Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
The Writers Of Fiction Are Especially Busy
Shuthers Burt Brings Ont Neov Novel.
The Story of an american Indian.
Il VIeeO Of Af1Ica.
Il VieeO ofAfjca.

Of design, in clarity Of cut and carving in the
sharp impact of its full effect is of that north
ern brand of conception and OF projection. I'm
delighted. Rather proud, in personal way,
though cannot tell why Beautiful work, and
worthy.
Now the party is over Gifted friends among
the absent and personally unknown, it has been
one OF those dispensations that my pious grand
father called "providentiaI"
ANGEL PAVEMENT BY J. B. Priestly Har-
per & Bros.
I IFE in words-that is what q good novel
ought to be, and what this one is Here
the reader finds curious and delightful blend
Of the hearty romanticism of Charles Dickens
with the crushing honesty and utter realism
Of the French school of fiction. This Is an
almost unbelievable combination in view Of
the gigantic numbers of modern books which
seem built on the belief of many modern au-
thors that the only subject worth writing about
is the love of a married man for married
woman not his own wife, Mr.. Priestly has been
1ikened to Dickens. but he is a strange Dick
ems, indeed. a modern and poppy" Dickens,
who writes for his own age in way to delight
the discriminating He loves his words and
what he can do with them and he succeeds
in making the reader like them, too. "Angel
Pavement" deals with the effect OF q single
character upon group of people; In this case
the office force of small establishment in q
London side street called Angel Pavement.
The English have a way with them when 1t
comes to names. The men and women OF
angel Pavement" are such men and women
as work in every city in the world. Washing
ton is fun of them Local readers will know
every one Of them. They are seen, however,
through the mind of writer who knows that
there is such a thing left In the world Is
humor, and where it is to be found, and how
to make the best of it, This Is a distinguished
work, one which will be read more next year
than this, and so on. II it ends inconcluSively,
wen, so does life, and who thinks the less OF
life for that? G. e. T.
AFRICA VIEW. BY Julian Huxley, honorary
lecturer in experimental zoology in Kings
College London New York: Harper & Bros.
TT Is with the mind and eye of the scientist
that Mr.. Huxley gathers up the outstanding
facts and features and interests Of Africa for
the information of readers. Tfreless as an In
vestigator, trained in orders and sequences.
born to an easy and stimulating way with
words, ofncially privileged to freedom Of move
ment throughout the Dark Continent" this
writer has gathered richly from that field for
many classes of readers. The man who
cares about the face of country, about
how it looks and feels and behaves, viii
depend upon this book. The one concerned In
life, the whole life of a region, will rejoice in
the observations of the zoologist here. He who
Is engaged in digging old civilizations out OF
their graves will spend hours in this company
Business men, interested in industrial POSSIBLE
tiles and promises, will claim this as their
special study. All of these will find deep salts
faction in the way of the man himself 1t Is
the Huxley way. This is q brother a Sedater