Evening star., 1930-05-04

Gays OF America IN the MAKING. ionic Selr
always goes along with this writer-this John
Buchan.
THE LAST RUSTLER. The Autobiography OF
Lee Sage. Illustrations by Paul s. Cloves
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
PRETTY much everything depends upon the
point of view. For instance, a man seated
at desk making marks on paper for 80 years
or SO would cali this story a pure Munchausen
yarn Lee Sage, looking across toward the man
at the desk would say, "Hes dead and don't
know it. Why not have him looked after?"
However, almost any one standing in the
middle Of things with fair look around would
declare promptly for the plausibility OF the
story in hand Amazing things have come out
Of the West. Not all Of them Lochinyars.
Here, instead, is saga Of wild adventure. Yet,
1t Is but the record of q man, made as all Of
us are. by his surroundings by the ways Of
life into which he was born by which he was
shaped. Somewhere around so years ago Utah
was not the orderly commonwealth that it now
is, nor was any part of the West Lee Sage
was born in Robbers Roost out there, it's only
native son. When the mother Of this child re-
treated into the West with her other children,
Lee, 10 years old, went with her Of course
The wildness was in his blood, the free life of
the West had caught him even then. 50, he
ran away and went back to it. Lived with the
Indians, learned from them the ways Of the
wilderness, became cowboy, a bronco buster,
showed OF at rodeos, won trophies of daring
and skill. With me, as read-I don't know
how 1t viii be with you--there was something
deeply pathetic. yet greatly stirring in the hard
Life OF that Lad, mere baby when he began,
driven by devil of restlessness into danger
and lawlessness and hardship and truly, into
one kind of clear achievement. He tells us
about 1t here without any attempt at either
flourish or concealment. Despite its rough, un-
couth dress, this is an absorbing personal ac-
count around which are gathered innumerable
scenes of actuality as this existed in the old
days OF the West The pictures by Paul Cloves
are, hrSt, sympathetic and artful, then finely
interpretive. The story runs that Lee Sage had
finally to learn the lesson of something like
social conformity-so he became a movie man
doing stunts before a shooting camera. What
ABOUT 1t? Never mind! You don't have to
answer. Read the story instead-the story Of
that little boy going to school to life.
WHAT HAPPENED TO FORESTER. By
E. Phillips Oppenheim. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
A LMoST everything. Certainly as much
and in great variety Of form as 10
distinct episodes, each packed and crammed
TO Its utmost limit. could provide this side
of miracle itself. From Marseille across the
Riviera, dash to Paris, another to London.
Such is the roadway of Forester. But no
mere map could chart the routes of rascality
and evil intent by way of which wickedneSs
or almost every known brand sought out the
hkable and competent major. Exciting as
each adventure is in its picturesque sur
roundingS of Nice and Cannes and Monte
Carlo, there is never a moment of real con-
Germ IN the readers mind. Sinister plots
against our Forester fizzle out and sizzle
harmlessly at the moment when they were
counted upon to raise the dickens of a rumpus
with that man, so troublesome when crooked
work is about to gather the goods. Every
body knows Forester. Everybody knows OPP
penheim. Knows pretty much what to expect
from both of them. Yet, familiar as they
are, these win not stale for long time to
come. Where fresh adventure may be hard
to find, there will be remaining that
power on the part of these two to transport
readers into an atmosphere of smooth charm,
of fine leisure, of sophisticated ways of living,
OF good manners and quiet humor, OF general
waywiseness in a multifariouS world. And
the eating and the drinking and the smoking!
These go on all the time. Such food! Such
wines and wfliskies-and-s -sodal Such heavenly
brands of tobaccol No undertaking mo-
creature comforts. One feels, reading this
book Of episodes-true adventure each one OF
them-as he does when coming from some
rather exclusive place, like church, or grand
opera, or a Shakespeare play, or an F. F. v.
social function-exclusive and cultured. don't
y know!
MARKED CANCELLED" BY Natalie Sumner
Lincoln, author of "The Fifth Latchkey,"
etc. New York: D. Appleton 81 Co.
A MOTHER murder in Washington. Albert
Reade bachelor, prominent in social and
financial reckonings, found shot to death in
his own fine house. Near the dead man lay
scrap Of paper, which turned out to be mar
riage license Across 1t was stamped the word
Cancelled" Here in equal disclosure was not
only the crime itself, but the motive behind it
as well. Therefore, "Cherchez la femme be-
came the exclusive pass word of detective and
police force. Once more that immemorial
trouble-maker of the world became the exclu-
sive object of pursuit and apprehension. Such
Is the background Of Miss Lincoln's new mystery