Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Continued from Fourth Page.)

done fine and fair thing in setting
down here what he knows about this
/, youth who lived joyously and pro
Z ductively, and then passed on, seem
ingly. to some other high-hearted adj
- venture. This is plain story that
y moves along through the mercurial
) nature of the young italian, making
> notes OF his frailties and strength in a
complete impartiality. 1t rounds the
= boy out, explaining him to those who
are interested in gifted young things
trying to make their way through the
present rush of existence. 1t shows
{ that his faults We're chiefly those of
. youth, nothing to have trouble about
I, since they woul1 drop away as the
: hurrying years come along. A per
fectly frank record, this of Mr.. Cll-
i mans. and, what is quite as much TO
the point. it is the tribute Of friend
who came 10 love this boy for the
,;assi4LeS OF mind and heart that ne
{ clearly po~sessed a very interesting
= story. coming lust when it ought 30
g come.
Z X :, y
THE WHITE WOLF BY Max Brand,
author of 1.-The Seventh Man. 3"
Y etc. New York; &. z. Putnam's
. Sons
TT happened out West. in the San
Jacinto Mountains. Having swept
down upon the litter of pups that
their master had no more than turned
his back upon. the black wolf carried
the littlest of them away as q morSel
for his wife who was sucking her
own family. Dropped down before her
the little pup took his place at table
and comported himself SO much like
the rest of the brood that, instead of
being eaten, he was made a. member
Of the family and brought up as such.
So this Is the story Of a dog reared
by wolves and trained to their ways
Of sustaining life. That, in itself,
makes a good story but the real in
terest comes when, long after, the
white WOLF meets up with man,
with the very man. in fact, to whom
his mother had belonged. Then rises
in the dog mind a thousand vague
memories of life that is puzzlingly
different from that to which by the
accident of adoption the bull terrier
has been trained. 1t is this bewilder-
ment over the struggles going on in
side him that makes this matter so
interesting to those who look upon
animal life pretty much as they look
upon human life. The adventure is
set in q wild and aloof corner of the
Western mountains where the author
appears to be much at home and with
which he is able to create high
moments OF excitement among the
wild creatures that live in this pic
turesque and fascinating region. A
very unusual animal story and a
most captivating one.
BLACK PEARLS. BY r.. w. Alex
ander. New York: ID. Appleton
4 Co.
RENT upon adventure of the sur
~ prising and wellnigh unbeliev-
able sort, the author damages his pur-
pose by a carelessness with details
that pricks the illusion of the matter
full of holes. Illusion, clear and COM
plete. Is the breath Of life to novels of
adventure. A South Sea story. A
lonely island. Natives and black pearls
it's staples. A young man with his
new wife sets out to elude the natives
and find the pearls. No sooner landed
than the wife has her baby-a most
casual happening, like dropping a
handkerchief. But she dies of it,
nevertheless. And the man buries his
wife, laying the baby aside mean
while. In the course Of time it comes
TO him that a child has to have
nourishment, so he let's 1t suck his
finger providently moistened with
water. You'd be surprised to know
how long a baby can live on such
nutriment. However, Just before its
last gasp a wicked-looking craft comes
along with a woman aboard, and that
fixes the baby up. Then the story
gets under way in the regulation
fashion, great pearl find in the
mans little boat which had over.
turned, letting it's owner drown.
Thereafter the matter is villainy to
keep the pearls from the baby, whose
property they really are. Time flies.
The baby grows into a little girl and
then into a big one, all the years pro-
tected by the woman who first fed
her, by the woman who saved her
from incredible dangers that followed
her to London and back again. Rough
men. low dives, brutal fights. gam
bling, drinking-these surround the
girl, beautiful and pure as a lily.
Then, in time. the young man APP
pears. He, too, is an adventurer but
quite of the right sort. And after
this timely entrance into a perfectly
dangerous and loathsome situation,
the TODD settles to rather more of
romance and not quite so much of
wicked hazard moving i'll upon the
girl from about every conceivable