Evening star., 1927-11-06
REVIEWS OF AUTUMN BOOKS
Mystery Story Which Unfolds in Courtroom-Where
Great Mountains Are Lure-Fiction and Travel
From the Publishers.

Arab nature and outlook and mode of
daily existence. With any gift of ex-
preston at all this must need be
vivid book. II is. Not often will one
read. in the full sense of being on
the spot. of taking part In the activi-
ties of the moment as he will in the
reading of these personal experiences
with the Bedouins. the Druses,
WhirlinG Dervishes and Yesidee
Devil worshipers.. Picturesque. ro-
matte. entertaining as a succession
or living scenes or as a tremendous
moving picture.
"
THEY ALSO SERVE. BY Peter 4
kyne, author of The Enchanted
Hill. etc. New York Cosmo-
poliian Book Corporation.
HERE is a story of the Great War.
Overwritten. this theme? Per
haps so, for the present, though as
tlme passes that which so far has
been written in sincerity will move
out into an increasing value as time
moves us from the immediate per-
sonal poignancy of that event. This
war story is n sincere one-no one
Will question that. 1t was written by
an active partaker in the conflict. IN
It's battles and in the keen discomfort
OF between attacks. This is
horses story of his war experience.
Have you ever thought sufferingly
with the creatures that took part I'm
that hideous thing? Have you
thought of the horses and the dogs
and the birds--all fighters at the
command of man, the most of them
innocent and unhating victims Of the
bestiality of the human? Well, here
is an inspired story, told by a horse
about the Great War as 1t looked to
him. This is a cowboys horse that
served in France with the artillery.
Something more than good soldier.
this, for he is a philosopher looking
out with wise and humorous eyes
upon the madness of mankind. When
he tells the story he Is back home
again, pretty badly broken up but
still able to talk. So, rememberingly,
he tells the big adventure to the other
horses, Taffy and O'Malley. Peter
kyne. so much at one with the friend
who dictates the story to him, let's the
horse sense of the narrator have its
way here. And so one gets q story
that is rich in it's comments on the
institutions that men set up and sup
| port even to the death of their own
| brotherhood of mankind and brute
kind. If you know and love horses.
| IL SOu Hhc TIE usual way OF ReIer
| Kyne with his romances, you will like
above all this tale wherein he has add.
ed to his own gifts those of the horse
that was his comrade-in.arms,
| BLUE VOYAGE. BY Conrad Aiken.
| author of "Priapus and the FOOL
| etc. New York: Charles Scribner's
| Sons.
| STRIPPED to the bone. this story
is a ships voyage. That which
superficially sets 1t apart from the
common run of such transits Is that
the young man of the story sails
| second class while, aboard the same
vessel, first class. is the lady whom
! he is seeking across the water Tho
skeleton story might have been fiimsier
even than this without detriment 20
| the effect of the whole. For this Is
| the sort of writer to whom any fraG-
ment of occasion provides means for
an amazing elaboration of outcome
The ship Is, to be sure. the world able
to set up any sort of imagining or
dreaming or philosophizing as to it's
nature and meaning. The sea 10,
equally to be sure, eternity itself show
ing fleeting and elusive visions OF its
terrifying implications. Like all ere.
ative workers this writer Identifies
| himself with the whole of life at some
moment. either puzzling or illuminat.
| Continued on Fourteenth Page.)