Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1921, Page 35

"WASHINGTON CLOHE-UPS. ward G. Lowry. ton: Houghton Mifflin Company. i ¢ R. LOWRY has certainly done ; himself proud here-—to say | nothing of what he has done for the others. This is sea- moned and thought-out work. It is ‘drawn from years of looking at these celebrities when they are in actlon; of bundling their various attitudes and deeds into single personalities, in drawing off the essence of their tem- perament and character. It is a hu- man and kindly book besides. To be sure, it laughs, genially, now and then at the pure human nature of some exalted figure, but it snarls. To be sure, once in a while it sums the mistakes of a notable, show- ing how these mistakes have barred his advance, but it does not once g0 By Ed- Illustrated. Bos- out digging for faults. And Mr. Low- ry stands back of his opinious, writ- ing his name out ‘as the responsible author here. Extremely clever work. whose modern flair does not take away from the substance of its ripe opinions. In thorough enjoyment one reads here of Mr. Harding and Mr. Underwood—the one “The Great Emollient,” the other “The Balm in Gilead.” You will read them all. Once started, you will. Ir sure not to over- look the “Beau Sabreur,” nor the “Heart Bowed Down." nor “Bob the Battler"—nor any of the others. We know all of these great folks, at a distance. Now we know them better —ana like them just as well, which is saying a good deal when & waywise critic, like this one, has had his fling. MESSER MARCO POLO. By Donn yrne. Illustrated by C. B. Falls. New York: The Century Company. *Tis old Malachi of the Long Glen avho tells the story, Malachi main- taining that the proper historians ve skimped, or deliberately cov- ered the heart of the matter—that Which held Messer Marco Pelo for seventeen years at the court of Kubla Khan. So. one night, clustered around \ 1he five were Randall, the poet, and #he two blond Danish girls, and Yraser, the golfer, and a voung writer, and this one and that one, @nd old Malachi of the Long Glen in their midst. And Malachi, out of the «tuff of County Antrim, its heather tang, its smothered turf fire, its drumming surf, its mystic divination """ —out of these Malachi wove the love idyl of Marco Polo and Golden Bell daughter of the great Kubla Khan. “That's a warm story, Malachi of the Glen, a warm and colored story. and great life to it, and Golden Bells is as alive to me as herself there by the fire, and | can see Marco Polo a3 plain as | can see my cousin, Ran- . dall. and_he playing with the dogs e ee m And so it is a “warm story” and a lifelike one and as beau- tiful a bit of poetry. besides, as one may find in many a long day. URSULA TRENT. By W. L. George, author of “Caliban,” etc. New York: Harper & Bros. One has to watch his step in this reading. lest he walk out of the track of Ursula Trent into that of Mr. George himself. For, it is an inter- Jocking course calculated to divide interest. This is, upon its surface, Trsula Trent's account of herself. {The girl is, in effect, a_war product. “She stan many girls who, their stimulating usefulness ended, refuse . 10 go back into the seclusion that awaits_properly brought up daugh- ters. Free for good and_all, it is the matter of an independent life and a living,_that confronts Ursula Trent The daughter of Sir William Trent of Ciber Court is equipped for neither. Here she tells of her makeshifts to achieve both. From typist to a writer and then into a manicure parlor she passes into a flat provided by an en- gaging young man. Here. for several Years, she puts up the appearance of Swife, and escapes. by accident alone, from being a mother. Finally she be- comes the real wife of a man whom Ciber Court itself could not have sur- passed in the choosing. A quite im- al story, you sce. For there is no lJaw more exacting than the one which condemns misbehaving girls to lower and still lower states of misery and public_condemnation. However, that . 18 as it may be. One's interest here is not In public opinion, but in Ursula Trent herself, in her searching observa- tions and hér open avowals. This is an intelligent woman looking into the realities of the man-and-woman complex. She shocks us by her right- ness of conclusion. She frightens us by the close range of her deductions. This is the point, too, where Mr. George becomes actuely manifest. It 48 not so surprising that he knows a Woman's heart and mind pretty well. Many men are woman-wise in cer- \ tain directions. Bui how he comes to know what almost any keen woman : Rhinks about men—a man—is past , comprehension, since it is a woman's { chief business to keep this close. A ! woman's preoccupation from days im- { memorial has been to keep her real opinion in this direction quite under cover. One wonders how this young 4 man found it out. A book for much § Teading and endless controversy. A ! real book that no one can read indiffer- § ently. { 21ZA OF LAMBETH. By W. Somer- set Maugham. author of “The Moon and Sixpence.” etc. York: George H. Doran Company. A little story, whose geography «covers no more than a narrow work- fngman's street in a London out- skirt. A drab corner, whose human 2 output is sloveniy women. sodden men % and swarms of wrangling children. 1 H H 1 Its single touch of color is Liza her- ®elf, darting here and there in quest of youth's inalienable right—Ilove and life. Bright, buoyant, brave and gay. Liza is a dancing firefly in_the dark corner of this dull street. Everybody i likes her—the men half fearfully. the women quite enviously, the children full-heartedly. * Liza knows him in a flash. No, it is mot Tom. the kindly youth who adores her. Instead it is a full-grown man, father of many children, old enough o be Liza's own father, husband of 1 @n elderly and suitable wife. In its own erratic way love performs. Liza is an open and abundant lover.. But Liza's little world of Lambeth Is ex- 4 mctly like the rest of the world—ex- * acting in its conventions—and so Liza : 4s compelled, by the force of this lim- ¢ Ated public opinfon. to begin to settle ! her account from the very beginning of her commerce in illicit love. It is a poignant, story on a theme that is % constant in its behaviors. no matter . in what grade of life it may unfold. ! 3t is, as well, a perfect piece of work, 2 little thing held rigidly to its own ¢ boundaries and dealing implacably ~with the conditions that these bound- wrles lay down. Mr. Maugham has § written bigger stories, perhaps. but < he has not made a more nearly per- Tect one. MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND. By Charles L. Graves. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Two of the four volumes projected for this modern history of England are at hand—enough to demonstrate the interest and value and originality of the whole. These two volumes cover a little more than thirty years, beginning with 1841 and picturing the social inequalities of the “hungry * forties” In its vouth Punch was a radical and democratic .paper, a champion of the poor. Therefore its gheme was more dften than otherwise &he poor of London. The later body of the work, however, deals with the Teneral social fabrio—the court, Zociety, fashion, the drama, the ~women of the period, personalities of outstanding stripe. The cartoons themselves are supported by ex- planatory text, some of it corrective of such snap judgments as an over- Jasty sketch was likely to embody. #The appeal of this history is, as Mr. dGraves asserts, tnat it provides us with a history of the Victorians, wwritten by themselves. It is a pass- §ng show of the Victorian period, «vith both its virtues and its foibles $n full view. A vivid and immediate portrayal, admirable in its supple- mentary office. \ SURKEY; A World Problem of Today. By Talcott Williams. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Mr. Willlams states the problem, Rhe problem ef Turkey, for the imme- te purpose @f enlisting the atten- L of the Uniged States and with the never | When her man comes ! Reviews of fic_a_w Books| ultimate design of securing from this country both material and moral sup- | port in the solution of this near east problem. Born in Turkey, an Ameri- can missionary's son. living there for sixteen years, and for all the years | thereafter keen to the affairs of this quarter, the author gives in these pages a full and intimate view of every side of Turkish life. Not only the current outlook and aspects of this life engage him in minute and familiar detail, but the main lines of Turkish history as well are reviewed in this rich story. More than_ in formation and knowledge alone cha: acterize the work. There is the qua ity of reasonableness going along With the purely scholarly treatment, a reasonableness that serves to throw a, |‘1_li|(m upon many phases of Turkish is difficult for the to understand this eastern development. The book in hand serves most competently to clear up many points of mystification. 1t closes with a summary of the pres- ent situation, a summary that is cal- culated to drive in the original pur- pose for which the discussion was projected. THE ARRANT ROVER. By Berta Ruck. author of “His Official Fian- cee” e Frontispiece by Edward C. Caswell. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1t is no little job to make an en- gaging figure of a man who finds the “only woman in the world” about elopment. It vestern person {e\'ery time he turns around. But this is just what Berta Ruck has done in Ithe person of Archie Laverock. Four times in as many months does Cupid make a complete victim of the gal- lant young man whose susceptibilities are wide open to female allurements. A movie star, a young Diana. a merry ‘widow and one outside of cataloguing possibilities engage, in turn, the un- dying affections of this hero. The comedy of these loves moves forward in a breesy atmosphere of perfect good faith and no small amount of bright and humorous incident. How- ever, like the other inevitable things. marriage does apvear, at the last line tof this adventure, to have fastened a sure grip upon the fugitive youth. However. it stands the girl in hand Inot to be too sure of him. since the knot_has not really been tied. He is merely saying—a shade too glibly—"I [swear there'll never be anybody but you." FOUR CORNERS. By Clifford Ray- !" “mond, author of *“One of Three" ete. New York: George H. Doran Company. This neighborhood chronicle re- minds one that a mystery tale does not, of necessity, involve crime and its’ pursuit. In almost any “four corners™ a line of behavinr a degree out of the the common, particularly if_this be tinctured with secrecy, pro- vides material for the writer of m tery stories. | case in point. Upon one of the cor- ners stands a_house built many years before with the idea of seclusion en- jtering into its structure and sur- roundings. Into this house there moved one day a man with two at- tendants. A quiet and harmless man, so he appeared.—but ng one has any | business keeping to himself, not if he Iis all right. The story Erows upon the interest of an average neighbor- hood in the affairs of this question- able person. This interest is of the easily recognizable kind. We have all seen it, or felt it. The folks are equally of the sort of whom we all know.” The man himself. the man of mystery, is likable and desirable and turns out, in time, to have a specific errand in that locality, one that deals with an estimable citizen of the “corners.” A story of steady inter- est, that. while moving to no great heights or depths, keeps one engaged with its plausible and interesting con- BOOKS RECEIVED. THE_A B C'S OF DISARMAMENT AND THE PACIFIC PROBLEMS. By Arthur Bullard. New York: The Macmillan Company. : ORIENTATIONS OF HO-HEN; Trans- lated from Yan-Kee. By T. K. Hed- rick. Wilh introduction by Keith Preston. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Mer- rill Company. THE HARP OF LIFE; A Play. By J. Hartléy Manners. New York: George H. Doran Company. SWORDS; A Play. By Sidney How- ard. New York: George H. Doran Company. THE QUEST OF ALISTAIR. ert Allison Hood. author of “The Chivalry of Keith Leicester,” etc. New York: George H. Doran Com- pany. THE BRIGHTENER. A. M. Williamson. 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