Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-12

way of advice, does not come, for old Fair re-
calls & cleaning shoulder turned away from his
am-rous Loo long ago. So he listens. uncon
cerred and unhelpful while the beautiful lady
solicits him. With LINDA Gault as with the res.
of the gay company, adjustment to less ample
mode Of life becom es the matter o. in.ereTt and
concern in this novel of the modern moment.
With knowledge and discretion Mr.. Barretto
pr jects swiftly and wildly the reaction of these
parlp-red people to their changed fortunes and
to an enforced new mode of life Such positive
folly as appears comes in the main from Linda
Gauit. A BEAUTIFUL woman is however. in the
nature of tnings, Handicapped. This comes out
here But, kindly man as well IS Competent
artist, this author gives final plausible turn
that IN slight measure suggests the outcome of
fairy tale. That suits the reader, for these
two Linda and Graham Gault have won Xix
ing that to ones thinking merits less than
full pay for deal of sheer folly. Entertaining,
plausible, picturesque, competent. Summer
hour Of diversion here.
Harding, author Of "FadS. Frauds and
Physician" etc. New York: William Goodwin,
Inc.
A RAMPAGEOUS youngster this must have
\ been. The sort that neighbors call brat"
and over whose high spirits" helpless mothers
sigh in encouragement. Even now, after years
spent seriously and laboriously in the exact
ing service of scientific investigation T. Swami
Harding pen in hand, here suggests nothing
else so much as a reckless small boy. hammer
in hand and mighty busy about it.
Just. too, as We, the average had wrapped
ourselves comfortably in a series of bodily
processes and procedures drawn straight from
science ITSELF as supposed, and bent to
fba of longevity and old deferred
to powers undated, to personal charms I'M
dimmed to all the rest of frail human desire
and aim No easy job for u.s. the average, to
untangle vitamirs A. B, c, D ard to KEEP them
at their respective posts within. No play to
count calories and to maintain efficient con-
stancy of these Work indeed, to accomplish
the thousand and one ether things directed
as we were told by the h.erarchs of science
itself in behalf of general bodily well-being
Vaguely. to be sure, We realize that now and
then commerce was repacious and over-reach-
ing that the healing art had occasionally sup
ported ouackery and that charlatanism had
not yet altogether disappeared from professions
generally. But, upon the whole, We did feel
that with means of authentic information
ample and at hand could elect to lead an
almost perfect physical life. Nothing could
be further from the truth, it appears. Accord
ing to this young scientist, ccmmercialism is
weighted with misleading reports the very
of sales. adorns itself in pseudo scientific terms,
in claims that make Ponce de Icons fountain
no more than a muddy Wayside pool. And the
trouble is that we, Selling upon these budgets
of error and misguidance, initiate ourselves
with notions OF knowledge. whereas We are
merely vainglorious over what is often Grass
ignorance. And this destructive young man
tramps rudely favorite new acquisitions,
say in the matter of diet. He casts aspersions
upon our spinach our bales of wheaton rough
age for inner polishing. upon tobacco
DOGGY. upon many another bulwark against
decay erected SO laboriously by us, under, as
we assume the direct tutelage of science itself.
Hilarious adventure to read about ourselves
as this expert writes down. But something
ought to be done about it. about T. Swami
Harding's crusade against the misuse of science
by trade
THE DISTURBING AFFAIR OF NOEL
BLAKE. BY Neill Bell. author of Life and
Andrew Otway,' etc. New York: G. P. Put
MANS Sons.
h lot a mystery story, not exactly. Rather
Y tale packed with mystery. Strange &C
Invites of cratic and confusing turn race
along page by page. These are held to sort
of sequence by two or three men almost as