Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-20
WASHINGTON CLOHE-UPS. By Ed
ward G. Lowry. Illustrated. Bos-
ton: Houghton Mifflin Company.

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Hvv nothing of what he has done
for the others This is sea-
soned and thought-out work. 1t is
drawn from years of looking at these
celebrities when they are in action;
of bundling their various attitudes
and deeds into single personalities. in
drawing OF the essence of their tenn
permanent and character. 1t is a hu-
man and kindly book besides. To be
sure. it laughs. genially. now and
then at the pure human nature OF
some exalted figure, but 1t never
snarls. To be sure. once in while II
sums the mistakes of a notable snow
ing how these mistakes have barreu
his advance. but it does not once go
out digging for faults. And Mr.. Low
ry stands back of his opinions. WIit-
ing his name out as the responsloie
author here. Extremely clever WORK.
whose modern flair does not take
away from the substance of it's ripe
opinions. In thorough enjoyment one
reads here of Mr.. Harding and Mr..
Underwood-the one The Grea "a,
Emollient." the other The Balm IN
GiIead." You will read them all. Once
started, you will. BE sure not to over
look the Beau Sabreur," nor the
'Heart Bowed Down.. nor BOD Inc
Battler"-nor any of the others we
know all of these great folks, at
distance. Now we know them better
and like them just as well. Which
is saying a good deal when wayWfse
critic, like this one. has had his ming.
MEssER MARCO POLO. BY Dom
Byrne. Illustrated by c. B. Falls
New York: The Century Company.
IT'S old Malachi of the Long Glen
who tells the story, Malachi main
tanning that the proper historians
fave skimped. or deliberately COW
cred the heart of the matter-that
which held Messer Marco Polo for
seventeen years at the court OF kuoia
Khan. So. one night, clustered around
the fire were Randall. the poet, and
rhe two blond Danish girls. and
fraser. the golfer. and young
writer. and this one and that one
and old Malachi of the Long Glen in
their midst. And Malachi. out of the
stuff of County Antrim. it's heather
tang. its smothered turf fire, its
drumming surf. its mystic dlvination
To- out of these Malachi wove the love
idyl of Marco Polo and Golden Bells.
daughter of the great kubla Khan.
That's a warm story. Malachi of the
Glen. a warm and colored story. and
great life to it. and Golden Bells is
as alive to me as herself there by
the fire, and ] can see Marco Poio
as plain as l can see my cousin. Ran
dali. and he playing with the dogs
. And SO it is warm
story" and lfelike one and as oeau-
tiful a bit OF poetry. besides. as one
may find in many long day.
URSULA TRENT. BY w. l.. George.
author of "Caliban.' etc. New York:
Harper & Bros.
One has TO watch his step in this
reading. lest he walk out of the track
of Ursula Trent into that of Mr..
George himself. For. it is an inter
locking course calculated to divide
interest. This is. upon its surface.
+, Ursula Trent's account of herself.
{ The girl is. in effect, a war product.
She stands for many girls who. their
stimulating usefulness ended. refuse
to go back into the seclusion that
awaits properly brought up daugh-
tiers. Free for good and. all. it is the
matter of an independent life and
living that confronts Ursula Trent.
The daughter of Sir William Trent
of Ciber Court is equipped for neither.
Here she tells of her makeshifts to
achieve both. From typist to a writer
and then into a manicure parlor she
passes into fiat provided by an en-
gaging young man. Here. for several
years, she puts up the appearance of
wife, and escapes. by accident alone.
from being mother. Finally she be-
comes the real wife of a man whom
Ciber Court itself could not have sur
passed in the choosing. A quite i'm
moral story, you see. For there is no
law more exacting than the one which
condemns misbehaving girls to lower
and still lower states of misery and
public condemnation. However. that
Is as it may be. Ones interest here is
not In public opinion, but in Ursula
Trent herself, in her searching observa-
tionS and her open avowals. This is
an intelligent woman looking into
the realities of the man land woman
complex. She shocks US by her right
ness of conclusion. She frightens us
by the close range of her deductions.
@ -
George becomes actuely manifest. 1t
is not so surprising that he knows a
woman's heart and mind pretty well.
Many men are woman-wise in GER
tain directions. But how he comes to
. know what almost any keen woman
thinks about men-a MANS past
comprehe nsion. since it is a woman's
chief business to keep this close A
memorial has been to keep her real
opinion in this direction quite under
cover. One wonders how this young
man found it out. A book for much
reading and endless controversy. A
real book that no one can read indiffer-
emily.
LIZA OF LAMBETH. By W. Somer-
set Vaughan. author of The Moon
and Sixpence." etc. New York:
George H. Doran Company.
A little story, whose geography
covers no more than a narrow work
1ngman'S street in London out
skirt. A drab corner. whose human
output is sloveniy women. sodden men
and swarms of wrangling children.
Its single touch of color is Liza her
self. darting here and there in quest
of youths inalienable right-love and
life. Bright, buoyant. brave and gay.
Liza is a dancing FREELY in the dark
corner of this dull street Everybody
likes her-the men half fearfully. the
women quite enviously, the children
full-heartedly. When her man comes
Liza knows him in a flash. No. it is
not Tom. the kindly youth who adores
father of many children. old enough
no be Liza's own father, husband of
an elderly and suitable wife. In its
own cratic way love performs. Liza
is an open and abundant lover. But
Iiza's little world of Lambeth Is ex-
actly like the rest of the world-ex-
acting in its conventions-and so Liza
IS compelled. by the force of this lin
dted public opinion. to begin to settle
her account from the very beginning
of her commerce in Illicit love. 1t is
a poignant story on a theme that is
constant in it's behaviors. no matter
in what grade of life it may unfold.
1T is. as well. a perfec, piece of work,
a little thing held rigidly to its own
boundaries and dealing implacably
with the conditions that these bound
aries lay down. Mr.. Vaughan has
written bigger stories. perhaps. but
he has not made a more nearly per-
feet one.
MR.. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN
ENGLAND. BY Charles l.. Graves
New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company.
Two of the four volumes projected