Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22
I IDA GILBERT MYERT
Il Chronicle ofFamous Meu- Gathering the
Crimes of the Year-INr. KeIland Writes
HnotAer-A Wide Variety ofNo0els.

some day, from absorption in q current novel,
for the sake of reading this tragic tale of real
life. No, you'll not like it. nor should you.
GOLD BY Clarence Burlington Kel1and author
of Conflict" etc. New York: Harper 81
Brothers.
A NNEKE VAN HORN-the star Of COLI
IA is q forecast whose fulfIIment is only now
becoming clear. Here Is the romance Of woman
emergent from her traditional role Of child
bearing and home keeping. Sourced in the
PATRON system Of Eastern New York. embodied
in the middle Of the last century, Mr.. Kelland's
new novel becomes truly ineligible only in the
present day Of new ATTITUDES for the activities
Of women.
Old Jan Van Horn passed on, intact, to his
girl Anneke, the money sense that possessed
him. body and soul. Gold" Is the story Of
Anneke's financial career as the head Of great
banking concern Of international influence. Old
JAMS bank expanding under this girl who took
her place beside the Goulds and the Wander
bits Of the middle nineteenth century.
projection of individual character takes
first place here. Back Of It Is set q background
Of metropolitan financial concerns something
like 8 hundred years ago. Both receive atten-
ton, literal and finely imaginative, from the
author. General interest viii center on the
story Of Anneke Van Horn, banker, though the
admirable quality of the New York scene Of her
day builds markedly into the irnmediacy Of
impression and effect.
A tragedy, in way the outcome Of q strug-
gle between the male and the female elements
that constituted Anneke Van Horn. A sttua-
ton inviting TO excess particularly on the part
OF q man, writing-yet here there Is nothing
beyond the inner urges Of this woman herself.
Obsessed with the love of finance, Anneke Van
Horn thinks Of lovers now and then, of a home,
Of children. Men flee from masterful women
nowadays. They did century ago. A desper-
ate situation develops out Of the inherent
g. ~
this on your own account. It Is only fair to
say, however, that the work is so completely, so
artistically, developed to win acceptance, If
not entire satisfaction over the outcome. And
shortage in this direction goes back to the facts
in the case, to the tyranny of life itself and
not to loose hand on the part of Clarence
Kelland.
SHOE THE WILD MARE. BY Gene Fowler,
author Of Trumpet in the Dust" etc.
New York: Horace Liveright.
THE "WiId Mare" is a wild girl. girl Of
- the moment who in a very short time re-
fused to wear the golden shoes that old Adam
Brook and clamped to her little feet. Just pried
them OF, that girl did, to run away with big
and husky fellow who, it is assumed, knocked OF
the saboty affairs that he had provided for her
perambulat tons. The second case may not be
exactly right in transcript Enough to let you
know that the girl kept going. Probably she is
stin on her way from one temporary hitching
post to another. No matter. For, the real
concern here Is Adam Brook, the modern
Napoleon Of his day and locality. A wizard Of
financial divination and foresight, master Of
money In its various DISCUSSES and modes Of
approach, . man Of tremendous influence. And
with this gift, with this knowledge Of the
big financial concerns, here is q man Of such
childish weakness, Of such futile projects out
side his own domain Of banks and corpoT-
q
he seems as unreal as any other myth-Santa
Claus or another Of his tribe. But with o
little more care one finds the man upon the
whole believable even when he goes into the
silly businss Of inventing mother for himself
and fashioning other evidence of good lineage
It Is never safe to talk about consistency Of
behavior, not with the human, that amazing
compound Of agreement and denial, Of plausi-
bility and utter unaccountability. Upon this
basis Of fact It is both safe and entertaining to
follow this disclosure Of Adam Brook, great
hnaneier, fable fabricator, dreamer, and hard
as nails along the way of many vision that
ras . deal Of poetry within It. This may be q
good account Of the modern girl, the wild
Mar" but, it Is an infinitely sounder study Of a
recognizable type Of man himself. Absorbingly
readable. OF course. And Adam Brook Is the
real figure here.
WORLD WITHOUT END BY Helen Thomas.
New York, Harper & Bros.
THIS IS not book for the multitudes. Nor
- 10 be devoured in a brief fling Of travel or
discontentment with the current Of the partic-
ular moment. It should be read by those few
who can sim believe that there is innocence In
this world and such a devotion "as passeth
an understanding" And, on q quiet evening
when the mind is free from the jargon Of the
daily routine, it should be taken from the
bookshelf reverently and dipped into with the
knowledge that what is being related Is the
beautiful and poetic conception Of love that
Was 90 great that no moment Of it seemed too
small 70 ten about. And that In the telling the
aut1Or has barred the innernost secrets Of .
heart tanak had no room for anything saVW