Evening star., 1932-02-28

insecurity of wedlock No reachment A
finely dramatic romance instead wherein
keen, and fearless, writer bids you to come on
in and think it over.
THE GOLDEN ISLES OF GEORGIA. BY
Caroline Couper Lowell. illustrated. Bos-
ton: Little Brown &, Co.
THERE may be good cause for ignorance
for that is deep-seated malady For
lack of genial information, however, there is
excuse whatever TIE atmosphere hitherto
considered to be element devoted to the
respiratory processes and needs of plant and
animal life, is now day by day and hour by
hour proving itself to be the supreme news
monger the greatest tale bearer of all time.
To lack all sorts of general, and useful, in
formation, therefore, is nowadays without ex-
cuse
Facts about unknown places to give case
in immediate point, arrive faster and in great
volume than one can possibly meet. Never
theless, one is able to help himself richly in
this direction alone
Here is strange tale right along the line
of new and strange places. A kind of historic
fairy tale Seven islands stretched along the
coast of Georgia. Aside from the routes OF
latterday trade, these have been left to ripen
and mellow, to glimmer through the yellow
haze of sunrise and sunset for more than a
century of solitude.
Happily when the atmosphere was caught
in its great game of news carrying then peo-
pie woke up anew to the joys of receiving
these amazing stories and of spreading them
as fast as possible And the great lordship Of
They Say" began to take on its present amaZ-
ing power. Happily, now, authenticity is be-
ginning to push out mere rumor and vicious
repetition. 1t looks as it, in spite of ourselves.
we are beginning to know few things.
The traveller is a fine school teacher these
days. So is the patient stay-at-home, learn
ing to dig into old records of first-hand source.
and generous in passing on these documentary
accounts Here is one of this sort the one
for which we are in debt to the author of
The Golden Isles of Georgia" Once, so it
turns out these seven isles of the Georgian
coast were harborage for Spaniard, French,
for Scotch exiles out of the Stuart revolt, for
Swiss Moravians and many another brand Of
fugitive from Old World oppression. Always
the Indians to menace, always old national
disagreements brought across to lend the spice
of warfare. A place packed with human nature
these golden isles"
And since it wasn't easy to preach his re-
ligion at home, Wesley over to the
Georgia coast to plant the seeds of righteous
ness. And since it was not comfortable fer
Aaron Burr up North after his duel with Ham
iton. he, too, went South for safety. One OF
the best of these tales of an earlier day is
that of Fanny Kemble. rank abotionist and
indifferent wife to Southern planter.
But why name all the pleasures lying In
wait for you out Of the rich journal from
which Mrs. Lowell has drawn those old days
of adventure and enchantment, the days set
down herein here in perfect grace and lure.
Just chapter of old history, on its way out
into the world along with the hosts of in
formation that are besieging us to find out
few things about ourselves, and the rest of
the world.
NOT ONLY WAR: A Story of Two Great
Conflicts BY Victor DAILY. Boston: The
Christopher Publishing House.
A SHORT novel, compact of deep substance.
Racial separations and the World War
provide its background. Two young men from
the South. cne white the other Negro, en-
body the theme by way of stirring war epi-
sode wherein race is forgotten in immediate
overhanging danger where color seems not to
count, where heroic service, instead becomes
measure of the man. The story begins back
in the South, where a NegresS may have, does
have. beauty, refinement intelligence, charm.
What of it? Nothing at all. 1t moves over
into France, where beautiful young woman,
not under bond to. racial prejudice, becomes
deeply interested in the Negro soldier who
figures so heroically and, at the end, so trag-
ically here. Ne one lover there" minding this
save the young Southern officer who later
became comrade in death with his black play
fellow from back home.
Just a meager sketch, you see. OF theme
that looms nightly at any time and anywhere.
War and race The immediate interest is
that within small compass Victor Daily,
progressive and cultivated young Negro OF
Washington, has succeeded in producing
drama, poignant and tragic. A drama, SEEM
ingly. that cannot be simplified to any lighter
measures. War is today fierce as ever.
Race is today the great separatist.
The point here is that Victor DAILY has Gre
ated a short, pointed, admirably constructed
tvnc,<s, . double theme iotned IN q denly