Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

Will There Be Great War the Paci6c?Hector c. Byater
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| than it is bad. a beautiful story ana
| in substance, a true one.
* 4 x Z
CORAL: y sequel TO Carnival" j.,
Compton Mackenzie, author Of
Carnival" etc. New York: George
ii. Doran Co.
FOR a line of complication in the
present romance Mr.. Mackenzie
goes back d generation to the time
OF Carnival. This done. the storl
advances along a familiar course--thar
or love and union between members 81
distinct classes in the groupings 81
society. Where the former generation
had not dared to face custom ana
class openly, this one does so dare
The work of this romance. therefore
Is to make justification for such de
nance of convention. The rich cir
| marrles the driver Of her motor. Thai
Is the foundation of a story Of al
Justment so difficult as TO make the
outcome in the nature of miracle
an authors miracle bent upon the
generally satisfying climax of the
happy ending" In the interim, how
ever, this author does his customary
skillful work of presenting believable
and attractive characters, and Of set
ting these upon stage in all respects
suited to their comings and goings.
| In word. he constructs an engagin2
| and plausible social drama whereof
character plays leading part.
At the end, however. these two Gle
| ments. as wide apart as circumstance
and training can set them, come 10
gether in the bonds of u wedIock tina
has been shattered and bruised am
well-nigh broken. in real life, this l.
| a miracle. In realistic fiction il Is
no more than an artificial compru
| mise to please readers by telling then.
| fairy tale. Oh surely. d brilliarr
| story, calculated to be immensely pop
ular. as it deserves 10 be for IN,
greater part Of its course.
| THE WIND. Anonymous. .>ew Yorh.
Harper & Brothers.
"1@HE wind was the cause Of II a ~.
The sand, too, had share in il
| and human beings were involved, bur
the wind was the primal force. and
| but for II the whole series of event
| would not have happened. II tooE
| place in West Texas wears and wears
| ago, before the great ranges had be
gun 10 be cut up into farms ana
| ploWed and planted 10 crops. when
| there was nothing TO break the SWEEP
| of the wind across the treeless pra!
| ries. when the sand blew in biindin,
| fury across the plains, or lay in nocl,
ing waves that never broke on any
| hoWsoever- distant beach, or piled il
mounds that fckle gusts removed al
most as soon as they We're erected
when for endless miles there seemeG
| nothing but wind and sand and empty
far-off sky" Impressive and beauti-
iul, and onltnous, too, is this unknown
writer's way OF picturing wind-swept
Texas, before farms and windbreaks
Of planted trees and set-hp barricades
had in some measure triumphantIy
disputed the unbroken dominion %.
| the sweeping winds. II is in this pc
Rod and place that the author SCI
down the little girl from Virginia
| who. with no other place To go, ha=
come TO live with her cousin out i'm
Texas.
That's the story-the wind and tie
little girl. On one hand there is al
ways in her homesick heart the smi!-
ing valleys OF Virginia on the
other, before her eyes in these great
Western stretches, is always the work
of the wind that she hates SO help
lessly. A story Of men and women,
| too. of the settlers in their rough lives
and uncouth ways. Good folks, bur
| rough and hard. as they have 10 be
Without doubt true story in all the
ms and outs Of daily life out that
way at that time. Certainly, d terrible
story, told in a manner so straight
and uncompromiSing as to carr
reality OF effect with il. reality that
| is all the more piercing because Of the
| austere beauty of its words and
| phrases and sentences.
X
THE RUNAWAY BAG. By Albert
Payson Terhune, author of BLACK
Caesars Clan" etc. New York
| George II. Doran Go.
! A TTACHED to the runaway bag is
the hero OF this tale, Dircl
Lanier. Self-justified in what by any
| court of law would he designated "a
| the crime of robbery Dirck. with the
bag, betakes himself, under a name
not his own, To Algeria. There tht
adventure begins with all eccentricity
OF turn, and an ingenuity of plot tina
would support an international in
! trigue of huge proportions. The whole
| of Northern Africa appears from one
! direction and another to converse
| upon the personality of this fugitive
youth holding on TO treasure that he
| calls legally his own, no matter what
| the law may say about il. 4 bouyanr
and joyous adventurer. Albert Terhune
with an astonishing bag of tricks IN
! his pocket from which in the best
! sleight-o'-hand manner he produces
marvels with rapidity and deXterity
| Oh, yes, it comes out all right. !,
would with this author. And right
in his case is likely to mean that any
matter under his direction is sure l.,
| be turned out with in d clean and in
| MIGRATING manner that leaves one
ready for his next story.