Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03

place through the rare and the unusual
THUNDER ABOVE THE SEA. By Heinrich
Hauser, author of Bitter Waters" Trans
lated by Patrick Kirwan. New York:
Horace Lveright.
STRONG and straight, this novel, And a
beautiful story besides The man of The
story is Fonck, pilot Of German Scandinavian
air line. The woman of the story is an
enigma-to the boy because he falls in love
with her. AS she is to the male everywhere
when he falls in love with her.
A fighting adventure-not in the battles of
war. Rather, the airman's fight with winds
and clouds, with his machine with his oc-
caSional fears and In this case, with the
woman. An unshirking tale, as it would be
with this austere author Of "Bitter Waters
who does not step aside in avoidance of those
deep perilS, even, that watch like fierce ami
mails beside the dawning, and dying, passion
OF men for women, Of women for men. How
they fought each other as honest couples do
Tight neither pretending, neither assuming
unhealthy in any least degree but honestly
Wag1ng warfare sometimes in sheer behalf of.
the antagonist SO ferociously at hand; some
times, though not so Often in elf-defense.
For, after ALL our chief defenses have to be
set up against ourselves. And so it was
through this story-always terrible sometimes
beautiful. But straight on Heinrich Hauser
drives the pair as he sees them, as he sees
life, conditioned by the little span on which
these two stand. Then at the very last there
is that conversation with one dead" wherein
the young Fonck reveals the dead girl to him.
SELF perhaps to herself; reveals himself also
In light that no conceivable judgment day
could cast into a shadow. New in his way
with stories in his way with words even, fresh
in the vigor Of his attack, unusual in the Iati-
tudes OF his art practice applied to literature
indeed, a man and writer Of such original
cast as to warrant the pursuit of him by read
ers who are dead tired Of reading that, and
that, and that, tired Of the whole tribe Of
mimeographic artists.
THE MAKING OF LADY. BY Sara Haardt.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
GREAT ladies have been made out of Cnder-
ella stuff from immemorial days Here is
another case in point. An engaging theme
since, at bottom, it implies q fuldllment OF
that old. old promise, the reward of virtue
PHILOSOPHERS and religions have been built
upon the theme, not fairy tales and story books
alone.
Here it is again figuring in a new and up-to-
date romance. Save only that, in difference to
any modern Cinderella expecting to stand on
her own feet for any length Of time at ALL this
one has been supplied with certain arts and
crafts of which her prototype knew exactly
nothing at ALL The old heroine fell into her
good fortune through the soft, but certain,
plump OF her own innocence. This modern
lady Of the Cinderella pattern picked out her
goal with shrewd acumen and then worked
toward it with the sturdy, though artfuI,
pertinacity OF any other digging animal.
Indeed, after the opening chapters Of this
book one is inclined to abandon the Cinderella
motif and 30 take on that Of Gree instead or
some other Of the designing ladies of the
mythic or historic past.
To come to the matter itself, this all hap
pened in the South. where ladies are moment
NH all Of
romantic powers and implications. This one
this girl who was bound to be lady, lived on
the poor side Of the little town down that way.
ON the other side lived the great family from
whose members she early selected her own
special means OF advance. This, the founda-
ton upon which q love story Of not unusual
pattern makes It's way, chiefly, through the
aStute management Of the lady in the making
Pictures OF southern design amplify, and adorn,
the main run OF events. These are familiar to
the writer and to them she gives o hlial, and
artistic, touch Of gratitude and beauty The
World War serves good turn in adding fresh
substance to the tme-worn tale OF getting in
love OF being In love, Of paying for such an
Elusive and finally revealing an adventure.
Does the girl make the point? That is. does
she make herself into a lady? Why surely
Why not in this land Of the free? story Of
good workmanship and only fair qualities OF
imaginative invention. More craft than art
about it.
SAINT JOHNSON BY W. r. Burnett, author
OF Little Caesar" etc. New York: The
Dial Press.
REING Of the thrifty breed, we just naturally,
like q book, or anything else, for that
matter which can serve more purposes than q
bare one. Here Is a novel Of that SORT Here
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