Evening star., 1921-08-14


OF Beauty" etc. New York: Har-
per & Brothers.
For these short stories Rupert
Hughes went out and gathered a
bunch of negligible -things-things
not even remotely suspected of hav-
ing stories in them. First. there is
''Momma"-just completely worn out.
not a speck of life in her. Poppa
finally woke up to the fact that it
might be a good plan to send Momma
to the city. where a really good doctor
could could tell whether S or not she she, was as
the city. And after a few weeks
Poppa set out to bring her home. At
the city station he was met by a
radiant creature. Not a thing in the
was she. No. Momma had not gone
| near the doctor. She had taken the
| hat cure" and the clothes cure" in
stead. 1t was these that wrought the
miracle. A tale with a moral. you
| see. Another story is of the man
| like Shakespeare. he had gone up to
London-or Indianapolis-instead Of
staying at home, a clear stick-in- :
| the-mud." There are eleven more of
these wholly entertaining adventures
| into plain corners where human ma
! ture is just plodding along quite un-
| conscious that it has anything like
the makings Of drama about II. De-
| lightfully humorous and pathetic, too.
in spots. delightfully."- human as well.
THE HEEL OF ACHILLES. BY f.
NJ. Delafield, author of Tension"
| New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
old Lydia Raymond to herself. She
said it with Immense satisfaction.
81 am q widow" said Lydia twenty
five years later. This. too. with secret
| satisfaction. No. Lydia is not fif-
teenth-century Borgia. nor is she a
Lydia is merely an instructive, 100
per cent egotist. She. therefore. be-
longs to an eternal present She is
an everlasting cotemporary. fiat
| tering limelight sets both the flow OF
her blood and its elements as well;
This is the story of a brilliant and
virtuous-seeming career whose sole
| foundation is a passion for general
praise and approval And this trium-
phant progress might have gone on
| acumen that family antagonisms pro-
| vide for the discovery of human frail-
| ties. 1t was Lydia's own daughter
that touched the vulnerable spot in
| this modern female Achilles. causing
a reinterpretation of Lydia's life. A
| brilliant and cynical story. The theme
accounts for the cynicism. 1t is the
| writer's own power. however. that
produces this consistent and brilliant
| work of realism on the on-side OF
| human nature.
PRINCESS sALOME. By Brrrfs Jen-
! kins. Frontispiece by Gayle Hos
kins Philadelphia: J. 3. Lippin-
colt Company.
The photograph of Mr.. Jenkins pic
y lnT,
looks as IL he might be writing ad-
i ventures of Richard Harding Davis
type-stories of Gallagher and such
| like. Oddly enough. instead. he has
for the purpose of the novel in hand
gone long way from home and far
guiding himself by the facts of re-
corded history, Mr.. jenkins recon-
structs the ancient city OF Antioch
and sets therein the official life of the
Roman overlordship. This is Just al
| that point Of time when the pagan
quieted. at the swelling rumors of a
new force in the world. a new spirit
| ual order, a Messiah come TO save
men from themselves. In this story
the pageantry OF the pagan court CIR
cles around the figure of the Princess
| Salome-that compelling "she" whom
poets and painters, even up to this
day. refuse to leave dead and gone
Two youthful pilgrims. seeking the
! source of the new order. give direc-
tion and color to the struggle be-
tween pagan and Christian. To one
time. proves as powerful as the Christ
Himself. Finally the tale is one OF
martyrdom. The distinction of the
! whole is its lifelikeness. One sees
the glowing. busy Antioch. One ac-
| cepts these people in as good faith
I, fha acfr l1x-
him. He par Iticipates. zestfully. in the
old pleasures. and fills his eyes with
the old opulence of this pagan out
post Of imperial Rome. This striking
! and admirable revival sets one to
| speculating again over the curious
brought together in this modern man
the far past and the immediate
present.
WHEN EGYPT WENT BROKE. BY
i Holman Day, author of Squire
Phin." etc. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
Old Tasper Britt's adventures both
In the field of high finance and in that
1 of love are set down here with pen
that has bubbles of laughter in the
fluid of its ready narrative. Tasper
Britt is vain. as well as old. He is
| a miser. He is rich. Sorry stuff for
the fashioning of a hero of modern
adventure. To suit his purpose here
Mr.. Day works Tasper Britt in relays,
/, with excellent effect. The miser in
old Tasper he sets to the business of
driving the village of Egypt into
financial slavery to himself. The
coxcomb. he engages in the nefarious
project of winning pretty vona Harm
den away from her rightful lover.
| young Frank Vaniman. The comedy
goes along it's way in a tumult of ex-
| travagance and laughable to-do that
lifts the New England village of
| Egypt into a scriptural parallel when
! a real prophet appears to lead its
down -troddan people out of this land
of bondage into a place of peace and
! plenty. The final collapse of Tasper
Britt both as q magnate in finance
| and a Romeo in love brings this