Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26

was born away DaCK-mayDs with Eve
herself. Here is case in point. for,
If there is any lady newer, more of the
passing moment. than this Mary
Montagu, one hardly cares to see her.
For the possibilities of this one are
quite enough to stir apprehension in
even the daring twentieth century. Oh,
a most engaging baggage, this Mary
Montagu. She could write letters that
sounded like life at It's best and wit
test. She read everything that there
was to be read in her day, and said
everything that was To be said. The
men admired her, toasted her at their
clubs. and enyied her husband, I'M
easy fellow that he was-and no Won
der. No, no. she did not escape Cos
sip, nor scandal even But this hardly
ruffled the feathers of the sprightly
lady, who kept on making her poems
and inventing new sayings that were
seasoned with sugar and spice and
her-think of it, Wrote disreSpect-
fully, too, and so did Walpole Never
mindl So said the new woman. For,
having had enough OF the London adu-
lation and abuse, she turned her back
upon them all went a-traVeling and
afterward settled down to be farmer,
| If you please. And that / take it, is
the test of the Lady Mary Montagu, or
any other Mary who. having enough OF
the folks roundabout, is able to go by
| herself. out of the common reach, and
to be happy in such quiet life. The
background to this spirited biography
is excellently corrohoratiVe Of the story
| itself. The whole, though of social
| content, has, Enthusiastically. a true his
| toric flavor.
SAWDUST AND SOLITUDE. By Lucia
Fora. Edited by Courtney Ryley
Cooper. Illustrated, Boston: Little
| Brown &, Co.
| I UCIA FORA tanned and trained cir
- Gus animals. She also tanned and
| trained wild desert ranch in the far
West. These two achievements are
what make her worth while to the rest
| of the people roundabout. For here is
| a passion for dominion embodied in this
| one woman. Here is ambition sustained
| through every sort of hardship up to
| the point of accomplishment. Not a
matter of opinion. That the woman
saw 1t through is the point for the rest
| OF us weakened, easily winded
humans. However. here is the story:
Just girl from upstate in New York
| Of all places to produce a circus per-
| former, that little village of Cazenovia
noted for its female seminary" is the
last. But this is the place where Lucia
| Fora was born and came on, studying
and singing and dancing. till small
| theater troupe responded to her passion
| for the Stage-or for something differ
ent--oh, quite different from Gaze
novia. And here it is, given in story
after story Of the ways of circus folks
| and circus animals. OF the hard work
| that was mostly JOY in spite of its
wear, that was good deal of an en-
| grossment in the wellbeing of the ami
mails of the ring. Friends, they were
| to be nursed when ILL., to be INDUCED
| when deserving, to be disciplined when
| unruly Then, in the course of time
| and under the urge of other circum-
| stance. there came the long six-yeal
| pull of tanning land wilder than the
! old companions of the sawdust. And
! conquest here. too-of course. For this
| is the story of one of the indomitable
ones. That is why 1t is worth reading
| quite apart from the clear worth OF II
| as picturesque and stirring adventure
| of the spirit in world that. in the
| main. seems fashioned to break the
| courage of its children. A gallant rec
ord this, and heartening one to many
a reader.
WATERl BY Albert Payson Terhune
author of Gray Dawn" etc. New
! York: Harper g. Brothers.
WITH collie dog as first assistant
| " Albert PaySon Terhune is able Il
| do many things beside that of gather.
ing in trophies for the beauty anc
| quality OF the pups of Pompton Lakes
For instance, with such aid as he ha,
here turned out stirring adventure o.
modern business stripe. more than one
OF whose tense moments are brought Il
issue by the lightning action oil
Heather. the particular Terhune collie
| having role in this action. Here /,
the contest for water rights. business
| that Is now going on all over the coun-
try between rival industrial concerns
| To get modern villain into this action
is no trouble at all And here he is
| Against him is the undeceived young
engineer who has been working for this
| man. Over on the other side is an.
other man whose chief importance here
Is that he has sister, and the sister
| mas dog. The material is now as
| Sembled, you see, for the romance tina,
/
| In the inmemorial way OF hopes anc
fears, Of long doubts and fleetinc GER
taintleS. That. however. which ad-
vances this story of youthful affection
is the hard mechanism OF business
| rivalry and conflict. Real conflict. too
a hand-to-hand meeting more than
once, that turns out actual fighting
One, indeed, is an encounter OF such
stress and skill and desperation that Il
| must stand as record of an actual fight
for the young hloods to enjoy. Men
and women are all right with this au-
| thor, as Tar as they go. but when IL
comes to real feeling and competent
| action and decisive point of view. give
| Mr. Terhpe collie every time. He
makes - ease. too For while this is
a good love story and plausible picture
| al the designs OF modern industry, it is.
| AFTER all the part OF Heather in the
whole to-do that brings out the most
| unailoyed Joy in the reacer.
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MISS MAYHEM AND MING yum:
A Story of East and West. BY Anne
Duftield New York; Frederick A
! Stokes Co.
/ MISS MAYHEM is an English spin
Ster. Ming Yum is a Manchu
princess, They come together in an
English household in peking The older
woman is relative come out Ia com
/ panion her believed nephew'S sick wife
| The Chinese girl is this nephew's ward
| Here Is the setting for study of two
| races, also for a study of youth and age
/ looking IN upon the same situation with
widely diastmilar views, Ming Yun
| perSoniIieS tho East To the mind of
the English Spinster she emhodies China
Itself. as something not only unreal, hut
as dangerous and sinister thing, An
intensified MISUNDERSTANDING, with its
sequence of distrliSt, provides the s,lS-
tanning atmosphere Of the action, An
attractive household is the immediate
agency of this Development The
| author has wished upon herself u COM
pick and difficult situation. Here she
has To make good on both The East and