lyman Abbott New
York: The Macmillan Company.
BALLADS OF PEACE AND WAR;
And Other Verse. BY Horace Spen-
Ger Fiske, author Of 1.-THE Ballad of
Manila Bay and Other Verse;" etc.
Boston: The Stratford Company.
TALES FROM A DUGoUT. BY Arthur
Guy Empey. author of "Over the
Top" etc. New York: The Century
Company.
THE GREATER PATRIOTISM; Public
Addresses. By John Lewis Grif-
f1ths. American consul general at
London. With memoir by Caro-
line Henderson Griffiths and an in
PRODUCTION by Hilaire Belloc. New
York: John Lane Company.
WITH GOD IN TIE WAR. New York:
The Macmillan Company.