Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25
% IDA GILBERT -MYERZ
Importance ofHe Saga TO Englshmen and
americans Hugh Walpole,S Neevest
NoveI-Other Worth-WhiLe Fiction.


the opposite of that. And so the visit of Mr..
Tomlinson to Norman Douglas-and that is
about what it is, in effect-goes with this
basic versatility of exceedingly brilliant
man the groundwork of any complaint worth
notice that may rise against him. But that is
not the whole Of the book. The rest of it is the
spirit of H. M TomlinSon himself and the way
Of the man with his own words, so convincing
and so inspiring besides
HALF A LOAF. BY Grace Hegger Lewis. New
York: Horace Liyeright.
NTH vehemence, in itself suspicious every
w body declares dislike for gossip. All
unite in stout denial of any interest in the pri-
vate personal affairs of others. Yet dealers in
print, editors and book publishers astute in
common psychology, know that the keeneSt
concern of readers centers upon the title
tatte of gossip rather than upon matters Of
good substance and general Importance. At this
moment there is a perfect rabble of clamor over
new book about Washington. The rush for
it is extraordinary. An inconSiderabe docu-
ment as a whole, questionable in fact, care
leSSly written, projected in sheer bad taste
Upon the whole, quite deplorable closeup of
the authors stripe of mind. Not thing
to commend this creation, save that it purports
to unlock the closet doors in all the houses of
the prominent ones whom the public itself has
sent to Washington to carry on the business of
the Government.
D.
Lewis new novel. Only next door as matter of
fact. The first wife of the popular author of
Main Street. Mrs. Lewis has written novel
whose theme is the domestic life of one who
like Lewis, has reached wide favor with novel
readers. The husband and wife and child in
their advance from the status of the average
small family to that of sought-out celebrity
become the theme of Half Loaf" Promptly
the public scents autobiography instead of
f1ctional creation. Therefore, time that in the
reading Of a novel goes into ferreting out shreds
OF actuality, scraps of to-and-fro in the reali-
ties of domestic disagreement, matching I'D
this rumor with that occurrence of the story
and so on from garnet to cellar in the private
life OF these two The book Is no novel, these
say. Record of fact instead. And there you
are. without such unfortunate setting, here is
an interesting story, strong here, not so strong
there. AS whole, however, it is clearly bent
upon an impersonal study of character and
temperament in their reactions to an uncom-
monty rapid rise in the worlds esteem and in
the backwash of this upon earlier obligations
and situations. Next time, farther away from
such domestic handicap, Mrs. Lewis will be
able to prove herself without quite so much
Of meddling on the part Of the public. Good
courage and a good story stand here as war
rant for better story to come
THE OREGON TRAIL. BY Francis Parkman
Philadelphia; John G. winston Co.
h lot more than month ago MelVilIe's
"Moby Dick" came to us from the John c.
Winston Co., model of beauty and book
craftsmanship. Now comes Parkman's great
story 1.-The oregon Trail" in an equal distinc-
ton of art applied to the making of book.
Two volumes calculated in equal measure to
crafty the growing desire for great literature
to be appropriately QUILTED in its externals.
Cooperating with the Oregon Trail Memorial
Association this publishing house has included
here an introduction by Howard H. briggs.
president of the Memorial Association and
professor of English, New York University The
quite remarkable illustrations are the work of
William H Jackson, undertaken and carried
out for the association. Notes by Mabel Dodge
Jones, Phi. D., supply points of illumination to
the text. Here is the historic tale itself, the
great record OF great adventure. To it are
added from highly competent sources every
means Of rounding the whole to a perfection
Of usefulness and beauty One does not see
two volumes quite so desirable and at the same
time quite so available these two issues from
the John C. Winston house
BINGO Is MY NAME. BY Anne Stoddard.
Pictured by Berta and Elmer Hader New
York: The Century Co.
pLNGO Is like the movie star He can't keep
- out of the picture And, between you and
me, II the screen star could register and deliver
with the vim and veracity Of Bingo, why, then
it would be indeed Of a celestial radiance for
which the world would be the happier
Two feet of dog-more or less-clad in silken
wire from tail-end to ear-droop-or cardiff
when life Is looking up. That's Bingo who
here grants the closeup of single episode in
his crowded life. Jealousy is the theme.
pampered Pom came visiting the family "A
dog?" said Bingo with scrutiny that Jean
Fabre himself might have given to the object
THAT is an insect" Page by page, pictures I'M
fold the misery Of Bingo under the jabbings
and proddings Of that devil of the green eyes
That time when he lay Gin the cellar all day