Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

ly keep right on until the end. And,
by the way, the STORY That Is AL
Lies" Is a most ingenious pattern OF
that which can really be accomplished
by sheer lying. However, it takes neither
fairy tale nor folk lore to demonstrate
this Just listen minute anywhere.
Scholars have made collections OF
folk lore the world over, East and West.
Here. however, is collection of fresh
stories that have the added attraction
of having been part Of the authors
own childhood and youth. And, some
how. they have stayed, fresh, in his
mind. despite the er-layings of time
and the absorptions Of business. You
will feel at once the new quality, the
young quality, of these "other Arabian
Nights"
WILD HORSE MESA. BY Zane Grey,
author of Nevada" etc. New York;
Harper 81 Bros.
THE hero of this tale of the West Is
l. a. horse-the wild stallion, Pan
guitch. To capture this king Of the
mesa, to subdue him to the will OF man
that is the adventure. Plots and
plans, pursuit and ambush, are each
tried in turn. Gradually a love story
gets on its way along with the more
hardy enterprise. But to the reader
there is but one engroSsing interest
here. That stallion must not be caught
by these things having evil designs
against him. So, in the ups and downs
of other incidents set to picture here,
the reader waits upon every page for
the appearance of Panguitch and for
his triumph. After good deal Of ex-
citing stuff the great horse Is a pris-
oner. You should see him-Ilo, no, you
shouldn't see hirn-So astounded, be-
wildered, enraged, outraged. Nobody
should see him at this moment of de-
feat. If this were the end of the story,
it would hardly be worth reading. Not
that it has not the full Zane Grey meas
ure on man size business about 1t. 1t
has. But if man we're really of the pat
tern set out by the underhand capture
of Panguitch, he wouldn't be worth a
minutes hearing. Well, he isn't, really.
So you go on to the end, when with
your hat in the air you are cheering for
the Big Horse. Oh. yes. the love story
is all right. Good support for the main
issue. But it is the story of the Great
Horse that counts so masterfully in this
case.
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THE ROGUE'S MOON. BY Robert
w. Chambers, author of 1.-THE Sun
Hawk" etc. New York: D. Apple
ton g. Co.
OBERT CHAMBERS has taken tc
~ piracy. 1t may be that this new
mood of adventure began with his de-
Tense of Capt Kidd, proving to himself
and his readers that the notorious Kidd
was much traduced man. Not pirate
at all. but quite decent, a quite dis
tinguished citizen as we'll who. like many
another before him and since, has come
under the suspicion of law and order
At any rate, nowadays, Mr. Chambers
is turning out exciting adventures at
sea, all of the pirate stripe and, there
fore, all of day wilder than this one
The story unfolds down Carolina way
where a secret and safe port invited
harborage for marauder and buccaneer
So before the big business is over you
will catch sight of many villsin--the
infamous Blackboard, Capt. Death anc
many another. among them one woman
as fierce as the next one. To put q
touch of softness in this hard matter
there Is girl, Nancy TopSf1eld. You'll
like Nancy. To be sure she's dressed
like a boy and passes for boy. But
she had to do that. so don't hold II
against her since she Is, all around
qualified to be called a genuine heroine
and winning one, too. She finds q
beau. or he finds her, and this fact
brings moments of easement in a mat
ter that Is pretty much blood and thtin-
der or would be if it were not for thi:
delightful heroine, Good work, we all
say. who enjoy the thrills and shivers
that Mr.. Chambers Is so able to give
us by way Of his incorrigibly romantic
typewriter.
LOIS MILLS. BY Maria Sias. Mime.
apolis: The Midwest Co.
THIS novel serves a double purpose
The first is to introduce a new
story writer. The second is to announce
new publishing house in the Middle
West. Both promisingly worth while
The story is entirely modern-that OF
the young woman of the hour bent
upon a public career as the single sat
isfaction Of the future. Business, art
music. what not-anything so long as
1t lifts the girl out of the antiquated
role Of wife, housewife, mother and the
rest OF the humdrum way. Now this
story. likely to be carried away by the
modern view, becomes a really consid-
cradle one by virtue of the fact that its
neutrality-suspicious. young in out
look-possesseS the saving grace OF
knowing her human nature, as this has
developed in the female of the species
For soar as she may, rebel as she does
deny as Justify as 1t is in her to deny
the girl, all said and done seeks finally
the age-old destiny of the woman. The
girls OF this story do. They must II
the writer is holding hands with life
even at odd moments. The novel starts
off with vigor. 1t Is a talking novel,
progressing by way of conversation
Usually a dangerous expedient. A
shade dangerous here. Few people talk
well. Now and then one talks too well.
The former fill book with deadly stuff
The latter makes one feel as If he were
sitting in on an interminable seance
with Oscar Wilde. This book talks too
much--a little. The girls are not up
to 1t. No girl is. But, barring this
slight defect. it is good story-modern
in spirit and outlook, engaged in the
development of handful of worth
while young women, its setting is an
active and natural one, its young men
reScuers in a way-are such as one
would like to be saved by. On the
whole the story has much more to its
credit than otherwise, and much in the
way Of promise for the next one. So
good luck to this new writer and this
new publishing house-the Midwest Co.