Evening star., 1921-05-29
Reviews of New Books

own alphdbetic characters. ABSTRACT
and arbitrary as they appear. he
shows with piausibiiity to be the cor
rupted forms Of primitive pictures
The book. one of great research. has
many pages of general interest 70
commend il to the average reader. To
transformations to meet new needs. 1t
looks much like a veritable treasure
book.
Evarts author of The Cross Pull
etc Illustrations by Charles Liv-
ingston Bull. Boston: Little, Brown
& Co.
Even the city sparrow is quite able
to convince one that animals are in
possession of whole bundles of i'm
pulse and intelligence that are com :
monty aScribed to the human animal
alone. Mr.. Evarts here gives fresh
emphasis to this fact by his stirring
drama of the coyote. Breed, sprung
from a coyote mother and an old dog
wolf father. is the hero Of the play.
as he is the leader and autocrat of
the wild tribe itself. Under his mas
terly leadership the prairie wolves are
organized to circumvcnt their great
est enemy. man. and to defend them
selves against the other animals OF
the wild. The purely domestic and
family concerns of these wild folks
OF the great west IN us ftHlottI re-
gions are brought out here in what
one believes to he strict recording
| Of facts, made intimate to this writer
| by his own patience and sympathy. by
| his own mastery Of the drama of this
native situation. AS adventure run
ming along the elemental lines Of all
animal life-food, mating. reproduc-
ton self -preServation-it possesses
the stir and appeal that commonly in
| heres to similar urgencies in the hu-
man himself. The story saNorS o'
| The Call of the Wild" though it is
quite distinct from that London mas
terpiece 1t is the writer's own. dug
out. one believes, from his own per
sonal experiences. patiently repea ted
| with the creatures that he has her.
| impressed so knowingly and artfull!
| to actual drama.
PAGAN FIRE. BY Norval Richard
SON, author of The World Shut
Out" etc New York: Charles Scrib-
| ners Sons.
Stripped to it's naked central fact,
this Is the story OF a wife VINO nnds
herself much less in love with her
husband than she is with another
author lifts it from the commonplace
however by two means. One is the
| rich background in which the action
is placed. The other is the substan'
TALLY sound character of the woman
| herself To be sure this excellence
| of character does not appear even at
] the eleventh hour. Instead. the cloct
has struck twelve before she re
| treats in time to save her husband
good fellow. from even suspicion
Of the danger around him. So far as
1.-THE story reveals he never does have
A suspicion Of that which. in reality
had passed into fact. The BACKGROUND
of this romance is Rome-the Cam
pagna- an old stronghold in the Apen-
mines. the gorgeous social life of the
city itself-a setting that this author
likes and uses with impressive ef-
| feet. A noble Italian prince is the
charmer that wooes the wife away
from her perfectly good American
ofea stripe to win the commendatior
of the reader. even while he may
hesitite about giving his unalloyed
approval of the heroine of the story
in her belated renunciation.
TURKEY BOWMAN. BY Homer Croy
author of Boone Stop" etc. New
| York: Harper & Bros.
No boy would read this book. Afte
| the first chapter. more than likel.
after the first page. he would throw
| it down. saying. either that there wa
not word of truth in it, or that tn
writer had played a low down tricl
on boydom generally. What Mr.. Gro!
has done is to capture that real ant
unbelievable boy that struts ant
stalks. that fights and fiaunts. even il
the meekest appearing little boy tha
ever lived. From pirate days to thos,
of languishing troubadours he follow,
| the group at whose head marche!
Turkey Bowman. Yes. one laughs
He has to. for the book is amusing
Once in while the smile fails {,
come, since-just as with grown-ups-
the Play and the reality are pitifull.
far APART. On the whole, however
this is a book of laughter. conceive,
in a restraint which this subject doe
not readily yield.