Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-16
THE CAPTIvES. BY Hugh Walpole.
author Of "Fortitude," etc. New
York: George H. Doran Company.

" " tive souls he imposed upon
himself double task.
wellnigh monumental in character.
elusive task Of soul-searching. Then.
these innumerable discoveries. all
spiritual in essence, had to be re-
duced to objectivity and thrown upon
plane familiar to the average read
er. A thing for infinite patience and
insight and artistry. The back
ground here is one of high religious
fervors and Hebraic austerity of life.
a background set by the Kingscote
Brethren. narrow sect of intense
rel1giosity. Within this setting Mr..
Walpole places young man and
woman. both of the freer. more hui
man. more natural outlook upon life.
me story progresses if it may be
sad to progress at all, by way OF
the struggles of these two captives
to escape from the bonds set. in part.
by the religious atmosphere. and in
other part by certain inherited in
hibitions of the blood itself. If one
is looking for story dealing with
external matters that arrange them
selves in a line of cumulative effect
he need not pick this book. If one
is keen to the marvels of the human
mind and heart he cannot do better
than to set out here with this nat
uralist of souls, so to speak, and
under his leadership, to make note
of the reactions of human beings to
the particular indictments set UP
here. A work of rare insight and
sincerity.
JOHN BURROUGHS; BOY and Man
By Clara Barrus. NJ. D., author
of Our Friend. John Burroughs,
etc. Illustrated New York: Dou-
bleday. Page & Co.
formal biography would have
been serious misfit for the simple
and unconventional John Burroughs
On the other hand, this series OF
sketches-pictures, incidents, little
acknowledgements him as his friends
know him and as his readers love him
With no more than an accommodating
sense of order, DR.. Barrus slips in
glimpses of Burroughs in his child
hood. boyhood and maturity. AS q
matter of fact, there are no real di-
viding lines here. for John Burroughs
now at elghty-three, is as much OF a
boy at heart as he was at nine or ten
That is the amazing and hopeful mes
sage of this book. A wiser man than
Ponce de Leon. this John Burroughs
and more successful one, for he has
in the fields and woods. among his
birds and other animal friends; in his
splendid companionship among men
found the fountain that old Ponce
sought but did not find This book
is intended primarily for boys and
girls, but it's author understood that
grown folks would find in it just what
they themselves wanted to know and
feel about the wise man of Riverby-
on-the Hudson.
A HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE
PEOPLE. By Capt. F. Brinkley, r
A, with the collaboration of Baron
Kikuchi. illustrated. New York
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Company.
Quite comprehensive in character
this authentic history of japan is
nevertheless, so constructed as to
match the scant leisure Of the aver
age busy man. the busy man Of intel
ligence who knows the importance OF
being informed on certain outstand-
ing matters, Japan is one of these
outstanding matters. BY way Of a
suppression of non-essentials and a
corresponding emphasis of all sig
nificant points in the development OF
the Japanese nation this not over
large volume covers the story Of ia
pan from the mythic prehistoric pc
riod to the yesterday of Japan at war
with China and Russia. Maps OBJ
jectify lines Of sectional growth. A
dozen full-page half-tones of beauti-
full workmanship i1lursinate period
and custom. An appendix includes
the constitution of Japan. 1889; the
Anglo Japanse agreement. 1905, and
the treaty Of Portsmouth, 1905. Capt.
Rrinkley went to Japan years ago.
He has since lived there. identifying
himself completely with the Japanese
people. BY virtue Of this fact he be-
comes the best possible medium Of
understanding between these people
and the Anglo Saxon. Baron Kiku-
chi. former president Of the Imperial
University of Kyoto, is still another
warrant for the distinguished charac-
ter OF this study Of Japan.
THE DOOR OF THE UNREAL. By
Gerald Bliss. New York: G. p
Putnam's Sons.
The familiar story Of RED Riding
Hood" is relic of the great werewolf
myth, which, throughout the world
from the middle ages forward. seized
upon and held the fancies and fears
of the superstitious. The investiga-
ton of this myth by savants to dis
cover it's origin. it's theory, it's sig
nificance, is embodied in the formal
subject Of lycanthropy. The essence
Of the werewolf theory. the man
wolf theory. is that the human may
under certain conditions revert, vol
unfairly or otherwise, for a period to