Evening star., 1920-11-21
Reviews of New Books

| colt set about the task OF making
Gopher Prairie conform to the out
She wanted light and air and freedom
upon all the new notions that were
taking hold of the women back home.
And this is the story of her warfare
| and Of her defeat. No one person. and
that woman, can make headway
against a self-satisfied corner of re-
mote village life. However, the story
leaves the girl in the minor triumph
of an undinHnished spirit. Her head
is bloody. but unbowed." This ad-
reminiscent Of many points Of the
work of David Graham Phillips.
SHE WHO WAS HELENA CAss. BY
Lawrence Rising. New York:
George H. Doran Company.
Mysterious disappearance are u
commonplace. They stand among the
news items of almost any days issue
Of the press. The author has here
made such an item the theme of Il
story that reads like a romance of
the days Of chivalry. A young news
GRANT. The delxerance of Helena
Cass. whatever her fate may be.
stands as the goal of his unconquer-
able desire. Discovered and aban-
doned trails repeat themselves till.
finally. the story shifts to remote
corner Of Spain. where almost any
thing might happen. 1t does. Abduc
tlon, murder. magic. step in to be
wider the pursuing knight and TO
dampen the ardor of his quest An
imagination of true medieval pattern
turns this moSern circumstance to the
uses OF romantic adventure of
markedly fresh and spirited treat
ment.
WITH THE CHINkS. BY Daryl Klein
Illustrated New York: John Lane
Company.
During the war Daryl Klein was sec
ond lieutenant in the Chinese labor
corps. civilian. living in China, he
volunteered for the training Of Chinese
coolies. These troops were brought to.
France to form a part of the labor.
brigades that worked behind the lines
Lieut. Klein gives the chara cteristcs of
these men both in the.r service and in
the between times of recreation. He de-
scribes with energy and insight the voy-
age from China to France by way of
Canada and the Panama canal Pic
lures from photographs accompany this
realistic story of One chapter in the
great and many y-sided account of the
great war. The book belongs to the Ac-
tive Service Series of this publishing
house.
ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS. BY
w. H. Hudson, author OF Far
Away and Long Ago." etc Illus
trated with headbands and tail
pieces from Bewick's British
Birds" New York: F. P. Dutton &
Co.
, The author apologies to any feader
who, may open his book with the expec-
tation Of being entertained by adven-
lures of the hunt. 1t is a diplomatic
lure, since the sportsman who glimpses
the .foreword will undoubtedly stay by
the volume until its final page. When
he has realized the personalities of the
"feathered masterpieces of creation;
attended the great bird gatherings" lis
tened to the birds in authority" visited
the sea where wild geese congregate,"
wandered 'in a green country in quest
Of rare songsters.'' and heard the au-
tumn whirr of wild wings-a farewell,
he will feel that man may play a
nobler role than that of executioner to
his little relatives lifted on wings above
the earth on which we walk" A con-
siderable portion of the matter has ap-
peared in reviews and magazines and
the woodcut drawings are taken from
originals published in 1926