Evening star., 1921-05-15
trated by Douglas Dues. New
York: w. J. Watt & Co.

York: w. ]. Watt & Co.
| dramatic opening engages one at
once with the romance. poker
game is in progress in the American
officers headquarters at Manila, or its
! rear neighborhood. Long, steamy
days, personal discomfort. loneliness.
| homesickness and raw nerves are sit.
ting in. as well, at the game. which
ends in a quarrel. That night one of
the players is shot. Suspicion points
lieutenant is. therefore. arrested and
tried. but. the evidence Insufficient he
is merely turned out of the Army un-
der dishonorable discharge. Friend
less. he. in pursuit of a place and a
living. finds himself in the noun
tains of Kentucky. From here on
the romance is that of the mountain
eerS as these touch upon the life of
this disgraced outcast. Around the
CompaniOnship that develops here be-
the author spreads a very knowing
picture of this region and of the
character of the people belonging to
1t. In an intimate familiarity he por
trays this marOOned eighteenth Gen.
tury existence and along with this
vivid picture there goes a most SYM
pathetic Interpretation of the feel
ings and outlook of these remote
folks of the mountains. a love story,
to be sure. energies from the common
run of events. with an uncommonly
fine heroine of native stock to sustain
it. This is locality that has al
ready been wOrked-Some say over
worked-by the novelist. Be that as
it may. Mr.. Lundsford has achieved
good story-a consistent. colorful.
dramatic story. based upon the char
acter and customs of the mountain
eerS of Kentucky.
SPRING SHALL PLANT. BY Beatrice
rISt~
Pass in the Night" etc. New York:
George H. Doran Company.
This sounding title covers about ten
years in the life of bad little girl.
That is to say, the child was born a
shreW, a termagant. an imp. Cnfor-
tunately. besides. she knew more than
the rest of the family put together.
that damned child" while the little
brothers and sisters lived in steady
fear of her tyrannies. And she had
such a good time at her deviltries.
one likes her in spite of himself. for
she is loyal, fearless. truthful. After
a riot of naughtiness the author
leaves her. still a little girl, with the
promise of musical genius to cOmpen-
safe for her many and manifest wick
ednesses. The title of this tale, taken
from Browning, in its completeness is
Spring Shall Plant. and Autumn Gar
HeI " liie cl 1 l1He, d
that projects this heroine. in the fu
ture. as smashing her violin over the
head of any one that chances to cross
her will. Perversity is captivating,
but. in solid block, it begins to par
take of the proSy quality of mere
goodness. Even wickedneSS loses its
lure by too close an acquaintance.
SIX SECONDS OF DARKNESS. By
Octavus Roy Cohen, author of
Gray Dusk" etc New York:
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Since this is a detective story. it
opens with a murder. There appears
to be no way of getting around this
particular beginning. From this
point, however the adventure in hand
takes new turn. For within a short
time after the discovery of the MUIR
dered man three people present them
selves in succession at police head
quarters, each to give himself up as
the one who did for the unfortunate
victim. The work of the familiar
super-detective is, therefore, one of
elimination. This takes on many in
teresting complications from the
stubborn insistence of each of the
three that he, for good and substan-
tial personal reasons, did murder Ed
ward Hamilton. The invention CEN
tering upon these separate claims has
originality and substance. 1t holds
the reader to a keen level of interest
because, you see, none of the three
who claimed criminality in the case
really did the deed. and this fact the
the right moment for effective re-
Lease