The Washington herald., 1922-02-12

narratives and the chapter |
piled a Peasant Interlude" Is
IMPLY and beautifully done. Mr.. |
llliams' own adventures in Vladi- !
Pstok are well told and worth tell |
S- In the appendices are several |
Pcuments which are Illuminating |
of considerable historic inter- |
The frontispiece is a double page |
fproduction in color of a Soviet
hcational poster which shows |
children of Darkness and Super |
ition Passing Into a School: Then |
merging Into Light and Knowl- |
ge." The appeal to the children |
darkness and superstition print |
on the poster is an Interesting
ample Of the Soviet Governments
ethod of reaching these people.
be appeal is translated:
The life OF an ilIiterate Is ter
BILE! He lives in a dark forest.
Ferything frishtens him. An owl
bots at night-the ilIiterate thinks
Is the werewolf bowling; he
lieves in devils and witches. If
EhtninE strikes his hut, he says
Pd Is furnishing him for his sins;
does not know how to catch
WIN - IOo- CAOp
poor-he will pray to God: but
he knew how better to cultivate
pther Earth, his harvest would be
eh. He is cruel to animals-the
ends of man. He does not know
w to tend them or utilize them.
Il when the illiterate goes through
hool-he. q blind man. immedi-
ELY has his eyes opened. He be-
rs to understand everything; all
ings become clear to him. He
es what he did not see before.
is as IL he had acquired a hun
ed eyes; life for him begins to
joy. All matters begin to
ke a good turn. And IL he is in
buble, he will take advice from
friend, the book-who will not
ceive him-and, he will learn how
get out of his trouble"
DNIGHT,1 by Octavus Roy
Cohen (Dodd, Mead & Coz
ht was . bitter night. The mid
KIT train arrived and a woman
ell dressed and heavily Veiled
me out of the station to the sin
taxi on the stand and gave to
half-frozen driver an address
the most distant part Of the city.
BON reaching the address the
yer opened the door Of his car
hnd instead of the woman who
engaged him the body Of q man
10 had obviously been murdered.
IL ts the mystery which young
yfd Carroll, the semi-profession-
crtminologist, attached to the
al police department, is required
solve. It Is a good yarn, cley-
" told. David Carroll Is q like
be sort without any of the film
M with which too many Of the
ectiyes Of Action are endowed.
has some extraordinary luck, 1t
true. hut he has common sense
goes about his business in a
hsible and efficient way. We
&c Midnight" at the head Of our
from the 1922 crop Of mystery
ries.
HE CRUISE OF THE DREAM
SHIP, by Ralph Stock. (Dou-
bleday, Page & Coz
good many readers profess to
We become weary of this south
Island stuff" but even such
red mortals may take up The
uise of the Dream Ship In per-
Z safety, for II is far removed IN
rit and in style from most OF the
nth Sea idyIs. 1t is simple, un-
t.ntious but charmingly humor-
account of a far from unpreten-
rs adventure. Everyone, pre-
nably, has dreamed at some time
other of cruising the seas In
sure and freedom Well. Ralph
ck Is the rare mortal who has
bIeyed his dream. He not only
ught and talked about it; he did
Along with his sister, known
Peter. and a friend. known as
We he accumulated, by the SIM
process of going out and earn
IL. enough money to buy an
Al his dream ship-"a Norwegian
NJ auxiliary cutter of twenty
ee tons register. designed as a
boat for the North Sea fishing
t forty-seyen feet over all, fif-
feet beam, eight feet drarr.
II to stand up TO anything, and
handled by a crew Of three or
And then, IL you please. he
Peter and steve, after some
,ons in practical navigation from
old-time skipper, set sail in their
nm ship from England for the
m seas. What is more. they
rhed there. But really. you
n read 1t. There is the story,
instance. of their undignified
from their home harbor. foulinE
of the craft at anchor. and
peliug with the auxiliary en-
while a scornful limo Of fisher
stood on the breakwater ana
ned murmuring. They be goin'
the south Sea Islands, they be-"
Re are also stories of failing 90
the Canary Islands. when sex
and Iogarithm told them they
ia he there, of sailing through
locks Of the Panama Canal. or
NE folk picked up on strange
Ids, of possible and impossible
n ouests-But no summary can
the favor of the thing. Nor
ANYTHING but the reading of IL |
est the inspiration that the |
must be to those of us who |
eside our freplaces or gas logs |
noutter about how we wish we |
IA see the world. ITO sail away |
a dream cruise" says the author |
his final advice to dreamers."
an easier thing than to climb |
of the rut you are probably In. |
ere may be the most excellent