Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

Horace Liveright.
IN ALMOST full bulk the current novel Is
! at bottom, of fairy-tale design. 1t has TO be-
Readers like other customers must be served.
And these, for moments of diversion by way
OF fiction, refuse sturdily the logic of loves
vicisSitudes. Enjoyable, indeed, to them is
every manner of hazard and escape in the
familiar swift descent from high ecstasy to
bitter disaste, right up to the edge of calamity
itself But enough is enough So when the
novelist has piled up a stable budget OF love
in its danger and menace Is he allowed to
take the next STEP the only next step, off into
the open abyss Of disaster? He is not. Rather
is he made to turn tail in quest of some Edenc
corner where reborn love Is a staple and
common thing and where brand-new happiness
waits Slapped and exhausted couples. Clear
mayhem to both truth and art. But. what
to do? The people decide whether novelist
shall eat or go hungry.
THE Yelled Woman" follows the conven-
ton. 1t. too, is fairy tale. But Achmed Alb.
dullah has resources Of inheritance, tempera-
ment training and experience. These serve
a good turn here, leading him to turn a COM
pletely acceptable modern romance into me-
dunn of significant illumination and inter-
probation. The East to the West, the West
TO the East
When. over in Constantinople John Penn
berton, by accident caught sight of Fathma,
yelled daughter of the East. sister of his ORR
entail friend Shukri Var. right then the great
matter began. Love at first sight with both
of them. That's the story, such. The story
of not understanding and of being so placed
that understanding the single imperative.
Let that go. Or, better, read about it here.
For in such reading you will find that Achmed
Abdulah has made in support of the essen
tial action itself brilliant and beautiful drama
of Oriental scene animated by ancient senti-
mentS and beliefs pricked into the fabric of
life in Constantinope, Stamboul Pera. Then
OF to the West in its own characteristics of
ried side by side, oStensibly in the marital
experiment of this young pair of lovers, but
really in q depth of waywise and in-seeng
trast that sets The Yelled Woman high as
historic evidence done in terms of high TO-
nance. curiously earnest and sober man.
with the student and scholar uppermost in
this Oriental Achmed Abdulah
THE DRESSES OF THE MISTRESSES OF
THE WHITE HOUSE: AS shown in the
u. S. National Museum. BY Rose Gouverneur
Hoes. George Washington Bicentennial
edition. Washington: Historical Publishing
Company.
IRON Martha Washington to Grace Coolidge
this booklet reproduces in historical sequence
the costume display whose original is feature
Of the National Museum at the Capital.
Primarily the exhibition IS a comment on
changing modes Of fashion. this change ex-
pressed from period to period by the most out
standing women, the Mistress Of the White
House, First Lady of the Land.
In this revised edition of an earlier production
Mrs. Hoes has made certain slight changes in
order to meet next years certain demand for it.
Along with a demand for every other legitimate
part of the great George Washington year. now
just around the corner.
Facing each picture IS sketch Of its original.
A touch of history, incidents attending the
acquisition of the costume sought, a light touch
of rumor here, shade of humor there. The
whole rounding to a most engaging pageant Of
fashion by way Of these women of exalted
position, these women Of unfailing interest to
the public generally.
In point this is a guide book for the sightseer
in the Capital BY incident 1t is also a chapter
Of pictorial history. supported by concise and
lightly informing text of explanation for each
sketch. Reading the booklet impels to visiting
the museum for look at the reality, just as,
no doubt, possession Of the book would lead to
q museum excursion.
BACKFIRE. BY Daniel Chase. author of
pines Of Jaaam," etc. Indianapolis:
BobbS Merrill Co.
A STORY Of New England in background
and in the general characteristics Of its
personnel. In effect, however, the novel covers
a much wider field, reaching wherever disap-
pointed and discouraged youth follows the
course Of indecision and the promise Of failure.
Out of college before graduation, sick and
with q grotesque limp to show for it, shipped
to the country with an allowance, OF sorts
this the young fellow, Chan Mather who out
Of natural vanity and some earlier promise OF
q good career develops an inferiority complex
deep enough and big enough to ruin a dozen
boys, let alone this one average fellow. Weed
ing gardens and splitting wood provide no no
ticeAble unfit to such a state. They did not