Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
Russia s Experiment and the F10e- Year-Plan
Concerning Those PreAistor1c Men Tile
Meaning Of FIgures-Se0eraINe1O
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touchingIy tender picture Of those unhappy
children. coming in time to create beauty out Of
dreams and nothing else.
Angles UPRISING BY Myra Churchill
Holmes Webb. Boston: The Christopher
Publishing House.
A VERMONT farm steps, bodily, over into
this book, providing background for q
story as definitely concrete as in the land itself
Revolt takes charge Of the action as q whole,
colormg It's moods and settling the issue. That
rebellion Is OF ancient lineage. Eve began it.
And from her day forward women singly and
in groups, have taken hand In defying fate, or
man, from many point Of assumed advantage.
In this case, it is the farmers wife, Angie.
who makes her declaration Of independence
Nothing less than to break away from the
farm for visit to her birthplace, by Plymouth
ROCK, TO share In the great centenary celebra-
ton about to begin. As soon as the story re-
covers from the shock Of Angles defiance 1t be-
comes feverishly busy with preparations for
the strange outfaring. Finally she Is off, tax
ing her Oldest daughter, quite a girl by that
time, getting pretty and noticeable. An ac-
count. more or less sketchy, Of the excitement
OF adventure, and then home again. And
mats the story. To be sure young love stands,
near or nearing, for good measure Of current
interest and hopeful future.
novelist scores distinctly at single excel
lence In his story. This writer has hit a high
marx twice. First there is the transcrintiva
quality OF this Vermont picture-the place, the
people In their ways OF speech, in their common
outlook, in their true New England substance
NO mere study could have produced such effect.
One must have 1t in the blood to be so fully
possessed Of that peculiar essence.
Again, there Is the shadow of an alIeporv
here-the deep passion for home that SEXES
tnose WAC stray, even for little while away
from delights that have become hidden under ali
sorts OF surface blight.
No modern problem mars this fine and nm
standing picture of everyday life. Good story
with good sense Of art behind it,
MANGA REVA; The Forgotten IsIands ~
Robert Lee Eshridge illustrations bv tl1S
author. indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrfn
Co. -
A BOUT the only one of the South Sea Islands
Ieft-that Forgotten Island" of the Gam
bier Archipelago. That too, is now NO longer
left since this artist from Chicago Rohor4
Esrtdge, felt the pull that had drawn IotS
ana Rupert Brooks and Jack London and eau.
Pacific. 80 'AA
Here is the story of that vagabondage Per.
maps that-i not the right word It sounds =
shade too lawless for this obviously serious ana
INDUSTRIOUS man. Though from Virginia to
start with, and r. r. " at that Off kaere
In Manga Reva he behaved much like a Yankea
juggling into things Of every island sort actuaIIv
making garden and leaving it in readiness
lot renewal upon his arrival next year. A point
aOouI TINS adventure that is particularly pleas
Ing. Mr.. Eskr1dge deals pretty much with the
present OF the island in his accountings we
IKE mat. Possibly the others-artists romance
ers history hunters and sheer inventors-have
given too much Of their special wares It NAV
not De TINS at all which gives the everyday
touch that makes the whole world kin =
Maybe 1t Is simply the homely approach that
expresses itself In making garden or In look
ing across the way at what this one Is actually
oolng now. At any rate, there is here some
tnlng IKE plain recital. without obvious reach
Tor atmosphere and glamour. And behold
Both Of these are here, seemingly of their own
vohtion. Very likely that is the way to get
them, not to strain and pull for them-but
rather to open the door for them to come in
freely as the vital part of the whole The one
unreality about this artist and writer is that he
likes ghosts. $50 do many of u.s. Down there
they stu cling to their ghosts, so that aspect
OF this writer has nothing strange about it-r,ot
on Manga ReVa. Black cats float in the air,
too; and goats sing aloud at sunset That's fine
and as it should be everywhere and would be
il. beautiful adventure, this one on
Manga Reva with serious fellow who doesn't
seem to sense that he is a poet as well as a
painter
THE INCREDIBLE YANQUI BY Hermann B.
Deutsch. Illustrated New York: Long
mans, Green & Co.
So ZEN. LEE CHRISTMAS, soldier of fortune
and prominent figure in many Central
American revolutions, offered his services yes
terday to President Wilson. The President told
him he would like to talk to him later" Clip
ping from Washington paper that, in effect,
marks the final off-stage of the Incredible
Yanqui" whose story packs this stable vol
ume to bursting with adventure of about every
current brand. War, the pulling down of one
government and setting up of another, stirring
excitable people over the southern borders to