Evening star., 1924-06-22
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. BY
Victor MacClure. New York: Har-
per &: Bro.

Victor MacClure. New York: Har-
per e. Bro.
There are two sides to the march
of science. While on the one hand it
greatly increases the benefactions OF
life. on the other it as clearly null
tiplies the powers of menace and
ultimate destruction. Here is a ro-
nance based upon this fact. The
conquest OF the air combined with
certain discoveries and inventions of
science serve here to show the enor-
nous scale upon which crimes can
be committed, upon which escapes
can be made, upon which detection
and pursuit will be made well nigh
Impossible. The story is laid in the
future. 1t opens with the looting OF
Wall street under circumstances so
mystifying as to paralyze the forces
of the law. Almost Immediately an
other gigantic robbery takes place
in a distant locality. Then another.
The mystery. multiplying both in its
parts and in its enormity, leads
finally to deadly inventions based
upon scientific fact as the chief agent
of these crimes, ad. later, to the
mastery fthe air as a further in
strument of unlimited lawlessn eSs.
The auth~r, himself keenlY interest
ed in this phase of the future, has
worked out the adventure with such
care and consistency, with so much
of respect for the actual poSsibili-
ties of the approaching situation,
that one reads an altogether new
kind of romance here, not only with
keen interest in the story itself, but
with apprehenSions also for the fu-
ture of human safety.
WHEN GERONIMO RODE. BY For
restine c. Hooker, author OF
"prince JAM" etc. New York:
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Acquainted with the southwest ana
at home in the Army post life of that
quarter. Mrs Hooker makes use of
This intimacy to give vitality and
color to this romance of historic
background. The story itself has TO
do with Bonita, the pride of the OLD
10th Cavalry" and with the true rove
that Bonita evoked from the nearts
of two men. This romance is
sketched against that dramatic chap
ter of American history when the
United States troops rode against the
brave and ingenious Geronimo 10
curb his brazen depredations against
country That chapter of history
supporting an appealing and pictuI-
esoue romance, steps out here ViVldiy
for the entertainment OF those VINO
see a passionate drama in the resist
ance of the native American to the
usurpations @ of the. superimposed
white man. Good adventure, good
romance, good history here.
THE TRAVELLER IN THE FUR
COAT. BY Stanley J. Yeyman,
author of The Red Cockade."
etc. New York: Longmans, Green
& Co.
The movement of this ablebodied
and highly active romance takes one
back more than a. hundred years,
when German powers and principali-
ties were pawns in the Napoleonlc
game of war The adventure. itself
carries :. on by way of an English
agent and his aid who are making
their way toward home through the
dangers of an excited and over
wrought continental area. The pos
session of valuable papers serves the
purpose of suspicion, ambush, pur-
suit escape. This series of adven-
lures is repeated endlessly here and
greatly intensified and varied through
the impetuous youthfulness of Cart
wright, the ENJOYS aid. 1t takes
almost nothing at all to lead this
reckless youngster off into difficult
ties that bespeak more for his cour-
age than for his discretion. Clearly
diplomacy is not his strong point. So,
after involving his chief. hopelessly,
he, rather indifferently-if he should
ask us-turns into other avenues OF
danger. like the exuberant young
puppy on the trail of mischief. How
ever, if you are keener for adven'
lures, coming thick and fast, with
hazard a-plenty marking them all,
than you .Are-for the quality Of the