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Reviews of New Books NY DARE’'S PROGRESS. By fbald Marshall, author of “The quire’s Daughter,” etc. New ! Yorkit Dodd, Mead & Co. NEW stage, this, in the pil- grimage of Anthony Dare, whom you have already had & chance to meet during an earller phase of his career. Here Dare, through many experiments and fndecisions, emerges as an author of, as yet, no very great distinction. Since, however, the real game of being alive In an altogether live world 1les in the effort and not in the fact eccomplished, this story ad- vances in a sound parallelism with the truth of individual adventure in the world itself. Many things be- sidas work and a future engage youth. There is love. There are friends. There are social meetings. There are a thousand and one way- side Interests that more often than otherw in the particular years obscure the real roadway of advance. So it is here. First there is the early romance—that amiliar case of first love with the woman of more years and more of the arts of invitatio A diverting thing Again, roman = spo~taneous meeting between two young things, but quite out of order. For the girl is of a quality to com- mand more in the marriage market than the uncertain rewards of a literary spous It is after these mischances of the heart that the yourg author betakes himself into a situation where more work and less play test the quality of his nature. An uneventful story from the stand- point of adventure as we commonly interpret and accept adventure. Yet there is, after all, no event surpassing in importance and real interest that of the passage of a human being through the average days and years that go into his making. And in a record of such momentous passage Mr. Marshall is a true artist—under- standing, syvmpathetic, deeply con- sclous of the vital import of small and great alike in the fashioning of character and personality. . The com- petency of his art comes out satis- fyingly in this' story of.a oung Englishman set down in an_ English ®oll and atmosphere where he takes a hand at life in complete consonance with his own inherent human quali- ties. Not a story for everybody, but a notable book for certain readers. THE By Wilbur Dani eele, author of “Storm,” etc. New York: Harper & Bro. An old sto Robert Ling had run away with another man's wife. To complete the bliss of this situation the two had flad to one of those “Isles of the Blest” found almost anywhere be- vond the reach of civilization. In this case an Island in the Caribbean. A year of each other, and nothing else, had gone by when the story opens. Each is at the end of the rope. By a miracle, two ships on a single day come into that commonly ignored harborage. One headed north, toward home. The other toward still mor® remote islands of blessedness. The urge is too strong. They are going back home. So Ling goes through the crude marriage cere- mony pertaining to the island in order to let the girl go back “an honest woman.” Then in an elaborate gesture toward taking the home-bound boat, he, sending the girl ahead on some pretext, boards the south-bound ship. He's through. He's had enough. He can't stand any more. Thinking these things on deck that night as he moves out into a further unknown, he realizes that there is €ome one else—a woman, ap- parently engaged about as he is—look- ing off into space, thinking in complete absorption. In a minute he is looking into the face of the girl who, in a painstaking of preparation equal to his own, Is also running away—from him, and home, and the deadliness of that adventure in the isolation of just love. The rest of the story, clever and amus- ing, with threads of solid fact and true philosophy running through it, might be calied, if one were in poetic mood, “Sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.” In more prosaic statement it consists merely In making a poor best out of an altogether bad business. ISLES 0F SAINT MARTIN'S SUMMER. By Ra- batini, author of “Scara- etc. Boston: Hough- ton, Mifiin Company. To go along with Sabatini in an- other one of his enthralling forays into the past you must needs betake yourself into the France of some- thing like three hundred years ago. Then, if you recall, Marle de Medicl “the heavy and lethargic Italian lad: was queen regent while Louis XIIT was ripening to the kingship. It was in this time that away in the prov- ince of Dauphiny a beautiful young woman was held in duress by the ar- nt Marquis de Condillac, whose n against the lovely prisoner to confer both hand and for- tune upon her own son. Meantime the heart of the girl had passed out of her own disposal. This situation coming to the court of the queen regent, the royal lady at once di: patched M. de Garnache to the re: cue. That is the situation. If you know batini — and everybody knows Sabatini these days—you an- ticipate just the dash of adventure, the swing of romance, the glamour of chivalry, the ultimate trlumph and the final reward that follow in swift successlon upon the beginning of this succor of beauty in distress. Great story, whose delightful blend of drama and melodrama begins on the first page and races in unabated ardor throughout the entire adventure. A daring reckless gallant one man, agalnst many, brings on a deluge of achievement here through which you will push your way bent on missing no single part of it TOMORROW AND TOMORROW. By Stephen McKenna, author of onia,” etc. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. To round a period of social con- fusion and political ineptitude to the dramatic content and point of a sin- gle novel is the heroic task set for himself by Stephen McKenna in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow.” Here, however, the familiar group of Mc- Kenna actors—Sonla and Lady Bar- bara Neave, David O'Rane and Eric Lane—lend thelr accustomed waywise competency to the business of reduc- ing the sprawling and unordered sit- uation to the sizeable limits of a sin- gle drama. The matter opens with the end of the war, on the high key of producing a civilization for which any man would be proud to die. From this uplifted level it descends through the confusions of the eight succeed- ing years of futility to the low notes of discouragement for the present and fear for the future. “If the aim of government was to secure the life and liberty of the governed and to lead them toward prosperity and hap- piness, government had palpably falled in victorious England and France, in defeated Germany and revolutionary Russia.” Set in Eng- Jand and projected, primarily by the class with which this author habitu- ally deals, the story spreads to In- clude the chief of the elements of unrest among the workers on the one hand and the idealists on the other, and to include as well the politicians and the prosperous. With this mate- rial Mr. McKenna pictures the Eng- land of today, chiefly from the view- point of its lamentable decline from the high spiritual estate to which it attained as the first splendid na- tional triumph of the great war. There are few colors of hope and promise in thie picture. Instead, the gloom of disappointment dominates it, serving as background for the darker hues of futility for the present and apprehension ior the years im- mediately oncoming. GOIN' ON FOURTEEN. By Irvin Cobb, author of “Old Judge Priest,” et Illustrated by Worth l Brehm. New York: George H. Do- ran Co. Chock ull of boy, this joyous book makes the best of reading—for grown folks. Like Penrcd and Tom Sawyer, it provides an incomparable means of reliving the years embodied in these youngsters. It offers in the concrete means of arriving with certainty at the states of mind, at the centers of impulse, at the colors of adven- ture, at the cross roads of decision, at the inns of refreshment—all these the real warp and woof of every boy. Great fun, this particular story. Yet, the fun wears at every turn that little border of pathos—for the grown folks—over the tremendous serious- ness of Johnny Custer, of his pro- diglous faith in the great things that he and ,the other fellows are bent upon doing. Boys, real boys out in the open, are o absorbed in doing for themselves the very things set down here, that this book would be as un- exciting to -them as “Main Street” is to their elders, and for the same reason. But to one looking through the perspective of years upon Johnny Custer and Tom Sawyer and Penrod, there is a very dear and somewhat wistful deilght. Y¥he unmistakable Irvin Cobb flavor of “Goin' on Four- teen” is at its top notch of pungency and robust savors, at its top notch of sympathy and understanding for the Johnny Custer that is tucked away in the heart of every Erown-up, man and woman alike. THE HOUSE OF THE ARROW. A. E. W. Mason, author of Winding Stalr,” etc. New George H. Dorsn Co. By “The York: Here is a mystery tale with a real surprise at the end of it. Not many of them are so fortanate. For the most of them are of so open-work a quality as to reveal the familiar out- come from about the second page. In Dijon, France, a certain rich woman, Mrs. Harlow, died suddenly in the midst of many plottings and plan- nings of wide source for a share in the wealth of this woman. Her death was a natural one, or so it was at first assumed. Then suspicion began to grow—and very good work is done at this point. .Finslly, when it was clear that violence %ad been done, some over-suspicious one in the busy little town pointed a finger of accu- sation against Betty- Harlowe, the woman's daughter. Clearly an out- rage, this. And in chivalrous anger the London solicitors sent over to Dijon young Jim Frobisher to take up the cause of Bet(y Harlowe. This he did. With him v3s associated the Paris detective, Haraud. And in the person of Hanaud is the real triumph of the whole matter. It is a long story and a compltoated one. The complications tie the mystery up tighter and tighter without in any degree producing an effect of muddle or simply running tound and round for the purpose of mere mystification. And when the end co>mes—well, never in the world would you have found the guilty one, had it not been for the smooth astuteness of Hanaud himself. Jim Frobisher, luckily, serves another purpose than that of pure sleuth. Otherwise he would have been a complete failure and that would never have done for he is a fine fellow deserving of just about what he gets. Wallace Tyler's P. Put- GOLDEN BED. By Irwin, author of “Lew Wives.” New York: G. nam's Sons. THE Purely American In its externals is this story of universal content wherein two types of women have, since the world began, either utterly blessed or completely bedeviled the male portion of humanity. It is, in substance, the story of Admah Holtz, plain boy and man who, from small beginnings, gathered in the success that appears to walt upon every American lad of push and ambition and a hunger for work. Many rungs above Admar in the social scale are two sisters, one of whom the boy comes to love as any lout might love 2 lady. This s the one whom “the golden bed” symbolizes, a thing of beauty, canopled and carved and fila- greed with flowers and spread wings and restless figures. A restless girl, too, much absorbed in her own beauty and her own desires and swift-chang- ing plans. But, In America, youth and ambition and daring can achleve much—and Admah wins the lovely flitting lady, quite to his own damna- tion. Then as a story is wont to make possible, he gets another chance, this time with the kindly, under- standing, practical, far-seeing sister. And that s the story, with a very appealing part of it having to do with the boy vears of Admah Holtz where a plain American brand of humor gives very lifelike qualities to this perfod of the boy's life. A popular tale it is, for already the pic- tures have it for a choice between seelng the story and reading it. THE LAKE. By Margaret Ashmun, author of “The Heart of Isabel Carleton,” etc. New York: The MacMillan Company. The story of a household—father and mother and son—with around it the small neighborhood of a sparse settlement. A most unlovely house- hold wherein the father and hus- band is a boor of {ll nature, and sometimes a demon of bitter words and brutal conduct. Near by is a neighbor and intimate friend, Alec McLean, who brings to this un- happy Faraday family about all the pleasure that it seemse able to com- mand. As the story grows one dis- covers that the evil spirit so often in possession of Willard Faraday is the demon of Jealousy. Throughout, it is this spirit that dominates the situation, that controls the frequent brutality of Faraday toward the little son., that gives rise to his®sudden and violent rages of passion and hatred. The jealousy is a perfectly justifiable one, as the boy, several years after his father's death, dis- covers through the exact likeness between himself and an old picture of Alec McLean, frlend of the family. Right here the general . mantouch comes in—for the boy 1s the first one to repudiate his mother under the instinctive exaction of the man for purity in the woman of his own blood. An interesting, and competent, part of the story is that of the readjustment that takes place be- tween mother and son. A story of careful workmanship behind which is an understanding and courageous approach to a very delicate matter. BOOKS RECEIVED. ONE ACT PLAYS FOR STAGE AND STUDY; A Collection of Plays by Well Known Dramatists, Amer- ican, English and Irish. Preface by Augustus Thomas. New York: Samuel French, Inc. OLD ENGLISH; A Play in Three Acts. By John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. THE DOMINION OF SEA AND AIR. By Enid Scott Rankin. New York: The Century Co. THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIP- PINES; Their Religious Progress and Preparation for Spiritual Leadership in the Far East. By Frank Charles Laubach, Ph. D. Foreword by Daniel Johnson Fleming, Ph. D. Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Co. ATOMS AND RAYS: An Introduction to Modern Views on Atomic Strue- ture and Radiation. By Sir Oliver Lodge, F. R. S. New York: George H. Doran Co. THE NEGRO IN SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION. By Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, A. M., Associate Investigator of the Assoclation for the Study of Ne- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO gro Life and History. Washing- ton: Published by the Association. WINDS AND TIDES. By Juliet Cal- houn Isham. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. ADRIANWONA: A Play in Four Acts. By Willlam Watts. New York: Poter G .Boyle. THE FIREBRAND: A Comedy in the Romantic Spirit. By Edwin Jus- tus Mayer. New York:#Bonl & Liveright. DESERT BREW. By B. M. Bower. Frontispiece by Remington Schuy- ler. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. THE FLATTERING WORD: And Other Ome-Act Plays. By George Kelly. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. AN _INTRODUCTORY TO PHILOSO- PHY, By James H. Ryan of the Facuity of Philosophy in the Cath- olic University of America. New York: The Macmillan Company. LEFTHANDEDNESS: A New Inte: pretation. By Beaufort Sims Par- son. Foreword by Harvey E. Jor- dan, A. M., Ph. D., etc. New York: The Macmillan Company. PIMPERNEL AND ROSEMARY. By Baroness Orczy. New York: George H. Doran Co. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: A Study the Legal Doctrine of “Qualified Privilege.” By Samuel Arthur Dawson, M. §., in Journalism, Co- lumbia University, Foreword by Henry Woodward Sackett of the Now York Bar. New York: Colum- bia University Press. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY accessions to the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. General Science. Recent Recent accessions in the industrial division: Bardorf, C. F. The Story of Sugar. RQKB-B233s. Berthoud, Alfred. of Matter and the Atom 468.E. Brown, R. W. Gas Lands. Cavanaugh, A. Laboratory LH-C3181. Clayton, William. Emulsions and The New Theories LO-B- Valuation of Oil and” RFPE-BSI6V. L. and Wescott, C. Problems in Physic: .The Theo Smulsifica Theoretical Metallurgy. Downing, E. R. Our Physical World. | -D756. | ratory Experiments in Physics. LH-D821. Garard, 1. D. LO-G162. Greggins, P. H. Aniline and Its De- rivatives. RQR-GS: Haldane, J. B. S. Daedalus, A- H125d. Hale, G. E. The Depths of the Uni- verse. LV-H13d. Harn, O. C. Lead. LP-H226lL Hering, D. W. Foibles and Fallacies of Science. LA-H424f. Lorentz, H. A. and others. The Prin- ciple of Relativity. LH-LSSTr.E. Masius, Morton. Problems in General Physics for College Courses. 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(Fifth Floor.) A convenient compact that swings from one’s fingers by a narrow chain. Complete with mirror, rouge and powder. $1.95 (Fifth Floor.) Here’s a truly cheerful crosspatch. A black satin underarm bag, crossed with wide bands of vivid cardinal moire ribbon. $2.95 (Fifth Floor.) The patent opera pump persists. And these, by Hanan, with genuine alli- gator quarters, are worthy argument for the defense, $13.50 (Ffth Flesr.) Flattery Is Irresistible. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. “I went to town with Mrs. Twobble this morning,” sald Mrs. Dubwaite. “I thought you said you would never speak to that woman again,” replied Mr. Dubwaite, with a superior smile. ““Well, she asked me to go along and advise her about some new draperies for her living room. and, of course, no woman could resist a compliment like that.” Goat Meat Is “Chevon.” Goat meat is to be designated by a speclal name, comparable to pork, beef and mutton. The name selected v the goat-raising interests in the outhwest is In reply to requests for appro of this new name, the Department of Agriculture 1, 1925—PART 3. has stated that thers seems to be no reason why the name should not be adopted and generally applied. The word “chevon” was created after con- sideration of many suggestions by organizations representing the prin- cipal Angora-goat producing region. It was made by combining parts of two French wors evre,” meaning goat, and “mouton,” meaning mutton. In other words, “chevon” means goat mutton. Labor Terms. From the London Passing Show. Belated Husband—Let me In, just come from meeting o union—considering what about the strike. Susie—Well, you can just sit down there and consider what you will do about the lockout! labor we'll do marr! He: a foo put poses. It says garia persol at known it. The gy Autumn Unanimous. From the Kansas City Star. Mrs. Quarles—I supposa I'll have to make the best of it, but I see I've fed a fool. r Husband—You Gypsy Language in Print, y language, which is not re- garded as a written tongue, into print for the first time this campaign pur- for political is printed a Sofla n or n. any other words, should have All my friends sald I was ol when I married you. in Slavic characters, cablegram, but most of the words are unintelligible to a Bul- Slavie-speaking The political terms, however, BLACK SATIN Tlrr is @ “Fashion-Mode” Frock, $29 —a fashionable infringement upon the season’s general call for color Despite Dame Fashion’s decree for high colors in smartest- Spring apparel, she smiles benignly upon black satin for afternoon or informal dinner wear. she permit. Always it is black saitn “and—" However, no total eclipse of color-does Sometimes a striking gay colored scarf is attached to the dress. Again it may be a vivid splash of colorful embroidery pipings, a brilliant flowing tie—always a touch of color somewhere. New Spring versions of the slim-line mode, with rippling flounce, pleated flounce, pleated apron or godet at the knee. Black gowns for madame; chic black frocks for the younger miss. The assort- ment varied with smart models of black canton crepe or satin-back canton. Sizes 16 to 44. The frock skétched is one of a group of “Fashion-Mode” models at The Hecht Co. 529 F Street at Tth (Second Floor, The Hecht Co.) [l On the Program. From Judge. The elderly misses at the concert were in a quandary—the number that the orchestra had just finished was not on the program. They agreed that what they had Just Deard was an encore, or “extra number,” but they also agreed that, s the alr was unfamiliar, it would have been better had it appeared elsewhere on the program—on the otler side or at the bottom, for in- stance. And then one of the misses made a startling discovery. The number was on the program. She pointed it out to her partner Sure enough, there it was at the bot- tom of the program as large as life Refrain from whispering. A winning hand for Spring must wear a nar- row, much embroidered cuff. Kid gloves embroid- ered in pastels. $4.95 Short, stubby handles of carved hardwood and a silk arm cord to match. So say the newest silk umbrellas. All colors. $5 (Fifth Flosr.) The newest baroque chokers are tinted to match or smartly contrast with one’s costume. Plain colors and combinations. $2.95 (Fifth Floor.) A scarf one simply must have. Perhaps of printed crepe de chine, with deep silk fringe. Plain colors, too, in wide variety. $2.95