Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-21
Fact and Fiction in the Newest Books
the Irish Author, Brings Out New Novel Abouta
Charvomans Daughter-Oher Tales

held from the less patient. the less in
telligent, the less craft-the lesser
man generally. Upon such general
foundation this story Of the wornout
"Golconda" spreads itself against the
Colorado background. In this small
community, as elsewhere. the forces
of good and evil line up against each
other. To the one belongs a fair. title
to the mine, whatever its quality or
no quality may prove to be. TO the
other belongs nothing at all. save the
outcome of unfair advantage, ingen-
ious intrigue and such other traits as
go into tile makeup of the marauder
and highwayman. The latter, always
more active than the former, takes the
lead here in ways that are dark-So
dark that murder is but an episode
along the march to Self-aChievement
and clear violation of the law but an
incident of the day. An involved plot
gives to this story a fervd cast of
advance, through which a love story
makes its way in accordance with the
surroundings in which it is set. The
romance of love, however, is not so
keen as the romance of cupidity-nor
should ii be. For, in substance, this
is man story, wherein the rivalries
of gain overtop any softer sentiment
whatever. A rugged tale of the West
when the search for gold was the sin
gle goal of all adventure.
X x x Z
THE EDUCATION OF SALLIE MAY.
BY Fannie kilbourne. author of
Dot and WILL" etc. New York:
G.. p. Putnam's Sons.
A FAIRY tale-Cinderella and the
Prince. To be sure, Cinderella is
as modern and we'll dressed as bare
legs and bobbed hair and lipsticks
can make her. And the Prince Is
more or less impecunious young man
OF much learning, not above paying
his way to success by the humble
business of playing tutor to the gen
orally deep ignorance OF youth. De-
spite the denial of these mere exter-
mails the story is of the essence of
that old and beloved fairy story
Sallie May. the stage rage of the mo-
ment, desires above all else to be a
regular high brow, because of the
lofty peaks from which her lovers
family looks down in disapproval
upon the little actress. \ practical
child. Sallie May promptly seeks out
the young tutor and promptly begins
to go to school to him-So many aft
ernoons a week. for so many dollars
a lesson That is the story--a bright.
light. laughing little adventure that
ends just where such an adventure
would end. Sallie May herself may
he a bit overdone In an innocence
that SaVorS of q prenatal state rather
than of the necessary SophiStiCation
that mere existence in Il way wise old
world connotes. Still Sallie May is
a very winsome alibi for the fapper
that she so clearly resembles. Inher-
entity improbable in plot, the little
story sums. nevertheless, TO an en-
gaging TODD for a readers off half
hour with a writer of quick wit and
easy speech.
X X x +
THE STORMY PETREL. Bv Oswald
Kendall, author of The Romance
of the Martin Connor." Boston:
Houghton Mifilin Company.
WE have the feeling. we land lub-
bers, that too often the writer
of sea tales falls into the notion that
he can spin Il sea yarn out of plain
sea water and a ship-any sort of
ship, going nowhere in particular on
no very definite errand. Now that
may be all right for readers who are
used to the sea, for those who know
through experience what Il tremen-
dously romantic and stirring adventure
it is to put puny ship up against