Evening star., 1923-10-14
Reviews of New Books

thrill that. came. last year. with
, Emma-Lindsay Squiers '"The Wild
Heart" There we first saw the girl,
living in the house next to the woods,
wholly happy in a p4rfect playmet te
friendship with the wild things of
the woods themselves. This true love
was winged. We found, with a fresh
and poetic turn Of the Imagination, The
simplest possible art of storytelling
nothing more was needed to create
one of the most appealing of story
books on the ways of animals when
they are at home. unmolested and un-
afraid. "On Autumn Trails" is of
equal quality. Here are stories of
animal life in the woods OF Nova
Scotia. There is another group here,
besides, stories of animals in the
movies. Captive and trained--a poor
| Kind, by the way. However. since we
are not running the world, we'll take
the stories and let the censure pass.
II you have not time for them all,
be sure to read Zoe Martin, Gentle
mani"
WITH ITALY In HER FINAL WAR
OF LIBERATION. BY Olin d.
Wannamaker. M. a. illustrated.
Company.
Rather an advantage than other
wise, one thinks, that this story-a
story of the "Y'' on the Italian front
should come when. perhaps. war
memories are growing dim. a fine
| renewal. Too late or not. the story
once taken up will. by its own good
! this is a competent writer. to whom
the activities of the "Y"-valuaple
| as these were-do not provide the
whole story. The author gives a
/ spirited account of the soldiers
houses" clinging to the mountain
/ IN aH a "a rel nf mo
in the field. And right there he
| opens up pages of Italian history,
! suggested by the work at the mo-
ment going on. Or, after some fresh
the " is giving the best of its re-
/ lief and succor, he adds to his des-
cription of this relief work older
| stories of italy fighting for unity
and then for liberation. Some plan
of work. some spot of operation. sug-
| sketches in swift and illuminating
touches. a man of culture and in
sight, he spreads a wider page. you
| see. than that 'hade by any special
latter may be. IL order that you
may remember all over again the
thing that II Is our common business
not TO forget, read this book.
TIMBER TREASURE. BY Frank
Lille Pollock, author of Wilder
ness Honey" etc. illustrated.
New York: The Century Company.
You'll like Tom Jackson. He's the
boy who found himself up against 1t
in the Canadian woods. And turn
ing out to be a regular fellow, de-
| spite some doubts to the contrary
| that had been floating around, he
| become pioneer that almost any
one would have been glad to be.
With young Indian who came along
! ne began to break road and clear
O plot of land. They hunted and
wood and kept thelselves going in
great shape in that big and lonely
place. And you'll begin to like the
boy at the very start of the story.
Why? Because the author from the
first minute keeps Tom busy in no
end OF interesting things that have
to be tended to at once. No chance
. to go to sleep here on big soft pad
d1ngs of description, to show you the
north woods and Toms folks at
home. and all the rest OF IL. It's off
and away with the first line Of the
story. Interesting man. this author.
He keeps bees for a living and writes
stories for fun. So as not to shut
or the industrial ardors of his bee
family he and his family go south
for the winters and back to the Can
adian woods for the summers. So,
you see. he is quite at home in these
north woods and you would know
this. anyway. from the true and easy
way In which his stories Of this
region run.
THE GARDEN OF GOD. By II. De
We're Stacpoole, author of The
Blue Lagoon" etc. New York:
Dodd, Mead & Co. .-
The Garden of God" Is an island
Of the Pacific. Thanks to a host of
South Sea romancers, one feels quite
at home here among the palms, and
the coral sands. and the white reefs.
and the beating seas, and SO on and
theless, fresh as a new day in tho
hands of II. De We're Stacpoole. The