Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-17

ldllure most carefully eNldnted and tend
ed ana Watered from her childhood on
10 THIS minute. Anything TO meet fail
ure with? Nothing BUT a small and
futile resentment. d bitter jealousy of
success in otherS--and then the retrea I
OF all maidenhOod into rnatrimony. The
romance doesn't count here. not nearly
SO inuch as does the minor one running
along beside it just by way of con.
trast- A remarkabl story that Is
bound, IN its motive and in the good
genius OF its development 10 absorb and
sur readers in most uncommon de-
american girlhood.
and ITS PLACE IN EUROPEAN
HISTORY. BY Count Paul Tel
eki, Ph.D. New York: The Mac
milan Company
PROFESSOR of geography in he fac
ulty OF economies at the University.
OF budapest. former prime minister
OF Hungary. lecturer at the Institute
of Politics of Williams Collega Comm
Paul Teleki here presents an au-
thoritatiye and highly informing
! study Of Hungary in its rise. its de-
! Ne!opment and its place among the
nations of Europe. The book am
oodleS the lectures given in 1921 in
! America at the recently established
institute of Politics of Williams
college. These lectures cover the
formation of the Hungarian state an.i
its geographical outlines One deaI7
| with the effects of the Turkish in.
Nasion upon the character of modern
hungary passing on to the economic
situation of Hungary prior TO the
world war Another lecture outlines
me political evolution Of the state
| ana another deals with the racial
! problem in its effect upon the nation
atty of this country. The author
| within this large and inclusive frame
work deals with innumerab BILE essen
| tlal facts of Hungarian life. At many
points the work becomes objective
| through the authors genius for pic
| turing the natural and economic and
industrial facts of the country by
way OF maps. charts, diagrams. BY
these one is enabled 10 see the dis
trlputlon or arabic lands, of forests,
| or water power and water ways, the
! grain areas, the mining districts. the
manufacturing regions. the means of
| communication by water, and rail
{ and highway. In a word. this author
| of the facts OF Hungarian life A
] most illuminating and informing
! method of bringing his country to the
| comprehension Of Americans An eX-
/ cellent photograph accompanies the
| lectures. \ remarkable pocket man
shows the chronological situation OF
! Hungary. based on the density of its
population Highly instructive and
! useful is this discussion of one of the
| important states of eastern Europe
| by so distinguished a scholar and
/ statesman.
, author of kings of the Missouri =
etc. Frontispiece by Remington
/; Schuyler. Indianapolis: The BobbS-
! Merrill Company.
! This adventure of the American
west goes back almost. not quite
I half century. 1t centers upon the
Black Hills of Dakota with the gold
| rush to that region as its motive
! power. The hostility of the SIOUX
, Indians and the lawlessness of the
! gold seeker the gambler. the hold
/ up man, combine to make a setting
i into which Mr.. Pendexter projects
/ the meteoric activities of one Peter
/; DinSdale, who has Jared out into the
4, west on some mysterious errand Of
| his own. There is not an idle mo-
J ment for any one after the advent
! of Peter Dinsdale. Bad man? They
! to be on the safe side. anyway. Sc
! the community. pretty much as q
{ whole. keeps its hand on its hip, sc
! to speak. in readiness for the un-
! eNpectedness that marks every move
! of big Dinsdale. No, not a bad man
! al all, as it turns. Quite the CON
! trary. However, that is a point that
! should be left for each to discover
/ on his own account. This is a rat
! Ting good story of the west-true
| too. in its essentials of background
! and general atmosphere-so. in keep
| ing to the trail O. Peter Dinsdale one
[ is booked for a strenuous time. with
| not minute of let-down about il
| anywhere.
THE EsCAPADE OF ROGER DREW.
| BY Frank Dilnot. Boston: The
Stratford Company.
/ Roger Drew. in a book. is a capti-
/ waiting and exciting person. If he
J were, however, to break out from
! print into reality. one would be
| likely to give him a wide berth. So
! pleasing a personality. so engaging
! a wit, such a mastery of good acting
/ and so relentless a spirit under the
sense of injury-all these done up in
a single individual call for safe
! guards against him by the public. A
| book is the right place for Roger
I Drew There he is an absorbing in
| terest Echoes of the war are in
| this romance A strenuous business
| rivalry. sharp reprisal as a part OF
| its motive force. carries the main ac-
tion forward. A love theme, toward
/ the close, quellS the general tur-
| bulence of this adventure in daring
| whimsicality. One looks for Roger
Drew to take and hold a good place
among the daredevil heroes of ad-
| venture who are, faults and all, low
| able and compelling with readers
| generally.
| UNDER A THOUSAND EYES. BY
Florence Bingham Livingston. au-
| thor of The Custard Cup" Illus
trations by Maurice L. Bower
New York: Cosmopolitan Book
Company.
| A Vermont village serves as q
| back ground here. The outstanding
| figure against it is a girl, Heather
! Davenway. A fifty-ffty partnership
| between this character and its setting
/, objectifies the power of early associa-
| tions over those of later years anG
| shorter tenure. This is the story Of
| Heather Davenway's recoil from the
| little home town and its people, after
an absence of eight years in the city
+, The first impulse is. naturally, to gee
! away again, at once. This, not pos
! sible the alternative is to take the
! place by storm making II over in the
| image of the smart up-to date town
| The outcome of the matter is, to be
! sure, that the native corner reabsorbE
| this temporary alien into the old flbel
| of its own existence. Here is the re
| mote northern village, natural as life
| The little round of interests, the
| sleepless curiosity about all manner
| of purely personal things, the endles:
| chatter of small gossip, the odd char.
| acterS, the simple and rather bolster.