Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-06
THE LIBRARY TABLE
By the Booklover

Two more studies of women have been
added to Booth Tarkington's collection
with his novel, young MRS. Greeley"
But more valuable than his creation of
A relia Hedge and Stella Greeley is his
creation of Bill Greeley. All three are
small town products and Aurelia and
Stella would always remain small town
natures, whatever their environment
but Bill would be at home after q short
! time for adjustment, In any society, be-
cause he is able so soon TO forget him
| self and 10 become interested in outside
things. He Is so big and simple and
sincere and unsuspecting that his vain,
| foolish wife almost wrecks him, would
have done so perhaps II it had not been
for the watchfulness of a far cleVerer
| woman, his secretary, Crystal Nelson
| Crystal Nelson, by the way lie another
OF Booth Tarkineton's interesting femi-
| nine studies.
| When Bill Greeley FIRST has an ink
ling that his wife Is doing some talking
| OF sort not creditable to him or her.
self, he decides in his direct way to ask
her about the matter but he meets with
| stony opposition. Stella refuses to an
! SWer questions and ansrily huns Aud
| Lang Syne." Bill gives up for the time
being. After the dinner at the home of
the big boss" followed by the hys-
terical scene with Aurelia, Bill is further
enlightened, but he Is not yet altogether
| sure about the facts. 4" There's some
thing I've got TO get at Stella he said
slowly. Last night after what MRS,
Gliesinger told me asked you il you'd
neen TALKING. and then you got so upset
about a dress for this dinner tonight
and all, couldn't go on with it. Well,
I'VE been thinking. The way Mrs.
Gliesinser had 1t ! was supposed to be
Jealous-LOrd knows what about!-but
everybody understands how gossip gets
twisted once It begins going around, and
! ~ looks TO me IL MRS. GlieSinger had
founded what she said on a twisted YER
sion OF your Jealousy about Miss CRYSTAL
Nelson and me. Anyhow. it's clear that
stories about us have been going around
and can't get it ont of nv head thai
it's got something to do with the wav
Aurelia's been acting tonight" In the
language OF childrens games Bill is
gettlne warmer" but not vet does he
force Stella to tell the truth.
There is ANAL scene between Bill
and his reasonable wife, in which Bill
hardens himself 10 be ruthless in his
administration Of justice. Stella, he
began harshly.. 'Stells-she look
ed up at him and he stopped speaking,
for this upward look of hers startled
MIN by its resemblance to one that he
mao seen, upon occasion, long ago. He
was little shocked to find that the
piteoiis eyes Of his wife should remind
nun OF the eyes OF that old dog of his,
william began again Stella,
the 1rsb thing want to know
But his voice YVES unsteady as he aazed
down into the eyes lifted so helplesslv
TO his. He coughed loudly. He would
tax about something else for a few
moments, he decided, and then begin
the severe questioning of her upon
which he was determined" But the
questioning is never completed Bill is
100 generous TO be the Just Judge. The
great Dutch King of England never did
better thing than when he destroved
without reading 1t, the scroll bearing
tne names OF those who had conspireo
against him. They had been traitors
ouC would be truer to him thenceforth
than II they knew he knew them for
traitors. William of Orange let them
I'VE IN SAFETY and with spirits unbroken.
ny instinct sheerly, this other William
olo as nne O. thing. He heard the lift
IN his Wifes voice. All. WELL the GOOD
fellow said to himself i guess can pet
along without knowing every last thing
about everything"
Another of Hendrix Van Looms de-
llgnCful combinations Of text and mir
lures, equally for ADULTS and children
Is man the Miracle Maker" The IL
histrations, quaint little affairs of lines
ana curves and shading, are. as usual
Dv the suthor! The text is the Story of
the inventions OF man from the firsI
striking OF fire from Two dry sticks on
stones. MI. Van Loon saws that rho
superior man realized at a very early
moment that there was something more
70 NE than the mere business of get
ting enough 10 eat and drink" The
nnpieI inventions made by primitive
man were the foundation of The verv
complex inventions of our later com.
pick civilization
A Washington woman has raceived
me honor OF the Atlantic prize If
$4,000. offered by the Atlantic MONTHLY
ana Little. Brown g. Co. for the ..moSt
interesting biography Of any kind sort
or description" Mrs. Herbert d. Brown
harriet Conner Brown won the prize
tor ner book Grandmother Browns
Hunored Years, 1827-1927." The bioe-
rapny Is chiefly in the form of a dia.
loeue recording conversations between
MIS- herbert Brown and her husbands
sgeo mother. The record was kept with
no 1oea OF publication, simply as a
legacy for the grandchildren, but it is
fortunate for biography lovers that
MRS. Brown thought of submitting it
Tor the Atlantic prize, for it is a UNIQUE
piece OF work. Grandmother Brown
1927, and died January 8, 1929.
through her own memories and those
OF her father, told to her, she reached
back TO the American Revolution. Her
latner, Ebenezer Foster. of Revolution
airy ancestry, was one of the early set
tiers OF the Northwest Territory. Her
husband was Daniel Truesdell Brown.
who lived to be "a. and she was the
mother of eight children, four born in
ONO and four In Iowa. Herbert D. Brown
Is the youngest son. The book will be
published Serially in the Atlantic
Monthly, beginning in August. and will
appear as volume in the Autumn. 1t
rs said that Mrs. Brown has other in
teresting materially concerning the set
tlement OF the Northwest, found during
her researches in connection with the
background for Grandmother Browns
Hundred Years"
Presidents I've known and Two
Near-Presidents," by Charles willis
Thompson, who has been Washington.
correspondent for the New York World.
New York Times and New York Trib-
une, is a conversational account Of per-
sonal experiences with several heads OF
the Nation. Mckinley Roosevelt, Taft.
Wilson, Harding. Coolidge. Mark Hanna
and Bryan are his subjects. The rem
iniscences are interesting; the judg-
ments are, like all judgments, open to
argument. Mi. Thompson is psrticu-
larry hard on Wilson and Bryan.
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