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Reviews of . MADAGASCAR; Land of the Man- Bating Tree, By Chase Salmon Os- born, LL. D., author of “The An- l dean Land,” etc. Illustrated. New York: Republic Publishing Co. OST of the time T shall be &4 honest in this book. All of the time I shall try to be honest. Because of this pledge 1 am going you that the purpose of the at once to enmesh your in- Madagascar_has been called “The Land of the Man-eating Tree' since prehistoric times, as our vain and insufficient chronology goes. T do not know whether this tigerish tree really exists or whether the bloodcurdling stories about it are pure myth. It is enough for my pur- pose if its story focuses your interest upon one of the least known spots in the world.” This is the way that Chase Salmon Osborn takes to open the story of his experience s ob- servations and adventures—through the length and breadth of the rela- tively unknown island of Madagascar. This is also the k-v to which the long and useful W ry is pitched “Long.” because there is much to tell about this somewhat neglected region. seful,” because the author has held himself to a scientific accuracy in gathering up the story of Madagascar. It is the manner of the man, however, that sets the key of this narration. The manner of Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville, and the great Raleigh and Herodotus. He has the fascinat of these great telle while, at the same time, he is authentic and reliable the drvest ©ld historian that ever buried him —and us—alive in dre facts A most orderly man in his thinking, this. He begins with the making of the island, a great geological epic And from that point he proceeds with the aborigines and on up to the pres- ent t the whole ectly au- thenticated information. But it is the man himself who makes the whole of it alive and immediate to our absorbed interest. Time has nothing to do with guch @ man. He converts the remote past into u ent_present, relating it to us every legitimate art of vivid You read it. Beside it the s 1s1 fade vapidity it you will stand around hoping get a glimpse this Chase Osborn, one-time Governor Michigan. Think of it! The »{ anything when he can a story to tell title is terest. pe nds of to sob Wassermann, au- World's Tllusion.” ted by Louise Collier Will- New York: Harcourt, Brace of Ulrika Woy- upon ex- the story A story, a development, ch Wassermann has bor of infinite de- | tail to bring to the surface in a co- herent unity of effect the elusive self that hides so successfully under the external appearance of the in- dividual. You know Ulrika Woytich You remember that woman of a tality so overabounding, of an inter- est so inclusive, of a response so im- mediate and foreeful, that the co cerns of others immediately became her consuming concern for the time being. Aud upon these she expended herself in a perfect fury of zeal. That's a marvelous equipment, you say—the very of unselfish- ness. Maybe so. But that is not the Point—not the point with Jacob Wa sermann in “Gold” His point is to follow the effect of this tremendous tndividual force, unremitting and un- resisting, upon’ the characte sessing it and upon the inevitable outcom: as the person her- gelf is concerned, only touching others as these come within the of this voracious influence affecting the course of its development and de- claring the quality of its culmination An amazing study of an insight that upon a time would have heen called uncanny. Today we know more the human, about his depths, the far and warring sources of being. So we read along here won- dering but agreemng out of our own secret selves. There i back to this remarkable story. Al- most nobody is going to read it. It looks heavy. It is long. It holds out no external attraction. If one does get into it, even if he follow it to the end, he is likely to wonder why any sensible reader should put the time required by this story to fol- low the step-by-step course of a tharacter to the inevitable disaster that this one so painfully portrays. essence pos- m so far Ange BACK New pany One comes out of this story thin ing “How easy it is to write a play! The are a typist and an author—like Marguerite and this Peter Millard. They both do the thinking. That is they ponder a min- ute or two over a theme. Almost at once it comes, as likely from Margue- rite and from Peter. After that there 1s nothing to it. Peter talks off bits of sparkling dialogue, ¢nough to make u little play. And that night Marguerite puts it in type. The next move is to take it down to the Green- wich Village theater, or studio, or Wwhatever it is. It goes a-humming. Then pretty soon some producer from Broadway-—the golden goal of every playwright—hears about that amaz- ing play down at the Village. Scveral producers—not one—then begin to fight over the purchase of the new gen The story does give just about that effect, though, upon think- Ing over the details of it, there do tome to the surface some setbacks for Peter Millard in his dramatic career. Not many. And no permanent ones. In the course of them one reads here what is safe to call a good picture of the life that behind the scenes is for- ever on the stretch to get right up close to the footlights, or maybe it Is the spotlight now. Just about like the rest of us, those folks. All eaten up, each with his own individual im- nce and out to satisfy his own bly a little more natural and unrestrained in their manifesta- tions. Maybe not. upon the whole. This Mr. Roland Oliver in the midst of what appears like a very plausible to-do—is certainly is a clever and interesting one—has had the good luck, or the good inspiration, to pro- duce a few people that we are likely Yo remember for some time. There is Peter himself. And Marguerite. And “Birmy"—God Dbless him. A good stage story and no mean love story. Quite an achievement for Roland Oliver or any other Young—or young- fsh—hand at the writing business. AMERICAN GRAPHIC ART. By F. Weitenkampf. L. H. D., curator of | prints, New York Public Library; author of “How to Appreciate Prints” etc. Illustrated. New ! York: The Macmillan Company. A revised and enlarged edition of the earlier work of this author, with many new illustrations for the more definite pointing of certain parts of the text. The study is in susbtance a comprehensive survey of the graphic art of America, with special emphasis upon the more recent aspects of this development. Etching, engraving, lithography, each in its beginnings in this country and in its growth up to the present time is discussed here in a simplicity that even the lay read er is able to grasp, though the dis: eussion is most directly addressed to those having special interest in the subject. To the latter it stands in the nature of a manual of instruction. A part of the book clearly of interest to the general mind as well as to that of the artist himself is the part that deals with caricature, with the comic paper and the daily press, with the poster and the business card. The whole is adapted to a broader use than a merely technical discussion could command. It is distinctly in- #orming to gemeral readers who have STAGE. York ¥ Roland Oliver. The Macmillan Com- us to | of | upon | only one draw- | New Books an interest in the subject and wish for a more extended view of it. To the artist himself it is a study calcu- lated to broaden his vision by its all around sweep and to heighten his interest in his own field by its com- parison and contrast with flelds al- lied to the one occupied by him. UNCONVENTIONAL MEMORIES. By Ralph Nevill, author of Mayfair and Montmartrs,” cte. Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Co. By passing usage—not by accepted authority—there has been assigned to the word “unconventional” the some- what shady content of certain be- haviors, individual and sociak It is important to say at once that the “‘memorie in hand bear no such ir- regular and temporary connotation. Rather is this the contemplative re- view of a life which, though personal and individual, embodies in effect the life of an cutire class in the English social whole. Herein lies both the charm and value of the book. A man’s “memories” are generally worth while only to the extent that he himeslf has, in one way or another, been “worth while.” Here Mr. Nevill qualifies in great shape. The first half of the book goes back to the school days in Engiand, embodied here in the author himself and his immediate associates. Out of this one gets a full and informing picture of that which most other writers in passing have touched less freely and intimately. The second half of the book covers personal recollec tions of travel throughout Europe, into Persia, across over into Japan. In an easy of talking the author, whereever he goes, lifts off what ap- pears to be the cream of events or of objects for our entertainment, those of special significance to the various veoples under consideration or of <pecial moment to the world at large Interesting as this latter half of the “memories” is, it is upon the first | half, in its vivid lifelikeness, in_its { fullness of detail, in it comprehensive- | ness, that the ting substance of the story lies. There is the quality of youth throughout these recollec- tions. Indeed, one gets rather per- plexed after a while at the continued lusti of these memorie: ‘This order of writing gives the effect of many years as a rule. So, to settle the question, one goes a-hunting this man’s birth date. “An early memory of being held up to see the Shah of Persia_as his train passed through Petersfield station in 1872"—that's all, but that is enough to satisfy. He is still ng and feels it, so the memories themselves partake of his vouth. Most enjoyable for this rea- son and many others. FRAYCAR'S FIST. By Mary Heaton Vorse. New York: Boni & Live- righ A dozen and more short stories by Mary Heaton Vorse. If this were a classroom and I were a school teacher I'd select some of these stories—al- most any one of them would serve— for a direct objective illustration of those points of purpose and struc- ture that distinguish the short story from the long one, and that set within the unity of the short story its action and suspense and steady ascent to- ward its high point, toward the ob- jective culmination of the purpose it- | self. But I'm not a school teacher. o Tl content myself with the thought that that teacher stuff is all ue and more is true. These stories are moments out of ‘e—yours and mine. They fit the human anywher: in Japan, or Timbuctoo. or Kalama- zoo, or New York. For while the outer lincident may vary according to rel and custom, the human ele- m does not change much. It can be counted to react pretty much the same the world over under the ele- ental stimuli of hunger for food or 1) r for love, under injustic ‘HI:\!-Y‘ ambition, and so on throug the whole line of human needs. Original stories, in so far as there i cha for much of originality r | example, there is the story ¢ “The 1 Who Wanted a New Face.” Not E all—not the everlasting girl who wants to rival in beauty Helen and opatra and Miss Philadeiphia. The girl is already Feautiful as any | of these, one would sa fter a few experience such a any beautiful girl is likely to face, this poor girl was praying for a face that could not be to her a source of unfailing betrayal That is the kind of origi- nality that these stories are likely to present, nd to present it in a way that makes them carry straight into one's acceptance and thorough enjoyment. BLACK-EYED SUSAN. Gray. Illustrated well. New York: This is one of the fables invented by certain authors—themselves indubitably young—for the edification and delight of roung girls. “Bright and wholesome"" stories. “Susan, the heroine of this one, is clearly lazy. Not her own fault. No child is lazy. Rather not interested in the line of action set before it. Susan's frailty is the direct effect of the mother-myth, that of passionate love for the vouns. Self-sacrifice, wholly Eratifying to the vanity of the mother, completely ruinous to the child, worked in the case of Sus s works where the mother-myth is most actively in evidence. Quite a girl when we first sce her, Susan is as helpless as a cradled baby. So she would have con- tinued had it not been for the timely advent of a snappy spinster relative who originated and carried out the heart- breaking plan of sending Susan out West to visit old Aunt Mahala Mu ford, an ogre of an aunt, so rumor said. In breathless terror, Susand went her way. And under the wizardry of her beauty and helplessness. Aunt Mahala proved to be no ogre at all—rather, a maudlin old woman, wax in the hands of thie soft young thing. Here the fable sets in. In the twinkling of an eye— true to biblical promise—Susan was changed. Without sign or warning she became not only the angel of that house- hold, but its arbiter as well. She rescued a poor slavey from the abuses that old Mahala was putting upon her. She her- self did marvels of housework to help the downtrodden girl. She took a hand at out-of-doors, giving quite a Maud Muller touch to the hay fields of that Western prairie farm. Incidentally Susan refused the fortune of Aunt Mahala, who would have made her the sole heir to her not inconsiderable store. Others had a right as well as she, so Susan said, as she consented to accept what she thought to be her rightful share. You catch the quality of this recon- structed girl from these allusions. To tell all of her good and capable deeds would be impossible, short of a book length. Enough to say that when she went home probably nobody knew her, not even her mother. Only a sample, this story, of the thousands that pass as “bright and wholesome” stories for young girls. BOOKS RECEIVED. MASQUERADING MARY. By Emma Speed Sampson, author of “Mam- my's White Folks,” etc. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co. 2 HEART OF A FATHER. A hu- man document by a well known public man with preface by Sir James Marchant, LL.D. Boston: Houghton Miflin Company. DEFINITIONS; (Second Series). By Henry Seidel Canby, Ph. D. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. THE INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS By Dr. Paul Kammerer, translated by A. Paul Maerker-Branden. Illustrated. New York: Boni & Liveright. MODERN LIBRARY SERIES—THAIS. By Anatole France, translated by Earnest Tristan, with introduc- tion by Hendrik Van Loon. New York: Boni & Liveright. EVERLASTING LIFE, By W, W, By Joslyn by E. C. Ca Charles Scrib- TH THE Keen, M. C, LL. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. EGYPT. By H. H. Powers, president of the Bureau of University Travel. New York: The MacMillan Com- , pany. : SADEQUATE BREVITY.” Mental processes of Calvin Coolidge. Ed- ited and compiled by Robert J. Thompson. Chicago: M. A. Don- ohue & Co. FIRST AID TO THE OPERA-GOER. By Mary Fitch Watkins. Eight il- lustrations. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. PHOTOGRAPHIC FAOTS AND FOR- MULAS. By E. J. Wall, F. C. 5, F. R P. S. Boston: American Photographic Publishing Co. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF LOUIS XV. By Mouffle D'Angerville, annotated and amplified by quotations from original and unpublished docu- ments by Albert Meyrac, translated from the French by H. S. Mingard. New York: Boni & Liveright. SUPERS AND SUPERMEN. By Philip Guedalla. New York: G. P. Put- nam’s Sons. A SIMPLIFIED GRAMMAR OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE (Modern written wstyle). By Basil Hall Chamberlain. Revised edition by Maj. James Garfield Mcliroy, U. S. A. Chicago The University of Chicago Press. THE PROBLEM OF BUSINESS FORECASTING. Edited by War- ren M. Persons, William Trufant Foster and Albert J. Hettinger, jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. SAILORS' WIVES.. By Wanee Fa- bian. New York: Boni & Liveright. WHO WOULD BE FREE. By Marian Spitzer. New York: Boni & Live- right. THE BACK OF THE BOOK. By Margaret Leech. New York: Boni & Liveright. ENCOUNTERS. Bower. right. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Stories by Elizabeth New York: Boni & Live- Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. The Bible. Bible. English. The CBAQ-1923. Bible, New Testament, English. The New Testament; tr. by E. J. Good- speed. CBPV-G628. Bible, New Testament, English. Riverside New Testament. B21. Bible, New Testament, Gospels Selec- tions, English. The Thomas Jef- ferson Bible. CBUL-J358j Bible, New Testament Selections English. Century Readings in the New Testament. CDBPA-C91. Bible, Old Testament, English. The Old Covenant Commonly Called the Old Testament; tr. from the Sep- tuagint. 1907. CBFX-Et Bible, Old Testament Psalms, Hebrew. The Book of Psalms. V.1 (Yiddish text), CBMI-H. Bible, Old Testament Selections, Eng- lish. Century Readings in the Old Testament. CBFA-C91. Bloch, J. Israel und die volker. CA-B623 Budden, . W.. and Hastings, Edward. The Local Color of the Bible. V.1. CBEA-BS5. Dahl, George. 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CX-W6é96e. e There are various ways of getting there. For instance, the tiresome peo- ple just bore their way through life. CA- C. B. The Character of of the to Read the to Enjoy the Fifty Short Ser- Read it for five human reasons 2. CARETH LINDSAY ~ ~ ~ Th s SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER AROUND THE CITY By Nannie Lancaste E_came back from his all- Summer vacation with a fine coat of Massachusetts Coast tan and bubbles of experi- ences acquired along the way: ‘Beautiful country up there, but So obstructed by gigantic advertise- ments posted along all lines of travel that groups of small towns have united to boycott all manu- facturers and mer- chants who hide the landsc from view. action is reaching out to other small towns and its effect is already so convincing that advertisers are be- ginning to recog- nize the value of the movement even for them- elves, since the increasingly expensive costs in the aggresute millions a vear.” posting of ‘come-ons many This seems to promise a rainbow of hope for travelers of every other section of the country—a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end of it for everybody concerned. “Here's an thing: Perth Amboy, N. J., has a population of 50,000. One evening I wanted to send a telegram and was told it was too late—telegraph office closed at 8:30 p.m. 1 inquired what would happen if, say, my wife was ill and 1 needed to send a wire, and Perth Amboy replied, to its own entire sat- isfaction, that a message could be sent and relayed. Fifty thousand in- habitants! of telephone stands for progress in the solitudes of the far West. In the Nevada Desert, say, there is a Golgotha place where barren peaks call out to na ture, “Why hast thou forsaken me? nd cries, thirst” But u do not fear the splendid loneli- s, for when the night wind clashes wires into deepest organ ords you know that you are listen- ing to the voice of the telephone—; protector that links you to the world of _men. But for a population of 50,000 with- out a night-letter fan in the crow There must be a reason—you notice there generally is. E 'HE House Building was taking on the ethereal dimness that twilight brings and silence lay over the street Two women—dear souls who might have been dear snails by the slow ness with which they lagged along in the electric-starred dusk—had reached the House steps when an automobile raced by, its gong clamor- ing for right of way, and on the running board a uniformed man, like a Flying Victory, with one arm raised in_warning. Panic-striken at the demonstration the two women undertook to ex- plain it to each other by the process of elimination: “It couldn't Relaying messages have been an ambu- lance, because ambulances don't keep gongs pounding iike that—it would drive the patients insane. “Fire engines keep up a racket to clear the streets ahead, but that wasn't a fire engine. Here comes a man; I'll ask him." So she asked the man, Being a most polite and knowledge- able man, his answer left nothing un- revealed: “Chasin’ a bootlegger, Maam.” It was a great moment for the two women. They stood in their tracks and eyed each other with awed sat- faction—the satisfaction of shelter- ed ignorance that comes in dramatic touch with crime. They had read about bootleggers, of course, just as they had read of murders and poli- tics and world flyers and things, but to come in such absolute contact— being almost near enough to have been run over by pursuing law— Just to look at the two was worth walking a mile to see—provided one be fond of walking *x % % * Army officer was married the other day. After the church ceremony a guest, who had been seated in a white ribbon pew, told a friend this bit of yarn about the bridegroom: “During the war, when the captain was only a lieutenant, he went in a wholesale establishment and said to a clerk: ‘Give me 1,000 nursing bot- tles.” “The young woman behind the counters survived the shock, but by the time the order was harvested into an Army truck and the lieutenant had whizzed away in his car, all who were in that place—custom- ers, clerks, manager and porters. were matching imaginations as to why the United States Army should be wanting enough nursing bottles to keep a dozen foundling asylums in milk! “Then the manager received a sec- ond order, and the why of the pur- chase was explained. The young of- ficer was attending a class in hand- grenade throwing—if that be the way to put it—when announcement was made that the grenades had giv- en out. Some one around mentioned that glass nursing bottles were of the regulation shap and size, whereupon the officer got busy. “When this perfect explanation was passed along by the store manager the sensation collapsed. You notice it is the way with all mysteries once you find the key.” *x *x HE was a young person, who had come to the opening play of the season in pink crepe with rhinestone shoulder straps and a fillet of rhine- stones on her bobbed hair. And while the orchestra was play- ing “Poor Butterfly” she was confid- ing to her escort how she came by her little pet name. “New friends mistake it for an abbreviation of my true name, but it isn't. They call me Care because T killed a cat—you know the old say- ing. She paused, and the man asked W It was the cat's fault, of course. P13 s 1 ‘Author of FLAMING YOUTH “Every chapter is a-tingle with action and surprise.’ Never does our interest lag eitherin the event or in the (3 BONIE LIVERIGHT GOOD BOOKS I was shooting at an empty bird box in a tree, and as the cat was reckless enough to be asleep on the cellar door at the time, what else could it have expected?” “You are behind the times,” said the man. “My sister and her - girl friends are first class at target shoot- ing, and 1 believe a lot of them are qualifying for State licenses to hunt.” —_— Such a Noble Soul. Husband—Yes, dear, you look nice in that dress, but it cost me a heap of money Wife—Freddie, dear. what do I care for money when it is a question of pleasing you? 28, 1924—PART 3. FACTS ABOUT CAUSES OF TIRE WEAR The fact that tires on the right hand side of a car wear out faster in pro- portion than those on the left hand side, often puzzles motorists. The popular eupposition that this wear is caused by turning many corners to the right is incorrect. The fact is that the increased wear is actually caused by the pitch of the road, which throws more of the car on the right side than on the left. The round of the road from curb to curb is far more important in determ- ining the sequence in which tires normally wear out—right rear, left rear, right front, left front—than are gutter wear and abrasions from grind- ing off and on pavements. The slope of the road causes the right rear tire to carry more weight than This Is The Way We Do It Now —no acid in the battery until we fill it for you Because Threaded Rubber Insulation can be used in its dry form, the new Willard Bat- tery can be kept bone dry up to the very moment of its sale to the car owner. And because charged plates are used, this battery needs only to be filled with acid to put it in service. “Sec the point,” says Little Ampere, “and see my boss do this. Here’s a battery that can’t get old before it’s sold.” Washington-Battery Company 1621-23 L Street N.W. Main 180 Or Any Authorized Willard Service Station At all vital points, you will find that metals and construction of the good Maxwell are the same as in cars costing three to four times as much. In proportion to its weight and power, it is actually stronger than the most expensive cars built today. That's a big thing for us to be able to say about a car of the good Maxwell price; and itis one of the Chrysler superiorities that put Maxwell so far ahead of its own field. Yet it is only one of the sound, fundamental su make us proud to be factors in its production. You have probably heard about Maxwell pick-up— how in a flat 8 seconds, it acceler- ‘Maxwell Showroom 1321-23 14th St. Northwest s which over-strong. ates from 5 to 25 miles an hour. You are also probably acquainted with the fact that the simple device of a platform spring under the front end of the motor, com- bined with the balancing of reciprocating parts to the fraction of an ounce, practically elimi- nates any sense of vibration. Are you aware, however, that all the way through the Maxwell chassis, you find chrome nickel or other high grade alloy steel for those parts which must stand heavy stress and strain—just as in cars of highest price? The front axle, and all the parts on which depends the control of the car, are almost unreasonably A bull-dog for powerful pulling— the left rear tire. Thus the right rear weas the faste of the two. The right front also will wear more rapidly than the left front, for the same rea- son. However, as the left rear wheel re- ceives a driving pull while the right front does not, it will wear the faster of the two. Under average conditions the right rear tire wears out first and the left front last. To secure uniform wear from a set of tires, change them around about once a month. Particularly is#it important to reverse the rear tires. After the rear tires are worn down, revese them with the front, Pays ‘Why He Looked Tired. From the London Answers. The head of a large business noticed that one of his clerks had been looking off color for some months, and, one morning, when he was looking rather paler than usual, he tackled him on the subject. ou look tired this morning, Jones,” he said kindly. “Don’t youw slecp well?” “No, Sir,” was the reply. “The fel low I share a room with and I suffer from alternate insomnia.” “‘Alternate insomnia! What is that?" “Whichever gets to sleep first kee the other awake all night house for a GARAGE These Are Our Lowest TERMS ALL OUR TERMS ARE equally as attractive, based, of course, on the price of the Garage you choos Increase the and value of your property at the same time OWN A GARAGE YOU PURCHASED hance its value by adding a Garage. If 4 HOME. 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