Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
% IDA 6ILBERI MYER
Life andLetters ofO. Hen,y-AJapanese
MedicaIMan Who Became aLeader ofH5
Profession -No0eLs for Vacation.
Profession

L0at nave mAocuCcu yOuLSSI WtlVCtS 0cht-
6cially. And many readers yet hall o. Henry
as . prince Of modern short-story writer's.
Hardly too much can be said In praise OF the
spirit in which these competent and Wayw1se
authors have discharged the self-impoSed obi
CATION TO their friend william Sydney Porter,
o work in which they have also rendered high
service 70 the readers Of this author, o. Henry.
NOGUCHI BY Gustav Eckstein. New York:
Harper d Bros.
CEISAKU NOGUCHI, born in 1876, in an OBJ
- secure province of Japan, was the son Of
q peasant farmer. After years Of distinguished
scientific medical service, DR.. Nogucht became
a member Of the research stan Of the Rookie
Teller Institute. He died and was buried at sea
OF the coast Of Africa, where he had gone to
study into the causes Of yellow fever.
Such the outline Of a life which Gustav Eek
stein projects In brilliant and sympathetic de-
tail. picturesque and pathetic story, dra-
matte In movement and climax. For never
quite, despite the ardors and intelligence OF
his pursuit, did DR.. Noguchi find that which he
seeking. In the belief that Africa offered
. relatively unobScured field for investigation
Of yellow fever this scientist himself fell VIC
tim to the disease he was leaving that coun-
try. However, despite this failure, DIR. Noguchi
did achieve greatly in the domain Of medical
science To him is accredited the discovery OF
the causes of paress and locomotor ataxia
To him tribute is paid for useful service in
respect to other virulent diseases whose sources
were hunted out by him and made the foun-
dalton Of measures for either prevention or
treatment.
The type scientist engroSsed in his special
object of pursuit, often excites gratitude
Rarely does he rouse Imagination and Q keen
sense of the picturesque. DR.. Noguchi provides
an exception to the commonplace. For this
Oriental dedicated to the determination OF
certain bacterial diseases. becomes q figure OF
close and engrossing interest 1t is to this
element of the himself that Gustav Eek
stein constantly goes back for the high lights OF
character and personality that here so enrich
the study Of this romantic and distinguished
investigator.
Innumerable incidents light up this scientific
adventure in behalf of human welbeing.
moving picture, Noguchi its center embraces
the active life Of boy and man from its be-
ginnings in far Japan, through service in many
quarters to its end, the way from Africa
to America. A full and authentic record here
In effect, Is a compelling drama. Through it
In mood and temperament this gentle Oriental
goes ON his way exploring way In a passion of
pursuit whose many successes cannot quite OBJ
scure the pathoS of his death before complete
triumph came out to meet him. Superbly ac-
complshed, this study of life
STARRY ADVENTURE. BY Mary Austin, au-
thor Of THE Land of Little RAIN" etc.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
4 AARY AUSTIN is q rich woman. She holds
wi in full possession of mind and heart the
great Southwest itself. Specifically, her door
yard Is the State of New Mexico, with It's
stretches Of desert its reach of mountains the
long distance sight of its clear atmosphere the
magic OF its Sky-land, the glamour of its shift
Ing colorS. In equal possession does Mrs. Aus
tin hold the fun stock of Indian life and leg
end, 50 lavish in this quarter Literal, meas
urable facts, all these Yet in the crucible of
this particular woman's mind they have be-
come rich blend in her blood In her habit
Of thought. in the quality of her outlying to
life. rich woman. Happy, active In ways
both big and little, Mrs Austin has put the
world in her debt permanent place is al
ready hers. A woman who not only lives but
thinks worker Of high intellectually, now
the story teller, now the philosopher My
neighbor says she is at her height in philo-
sophie thought and talk. And he cites Love
and the Soul-Maker" as this writer's highest
achievement. The deep thoughtfulness of that
work, its courage, its beauty-these won his
lasting allegiance
The bulk of readers, however will choose the
romances instead. Even these are not for
everybody-not at this particular day of the
week, not at this particular strike Of the clock.
They are, like the book already named, honest,
fearless, original, gifted in thought and word.
An unusual mode Of life, interviewer with rare
powers OF mind, has placed Mrs. Austin high
in the esteem of the world of readers
Starry Adventure" is the story of a boy and
OF the man that he finally comes to be. Bred
in the beauty Of the land, sensitive to it, con-
WINGED that somewhere within it Is high ad-
venture for him, this Lad settles to dreaming
Of high emprise, instead of gripping the smaller
facts at hand. The romance itself, based really
upon the good substance of the young fellow,
has to do with the slow changes and accom-
modatons by way Of which he comes out into
an active partaking of those things that had