Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05

most In value for the least in price
Mrs. Rinehart settles the many incarnations
Of the popular and beloved optimist "Tish"
under a single roof for the prolonged and
convenient entertainment of hosts of friends to
this robust and jovial book acquaintance. Mr..
Oppenhein, opulent story teller, in even greater
largess provides in a single pair of covers five
books In one" half a hundred separate adj
ventures, quite uncountable number of words,
all for the price of one, or thereabout Clowns
and Criminals" is a sort of world conclave of
rascality, traed by detectives and intelligence
men, by aStute plans for the circumventon of
crime that is international in its many i'm
portances and significances.
Looks upon the surface like an excellent
enterprise Of these two forehanded producers.
Everybody is constituted as to prefer a
library to single volume, since they of
equal price, thereabout. And yet there are
certain physical easements that go along with
enjoyable reading. The right chair the perfect
light slant over the shoulder. the book that sort
OF snugg1es to the hand in promise of deep
confidence and intimate disclosures. Nobody
by choice, takes down for his lighter moments
Of reading the Family Bible or Webster's IN
abridged. He picks up condensed edition of
these except. when in high moods OF spiritual
quest intellectual fervor he literally and
designedly affiicts himself with these Negotiating
tones.
good business experiment. One likes the
conformity to custom One hopes to like the
products themselves. Let IL wait to see what
the issue will be from the vote of all the reading
people who devote themselves so passionately
to either or both Of these entertainers by way
of fiction.
LADY QUITE LOST By Arthur stringer,
author Of Power" etc. Indianapolis The
Bobbs- Merrill Co.
IF you read this romance under the name OF
! The squaw Woman" pick another in its
place. If you did not here is tale Of mans
vanity and bruised Self-esteem working out in
a retaliation that suggests fine insight on the
part Of the young woman who hurt him SO
profoundly. blow to any man. to be sure.
Left waiting at the church Is q dolorous re-
frain, whose conversion to action is likely to
jar any expectant bridegroom. In this case
however. the incident brought out such store
Of hatred and general vindictiveness as to hint
strongly OF these qualities as basic and in the
grain. Well that's what happened. Merely
an Introduction for the going wild and native
on the part Of the deeply chagrined young
man. Up into the North wilderness he went
there living the savage life. Yet that is rather
inactive revenge for a specific wrong. Then
one day a plane slithered to the ground, de-
posting lone woman, young and beautiful
near this man. turned animal. That's the
story story of subjugatng the female An
old story, you See Therefore, not 50 much of
an achievement for submission has grown into
a woman's grain out Of many centuries of mans
clear superiority and fitness to control. So
through days and weeks find the young
lady. toiling and Juggling, carrying and lifting
while the noble white man looks on with q
smile, presumably Of the sardonic twist Rather
interesting, Arthur Stringer makes the bust
ness, but hardly any one else could save an ex-
pert yarn spinner like him. OF course, one
should read in constant red anger, but the out
come gets 50 absorbing that forgetting to be
mad, one picks the book right up again to
move along with the struggle.
Yes, just a love story, after all. All right
She will deserve everything she gets How
silly Of her and how short-sighted to admit
that she had loved him from the first" Per-
haps, this is a parable the inherent, basic
ineradicable inferiority of woman the world
over.
GO MARRY. BY Brendan Williams. New
York: Horace Liveright, Inc.
THE outstanding virtue of this novel of sus-
picious fronting is that it bellies its name.
No 1t Is not one of the familiar word scrambles
designed primarily to rouse the sleepy minds
OF morons and other mental unfortunates in
this weird world of today
Rather Is the book a well-intentioned study,
a capable study, besides of the young wo-
man who so infestS the world at this moment.
Who Is she? Where did she come from? What
Is she trying to do in stores and shops and
offices? How well fitted is she for these vari-
Gus undertakings? What is it that, down deep,
she Is in reality questing? These are the basic
questions Of the author. Good questions, toe,
with which no one can find fault, save, per-
haps, the young women themselves. With
these queries in his pocket, this young novelist
goes digging into the girl question. In all fair
ness he picks out a group OF typical young
women, neither better nor worse than the
of