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

gage from the ola farm. 30 idr' oHe
refuses to believe a word or the story
too romantic. too evasive of the
world of real difficulties inherent in
such. a situation. No, one does not
accept it. though he does enjoy the
compelling zest with which the writer
tries to fool herself into believability.
In New York. however, the affair be-
gins to take on the color of PLAUSIBLE
ity For there the author opens up
the jungle of predatory warfare that
marks the keenly competitive bust
ness of play producing. From this
turesQue energy of invention through
the mazes of the matter in hand
Patricia continues to be good deal
of miracle, but she is a very en-
gaging one, so the reader rather en-
tiers into the conspiracy to endow
Patricia with lot of native gifts
in lieu of the stern necessity for
training and experience in natter.
theatrical. The love- making is Of
Nhe good old romantic sort+even
by the unsavory atmosphere of stage
rivalries and jealousieS. The writer
knows how to turn currents of keen
air through the place every now and
then. Her own vim and sparkle and
manifest self-enjoyment in the bust
ness of story making is a communi-
cable quality that carries one through
the thin spots over on to the bright
foothold Of fresh and substantial in
vention.
THE EMBLEMs OF FIDELITY, A
Comedy in Letters. By James Lane
Allen. author of "A Kentucky Car
dinal," etc. New York: Double
day, Page & Co.
through an exchange of letters be-
tween two authors-one English, the
other American. 1t appears that the
American in a flight of pictorial fancy
had created a bit of woodland green
cry, deep-nested pool of crystal
water under guard of phalanx Of
leafy ferns-a bit of Kentucky sum-
mer lure. Now it CHANGED that the
Englishman was a fern lover. gather
ing them from Norway, France, Rus
STA. for the identifying of shaded
corners of his Warwickshire estate
Nothing could render him quite happy
till a family Of those Kentucky ferns
should emigrate and settle down In
his English home. Therefore. the in
itial letter. Beyond this point the
tale develops through the ardent er-
forts of the American to reduce his
imaginary ferns to scientific fact for
the qualification of a harmless pur-
suit on the part of a friendly and
fiattering brother in ink. Friendship,
business and love all become in
volved in this quest of the elusive
ferns. Observation-Disclosures multiply
and perplexing situations pop out
from every page. The whole Is
pleasantly amusing to-do wherein the
kindly humor of this author is at its
best.
A PILGRIM IN PALESTINE. By
John Finley. Illustrated. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
This is an unprecedented book"
gathered up out of casual notes
was journeying afoot through the
Holy Land after its recovery from
the Turks by Gen. Allenby. 1t is it's
spontaneity. it's informalty. its blend
of prose and poetry, its vividness OF
picture and its many descriptions of
places that the most of US haye
hitherto failed to rescue from the un-
reality. Of their Bible setting that
In unpretentious film flashes one gets
here the journey from Dan to Beer
sheba," the Mount Of Olives, the road
from Jaffa to Jericho. and many
another by-way of ancien. Gays.
There is also striking picture Of
Jerusalem under the leadership OF
Gen. Allenby. Photographs by the
author supplement the text and
illuminate it at various interesting
points. The whole is an easy and
captivating series of inlooks upon a
land of worldwide appeal.
THE BLIND; Their Condition and the
Work Being Done for. Them in the
United States. By Harry Best,
Phi. D., author ofe"The Deaf; Their
Position in Society and tho Pro-
vision for Their Education In the
United States" New York: The
Macmillan Company.
This is comprehensive history of
the subject covered by the title. In
seven separate divisions the author
discusses fully the various aspects of
the condition Of the blind and of the
work projected for the amelioration
of that condition. Four appendices
give detailed description of certain
features of this work Under FIVE
distinct groupings the author dis