Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
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every sort Of revealing power are to be
found here. An entire happy evening
travelled Germany by way of these
alone. Then I was ready for the text
.-terse, descriptive sentences with their
colors and their movements alive inside
them. assure you that this is very
active and stirring adventure-this go
ing through Germany with Mr.. New
man by way of the latest of his famous
travel books, Seeing Germany"
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THE ROGUE'S MOON. BY Robert w.
Chambers, author OF The Man They
Hanged. 'ete, Illustrated by Norman
Price, New Ycrk; d. Appleton & Co.
7 IKE stories of piraseSs Here they
sre-the adventures of all the
scandalous buccaneers from 1890 on
down 20 the present, where nowadays
the methods are 50 unpicturesQue rs to
make the men themselves not worth
recording. These are pirates as they
should be, ranging from South Carolina
all up and down the coast, which was
made for such Observation-Disclosures
without number, inletS as many for
the reaching of these inlet hiding
places, shallow waters and easy land
ngS The old days were fine days for
Blackboard and Ned Low and Francis
harrington Sprigg and a host of others,
to say nothing of the girl pirates, Mary
Read and Anne Bonney. as lusty sea-
robbers as the men themselves. Chap
ter by chapter Mr.. Chambers, with
history back Of him, gives the thrilling
adventures OF these coast rangers. One
OF them all Of us were brought up on
the most daring and audicious of them
all, William Kidd. A few years ago
researching around, Robert Chambers
came upon perfectly good clue as to
NE i
nterested-indeed, rather obsessed by
this idea of still another miscarriage
u Justlce-the popular romancer hunted
down the facts. These, put into shape
became one of the most absorbing of
the Chambers novels. THE Man They
Hanged"-William Kidd, innocent. It
was this pursuit, possibly, that SO Whet-
ted this writer's taste for pirates. At
any rate, here they are, a dozen or
more, all set out in their brutal law
leSsness or in their sheer love of daring,
with the easy storytelling swing of
MP. Chambers. A beautiful book to
look at, to handle. No little part of the
beauty comes from the pictures Nor
man Price feels just how the pirate
should look, and he makes him look
exactly that way. Is this book for
children? I don't know. Sounds quite
grown up to me.
THE DRAGON OF LUNG WANG. BY
Marion Harvey, author of '"The
Vengeance Of the Ivory Skull" etc.
New York: Edward j. Clode, Inc.
THIS tale of mystery Is submitted to
the growing numbers who refuse
to go to bed without their story of
strange and unsolvahle crime. Its
author, better than most. holds the
mystery tight up to the latest of the
last minutes-and this is the prime bid
Of the book for a reading. There is Moth
ing particularly new about the Orient as
q source Of mysterious doings under the
superstition of a dragon or other
emblem Of the power of the gods to
punish disobedient followers. In such
respect the adventure reads much like
its kin of identical origin. The trans
fer Of the business in hand from the
East to the estate of q rich American
is exceedingly well done-a natural.
unstrained shift Of background that
gives a fair plausibility to the course
Of the action. The murder itself
stands as the gruesome climax to a
masquerade party at this estate, where
the son and daughter have always
lived and still live there In q partner
ship Of control through the last tesla
ment Of the father From this point,
with q good and believable reserve of
possible criminals, the story makes its
way. The reader, guessing all the
time as each new potentiality rises.
No, that Is not the one. Nor is that,
nor that. Right here lies the distinc-
ton, the freshness Of 1.-THE Dragon Of
Lung Wang"