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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.
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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.
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BIRDS BY THEIR NOTES
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'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.
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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.
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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,
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