Evening star., 1922-07-30

\ magnanimous and worn with the
weathers of all time" And within this
from person to person by way of the
\ regions amazing network of lake and
stream, a network that serves to es-
! tablish a neighborhood and at the
| same time to set up perfect obstacles
| to obnoxious intimacies. Moving
! farther and farther in. the author
! brings US to the eighteenth century
| and. finally. even back to the seven
| teenth. with the isolated habitant
! much what he was in the New France
| of Louis XIV. Whether. however. he
moves forward in space or backward
soak up some interesting corner and
| its people, he Is a steady JOY as guide
! and interpreter. A travel book that
/ stands one among thousand for its
worth and charm.
| UTAH, The Land of Blossoming VAL
leys. By George Wharton James.
author Of Arizona. the Wonder
! land" etc. illustrated. Boston:
The Page Company.
| The See America First" family has
/ reason for pride in this fresh addition
| hand, this is an impressively artistic
| piece of book-making. And once
within the covers readers are in
stantly conscious of unusual sub
! stance in the story itself. Beyond
! general graphic survey Of the land
| habitants of the region. the book
! deals. in the main. with the work of
| the Mormons in the upbuildinE Of the
state. To be sure, there are beautiful
| bits of description setting out the
marvels of the landscape. but on the
whole the story Is tribute to the
statesmanship. the patriotism. the in
telligence, the vision and the practical
zeal of the Mormons IN creating and
maintaining one Of the great states
| springs from the migration-the forced
migra tion-from Illinois of the follow
ers of Joseph Smith into the great
wilderness of the west. From this
point on it is a record of Mormon
achievement within the realm of
| Is not a mormon. He is neither an
advocate nor an apologist He ap-
pears to be merely a fair-dealing man
who. upon a study of the field. sees
no other way than to render to
Caesar the things that are Caesars.
! that. aside from its clear competency
and literary charm, appeals to the
| reader for it's outstanding attitude be-
| side the pure truth of the matter
about the making of Utah.
THE MINDS AND MANNERS OF
/ WILD ANIMALS. By William T.
Hornaday. Sc. D.. A. NJ. author of
Our Vanishing Wild Life" etc.
| Illustrated New York: Charles
! Scribner'S Sons.
No pinch Of salt is required here to
season up Mr.. Hornaday's account to
I the readers acceptability. For long
time. now, the study Of wild animals
I has been the sole preoccupation of
this investigator. And out of this
period of Intimate and intensive study
he has reached the solid ground Of
certainty that animals think, just as
man thinks. and that they are able
moreover, to relate experiences and
/ derived thought in the sequence that
man calls reasoning. The book in
hand Is a body of personal observa-
tions on the part of this author in
support of the claim that animal be-
haviors spring from experience. record
ed in the brain. just as our own do. In
! a broad initial survey the author de-
, fines the rights of wild animals. sets
signs to them temperament and indi-
viduaity and a language Of their
own. In hundreds of cases he. by in
cident and anecdote. drawn from
first-hand study. dramatizes the
mental traits Of one and another of
zee. gorilla. of the elephant and the
bear He deals with these mental
! and moral qualities as one would deal
with them in relation to man himself
! One section of the study is given over
to "the baser passions" of these wild
creatures. Chief among these is fear
Just as fear is mans fundamental
weakness. his supreme enemy. The
purpose of this informing and in
, tensely interesting book of expert
kinship with the other animals in the
hope that this fact will establish be-
tween the two orders a better under
standing. so that man will deal more
intelligently, more humanely, with
the relatively helpless ones. The
wish that the boys and girls of
America and of the whole world may
be induced to believe that the most in
teresting thing about wild animal
is its mind and its reasoning A
live book, absorbing from cover to
cover, out of the hand of a trained
and sympathetic student Of wild life
the world over.
THE VEHEMENT FLAME. By Mar
garet Deland, author of "Old Chester
Tales" etc Frontispiece by c. E.
Chambers. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
Reluctantly one has to count this
story unreasonable. The vehemence
of the fame itself and the SUNNI er
weather-these two coupled with the
surprising realism of the drama
tend to raise temperatures still more
under the heated controversy that al
ready has set in about the story. The
and championship-now for the boy
! husband, now forth elderly wife in
her obsession Of love for the boy. A
youth of nineteen in love with him
self and with life. A woman of thir-
ty-nine-shut in. but ready to wrest
h4 Nf
existence Propinquity does not rest.
and one comes upon the not infre-
quent case of the boy who marries
the much older woman. That Is the
basis Of the tale. Its protective pow
er rests in the jealousy Of this wife,
her lost youth. And this story
marches valiantly and masterfully
to the bitter end of its own essential
substance. No. not a pleasant story
that is the point. largely. that peot
pie are quarreling about. though they
hardly realize this. They want to be
pleased. to have the happy ending. to
SAVIOR another fairy tale-but pleasure
to the reader and the utilities Of the
fairy tale do not lie in the essence of
this matter. One. by merely looking
across the way or down the street.
has to admit that situation like this
does exist in plenty. Having made
this admission, there Is only one
other thing to do-just to agree that
here is very superior example of
literary realism-just to agree on a
common aspect Of modern life.
Rather heroic artistry, this. hut true
artistry and, as such. very distinct
service to realistic literature as well
as a personal triumph for the author
herself.
THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON. BY
Edith Wharton. author of Ethan
Frome." etc New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.