Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12


Bondage" 10. however quite different. Maybe
because 1t Is o tale Of our own land, familiar
in its ways Of life and love and work 1t seems
Of less dour Of lighter import than does that
other picturesque, almost tragic and highly
beautiful story. However, here we in Ken
lucky, family held to the land by poverty
ind resisting this fate with might and MAIN
There may be poetry in Serried ranks Of To-
Dacco green and high and naughty, but there
is grinding work rs well. The mother hates
II most Of all. For has she not all her life been
frustrated In plans for leaving it? Then, rs
mothers do the world over. she transfers her
ambitions and hopes to her children They,
surely, should be set free from the tyranny Of
tobacco fields. Not the tyranny of the helds.
Just the tyranny OF life, though the mother
did not know this. And in this sincere re-
cording 1t appears that the life OF the laLd, 10
prosaic in seeming, so dull in its moods and
behaviors so deadening in its changeless hum
drun-that this Of all lives is most ad-
venturous. Filled with fear and suspense, with
uncertainty and quite possible failure. What
sort Of failure? Why, the kind that shuts OH
means of bare existence, just the unlovely
bread and butter lack of every day. In the
economy Of the farmer a cloud in the sky be-
comes threatening monster. A gust Of wind
is the potential destroyer of his very founda-
ticns.
Here is record Of fact, taking shape rs
poignant drama The writer is young woman
born of Kentucky soil and outlook. II, how
ever appearances count lot anything ana 9C~
complishment Is any sign, Frances Ogilvie,
novelist, college woman, young and beautiful,
will never come hand to hand with the green
bondage" Of which she here writes so sincerely
and feelingly. pretty grim true story. A
strong one from the points of theme and treat
ment. Evidence here Of an excellently equip
ped writer and gifted one besides.
wHALERs AND WHALING By e. Keble
Chatterton. The Deep Sea Library. New
York: William Farquhar PaySon.
THE Deep Sea Library is a true inspiration
! whose object is to provide sea stories,
true and dependable, for the great body Of
readers who, even though they have no knowI-
edge Of the sea, no contacts with it, Thrift to
it rresiStibly as If, somehow and somewhere
this, too, was their own native element
wonder. Do you know why this is? Tell us,
II you do.
However, here is another sea tale offered by
the Library" on the epic of whaling. Of the
vhaler's life. The new regions opened up by
this calling, the new weathers and growths
and peoples are all here. The personal ardors
of this industry, its dangers. its rewards, the
decline of this business from a depletion Of
the stock, from substitutes Of its marketable
parts, from-changeS in women'S fashions.
The newer mode Of whale capture-more ef-
ficient. less adventurous, less attractive.
In spirited manner the story of this great
business Is given out, a part primarily of early
explorations, then becoming an enterprise of
its own in various countries sending out ex-
petitions to the hazards and rewards, Of
weathering the frozen North in behalf Of trade
and the growth Of the old and vanishing in
dustry of whaling. II you like adventure with
truth as its core, here it is. Hardly any field
that can surpasS this one for pure daring and
endurance.