Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-07

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man sitting by and reading the story Not far
wrong either, that landlubber, for shipwreck
was OF the too prompt returns of this mex
pedient outfarmg. Still, If Kent and his two
companions could stand it, surely not for us
the immediate beneficiaries of the adventure,
70 decry the courage of these fellows. The drive
and stress Of the story will delight YOU as the
only mood and movement for this particular
action. minute, tense and demanding stands
out IN chapter, maybe not more than short
paragraph long. Just its measure An hour
or so OF softer mood spreads to its longer labor
OF gathering up settlements and the people
thereof going their ways-their novel and inter-
esting ways. So throughout. Kent fits his pic
lures and words to the exacting periods Of this
adventure. Did you say "crazy adventure"p
POSSIBLY but some measure of madness has
throughout time been required to leaven the
TOO stol1d substance of the rest of U.S. the great
average. So, If Rockwell Kent or another Of
MS kind goes quite off his head in such pic
turesque and worthwhile fashion he is to he
encouraged provided that coming back home,
he tells us all about it in such a store of
adventure, in such bulk of solid and interest,"
ing information about places and people, in such
bold seafaring Viking spirit. IN BY e" is a
truly notable union Of adventure and the me-
dunn OF its delivery to readers. There are
many books on Green and-on the country its
history, Its government its people-but above
al OF them are the stories told by the Green
landers themselves" And here you have them,
might call this an inglorious adventure Take
BACK That silly notion, for here comes your
way, through the art of r. K, the terrible
beauty of the North, the true essence of it's
inner demon, the accommodations effected be-
tween this cruel region and the heroic people
lnoweilng there. These are brought to you
bodily though IN BY E."
THE PURPLE SEA: More Splashes of Chinese
Color. By Frank Owen author of 'sThe
Wind That Tramps the World" etc. New
York: The Lantern Press.
A PICTURE book. Words the pigment into
which Frank Owen dips his brush and
with which he invites his canvas Words
yellow and crimson and mauve; green in every
measure Of yerdancy from its early Spring
pallors TO its late Autumn glooms A silver
mist OF words, and shining golden scarves
And out from such chromatic wooing warmly
sohcitous, figures emerge and take their places
IN Oriental patterns Of thought and behavior.
Myth and legend and veracious tale Each in
its own measure a prismatic pageantry. con-
tributes to the charm of this so different seizure
OF China, that mystery among the nations that
age-old civilization which almost day by dav
reveals itself as the source of much which
moderns count as marvels Of modern science
In its latest achievements.
Here, however, are only tales imaoinativa
and beautiful Towering out from some plain
incident OF fact Take 1.-The Purple Sea" Lee
Goona, tea merchant of Canton. Toxic. the
Formosan Islands. Travelling among these
ports. he is wrecked upon a rock-reef by the
nerce typhoon. Here unconscious, semi-con-
scious and then wide awake, he comes under
the spell OF the sea and the land and the
woman-or was it woman? If a woman
why certainly, one of those creations of the
Dreamer and the poet, quite super to the beat
that actually has been able to produce. How
ever, this is no time for futile conject,rines.
Rather is 1T the moment to sit in a sort Of
poetic delight beside this Frank Owen who
makes believable and beautiful pictures Of
emma out OF nothing more than just words
amazing instrument words. So it turns out
Too bad that we impress them to hateful and
soroid uses, when they have such capacity for
beauty and its full powers. Howeyer-the point
u that here is book Of great beauty and Ger.
tain lure. Read it,
ALEXANDER HAAnLToNS PIONEER SON.
By Sylvan J. Muldoon member of the wis
consin Historical Society. Harrisburg Pa:
The Aurand Press.
a 7 the south front Of the United States
Treasury stands the beautiful bronze figure
o. Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the
Treasury. Probably, no historic memorial in
tne Capital draws more of general admiration
1or It's art and homage for the man himself
than does this youthful Alexander Hamilton
looking out upon that which he en- ahlv J,al1a,I