Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

like: In the Biological Survey is cited
a bulk of more than thousand maps
about birds and other, wild animals
their ranges and breeding grounds,
migration routes of birds "a clear
source Of delight, and information, for
those interested. And SO the book runs
to an inclusive order of fact, mapped
fact, for the use of the general public.
We perhaps fail to realize the daily de-
mand for guides, routes, short cuts to
the huge army of travellers that every
day stands in immediate need OF such
assistance. Industries and professions
need such direction also as these maps
can give. The whole is a practical pub
LEGATION and one of exceptional excel
lence in its clear and orderly proiec-
ton. For study or definite use here is
authority from the main source. the
Federal Government, ready to the hand
of the public. One more count for the
Washington Government in its ire
mendous efforts toward imparting use
full information to those coming under
its care.
PATERFAMILIAS. BY w. B. Trites,
author of THE Gypsy" etc. New
York Cosmopolitan Book Corpo-
ration. -
TT takes this kind of man to write this
kind Of story. The father of the
family, as you come to think of him,
is, whether he will or not, a more or
less pathetic figure. A little: to one
side, always, never In the middle of
things as most mothers are. When he
Is all summed up-weighed and all
that-he looks exactly like pocket
book. And that's what he Is. Yes, I
hear your loud disclaimers and your
soft mot My Dad!"-but he is. Often.
while handing out for the bills Of Tom
and Anne and Pete, he is thinking
whale Of fellow himself. Well. it's all
right or he "guesses" it Is. He is of
the sort that makes one feel soft and
pitying, now and then. And so, Mr..
Trites who is about half humor and
the other half smiling understanding
that never breaks out into open laugh
ter, Is the man to write the story Of
DR.. Stanton, the paterfamilias in the
case. Getting along, the doctor, al
most 50-not the famous physician,
not yet. Hardly time to get ahead
what with the marriage and the steady
run Of those hostages to matrimony
that take so much to feed and clothe
and educate-well, he'll have to man.
age the debts somehow. Yes, there is
no doubt about 1t. The father of the
family doesn't get all that's coming
to him in the way of understanding
that he is, after ALL human being
and not a bank. A very touching
story, told in fine mood of under
standing, with no notion at all that IL
is going to be a touching" story.
HORSES IN THE SKY. BY Larry
Barretto, author of "Old Enchant-
ment." New York; The John Day
Co. -
A WAR story, and in the new man
ner Of these. Yes, they are set
Ting, these war romances, to a quieter
and one feels, to truer sense of that
period and. therefore, to- saner and
less prejudiced portrayal Of the Great
Mistake. Within the last year the very
best of the war books have come out.
These are the ones that we need to
read. The uproar, the false patriotism,
the artificial hatreds, the general OBJ
scenity of war are passing out by virtue
of their own unreality in the heart of
the fighting man himself Here Is an
other of these best of the war stories.
1t, like the good company in which It
so clearly stands, deals with a mere
handful of young soldiers-but these
are enough. These are, In truth. the
war. It must ever, for its deep effects,
take up the individual. So in Larry
Barretto's romance there are outstand-
ing only four boys, four Americans.
Each one Of them Is himself-Barretto
has seen to that. One, at heart, an
idealist. One, inside himself, bundle
OF fears. One q hard boiled youngster
Of business leanings and the other an
emotional lad with ready smile and
equally ready mistiness about the eyes.
And these boys made good-that Is, If
you call fighting like the devil himself
making good. don't. But that's not
the point. The point Is that Barretto
has let each of these boys react to
the monstrous thing In hand according
to his own natural and instructive be-
ing. And this Is art. No doubt about
1t. One of the boys is scared-but he
goes into the thing, and fights like
hero. And so, each according to him
self, hands in his account. BY welding
these. by giving to each its own weight
and influence in the picture of war, by
setting the whole In its colorful and
shifting surroundings of warmly, by
all this. you have for your pleasure
soldiers who carried on, as they would,
being themselves. One of the late crop
of romances Of the war, and one Of the
best of these.
y X ~
THE FABULOUS FORREST: The Rec
ord of an American Actor. BY
Montrose j. Moses, author of 1.-THE
American Dramatist," etc. Illus
trated. Boston: Little, Brown, q Co.
THE world on the one hand. The
u actor on the other. The drama in
between the two. Such, broadly, APP
pears to be the general placements of
MontroSe Moses in his large literary
dealings with the drama. itself In
what measure and significance does the
drama, under consideration reflect the
world from which 1t is drawn? And in
what measure Of genius in the art of
acting does this great stage figure or
that one embody the high moments of
the drama itself as a reflection of life
and character? OF course, no compe-
tent writer on any theme can be held
down to rule and order. But, in the
main this seems to be the revealing
stand taken by this familiar Of the
stage and of dramatic literature itself
So, here in the story Of Forrest, great
actor of his day, one finds the artist
objectifying the spirit of his own day,
taking competent part in its general
drift Of affairs by way OF his profession
and craft. To those not completely
stage-minded. the picture of Forrest,
the man, is of deep interest A spec
tacular man-but his day was given to
ebullient performances to snowy holi-
days OF the Roman stripe. to an ex-
pansive' full-blooded life. Forrest was
in tune with his day-not exactly our
dav. but an important one that had no
little share in the making of this one.
Not an altogether admirable character
as Mr.. Moses so forthrightly portrays
him. But, there must be irresistible
attacks upon the manhood of a genius,
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