Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-14
REVIEWS OF THE NEW BOOKS
The Story of Herbert Quick and owa-ow the West Was
Opened to Agriculture Artist Tells Simple and
Interesting Tale-A Novel Two.

right away from his direction. So.
he numbered out, had to walk ever
so many blocks to catch a street car.
1t was getting late. He was in an
awful hurry-and If the blamed car
didn't get held up by "a truck-and
so on, and so on. We all talk like
this-all except the 'Troubadour.
You listen. Then you read the
"Troubadour" for a not very eventful
life made rich and communicable and
most enjoyable through the art OF
holding to the points which. united
and projected, make a real novel
about the facts Of common existence.
WINNER AND LOSERS. BY Alice
Hogan Rice and Gale Young Rice,
authors of Turn About Tales"
New York: The Century Co.
TEN short stories on the f!fty-hfty
plan of authorship here stand TO
the good account of the Rice partner
ship. A part Of ones enjoyment in
reading here is to mark off the stories.
side by side. for relative points of
view, relative ways OF approach. rela-
tive kinds of effect. Only a small part
Of the enjoyment goes into such flu
tile gestures, for the stories are, in
themselves. of a quality TO prevent
such diversion. Picked up wherever
human nature reveals itself, these
short stories take on Il fair range Of
theme with the fresh interest that
such variety kindles. Not concerned
with deep problems from Freud or the
divorce court, the stories have a par
ticulariy clean and well scrubbed APP
peal. One likes their soundness and
rneir general decency. Humor that
laughs It's way into ones heart goes
along with some of these stories. 1t
Is never entirely absent from any of
them, though humor knows its place
here and keeps 1t. A most enjoyable
book, that is not ashamed TO be tender
and beautiful now and then. A book
whose foundation of good work. good
building. Is perhaps the basis Of the
whole excellence.
PETER THE CZAR. BY klabund.
Translated from the German by
Herman 6. Scheffauer. New York:
G.. +. Putnam's Sons.
A y uncommonly compact story OF
Peter the Great, d character so
contradictory and Of such surprising
activity as to call, one would assume.
for a very long story indeed. The
authors economy directed upon the
art OF suppression on the one hand.
and upon the art of deep intensified
ton on the other, has produced a
highly dramatic story Of the great
Peter that is but little more than q
short story. a thing TO be read In an
hour. But Peter is here, from birth
events we come upon him loving and
hitting. q possessed man and an in
. Spired one. d petty man and great
one. Crude and brutal and savage
yet he is no more torn by fierce an
tAgonists within his nature than IS
the great Russia for which he here so
clearly stands Interesting. this
| writer, Klabund. who Is brute with
his pen, too-a savage, landing words
like blows, gathering thoughts into
hard bullets OF threewOrd sentences.
Tremendous in effect, though. As II
this Peter could brook no softer me-
dunn. One wonders If this is the art
that 1t so conclusively appears to be.
1t would he worth while to read TINS
klabund on a gentler theme.
DA\AE.. by Marianne Gauss. New
York: Harper x Bros.
A STORY of modern life. wherein
| "A women are taking on business
and professions and other out-of-the
house occupations. This is the story
| of a capable young woman VINO sue
ceeds markedly, as so many OF tn'
| women do in professional life. Int
! drawback to this success, II 1t can bt
| called q drawback, was the inevitable
! falling in love that came to this girl
The MAXWELL, one can deal with tht
man only In the impression that M
creates He seems a weak thing -
weak in a brilliant and temperamenta
sort of way One feels like APOLOGIZE
ing at this point. lest the man nigh
! have been intended for much more
, than he seems to be. One feels that
maybe, she herself the reader. may
! have lost the key to this particular
character through her own careless
ness. If that be true, the loss ac
counts for feeling of uncertainty
about the story as whole. Had i
two distinct purposes to meet? o.
had 1t, originally, but one that-somt
way, somehow-split into two as low
| forms Of animal life separate into dis
tinct individuals, each going its indie
pendent way thereafter? The stor!
does not seem to be wholly coherent
wholly conclusive. wholly we'll carried
out.