Evening star., 1923-07-15

the eye Of his companion the mystery
or Its previous existence. Yes, a mad
house at the last-the fate Of de
Maupassant himself. However. this
story was written in the youth of
de Maupassant. long before any
slightest sign OF his own malady
came to light. Lost for fifty years. II
now comes to light tthis is its FIRST
among the most virile. the most fn-
ishe4n the most characteristic Of the
stories of the great and unfortunate
de Maupassant.
MARK TwAIN's SPEECHES. Edited
by Albert Bigelow Paine. New
York: Harper and Brothers.
Mark Twain's speeches, collected
low Paine, are arranged in three
somewhat loose groupings. The first
belongs to that period in the west
when Mark Twain was q young man,
attracting attention by his now ia
lands" time when the gods were
kind" to this youth and his words
were. in the MAN, but "a lilt of good
natured foolery." The middle period
includes the years when public af-
fairs began to make their appeal,
when abuses and injustices, political
and social, turned Mark Twain into
| somewhat vitriolic reformer. The last
one presents him As philosopher and
Sdse' tne IhInllldT HuTOT SOlLcHeu,
the judgment ripened. the opinions on
many public questions eagerly sought
and respected. A whimsical set of
titles. characteristically. head some of
| tures-"Adam." Authors and Hats"
The Weather" Babies" and so on.
The volume includes. also. the ad-
dresses at the Lotos Club dinner, in
honor of Mark Twain and the ad-
dress of Col Harvey at the dinner in
ar nf Nr me-
birthday. Other addresses by notable
people in honor of Mark Twain are
| included here, with an Introductory
appreciation, also. by William Dean
| himself. the quality of his public serv-
| ice and the substance of those who
here pay him honor stand out in this
! volume to reaffirm the Americanism
! of this great American humorist.
TOMORROW ABOUT THIS TIME.
By Grace Livingston Hill, author
| of Marcia Schuyler" etc. Phfla-
delphia: ]. B. Lippincott Company.
| 1t is not possible to avoid a clear,
personal responsibility. On a definite
| hour of some Tomorrow" far or near,
the responsibility comes back, laden
| a hundredfold with the neglected
days lying in between it's denial and
| the tomorrow about this time" of Its
| return. Such is the foundation of
| this story. A man. upon the death Of
his young wife. gives his baby daugh-
ter to the wife's parents. Marrying
, daughter to the wife whom he di-
| vorces. A man of scholarly pursuits,
| of arduous labors in the field of re-
| search, of many public honors, he
finally retres for ma period Of hotS wei
! his daughters come back to him.
| Strangers. all three. The story is
| that of the adjustment of these di-
verse elements-that of the assump-
ton on the fathers part of re-
| sponsibility too long evaded. One Of
the girls is Of the lovely pattern of
80 many young girls. The other is
the clear f1apper type. This Is the
/ one unreal touch in the story. We all
| be said in explanation of her, much
| to be said in her defense. At any rate,
we all know her. Now. this particu-
| lar fapper is the essence of all of
| them. Nothing short of this in her
! making could have produced such an
| utterly obnoxious little devil as this
girl is However. let that go. The
story proceeds by way of stirring up
| ligible man through the devoted at
! tentions Of the one daughter. Then
/ these two. in combination. succeed, at
| the last moment, in gathering some
] one may, possibly shed her foolish
| iapperism and become a real girl
| after all. The originality of this
story lies in making a study Of de-
| linquent fatherhood. Fiction is
| crowded with delinquent mothers. but
such fathers are scarce in it. The
| strong point of the story is the ad-
mirably consistent study of this man
| and father.
MINGLEsTREAMS. BY Jane Abbott,
! author of ''Highacres," etc. From
| tispiece by H. Weston Taylor.
Philadelphia: ]. B. Lippincott
| Company.
would have been classed as pure fic-
tion. Plenty of strange things have
| come to pass in these few interven-
| ing year. Girls nowadays do declare
their independence. going off on their
/ own to earn a living. So there is
nothing particularly unreal to find, in
! this story. a couple of girls running
| Apple Tree Inn up in the Adiron-
! dacks and doing it extremely well,
| too-with the help Of that famous
are young men roaming the country
| strangely beset by some effect of the
( war. So. nothing remarkable about
/ the loss of memory to young man
who came to the inn and found work
/ there while he was trying to remem-
| Der just who he was. Upon this
! foundation there is built g. bright and
| active story of good work, OF plenty
/ of fun, of fine neighborliness, of
| stimulating surroundings to say
| nothing of a somewhat complicated
| love story besides. All love stories
are complicated, and this one, like
| the rest, finally straightens out to
| the simple procedure of getting mar
| ried without too disastrous results in
the way Of disappointed lovers. Good
| contracts are set up here-city life
| on the one hand, life in the beautiful
/, Adirondacks on the other: idle folks
| Of fashion against working folks of
| the simple life; actual kindness
against artificial gestures of mere
good manners. A story that girls
will like and one, too, that their
elders will find worth while.