Evening star., 1922-11-12
one may not censure him for sticking

to his trade.
THE TIDES OF DEAL. By Latta
Griswold. author of "Deering Of
Deal" etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
Mr.. Griswold has a way of steering
quite clear of the rocks upon which
the majority of writers Of school
stories for boys founder. The only
hope for books of this class is to NIL
them SO full of boy that there is very
little room left for the teachers. TOO
bad. Some day, when they have earn
ed the right to stand in with the
great game of boy teachers will not
be so ruthlessly crowded out. This
story appeals because. with zest and
spirit, it shows school life to be
pretty much what it is on the outside
where grown men are playing the
School-an old background for this
authors stories-there Is the same
strain after power that one finds IN
the grown-up world; the same JOY IN
friendship. the same political zest;
the same btgnesses and littlenesses
all around. Jeffery Maine, a real boy.
is the outstanding figure here. And
in a wholly believable way Mr.. Girls
void brings out the real stun OF the
boy under the pressure Of the fun and
exactfnG days al Deal School. A good
story that boys will read in the same
good faith with which it is written.
-FOUR SQUARE. BY Grace S. Rich
mond, author of "The Second Vio
lin etc. illustrations by Lee
Thayer and II. r. Ballinger. New
York: Doubleday. Page & Co.
Mark Fem is the person whom one
likes best in this romance. And this:
| not merely because he is the tower OF
the winds that blow" Indeed. in that
| capacity alone he might have been
stodgy and uninspiring 'tower." But i.
the author has made a man of Mark
Fenn-an achievement. The story Itself
has to do mainly with a young and
brilliant writer who finds herself at
the cross roads in her career The prob
| lem set for her handling is whether she
| is to go on doing one e-day stuff, on the
| one hand. or to settle into serious work.
on the other. Immediate reward is here
set off against the long pull for sub
stantial success. One friend-an active
literary force in the city-urges the
former. Mark Fem. college professor
fuence for the latter. The story is the
struggle of this girl and the rival ef-
forts Of the two men for her future. To
one reading. the girl does not tower as
she SO obviously does in her own esteem
or in that of the two men. She is too
much engrossed with herself. agonizes
too much over her own career. 1t is
largely by the good sense of Mark Fem
that she finally secures IL career at all.
Yes, a love story. tOo-and both stories
engaging up to a certain point.
IN JEOPARDY. BY Van Tassel SUIT
phen. author of The Cardinals
Rose" New York: Harper & Bros.
The death of Francis Hildebrand
Graeme of Hildebrand Hundred. King
William county. Md. was accepted as
an act of God-the sudden. but nat
ural. end of a mans life. Then sus-
picion started up. Evidence began
to gather. And. finally. murder stood
clear in the open. Motive" There
scurer still. And it is upon this mode
OF doing away with the man that
the authors ingenuity let's itself
loose. In effect. he barricades Graeme
| in his own library against any of the
known ways Of approach and attack.
1t is only. at last. and through n fresh
| line of sleuthing. that science ls
| brought to bear upon this 'long-dis
tance murder. An elaborate story
that engrosses the reader who has
become wholly waywise to the ins
and outs of the common detective
story. This is. in a sense. a new sort
| OF crime detection. one that gets sup
port from the seemingly miraculous
things that science is bringing to
the fore almost every day in the
week. Indeed. the whole story takes
its color from its quasi-scientiflc cast.
NICOLETTE: 4 Tale Of Old Provence
BY Baroness Orczy. author of The
First Sir Percy. etc. New York:
George II. Doran Company.
This tale Of Old Provence turns
quite around the ancinet story OF
King Cophetua and the beggar maid.
For here it is Nicolette. daughter of
peasant ancestry, who loves and
wins the paupered heir to the crum-
bling castle up on the hill. Bertrand
de Ventadour. A modern touch-that