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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1925)
0 Library Browsings 0 Edited by Glen F. Burch THE MONTH’S MOST POPULAR BOOKS Fiction THE PLASTIC AGE, By Perey Marks. THE GREEN HAT, By Michael Arlen. THE WHITE MONKEY, By John Galsworthy. THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL, By Anne Sedgwick. ARROWSMITH, By Sinclair Lewis. TOWN AND GOWN, By Lynn Montross. MESSER MARCO POLO, By Doim Byrne. HEIRS APPARENT, By Sir Philip Gibbs. SO BIG, By Edna Ferber. ANNETTE AND SYLVIE, By Romain Rolland. Non-fiction ARIEL: LIFE OF SHELLEY, By Andre Maurios. IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN, By H. L. Mencken. THE DANCE OF LIFE, By Havelock Ellis. THE CREATIVE LIFE, By Ludwig Lewisohn. FOOTLIGHTS AND SPOTLIGHTS, By Otis Skinner. I THE WEEK’S BRIEF REVIEWS THIS MAD IDEAL, By Eloyd Dell. In his latest book, Dell adds an other figure to his “American gallery of portraits.” Judith Val entine, the girl in search of a mad ideal, will live in literature as long as any of the striking characters Dell has created in the course of his career as a writer. MR. TASKER’S GODS, By T. P. Powys. This book represents Powys’ attempt at, a long novel, and it has been astonishingly well received. In it the author “tells a story of Inst, passion, stupid cruelty, of the ugliness that lies beneath the placid sur face of lives as conventional as those of the village clergyman, his son the curate and the pret ty parlor maid.” WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS WOULD, By Harold Bruce. An other attempt at delineating the life and work of that strange En glishman, William Blake. In the course of the book, “an illum inating commenting, of Blake’s work is wove* into the story of his career.” There has been, no doubt, a great deal of anticipation as to the suc cessor of “The Plastic Age,” a novel which gained recognition last year as one of the season’s best sel lers. Percy Marks in his new novel “Martha” has found his niche in literature by writing something which is truly more deserving of his ability as an artist in the field of novelists. There is usually a great deal of speculation on the part of the read er as to whether the second novel of an author will resemble its pre decessor in subject matter and plot. In this case, the reader will find that the plot, setting and treat ment of theme are entirely differ ent. “The Plastic Age” is a mod ern college story while “Martha” is the life story of a half-breed In dian girl in California. The plot, while a hackneyed one, differs from its forerunners (i. e. “Romona“, etc.) in that Mr. Marks treats it realisticall, whereas pre vious writers have been more or less romantic in their treatment of it. “Martha” is truely an American story which savors of the romance of the West and of its native in habitants, the Indians. Covelo, the scene of the story, is the birth-place of the author, thus insuring a bet ter understanding of the problems of the half-breed Indian and a more intelligent treatment of their story. Each character is depicted . in a very human and life-like way. Martha, the heroine of the novel, is the daughter of an Englishman and a handsome squaw. Her father deserts her mother and while yet a small child a passing glance of him, a careless visitor viewing the In dian’s rites, fires her small soul with the desire to be white like her father. Providence is in her favor as she is brought up by a minister and his wife. This one life-long desire and the problems to which its partial fulfullment give rise, make the novel unusually in teresting. The outcome of the story reaches a logical conclusion entirely con sistent with the plot. Martha’s child in turn views her errant fa ther a casual onlooker, and the cir cle is complete.—M. E. DEATH IN VENICE: A STUDY OF THE ARTIST When Thomas Mann’s “Busden brooks” appeared in translation in this country, its many admirers were wont to say it was far and way the best thing the great Ger man novelist had ever written. But \ that was before the appearance of j his latest work/ This book, “in-! eludes a trilogy of studies of the i artist, exquisitely done; in fact from the point of view of style, it represents Mann at his very best. But while reading the book one for gets the style, forgets who wrote | the book, forgets even that it is a book. The first story “Death in Ven ice” is the account of a successful writer, Aschenbaeh, who, in the last years of his life, falls under the sway of an infatuation for a beau tiful Polish youth, the sublime in fatuation of an artist. Aschenbaeh’s struggle with himself, his attempt to dispel the web of sublime beau ty with which he enwrapped the beautiful youth, by becoming ac quainted with him, is all vividly presented with a master touch. There is a dramatic monjent when the aged writer discovers that “he did not want soberness: his intoxi cation was too precious. For who can explain the stamp and the na ture of the artist? Who can ex plain this deep instinctive welding of discipline and license? . . and there is a beautiful descrip tion of the sunrise in Venice. Asch enbach sits shivering in his room in front of his window early in the morning, unable to sleep, waiting for the sun to rise. “Sky. earth, and sea still lay in glassy, ghost like twilight; a dying star still floated in the emptiness of space. But a breeze started up. a winged messenger from the habitations be yond reach. . . And that first sweet reddening in the farthest reaches of the sky and sea took place by which the sentiency of creation is announced. . v strew-1 ing of roses began there on the ' edge of the world. . . Purple fell 1 upon the sea which seemed to be simmering, and washing the color toward .him. . . the splendor caught fire silently; with godlike power an intense flame of licking tongues broke out. . . “Tristan,” the second of ■ the trilogy, is the story of another writer, a queer middle aged man called Kippel, and his influence up on the life of the lovely and fragile wife of a merchant, a typical Ger man Babbit. This strange author is attracted to the merchant’s wife, in much the same way that»Asch enback was attracted to the Polish boy, because she appeared to him the essence of beauty. Only he talked to her. This strange rela tionship reaches its climax one evening when he asks her to play. . . . The setting, oddly enough, is in a fashionable sanitarium in Southern Germany. The third story “Tonio Kroger” is acclaimed in Germany, Mann’s greatest piece of fiction. And it probably is. Here one sees the de velopment of the artist sketched, surely and swiftly, from early boy hood to manhood and success, a de scription here, a significant inci dent there, and lo, the picture is complete. The reader finds him self more completely in sympathy with Tonio than with any of the proceeding characters, possibly be cause he is young, and struggling with life. There is something about the image we have of the miserably: happy boy standing in the corner I of a gay ballroom facing a drawn! blind, while near him stands the j girl who in his youthful heart he j adores entirely unconscious of his i existence. And we are inclined to 1 mumble with him that “happiness | is to love, and perhaps to snatch deceitful little moments of near- f ness to the object of love.” When,i in a conversation with a girl-artist | friend gome time later, he declares “that good works’ <brigir,ate only! under pressure of a poor lifCj that i those who live do not work, and j that a man must be dead in order to be totally a creator,” we are not1 so sure we understand1, but we are j all sympathy. ARROWSMITH: THE IDEALS OF SCIENCE In Arrowsmith, while Sinclair Lewis limits his figures to the medical fraternity, he has by no means narrowed his canvas. If he has not given us an exhaus tive survey of the profession, he has at least assembled a broad var iety of types. What Zola and Trol lope have done for the healers of souls, Lewis seems to have at ! tempted for the healers of bodies. The reaction of these personages ! to environment and to circum stances is developed naturally. We run the gamut from the venal to those who compound ideals with convenience, while the more in transigent and widely differing characters of Gottlieb, Wickett and of Arrowsmith himself, afford some relief from the rest. With Arrowsmith we may feel it j highly improbable that any one in dividual should be called upon to defend his ideals of scientific in tegrity on so many stages, con venient as it may be for purposes of a thesis, and though the situa tions taken singly are not uncon vincing. To a layman at least, the large body of medical detail seems con vincing too. Without it, over abundant as It may seem, the book would lack reality. _ Whether or not there is a thesis, the author has drawn no conclusion in words. We may decide for our selves whether he launches his characters with failure predestined; whether real success or permanent loss is the outcome of compromise; whether a higher type of courage than that of the inconsequent Leora is touched upon. At any rate Sin clair Lewis with Arrowsmith has taken a big step forward.—The Scribe. I BIRDS BY THEIR NOTES I 'Spring Brings Forth Many Species for Study r Classification of birds by sight or sound is part of the work done by the field class in biology, con ducted this term by Dr. Ealph E. Huestis. Last Saturday morning about twelve species were seen or heard in an hour and a half. “The wbrk of classifying birds is a most interesting one at .this time of year,” said Dr. Huestis, “as many new birds are coming in every day, and the class expeets to identify 30 or 40 species dur ing this quarter.” Birds are iden tified as easily by their note or song as by sight, he pointed out, and this proves of great value to students who are interested at all in birds as the course soon teaches them how to identify birds in this manner. The course in field biology offers four units of credit and consists in one laboratory, one field trip, and two lectures a week. The course is not limited to the study of birds but takes up amphibians, reptiles, fish and other biological speci mens. In the laboratory stuffed specimens are studied as aids to the field trips. The course is an upper division subject, but students who have not had prerequisite wTork in biology may be admitted, Dr. Huestis said. -- CALIFOENIA CLUB TO MEET AT COLLEGE SIDE TONIGHT The California club will hold its first meeting of spring term to night, at 7:30, in the College Side Inn. Arrangements for the picnic and dance to be held sometime this term will be made. Membership cards may be obtained at the meet ing from Noreen Burke, secretary. A new treasurer will be elected to fill the office left vacant by Grace Pederson. THE OLD EELIABLE “MAC" “JACK" VARSITY BARBER SHOP 11th and Alder * “Hello Man! Don't forget my Wrigley’s. Bring it when youxall on sitter." Insure your wel come with this wholesome, long lasting sweet. • f ■/ \ Use it yourcelf when work drag*. It i* a great little pick-me-up. Marcel and Bob Curl TO STUDENTS 50c Open Sundays and Evenings by Appointment. 1375 Ferry GAY THOMPSON Phoije 1578R TWENTY SENIORS EARN Rewards Granted for Four Years Local Training Twenty seniors, graduating this June, will be granted second Lieu tenant’s cenimissions in the offi cers’ reserve corps. These men will hold regular army commissions as second lieutenants in case of war, and will have completed four years of service in the University Reserve Officers Training Corps. Men who will receive commis sions are: Charles H. Newell, Jr., William Russell Burton ,Elmer Nor ton Calef, Frederick Higlies Clay son, William Rainey Poulson, Carl Harold Skoog, all of Portland; and W. Norman Larabee, St. Helens; Theodore Amstutz, Silverton; Walter Maurice Beckstrom, Eugene; Donald Randolph Cook, Helix; Harmon Fairfax Crites, Springfield; Ted Roosevelt Gillenwaters, Goldendale; Boyd Conger Homewood, Eugene; Clayton Earl Hughes, Hood River; Charles Edward .Tost, Roseburg; Earl Wallace Smith, Eugene; Lee Alanson Withrow, Elmira, Louis Harold Carlson, Echo; Herschel Ed gar Kidwell, Pilot Rock, and Levi Ankeny, Walla Walla, Washington. The last three named will receive their commissions upon the com pletion of the summer training per iod to be held at Camp Lewis, Wash., from June 13 to July 23. Lieutenant Colonel Sinclair ,head of the University R. O. T. C., has been npponted executive officer of the appointed executive officer of the of the University of Oregon train ing unit will attend this summer’s encampment, according to the re port turned in to the war depart ment. FIVE MEN TO RECEIVE WRESTLING SWEATERS Five varsity wrestling sweaters have arrived for Ford, Wingard, Davis, Leavitt and Cartwright, who will be awarded their letters. Letters are awarded all wrestlers who win one conference match. Last year four men were able to win a letter. As wrestling is a minor sport the letter is smaller than the one offered for major sports. To-Ko-Lo, men’s sophomore cam pus honorary, will hold a luncheon today at 12 noon, at College Side Inn with a faculty representative as the principal speaker. This will be one of the regular luncheons of the society held at intervals dur ing the school year. Members, al umni, and pledges, will attend the meeting today, Pete Brooks, presi dent of the organization, has an nounced. PATRONIZE EMERALD ADVERTISERS CAMPUS TO ENTERTAIN PARENTS NEXT MONTH Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day Will Be Combined May 9 and 10 have been set as the days for Mothers’ and Fathers’ •week-end on the campus. A com mittee consisting of Bill Poulson, chairman; Roy Bryson, Pauline Bondurant, Jean Harper and Beat rice Peters has been appointed by Randall Jones, president of the stu dent body,- to prepare the program, issue the invitations, and provide entertainment for the mothers and fathers here that week-end. Plans are incomplete as yet, but there will be the Junior Yodvil, on Saturday night, and on Sunday, a vesper service is planned. This will be arranged by the regular vespers committee for the week-end. There has been much discussion over the advisability of having a Fathers’ day, never before held, at a separate time from Mothers’ day regulnrly held dvery spring. But the social calendar is so full that no time could Be found. Then also, many parents would desire to come together and the combination of the two days makes this possible. Students are urged to especially ■invite their parents here for these two days. PATRONIZE EMERALD ADVERTISERS Lemon “O” Barber Shop Up-to-date Hair Cutting Bert Vincent, Prop. Suspect Convicted of Robbery in Moot Trial By Lawyers Last Night (Continued from page one) specifies must exist the defense claimed that he was not guilty of jobbery. The verdict that was passed upon the carefree Mr. Short was based [upon the fact that ho had drawn a weapon and had thereby indicated intent to intimidate, which is un lawful. The facts of the case as brought out in the trial are as follows: At ,8:30 on the evening of October 9, 1924, four men, including the ac cused and the states chief witness the aforementioned Armand DeMer rit, had had, to use witness Paul j Patterson's words, “a drinking bout,” and had later gone to the College Side Inn for a few hands of poker. After Short had won pne game and lost another, he (ac cording to his own statement) de tected signs of fraud and immedi ately pulled out two guns, declar ing, “The game’s up. I’ve been cheated. You’re a bunch of crooks.” He ordefed them to stick up their hands and “shell out.” He was not arrested until three days after ward. In the mean time, accord ing to the testimony of “Doctor” MacGregor, which the defense in troduced, he had been suffering from delirium tremens, t PIANO UAZZ WATERMAN METHOD Beginners or Advanced Learn jazz piano in a few lessons, by new improved method of teaching Demonstration Free Winnie Irene Russell 244 7th Ave. East YOUR LIFE WORK What Is It To You! ' ' ' ' . 63 PER CENT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY ARE FORCING THEMSELVES TO LIFE WORK IN WHICH THEY ARE MISFITS SCIENCE RECOGNIZES THE VALUE OF VOCATIONAL AND PSYCHO-ANALYSIS IN DETERMINING THE LIFE WORK FOR WHICH INDIVIDUALS ARE BEST FITTED. Are You Satisfied With Your Choice? IT MIGHT PAY YOU TO CONSULT Dr. Richmond Burge, B. A. Phd. Lara way Building, Upstairs (Special rates are extended to students at $1.00 per con sultation. Tickets may be obtained at Emerald business office. 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