Evening star., 1924-07-27
Reviews of New Books

ties of Shelmerdene. that lovely lady;
Lord Tarlyon, Michael Wagstaffe,
Ralph Wyndham Trevor and some
others of their friends of the lighter
sort" And. just to let you see how
lovely tapestry can be made of
nothing more than words. I'm going
to set down a bit of the music of
Michael ArIen. There was. and (by
the grace of God) there still is, a
lovely woman whom it once pleased
because, he said, though it is not her
| real name, it becomes her better than
| any real name could. And about Shell
merdene books have been written and
| for her men have died, which just
| shows you the sort of woman she
| was. Now, it happened one day that
| Shelmerdene returned to England
| after a long absence abroad in Persia
| but i can tell you nothing about
that becauseI know nothing of Per-
| sia. except that 1T is rather in
| adequately governed by shah who
is a pretty fat young man and wears
a diamond in his hat" And that's
| the beginning of the adventures of
| these charming people, who might
shock you If they weren't SO beauti-
| full, and probably should as it is.
But, whatever she may do, you'll not
| be able to resist Shelmerdene.
THE TEST OF DONALD NORTON. BY
Robert Il. Pinkerton. Chicago:
The Reilly G. Lee Company.
| An excellent romance of the old
Hudson Bay Company, of the trapper
| and the hunter and the fur dealer, OF
the native and the white man. The
story itself hinges on the career OF
Donald Norton, who as the little In
dian boy -dah-ban, then as a
| half-breed, then as a But lets
not tell about that. Enough to say
that Donald Norton carries the story
forward in a fine flavor of adventure
| whatever his role for the moment
may be. He is the center around
which the hatred of an Indian woman
circles. He is the weapon of her re-
venge. He later becomes chief OBJ.
ject of interest in the industrial
aspect Of the great company. And
| finally, he stands the test applied by
| both native and white man. An un-
| usually good love story goes along
| with the sterner stuff-unusually y
| good because both the boy and the
girl are fitted to make that kind OF
a love story. The conspicuous STAMP
| of this adventure is the stamp OF
good work that marks it throughout
| The author knows this Canadian
studied the records of the Hudson Bay
Company. Otherwise he could not
so vividly have re-created it. He
| knows the Indian as well as the white
man. He has that talent for story
telling that is based on a solid foun-
dation of knowledge concerning every
part of the story. With this
knowledge there is also the gift Of
story construction, the trt OF max
ing pictures with words that repro
| duce place and atmosphere. There
is a stability here that does not ap
pear once in long time in the work
| of fiction makers whose field is ad
venture in the wild country.
GOLF WITHOUT TEARS. BY P. G
Wodehouse, author or mostly
| Sally" etc. New York: George H
| Doran Company.
AS a matter of fact, there is NJ
such thing as golf without tears
| that is, not to the golfer himself
| The game is inherently the seat of {
host of deep emotions-envy and Jeal
ousy and resentments and hatreds-
expressing themselves sometimes IL
tears, sometimes in profanity ant
| sometimes in silence and gloom
Such amusement and laughter as thu
title of this book implies come from
the outside. from the onlookers, who
| are not shut out, as are the devotee:
themselves, from the nonsense ant
absurdity that the great game so fire
quently provokes Amusing stories
these, all arising out of the situation
and atmosphere of golf; whether
these be love stories or those more
closely derived from the sport itself
The last of them is an apochrypha
tale of the Babylonian era when the
| kingdom of Dom saw IT he coming o.
Govt" by way of a royal captive from
some other oriental kingdom. Coco
fun and good wit, all based upon the
| facts of the case. lie in these
! sprightly stories, which golfers will
recognize as chapters out of the boob
| of their own Eolfiug adventures.