Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23

10 stimulate invention of hectic order beyond
and gr0azps az naen actually plan to stir rival
nations to warfare Sinaply to meet personal and
selfish ambition Is, nowadays, cre6fble as
Mother Hubbard" or THE Old Woman Who
Lived Ia Her shoe" Good reapine for a writer
Of the Deeping Fare. So, just like that, he
plans intrigHes 81 international design, round
ing Wp smooth villains, adroit scheMers af
diplomatic pattern to breed war need he,
IN tlae accomplishment of the design And on
beside these he SETS say Col. CRANKY Of the
Brstish Secret Service, to find out what can
be done in regard 20 the nefarious intent THIS
time Col. OrAnby In . mood Of personal FRIEND
illness sends young man, temporarily unieg.e
cloud, over 10 see who 1t Is what 1t b tzA1s
threatening the desirable frieDdliness between
France and Germany. Danger every nainate. Q
new front 20 the deep schemes for tz0Gble-
making on the part Of Francis wyndfana, e<lEaat
and engaging scamp Of our earlier readings-
this Is the cut-out job Of Donald BFierelifEe.
And after every sort Of adventure the ycungster
wins-tiaat Is, he wins In way. He ec0tches
his SNAKE 20 to speak instead Of killing q.
Such fate would not do at all, for no enc else
has been quite 90 useful to Francis Deeping ~
that same artful rogue, Francis wyndham. ne
has in him stin many diabolic scheme for the
future use a this good entertainer by way ~
the crimes and sins OF the world.
TRUE STORIES OF IMMORTAL CRIMES.
BY H. Ashton-Wolfe. New York: = p.
Dutton & Co.
CEvENTEEN historic tales each revising frana
- remote past some actual crime Of such
usrAsaaaa source and design and effect and OF 90
unbreakable a mystery withal rs to constitute
It subject of perennial engrossnent
Running ever the titles Of this list 1t Is pretty
safe to count "The Man IN the Iron Mask" -
leading all the rest. Hardly one Of ms who has
not felt the t0rmenting mystery Of that mans
birth and life and death. Others Of almost
equal general concern are The Necklaces and
the Cardinal" 1.-The True Story of Count q
Monte Cxisto" charlotte Corday the Aaar1yK
and Marmt the Monster" with others o shitta
lower down the line telling 81 medieval alchemy,
and the period CT poison frenzy" and 81 other
inexplicanae crimes Of far day.
THIS writer has dug into secret aEelaives as
% many literary students these days are trying
to do. At the Prefecture Of police in Paris hs
has been accorded some privileges Of research
which, coupled with q good grip on Eaodern
psychoaagy. appear to him TO warrant the re-
wivA1 Of crimes, sourced as q rule aEaang the
powers end poteutates of enc or another part
of Europe under pressure Of political religious
demand.
One hardly stops, however, 20 weigh the facts
new and old. The stories race along the alb
sorbed imagination Of the reader, for this is o
prime racOnteM. One that brings his own
acceptance to the average leaving only the
c&vilers and the skeptics 70 probe for this or
that Of substantial solution.
A book Of crimes that faces upon wide
popularity. Epr deny It rs Just aloOut everybody
does, It is the story Of mystery and crime that
walks completely away from other kinds OF
fiction, or truth, when the host of AVERAGE
readers decides. Man is surrounded by mystery.
Every minute Of his day is wrapped in 1t.
whether he stop to realize it or not. These bits
are but part Of his existence, tantalizing parts.
that may inst ppesibly open some 1tttle window.
for hin. Such. I take It. 10 the real basis Or
interest in this kind Of 6etion-and net flanka
and common taste that Is sometimes assiszaed. 70
this marked and wide acceptance 90 the
maysteEy tale