Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

sod itself. Temperament and genuine
skill OF invention fit these writer's in
a special way for their stories of Ire
land. This is one of the best of them.
cannot refrain from quoting a note
by one of these authors, for it will
mean much to many readers. Here 1t
is: AN established firm does not
change it's style and title when, for
any reason, one of its partners may be
compelled to leave it.
TThe partner who shared all things
with me has left me. but the firm has
not yet put up the shutters, and |
feel ] am justified in permitting my
self the pleasure of still linking the
name of Martin Ross with that of E.
OLE. Somerville''
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SHEPHERDS. BY Marie Conway
Oemler. author of "Slippy Nc
Gee" etc. New York: The Gen.
tury Company.
MRS. OEMLER has not the gift of
Avn laughter, but rather the gift of
smiles that are Of the fugitive and
elusive sort. Little half smiles that
a sudden slight turn would change
to something quite remote from
mirth. Just q gentle humor that
liStC HAS tiiS DcSl 'bl CIdHteS. lOi
this story is the daily chronicle of
q minister's household, set down in
the middle of a working city dis
trict. All day and every day are
crowded with the happenings of this
fruitful situation. And TO make the
most of an already rich opportunity
the author sets the matter out from
the standpoint of a boy, the right
sort of boy. Inspired by the beloved
Chronicles of the Schonberg Gotta
Family" the plan for this new
family record rose and was carried
forward with spirit and thorough
ness that involves not only the
family. concerned but that drew in
Il host of interesting and amusing
incidents of the neighborhood round
about. An easy running account
that is at every point interesting
with it's truth to human nature and
with its general good will and good
feeling toward even those that lend
themselves to 81 bit of fun-making.
A romance goes along with the rest
of the TODD, but the real enjoy
ment runs on every page, even long
before romance is thought of.
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RENDEZVOUS. BY Elisabeth Fin
ley Thomas. Indianapolis: The
Bobbs- Merrill Co.
THE girl tells her own story and
does it quite convincingly. Only
now and then a point of strain, when,
as heroine of her own tale, she is
compelled to endow herself with the
qualities of this high office. How
ever. this is but a slight matter in
an account running from childhood
on through establishment and some
thing very like hopelessness. This
chronicle, moreover, passing from New
England to Paris and back to New
York gives admirably clear and con
sistent pictures of these regions in
their social outlook and common be
haviors. More than one side of
life turns uppermost here-the stald
routine of the east. the hectic glamour
of Paris. the social excitement OF
New York. The story turns upon
the girls realization of her husband S
disloyalty and further upon the adora-
ton of her son for this father. 1t is
the son who makes necessary MS
mothers remuneration of any personal
life of her own through his ideallza-
ton of a father who was some uls-
lance from any ideal Whatever
Strange story in which little mystery
still turks, even after one reading ana
a second scanning. A fresh and in
genious approach to the theme and a
natural treatment of the matter in
dictate that there will be call for more
of this writer's work.
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THE DEAN AND JECINORA. BY
Victor l.. Whitechurch. author OF
"a Bishop Out of Residence, etc.
New York: Duffield & Co.
MIR, WHITECHURCH must have
IVA come of a churchly line. His
name and the canonical trend OF MS
romances say as much. However.
the case in point, 1.-THE Dean and Jeci-
nora" indicates only that the cleric
should have remained within the safe
tx of his own diocese rather than 10
have ventured upon holiday which
while amusing and exciting to the on
locker. became very turmoil of ad-
venture to this staid adventurer or
one Summertime. 1t would be highly
unfair to indicate even the variety OF
dangers that threatened the cloth
within this short but packed season OF
Mystery. plain events
falling over one another to arrive, sur
prises of startling turn, problems that
no mere cleric could solve--these race
through the pages of this diVertlng
and laughing Summer yarn.
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