Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-02
Reviews of New Books

plenty of room in this big personality
to hold the lot of us. The story. as
such, tells of the Maine town where
Tom was born. of Toms work In the
west. in Alaska. and of his return to
Shipbay in time to revive its ship
building glory. under the pressure of
war needs. Any other line OF action
| would have answered. so long as It
furnished field for the sayings and
doings Of Glenwood himself. A big.
impulsive, honest, bungling fellow
this. who always bungles right With
out even guessing II. Tom is fund
cestors ought to have been more care
full about the ancestry Of their
descendants. They married careless
you are alive" II wish 1 suffered
more. 1t would be sure to do me
good. But l can't. 1t is no use to
try; get over things" Man does
nothing, things are done to him. He
Is neither hammer nor anvil; he is
God; You have to do 1t, so do it."
Il didn't invent life. but I'm doing
the best can to make 1t CO." A new
man to know. this Tom Glenwood.
WAYFARERS IN Already. By
Charles Vince. author of THE
Street of Faces" etc. New York
q. 2. Putnam's Sons.
This is book OF essays. The au-
; thor is a poet. So. every place Is
Already to him-a street. a road. a
, little stream, a storm, a map, even.
About these things he strings little
-, words together-no big words at all
| and these everyday words sing, and
gossip. and hobnoG. and fall away into
pleasant silences, only to wake up and
run on again. Lovely words that hold
ha h1. t@L
in the face of this beautiful world,
but which the most of US lack coin
OF words to give them currency. Just
now Is the time to go into the open
with this book for company when in
expressible beauties are standing
spring for recognition and compan-
ionship.
THE HOUSE ON CHARLES STREET.
New York: Duffield & Co.
! This might easily be a record of
! experience. Is plausible. consistent,
i and we'll within the scope of war;
time situations. 1t is. also, entertain
Ing. The story takes it's start from
the fact that an American girl:
| caught in Europe at the outbreak of
the war, enlisted in whatever service
| might come to hand to make her in
any degree useful. Chance placed
; her, first, in hospital. where her Of
! Ace efficiency led. finally. to the pos
ition of private secretary to Sir
Thomas Easterly. NJ. p. 1t is at this
| point that one reaches the house on
| Charles street. The story moves for
ward by way of the girls relations
to Sir Thomas and to his family. 1t
| the English state of mind during the
| war. 1t gives touches of wartime
management and introduces more
than one Interesting personality to
| the Office of Sir Thomas-here a mill
| tary leader, here a friendly German
/ family that turns out not to be so
! friendly after all, and here spy who.
! for the acuteness of the private
secretary might have done mischief.
! There are real and potential suitors
for the hand of the American girl.
At one point there is a dramatic
third degree" applied by the capable
secretary to an unfortunate girl of
| too much knowledge. The story ends
without any proper romance. al
| thought the most engaging of the
on Charles street Is likely to loose
his wife. There the matter ends. A
| fair story which. to be a story after
ones own heart, should later supply
postscript.
THE MAGNET, A Romance. By Hen
ry C. Rowland. author Of THE
| Closing Net" etc. New York:
| DOQQ, mead q 60.
| This is the romance of three sirens
] OF modern mold who sailed their
| fathers yacht to the undoing of such
youths as dared to come alongside.
| Wherever the Shark sailed, a tiny
| craft followed-the pilot fish," this
| companion OF the Shark came TO
be called. The master of the little
: bark is the hero of the adventure
poet, something of lion-man. be-
! sides, and finally. after sailings and
] trailings and adventures of varied
| sort. the accepted lover of the
| choicest of the three sirens. Origi-
nality and rapid movement carry one
along here in a good current Of pleas