Evening star., 1923-12-02
Reviews of New Books

fngS that fall over one anotner mere
to protect an innocent man from enc, enc,
mics who are trying to saddle MN MN
with the punishment of guilt. Ihe
story lies in England. 1t is Paddy
job to put the kibosh on the pians
or the rascally pursuers or Jonn Ram :
merdon, English financier. Paddy
gathers in q handful of his of1icef
comrades in the great war. and they
together sail in to clean up the mys-
terry that is menacing John Hammer
don. 1t is Paddy himself, however
friendly giant of an 1rishman; VINO
swings the shillelah, so to speak, IN a
way to circumvent completely these
evildoers; in a way, too, to make the
bones of old Brian Boru Click ana
clatter in spasm of JOY over tnls
fighting Irishman out of his own
heart. Paddy is more than a hghter.
Rather he is something beside "A
fighter. Read about him.
SINNERS IN HEAVEN. BY Give Ar
den. indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer-
rill Company.
The daughter Of the vicar was per-
mitted to sail away for Australia in
the airship OF Il practical stranger.
Don't hem and haw over this as a
thing SO highly improbable as to be
quite impossible. Swallow 1t whole.
adventure not unbelievable at all.
For airp1anes do often meet wreck
age. This one did. If any life is left
1t seeks the nearest landing place.
These two did. finding themselves on
an island off Borneo way. An unin-
habited island, or so 1t seemed till
its cannibal citizenry came to the
fore. Beyond this point there is a
year and more Of white ingenuity
and persistence to gain headway with
the savages and, incidentally, to save
themselves from being eaten. Civili-
n furbelOwS. fails away
from this pair of young folks, VINO
from a forced partnership pass into
personal affection that causes them
to act as civil magistrate in proclaim :
from the English parish out Of which
the young woman few away. Rescue
of the girl sends her back to the
static and traditional society of her
youth where-well, you can see the
sort of time she did have. Ultimate
rescue of the man ends the adventure
in the tameness OF convention ana
English custom. Stirring adventure,
well worked out. Admirable con-
trasts between that primitive life and
the one that had formed the girls
youth and early womanhood.
FRIDAY TO MONDAY. BY William
Garrett, author of THE Secret of
the Hills" etc. New York: d. APP
pleton & Co.
Everything befell. save murder. in
the fifty-odd hours of this particular
FRIDAY to Monday" The return of
a prodigal son from America to take
up and carry on his English inherit
ance starts the tremendous to-do or
this adventure. For in his train
scription-thieves. smugglers. thugs,
impostors In one disguise or another.
q seductive lady, and so on through
pretty complete list of the tribe OF
modern villainy. This band special
lied in substituting fake jewels for
criminal means to this end. The
country place to which the young
Englishman had fallen heir made the
best possible field for these nefarious
adventures. A boyhood friend OF the
heir goes down from London for the
week end to renew lapsed friend
ship--and from the moment of his
arrival until his lucky escape on Mon
day IL il just one mysterious per-
formance after another. One races
along in the sweep Of the thing with
no instant OF pause for conside ring
probability, consistency or anything
else. He just goes.
c. Ogden. author of Then Came
Molly" illustrated by Ralph D..
Dunk elberger Philadelphia: The
Penn Publishing Company.
We have been brought up to believe
that the only really unsefish love in
the world is that of parenthood. in
particular that of motherhood. To be
sure. we have been brought up to be-
lieve many things that proved to have
no foundation in truth. And this
story attributes to the notion that
selfess parental love is a myth.
Money love is the lever of this house
hold. and the entire story is given
over to the various forms Of persua-
sion resorted to by pair Of parents
to induce their daughter to marry the
prosperous young man whom she does
not want. Rather an irritating story.
Why the girl doesn't break away from
the tyranny of the father and the
downright Stiffness of the mother is
more than one can see. Not very
convincing as whole. The charac-
terS lack the power to grip one in
reality. And if characters refuse 10
live and breathe and be really human
nothing else can come through.