Evening star., 1931-06-21

matter Of fact, there is, even yet, nothing else
to think about, to write about So Walposc
hustles together more or less plausible inci-
dents. Really innplausible or would be In any
other age Of the worlds history. group, each
of whose members Is a-twist in mind or body
from the mighty experience, Is brought to-
gether under certain thin circumstances q
association and activity. A bunch of dynamite,
this assemblage, likely to explode with any
slight reason or with no reason at all. with
q novelist's practiced hand MIR. Walpole pro-
vides lights about once a minute for ignitiOna
that range from murder to suicide, with Q tiny
love torch making o feeble manifestation th@E
appears to convince not even the interested
and seeking twain. Certainly 10 any reader
of Walpole there is here friendly regret that
instead Of striving to create a 'tumuh" 90
feebly radiant as this one is. he had not gG0e
away somewhere by himself, to the shore or 20
the woods or to any other rationalizing sOAa-
tude till he got over this spell" oh, yes, It ID
easy TO foresee what the friends viii say. This
OF course, is aTa allegory OF war and peaces
maybe. 1t Is subtle analysis Of society unaeR
this, and this and this. All right All right.
It sounds like not much CT anything Mt all
save capering of war lunatics. Sorry!
GOLD, MEN AND DOGS. BY A. A. tScOtty)
Allen. Illustrated. New York: c. p. Put
mans Sons.
CcoTTY ALLEN tells his own story. Ne
sheep on the hin farm Of his father IN Scotland
Then as a youngster still in his teens bringing
a splendid stallion over to the States, the room-
mate and fun partner of the great creature
across the seas. Then, dazed but by no means
duiled over the tmmensty and excitement Of
America, crossing it in almost every conceivable
kind of Job" till Alaska and the gold rush
took complete possession of the growing young
Scotchman. A vivid story, Mr.. Allen tells and q
most exciting one In the gold scramble uD
no tn lose kac
for men, maybe for himself in measure. At
any rate, he turned, naturally, toward animals
liking dogs better the more he saw Of the
human. He gathered and tra&aed Sledge dogs.
Trained them with intelligent care and under
standing for the hard existence of this breed
in the frozen regions These constituted the
transportation system of Alaska then And
they became a means of the high Winter
sport of racing. At this point Allen and his
dogs wen again and agsin. When war came
he transported 400 of them across for service
with the French. clear genius with the
animal tribe, Scotty Allen. Merely . genius
in the notion that to dogs and horses and sheep
and the rest was due some Of such intelligent
attention as is, now and then, given to the
training Of boys and men themselves. So up
In the cold north when getting ready for the
great sweepstakes he regulated the diet of his
racers, mittened their feet against sharp ice
goggled their eyes against sun glare And when
he was cn board ship with his dog army no
howling nor whimpering nor barking gave the
he to his honest and intelligent and friendly
care OF the dog troop down below.
like this story. It is adventure at FIRST hand
It is rough and clean and stirring Best Of an,
Of course, like the animal streaks in it where Q
man proves himself to be decent fellow along
with the other decent fellows-dogs and horses
and such. SOotty Allen tells good story WHY
shouldn't he? If at moments it suggests a
shade Of overstatement it Is probably nothing
OF the kind. What is memory for II 1t cannot
skim the thin spots and shine up the great
moments?
love the fresh enthusiasm of the story the
keen enjoyment OF the telling it. And
I Ike the news Of far places that had nOk
heard before.