Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
REVIEWS OF SUMMER BOOKS
Facts About the Destruction of the Russian Empr
Automobile Through Spain-Fiction From
Several Authors.

! The other is an Office seeker. Clean
cut portrayal OF character. lean lines
] Of political fact and implication. tense
dramatic content. this picture OF Aneri..
can politics provides a marked work or
| realism in the field that 1t portrays.
WARPED IN THE MAKING. Grimes
/ al Love and Hate. BY II, Ashton
Wolfe Illustrated Boston: Houeh-
ton Miffiin Co.
4 DEEP difference sets the 10 stories
~ of this volume of from the familiar
ard popular inventions concerning
crime and the pursuit Of the criminals.
The official position Of this author Is
that of Interpreter AT the British and
Criminal Courts" Formerly Mr.. Ash
ton. Wolfe was assistant TO DR.. Bertillon
In Paris Therefore. these are true
tales Of mystery and crime. Each Is
tAa record OF case coming directly
into the hands Of the writer To the
fact Of actual experience in these cases
Of crime investigation. there is added
so clear gift of dramatic projection
that these tales possess the charm Of
finely imaginative writing applied to
the sinister truth upon which they are
founded. Any of us can recall the
story Of Mata Hari. Hindoo dancer and
spy who was executed In France during
the World War And. like this. all OF
the others are founded upon fact The
psychology Of crime stands as the
prime preoccupation of Mr.. Ashton.
Wolfe. Significant in this connection
that these tales appear under the title
Warped In the Making" since this.
d ia 1.~tts d.
is the attitude of the most profoundly
their lives to A study of the causes OF
crime. The initial story of this volume
is case in point-,a truly tragic story
founded upon the fact OF A double
personality on the part OF Don Ramon"
whose murder for so long time vas
buried in deep mystery and would have
so remained had not the psychologist
come TO the aid OF other investigators.
Every one of these ten tales of mystery
is an absorbing one-doubly egisrossins
by virtue Of the truth upon which IL is
based. You will hardly find anywhere.
among what are called detective stories,
such insight and such source OF sx-
element as this group OF true stories
offers you.
THE RESPECTABLE LADY. By Kath-
arine lyman. New York: D. Apple
ton e. Co.
THIS Is a picture Of English country
life since the war. when the seclu-
sion OF remote corners Of England has
been more or less broken by the trans
fer OF historic estates to those of large
means and the desire to hunt out some
OF these lovely corners of the land Here
the squire and the vicar no longer
hold exclusive influence. Outsiders are
breaking up the settled routine of daily
life. The story begins with A remark
by Mrs. valiant the lady OF the Manor
OF Abbots Riding. Eastshire. in respect
to one OF these newcomers That
woman has a passion for respectabiiity
She will keep US all up TO our ps and
as" In smiling satire Katharine
lyman develops the history of the LADY
In question. the beautiful Mrs Hesel-
tine. Through the medium OF the so.
cial life OF Abbots Riding and round
about the story Of Mrs. Heseltine comes
slowly to the surface. The novel is
primarily a picture of this northern
part OF England, the county of York.
divided into "Ridings." each formerly
under the government Of reeve. Many
an old custom persists from this ancient
partitionins, and here these are inter-
woven with the social matters that en-
gage the people of this section II is by
way OF these scenes and vivid pictures
that the story Of the neighborhood and
Mrs. Heseltine advances in a smiling
humor that makes of the whole q most
engaging social drama whose points of
tragic content never DO rise to the
height OF deep tragedy. The middle
register to which the romance is ct
tuned shuts out either heights or depths.
Just life As it runs along in this par
ticuiar quarter of England. In its
deepest sense II is just life as IL runs
along everywhere.
PARACHUTE. BY. Ramon Guthrie.
New York: Harcourt. Brace e. Co
THE situation Just naturally called
for q teller OF tales, spinner of
yarns. There they we're, the two young
aviators. at the fine Memorial Hospital
in a dull little town, riending up after
the war Here were order and cieafili-
ness and lovely women, young and old,
filed with tenderness for the soldier
boys Deadly stuff, after the fury and
fight, after the hunger and lousiness
and filth OF fighting In the air and on
the ground And this bright, soft place
played the very deuce with the realities
soon to face these two n1endink boys
All the old social lines we're down.
Tony the Wop" lost his head, but he
was not the only one who suffered
such misadventure Indeed, the lady
lost hers, too that Is. one OF the ladies
lost her head rather more completely
than the others did. Al any rate, in
the course Of time she eloped with Tony,
son OF the old fruit vendor out Peoria
way. Don't begin by feeling sorry for
her awakening when she really knew
Tony. For Tony was as much dis
gusted with all Of her refinement as
she was with his utter crldeness And
he wondered, even more than she did,
how he ever did come to do IT, And
when 1T was all over one understands
Tony completely And. oh, Jeezel III
great to be hopping a freieht aeaipi
That society stuff was beginning to get
on my nerves" So ends the story Of
one OF q thousand misfit combinations
that followed Immediately upon the
close OF the war. An admirably con-
ceiyed picture OF real situation, one.
too, that is projected with Just enough
OF restraint 10 make 1t carry completely
over into the acceptance and delight
of the reader
AN ACCIDENTAL ACCoMPLICE. By
William Johnston. author Of "Limpv q
etc. New York: Doubleday, DDran
IL Co.
HERE is A good story for the mod
ern young woman to read. A rich
girl, this one About TO be- married too
Just then her father was accused OF
embezzling trust funds. oh, millions
In the face OF such diaater the prospec.
tive bridegroom faded away. Not the
girl. however, She didn't even cry o,
II she did 1t was a very short outburst
For the first We know. this girl is head.
over heels in the business Of finding
oft who the real scamp In the embeZ.