Evening star., 1932-04-24
% IDA GILBERI MYERZ
An Editor Selects the Best Fiction Of a Score Of
Yeats-7ales Of Sport and the Story ofan
Extraordinary Famiy-Ne7o No0eb.

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Charming stories, each one SAVIOR of earlier
days when John Weatherford was the most
famous sportsman between Canada and the
Carolinas A sketch of Weatherford himself,
substantial shipowner and merchant of New
England. A Harvard man and scholar lean
ing toward archaeology a symbol of Greek
culture, an incitement toward classic training.
Here however, it is the hunter and the sports
man that win readers who make respectful
bows toward the scientist, the scholar and the
fnancier. Who then turn, eagerly, toward the
redolence of those days on the Eastern Shore
when playtime was the right time.
The Derrydale Press pays high heed to sports.
To the origin of these, to the manner of their
development and continuance Beautiful and
fitting books they make of these subjects, be-
sides The Silver Horn" is a case in point.
Distinction starts with its title and its hunting
coat of scarlet, extending through paper and
type and drawings to an ensemble which de-
lights the eye and hand, which satisfies a
critical sense of true fitness. Thorough en-
joyment waits sympathetic readers in these
turns with John Weatherford and his friend
down where Severn runs to the sea.
SILVER DOLLAR. The Story of the Tabors.
BY David Karsner Covici Friede. New
York.
\ LII families have their skeletons, if they
are real families. And, in this particular
case, the author has pushed open closet doors,
or searched among hidden newspaper files, until
he has been able to bare the interesting facts
about the Tabors The book, while not thrill
ing in the modern sense of the word, does
just what the writer planned-it chronicles the
rise and fall of the Tabors, mainly through the
nit-wit head of the family.
H. A. w. Tabor, better known to his friends
as "Haw." went to Colorado with the first
gold-seekers. This years after the dis
covery of precious yellow" in California So
"Haw" and his bride settled around where
Denver and Leadville now stand. He tried his
hand at this and that, finding some gold in
paying quantities. but only making his ten
strike after he had grubstaked a couple of
wandering prospectors. "Haws" partners, how
ever. discovered silver in the Leadville section
and "Haw's' cash came rolling in at the rate
of $50 900 week
But Tabor had big ideas. He desired to
start cities, have streets named for himself,
build railroads and city blocks, purchase vast
acres and become king of the West" In
some of his schemes-always the schemes of
a more or less ignorant mamie was partly
successful, until the bottom dropped out of
the silver market. Then, just as suddenly as
"Haw" rose to affiuence, down he went He
naQ divorced MS nrSC W1e, married 'BaDy doe
of Oshkosh; had been appointed Senator from
Colorado to fill unexpired term, and had
an ambition to be Governor of his State. "Haw"
and his family squandered somewhere between
twelve and fifteen million dollars, and when
the crash came the next meal was a problem
large part of the book is concerned with
the later adventures and downfall of Silver
Dollar, Tabor's daughter, who was born with
lump Of silver in her mouth and who died
in the tenement section of Chicago. Baby
Doe of Oshkosh" the second wife and mother
of Silver Dollar, lives in a shack near Lead
vile and stands guard over an old silver mine,
once the property of her husband. c. EN-.
MISS PINKERTON BY Mary Roberts Rine-
hart, author of THE Circular Staircase" etc.
New York: Farrar Rinehart.
CUICIDE? Death by accident? Murder? In
- an upper room of the gloomy old house
there young Wynne was, dead certainly with
the color of suicide upon his going. For he was
one sort of weakling that might betake himself
out Of fresh trouble headed upon him. Yes,
beyond question, that was what he had done
Suicide it was. He had been cleaning his pistol
and, come to think it over, there were signs,
one or two that 1t might have been an accident
Carelessly handled firearms help to lengthen
death lists every day Clearly accident.
Then, somewhere, the notion rose that these
indications of both suicide and accidental
shooting partook of the nature of stage setting
That the act itself of another character
So, very slowly, the theory of murder was ac-
cepted by some.
In the grand and gloomy old house lay Miss
Juliet Mitchell sick in her bed deaf almost help
less. Mary and Hugo, servants for many years
were the only other members of the household
only the graceless and lightly regarded
nephew, Herbert Wynne. lying dead in that up
per room. The house itself, remote upon its
grounds from highway and ne.xhboring
no for1 +Lo
were the only others included here
This the foundation of Mrs Rinehart's new
mystery tale. Added, only, is Miss Adams.
trained nurse, in attendance upon the sick
woman. This young girl is also, the Miss
Pinkerton" upon whom Inspector Patton set