Evening star., 1923-09-23

ment. 1t covers, as well, the period
from pioneer days to the present liz.
dustrial Importance of Bethlehem
| Where the pious New Highlander Of
| those days sang psalms. abhorrinR
4 musical instruments as trusted agents
OF the devu himself. the equally dA-
yout but more artistic Moravians SAP.
to the accompaniment of these tr
strumentS the great religious can,
positions of inspired musicians. Fron-
this starting point and with a sus-
tanned purpose to present worthily
| through community effort only the
best in music, the Bethlehem Bach
Choir has achieved unique place in
this country: In sympathy and dis
tinct enthusiasm Mr.. Walters traces
the growth of this organization, step
| by step, up to its present distinction
among discriminating lovers OF music e.,
A special tribute is given to "the
great conductor of the Bach Choir.
DR.. Wolfe, as the bearer of a c.ea-
| spiritual and artistic message This
! tvoiume-history and critical comment
combined--is issued to celebrate the
silver anniversary of the present or
tganization of the Bethlehem Bach
Choir.
uel, author of THE Outsider" New
! York: Duffield & Co.
It is a commonplace for children 10
| despise their parents. Not because
| the parents are despicable on the one
| hand, nor the children unfilial on the
other. They are merely at different
stages in the game of life, ana the
children in their inexperience believe
| that the parents never in their prog
ress stood on the lofty peaks wnich
they themselves are occupying. Be
sides, parents and children are too
closely associated for the latter TO
ind in the former any answer to their
ambitions and desires. The children
have a way of calling themselves
idealists. And this is the story of
= young man who. as an idealst, held
aloof from his fathers materialistic
success in the shoe business. Rather
than sacrifice himself to the sordid
ispirit of business, rather than yield to
the wishes of his parents to go along
with their success, he would go away
where he could be free from the de-
mora1izing opportunities of trade
And he does go away-goes away to
ever, he has to live. This imposes
upon him the wholesome business of
earning a living. In doing this he
finally gets his bearings, finds out
thing after all, that it works on the
tground down among men. His father
and his fathers business take on 4
different meaning to him and. finally,
after good term of hard schooling.
the boy does, naturally and sincerely,
the finely decent thing. A love story
goes along, but the boy working out
his own way through the maze of
mistaken attitudes and ideas that hs
had acquired is the prime factor IN
this consistent and we'll wrought story
of modern American life.
THE GIRL IN THE FOG. BY Joseph
Gollomb. New York: Boni & Live
| right.
A London fog. Not only the girl
is lin" it, but the whole nefarious
business set out here is carried for
| ward either in the fog itself or in
veilings of mystery equivalent in eff
feet to this curtain of actual moisture
let down upon the streets of London.
An auto crash in the fog. A murder.
The girls father. Easy enough to
find the criminal since he was so Law
isr of finger prints. BUt-the records
| show that these prints belong to
send-off indicates the depth to which z
this ambitious author is prepared to
go in the interest of mystification
and more mystificat ton. To double
his own handicap, he, moreover, pro-
vides two motives that might have
operated in this crime against
! highly respectable, even distin-
guished man of scientific attain
ing. They would not be with so .
blameless a subject. But both serve
the good design of complicating this
case for the acutely curious reader.
{ Curious retreats about London open
| up. Arts of detection are put to their
! utmost maneuvers to meet clear
, diabolism of invention on the part OF
men and of one that is as much
! gorilla as man. oh, a. stirring tale
| that is calculated to make one turn
on all the lights as he reads!
DOBACHI. By John Ayscough. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
Every child should, finally, name
itself. This girl, .Dobachi, is merely
enc out of million cases in point
of that fact. Whims. tempers. moods,
pure nonsense, more often than
otherwise go into the choice of names.
| For instance. the father of this girl
had had a lifelong anger over his own
name, Ichabod, and that which it sig
nified. 80" said he, for my new
little girl I'll just turn my own old
! name around. change her luck, too,
of course, by this smart trick" And
that's Dobachi. the heroine of this
story of lennon, a New England set
community where pleasure is sinful
thing. Dobachi is a beautiful child,
full Of life and eager for happiness.
Her best playmate is the bad boy of
! the village. They call him bad boy,
hopeless The development of Do
bachi on the one hand and this boy
on the other in the midst of these
grim IolhS pIoNluSS the SUBSTANCE VI
this clear picture of plain life among
| somber people. Certain people stand
out here. specially alive and believ-
able-Dobachi herself, the mother
! and. above all. Capt. Podd, the good
| genius of Dobachi and dispenser of
| cheer in the whole village as well.
/ Admirable work, this, in its fidelity
| to locality, to the austere piety of the
settlers. to the narrow outlook, to
the hard individuality of men and
| women and admirable also to the
softer and more winning side of the
story as this is represented by the
| girl. Dobachi.