Evening star., 1932-01-10

reading. Te the man of more leisure, how
ever, to the student himself, the book provides
a clean outlook that is calculated to open ad-
mirable fairway for subsequent consideration.
for studies in detail.
sharply incisive way with him, this writer.
that delivers in a straight line "It lis with
Grant that Pershing must be compared
quoting almost at random, yet close enough
to home to be intelligible, and depending upon
the writings of his generals well as upon
their fghtings. His book Is far inferior to
the memoirs of the soldier of the rebellion.
There is nothing in his military operations to
suggest such flashes of true genius Grant
showed before Vicksburg. He lacks
Grants serenity that sly humor which slips
out from his page. He could not have gone
to Apponattox Court House ON that greatest
of all mornings to receive Lees surrender
wearing soldiers blouse and that none too
clean. He was not a thinker like Foch
in the realm Of strategy, or Petain in the field
of tactics And so ON in clean drive to the
military heart of these fighters who "won the
war. -. "Joffre, the Miracle of the Marne,' is
not only mastery analysis, 1t is, besides, a
finely understanding appraisal OF the man and
the situation. The whole stands close to its
purpose and LIS worth all that can be said &C
it in praise and appreciation.
JADE OF DESTINY BY Jeffrey Farnol,
author of The Broad Highway" etc. Bos-
ton: Little, Brown g. Co.
DACR, where he by every right Of romance
- belongs, has Jeffrey Farnel gone for "A
Jade Of Destiny" Back to Elizabethan days,
where the hatreds between Anglican and Cath
ole were big where plots were deep with
murder and abduction part Of the common
days doings.
great estate, headed by q lovely lady and
her errant brother, provides both background
and occasion for much Of the to-do which
hinges, mainly, ON the ardent love of this Lady
lone for Queen Mary and the Catholic faith.
A loyal Englishwoman, yet a woman, too, and
therefore not closed against possible good Of
fees toward the beautiful and unfortunate
Mary. Villains are ON hand-that was the
name of them then-ready to corrupt the wild
young brother to their reasonable designs
keen for opening to enlist the young lone
herself In the elaborate and famboyant pat
tern of the time jeffrey Farnol develops quite
sinister atmosphere around that great house
and even permits actual danger to draw near
TO it. Those were the days, however, when
heroes were ever at hand to deliver innocence
and beauty-from danger. And the prime
hero of this menacing situation is Capt Joceyn
Dinwiddie. adventurer. swordsman, gallant hero
Not to be thought about, much by the lady
lone of SO high estate. But the girl did
think about him. Any girl would. And so
having proved himself in no end OF rescues
and other brands of heroic behavior Capt
Dnwiddie himself protesting like the fine
he is, yet, himself conceding, becomes the
avowed lover of Lady lone. In fair way to
become the spouse of that desirable damsel
And that's the end. Matrimony makes an
effectual period to romance. So here it is.
But not ill after a full measure of clear
Farnol entertannment-roma of earlier pat
tern, gallant behaviors to brighten matters
otherwise sordid and even wicked, elaborate
ceremonies of conduct, fine fighting hand to
hand, and plenty of it; dark schemes against
the crown itself, brought to nothing at the
last second-not till after this and much more
come into the new story by Jeffrey Farnol.
And this tale should, by the way, be celebrated
as kind of homecoming festivity for Jeffrey
Farnol has, fear, been a-vagabondtng after
new gods, realism literal draw-ofts from life,
modernity and the rest of that tribe of per-
verters and seducers. Let us hope that here
after he stays at home near the Broad High
way, not far from or another of the beau
teous fades" of that older land of sheer and
satisfying romance.
A PERSIAN PEARL; And Other Essays By
Clarence Darrow. Boston: The Stratford
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