The Washington herald., 1921-05-28
BOOKNOTES

gO0I NILE CTueAI YOU
try to read They Went" as a novel
or allegory or adult fairy story.
Not until you realize that you are
just wandering in one of Norman
Douglas dreams will you orient
yourself. The hazed narrative has
the curious. locoed fatality. the
half blocked-in figures, the wild un-
Likelihood of the land across sleeps
frontier. A homicidal medieval
princess (strawberry bIond) does
her little murders between chan
ters and refers to them in the man
ner OF a subedeb discussing choco-
lstes. DrUidism- feminism and can
nibalism are glimpsed en- passant.
Wal of Paradise" by vingie e.
Roe. (Dodd, Mead & Coz Here is
story shat gilds the Golden West.
Miss Roe's cowboys are bechapped
young demigods; her hero combines
the noblest traits of Buffalo Bill.
Jesse James, Little Rollo and Wal
lace Reid. As for the heroine, our
typewriter can never adequately
tell you how she combines -impeo-
cable virtue, unbelievable beauty.
great Intelligence. absolute fearless
ness and unheard-of charm. There
are horse thieves and heart thieves
a silver-haired padre, a eazelle-
eyer Mexican charmer-all the fierce
ana artless pageantry of border
romance. 1t is a book after tbe
heart of those who have outerown
the pictures on the cover of Dead
wood Dick but still long for tbe
tang of his adventure.
Although Joseph Conrad is bus,,x
engaged in planning a trip To Cor.
sica to absorb atmosphere for hfs
new Napoleonic novel. he has taksn
lively interest in Mrs. conr,6ss
venture into print, a book on cook
cry, and has written a preface.
James Norman Hall has stirred
up veritsbie tumult in South Bos-
ton. In his article in the March
number of Hsrper's Magazine n.
tells of meeting on a South Sea
Island an Irishman named Riley
Originally a native OF Boston, the
son of an Irish immigrant, Riley Is
now the king of a South Sea island
with untold riches. beautiful, Ta-
hitan queen. and hundreds of ioysf
subjects. all according to the best
traditions Of romance. But who is
he? Sou Boston is largely panu-
lated by Rileys and Mr.. Hall does
not specify to which branch OF the
family mis- hero belongs. Since the
publication OF the article there are
but few OF his name who do not
claim kinship with the South Sea
monarch who, since. as everybody
knows, all the Rileys are descended
from the ancient kings OF Ireland
is but enjoying his natural right In
ruling from a royal throne-or a
hammock
Natalie Page by Katherine Havi-
land Taylor. (Jacobs.) A ghost
amid the mullins, A phantom in
the tea. A djinn couched In the
strawberry tart Eclairi what don't
we seei Nat Page loves pie and a
baseball bat. She's one Of the pro-
letariat. He- rich aunt takes her
to the city away from the town
where she's sitting pretty Strange
ha'nts hang round Mats bracelet
old and the poor child lets her rolls
get cold. Soon our heroine's seeing
"sperrits." In the penult chapter
they call in ferrets. A mystery
romance concocted. oh. fun well
You read Il till the dawn grows red
and the9xssy. What tn mischiefy"
The Problem Of Government by
W. w. wiliouehby. OF Johns Hop
kins, and Lindsay Rogers Of Har-
ward. viii be published during the
summer by Doubleday Page and
Company.