Evening star., 1919-03-09

D0fan Company.
3HR RIMARTIsY this is a study OF
as,s1s ,as cruelty Fsr ts, ss IN
the writer corrals this human
| nature to the limits of the small
4 town. For atmosphere and local
color he makes OF this little Eng
lfsh town, not far. from London. And
| in this town he sets the two typical
classes of England-the gentleman
/ class and the working ciass-the shop
folks on the one hand and the house
| folks on the other. The heinous Of
| fence here-the one that points the
animosities of the town and tests
The genius of Its petty malice-is the
/ encroachment into this genteel suburb
| OF a shop-keeping relation to one
| OF its most exclusive citizens. The
situation takes on a painful COM
man and the daughter of the shop
keeper become the victims of that
Irresistible passion of affinity that
marks them for courtship and mar
riage. To this external set of con-
ditions Mr.. Swinnerton applies that
Scl1 tHdL dhiOChs
other hearts as well as his own, that
penetrates to the secret springs of
human action through q knowledge
OF his own deep-seated motives. And
to this power of penetration he adds
workmanIy way of building a set
sonaIties into the snug consistency
OF a realistic picture OF one aspect
OF modern English life, and into one
aspect, also, of human behaviors un-
der certain set of human ineite-
nents.
THE AMATEUR MAN. BY W. r.
Gaut. New York: Duff1eld & Co.
An amateur, SO the dictionary says,
is ''one who practices an art, es-
pecially fine art, not as a livelihood
or professionally, but for the love of
it," This is the story of a young fell
low who practiced the fine art of
being man, for the love OF It alone
an idealist, who left the soft circun-
stances Of affiuefce and went out into
a strange place to practi his strange
art. A small city OF the middle west
furnishes the local settling OF this
quixotic adventure. And the young
man proved to be continuous per
torrance and a perpetual mystiffca-
ton to the people roundabout, for q
man is q rare sight-that is, man
who has deliberately stepped out of
those successive layers OF make-be-
ieye and hypocrisy in which every
body be1ieves that he must do him
SELF up in order to be acceptable to
freshment. You can see that he would
be- IN effect, he turned out to be q
temperance preacher-that is to say,
he preached for temperance in every
respect and, coupled with that, the
largest measure OF personal freedom.
So he fought the prohibitfonists and
all the other lists who sought to i'm
pose their will upon the public. He
went through many adventures-dop-
ing and kidnapping among them-but.
at the last, he had the comfort OF
knowing that he had made the people
OF that commonwealth do little
thinking on their own account, to
say nothing of his having smoked out
the most sanctfmonious of the village
hypocrites. It is q 1oose-jointed story
whose structure Is not on level with
the original treatment that the au-
thor gives to an ordinary small-towH
social comedy.
THE BUccANEER FARMER. BY
Harold RIndloss, author of The
Lure OF the North" etc. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company
In this new novel Harold BindIoss
west with whose romantic features he
has made readers more or less fani1-
lar, and betakes himself, first to
England, then TO Mexico and the Car
ibbeafi, and, finally. back to England
again The high point OF action and
interest is reached about midway In
the story. when the hero young
English farmer turned adventurer for
the nonce-becomes involved in q
Mexican revolution and engages, like
wise, in certain saiiing3 OF the Span
iSh main that saver. OF the doings OF
his buccaneerfnE English forbeafs.
There are stirrinE and romantic mat
ters, well projected ones too. in this
part OF the tale. Leading to this
enterprise In the western world is q
picture OF English country life where
the relations Of landlord and tenant
are portrayed in the unrest of the
lst.sr ana the Er99,ming En9,r1 shs ,sss
of the adventure itself is the return
OF the tenant-farmer to England at a
moment when he is best able to assist
in social problems that are agitating
the countrywide OF his birth and rear
breaking down OF the EnglS caste
barriers binds the three parts of this
robust romance together. The whole
is an invention OF the familiar Bind
loss tyD1-An adventure that thfives
best ia th4 open and among romantic
situations ana possibilities.
TNDUsfnf AND HUHANIrYs 4 stuay
~ 1hA fSAAeibleA Uh1exsyfag In.
luSfffAa Rke6hsffuetloA. BY Hon.
~. q. Mackenzie King, C.. N. O.,
Ph. B.. author cf asrhe Secret OF
Hefoisfsn," etc Boston, Houghton
Min1in Company.
Ynaastrial reccnstruction. the frst
xesesal problem to be taken up after
a definite peace, is the subject Of
this siiscuseion. It's author was for-
merly minister of labor for Canada.
He has engaged himself. also. in In
vestisatione OF labor conditions and
ier Foundation. The study in hand,
therefore, deals not only with the
scientific principles and laws that un-
Aeri{e ana control industry and its re-
lations, but It takes up. also. the ap-
nlfcatiofi Of these laws to specific and
nracticai adjustments in the labor
SidicultIes and problems OF the Do
minion of Canada. The writer, at the
cutaet. sketches the present unrest
ana apprehension that dominate in
anstry. He then presents tentative
hasis OF reconstruction. This founda-
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