Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
THE NEW AIR WORLD; The Science
of Meteorology simpIihed. By VIII
lis Luther Moore, Sc. D.. Ii. u.
Boston: Little, Brown s. Co.

the great aerial ocean on
the bottom of which you
live and in which human
beings are just beginning to fly? Its
variations OF heat, cold. sunshine
cloud and tempest materially anect
not only the health and happiness OIL
man, but his commercial and indus
trial welfare, and yet few know more
than little of the wonders OF the ltte-
giving medium that so intimately
concerns them
DR. Moore is professor of meteor
ulogy at George Washington Cniver-
sty. More than this, he was Tor
eighteen years chief of the Cntteo
States weather bureau. Out Of the
authoritative knowledge that these
Two incumbcncies imply, the author
presents to the average reader a SIM
pie story of the air. which. out OF
as a new world OF wonder and enter
prise. AS far as it must be for
good basic understanding Of the subject,
this study is pure science set out III
plain terms OF everyday speech BY
way of it one gets acquainted with
the air--its composition. its extent
rs variations under changing condi-
ttons. It's effect upon life under these
variations. This broadly authorize
tive view becomes. then. the founda-
mediate effect upon the life OF the
earth, to which is added a practical
consideration OF its relations TO
climate and weather conditions. The
in many directions. OF weather OBJ
servations and sketches-in this con-
uection the development of the Amer
lean weather service. A specially in
Civilization Follows the Storm
Tracks" Another one explodes the
common notion of the marked
changes that have taken place in our
climate within ones own recollection.
The whole volume fronts upon the
practical value Of knowing the con-
tent powers and potentialittes OF the
new air world The book Is quite
one can hardly imagine more useful
or a more interesting reader for them
than this.
DECEMBER LOVE. BY Robert HIGH
ems. author of "The Garden of AL
)ah," etc. New York: George ii.
Doran Company.
Robert Kitchens projects a study in
objects Of this investigation-natu-
rally, since the male is free from
this particular brand OF human
srailty. One Of the women is sixty
or thereabout, the Lady Adela Sell
ingworth. leader Of the great ladies
OF the Edwardian period, and even
yet in a sense a leader. The other
IS @ young American girl of independ-
altogether independent line of ba-
havior. Both are beautiful. Both
are ruled by personal vanity. Both
have been nourished by the fattery
mands. This is the basic fact OF
the story-female vanity. exemplified
by these two women. The situation
IS that Of an exclusive London social
pure. convention, to a strain of Bo-
hemianism required by the exigen-
cies OF the story itself. The story,
as a story, is not so much. The &C.
ering. But this is not in any proper
sense story. 1t is a study Of char
acter under controlling passion.
And the characters make up in indi-
xidualty and vivtdness for any lack
characters Mr.. Hichens gets down to
real work. The Lady Adela is his
chief triumph. And next to her is
Dick Garstin. minor in the action, but
himself as an artist and a lawless
child OF genius. But the best work
goes into the portrayal of Lady
Adela, a woman of sixty, who in
spirit and desire and feeling Is a girl.
show the self-deception OF which the
great lady is capable, the illusions
that she creates In her lust for the
love of young men. the humiliations
she suffers in this pursuit. The other
woman is merely a foil and a posi-
bic follower along this ruinous road.
Not much of a creation. that girl.
And the men, save Dick Garstin and a
stun. Sir Seymour Portman, who
saves the story to a comfortable end
ing, Is all right, except that he IT,
more or less, made CT wood. The
IL hg
and in the study of this beautiful
"has been" Mr.. Hichins is about as
intimate as il is good for one, out
side the immediate soul of the lady
herself, to be.
THE PRINT OF MY REMEM-
BRANCE. BY Augustus Thomas.
Illustrated. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Augustus Thomas appears to have
had a grand time making this book.
Indeed, the fun of the job leaps out
from every page in joy that is GER
1ainly "unconflned." Good things are
humps and such: so in no time at
all the reader is gambling along
beside the writer in a fever to find
out what may be coming next. There
in this leisurely journey through the
Kingdom OF remembrance. Almost
anything under the sun reminds this
author Of something else. SO we all
stop minute to hear about II. The
backward trail starts, of course, from
Augustus Thomas, distinguished play
wright and arbiter OF the American
stage. Mind you, the author never
by ourselves. No, he merely saunters
back to the time when he was a lit
vie boy with vague recoilections OF
the civil war And when he was
page in the Missouri legislature and
page in Congress-dozens of stories
here, coupled with keen appre-
citation OF what this particular work
did for him in an educative way. A
railroad hand. freight clerk. a re-
porter with some journalism growing
out of the earlier newspaper job,
bic of ranch life, go. at mining, and
all the time reading poetry, and say
ing verses. and acting some. and act
ing UP whole lot. Hundreds of peo-
along the friendship trail of this COM
nanionable man. One later reads any
amount of sound opinion of the
stage-opinion that Is a product of
study of the. art to which Augustus
Thomas finally settled down and out
of which came both his personal dis
tinction and his substantial useful
ness to the art Of the American
drama. A royal book Of recollections.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
BY II. G. Wells. author of THE
trated. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
The Outline OF History" created a
need for A Short History OF the
World The former is too bulky for
r. general consideration. Only those
possessed Of an ample reading leisure
would be likely to undertake it, A