Evening star., 1925-03-01

able to support volumes of invention.
COWBOYS North and south. BY
Will James. illustrated by the
author. New York: Chart s
Scribner's Sons.
Tho clear advantage of Cowboys"
over many of the books that crowd
so numerously under this general
heading is that the cowboy himself,
VIII James, built these chapters out
OF the daily business of his own life.
A more promising way, You will
readily admit, than that laid down by
even the keenest Of on-iookers, who
Is also at the same time the most
painstaking of reporters. II before
venturing upon this personal account
ing of a. cowboy you have any doubt
about his ability to deliver himself
in print. you will promptly lose this
doubt as you fnd yourself hanging
grimly to the back, or neck, or tall
of some resolute demon done up in
the shape of a piece Of bucking
horsefiesh. That is the gift of this
fellow, the gift of straight and
immediate communicability, passing
on to you alive the experiences gone
through by himself, A straight talk
er, this man, who has no great re-
-Spect for the laws of language, no
very deep veneration for polite words,
none at all for spelling, either of the
reformed variety or that still encased
in its own original sin. He talks
straight and hard. He can, moreover.
make a pencil talk in pictures that
are even more instinct with quivering
life than is the pounding print it,
self. Here are incidents of wide
range covering a very real and an
intensely dramatic side of the great
West. The cattle ranges spread out
here, north and south. The Winter
cattle camps round into a fresh
aspect of the cattle business. The
part OF the horses in this enterprise.
the training of these for their role
in the tremendously exciting life of
the ranges-it is all here, fresh out
of the hand of q man who has him.
self played q leading hand with these
guardians OF live stock in the limit
less reaches of the great West. A
corking book for just the kind Of
boy that needs this contact with q
part of the country where adventure
swings out into daring and an enor-
nous amount OF courage and skill.
THE TRUTH AT LAST. BY Charles
Hawtrey. Edited by w. Somer-
set Vaughan. Illustrated. Bos-
ton: Little, Brown & Co.
The personal memoirs OF versatile
and lovable man. Mr.. Maugham
says of Charles Hawtrey: "He was
by passion a racing man and only
by necessity an actor" Yet despite
this he gave an excellent account of
himself as an actor, according to
the word not only of his friends but
Of the general public as well. And
his recollections of the stage as they
appear in this volume are of a
spontaneity and variety to make one
regret not having seen him In one
or another of his many plays-"The
Mars" where the Rainbow Ends"
and so on and so on. Indeed,
whatever loss the stage may have
sustained from the many conflicting
sides of Charles Hawtrey's nature, the
reader of these memoirs has clearly
a sense of distinct gain from contact
with this happy and genial lover of
life. Stage folks will get much from
this running history of their art. The
general reader will get perhaps even
more from this engaging story of
Hawtrey's life and recollections.
LA ROUX. BY Johnston Abbott.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
A man is, as a rule, cast TO the role
of adventure. In this case, however,
it Is a woman who takes the far trail
in a new country upon a quest that
is at all times most arduous and one
that is sometimes, also, edged with
actual danger. A young French
woman of high degree is here in pur-
suit of a man, who, by way of her
own father, has been deprived of his
inheritance. The search takes the
girl to Canada. and there the ad-
venture unfolds in a dramatic and
consistent Difference TO the exacting
nature of the country itself. Cross
currents of human agency. good and
evil add to the hardship and menace
of the natural setting in which the
action grows. A clever bit of i'm
personatfon contributes to the situ-
alton the ever-welcome flavor of un-
certainty and mystery, without which
a pure romance lacks one of the es-
sential elements of its strongest ap-
peal A straight invention, with
romance and danger, the two wings
of its clear and gratifying flight.
THE LAZY COLON. BY Charles NJ.
Campbell, associated with Albert
X Detwiller, n. D. New York:
The Educational Press.
If you study this book you will find
out a lot OF intimate things about
yourself that it will pay you richly
to know. 1t Is, first Of all. a book to
take up with confidence. No fads, no
passing preachment, no conclusion
today to be revoked tomorrow. 1t is
a book that is drawn from recognized
authority. Where disagreements in
authority occur these are set out
plainly, with the balance of evidence
as carefully measured as present
knowledge permits. Simply and clear
ly you are first given the anatomy of
the digestive mechanism and the
physiology OF digestion itself. Along
with definite information many cur
rent questions are discussed - the
drinking Of water; the food classes
and the use OF each as body and mind
builders. This discussion, in a sense
preliminary, leads to the colon as one
of the prime sources of health on the
one hand or of disease on the other.
What is its function? How does it
operate in meeting this function?
What weaknesses may assail it?
What habits ere calculated to restore
it to health and to keep In that con-
dition. The general subject of die
tetics and exercise in their effect upon
constituting q menace to health and
life, receives here a simple, sensible,
authoritative and interesting treat
ment-one, too, that is so arranged
as to make II most convenient
means OF getting In easy touch with
just that phase OF the subject, that
for the time being you wish to refer
to again and again. 1t is important
to emphasize, once more that this
book convinces you readily OF the
quality of research that has gone into
it's discussions and recommendations.
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