Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

wITCH'S MAIDEN.

WFTCHS MAIDEN. Historical Romance
By Mabel L. Tyrrell Illustrated by Marie
Lawson. New York: Junior Literary Guild
THE story itself goes back to when Cavaliers
and Roundheads were In vogue. A novel
OF English history, therefore. The troubles Of
young Temperance Farncombe were many at
this time, because the troubles of her parents
were many Children take over excess luggage
always from the sufferings of their fathers and
mothers. And these were times Of real peril
This girl Of royalist birth and belief was with
out friends till one day Mother Ursula-known
everywhere to be a witch-came to her sup
port Temperance loved the witch, gathering
NERDS for her magic brewS, and learning no end
OF things about the wickedneSs Of Cromwell
and the Righteousness Of the royalist cause.
Temperance herself became IN a sense a
worker Tor the cause, hiding o young stranger
away in a cave for the sake of her side of
the warfare, and doing many heroic things
that make the best sort Of reading for a day
In which girls are amazingly active though
not in the way of promoting battles or of
saving armies. picturesque romance of good
historic substance, written by girl who, living
much in England and France, has in her blood,
nevertheless, the ineradicable imaginative power
Of the born Weshman. welshwoman
DAD AND l. BY Eva Little McElevey Sill
houettes by Ethel C. Taylor New York:
e P. Dutton & Co.
DOETRY. Irresistible Ought to be formally
designed adopted, ceremonially inau-
glrated as part of the Fathers day that ID
being so rightfully considered throughout the
country. Why not a Fathers dayp Can any
one say? II, and when, it comes as it is
bound to do. there Is doubt ut all about
Dad and T. having post of honor in its
ritual. First. here is the most natural living
together that can be imagined No book at
all, not in its effect. little girl, instead and
. man. But such q man, from the heart-point
Of that little girl
Into the park and under the trees
Where wild flowers nod to the honey bees
Where rabbits scamper and red squirrels scold
ana ferns come up from the leafy mold,
Dad and talk
Along the bank at the edge of the lake,
There's favorite path we often take,
Sometimes we stop to sail a boat
Or throw leaf to watch 1t float
When Dad and 1 walk
and talk.
My daddy knows just how to fish,
He can fix up a hook and line If I wish
From piece OF string and a pin that's bent
we haven't caught any but we saw where one
We stopped walking and talking
to fish.
And on through q little book Dad and r~
go playing. and beside the plays and talks
there is the daintiest grl-in-slhouette that ever
danced through the joy-tine of little girl
and her Dad"
Now this particular volume, so trim and neat
lies on my desk. More than once a day. YES
more, take it up for its music and beauty and
fine feeling and the lovely friendship between
these two. Charming.
Another word of good news-something in
this line. There comes sound information that
there is 10 be a series of THE Cheerful
Cherub-but here and now are the time and
place TO stop The Cheerful Cherub" deserves
special seat of honor For cheer philosophy,
real sense of life, for beauty and friendlineSs
and an uncanny art of expression by no more
than three or four undulant lines-by all Of
these powers The Cheerful Cherub" is the
prime daily feature of any paper that is happy
enough TO entertain this lovely companion So
it is good news that Covici-Friede is still faith
ful to the "Cherub" and to readers everywhere
for there is to be new issue of this delectable
art