Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-22
% IDA GILBERT MYER-Z
The PresentVogue for Family Histories in
Fiction Form-lnf1uence Of the English
Writers Along This Particular Line

along the road of life for others to follow, Or
but of course to follow" mother said quite
sharply. She sounded cross or scared, for q
minute. I wonder why.
started to tell you about something else.
Not about me. But was led away by myself,
to myself, and didn't seem able to get away
from myself. I've heard my father say that
everybody does that very thing, all the time.
But about SnubS, our dog He really did
keep diary. Kept it going day after day,
which appears to be the main point about q
diary. You would never believe-mlesS you
knew my dog and his knack of writing down
things-how much could happen to one dog IN
one day, any one day. Snubs Is an artist as
well as writer. So on every page there he
is, big as life and twice as natural getting
into things, getting out of things, over and
over about once a minute. Were it not for
the pictures you might think Snubs was putting
it on pretty thick at times. They say that
folks, real folks, who deep diaries are likely to
do that. Get carried away with themselves,
you see, at the close range and intimate talk
about their really quite wonderful ways and
doingS. But right hare, in the case Of Snubs,
pictures stand witness to the exact truth Of
his words. So, reading here, there is no
chance for YOU to take on that look-you know
that goes with sprinking salt upon fell
lows tall tales about himself Here you see
with your own eyes that Snubs and his diary
are one and inseparable. wish you knew
that dog Snubs.
I'd like to haze a different dog
For eUery kind of toeathcT-
A nGrrotD greyhound for fog,
A iOoIfhound strange and sOhite,
With tail like q SilUeT feather,
To run NTH in the night,
When sno,o is still and Winter stars are bright.
In the Fail I'd like to see
In GTs1DeT to my Whistle,
A golden spaniel look at me.
But best OF all, for rain,
A terrier, hairy thistle,
To trot tOith fine diSddin
Beside me do1Cn the soaked, s1Deet-smeLin0
lane
From Skipping Along Alone" BY winifred
Welles. (The Macmillan Coz
HIGH ADVENTURES. BY Mary r. Parkman,
author Of Heroes of Today" etc. nlus-
trated with photographs. New York: The
Century Co.
\A/E are getting along in years now-13 and
w roundabout. Reading, therefore, must
step out to meet this advanced age. Here is
a book by Mary Parkman Of Washington that
admirably fits the new need. First, it Is q
book Of fact Sketches drawn from life. Adj
venture crowds the book, adventure varied and
urgent. Each Of it's thigh adventures" has
dared and done They belong, in the main, to
the present from its not too distant neigh
borhcod. Remote greatness is all right, and In
deed essential, to be met when the time Is
and women are a living and working part Of
this astounding now? The readers for whom
the book is made a part Of this present,
too. The kinship is close, quickly sensed and
ardently accepted by them. News items from
the daily paper at home supplement the book
at many a point making 1t the more vivid and
its "adventurers' more truly vital The
sketches are short, decided point In their
favor with the active, restless age Of thirteen
and roundabout" Brevity, however, has not
been permitted to rob them of their true sub
stance. That is matter Of skill in construc-
tiou Selection emphasis, order and the other
whatnot Of good building. Through them an
runs the idea, and purpose of lesson, example.
Not obtrusve, however, and not directly pre-
Sented as such. Otherwise both story and
lesson would fall through Even young readers
will have none of precept and admonition when
these come in the guise of pleasurable story
hour. Clearly, these adventures in life earned
their rewards by hard work. And this comes
out as part Of the game pursued by each, comes
out as naturally as the enterprise itself took
hold upon one or another of the scant dozen
that set these pages alive with effort and
achievement. The wide range of activity &C.
crues here as varied and interesting knowledge,
or approaches to knowledge, for the young
readers who are sure to jump into this book.
For apart from its genuine substance its way
with words is pleasing way-simple, easy.
picturesque where the picture calls, robust and
swift-moving. One of the very books for us
who are getting along in years-thirteen or