Evening star., 1922-08-20
side" etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company. sr

Having just read Heartbeat" We
turned, in keen expectancy, to long
neglected novel by the same author
The excuse for neglect Is OF the
lone After Another Aounds like
something about sheep" we said. and
laid it by. Now. as a matter OF fact.
1t turns out to be an intensely inter-
esting and clever novel on the i'm
portant theme of heredity-a much
though neither more complete one
nor, a more artful one. The author
makes use here, either directly or In
directly. of four generations to. point
of blood. The matter focuses in two
young people, brother and sister,
leaning back to gather in fathers
and grandfathers, bending forward
to reach children and a coming
has the Striking appeal of the inn
mediate present. with these two
novels in hand one finds. howeverA
that it is Stacy Aumonier himself
who counts most in his literature.
two samples: is bound to have sub
stance. But. what is more. there is
behind it a man of keen intelligence.
one who knows how to think on his
own account-an honest and fearless
man who goes at the truth about the
he is smiling man. besides. shade
ironic toward the timidities and
hypocrisies, the trimmings and the
side teppings that constitute so
much of mans equipment for living.
A vital and dramatic story this. Its
reading has been belated pleasure
but this will not happen again.
ONE MAN IN HIS TIME. By Ellen
Glasgow. author of 1.-The Build
ers." etc. New York: Doubleday,
Page & Co.
Miss Glasgow's story is that of
man who. embodying the new social
and industrial outlook. tries to make
headway through the conservatism of
the aristocratic south. Gideon Vetch
is the new parvenu Governor of Vir-
ginia Around him rises the stony
barrier of the old regime-the exclu-
sive influential members of Richmond
society, incurably conservative and
aloof. The story is that of the ulti-
mate defeat of Gideon Vetch. To be
sure here and there. are signs that,
maybe. in few more hundred years.
this inbred conservatism may, possl-
bly,. open to the commonplace. but ex-
citing, progress of human affairs
Young Stephen Culpeper constitutes
one of these signs, under the shatter-
ing effects of his love for Patty Vetch
vivid. independent, brave In the
face of these smooth. cool, Way-wise
southern blue -bloods-the daughter
of Gideon Vetch. The novel is one OF
uncommon picturings and portrayais.
Indeed, these, now and then, get IN
the way of the story itself. stopping
it for fine Celebrations of this cnal.
acter and that one. But one Goes NO.
object to this. for out of the authors s
insight and power to objectify come
scenes that are bound to endure In
any true conception OF this vanishing
aspect of that part OF our country.
substantial and appealing purpose
lies behind the story itself. The SUD-
ject-apd~ especially the setting OF
This subject-stand within the au-
thor's intimate knowledge. The work
is sincere. the art of 1t is above tne
average-and what more does one
want? A story that pays one wen
for the time given to its reading
FURTHER ADVENTURES OF LAD.
By Albert Payson Terhune. au-
thor of Lad. Dog" etc. Fronts
piece by Charles Livingston Bull.
New York: George H. Doran Com
pany.
MIR. Terhune tells US here that more
than seventeen hundred people have
come to his home, Sunnybank. to visit
the grave of Lad" Many more have
asked for new stories of Lad. This
book is an answer to these requests.
Every much hope you may like them"
says the author. And very much we do
like them They are simply more about
a noble and lovable dog in whose TREND
ship Mr. Terhune and his W1e naa
both pride and happiness. 1t is good:
and right to give notice to book of
such unusual beauty and sympathy.
dealing with a subject in which all
boys and girls are interested. ana shouio
he interested-will be- too. If we do our
part. Not to- the children alone does
this book of Lad stories appeal. Through
them one has. more than once. had a
satisfaction that it is not easy to find
in stories. This is. no doubt, due TO
that fact that this is not fiction. Rather
is it a loyal tribute to the beautiful
nature that. in some inscruable way.
shines out from the unsurpa ssed friend
illness of 'just a dog.