Evening star., 1925-11-29

autobiography so complete in breadth
and depth, in detail and spirit, as to
produce the effect of the man himself
telling by word of mouth of the ad-
ventures which in that historic period
of revolution came to him through ms
love for Carlotta and his consequent
desire to share her political fortunes.
plain account, or so it seems from
the simple and convincing manner,
vet a story of adventure and danger
and final Illustration.
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THE POLYGLOTS. BY William Ger
hardi, author of "Futility, etc
New York: Duffield & Co.
A FTER all, it is the personality OF
"A the writer that finally counts. 1t
is the personality back of any human
endeavor that matters SO concluslVely.
An author may be loaded down with
material and weighted with the laws
of literary construction and steepeu
in the principles Of art, yet with all
these he may remain mute OF IN
communicabilitv Touch him, how
ever, with the fire of personality ana
his work flames into power and charm
AS one follows the amorous young
man who supplies this Kaleidoscope
adventure with its hero, it is the easy
and captivating gift of William Ger
hardi himself that one smiles over in
clear enjoyment. gay and lncon-
sequent fellow, this lover of Gerhardi $
making, whose personal ZeSt for ad-
venture of the pure amatory brand
keeps the story to maze Oh chdnge,
like the graceful inWeavingS of some
elaborate dance measure. In a quite
literal sense, moving story, nndlng
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China, from Singapore to Ceylon and
back to Europe. where the last love
look is cast, the last inviting gesture
made. the climax of the great to-do Is
set. And after the war romance, max
ing Use of the strange combinations
of people that the effects of war have
brought together in places that are
equally strange. An exciting tale
daring and witty, discerning ana
frank. breezy and swinging and ex-
hilarating.
THE MARRIAGE GUEST. By Kon-
rad Bercovici. author of Around
the World in New York" etc. New
York: Boni & Liveright.
4 CURIOUS story, whose real prov
I n ince is that of the Imagination.
A
New York and of the American chill
dren that the succeeding generation
come TO be. Mr. BercoVici knows New
York and he knows the Immigrant
settled there Therefore, all the mi
mute features of this background are
plain and clear, both in his MIND ana
| i'm his portrayal Beyond this perfect
realism, beyond this background TOR
the human drama, Is the drama itseH
which unfolds in it's essential parts as
a product of the Imagination. t1ele
the story steps out from Its lmmealale
setting into q cOnnOtatlon as Wlde as
is human nature itself. Briefly, TINS
is the story of a young German girl,
who. loving one man, marrles another
one. The marriage takes on douple
asDect as far as the wife is concerned.
| There is the outer life with the nus
band and the inner life wherein TINS
husband becomes the man whom the
girl loves. a subtle thing, but one
assumes that it is by no means an un-
common situation. And along the
lines of this spiritual marriage. con
cealed behind the manifest one, Mr..
| Bercovici works artfully and consis-
tentlv in a psychological projection
| that honest and fearless people Will &C
cept as realism quite as valid as that
which deals with the clothes and the
other conCealing garments of the in
ner and actual life.
A son OF HIS FATHER. BY Harold
Bell Wright, author of wv hen a
Mans a Man" etc. New York:
| d. Appleton & Co.
| THE romance of a man and a girl
the man Morgan and the girl
| Nora O'Shea. Set in the desert region
| of Arizona. where the author himself
| is literally at home, il makes use of
| the picturesque realities of ranch life
as the background Of a romance Of the
| Wright brand-a brand that rests
| upon the authors conviction that
| there is much more of good than evil
| in the world. that self-mastery is a
| possibility and that the way thereto
| sets up mans supreme adventure.
Sounds like a sermon, doesn't it? And
! 1t Is. But here is a preacher that
| doesn't preach-not in the regulation
| way, at any rate. He summons the
| forces of life, good and i'll, and,
watching and recording, he makes full
notes and fine pictures of the conflict
| that ends always in the triumph of
the right The outcome may not al
ways look like a triumph in the popu-
| lar significance of that term. but to
| serious folk it always does stand as
| the justification of faith in the bette,
| things of life. A story of swift ac-
| ton that includes every phase of the
rough life of the ranchman: a story
full of human nature as it manifests
| itself i'll this out-region; a story with
color and go and fitting outcome. In
| a word, regular Harold Bell Wright
romance.
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THE GILDED ROSE. BY May Chris
| tie. New York: G.. 2. Putnam s
| Sons.
| A YOUNG story, built upon the Gin
derella lines of fable. Great and
sudden wealth to a little kitchen
| worker. This fortune married by a
| beautiful young man for whom the
! unwaywise girl has a passion to love
| and a quite unbelievable trust In a
moment of involuntary eavesdropping
the girl learns that money was the
bride in this untoWard marriage. You
| know the rest. Through a novel
| length of active social to-do this young
woman grows to such beauty and so,
! phistication and charm that all the
men around about look upon her with
admiration and desire. The beautiful
| young man, too, comes to see the er
| ror OF his ways-and pretty bad ways
| they arer-but almost too late, though
not quite. 1t is this last-minute sal
vation. this eleventh-hour admission
| into Paradise for a deeply humiliated
and flagellated penitent that brings
| the young and pleasant romance &c
| its predistined end.