Evening star., 1926-06-13
REVIEWS OF THE NEW BOOKS
Richard Wahburn Child Takes Up the Subject Of Criminals
America-A Travel Tale-Novels by Phil potts,
Johnson and Terhune.

sort. A hale and lusty young mar
whom it Is good to know and upor
whom Eden PhillpottS eXpends the
vitalizing arts that he has been prac
ticing in literature for many years
now.
THE LAND OF POGO TEMPO. By
Charles F. Lummis. Illustrated
New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons.
THE geography names it New Mex
leo. The enthusiasm of this travel
er, however. rejects the official chris
tening for POGO TEMPO" the home
of Pretty Soon" Here 1.-The opiate
sun soothes to rest, the adobe is made
to lean against, the hush of day-long
noon would not be broken. Let us
not hasten--manana will do" Such Is
the keynote of this region. whose
present is a husk-the past ro-
nance and glory" Wandering
| through this land of exotic natural
features, peopled with the ghosts OF
native and cohqueror and royal adven
turer, strewn with the fragments OF
a civilization older than any of these
represents, this writer in a mood OF
| high exaltation and eager absorption
makes pictures and sets down facts
and substantiates old theories Of this
strange corner of our great Common
wealth. Keen enthusiasm, never flag
| ging. is the spirit of this exploration
as it is also the spirit aroused in the
reader by the warmth Of its own flame
A travel book combining In rare
measure the substance of sound in
| formation with the beckoning lure OF
| story and legend and faded custom
A beautiful travel book-story and
picture and fact woven into an amaZ-
ing pattern of interest that is spread
for us right within our own domain.
lLODGERS IN LONDON. BY AIDE
| laide Eden Phillpotts. Boston
| Little, Brown & Co.
| 4 Nd why shouldn't Adelaide Eden
Phillptots possess the gift OF
story. of poetry. Of play-making? Her
| father has all of these. though we
know him best by the Cornwall which
in every appearance and mood he has
re-created over and over again. This
| is a young college woman with bent
! toward sociology and a gift for turn
ing problems of the people into stories
that are more revealing than problems
can ever hope to be. A young war
worker: then. the war over. back to
studying and writing just folks. This
book is drawn from the Bloomsbury
district in London. but 1t might have
come from any other region Of board
ing houses the Anglo-Sa world
around Here are the ones that we all
Iknow-those curiously assorted groups
that gather into lodgings-a singer or
| a dancer a student, a young cleric,
painter Of pictures, a clerk, this stolid
woman, that vixenish one. They are
all here, and to each this writer gives
the intelligent and impassioned devo
ton that her father gives to his liter
ary work. Here. just as in all the
boarding houses of the world. little
romances flicker and fade, equally un
der consummation or Illustration. For
these are bits of life. true and com
municable, that are recognizable
everywhere-work that inspires re
spect and admiration for its sincerity
and it's vision.
RELATIONS. BY Sir Harry John
ston, author of THE Gay Dom
beys." etc. New York: Harper &
Bros.
ALL of Sir Harry Johnstons ro
- manceS are densely populated
This one is no exception. Crowds OF
people come and go in Relations
This author is, however. a master
hand at clean outline and exact deflnl
ton. Therefore, each of the many in
dividuals moving about here gives the
effect of distinct personal---very.
pearance, temperament, interest anc
occupation all his own. The center OF
conference is Rupert Cuthbertson, who
in 1900 went from England to Aus
tralia, where the bulk of the actor
here involved takes place. To be sure
there is enough of the England which
he left behind incorporated in the rur
of the romance to provide contrast be
| tween the political and social life ol
the old country and the new. Aus
tralia. nevertheless. is the main set
ting, and with this the author shows
in graphic and masterful manner the
features of the rich young country II
it's effect upon the group surrounding
the outstanding character. All sort:
of Englishmen appear to gravitat'
naturally toward Rupert Cuthbertson
He. growing prosperous and powerful
i'm the new land, becomes the trans
planted Englishman at his very ex
cellent best.
An easy writer, Sir Harry John
ston, with an amazing capital OF ex
perience upon which to draw. EX
plorer. naturalist. philosopher. artis
and adventurer-he touches this stor.
at one or many points with all OF tnes
prepossessions and professions. Nat
urally. then, this should be a ricl
story and an interesting one. 1t Il
both.
TREASURE. BY Albert Payson Ter
hume, author of THE Heart of {
Dog" etc. New York: Harper
Bros.
INo other sort of story surpasses TN
good dog story. And no othe
writer ons this beautiful theme SUI
passes Arthur Payson Terhune. Ono
or twice Mr.. Terhune has fallen dow
on this Job by killing off. unnecessa
rily. a creature that never should NEE
this fate in story; bad enough T.
have it happen in reality-ineXcus
able in fiction. no matter how clearl.
the logic of the case may demand 1t
However, he has offended but once II
this direction, or at the most stwice
A big, golden-red collie. Mars, her
PLAYS a subordinate but most eficien
part in a treasure hunt up In northern
New Jersey, where, so an old recor
from Revolutionary days declares.
huge pay chest of gold was seized fror
the British and hidden till an oppoi
tune time came for its ref1nding. Tha
time did not come. In it's stead cur
rent rumor passed slowly into legen
and legend into myth. But aroun
these parts there was. according t
Mr.. Terhune, a strange racial blen
of Hessian and negro and Indian thai
slowly receding before settlement, be
came the mountaineers OF that regior
Among them the treasure story heve
grew dim. Its discovery became tn
sole interest of their workless days
; Such is the foundation Of the romano
in which a fine young man of the low
lands and a nice girl of the neighbol
hood become the center of plot who's