Evening star., 1921-01-23
Reviews of New Books

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smoothes out to plain tale Of love
and happy marriage.
THE FORGING OF THE PIXIES. By
Anison North. author of "Carmi-
chael. etc. New York: George H.
Doran Company.
This Canadian romance appeals to
one from two points of approach. In
the first place, it is founded upon an
interesting period of Canadian his
tory-that of the rebellion of the peo-
pie against the local government IN
1887. In the second place, it pictures
an uncommonly attractive love cpl
Sode-the two characters. a boy and
girl of more than the usual allowance
of substance and charm. AS a drama
of history the story recounts. in its
first part. the political struggles of
the Dominion over eighty years ago
by giving the standpoint of the "reb-
els" or the reformers. In the second
part ii deals similarly with the to
ries." or loyalists. BY careful study
of the best authorities on this period
of Canadian development the author
has produced an authentic picture oil
the time, as well as a highly pictur-
esque one. However. it is with the two
lovers that one fingers. since these
quite apart from the generally COM
pelling business of love. succeed IN
embodying the spirit of the wide
places of their abode. They know the
land and what it has to say They
know. in a friendly intimacy. the wild
creatures of this region. living with
them in neighborliness that Is as
delightful as it is Illuminating. AS
little story of the friendlinesses OF
man and his wild fellow citizens the
book has a beautiful charm.
A BACHELOR HUSBAND. BY Ruby
NJ. Ayres. author of Richard Chat
terton.' etc. Frontispiece by Paul
Stair. New York: w. J. Watt &
Company.
bachelor and-maid existence un-
der the appearance of perfectly
good husband and wife partnership is
the situation that sustains this
romance. The authors task here is
two-fold. On the one hand ii is to
clear up the girls incorrect impress
sion that she has been married for
it is to lead the young man to fall in
love with his wife. The former is
easy. just a word Of explanation when
the clock strikes right. The latter is
not SO simple. till the author hits
upon the sure expedient of appealing.
tive jealousy of the male animal The
story moves along the common
grooves of romantic invention in a
pleasant and diverting fashion that
serves to pass agreeably an hour or
So Of leisure.
MEHITABLE. BY Katherine Adams
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
Miss Adams gives a wider reach to
this schoolgirl story than most stories
of similar theme appear able to
achieve. She accomplishes this effect
by the happy expedient of sending
the young heroine to Paris for her
schooling. This. with vacations spent
in Ireland or Belgium. serves to make
a background for the school-day ad-
venture that is both substantial and
attractive. To the regular order of
studies and the equally regular order
of frolics there is added here many a
picture of Paris itself. and many an
Irish or Belgian scene of true fea.
is of the albright sort as girls of
this age goa happy, sensible girl.
not depressingly overgood. Just hui
man and very much alive. Girls will
like her and will have pleasure in
following her about in these old
world places.
OLD CAPE COD; The Land, the Men,
the Sea. By Mary Rogers Bangs.
Boston: Houghton. Mihlin Com
pany.
To read this book is to get new
conception of the old cape. no mat
ter how familiar one may be with its
history and rock-ribbed charm. The
author conveys a pungent pictur-
esqueness to the land; puts flesh
and blood in the pioneer pilgrims
whose hardships, sacrifices. many vir
tues and some cruelties make up the
record of those "first-comers"-and in
citing Cape Gods share in the French
Indian and English wars. reveals the
vivid lights and deepest shadows
thrown on the life of the old colony
by theologians. whalers. pirates and
old-world adventures, good and bad,
with a tribute-chapter to it's seafolk;
crews and captains, who SO tragically
often went down to the sea In ships
never to return. To the charm of the
text are. added Photographic repro
ductions of rambling shore roads.
quaint old houses set in the greenery
Of lilac trees that bear no fruit but
have a sweet smell'; meadows and
sea glimpses, with a frontispiece
showing a famous "igurehead" of
some forever-gone ship; an heirloom
of Cape Gods never-ceasing battle
with her sea.
ENGLISH WAYS AND BY-wAYs;
Being tine Lettef0 Oh John anu
Ruth Dobs0n. Written from Eng
land to Their Friend. Leighton
Parks. New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons.
A young clergyman and his wife,
while on a summer vacation in Eng
land. write letters to an American
friend. And the letters make the book;
some of them having been previously
published in magazine form. 1t is in
tended to be strictly motor trip,
but, as the roads are strange and
the car temperamental, there is
eonugh variety of travel to add zest
to the tour. Opinions of places. Gus
toms and characteristics are express
ed with the frankness of personal
correspondence. and there is. of
course, some interesting accounts of
the established church in it's con-
trast to chapel" Also. there is a
glimpse of Irish conditions and en-
Pertaining peeps into visits to friends.
and comments as to scenes, incidents
and types met along the way.