The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-25
Among the Nep Books
BY Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne, Damned
This King Business, Under Thousand Eyes The
Woman of the Horizon, Barney

Barney" 5. a. H. Hurst. Hair
pers,
This Seattle authors most um.
usual new novel Is the elimination
% many years o. hard work. the
working into book OF many I'D.
ventures. and OF studies In abnor.
NAL psychology begun In India
more than so years ago and brought
TO successful conclusion an Seattle.
Adequately 20 review this book
would be difficult. since II follows
no rule Of literature and. indeed
breaks many OF rs cnnons. Yet
few readers could lay Il aside until
reaching tho end. It's matter being
gripping as a story and fascinating
as study
The hero. Barney, Is a man ~ un.
usual physical and mental strength,
who early in life decides 20 make
an knowledge his provinoe"-a de
termination he does not rellndulsh
Ia spite OF his amazing wander.ngs
and adventures.
soious OF the presence u God, ytt
10 does not believe IA future
life. altho certain OF his experiments
would prove 10 most people that
there Is one.
For instance. certain men In lima
have long had the asillty 10 ex'
tend their vision. as Mr.. Hurst eS'
plains il. There was the Hindu
In Calcutta who went 20 the com.
rsndcr az Fort William and told
him that the British had been de-
fcated at Maggersfontell In South
Afriea-told the commander that ne
lad SEEN this happen an hour pre-.
viously. Later, the cable confirmed
this. How 10 do this Is a strictly.
guarded secret. which Mr.. Hurst
says he finally discovered after
years OF study. and which ne tells
all about in BARNEY. He also tx.
plains method OF looiGng INTO the
past and seeing pictures Of the evo.
luton OF the human racc-alnqsJ
back 20 the primal amoeta. Yet
all this IS so woven into gripping
tale OF adventure that no reader
can -ail to be interested The
greater Fart Of lie story - laid tn
Alaska ana Canada Mr.. Hurst has
made Seattle his homo for many
years. and his next book. which
Harpers win publish next spring.
will center about this city.
by Camel and Car to the Pea.
cock Throne" +. Alexander Powell
Century Co.
II would be impossible even
barely TO list the places. Mr.. Powell.
who was stationed at Camp Lewis
during the early part OF the war,
has been in. to say nothing OF the
stirring events he has seen and
played part in. The point is. this
man. who has seen nearly the whole
round world. and has managed to
be on hand FOR a large number OF
an the rows and storms that have
happened in II since he was grown,
calls the experiences recorded In
this book my biggest adventure
Ii Is the account OF a coiorful
journey from Constantinople TO TIE
heran. From the Ottoman capital
10 the Persian capital Is no tourist
smoothed way. PAINFULLY racking
IIl-smelling cameis across the Ara
bian desert under an unthlnkablt
sun: frightful routes for q motor
car to travel thru primitive Persia
where there are no railroads. Il de
crepit Ford coughing its way across
the wilds OF Mesopotamia--some'
times incredibly rude inns at night
sometimes a well.organized camp
sometimes the cramped seat OF a
Ford. IL was not a luxurious jour
nsy. the Kurds and Bedouins and
Persian bandits kept II from beins
tame.
II Is tho land at once OF the very
oldest and the very newest history
which Major Powell traycrsed. lie
calls his first chapter I'm the Char
lot Ruts of History" and the rich
ness OF background, the conscious
ness OF by.gone generations oil
Phocnician. Hebrew. Assyrian, Per
sian, Greek, Roman, give peculiai
depth to his pictures OF modcrT
French inundated Syria, of the new
Zion they are trying TO make II
Palestine, the almost unexploret
Arabia, but a little time ago stirret
up to long forgotten national aspira
tons by Russein and Feisal. Of Brit
aims oiI-rich mandate. Iraq. o.
Mesopotamia. more or less tenderi,
administered. rather largely b,
bombing plane: and the last-turne'
page Of the story OF Persia-per
haps a little less crcditable TO tn,
Western powers concerned than tn
earlier ones. IL that be possible.
Damned" Anonymous; Macaulay
The strange story. In life ant
death. of Dolores Trent, who as tn
plaything OF fate, ran her earthly
course along Fifth Avenue.
Grief TO Men" they called her
She was young. beautiful, innocent
and because OF It, men pursued her
Her sex-appeal was irresistible. Anc
this Is one who sought only love.
III my heart Ii rose that yoi
wish to pluck. take IL. crush II
sift its petals thru your fingers
Waste me. IL you call love waste
/ am satisfied TO be the rose o
your day--to give off my fragrance
for you"