Evening star., 1923-08-19
Reviews of New Books

GLQUCEsTER BY LAND AND SEA.
BY Charles Boardman Hawes, au-
sthor of The Great Quest" etc.
Drawings by Lester G. Hornby
Boston: Little. Brown & Co.
HIS STORY OF New England
SeacoaSt Town" carries Il point
of very special appeal quite
apart from the substance of
the story itself. For only two days
before it's publication the author
Charles Boardman Hawes, died,
young man only thirty-four. his
ripened and mellowed work just in
its beginnings. The story is history
of the authentic sort, gathered from
old documents not hitherto used Tor
the purposes of history. Upon these
facts of record the author has built
the long, 300-year story OF the
growth of Gloucester from fishing
settlement on through its useful and
picturesque career up to the present
time. Those old documents in the
hands of this author, who obviously
was deeply in love with his theme,
are here transformed into living men
of lean and often hazardous exist
ence, type of early settlement life
along the Atlantic seaboard. And,
indeed. one of the large uses of this
story is to present vividly a general
view of that period i'll this loc2 ity,
while its prime purpose is, nevel the
less, to give thu history, to )ject
ths individual characteristics AL TO
preserve the fiavors both past and
present of Gloucester itself. When
the New England coast in the great
period of the clipper ship was
trader with far ports on the other
side of the world Gloucester was Il
shining point on that coast The
story of il in those days stands here
in record of splendid adventure.
And in these later days Gloucester.
the delight of artists and other lovers
OF the picturesque and reminiscent,
has Il full part at the hands OF this
enthusiastic friend and competent
writer. Mr.. Hornby's pictures? They,
TOO, are as rich in subtle and heauti-
full characteristics of the place as is
the text itself. This month GlouccS-
tor is celebrating its three-hundred'h
birthday. One could not want a mC->e
useful nor u more beautiful SouveIlr
of this event than Gloucester sv
Land and Sea" from the late Charles
Boardman HaweS.
"PIRACY": A Romantic Chronicle of
These Days. BY Michael Arlen.
author of The Romantic Lady"
etc. New York: George II. Doran
one comes out of this story re-
fr"Shed, not so much by the story
Itself as by the reviving and satisfy
ing power of Michael Arlcn. His way
of saying what he has td say here.
his Speaking changes of face and geS-
turc. his so right choice of word and
phrase Il word. the Michael Arlru-
ism of this chronicle not only de-
lights one but sets him up in the hope
of another ArlcniSm to come speedily.
Just a social comedy, the story. Hav-
ing finished it, one goes back to the
title to make Il final test of its mean
ing. Delighted. prodigiously. with
the full SAVIOR of this clever group of
London men and women whose cen
ter of interest to the reader. as we'll
as to the group itself is young Ivor
Marlay, one. in superficial Unlocking.
takes this as a passage in the life of
very engaging. very superior
rather negligible business of social
undeniahly desirable" that in tho
critical, forgcts to be- disapproving.
rs u right-mindcd person clearly
ought to he. over tn" social piracics
of this easy and almost negligent
marauder OF the hearth and homc-
several of them. And finally the
story is ended with NOR" than one
brilliant Wouan--and none of the
Arlen folks is dun not oue-Stolen by
Ivor Marlay. But. was Sh" stolen?
And this is the point where we be