Evening star., 1924-09-07

pa atience and understanding. Therefore
the children pay the price of this
MANAGERIAL perfection in hard times.
for children. Father" is their only
Sanctuary-Sym kindI anus
ing, poetic and companionable father
An accident shifts the roles of home
maker and home-Supporter in this
family. A true and vigorous and witty
and touching chronicle of what hap
pens to everybody concerned under
the new order serves to make a clear
case for the thesis of this story of
modern implication and effect. Toward
the end, when the old roles bid fair to
he re-established. Mrs. Garfield dares
bit of searching psychology applied
to both Lester Knapp and his wife that
is calcu!ated to stir up quite fiurl :
Of denial and protest in the still fairly
large class that has not yet learned to
be either honest with itself or tolerant
of honesty in others.
NEW FRIENDS IN OLD CHESTER.
By Margaret Dtland, suthor of
"Old Chester Tales" etc. New
York: Harper & l,ros.
Three new stories of Old Chester
The EliotS' Katy" An Old Chester
Secret" and How Could She? ?"--all
have for their chief characters
women of quality. There is Katy.
maid-of-all work. And Miss Lydia
Sampson. spinster who kept an i'm
portant matter secret, not an easy
thing to do in the intimacies of Old
Chester life. And Rose Knight, who
loved a man-not much of a man.
either-well enough to make herself
subject of ridicule for his sake.
These three meet on a common
ground thrOnph the SalfiGhnnSS Wit In
which each, in her own set of circum-
stances. pursued her course. OF the
three, Katy most completely wins the
heart. She is so big and ungainly and
Wholesomely handsome that one de-
lights n her elephantine playfulness.
She was so good to the Eliot children
and to the EliotS, father and mother.
that one warns to her for that. And
Katy had secret, a thing that no
one can resist. By and by the secret
proved to be daughter who grew to
be ashamed of Katy 1t is here that
Katy proved the stuff that was in her
To be sure. according to the tenets of
her eXacting religion, Katy damned
her soul to perdition-and she felt
pretty bad about that. Katy did. But,
after all, heaven is more or less re-
mote, and the beloved daughter was
most tormentingly near-so the great
came lifting Katy to a
level that causes one to look up as he
the quality of her devotion.
Simple stories. these three. as they
must be to accord with the life Of Old
Swift stories, too, that swing
of under the stir of Old Chester af-
fairs along the ways of common hu-
man nature everywhere. The hosts
Of readers who have heretofore found
Joy in Old Chester through the true
creative insight and power of Mar
saret Deland will rejoice at the
chance to go back there for an ac-
luaintance with Katy and Miss Lydia
Sampson and Rose knight and for the
.hance also of coming into touch with
he old friends-Dr. Lavendar and
he rest.
DAYS OFF IN DIXIE. By Archibald
Rutledge. New York: Doubleday,
Page & Co.
\ hot trail to follow in mid-Sum
ner, even in a book-this swamp
coast of the Carolinas. Eut the man
y no lays it certainly has way with
him that causes one to forget the
single menace of heat under the lure
IF many adventures with wild life
rs new as that which makes men
aunt the world from top to bottom
and round and round its hidden ways
From the first moment the man is
eager to share that which
10 began to find as a little boy and
with which at the present moment he
IS packed to overf1owing. The old
lay along one of the sides
IF this region. And when this boy
lad only a few years to his account
1e began to poke and pry into the
70 IN y
and a little deeper so that, now
nan, he has an enviable store of first
1and information and an astonishing
-und of enthusiasm to hand out to
such as think wild life much more
interesting than tanned life. And we
20 in with him. Here are tangles of
yerdure that. standing the year round
knee deep in water, present walled
sreenery to overcome. Here are
POOLS and ponds and slow moving
currents that provide house and home
'or snake and alligator and bird,
giving foot-hold and tree e-hold besides
% a world of other wild life, offering
sanctuary as well to many bounded
creature against which man has set
ID an unsporting advantage. Within
,he swamp one finds under the Rut-
edge guidance some of the aspects
81 man-life. Here are bitter vendettaS
developed in a technic as complete
md pursued with a cruelty as perfect
rs those under which the civilized
human makes his way through
troubling world. A thousand evil
fences Of the instinct for "iife, lib
.rty and the pursuit of happiness
:nzae out to meet one here in the
marvellous adaptation OF these crea-
lures to the element that sustains
h1rr1
Is a naturalist of quality. So, you
will take your choice. Those who
ike to hunt the defenseless have
.f1ance here. We take the other trail
coming out distinctly enriched by our
adventure into rare place with a
showing and communicable COM
18nion.
kMERICA REVISITED. By the Earl
tie, Brown & Co.
stThe youth Of America. its size. its
its material prosperity, its
pwer and it's promise are all of unfail-
nx interest to the European travelling
his way Filled with what he has seen
,Her here, he is bound to talk about it
HI1en he gets back home. Whether this
,aAk is or is not of use to us depends
argeIy on the quality of the one engag-
ng in it. 1t is. however. all interesting.
Lord Birkenhead is both interesting and
helpful He is that kind of mana
good observer, possessed of a back
ground against which to measure that
" hich he sees-a man of friendliness
and moderate speech. In this book he
els of some of the things that inter
ssted him on this side. American war
problems. the prosperity of America, its
great enterprises, its social activity its
relation to the rest of the world-these
are subjects with which he deals. The
negro problem lures him. So does that