Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
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Books Of Special Interest to the Vacationist
The Story OF a Long Hike-A Volume
ON Exploration.
on Exploration.

that possessed by the one for whom it was
specially planned and achieved.
MAD ANTHONY'S DRUMMER Reginald
Wright Kaufman. Illustrated by Thomas
Fogarty. New York: The Macmillan Co.
A CAPABLE and engaging novelist for the
grown folks, Mr. Kaufman here turns his
hand--once more think it iS-to the making
of story for boys. Knowing well the tribe
which he is facing, this author goes back to
the very stiffest days in our history for the
hero of his story. Revolutionary days. The
war at low point. Desperate the situation
And most desperate of all at Stony Point
which-if not taken and held-forebodes sheer
disaster for that phase of the Colonial cam
paign. Mad Anthony is in command. great
situation for a certain sort of youth. And here
he is, Sam the drummer of Mad Anthony's
troops. He is. TO be sure a good deal more
than drummer, you have already guessed.
Adorng his leader-who would not despite the
'madness" Sam bends every bit of his boy
fidelity to a keen anxiety about that fortress
across from his own army He dreams impos-
sible dreams about it, of doing weird things to
find out its true inwardnesS, Of deviSing mad
plans against it, of becoming an instrument
he himSelf-toward triumph for the Colonials.
Now some of these lunacieS escape from the
mind of SAM taking effect in action. It is
these escapes from sanity that give direction
to the story, that provide the action by way
OF which, little by little, there comes a turn in
the tide toward Mad Anthony and the success
of his troops at this critical moment in the
Revolutionary movement Holding fast to the
boy and adding to this solid foundation Mr.
Kaufman, out of his good grasp of the par
ticularS of that historic period and out of
his experience also, as quite commonly pleas
ing story teller, delivers live and belevable
boy over to readers. Good history Ought to
be more of it. If children, as such, do not
become attracted toward this branch of infor-
nation they are going to lose, intellectually
much OF its significance history comes to
them by the dry roadway of school text books
Therefore, true and vivid background, like
this one, across which runs a plausible tale
OF appropriate adventure, Is invaluable for
breeding interest in the early affairs Of ones
own country
THE JUNGLE MEETING-POOL. BY Mervin
Skipper. Illustrated by r. W. Coulter
New York: Frederick A Stokes Co
IT was Kipling who first gave us the story of
all the animals meeting at the water hole.
reasonable matter, a plausible tale an en-
crossing picture. Now and then another has
taken hand with the same theme No wonder.
Here Is the age-od drama, once more reStaged
And here is just the peculiar kind of poetic
imagination needed to give to the scene both
verify of appearance and depth of significance.
parable alegory, or other of the two-face
brought to issue in a real sincerity of artistic
conception. And so, as matter of course the
beasts all meet at the water hole, in truce
under this common necessity of life, water
While there, and since this is ever a truce res
pite, they fall to talking their common
affairs and special problems. Just like folks
No matter how deep the quarrel they cannot
hold back from talking themselves out when
upon occasion, they meet. Here tiger and
python and monkey and others of the Jungle
To
common veal. strange creature has come to
their neighborhood. An infinitely crafty one
able to make use of weapons quite outside his
own bodily possession, arms superior to talon
and claw and muscles of STEEL A strange way,
too, this one has of knowing beforehand what
each of them, there at the pool, is going to do
at this time or at that time. While they are
so engrossed in the common danger there comes
that way the young of this enemy, the White
Mans Cub. And he, fearless, or so it seems
falls to telling of things that might be done by
all Of them working together to straighten out
the tangle Of their apprehensions and fears.
lovely and poetic version of "the lion and
the lamb" of the long-gone time when beast
animal and man animal were just possibly in
something like working accord. time long
since disturbed by the progress of the human
toward new ways of existence-wayS, however,
chat are deeply impregnated by the sense of
dominance and superiority and the vanity of
heroics-these operating many times against
the olo, ana 1orgoCGen, companions at the water
pool, at the place Of truce. Charmingly worked
out in its special drift Of suggestion and mean
ing.
THE GOLD BUG: And other Tales and Poems
BY Edgar Allan Poe. Pictures by Carlos
Sanchez. New York: The Macmillan Co.
1T is pretty well settled that the mystery tale
has come to stay It is certain that this
kind of story enlists the deep attention of young
and old alike Since this is true why not, in
respect to young readers encourage their set