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Reviews of THE HOME-MAKER. By Dorothy Canfield, author of “Rough-Hewn,” ete. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. HE clear purnose of Doroth nfield in “The Home-Make is to lend a hand in smash- ing vet another of the tradi- % tions that have grown up “around the generally accepted “dutles of women"” and “rizhts of men.” eich supposedly inherent and inalienab’e. To meet this purpose Mrs. Canfield makes use of a situation that in one of its aspects at least has become ~e=mon. It Is no new thing o fird the woman of (he se rot in the house at a But, in- rtead. to meet her al. over the open, successfully busy with oc ations that hove hitherto been the exclusive | ¢ of the men. The other side | of the matter, certainly a logical se- quence, is not common, that of find- ing the man of the house, just literall that-—the ome-maker.” The situa oes bock, in this writer's acconnt- than tradiiion, back to triBution of individual gifts man or woman, m; rossers 1tite out of the oredr of thos assigned to men on the one hand, to women on the other. This ix story of Lester Knapp »nd his wife, their home a.d their children. Knapp is not a business | Huce His wife has great busin aptitudes that are more or less was| on the perfect management of a m uncemfortable home, Her gift is not patience and understandine hildren pay the manarerial perfection i for children. Father” is the sanctuary mpathet kindl B ing, poetic and companionable father An accident shifts the roles of home- maker and home-supporter in this family. A true and vigorous and witty and touchinz chronicle of what hap- pens to everybody concerned under the new order serves to make a clear case for the the: of this story of modern implication and effect. Toward the end, when the old roles bid fair to | a -d | | of hard | ment | of | death—Mr. New Books ment in the public mind—prohibition. He refers to this last as an old problem, as old as Noah. Coming along toward the present, he cites it as, time after time, the subject of public concern. In the United States, even, it has been a thing of moment, giving rise to more than one effort to do away with so clear in enemy to the general welfare. It was the war, Lord Birkenhead reminds us, that aroused the fee ssential to the suc of any propaganda, this coupled with the urge of war ind to hold labor to sobriety for a gre output of war materia's, -that brou vrohibition to the point of natlonal ex- neriment. Astuteiy the prohibitionists *ook udvantage of the ituatign to s “e the case by the finn'ity of constitu- 1 strictures. From this point Lord | nhead gives a paesing survey of this experiment as it operates, on the one hand, in the case of the poor man, on the other hand in the case of the | rich man. Leaving out the steps of a very logical line of a.gument, let us | give Lord Birkenhead's summary of the case of prohibition in the United States: Sure’y ‘the resu'ts as they have so far emerged from the experiment justify | the conc'uslon that where one is dealing with se'f-re’ating tions the only moral conquests which are either valu- ab’e or attainab'e are those w! cained upon conscience through tion, and that a law which intolerantly imposes upon adult o N which they di: ons which they cons an never effec in UNDER THE RED ¥ ard Baton. New York: | and intimate story of per- | itures and observations in Red Russia. Richard Eaton. sent by the Daily Mail and a continental newspaper to investigate Soviet Ru: sta, offers this volume as evidenc first-hand, eve-witness, personal- ing substantiality. Under all | <orts of difficulties—among them ar- rest, imprisonment and the threat of | ton made his wa about ! the country, picking up every avail- By Rich- rentano’s. | An oper sonal adv tablished, Mrs, Canfield dures psychology applied wife that | ted to stir up quite a turn - | of denial and nrotest in the still fairly | large class that has not yet learned to be either honest with itself or tolerant | of honesty in others NEW FRIENDS IN OLD CHESTER, By Margaret Deland, euthor of | )Id Chester Tales,” ete. New | York: Harper & Wros. | T *“The Secret have women r— | new etories of 01d Che | Elid Katy,” “An Old Chester and “"How for tneir of quality. There maid-of-all work. And M Sampson, spinster, who kept an im- portant matter secret, mot an easy thing to do in the cies of Old Chester life. And Rose Knight, who | loved a man-—-not much of a man. either—well enough to make herself a subject of ridicule for sake. These three meet on_ a ground through the xelfishness with which each, in her own set of circum- stance: pursued her cours Of the three, Katy most completely wins the heart. She is <o big and ungainly and wholesomely handsome that one de lights ‘n her elephantine playfulnes: She was so good to the and to the Eliots, father and mother. that one warms to her for th Katy had a secret, a thin, one can resist. By and by the secret proved to be a daughter who grew to be ashamed of Katy. It is here that Katy proved the stuff that was in her. To be sure, according to the tenets of her exacting religion, Katy damned her soul to perdition—and she felt pretty bad about that, Katy did. But, after all, heaven is more or less re- mote, and the beloved daughter was most tormentingly near—so the great renunciation came lifting Katy to a level that causes one to look up as he | lculates the quality of her devotion Simple stories, these three. as they must be to accord with the life of Old Chester. Swift stories, t0o, that swing off under the stir of Old Chester af- fairs along the ways of common hu- man nature everywhere. The hosts of readers who have heretofore found joy in Old Chester through the true ! creative insight and power of Mar- | garet Deland will rejoice at the| chance to go back there for an ac-| quaintance with Katy and Miss Lydia | Sampson and Rose Knight and for the chance also of coming into touch with the old friends—Dr. Lavendar and chief | makin th | wise | @ vivid account of the disorgan common | able item whose nature promised e planation. however slight. of the o otic condition of the whole. He de scribes Soviet Moscow from an. insic which not oue in a thousand is able | to penetrate—certainly not those who | comie out of the city with smooth pic- | tures to carry to the outside world ! He tells of prison life from his owr experience, passing from this to a | general summary of the character of Soviet justive. Trade, domestic and foreign, as this is pursued and pro | jected, is analyzed. The war agains’ | gion and the atrocities against ths thood are described in effective | ieing detail. In a word. most of his opportunitie which were more often than other- personal misfortunes and mis- haps, Mr. Eaton hands over to readers ion . the con- | hopeless Russia of this great country, Ye clusion of this secmingly matter is distinctly hopeful destined to become the most pow- | erful nation on the continent.” It is | | @ vouns nation and this is a world of | youth. The revolution has unified Russia to a degpee. It has given | birth to a feeling of patriotism and | nationalism. These only in the bud {and slow of growth, but bound to| | bear fruit in the ultimate greatness of | Russia. A brilliant and interesting | story that gives one a many-sided | view of the country at the hands of a competent observer and a most en- tertaining writer. JENNY THE JOYOUS. Ey Cornelia Stratton Parker, author of “An Amcrican 1dyll,” ete. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. Implications of a “glad in this alliterative title H could be farther from th however. Mrs. Parker has wit, the | keen-edged kind. This would make her shun Pollvanna as the plague. des, she lucks certain_illusions. Maybe she has lost them. Maybe she never had them. All that concerns us about the matter is that the e agency working herc in the story of Jenny appears to be th general disillusionment pressed into | story lie ing sense of the absurd, the untrue, the incongruous. This combination applied to the experiences of Jenr produces an effect wholly at odds with the monotony of the incorrigible cheerfulness of a “glad” heroine. Yet it has dangers of its own, th special medi For one gets here the impression of unreality, just as the rest. DAYS OFF I Rutledge. Page & Co. A hot trail to follow in mid-Sum- | mer, even in a book—this swamp | coast of the Carolinas. Eut the man who lays it certainly has a way with | him that causes one to forget the single menace of heat under the lure of many adventures with a wild life | as new as that which makes men hunt the world from top to bottom and round and round its hidden ways. From the first moment the man is a .omrade, eager to share that which began to find as a little boy and with which at the present moment he is packed to overflowing. The old nlantation lay along one of the sides of this region. And when this boy had only a few years to his account he began to poke and pry into the tangle, to nose in a little farther and a little deeper so that, now a man, he has an enviable store of first- hand information and an astonishing fund of enthusiasm to hand out to such as think wild life much more interesting than tamed life. And we go in with him. Here are tangles of verdure that, standing the year round knec deep in water, present a walled | sreemery to overcome. Here are pools and ponds and slow-moving currents that provide house and home for snake and alligator and bird, | DIXIE. By Archibald | New York: Doubleday, | ziving foot-hold and tree-hold besides ¢ 10 a world of other wild life, offering “anctuary as well to many a hounded creature against which man has set up an unsporting advantage. Within the swamp one finds under the Rut- [Jedge guidance some of the aspects “6f man-life. Here are bitter vendettas ‘developed in a technic as complete “and pursued with a cruelty as perfect @as those under which the civilized human makes his way through a troubling world. A thousand evi- atences of the instinct for “life, lib- derty and the pursuit of happiness” <ame out to meet one here in the anarvelous adaptation of these crea- tures to the element that sustains hem. The man is a hunter as well ©ms a naturalist of quality. o, you will take your choice. Those Who atke to hunt the defenseless have a whance here. We take the other trail uoming out distinctly enriched by our .sadventure into a rare place with a ‘knowing ~and communicable com- Amnion. MERICA REVISITED, By the Earl "of Birkenhead, P, C. Boston: Lit- tle, Brown & Co. The youth of America, its eize, its seesources, its material prosperity, its .power and its promise are all of unfail- tpg. interest to the Buropean traveling “shis way. Filled with what he has seen ‘awer here, he is bound to talk about it “ehen he gets back home. Whether this A#dls is or 18 not of use to us depends largély on the quality of the one engag- ing in it. It is, however, all interesting. Lord Birkenhead is both interesting and helpful. He is that kind of man—a zood observer, possessed of a back £round against which to measure tha ~which he sees—a man of friendliness and. moderate speech. In this book he telis of some of the things that inter- csted him on this side. American war problems, the prosperity of America, its jgreat. enterprises, its Social activity, its irelation to the rest of the world—these are subjects with which he deals. The negre problem lures him. So does that all-important topic so much at the mo- 2 he does before the exercise of a cheer- | fulness that no misfortune can cor- rupt. Jenny so completely and thoroughly the “trump” through hap- penings calculated to down the most dauntless that she looks, now and then, suspiciously like legend, in- stead of a plucky woman plowing: her way through all manner of discour- agements of common current pattern, Just the story of a girl, much like all girls. Just the story of a young woman in love and then of a young woman married, and then widowed. Joy and sorrow and rather unusual trouble—or what would have been | trouble to any but the Jennys of th world. The story is meant, clearly, to make a realistic picture of high courage drawn from the common realities of current life. It aimost misses this clear intent through over- is other hand through the author seeming inability to resist Ler ow cleverness. a handicap under injudicious indul- gence. SEWARD'S FOLLY. By Edison Mar- shall, author of “The Land of For- gotten Men,” cte. Boston: Little, | Brown & Co. | appearance, The (‘n\'rrrd! and “Vandemark’s Folly. This one, as its name indicates, deals with the approaching transfer of Alaska from Russian to American control through the foresight of Wil- liam H. Seward, Secretary of State in the Lincoln Administration, Against the Alaskan background is | set an involved intriguc of fur trad- ing companies to obstruct the trans- fer of the country from Russian to American possession. At the centor of this conspiracy, ferreting it out, obstructing it and finally thwarting it. as a group of Americans, out of which are drawn both the hero and the heroine of the political adventure. These serve also the prime purpose | of the romance that runs along beside the historic circumstance itself. This hero is Jefferson Sharp, a dyed-in-the- | wool Southerner, a_soldier of the| Confederate Army, who, a.ter the war is over, consents to o, at the request of Seward, an old family friend, up into Alaska to spy out the land in| view of ‘its possible desirability. as a ‘part of the American common- wealth. A reluctant agent, since he has no desire to give aid and com- fort in any direction to a Union which he resents as a.conqueror and hates as the enemy of that which he still holds most dear. The outcome of the adventure demonstrates, however, that Jefterson Sharp is first and fore- most an Amefican, forgetful of even the Confederate sectionalism when any advantage to his country Is in danger through.the machinations of self-seeking outsiders. Sitka, with its mixed population—Russians, Englia) Indians, Amerlcans—gives off. many a stirring scene of plot and counter- plot under the rival urgencles of this notable event in the history of two {great countries. Highly romantic, the action, but not implausible. For the East and the West meet here on this corner of America—the subtie Oriental und the more forthright man of the West. A conjunction of ro- mantic content with which Mr. Mar- shall deals capably while he, at the samo time, preserves the historic pi- | once: flavors of ‘the time and the situaticn, recent Wagon™” the open through a swift and untir- | drawing on the one hand, and on the |l Another pioneer story to step off ||| in company with those other two of ||| Library and THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY| the Public lists of recommended reading will appear in this column Recent accessions at euach Sunday. Agresti, Boswall, J Bradford, ¢ anieis, Josephus, Dark, Fitzpatrick, [ Flint, . | P Furness iraham, R. Hamilton, Hardman, Harriman, ¥. J Harrison, James Jone: Jordan, BIOGRAPHY. O. R. David Lublin. 19 L9635a . R. E. Woodrow Wilson. Theodore Alfred Yarrow. The Human Side Colm Ma Im Review H217D, Boswell's Johnso Archibald mes abridged by J63bm. maliel. Th 1’399, Randolph E-R 155b. t. Francis » Soul of Sa story! W u E-W697ds and Grey, pend, S. Gilbert. 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