Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15

A valuable publication for all, Jev and
Gentle alike, since it is In effect a
constituent part Of the spirit of all
countries for the past IS years in this
particular aspect Of general interest
It gives the effect of highly scholarly
and competent survey In its double role
Of biographer and historian.
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TIDES BY Count Edouard Won Key
serling, author of Twilight etc.
Translated from the German by
Arthur j. Ashton. New York: The
Macaulay Co.
THE girl married a nobleman of her
= own class, he quite old enough to
be her father. When the gifted srtist
came to paint her picture she fell In
love with him. he with her. Not I'M
natural, you see. Right or wrong. she
went with the young peasant painter;
married him. Not better than the f1rst
alliance, as time proved. That's the
story, except for the release that came
finally. This no better than captivity.
either. Illustration Is the theory of
life as Edouard Won Keyserling depicts
it in this novel; in the most of his
novels as well. The bare story in its
outline does not convey the clarity of
the medium here-words so chosen, so
arranged, so combined as to produce a
pure transparency, through which one
looks across into his own life. A
nobleman himself, one OF the Baltic
barons" in Courland. Won Keyserling
turned Socialist, but, disillusioned, went
back to his own order. Defeated, as he
thought. in each of his trials with life,
his novels naturally reflect the expert
ments which he himself made to adj
just his own existence to the common
order and trend. Such is the purpose of
Tides" a beautiful piece of simplicity
in the art Of novel writing.
KALLU OF THE CARTS. BY John
Eyton: indianapolis: The Bobhs-
Merrill Co.
BECAUSE of some obscure Hindoo
mother, the boy went native on a
perfectly good English family living in
India. Such a golden brown skin was
well, 1t was shame. So the grown
young ladies of the family felt and so
they acted. His name was Drew. He
was going to be sent away to school
that very day or the next. Then the
carts came, six Of them crawling over
the long lines of hill and valley till
they came to the house where Drew
lived. And that is the beginning of a
delicious adventure. To strip of his
clothes to tie on pink flannel loin-
ciotn, 10 think OF name better than
Drew-"Durroo" it was-to fly after
the carts, to r" accepted upon stern
trial by Kallu, the littlest of the Indian
drivers-that's the story little further
along; that's the story almost to an end.
tnough there's quite a long space given
over to the recovery of Durroo-"Drew"
again. IL you please-to a short and
painful career in the school upon which
ne had been headed when the great
adventure came. But nothing lasts for
ever. not even misery. Trust Kallu of
the Carts, that adorable and depend
able little driver. He, not the kind to
leave new friend in the lurch: not
kaiIu: Therefore. We go along with a
splendid rescue from prison. otherwise
cailed school: another swift Skinning
on OF coats and things, a deft turn of
the loin-cloth around a slim middle,
ana on they go, Durroo and Kallu, over
the wide roads of India, stopping at
nightfall to sleep beautifully on the
ground, to eat delectable stuff with
their hngers-rice and meat and tanpy
SUN covered with a smothering pan
cake. Such joy, such a life of happi-
ness. all because Drew turned. native
on his perfectly good English father!
You Will be told that this is a fine
story for boys. It is. But. Won how
along about 90 years old, don't you let
TINS story OF Durroo and Kallu slip
through your hands. You'll rue it if
THE VAMPIRE: His Kith and Kin.
BY Montague Summers, author of
The History of Wftchcraft," etc.
New York: E. p Dutton g. Co.
FROM the many beliefs that come
together under the Subject of de-
monology Mr. Summers has drawn of
for special study of that vampirism
and the vampire. A terrible tradition,
this. which spread into the beliefs and
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