Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20
REVIEWS OF THE NEWEST BOOKS
Joseph Penne Tells of His Adventures as An illustrator
True Stories of Sailing Ships, Wanderings in
Strange Seas and in Many Lands.

of the soul Of man. The spirit of
adventure stands out like blue noun
tain peaks seen from a distance and
receives in fine glory the lights of
burning and Of sun setting.
Some admiration for the old disrepu-
tables does the living reputables no
harm, but much good. So, the Span
ish Main, the Windward Passage,
Darien, Hispaniola. Panama. are
names that will make our hearts beat
and our pulses thrill so long as life
is in our bodies. In those regions
these sentences are being written. I
have passed by the tortoisel like islands
of Tortuga, the den OF the buccaneers
I have skirted the coast of Haiti with
it's one hero. Toussaint, and it's many
worthless rivals and failures. | have
been through the Costa Rican forests
and swamps and have seen the blue
OF the mountains of Central America,
which is surely unmatched by any
blue Of this earth. Every minute
OF these days has been golden"-and
that Ramsay Macdonald pours out
for readers through these pages.
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Noyes, author of THE Lord Of
erick A. Stokes Co.
The story Of evolution. sung in mar
rative verse by Alfred Noyes, gives
the content OF The Book of Earth"
inspired by the riven earth of the
Grand Canyon, the poet, like the plain
onlooker over that stupendous exam.
pie OF earth making. began instinc-
lively to reach back for the far begin
nings Of this amazing achievement.
And in this questing retrospect he
came upon what other men had con.
jectured and partially proved, and
abandoned and resrlmed--all along
the line OF history. Greece and Italy,
France and Sweden. Germany and
England-each in it's own searchers
after the truth is summoned here. in
stately and impressive verse, to give
testimony according to his time and
place. Pythagoras and Aristotle.
Leonardo da Vinci. Linnaeus, La
marck, Goethe and Darwin and Culver
march in this contributing pageant of
science. 1t is an intensely fascinating
story, one whose effect is greatly in
tensified by the imagery of the poet,
by the high spirit of his undertaking,
and by the cadenced sounds OF his
song. This book is the second in the
authors new trilogy, The Torch
bearers The first of the three,
watchers of the Sky" is splendid
with the achievements of the astrono-
mers as this one is with the investiea-
tons of science applied to the theory
of evolution.
HULL DOWN. "reminiscences of
Wind, TANNERS. Troops and Trav.
ellers. BY Sir Bertram Hayes.
X. c. NJ. e., j.. s. O., Commodore OF
h. &c a
New York: The Macmillan Co.
Lacking only five years. this book
holds the substance of half a cen
fury at sea on the part of it's author.
That time goes back 10 the sailing
ships and it was on these that Sir
Bertram Hayes-not a sill. then, one
JudRes-began to learn his lessons in
life from the greatest thing God
made "-the sea. And all over the
world he sailed-first in the clipper
ship, then under steam. Across into
India, over to Australia, on across
the Pacific and around to the Allan
tIc-everywhere where sails and steam
carried there went this seamen. In
the course Of time honors came and
comma nd-comman of a transport
during the Boer war, command of the
olympic during the World War and
finally, in charge of the Majestic, once
the great German ship Bismarck. Men
and events crowd this record of many
years of important service. Among
them all, interesting as they are, it
Is the author himself who stands out
in the interest of the reader Not that
Sir Bertram has any thought of doing
this. On the contrary he seems to put
almost everything In the way of work
In the way of important and notable
people. in front of himself. But, there
is a quality of rugged strength about
the long story, there is n plain way
of telling about real adventures, there
Is kindness and sense Of fair play
and patience with life itself-all OF
these go into this great story of As
| manner Of sea-eoing craft.
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UNCOMMON AMERICANS b. Don
c. Seitz, author of Joseph Pulitzer
His Life end Letters" etc. Indian
apolis: The Bobbs.M Merrill Co.
Twenty and more portraits OF
men and women who have broken
the rules. The book is dedicated "a
those who have failed Therefore
you expect to meet, and YOU do meet
not the lauded regulation heroes OF
history but, instead. group of men
| and women who. living were subjects
of ridicule and contempt but who. be
ing dead, are now reaping considera
ton and honors, as the dead have O
way of doing. a company of limo
| vators, this. Men and women who
dared their ideas into the open. there
to give them form and color and dee
laration to a scandalized and hostile
world. Here. for instance. is Mary
Baker Eddy. who, in the face Of skep.
ticism and unbelief. established a new
cult. second in followers to only one
other religious organization. Here