Evening star., 1920-02-08
PTEMBER. BY Frank Swinnerton.
author of "Nocturne." etc. New
'ork: George Fl. Doran Company.

author of "Nocturne. etc. new
-ork: George II. Doran Company.
Il COMMON situation. though 8
\ hidden one, forms the basis
of this new SwinLerton novel.
The situation is that Of q
IAN. mature and married. who
Is herself in love again. With her
! .ihand: Oh. no. That particular
.ction ebbed years before. In its
,ce is the friendly partnership which
I lite. well-to-do people come to ac-
1t as the basis of their matrimo-
, i alliance. The wife is decidedly
: personality-attrac to the eye
-liigent. comp n!onable. stimulat-
The husband. like many an
ser elderly man. fans his waning
nth. feeds his exacting vanity with
ret, We'll bred caperings around
iuctant girls Of en- age to be his
"uGhtcrs. The wife. seeing. is smil-
ingly superior to these grotesque old
/. IN antics. Then one day appears
young man who appreciates the
n ci!luenCc of this calm and at
t:active woman. This is the situa-
. an which gives Mr.. Swinnerton the
ance which he loves SO well. the
ance to explore the secret places
B.
aces that are worlds away from
open manifestations of their lives
=. in the secret heart of Marian
,rster he delves. for the emotions
at stir her. for her resistances. for
r rebellions against the years that
sreu ultimate defeat to the ardors or
! ~, for her smallnesseS. for the
, ing poignancy of her sufferings. for
/ e whole tragic sum of youth that Is
Y ~cstIing in the secret soul OF q
oman who is growing rapidly
ward all the externals OF age. Moth
: escapes this vigilant analyst OF
uls. One reads the story VIE
Inething like dismay at the hkel-
cd of being herself turned INSIDE
: in such shameless fashion at the
nds of young scrap or writer.
% ought to be put into solitary, con-
ore work like this. A novel Is Tor
..semeHt. 1T is not an instrument
o torture. But the fellow IS an
pert. and enamored Of his skill. he
!. bound to pursue the secret tralls
human thoughts and feelings
FROM PLACE TO PLACE. BY Irwin
5. Cobb. author of Back Home,
etc New York: George H. Doran
Company.
This work is of the pure Irwin
C-bb stripe-stories picked of from
The common run of events in open
d aboveboard mood. Some Of them
re sheer play-as. for instance. The
a1il Called Emily" a bolster boistesons'y 's y
J forming elephant. Cobb is clearly
Il home romping through an affair
Of this sort Boys Will Be Boys IS
!, beautiful story-the story OF a man
Tho had no chance to be boy till.
ia late years. little fortune falling
iS uav tho onnOrfuDitv came. There
ter Peep O'Day. together with the
small boys of the town, spent riotous
ays fishing. tramping. loafing. play.
ing Indian. gorging on peanuts and
this. you may be sure to the disgust
of the grown folks round about. They
would have stopped 1t, too, II good
old Judge Priest had not stood IN
between. He knew what was the
matter with Peep O'Day. In one
the county hangman on q quest OF
the queer slants and hard knots that
must. as matter OF course, take
shape in the brain Of a man Of this
habit of life. This tale veers toward
the weird. but this writer is too keen
on fun and laughter to make more
than a vague and burlesque gesture
in the direction of Edgar Allan Poe
One story has for its hero man
a politician-.to whom publicity is
Of the press. because of a flaw in the
mans patriotism, he is treated to a
nationwide newspaper oblivion. The
man dies Of a starved vanity-a pro-
founday interesting bit Of psychology is
worked out here in an admirable man
ner One apd all the tales are Of the
kind that the admirers Of Irwin Cobb
look for as among the easements Of their
leisure hours.
Missing Polieenan. By Alfred Oh
livant. author of The Royal
Road" etc. London: George Allen
4 Unwin.
Historian of philosophic bent,
prophet and a good deal Of a poet be-
sides. Alfred Ollivant here in An essay
of unassailable logic and remarkable
color of appeal defines the coming in
ternationaiisV and sets up the bull
warks of it's support. When the whole
world is one siagle eintefdependence OF
common interests and activities, as II
Is, finally, bound to be. ther the SOL
observation-disclosures instrument of force
will have fallen away, useless. In
his place there will appear what Mr.
Ollivant names the missing .police.
man." the agent of common protec-
ton. keen only to save the great ma.
jority from the depredations Of some
possible .'rogue-member" of the world
society. This policeman will sail the
seas in a sea-service whose sole mis-.
sion it is to keep the paths of commu.
nication open and safe. Or he will
skim the clouds, in a competent air.
service. watchful against the frs,
move of any restless and selfish rogue
member of the band. Mr. Ollivant
leads TO this vision through a path.
way of history in whose beginning.
the notion of law took rise out o.
the necessities of mantle notion o.
individua: sacrifices for the common
safety and well being. The principl,
of law involved some one to admins.
ter the law. SO the people chose tn,
magistrate. the wise man. 1t involved
the possibility upon occasion also o.
some one to enforce the law, so tn,
people chose the strong man, the po
liceman. And society grew from trib,
to group from group to nation. Ant
now the international principle /!
crystallizing. Somewhere along thi'
upgrade difference between group and
group. between nation and nation, il
created the soldier, the alien elemen
of force. the instrument of the i'm
perialism. which, also. crept into thi,
expansion of society. These two al
lies-the soldier and the imperialist-
are in the new vision to be super
seeded by world magistracy of wis,
men and these, in turn. are to be sup
ported by these policemen of the Sc;
and the sky. A very beautiful visiol
against whose realization there is h
substantial and insuperable barrier.
SIBERIA TODAY. By Frederick F
Moore, author of The Devils Ad
miral.' Illustrated. New York
ID. Appleton & Co.
Capt. Moore's story opens with tina
Joyous day in Washington when. un
der orders he slid his spurred heel
from the government desk to maxi
ready for the intelligence service il
Siberia. The story ends foreboding
ly: I'VE must understand Asia-o
our children's children will wash tn
pots in Asiatic scu.leries" Betweel