Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-26

many glimpses Of political revelation,
many sidelights on the nature of ma
is light and delightful here-as it
would be with a theme of this kind.
The book is one to supplement and
vitalize the more serious lines of
national life. Its purpose is, or rather
its use is. to animate history and to
bring historic people to life.
PINK GODS AND BLUE DEMONS.
By Cynthia stockley, author of
George H Doran Company.
The pink god" is pink diamond of
irresistible beauty. The blue demon"
is the blue devil that possessed the
lady who found herself in unwar-
ranted possession of the jewel. The
lady is young and beautiful-but mar
ried. The man in the case is not her
husband That poor fellow is away
And the man on the ground plays with
open hand the lure that unlimited
money has for most young and beau
tiful women. There is really no harm
done, for the girl wakes up, just in
time, and takes the train for up-coun-
try. where her good Pat Temple is
trying to establish refrigerator plants
in Rhodesia, to the end that his
beauty of a wife may have Just about
all that her heart can desire. 1t is
the background of this thin lltu plot
that counts here. For Cynthia Stock
lev is as much at home in South At
RIGA as we are in Weedsport. And
South Africa has charm of face and
atmosphere, and queer emanatlonS
that take hold of one, and unique
ways of life. These get into the sto-
ries by this writer. and it is these
.s<vH,f n
story.
A PILGRIM MAID. By Marion Anes
Taggart, author of Capt sylvia,
etc. illustrations by the Donald
sons New York: Doubleday, Page
& Co.
An engaging little story that is ex-
actly fitted to put life into the arid
stretches of the average text book
history to which young school folks
are condemned. To be sure. it is not
all so rigidly true as the history books
claim to be. In it's essential feature,
however, it is true. This feature is
it's background of colonial Hfe-the
life of the first three years of the
Plymouth colony that was set up in
1920. Upon this vivid background OF
colonial beginnings the writer has
sketched the story of a young girl
whose courage and sweetness and
good sense relate her definitely to the
fine girls of any period and bespeak
for her a hearty welcome at the hands
Of the girls of 1920. A plan of spirit
and substance -mobiliZes again some
of the old characters of that period.
John and Priscilla and Standish move
again into the areas of warmth and
light, ones neighbors and friends.
with the heroine of this story always
the medium Of their renewed appeal
to interest and appreciation. This
writer possesses an adroit hand when
it comes to story-making for girls.
The story in hand is but one more bit
of evidence to this already established
fact.
THE POINTING MAN. By Marjorie
Douie, author of THE Further Side
of the Door," etc. New York: e.
p. Dutton & Co.
This is q mystery tale, set in the
crowded oriental motley Of Burmese
city. The mystery centerS around the
disappearance of Absalom, Christian
boy in the service of crafty old Mtoon
old feud between Mtoon Pah and Leh
Shin. the Chinaman, is the real heart
of the mystery, but before this fact
is reached there are any number of
people-white, black and yellow-of
all sorts of businesses and interests
involved in the search for Absalom.
the Christian lad. Indeed. it is not
people are doing in this tale. To be
sure, the open intent Of their presence is
to complicate further the affair of
That is all right, too, to
the extent that they do plausibly in
vo1ve the matter. But in every case
up the place with details that do not
connect up. However, there is plenty
Of exciting mystery, over and above.
that is handled with skill and appeal.
The title merely refers to the sign
Of the shop of Mtoon Pah, the same
as a wooden Indian stands signal at
a tobacco shop. However, a wooden
this pointing man" soliciting for the
shop of Mtoon Pah is well nigh as
sinister and seductive as the willy
oriental shopkeeper himself
THERE'S NO BASE LIKE HOME. By
H c. Witwer. illustrations by
Arthur William Brown. New York:
Doubleday. Page & Co.
Mr. Witwer belongs to the dynasty
Of humorists whose humor depends in
great part upon the fantastic char
acter Of their spelling and their play
fulness with the laws of grammar.
It is a long fundamentally speak
from the "Phoenixiana"
Of John Phoenix, in the early part of
the last century. to the present Of
Ring Lardner and the author of
There's No Base Like Home" These
Of diamond star and his
French wife, who. breaking
into the movies, adds greatly to the
Of the famous pitcher him
self. There is enough of story thread
here to carry one along. but that is
Ill 80
portance, since it is from the steady
flow Of clever nonsense on the two
prolific themes Of base ball and the
picture that one gets his
laughter and enjoyment.
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