Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-09

receive more t1an we are able TO give. Friend
illness is the key to this situation, to this big
program of letting love loose In the world in a
thousand ways of comradely confidence and
lifting suggestion.
book for our low moments when nothing
seems to count A book to open the door of
the heart to for reminders of the beauty of the
world and the basic good intent of those who
dwell within it. scholarly, friendly disinter-
ested man here invites us to his party where
hundred personalities of charm and substance
wait to welcome us end to delight us.
CINDERELLAS DAUGHTER: And other
Sequels and Consequences. BY John Erskine,
author of "The Private Life of Helen of
Troy" etc. Illustrations by Graham Erskine.
indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company.
WHAT would have happened to them today
to those fascinating friends of our child
hood, of every ones childhood? What to
Cinderella and her Prince Charming? What to
Lady Godiva, and to the Sleeping Beauty, to
Beauty and the Beast and the rest of the
family of many entertainments? No doubt
common wonderment along this line has taken
hold Of the more curious among us. And right
here is a chance to follow these hidden things
out into the light Of this morning and tomorrow
afternoon. Lucky are we in that phenomenal
school master, John Erskine who refuses the
solemnity of the pedagogue and who, instead,
plays all over the lot with our folktales and
traditions in robustious and communicable
Blee WnaL really old happen TO Cinderella,
suddenly lifted from sweeping ashes of the
hearth, to behave herself like high lady in a
court Of ceremonious behaviors? A fruitful
theme. as John Erskine makes hilariously plain
to you here. Probably among the adventures
none Is more favorable TO consequences dire
and stressful than the one undertaken by Lady
Godiva in an altruistic effort to remit the
burden of tax laid upon the people by her lord
1t requires little Of imagination to picture the
life OF Lady Godiva after that act of public
spirited SELF immolation. Breakfast dinner and
supper, night time and day time year in and
year out became q rumble or a storm or a
plant on the part Of the lord of the house at
the terrible act of parading his private property
upon the open and populous highway
lovely and laughable to-do John Erskine makes
out OF these modernizcd ancientries Of fairy
tale and legend. Ingenious in their devising
gently satirical in their modern sIanting enter
tanning beyond question, beneficially easing to
world dolefully ponderous in its manifold
duties and responsibilities
BANDAR-LOG: A Novel Of India BY A. W.
Smith. Boston: Little Brown q Co
RACK Of this novel-Qlite little way back
stands most important problem Nothing
less than the admixture OF race by way Of the
penetration Of alien elements within native
settlements. In this case it is India entered by
England and ruled primarily through officials
OF the British Empire. The white Englishman
and the native woman provide occasion for this
romance by way Of the Eurasian daughter that
came to them. Sent to England to be educated
the girl states indirectly the problem with
which the novel has to do. Attractive she
becomes the desire Of young Englshman's
heart. Luckily for this youth, the girl has
to 80 back home her education IN Western
ways complete Bcsotted, as q young man Is
now and then known to be- the boy follows
her The rest Of the story is colorfuI picture
OF his dsenchantment, for the girl, under the
SKIN, rs "natiVe@ n no mae ra,Se
period Of awakening IS projected through a
vivid portrayal Of life IN India-the Oriental
set on against the Western world In huge
and impassiTe resistance to any imposition OF
the new upon the old The author is without
question familiar with the East. The incidents
and episodes are Of frst-hnnd color and impli-
cation An excellent art Of asserting and
combining serves 70 produce interesting and
believable accounts Of the adjustments sought
and, in many cases. not found. II one is in
clined to shade of enthusiasm toward this
generally engrossing tale it Is at the rapid
decline OF that Eurasian girl to the ways of
her native land, almost Immediately upon her
return to it. And, yet, that as criticism could
hardly hold. For few years Of schooling in
england could, as a matter of fact cut no
figure at all beside the ages of India that had
gone into the making of the girl You'll be
glad to know that the young Englishman woke
up in the nick of time and took to fight--back
nome TO the other girl vivid romance on q
theme not overworn
PORTRAIT OF A DOG. BY Mazo de la Roche.
author Of "JaIna." etc. Pictured by Morris
Dennis. Boston, Little. Brown & Co.
HE writer and the subject the lady and the
dog collaborate in this instance with such
nne effect as turn a mere portrait" into an
autobiography account of the black Scotch
terrier, Bunty. Bunty does the work of SELF
disclosure under q thousand inspirations Of
general puppy-dog life. The authors business