Evening star., 1922-06-18

A CONVINCED moderuist," also
| N ''incurably religious" this
| n author declares himself to be.
/ This little book stands as q
| pilgrimage into the broad significance
ing the spiritual life that it both in
vites and sustains. Himself church.
man, the author upon this quest OF dis
| covery takes the road of the church.
stopping at its various waymarks OF
polty and doctrine to estimate the
standing relationships between religion
i and life at any period. In the present.
looking around and back, it appears to
| this pilgrim that religion, all along. has
, not been allowed to shed its shell.
promptly and freely, for it's successive
| growths into ever finer uses. Instead.
these shells have been packed and
pressed down upon II, period by period;
! to the injury of its essentlal lie anu
power Any fact. in order to remain
! living fact. has had to learn the lesson
! of adaptability. SO with this supreme
: fact, religion, it must. in eXternais'
adapt itself to the time which u seeks
/ to save and uplift. A sympathetlcally
personal outlook. very free from JOE, JOE,
malism, very close to the spirit of that
! for which it is seeking. A oooR de-
signed to meet needs similar to the
ones that produced it, designed, also. 70
/; go long way toward answering the
: familiar current question: -" Nat 'ie
| matter with the church,!
SOULS FOR SALE. BY Rupert Hughes
! author of Clipped Wings, etc
New York: Harper & Bros.
| The exceptional realism OF the Ru-
| pert Hughes method is here MAGE use
! of to transport the reader TO Holy.
| wood and to set him down bodiIy. So
to speak, before the business OF pic.
making This 81 is the the F"1f'mee on IT the nc
reader gets a freshly informing view
/, of the arts and crafts that transform
this mammoth institution OF mar
believe into a, tha masto tale one finds the
wicked city of Hollywood much IKE TX,
! other cities. its people-good ana pau
T, together-bent to the common arnors
| in the story, Mr.. Hughes has good
| deal to say about the general aver
age folksiness of these film artists.
The romance itself centers aromna n,ini sa
| ter, who finds it important to disap-
pear from her small-town home Tor
a time. One of the common trageoies
Of youth, here, n,,nrn rina,ns eitV Ners she be.
| comes at first interested by the mere
chance of substituting in trivial d
part and then. in a genuine zeal Sne
takes up lie,aI the WORK rbirif IN AZ not ~ love Owe
! story in the proper sense: this 70
be sure there are wooers-ior tne siri
| is compelling in her attractions,D IL
their Impression. At the end of the
| story, however, the girl is still look
! ing into a professional future with an
anything else one wonders. Is that
| outcome the artists passion or IS II
Mr.. Hughes way of getting past 'hat
early, and unforEivable mistake on
! least one refuses to take that as the h.
| basis of the young womanS exclusive
attitude fruitful theme to when
| the author has given the best nt ms
telling.
CHILrREN OF THE MARKET
PLACE. By Edgar Lee Masters
| author of spoon River Anthoi-
| ogy," etc New York: The Macmil-
| Ian Company.
! A story of the pioneer days or u
| linois-one that bears a. close family
! resemblance to the pioneer story OF
| Iowa that. a few months ago, Her
bert Quick presented in the name
| of 'Vandemark's Folly" Both are
of inestimable value for their pic.
| lures of that particular stage of
| American development An autobio-
| graphic account this 1t is the story
of a young Englishman come to the
! United States to settle up the affairs
| of his father whom he has not seen
| since his own childhood. Among
| these affairs he finds half-sister
the mother-strain in her. negro.
With the usual European attitude to-
| ward this situation. he accepts the
relationship and makes the attempt
| to carry it out. The full tide Of
| this romance of pioneer life runs with
| the growing excitement between
! north and south over the institution
! of slavery. Stephen Douglas. in full
| length portrayal, stands here as the
! friend and companion of the recorder
of these events. A life-like figure
| this. whose absorbing passion to see
; republic" obscured every other ma
tional problem. making Douglas a
rank eXpansionist at the expense of
slavery or any other public issue A
| fine interpretation. The story is
filled with vivid lines of description
j sand-set village: OF the little towns
| that were springing up. of praires
turned to fields. Of railroads in the
! building. of river traffic-of the round
An eminenuy worthwhile story
! and better vet even. as a living chap
| ter Of American history.
BIG PETER. By Archibald Marshall,
! author of "The Hall and the
Grange" etc. New York: podd.
| Mead & Co.
Mr.. Marshall Is best known by his
I smooth and level stories of English
/ country life. 1t is through him.
F! chiefly. that one has come to know
/ the essence- and favor of that life.
| stripe. This follows the orthodox
| plan for romantic adventure. The
! hero belongs to the rough life OF
| Australia. The thing that takes him
| to the ordered ways of England is
| an inheritance. The inheritance,
however. involves a legal contest.
| some villainy and an attractive young
woman. Upon this good and substan-
| tial foundation the author works out
! a couple of hours of f1rst-class en-
| tertainment for even the eXacting
reader of romance. 1t does more than
! this, since it puts him in close touch
| with an outstanding man whom it is
| worth ones while to know.
MY LIFE OF SONG. BY Nine. Tet-
| razzini. Philadelphia: Dorrance &
| Co.
Nine. Tetrazzini's account of her
! own life tallies with every other
| record Of notable achievement. 1t is
, story Of hard work, of self-denial
| in another This fact places the auto
| biography with those that are call
! culated to inspire by way of example
Going back to babyhood of unmis-
taxable genius, the author, from that
! point. moves forward to her present
| supreme place as a great coloratura
artist. Along this course other artists
] gather--singers, composers, inter-
! prefers. The story sums. therefore,
| to an intimate outlook upon music