Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
REVIEWS OF AUTUMN BOOKS
Paul Wilstach Brings Out Volume on Underwater Virginia
Following His Potomac Landings"-Mad Anthony
WAYNE and Audubon Are Worthy Subjects

shibbcleth for protection and preserva-
ton against the ravages OF q ruthless
age" These words bring to close the
STORY Of q great pioneer, artist, natur-
alist and man"-John James Audubon.
The story begins with the picture Of
that familiar object "a spoiled boy
This one. given to incoming about the
woods by himself, in a way most dis
couraging to parents bent to the bust
ness of giving their young ones
chance. A tickle youngster, trying his
hand at this and that. with more ex-
cursions into the by-ways and hedges
than successful enterprise of any sort
could tolerate And so, always failing,
the young man moved from craft to
craft. from occupation to occupation
merchant Of sorts, painter Of not much
account. A worker all right, but a
fruitless one-the world seems to be full
Of this boy, or so the fathers and
mothers and guiding lights declare
The point of this active and engrossing
tale is that the boy was trying to find
his job-his not the one thought out
for him by the elders. And finally he
did find it-but this part of the story is
known to all. However, 1t is a good
adventure to read, from start to finish
A genuine MISUNDERSTANDING, pov-
erty, hunger. q bit of easement and
then on into misadventure again. A
prodigious worker. when he found the
thing for which he had been seeking,
a man of faith as we'll as vision, plod-
der when it came to setting down facts
about the bird life of this country, a
traveller for new views, for new facts
to set beside the familiar ones-and
finally, the great Audubon in whose
name every year thousands upon thou
sands go out into the countryside of
wood and field to make acquaintance
with the beautiful bird life that every
corner supports, to devise plans for the
protection of this life. to renew the
human heart by fostering within it thu
bird life of the world. Of course ali
the Audubon associations possess this
book about their great leader. Outside
OF this class the story Is one Of the best
for adventure-loving youth to read. It
Is so entirely free from the overgoodi-
ness of many books. It Is so clear a
record Of genuine human nature work
ing itself out by way of the neighbor-
hood roundabout that it is delight to
read as entertainment. The effect of It
takes care OF itself without admonition
or preachment. Great story, given in
sympathy and understanding, as well as
IN command of the facts making up
the life OF Audubon.
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MAD ANTHONY WAYNE. BY Thomas
Boyd, author of Through the
Wheat" etc. New York; Charles
Scribner's Sons.
THE deserved triumph of Through
the Wheat" must have set Thomas
Boyd upon the literary warpath, so to
speak. Fired by the emotions that
without question went into the making
CT that surprising novel Of war, Mr.
Boyd naturally reached out for a mill
tary figure of the past that. could he
have been alive today, would have given
an amazing account of himself in the
World War. And SO, Mad ANTHONY
Wayne" incorrigible fighter. steps into
this novel, its hero. its mad" leader
through the terrible years Of the Ameri-
can Revolution. But this tale is not all
of lighting. For it begins with the
home life of Wayne, with the common
interests of peace that engage him. with
his quick response to the craving I'M
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