Evening star., 1922-01-01

Charles Scribners Sons.
-~-ATTERED along the fringes
$$ of the world are certain
places whose names ring in
the ears of youth like trum-
net calls. They are passwords to
romance and high adventure. Their
very mention makes the feet of the
young men restless. They mark the
places where the strange trails go
down" Borneo, Suiu, Ceiebss. Ball.
Java. Sumatra, Siam, Cambodia ana
SO on. and so on, around that proken
corner of southeastern ASIA ,heSe
ringing names answer TO the ron 81.
! of this romancer in realities. SET
upon the prosaic errand of harvesting
moving picture films. Mr.. Poweli APP
pears to have hunted out the places
where John L. Hawkinson was 10
grind the picture crank while ne nill-
self roamed at large for the capture
of every conceivable sort of strange
peoples. of curious customs. of exotic
scenery. flaming firetrees the
| fragrance of frangipani green
jungle and steaminS troplc rivers
/. white moonlight on the long
| white beaches the throb or war
drums and the tinile of midtown
\
nance of the wonderful story IRON
! these ragged jottings. And IT is a
romantic story-but. besides, IL is III
parts a triumph of condensed history
! of tie achievements OF the
| empire builders in the Insulinde, Oh
| the conditions which prevail under
| the rule of the chartered company IN
Borneo, the opening up of lndo-Chlna
and the Malay peninsula, the regene-
ration of Siam. the epic struggle pc
tween civilization and savagery when
is in progress in all these lands IL
over this book. 1t is adventure SO
novel. SO picturesque. so new. that IL
captures the emotions and swings one
along in Its tide of strange experience.
Yet at heart one knows that, after all.
his feet are on the ground treading
! the ways of a very significant actu-
ality. even though his head may be in
the clouds of this altogether splendid
th-faring into a new corner of the
world.
THE CRUISE OF THE DREAM SHIP.
| BY Ralph Stock. illustrated. New
! York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
THE Cruise of the Kawa," that de-
! licious bit of foolery inspired by the
overwritten state Of the South seas,
| has taught one to walk warily around
! advertisements of sailings in the
4
Dream Ship sounds particularly
! fishy. But it turns out, nevertheless
| to be an adventure in actuality:: AND
| the author succeeds in making
! fresh and lively matter out of thing
| that one would have pronounced al
| ready dead of exhaustion. He does
| this by seeing to it that the adven-
! ture is a going concern even before
/ 4: begins. This is at the moment
when, in backwater of Devon, he
| discovers his dream ship. NorWe-
gian-built cutter of twenty-three tons
! register. built to stand up to an! =
| thing" and calling for q crew of nc
more than three. Impressing his sis
/! ter, Peter, and his friend, Steve. both
willing to sail away on piece OF
wood to the South sea islands. the
(; author puts himself in command-and
| the adventure is on. And II never
stales for a moment thereafter. Ine
! dream ship does not reach the Mar
| quesas-the real South seas-tili the
emprise is quite half behind it. But
! no matter, for whether touching a
! European port or some island way
| Etation on either side of the Atlantic
or merely riding the sea itself not a
moment Says with boredom noi
droops with discoura cement. You
RAY be sure that, the South seas once
reached. fresh corners open up to
! these new mariners, or old matters II
| their hands become new. AND SO II
proves. One gets the Paumotu groul
from another angle. and even TahitI
| wears a sort of born again air. The
almerston islands, with Mister Mas
! ters himself" provides a brand-neW
! story, And throughout the dream shll
F.: gives wholly novel and delightful
account of itself. The story is an
| adventure of the first order. IT is q
| good deal of a poem, too. Besides. II
\ ,x-it1 lar SnFeWG
i views and plain sense of the best or
| der. A capital book.
THE DAUPHIN LOCIS XVID; The
riddle of the Temple. From the
| French of G. Lenotre by Frederic
J Lees, Illustrated. New York:
/ Doubleday, Page 4 Co.
!: An old and haunting story this OF
/; Louis XVII, riddle with thousand
answers. Perhaps no single episode
! in modern history has more than TINS
| one been the subject of romance and
legend. of truth buried in 1aisenood
| of mystery which even yet let's IN no
; slightest ray of revelation. And the
i book in hand does not in this respect
differ from all the tales tnat nave
! been told. The mystery is stlli
mystery The study has. however
great distinction, for IL Is pureiE
? scientific treatment of such official
material as has so far come TO hand
/! in respect to the life of the dauphin
| in the temple and to his removal also
+! from that prison. Every scrap OF
mere hearsay has been thrown out
from this investigation. On the otheF
hand, every bit of authorized state
! mcnt-the reports of the temple stew
| ards. the official accounts of the mem
bers of the committee OF safety sent
daily to stand on guard over the little
prisoner, the minutes of conferences
1 bearing upon this subject-these are
| the foundation of this close and eS
| hausting study. And tine eNldence
does Indicate at least one subsutu-
! ton, and probably two. for the person
of the little king himself. What be-
came of him in this event? Who was
buried in the cemetery at Salnt-Mar-
! guerite? These are the poignant
questions that arise. This eNamiha-
| tion rounds out a very complete story
of the life of the little boy in the
temple, of his mother. too, before her
i execution: of the sister who was the
only one to escape to Austria. TINS
book clears out the accumulations oi
rubbish over this historic episode. IL
other discoveries of official records
ore made. they will find clear way
in this book. Possibly, these may
| solve the mystery which torments the
reader so completely throughout the
course of this important and authen-
l tic record.
THE GREATEST AMERICAN; Alex
nnder Hamilton. By Arthur Hen
drick Vandenberg. Illustrated.
New York: G. P. Putnan's Sons.
The author here comedies that the
identity of the greatest American
varies with the point of view from
; which Judgment is made. In defer
ence to such concession, he opens this
work on Alexander Hamilton WIN
! free symposium of the subject of the