Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1925, Page 57

- THE SUNDAY STAR, Reviews of the New Books BLIND MAN'S BUFF. Journal of Louis Hemon. By Louis Hemon, author of “Maria Chapdelaine.” New York: The Macmil Louis Hemon is a per in the first ha!f dozen pa, of | hm\ one | settles to the pleasure that comes | from contact with the man or woman possessed of certain qualities so pro- portioned and combined and projected as to strike the key of originality and charm which everybody responds in ready and accepting joy. A rare bounty of heaven, thl or even writers of books, nmo less than the common run of folks on the outside, re mostly cast in monotone as the of their output so ses. Louis Hemon E n to this rule. Above all, a le man, as appears at once in “Maria Chapdelaine.”” A man walking in ways. A man giving devoted d to men and women in the big common business of being born, of living and loving and dying. A man who seeing with straight and tender eves turns the vision into words as veveuling and _embodying as some lear pool disclosing the least and )n. fragile of forms lying with in its depths Y remember “Maria Chapdelaine, that_story of the Canadian country up Lak John way. You recall the iness of the place, the deep barricading snows, the end the faint light | from s cabins around which miles of white wa: ched You too, the feel hun, ani- life ¢crowding nearer to the cabin You see again so vividly the hard} labor of woodman and lumberman And, best all, do you remember ine, with her girl's| ¢ the unknown wofld ¢ girl's longing for the 1 gayety which were to her tales told to little chil when the chance to go sure vou remember. The \boide neliness out_of which shone the devotion the hu- man to an ideal. A high and fasci-| » one by way of which to set life itself With- warmth a e fairy > mac iful new edition of hapdelain a keenly intel nd feel translatic by W ke. To this Wilfred Jones has in picture, bits of the north hered up alive out of the These wands through llyhun),, upon leaf margin, ing the chapter a luring send- steppingeout to take chirge of Inp s A charming book to look at, as it deserves to be from the fine quality of its story substance. J rnal of Louis Hemon" is, to be sure, of he man's own quality -simple, intuitive and deeply dra- matic It is M. non’s account of his from France to Canada in pursuit the material that went finally into the “Chapdelaine.” A rec- ord, then, of what he saw and thought and felt while he was in the New World—about Quebec, Montr the St. Lawrence, the bordering islands the countryside, the people them selves. Much more than a sightseeing trip. Much more than a search book stuff. Rather is it, as it 2 here, a pilgrimage of the spir in Lou Hemon lives over his > the triumph of the persis French blood under exile and adver- sity, the exultation of the spirit over the hurts of the f h “Blind Man's Buff” is of another pattern than the one after which this author fashioned the Canadian ex- perience. The same man is at work here, using the same tools of insight and structure upon a widel different theme, a wider one. For this is every- s 'game, this game of blind man’s u True, here it is but the story of Mike O'Brady, London dock worker. Even ich it differs somewhat on | the from the stories of the | ound him, were these to be | the pure Irishry of O'Grady driv him to more violen this way and that as he caro about the docks and th the inns of London East clear that this eye-banda is out for life—for play a women, mixing things up g the prodigious game of being alive not knowing what to do about ¥ can a blinded man do? In of his prodigious thra Mike doesn’t get any he himself would have he had time to sum up his account of the matter. We leave him about a we find him—"a policeman’s whistle, a sound of footsteps and subdued voices, then a sudden push and the door burst open, hurling three blue- clad giants into the room | “*And now, wi going to laugh,'| said Mike O'Bra " Save for name and e and outer circumstance— just everybody's game of blinded reach here and there for this or that or nothing. Then one day, the police. man—let's hope we can “laugh,” un- afraid, like this wild Irishman. THE BARBARIAN. By Wadsworth Camp. _Frontispiece by John La- gatta. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. The barbarian—that is to say, the outsider—always has a hard time of it until he learns to follow the plan established by his forbears in this class. The established method of the barbarian is to break through the barricade. Thereupon the outsider automatically b 1 insider, the o ivilized man Such has been the rule of history as it is today that of church and society and e rule even of petty groups about town. Na- ' so to speak, of getting sapped and lifeless < _is upon this re-creative measure of hoth nature and soclety that Mr. Camp builds his story of cur- rent American life. The story of Jef- ferson Harmon—the outsider and therefore the barbarian—in his prog. ress from nowhere to Congre Here is the familiar picture, an exceedingly well drawn picture, of the exclusive few—old families, closed social circles, money interests, political power. Off against these, the scattered and - tively powerless many. Every town shows this demarcation, well as does this Southern town. To a degree Jefferson Harmon becomes the orgah- izing agent in this larger body, setting himself and it against the dominant few. Held to politics alone, this tale have had a different ending. however, the social element in tervenes the issue becomes problemati- cal, since traitors.appear in the camp of the elect. The Sabine women are by no means dead. Today the bar. barian and the cave man and the | shelk are as potent as when the first of these snatched the half-willing cap- om_their_less manful lords | admitted had Caneing [ Porch Rockers Splinted. Low price. Quick Service. Clay Armstrong 1233 10th St. N.W. ... Franklin 7483 | teenth this side by their persecuted and fllee- | settles to {of its action and colc |one ear at least to the reading of a | story. S |lieve that a brilliant young Irishman > | there out of hand just to soul. coast of Georgia, an island that the BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. and bore them away to strange man- handlings. And this is what hap- pened in the case at hand. Not that Jefferson Harmon is one of these wild men. Far from it. It is the deep-seated strain of human nature that comes to the surface here as a faint shadow of what the entrance of this modern barbarian means to the plain political situation upon which it impinges so influentially. A robust story that will interest read: ers of sturdy reading taste. THE SCARLET COCKEREL. By C M. Sublette. Frontisplece by Frank M. Rines. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press. “A tale wherein is set down a rec- ord of the strange and _exceptional adventures of Blaise de Breault and Martin Belcastel in the New World s of expeditions sent out t Coligny’—so reads the subtitle of this record of adventure. In substance it is a romance of the French Huguenot colonists in the Carolinas, where today their descend- ants form a substantial part of these States, contributing to the common life more than one relic of the six- century France brought to ing ancestors. The story begins viv- idly in Paris, where the emissaries “atherine de Medici and the great inal are hunting down every Prot estant to his destruction. A ‘double duel and flight to the galiot lying off Le Havre gives exciting start to a tale that, on this side of the water, the business of cautious explorations along the coast and up the wide river mouths, to intercourse with the Indians and, for the highest . to the difti- the colonists from While the culties that beset the Spaniards in Florida tale is one of adventure, it is also one with the colors of history itself full upon it. But history is adventure, or most certainly was to the early set- tlers of the New World. In plain, painstaking and convincing fashion Mr. Sublette follows the facts of the time and place under consideration, giving to these the point and appeal of adventure through the many ex- periences of the “Scarlet Cockerel.” voung Balise de Breault and his friend and adviser, the more settled Martin Belcastel. This turns out to be a prize story, the prize won by Mr. Sublette in a contest designed as a memorial to the young writer of ad- venture tales, Charles Boardman Hawes, who died in the Summer of 1923. HIS WIFE-IN-LAW. By Marie Con- way Oemler, author of “Slippy McGee,” etc. New York: Century Co. You go along with this writer every step of the way, and go in gladness— though you know the tale to be noth- ing more nor less than one of “them made-up novel stories,” as my good old grandmother in sorrow and con- demnation used to call them, when she had found herself listening with You go along here because of the sweeping tide of this author's in-j ventive ingenuity, not because you be- | a lovely girl and o lone island, mar kidnaped off to a But you like the fellow. body would. And, having accepted the initial sin against realism and con- tency and all the rest of it, you simply can’t resist wanting to see what the man is going to do by way of training this lovely and spoiled voung woman to the serious business of being a useful member of society. Having gone thus far, the struggle be- comes so sporting on both sides that, no matter if it is all a made-up affair, there ig no such thing as leaving in the middle of it. Sheer romance, without a doubt. But so rich and ready in invention, so compact of good sense on the one hand, of wit and humor and charming incident on the other, that one goes along .under the growing conviction that it all ought to be true if it isn't. The action leads in undiminished interest to wide- ly separated places and then homes back again to the place from which it started—an island lving off the uthor freights with & many-sided loveliness and a charm that must have come straight from its own spell over her own heart. An out- rage to let a tale of this sort lapse to some gloomy realistic ending. No danger. A flying figure of romance, this author presents herself to one. through the glamour of this purely ro- mantic flight. NAJIB. By Albert Payson Terhune, author of “The Heart of a Dog." ete. New York: George H. Doran Co. An antimony mine not far out from Jerusalem, an_American mining en. gineer, young Logan Kirby; a Syrian servant, friend and shadow of Kirby; the “Najib,” who names the story, and a perfect swarm of wily natives eoncocting schemes against the hated foreigner—these provide the material out of which Albert Payson Terhune proves that his surpassing dog stories are not conclusive evidence of ability to write an equally good story of the Far East and its desert inhabitants turned in manifold machinations against the object of theit® super- stitious hatred. There is too much of Najib here—too much of his astonish- ing powers of mongrel speech and generally inconsequential behavior. Much too little of him, on the other hand, to set up beside one of the splen- did dogs about which, about whom, Mr. Terhune writes with so much of understanding and love. Get back to your dogs, Albert Payson Terhune. THE PITTSBURGH. By ._O. Whitman. Boston! Houghton Mifflin Co. It is the daily paper that helps one story like this, believing word of it to be true and en- joving it besides. Kidnaping a young woman. Done every day. Ab- ducting a yvoung man. Why net? Carrying them both off to a yacht where an orgy of business sets in— attacking rum runners and ships along shore, holding up a liner, breaking down a mutiny on the yacht itself—just a few specimens of what really did go on upon that' yacht, the “Pirate of Pitts. The | ¢ The New Mystery Novel By Natalie Sumner Lincoln Miss Lincoln le s you_th Dewildertin pab of Cluse in: TR bt clues in this baf- fling tale of how an ingenious giri reporter solved a murder mystery in Washington. Tt will keep You guess- ing to the end. $1.75. Thi s an Appleton Book burgh,'’ was disporting himaelf so violently under a mania of hatred and revenge. A morning issue might, in the hands of an ingenious young man with a bent for the sensational, pro- vide material for a perfectly authentic tale of just about this pattern. And if by any chance such proved to be the source of this author's inspira- tion he deserves a clear 100 per cent for the deft way in which he has woven the odds and ends into a single pattern of exciting todo. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessories at the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Fiction. Alexander, Mrs., pseud. Barbara. Arnim. M. A. B. grafin von. Love. Bacheller, Irving. Father Abraham. Barnes, W. Tales From the X-Bar Camp. Bede, (ulhberl Bouncer. Best Continental 1923-24. pseud. Little Mr. Short Stories of Green Timber. Stacey. Three Pilgrims and a ‘The Bellehelen Bindloss, Harold. Black, Alexander. Borden, Mary. Tinker. Bower. B. M., Mine. 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The city post office will not be responsible for mail placed in apart- ment house boxes |f the boxes are unlocked, Postmaster William M. Mooney declared yesterday after dis- posing of recent complaints of stolen mail, which was found to have dis- appeared after the postman had de posited it in a lock box in apartment house lobbies. Repeatedly, Mr. Mooney said, pro "I, Shades Made to Furnitare Carpeis JUNE 14, 1925—PART 2. tests are received that mail was stolen ] ‘DROWNS’ IN COAL STREAM | while in the hands of the postal em ployes, but investigation revealed the | addressee had failed to lock the mail | box and some one else got there be i Downrush. fore he did. In such cases, Mr.| BALTIMORE, Md., June 13 (#) Mooney declared, the. police and not | Peremiah Macks, a seaman, died to the postmaster must be called in % 0 Corai vt e g A survey in one apartment hm.w"‘)" Unaer RO, tons) Sk ooss op bgard | lobby revealed, Mr. Mooney said, that | the British Rhode Island, 19 of the 20 boxes were unlocked, /moored at Locust Point. Macks|acgistant United giving an intruder easy access to lhe’pl\lnghl 50 feet from the upper deck | A. Lucas announc mails. of the vessel with &n iron bar in his|would be returned ————— hand” when he and nother seaman Two weeks go Swing Maj‘ Wells Ordered Here. attempted to dislods a lump of ¢ ‘1 statement in which he 5 ik fammed in a hatchway. The representir Imperial Maj. Ward 8. 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