Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1924, Page 72

"4 Reviews of LVIN COOLIDGE; Frem a Greem A ountain Farm te the White Heuse, By M. E. Hennessy, au- thor of “Twenty-five Years of Massachusetits Politica” Illustrat- ed. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ALVIN COOLIDGE, “the man, twenty-ninth President of the United States, stands revealed in a biography written by M. E. Hennessy and just published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. More and more, the longer President Coolidge is In the public eye, the people are coming to look upon him as the personifica- tion of all that New England stands for—steadiness, responsibility, thrift, just dealing and devotion to the re- public. Mr. Hennessy in his delight- fully written and delightfully inter- esting book tells how and why this characterization, this estimate of Cal- vin Coolidge has developed—and why 1t is just. Mr. Hennessy is eminently qualified to write a biography of the Pres dent. Veteran correspondent of the Boston Globe, hc has been an ob- eerver of public men and public events for many years. He knows New England, producer of Calvin Coolidge, and he knows the President through long assoclation with him, particularly during which 3 a power in Ma. nd more lately & power in national affairs, In a foreword to his bouk, Mr. Hen- nessy sa tory of Calvin atcst romance of ican politics,” referring to his progress from a (Green mountain tarm to the White House. It is such romances that keep the people's faith in_America—in the great republic— alive. 1t i such romances that war- rant the telling many times over. “His taciturnity and sclf-repression sre characters of the stock from which he gelf-reliance, ind and plain living,’ *“Men born tain top slow to hills is in their manners And, predicting the future of Pres: dent Coolidge, the author continues: “Men do not chan; their ideals at President Coolidge's time of life. They are likely to adhere to them @ore tenaciously. Hence. it is reason- sble to assume that the country i tn for an example in the presidency of unaffected Jeffersonian simplicity rugged New England honesty and in- dependent thinking.” Mr. Coolidie hus been referred to as an “enigm; as a kind of mysteri- ous and unkrown quantity. But if Such a conception of the President exists today w perusal of this latest biography of the I'r t dissi- pate it. From his cu yhood on the family farm at Plymouth Notch, far in the hills of Vermont., mile: from a railroad, to Amherst College, his early law practice in Northamp. ton, Mass., his entranee into politics as common councilman, his service &8 mayor of Northampton, in the house d se © of the state legis- lature, in_the office of licutenant gov- ernor, of governor, Vice President and finally President of the United States, Mr. Hennessy traces his ad- vance. The story is told with a wealth of humor and incident and anecdote. The little things in life are revealed, as well as thc er, to show the real character of Calvin Coolidge. The big, dramatic incident in the lifc of Mr. Conolid entered White House was the police strike in Boston, which, Vo ernor of Massuchusetts, ha was called npon to quell. His handling of the strike, which Lrought him to the fore @s the exponent of law and order, dear to the heart of all Anglo-Saxons. Mr. Hennessy pictures with the sure hand of one who was on the spot at the time and who was in close touch with events a “Reliability,” as a public in the many offices he lius bee by his people to fill, the story of Mr. Coslidige told Ly Mr. Hennessy. Lacking the spect safe, sound, determin erisis, is the pieture of the prescai head of Eovernment. Mr. Henn . makes mention frequently the dry wit, the kindliness that has endeared Calvin Coolidg: to many men in epite of the fact that he does not dance, nor play cards, nor golf, and never has gone in for games and sport. Mr. Hennessy tells a story of Mr. Coolidge while presiding over the Massachusetts senate. One of the sen- ators was making long speech against a bill. He was approuched by another who advised him to cut short his remarks. he speaker turn- ed to the other and savagely told him g0 Lo the hot place, and resumed his assault upon the bill,” Mr. Hen- nessy sa “The rebuffed senator was sorely disturbed by the unparlia- mentary language of 1 and he went up to th desk. “‘Cal’ said the ‘did you hear what me a moment ago!’ ““Yes! replicd the President srith- out the semblance of a smile, ‘but 1've looked up the law and you don't have to go.r " THE HEIR; A Love Story. By V. ckville-West, author of “Hes > ete. New York: George H. Doran Company. Not often does a story other work of art leave onc satisfied deep down within himself, where there is, indubitably. some sense of perfection, me feeling for Dbeau that rises joyously to meet that which s this deep-lving sense. Here i that docs produce this kind action. One is curf its potency. It is a very simplc Phillida Chase is dead. Her devises the Manor of Blackboys the whole of tl Blackboys es to her nephew, a stranger, Peregrine Chase. In obedience to a summons Chase 1s at Blackboys. A mervous, unimpressive littlc man, perplexes over the possession of an overbur- dened estate, which, clearly, he can: not keep. Deregrine Chase’ stays at Blackboys while it is being rounded up for sale. That is the situation. That is all there is to the story save its dramatic and unavoidable glimax. It is in this period of wait- ing., however, that Mixs Sackville- West works the miracic ahd sets the story upon the heights of dramatic art.” An unimpressionable man is Peregrine Chase, vet little by little the old Manor of Blackboys dips down into his being. Some aspects of the ancient place—at sunset, maybe; with the sweep of rain upon it, pos- sibly; with the harvest spread of its fields before him, perhaps—slips him back into the identity of some old possessing ancestor. That the ten- ants and the housefolks and the dogs accept him comes to him with a thrill of pleasure and also with a sense of right. The soil of Black- boys is his own ancient demesne. He is_one with Blackbovs. It is one with him. An amazing deference to -ndence, simplicit s er. Henne d and of the chosen the burden of offend2d senator, nd-so said to a_story of sati racial feeling here and amazing rec-- egnition of the pull of Iinglish sofl upon the English heart. The artistr. is as subtle, as delicate, as impres give as is that which it portrays. The story does more than to re-create Pregrine Chase in the Image of his true heritage, morc than to cause the inevitable climax that it does produce. It goes far to stir, deeply Sensational! BOUDOIR MIRRORS of WASHINGTON “Nowhere in the world is there so much soeial chatter.”—From a nine- column review in The Literary Digest. EVERYONE 13 TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK! 4th _Prinsing Ready, $2.50 Ecerywhere THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.. Philadelghia a people noted for | up to the time he | : ubout or anyi New Books and along the lines of Peregrine's re- birth, any one sprung from Iinglish roots, as the most of us are yet. CHILDREN OF LONELINESS, By Anzia Yezierska, author of “Hun- gry Hearts,” etc. New Yoi: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Anzia Yezlerska is of deeper inter- est and intenser appeal than any lit- erary invention posisbly can be. Yet she is,.in & very real sense, the story that she projects. Where the ma- jority of ~ writers never do come through their words and phrases, or, at the best, in only shadowy disgulses and makeshift effects, here the wom- an s the story, the story is the wom- an. And when, now and then, the moves away_from herself—no, that is not right. When, now and then, she includes more than her own individ- ual soul and self, it is to offer more of the soul and self of the immigrant. It is to picture, out of her own lone- liness, the homesick soul of the im- migrant—all immigrants, questing some place, some_condition, out of which they’ may. in part, feed their devouring hungers for old familiar, far-off things, no matter how grie ous the burden of those things may have been. One will hardly again meet such flerce passion to come through as these stories show, nor such vehement urgency of effort, nor such persistence of importunity, such pains of parturition. No wonder that Anzia Yezierska moved out of the sweatshop and poverty into the realm of recognized artistry. Reading hLer stories, studyinz t on . of un old, old p 1 “Ex hou bless me lewill not lot The Importunities like this must carry respect in heaven a3 they surcly do command respect on earti. THE OUT TRAIL. Dy Mary Roberts Rinehart, author of “The Breaking Poln ew York: George H. Doran Company. The out-and-out west, the desert down below, and the Florida keys provide the various settings for the half-dozen adventures set down here. As a traveler Mrs. Rinehart stands in 2 class by herself. Others climb mountaing, explore deserts and sail the seas for reasons that fit into a few familiar pigcon-holes of classi- fication, To incremse the sum of S | human knowledge is the favorite pur- pose openly avowed. Industrial {projects, a love of nature, seeking Imsmrnuon for creative t, and so on, and so through a list of highly | meritorious objects these reasons run. And all these travelers arc sincere, one takes it, for they usually come back laden with n budgets of knowledge and the look of solid ac- complishment that properly runs along with enterprises so serious and weighty. Not for any of these rea- | sons does Mrs. Rinehart so frequently fare out into the world. She goes be- cause she wants to. Nothing more than that does she own up to—unless it be that the man folks are gong and she refuses to be left behind. And, no matter where she goes, whether to mountain or desert or sex, the outcome invariably is that the real adventure is one into the land of high spirits, and the zest of life, |:u|d the joy of the moment. And this is a land against which no prohibi- tions prevail—on tap every minute, those high spirits and that zest and that joyous tasting of life. To the reader it is distinct refreshment and re-creation to set out in this air of frank avowal, to go along expectant of each moment to do its part, and to laugh one’s ay through situations that range all the way from desperate to delightful. A good spring send-off | —to read thesc adventures. | THE BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE. By Cosmo_Hamilton, author of “An- | other Scandal” ete. Boston: Lit- tle, Brown & Co. l The pulpit having somewhat con- clusively demonstrated sither its re- luctance to approach so delicate a atter or its inability to reach out nto a certain line of danger, the |novel and the stage have, to an ex- itent, reinforced the commion secular reform. “The Blind- ness of Virtue" is o case in point. The jnew issue of a novel (hat has already 1 pa: into stage and film production, it is, in essence, ddstinctly a sermon, poinfed upon the general refu {parents to enlighten their cf S reme Prepo the I milia ilo ere¢ through the really human 1 of the story ftself. While the |point and conclus f the matter |have to do with the pe of a young igirl from the pe of her own lignoranc the absorbing person of ithe story is the girl's father—Harry Pemberton, parson of East Brenton. Here is a real man—robust. happy, iclean-living, deeply interested in the ilives of the common folks around him. A man who might have Leen, maybe a bishop, had he not chosen work to word, action to gesture. The intimate pasrion of Harry Pember- ton's life is his carefully protected daughter. A natural web of circum- stance - throws this_girl, alarmingly but not uncommunly ignorant into the dangers of first love. The father in his work has seen tragic examples of just such a situation. Under his urge the mother, as the natural one to do it, promises to tell the girl what she ought to know. But the mother i® so delicate, so modgest, so much of | one kind of hopeless focl, that she gons back on her promise und then lies aboys it. A gentle, womanly woman, this” Plausible throughout, well con- I strueted, seriously bent to its purpose, ithe story interests—in spite of the fact that it is meant to instruct. THE GARDEN OF PERII. By Cyn- thia Stockley, author of “Ponjola.” ete w York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ! A more circumseribed romance than “Ponjola. Not so wide and free a fling of South African action and ! atmosphere about it as the romances of this writer commonly present, A simple stol whose heroine is as E ent training can A lovely datached figure is Peril siting high in her Rhodesian garden watching the world ride by down below. No romance, { however, can support itself on in- i nocence 'and beauty alone, It would, 0 slimly fed, soon die of inanition. The writer knows this, none better. So thera s to sustain it a lady riding by down below the garden of peril, a lovely—and. wicked—lady with eyes ‘of desire cast upon her sick hus- band’'s ocousin, Punch Haseltine, a handsome man, and, in this case at least, an innocent one. Thetwickedness tof this lady goes back in knowledge Iand methed to those dark days when troublecome husbands—and wives— could be disposed of with both ! celerity and secrecy. So much, how- ever, depends upon_ the setting, the age, the custom, This lady, unlike those earlier onés, was qguite out of joint with her time. . Upon Peril devolves the task of trying to save the unlucky husband. And upon this Ler own romance turns. -Entertain- ng, of course—iwith action and color i i Msystery, Intrigne, Suspense THIRTEENTH LETTER By Natalie S. Lincoln Marion Ward, a pretty nurse, is called at midnight to a l6nely estate in Mary- land to attend a wealthy | young man.: Within' a half hour a murder, an extraor- dinary wedding, -and a startling disappearance, make Marion the center of 1| a mystery as baffling and l as clever as any Miss Lin- - coln has yet written. $1.75. At all-Bookssllers. D. APPLETON & COMPANY 35 West 32nd St., New Yorl_(! of her jand the savor of those surroundings in which Cyntbia Stockley is so much at home. THE MYSTERY WOMAN. By Alice ! McGowan and Perry Newberry, au- thors of “The Million Dollar Suit- case.” New Ybrk: Frederick A. Stokes Company. If 2 woman is reading this story she is more than likely to loosen her hold on the mystery liself because of anxiety lest Jerry Boyne, detective and old enough to know better, is go- | ing to make a fool of himseif over' that foreign actress with the silly name “Mimi.” If a man is reading it he will hang on to the fact that al man with oodles of money for an Asi- atic fnvestment upon his person has disappeared. He will tell you that not only the agents of justice and the pursuers of crime are keen to the fate of that man, but that the partnors in the corporation also have a vital in- terest in the whereabouts of both the man and the money. This reader will follow all the ins and outs of the search, all the new suspects, all the fresh {rails, all the blind alleys. He will tell you that Jerry Boyne is all right, no matter what jealous officers may look against him nor what silly woman readers may fear for him. He will point you upon Jerry's friends— | zpon Lin Olds, newsboy and adoring satellit keen a1 terrior after a rat: as_well; upon Skeet Thornhill, girl reporter and all-around scout, and upon others who are as anxlous for Jerry to come out on top as they are for the ends of justice to be met. And when, after no end of exciting |&nd_not unbelievable to-do, Jerry Boyne is as much of a hero as the case itsclf is one of tremendous im- | port, why, then, both men and women | settle down in' peace for themselves ! and praise for the two artful people | who made the thing up out of whole cloth. BROOD OF THE WITCH-QUEEN. By Sax Rohmer, author of “Tales Secret Egypt” ete. New Yor! Doubleday, Page & Co. Take the odds and ends of magic| lore which here and there you have come upon. - Mix with these such threads of tradition and history as| you may have gathered about the ancient Egyptian as past masters in the arts of magic, sorrery and a general hand-in-glove with the devil, or with gods more terrible than Satan himself would ever have the nerve to be. Add a chld's ready belief in the impossibla. Meraly to say that for the reading of this story vne has to induce a particular state of mind. That done, he is ready to jump into the welrd tale with zest und some sort of believing. London. The strange taking off of this important person. Then that one. Signy of actual violence are lacking. Signs of creepy significance, however, do ap- pear.” Michael Fertary, great Egyp- tologist, is the first of thesa victims Soon interest centers on his foster son, Antony Ferrara, of mo.t myst ous parentage. The story shifts to ypt. And “around the birth and beinz of Antony Ferrara such facts and influences arise as to send shivers up and down and roundahout the readers person. There will be no ‘dle moment for one to rearrange his thinkings, to get his denials on top. Just as he is coming to these points he is rushed off into something so terrifying and so begzuiling as to processes look like indeed. One comes out of the senvational orgy into which the adventuro launches him with a distinct respect for an author who really succeeds in putting over this bizarre business with =0 much of an effect of credibility about it. — LIFE IN THE DEEP SEA. Human Characteristics Abound Among Salt-Water Residents. From the Nation's Business. Fish stories are important items of human experience, and the teeming life of the sea hus ups and downs to match any fortune of the land. Young oysters, we are told, settle down to work after forty-eight hours of mak- ing a splash in their world. Some become pearl manufacturers, and others just hang around the bars —piain old Soaks. h sometimes visit oyster com: and work the old shell game. the oys- ters have made their beds—let them lie in them. And there are the lim- pets. They prowl around at night, but always in the morning they man- age to find their own fiats on the old home rock, and so save their faces in the eyes of the community. Ah, those THE . SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, sly, frollicking limpets? And what armories of teeth—whelks have from 220 to 250 cach, winkles 3,500, and the umbrella shell about 750,000 to the set. What a time there must be when the little umbrella shells are teething. Whelks, mon! Life at the bottom of the sea is a i pretty serious business. - — Cooking to Suit. At a meeting of the Home Econom ics Association in New Orlcans house- wives were urged to have their cooks |serve meals in keeping with the i weather or the ruff § sterner spouse. 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