Evening star., 1924-06-15
PEARLS AND SAvAGES. BY Capt
Frank Hurley. Illustrated. New
York: G.. p. PutnamS Sons.


~ rich and attractive appear
ance points upon a publish
er's confidence in actual
content of interest and information.
The descriptive subtitle, Adventures
in the Air on Land and Sea. in New
Guinea" indicates the varied nature
OF this explorers approach to the
great unexplored area of interior
New Guinea. The story itself makes
pictures of his discoveries and eX-
perIences. 1t really does this, for the
author has the gift of words, as well
as the art of making most remark
ably fine Photographic records. So,
In effect, the reader finds himself in
this lone region of mountains and
SWamps, where dwell men belonging
to the stone age, cannibals and head
hunters. Going along with the author
YOU will come. upon primitive type
of man away in the interior, type of
strikingly Semitic cast, who might
have served as models for the AS
syrian and Phoenician kings that
lived before Christ" Then a theory
will present itself to you and mean
while Capt. Hurley will grind out
pictures which, as The Lost Tribe"
You Will see upon the screen some
day. A most interesting book of ex
ploration and discovery and chron-
icle, supported by a rare collection of
pictures. But no book can be quite
as interesting as Capt. Frank Hur-
ley himself-adventurer, traveller,
lone wanderer in far places, soldier
in France and Flanders, with Allen
by's army in Palestine. much earlier
in the Antarctic with Shackleton,
from pole to equator, here. there and
everywhere. Always zestful, always
himself absorbed and excited over his
own experiences, always himself the
poet and the artist. Open the book
anywhere. Read any para aph, for
the picture of it, for the music of it.
NJ |rt, l.. !
of Torres Strait is like the threshold
OF despair. sense of gloomy de-
preston broods over the place, and
one is torn between the desire to re-
turn to the happy isles of sunshine
and the lure to press on and seek
behlnd the inscrutable shroud of
storm and secrets that lie beyond"
II is rare to come upon so much of
fresh Information that at the same
time is clothed in such charm of ex-
preston. Wonderful book in it's
beauty of form and in the quality of
its substance.
FOR LOVE OF A SINNER. By Robert
G3ruon anderson, author of The
Isle of Seven Moons" etc. New
York: Minton, Balch & Co.
Indubitable proof of the quality
OF Francois Fillon lies in the fact
that the generations following him
have refused to let him stay dead
In each of these, poets, dramatists
chroniclers or novelfsts have haled
this poet-thief out of his, grave to
stand. now as the reflection of d
period, now as the central figure in
a composite of his time, now as
single personality warred upon by
the antagonisms of his own nature,
now as the dominant genius of the
last days of medievel literature. In
one of these roles or another Francois
and irresistible figure. Mr.. Anderson
makes sympathetic and skillful use
OF this roistering, singing, lowering
Vlllon for the sake of telling a story
recreating a picture of France in
the late medievel day, for the sake of
giving the irresistible Francois once
more fling at life which in his own
day treated him as scurvily as he
treated it. Seeing him here so much
part of the day that produced him,
so real in 1t, so pathetically real, one
cannot resist the wish that he could
nave another try now and here. in
these more ample and understanding
DAYS. Historic picture and capital
adventure come together here to pro-
vide one more opportunity for the re-
appearance of the truly immortal
Nillon.
ESCAPE. BY Alden Brooks. author
of The Fighting Men New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
The theme of this novel is as old
as the human himself. For never has
there been a time when men, all men,
were not fronted upon a crucial deci-
sion between doing the thing they
wanted to do and the thing they ought
10 do. In this case the man is essen
TALLY an artist. In daily habit, how
ever, he is business man. The trial
comes when he must decide between
the two. when all the forces around
hlm press toward success and the
urges to the life for which he yearns
and which alone holds happiness for
him. A realistic story, worked out
along the line of things as they
might be, along the line of things as
they really are 1t is, therefore. a
story that appeals by virtue of its re-
straint, by virtue of keeping within
the average persons acceptance and
belief. Not colorless, on this account.
Why should it be? Heaven knows
that really does not take the color
out of either life or literature. By
and by the remuneration is made. The
man goes his own way into the life
of the open, into the life of the artist,
into the way of happiness. To be
sure, he is made to bear the obloquy
of his selhshness, as it is called. Peo-
pie are always selfish, unless they
are ministering to the desires of the
other fellow The later aspects of
this mans life are more interesting,
naturally. than was the period when
he was day by day living in contra
dIction and denial of his own nature.
A story that for good motive, good
structure, Interesting characters who
largely direct the matter, and fidelity
to its own thesis is one of much more
than usual sincerity and appeal.
"MR. ROWL." BY D. X. Foster, au-
thor of The Yellow Poppy" etc
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Set back more than a hundred
years, this pure romance makes its
vicissitudinous way through the adven-
lures of Capt Raoul des Sablieres,
French officer, prisoner of war in
England. The story is set, primarily,
in English parole town, where
under certain regulations the war
prisoners enjoy good degree of free
dom. Capt Raoul, the MIR. RowI"
of this story, a dashing, handsome,
a favorite with the English gentry
of the town. Jealousy is the ami
mating source of the adventure it
self The false charge of a broken
severity of the punishment coupled
with the injustice of the accusation
turns Mr.. Rowl to plans for escape.
Thereafter the matter turns into a
series of escapes and captures. each
attempt and failure surprising it's
The story rises to a rather unusual
height of excitement and appeal This
is lovable hero, simple and brave
One likes him so thoroughly that his
sonal matter with the reader. who
is distinctly relieved when, finally
young Mr.. Rowl wins out both in the
good esteem of his captors and in the
deep affection of the young woman
who inspired the jealousy that comes
ring adventure of the Napoleonic
period.
on THE LOT AND OFF. By George
Randolph Chester and Lillian Ches-