The Washington herald., 1921-04-02

awaken, enlightel. and enlarge the
minds of children" rather than
merely to inform and instruct them.
THE sHEIK. by E. n. Hull. (SmaIl,
Maynard and Company
This is Ethel NJ. Dell. Ruby NJ
Ayres and Elinor Glyn rolled into
an exalted one, with a touch of Rob-
ert Hichens' desert romance on the
side. II begins appropriately. Are
you coming in to watch the dane
ing Lady Conway and ends, after
2S5 pages, with, Il am not afSHid
of anything with your arms around
me, my desert lover" The plot is
this: A naughty but beautiful Eng
lish girl Of high degree sets forth
with only an Arab convoy to OK
plore the desert. She is captured the
first night out by an Arab sheik.
most mysterious brute, who keeps
her prisoner in his tent. making her
his mistress. She tries several times
to escape, is once captured by his
enemy. and in the end. of course
but why tell IT? From these hints
il is clear why the publishers are
announcing feverishly two days after
publication that the third edition is
already on the press. Any professor
of literature will add numerous gray
hairs to his head il he reads il. but
there is fervid language on almost
every page for the seekers after
thrills.
THE ICE PILOT, by Henry Lever
age. doubleday. Page and Com
pany)
This tale belongs to the Jack Lon
don school of fiction. It's life in
the raw and in the rough. It's
a about men with hair on their chests
who have no interest in the peace
ful solutions of life's little prob
lens. The story begins on tho Bar
barry Coast of San Francisco. where
Horace Sterling is shanghaied.
Thereafter. on the Pole Star" which
is ostensibly a whaler. but in real
ity is engaged in an Illegal seal
hunting expedition, SterlinS's hair
raising adventures are many and
varied. Mr.. Leverage writes sim
ply. lucidly and knowingly. The
story moves swiftly, and the back
ground which the author paints
with sure hand is not a familiar
one. The beautiful young lady who
appears in the latter part Of the
book is perhaps necessary to the
happiness of the hero. though she
is scarcely indispensable TO the plot.
Among the books announced for
early publication by English pub
fishers is THE Salvaeing of Civili-
zation." by H. g. Wells. Accord
81 nf hfS
Messrs. Cassel, Mr.. Wells
outlines in this book a scheme for
a sovereign world system. The
idea that now shapes and dominates
my public life" says Mr.. Wells. "is
the idea of a world politically unit
ed-of a world securely and per-
manently at peace"
Another announcement of par
ticular interest to Americans is that
of a new play by Bernard Shaw.
This play. which is said to be Mr..
Shaw's most ambitious work, is in
five acts, each act being complete
in itself. The scene of the first
act is in the Garden of Eden: the
second is Of the present: the third
is 900 years hence: the fourth 1000
years hence; and the NTH Is in the
year 1890 A. D.-and is appropri-
ately called 'As Far as Thought
Can Reach" The work will be
called Back to Methuselah." and
will be published by Constable this
spring.
Thomas II. Dickinson, editor of
Chief Contemporary Dramatists,
Second Series" (which Houghton
Miff1in Company publishes this
month";. has been professor OF ORA
matte literature. student of inter-
national affairs and prophet OF
drama. The Case OF
American Drama" published by
Mifflin Company. and
The Insurgent Theater" are au-
accounts of the begin
nings of the new theater movement
in America.
Doubleday, Page & Company have
I'm train for publication in the