Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-03
the matter OF Mr.. Oppenheim's
Quest for Winter Sunshine"

Quest for Winter Sunshine"
X X X
THREE LIGHTS FROM A MATCH
BY Leonard Mason, author oil
/ "Chevrons." New York: George
H. Doran Co.
1t seemed like naked realism to me
It looked like II brutal and revolving
exposure of the every -dayness of war
| No parade, no music, no marching
men, no generals and such. Just men
and mud and cold, with sudden threat
and danger leaping across the Shiny
ways of their momentary respite.
Yes, it looked like simon-pure realism
But how was to know that this was
the real thing in war? I'm no soldier.
I'm a woman, just padding around on
the soft side of things. But, l re-
called. two floors up there was a
| splendid wreck of man-siX feet two
and proud as that stature is bound
to make a man-hip smashed lover
there" at one of the historic points
| Chateau Thierry. Belleau Wood, Yer
| dun, whatnot. But never word OF
complaint did anyone hear. Instead
a designedly gallant passage down the
street, the walk made mostly OF a
stocky stick handled quite debonairly,
when you came to think Of it.
So, in pursuit of my case Of realism
turned fool-oh, no, not for the first
| time, bless you, no.-and passed
Three Lights From a Match" along
with other books, over to this piece
Of a maR that the war did not want
any more of. And he said, in a day
or two, would you mind taking that
| book away with you. I'll do most
RI IA
book"
Then knew we'll enough to suit
my measly little case that Leonard
Mason is a Main Street" literalist
with the difference that his Main
street runs through the place where
soldiers are ground up as gun fod-
der" Naturally, don't count any.
where in this matter. except that we
are hopelessly personal and ever
since that polite return to me OF
Three Lights From a Match" I've
been humbly grateful that the brok-
en- man two flights up didn't cuss
me out. literally out, as he should
| have done. I've heard him swear,
and he makes an expert job of it.
That incident was a prime occa sion
which he. no doubt set aside in pity
| for such ID fool of woman. "
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| SAILS ON THE HORIZON. BY
Charles J. Quirk. Boston: The
Stratford Co.
| No matter how lusty may be the
| thrill OF protest and rebellion that sets
| the practitioner OF free verse so joy.
ously upon his limping. knockkneed
way, the fact remains that most
readers OF poetry count among its
| prime essentials that of tunefulness
and song. Otherwise, let the seed
| thought grow up into prose and be
done with it, so these readers say.
AS first count, the poems of
Charles Quirk sing. And behind the
songs are feelings that stir in re-
Spouse to common and familiar con-
tacts-to the solicitations of the nat
ural world, to religion, to filial love,
to the play of fancy through fairy
tale and fable. Religion and love stand
as the chief inspiration of this writer
mother love taking the lead. as yet.
Sensitive in feeling, delicate in
| fancy. cadenced and musical in form
| beauty and Of wide call to :hs COM
"The Countersign"--
An erstwhile sinner knocked at
Heavens gate,
Without the password dread.
Il know no countersign, save sorrow,
Lord"
Pass in" our Saviour said.
"Heraldry"-
The evening star above the sea,
Woven upon sky tapestry;
| Gods coat-of-arms that hangs before
| The entrance to His palace door.
'"Fhe Son OF the Carpenter
He is in truth a carpenters son,
Not Joseph's, though; a mightier One
| His Father is, who built so we'll
| The worlds stupendous miracle
X y
| AURELIUS SMITH - DETECTIVE
BY r. r. NJ. Scott, author of AIMS
Crime" etc. New York: E. P. Dut
ton & Co.
A likable tribe, in the main, that Of
the modern detective in fiction. To
be- sure, now and then one among
| them overworks his role away pas
belief-but self-exaggeration is a com
monplace of actual life, 30 a charge Of
this sort ought not to count as oddly
| or defect either with the super
sleuth or his literary progenitor. AND
he's such an enviable fellow-smootI
and agreeable, competent and success
full in those striking stage ways that
even the most humdrum folks aspire
to emulate-and do emulate ir
their secret imaginings and dreams
Aurelius Smith. detective-writel
Scott's MANS a top-notcher, of his
craft. And here are dozen Of the
Aurelius Smith adventures, all OF
them good, with the best of the doz
en- standing modestly at the end Of
the llne-or, taken the other way
around, rising as climax to the rest oil
the bunch, A red-haired New York
newsboy and a yellow dog have this
particular matter in hand. The boy
mas single passion-to see the great
| Aurellus Smith just once. The vel
low dog, too, has an equal passion
to aid and abet that carrot.topped boy
in his every desire. It's a hopeless.
case, OF course. Kicking a giraffe or
the nose" variant Of hitching one!
wagon to a star, gives title to the mac
ambition of Jimmie McGinnis, gamin
Then the miracle comes to pass, ant
comes by way Of the yellow dog, a fel
lows best friend. Oh, yes, there il
a crime-murder and theft; that's tn,
usual stuff. The real adventure o
trailing the crime in a beautifully TN
usual way is a human, tender, feelin,
matter a lot Of boy about it, a lot O
dog. too, with both Of these in tn,
i (By a Washington Poet)