Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
IDA GILBERT MYERS.


Gerconk now. for he is sure tc
come again and you VIII be GLAD
Al any time to have at least a
l>owirs acquaintance with MN
Maybe vou do already know nm. Foi
ne has written one other book beside
.r,sck Majesty Tom, Tom" But
,q,e everybody else who makes diScov-
$50, avs going around these Gays
e&,,,+ir,c for mine, John Nsnoercook
- had myseif invented MN
%-,,nc fellow, not far into the tWenues'
y+Se1 Ia be a newspaper man out Wes.;
>N5s-~an0 splendid that so many ol
,rase ~s,,nrfrv lads come 10 DE auons
eIs Fnest. If vriterSl Well. Sonaet1''ais
C,,t il, the West came under the ewes
~ trIs bov. I'm not going TO ten you
y,.7at II was. Al any rate. tuihSu
him toward a study Of the nesIo. ="
snav he went on the black Ual1' hui nt
ing out every negro republic IN EMS
ence I suppose a point o; me au s.,.
was to see what they woulo GO VIII
freedom and independence Aoin-
Tam" is a product OF NanoeEcooS.
study in South America. Biack MsJ-
esfya is drawn straight on from nus eA-
r,eriarces III Haiti and the Dominican
p.r,,.ifr Down in the islands he
V.niIeS beside these men and women.
Ha watched them at their work al
ti,eir NAV, at their long hours OF plain
ss]tnr He went deep into the sources
~ tSetr feelings. their attitudes. their
prtinnS, He felt for them. mucn as We
FeeI for bawiidere6 children in strange
v,oTld-Such as We all are. However
+f,st * something else. And from them
e1s g,a drew three Haen-TouSsaint DeS-
s.#nes. Christophe. The greatest OF
these rroved IA be CfriStophe. who
made himself King of the black people
Of Haiti. A little book. this, packed
with the very bone and Sinew OF sheer
drama. In it Christophe takes MS
riace upon the throne. very regal IN
fl7s hahsliments Of power, very pune
4ilsetss in every matter OF court cere-
,,,nnisl. Poor Caristophe now Henry
I sack Of the court and the palaces
that The King built this writer stretches
tie lovely land of Haiti. suave and
melting in its climate, rich in It's
Erowths. Turing in its scenery. And
The stc~v goes on with the reforms in
situated by the King. industrial and
financial reforms that read like fairy
tales sourced in some strange magic
possessed by this big black Christophe-
Tbs King brought work to the island
erS-much 10 their distress; he set up
a commerce with the outer world. he
r7eoe a financial system to meet such
enterprises. He resisted the overtures
u Napoleon and got away with it. AL
this was something over 100 years ago.
Napoleon still sailing high. yet with
wings ashanti toward possible sudden
fall. But King Henry of Haiti! He
- as $-srrwC Fx-G4Ns1c 4t.fy1rwc far
an vuatutored black man to conceive
and carry through Then--but you
will yourself read about the end OF
Cnysstopi1e, Henry I. Having read the
whole story, one that runs with the
magic Of dramatic inspiration itself.
you viii begin 10 look around upon cur
own assumed superiorities. while your
spirit grows lowly and loving. toward
all the world, as we all grow when we
ies ourselves alone
A clear history OF Haiti is here pro-
tected in deeply condensed drama of
reality whose towering figures are three
negroes. The spirit Of this Is approach
ed even By only one other writer that
kncw-Biair Niles. who Is clearly of
spiritual kin to John Vandercook.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWO. BY
Henry EitchelI Webster, author Of
Joseph Greer and His Daughter. Sc
etc indianapolis: The Bobbs- Mer-
Til Co.
THE very latest in ghosts sets up and
carries forward this story of a
haunted house Strange voices from
nowhere. rappings and tappings quite
unsourced. along with other unaccount-
abie occurrences. are the means en-
p3oyed by uneasy spirits to let 1t be
known that they have come back upon
some errsnd OF Importance. These be-
ccn1e the nucleus Of the average ghost
story. Nowadays however. things are
locking up for the inventor of this kind
Of fiction The human voice now
carries across the world A pressed
button sets into activity mechanisms
placed thousands OF miles away. You
may be sure that the up-and-d dressed
mystery man sees in these marveis ma
teTial for his own craft. In The
Clock Strikes Two" Mr.. Webster shows
us how II lis done. The story has TO
60 with Silas Boardn1an and his will.
EasaS is old and sick. hard TO steer into
the right way Of leaving his money
where some Of his children think it
ought 70 go. And Silas has a sorrow.
one IN which z shade of remorse is
Blended just as the clock struck 2
On that night 30 years ago his daughter
mad daed tragic death The old man
MAD the clock stopped. Nobody should
oacn T. And so these sons worked
upon tns sick and falling man One
ca tI2re came slow ''tick-tack, tick
tacK, The clock struck two and then
zSoppeo. It occurred again and again at
intervals. Breaking the old man down
70 p!labil.tT. This would have been a
cf2e-siGea story had it no. been for
tFaf giTi. very young and seemingly easy.
brought IN 70 keep Silas company. She
eventually takes hold. And the story
ge8 another SIDE 10 IL. Finely exciting
70 the enc after such change i'm the
general drift. Modern science, a knowI-
cage of human nature on The side of
lie general c1pldity. and a demonstrated
fElI IN story structure here serve Mr.
Webster IN the making Of an adventure
ma is u different pattern from that
q the cGzen novels By which he is so
vel known
#&x
TIE HAUNTED HOUSE. BY Hllaire
Ee!51c and q. r. Cnesterton, authors
O. The Green Oyercoaf. etc. New
YORK. Harper IL Brothers.
VyEEE afr. Eelloc writes down the
s2oFos and Mr. Chesterton Dencils
III Ire pictures, then. In a common re-
GafcIM phrase. The product Is a
Chester Belize" Here Ii one Of them
Il Is about haunted house. Not quite
50 f0re~nanGed. these two. as their
i6.sf&Fy contrere in America. Henry
E&tct2eJ Webster. VINO promptly seized
lGon TIRE radio and other long distance
operators Is the pery thing 10 suit q
rally modern ghost down TO the
ground The rather out~worn ventriio-
CAST spp"ags ~ oe the pest that this
r2ir Of Rerluses could contrive 10 sui,
tne purpose in hand That purpose was
70 scare away from The old manor
house the INSCRIPTIONS woman VINO b.
tf3e ACCIDENT Of marriage Vas In pos
sessse1 rs widow 81 the owner and step.
n9otner 10 the Yighifui heir BY way ot
.4z..ns Il.