Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20

his characters that gives SO fine a. sub
stance here. This acumen, coupled
with distinct art of social interpre-
tation, lifts the novel much above the
level OF pure social patter and places
1t with the intelligent and skillfui
studies Of life as It flows on below the
surface Of mere appearances The
heroine sums her own situation here
with, 1T isn't youth but love which
makes the world younger" Some
thing for the reader to discus
whether or not he agrees with the
heroine.
MANY LAUGHS FOR MANY DAYS
BY Irwin s. Cobb, author OF "Speak
ing of Operations" etc. Now
York: George II. Dorap COMPANY.
Here they area laugh day TO-,
every day in the year. Actual count
proves the good measure of the pre-
scrlption. Not a bad plan to gather
them In for one Of the innumerable
New Year beginnings with which
every man or woman on the morning
OF that memorable day sets out in pur-
suit of a new and better life. Surely
there is no truer benefactor than he
who fortifies each day for us with
hearty deep-seated outburst Of morn
with these Incompatible Cobb stories
Take but one a day. And never, never
be beguiled by the tang Of that on
10 taste just one more. Humor is :.
queer customer nibble too much
and 1t goes fiat on the tongue, acid H.
the stomach. SO. let us take our
Cobb laughs with fine discretion
like the true epicure letting it lie o.
the tongue in deliberate savorine
Fine and reviving. il we treat then
well, these daily laughs at the hande
OF generous proFider. MIGHTY
dangerous, though. under the leasr
excess of indulgence.
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STAND BY. BY Caroline Cox. New
York: Harper and Brothers.
A common incident Of wartime sets
this romance upon its way. Many a
girl at that tine did this very thing
slipped her photograph, all signed and
addressed. into one of the socks tina,
she had knitted for some soldier
Many time too the sequence was
exactly what il is here. A subseQuenr
meeting just before the soldier sailed
away, a, secret marriage and the part
ing. After this, there was in each OF
thousands of cases nothing but stand
by" for the confding young woman
so swept off her feet by the enthu-
siasms of wartime and the irresisti-
bic urge of her own youth. II Is upon
this familiar groundwork that the au-
thor builds the story of lovely Rose
mary Lee. Jack Harlow-young and
brave and reCkless-was. like most
boys. of the forgetting sort. There
were, you see, so many for him 10
remember. And in the war, too. he
was devil against the Hun. So, jus,
naturally, he forgot, and forgot. So
the story goes on. And by and by il
turns the way of Rosemary Lee. stand.
ing by, while the boy comes to realize
what girl ca II mean to a man. And
later, it passes into the common story
of many women who idealize men.
when they are gone. TO fit the pattern
of them that these women have build
ed in their hearts. Hero worshiperS
of countless centuries sustained her.
rites of idealiZation as old a s human
ity comforted her. An old, old story
this one. that Carolyn Cox has revived
in the soft colors of true romance to
set before readers as reality of the
present.
FROM LIFE. BY Ellison
Hoover. New York: Simon &
Shuster.
toons Robert Benchley mentions a 10;
OF people" who wonder why the fun
ny papers aren't funnier" We are
in that lot so we listen in upon what
Mr.. Benchley has to say about IT,
One reason is, according 10 him, that
there are too many good artists in the
country who are nothing else at all
Many a time have we too wondered
what went on in the mind of the artist
TO make him draw a particular pic
ture to illustrate a particular Joke
Nothing at all went on in the mind
of the artist That's the answer.
The artist was simply a very good
draughtsman with very weak wit and
no sense at all of the salient and an
pealing points in public life generally
Then Mr.. Benchley goes on TO say thai
when a man like ELLISON Hoover an
pears in the sanctum with A draw
ing which means something the editor
is in state of JOY bordering on Il
sWoon. And when, as with Ellison
Hoover. there is not only an idea, but
new idea as well. readers wake up
out of their sleepy thumbing of the
funny paper to feel the thrill of q
fresh wit calling to them. Beyond
this moment with Mr.. Benchley We
move oytr into the company of this
artist for Life. The best of com
pany is EllfSon 1Ioover-full of pointed
ideas bearing upon the common news
OF the day, adept at that carefully
stressea-andeased work that presents
the individual with his special lido
syncrasy upon him. keen OF wit ami
saturated with humor at it's best.
prime picture book. A fine opportun
ity for the study Of a special art.