Evening star., 1924-12-07

blong hours of plain, human living
wherein Lincoln's familiar son OF tn,
soil, and the sea, refreshes and re
stores us with the salty quality of hi.
soul. Calvin Homer is here set the
double task OF wooing the daughtei
| of the new keeper OF the light and Of
! surmounting, without bitterness. the
! Injustice that placed this new keeper
| In the place that by natural success
| sion should have been his. He wins
| out along both iines--of course. AND
along this road os personal conquest
one comes upon host of old friends
for whom we are in debt to Joseph
Lincoln.
DAVID BLAIZE OF KINGS. BY Z
F. Benson, author of "Davic
Blaize," etc. New York: George
II. Doran Co.
Yes you have-known David Blaizs
before. Younger. to be sure. then
but he's not so old now. Only 10
So still school boy. And around
| the David OF this period Mr.. Benson
builds story of college life. 1t Is
In reality, a serious story. But II
doesn't look serious nor does 1t insisr
| in disheartening solemnity on parad-
+, ing ideals. still. 1t is built upor
| ideals. But with no preachments
about them. Rather do they step out
| now and then from the full tide OF
active school life. concerned in al
manner of business pertaining &c
both the necessary tasks and the
| chosen sports involved. And that 4,
all right. that appearance-spontan
| Gus and natural -iike-of certain idea
| notions OF things. For, as a matter
or fact. under the concealments thai
he so laboriously and elaboratelJ
builds around them there is nc
! creature on earth more brimmed witt
Ideals than a healthy. happy activ.
boy. David is that sort, thorough,
| human, too. A fine story, grounded
upon Mr.. Benson's long and deer
acauaintenance with the English school
boy and the English school.
THE PASSIONATE QUEST. By e
| Phillips Oppenheim. autAor OF
The Wrath to Come" etc. Bos.
ton: Little, Brown & Co.
The story of Roslta and Matthew
! and Philip. three wards of BENJAMIN
[ stone, from whom at the earliest pos
| sibie moment they all hew away ou,
| into the world. Philip In pursuit OF
dream, Matthew bent upon pros.
perity and place. Rosita vaguely hunt
ing for happiness In the whfrl oi
| London life. What befell each in this
! quest of happiness makes a plausibly
| invoiuted plot-Mr. Oppenheim's spe.
ciai brand-which. finally, under hi.
| practiced hand smooths out to the
straight lines of plain fulfllme mt II
! takes Doth diyination and skill to sci
three such opposed charactercs down
! In the web of modern life and to hold
| them. each, to believable consist.
| ency or behavior throughout Ben.
| Jamin stone, too, is an admirable con.
| ception. both as a personality of De.
| cuilar type and as a foil OF bitterness
ana disappointment against the
orisht expectations of the young ad.
Venturers. But-Benjamin Stone wa,
not beyond change of heart as the
| event proves. nor were the others be
yonu the reach OF such bitter days "A
great city lays up in store for even
the most besotted optlmists. A love
story goes along here with the busf-
ness OF carving out these three ca
| reers. For both Matthew and Philip
are in love with Rosita, which unite q
the two In a strain Of good sense.
since Rosita is truly up-and-com-
ing girl, worth all the admiration
"hich she is sure to get from every
reader of this latest of the popular
and interesting Oppe enheim novels.
EAST OF THE SETTING SIN, A
story of Graustark. BY George
Barr McCutcheon, author Of
Graustark," etc. New York
Dodd, Mead & Co.
It grew out OF war time-one O,
the countless incidental episodes o,
that event which all in a second blew
TO smithereens one or another custom
or long and laborious building. Just q
marriage agreement on the part OF
sake of providing passport to a dis
tressed young woman, anxious to Re,
into her own nearby country out OF
one OF the Balkan states. The pass.
port provided, the obliging Journals,
went his way and Rosa Schmitz," 4,
was assumed, reached the parental
roof In safety. Five years hayins
passed. Pendennis Yorke, at the time
of this accounting is on a news mis-.
sion to Grustark-a vaguely defin ed
principalfty In the racial tumble OF
Southeastern Europe. To his conster-
nation Yorke is received like a po-
tentate He himself feels like foo
facing the outcome of some grotesoue
mistake about his identity and stand
ing. But 1t is no mistake and Rosa
Schmitz" is-but, you have the clue
now. All there Is for you to do is &c
follow on in the wake of George Barr
McCutcheon, a good and undiminished
story teller who here against a psue-
do-historic background unwinds a ro.
mantle and humorous tale that is en-
tertainment from outset to outcome
from an accommodating fake mar.
riage to one OF the real quality.
BROWNsToNE FRONT. BY Gilber,
w. Gabriel, author of Jimmy
etc. New York: The Century Co
Thirty years is not a long stretch
of time. Yet, viewed in the light OF
The amazing progress of the twentieth
century, the same 80 years steps back
into really considerable past. 1t Ia
in that past that this story is SET
with the city of Brooklyn as it's stage
and background. Not exactly remote
enough to have gathered the glamour
or history, not near enough to share
IN the excitements of an astonishing
present. A hard field to work in, II
one has an eye to pleasing hosts OF
readers. This author appears not TO
have that kind of eye. Rather does
he bend himself to a faithful pictur-
ing of those days of the Spanish war
time and the beginnings OF William,
Jennings Byysn; when city streets
were ablaze with gaslight, and the
bicycle built-for-two had not vat
OFoiNSu rum fHe slnSle carrier. III
is here that the best value OF the
matter lies. for here is the crystal.
lized form of a period in modern
city life, a form worked out in con-
sistent fidelity. The story itself is
quite worth while, though il is less
| unusual than its setting. girl con-
fronted by two men-one a man OF
dreams, the other one of practical
achievement Each responds to one
lz41 Ia -
thinks and does in coming to a choice
between these two sides of herself
to choice between the two men as
| well, supplies the motive and deter.