Evening star., 1923-04-22

and winning as its realism is plausi-
Die and convincing.
FOUR OF A KIND. BY J. P. Marquard,
author of The Unspeakable Cen
tleman" New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons r'si. '"-t ). ..'r-'-
Hey. Miss, what's the big ideao'--
for Lydia was walking on the grass
Ger Tim was to put a stop TO just
that very thing. Then followed a
little talk between Lydia and the Off
| Ger that. so far as any understand
| ing between the two was concerned
might as, well have been carried on
in Chinese and Choctaw. Tired OF
] talk, Tim seized Lydia by the arm
| Hey. Tim, why, Johnny, me boy
and that's the way that Johnny Duff
fey, lightweight boxer, met Lydia. ex-
ISsrsssr eiSs,ye product Of tsas Back ,la Bay or
clusiveness still fingers. in this wide
open world. And that meeting laid
Johnny Duffey loW-aS to his heart
that is His head and his fists were
sun his own, for on that very night
Johnny adorned his profession by an
exhibition. and triumph calculated
to rejoice the brutal instincts Of thou
| sands Of onlookers. Even a man OF
peace-a woman at that-has to ,admi;
tnat lt was gorgeous fight. Yes, this
is love story. To be sure. Marquand
|
PARTIES between Lydia and Johnny
are enormous and appalling but he
does IL so adroitly that no one. not
even Lydia. has for a second the dis
| turbing thought that she might have
| done better. There are three more
stories here. each with a variant OF
Johnny Duffey in control, a gay, hap
py, straight young chap that is as be-
| guillng as the Prince Of Wales. some
| thins In the same fashion too. True.
! mere are -four of a kind" but il is
corklhg kind-good enough for any
| number more out of the same source
and inspiration,
BLIND CUPID. BY Josephine Daskan.
author of THE Madness of Phillip"
| etc. New York: u. Appleton & Co.
| The seven cases set down here are
as good as thousand TO point the
! everyday fact that Cupid. blind as a
| Dat and shooring around hit or miss,
| can turn more tricks in the way of
! !oVe and marriage than could Argus
| himself should he bend his one all
seeing eye to the exclusive business of
matrimony. And these cases, too. show
! the eVeiydayness Of this Cupid busi-
ness: The most Of them were pick d
OH from yesterdays happenings For
u was no longer ago tnan that
that the girl married the chauffeur,
and the day before one chose the ex-
| convict. Ana every day-yesterday
today and tomorrow, the boy selects
| the girl in the chorus TO be his wife.
that one on the end to the left The
authors business here is merely 10
/ collaborste with Cupid and the story
! spreads itself for our entertainment.
/ The kind of humor that made "The
! Madness OF Philip" Irresistible comes
into play here. that and a very clear
| insight into human nature and life
( In general as it behaves in the pres
ent There is something else be-
/ SIDES For here there is DISPLAYED
an exceedingly good art of story
structure. The author has d work
manly habit and. more perhaps. than
one realizes. off-hand. to this fact
may be credited a good part of the
enjoyment that these stories so clear
ly produce.
atEEN OF THE WORLD. BY George
Weston, author Of Mary Minds
Her Business. etc. New York
Dodd, Mead Go.
A bright. light story that. should
you care to join with it, offers a
busy time and plenty Of change. Not
SO bad, that, you see. And What is
more. this promise makes good in full
hllment. The man who moves the
matter along here is a young Ameri-
can. With time on his hands and
Iage in the Alps. at the request of a
FRENCH statesman whom he met in
Paris. Hazy about the nature Of his
business, with friendship rather than
discretion in the lead here. he arriv-
ing, finds himself at once in the mid
die of important things. Here is a
group Of statesmen and diplomats
The quarry Of which they are in pur-
suit is an inventor of war means
more deadly than had been imagined
The business takes on an interna-
tional color. with the American
merely following the directions with
which he set out upon his mission
Beautiful women add to the gayety
and hazard Of the mission. Intrigue
is raised to a high power and a dash
| Of mystery simply adds to the general
| tension. Among the people of the
vicinity is young American girl
So the adventure. after soaring to the
skies. gradually glides to the plane of
d romance between the two Ameri-
cans. A bit Of an anti-climax. but
there was no such thing as keeping
up the pitch, and one had to get down
| in some fashion. And the fashion
after all. is the one that is unfailing-
ly welcome to story readers