THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 3, 1922
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The Adventure of Uvinjj. by J6hn St.
Loe Strachey. G. P. Putnam's Son
New Tork city. -
This is a book which will have a
more far-reaching effect than its
covers or its contents would indi-(
cate to the average lay mind. For
more than 30 years John St Loe
Etrachey has held the unique posi
tion of leading conservative jour
nalist of England, and now that he
has aired his views in the form of
a subjective autobiography, it re
quires little imagination to realize
that his words will be pondered over
by his emulators, and but little more
imagination to believe that what
.John Strachey has said wilstba, if
not visible, at least discernible in
conservative journalism tor years to
come. - i-
Strachey represents a bedrock
English family, a family that has
furnished a long line of prominent
men, with scarcely one dazzling
show of genius in the lot. Every
uncle and every nephew has had
eome opportunity to mold public
thought or shape government, every
one has done his job exceeding well,
but few have achieved world-wide
renown. They have been peda
gogues, statesmen, engineers and
journalists; all have been scholars,
since the Strachey family tree .be
gan to bear fruit. Consequently
this particular Strachey is precisely
the kind of Englishman that Eng
land has been proud of.
At the time of the completion of
his book Strachey was 62 years of
age. He was educated by private
tutors and at Oxford, where he was
not considered much of a student.
His only zeal while at school was
for English literature and he accu
mulated a vast hoard of knowledge
concerning poetry. He wrote some
verse for qne or two English pub
lications and for a while swayed
between literature and journalism.
Finally the latter caught him and
he became associated with the Spec
tator A year as book reviewer and he
succeeded Mr. Asquith as editorial
writer, and in this capacity was of
such portend that the two editors,
Hutton and Townsend, agreed that
Strachey should succeed to the half
ownership of the paper left by the
one who died first. This was Hut
ton, but shortly after that an ar
rangement was effected1 whereby
Strachey became sole editor. -
Since assuming such a role his in
fluence has been so vast that he
has molded much English political
opinion, and he has held a com
manding position at the helm of
English literature.
Americans will be interested more
In what Strachey has to say of
Roosevelt and Hays than in any
other part of the book. With both
of these men he enjoyed deep
friendships, and his British opinions
of both are well worth reading by
Americans, because of his different
. Viewpoint. y
Strachey, does not WTite much
about himself except as events con
cern him, or vice versa. He
John St. Loe Strachey. editor of
the Spectator and the British
leader of conservative journal
ism, whose autobiography has
- just been, published by filessrs-
Putnam. . '
pendent upon a married brother of
Constance's.
The support of the divorced hus
band parUy filled the gap in the
family's finances, but it brought to
Constance only discontent and un
happiness. She felt it up to herself
to work out her own destiny,
whether it be a second marriage or
self-earned economic independence,
Margaret-Ashraun has turned this
situation into a. splendid sort of
novel, sufficiently Tenetrating to
be worth while, but not so deep as
to lose its interest. It stands right
on the dividing line between light
fiction and real, discussion and sup
plies something of both.
Constance Moffatt's family is pre
cisely typical and it is made so with
ingenious simplicity. The picture of
tne little town and what it affords
in the way of opportunity, enter
tainment -ana mental diversion is
fairly graphic, and it is completely
the proper setting Jor just such an
exposition of feeling. Just how the
author gets her people out of the
trouble she plunges them Into it is
Dest for the reader to find out.
There is a brave defiance of con
vention in Constance Moffatt's de-
cisions and opinions, and yet Miss
Asnmun Keeps her . settlements
ivithin the boundaries - of nro-
priety The well-read person will
not nave to read this book t r,
main well-read, but It is worth the
reaamg. -
fastness in Massachusetts, a little
cabin fvmerly occupied by the rec
luse, oSiCrow, and now looked
after by Ihe manager of Raven's
farm and his wife. On his way to
the cabin Raven meets Tyra Ten
ney, who is running away from
Jier husband's madness.
The Tenney household represents
one. of theseydepressing tempests in
a. teapot which may be interpreted
ae- a minor typical phase of life
anywhere. - Israel Tenney married
his wife with full knowledge of a
former love episode of hers. Their
child, by some strange circum
stance, bears a certain likeness to
the other man, and this likeness
causes Tenney to have strange fits
of jealousy, intermittent and fe
rocious. At such times Tenney will
arm himself with an ax and go
searching for the child. Then Tyra
flees from her home and stays away
with the child until her husband's
frenzy has worn itself out.
It is during one of these involun
tary excursions that Raven comes
upon Tyra. Her rare beauty, the
pathos of her circumstances and the
unreasonableness - of her husband's
convictions that the child is not his
touch Raven profoundly and h"
throws himself into the task of
showing Tenney the light.
These are all excellent tvDes of
New England people. JTenney is the
religious man almost to the point of
fanaticism; his wife is the rea
Puritan woman. The turmoil is the
kind which such earnestness of
character brings forth when two
different personalities clash. Miss
Brown hasmade of the situation
and of the people concerned a pene-.
trating study. The story is slightly
similar- to Sophie Kerr's "One
Thing Is Certain," and is every bit
as gripping and as meritorious.
knowledge already available of I over the gaming tables of the casino.
Lincoln's boyhood. . I and they do such things behind each
1 Most of Mr. Weik's new hook is I other's backs as to make the poor
! devoted to "Lincoln's Springfield ' reader's blood run cold, and hopes for
i days, his work as a successful law- j the poor president and his beautiful
! yer, a record of his cases and a girl sink clear down below zero. But
good 'bit of his social relations. He ' there is a very touching epilogue
has provided in readable form of the ! wnen tne curiam imauj rings aowu
host a. enmmandahiA nw record of ; on a ruined plot--and a double royal
Lincoln the man which throws more ! catastrophe. The undertakers make
money ana several weaaing rings
change hands. What could be
sweeter
Eminent EnroTann. hv TCiii,nn r tj
ser. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Queen Marie, King Ferdinand,
Venizelos, Constantine, Masaryk,
Benes, Paderewski, Bratiano, Horthy
and Karolyi: these are the ten- em-
more occupied with the eras andinent Europeans Eugene S. Bagger
stages he has passed through and
their significances. Mostly he is
concerned with the influence of
Journalism and its place In the mod
ern complex, and in this connection
a great deal of his greatness can
be comprehended. Considering the
Importance of the press, regardless
of what Mr. Chesterton so recently
had to say, the light he throws on
the structure of journalism in itself
makes the book well worth reading.
The Heart's Justice, by Amanda Halt
The George H. Doran company, New
York city.
There should be, if there is not,
such a 1 term as "literary license"
corresponding to "poetic license," if
only for the convenience of review
ers in deciding how much leeway
an author may havsf from the
straight and narrow path of tech
nique and form so long as the con
tent and the message of the book
justifies any departure. "The
Heart's Justice" .is one such book
where such a license would be con
sidered.
Amanda Hall is a novelist of un
deniable ability; yet there is in her
writing a trace of studied care and
meticulous discrimination in choice
of points that comes to the top oc
casionally and somewhat halts whatf
otherwise would be very easy read
ing. This same care, however, is
not used in the choice of characters
Out of three Miss Hall has provided
one that verges on the unique; the
other two might be called types. On
top of this the problem presented
cannot be called exactly general in
application, and in fact it verges on
the individual.
Muffett Harlow, the unique char
acter. Is the daughter of David Har
low, an ineffective sort of person of
Inventive mind, whose inventions
have never achieved euooess. Muf
fett and her father like the old
dilapidated house in which they live
and their quiet, happy and under
standing mode of living. Rolf Ster
ling is the personification of the ef
ficient business man and he is man
ager of the company which has
practically pensioned David Harlow.
His ideas of efficiency in all things
Jibe not a bit with the Harlows'
Ideas of living, nor does Sterling
approve of Mr. Harlow's puttering
around over inventions. The only
part he does approve of is Muffett;
he loves her and marries her.
David Harlow needs his daugh
ter's love and she realizes that she
cannot withdraw it from him and
give it to her husband. That con
stitutes the whole problem present
ed In the novel. There is some ques
tion whether Miss Hall -really solves
it or whether she does not allow it
to be solved by happenstance
Rather than to have let the unusual
happen to extricate father, daughter
and husband from their emotional
conflict it might possibly have been
better to guide the three different
emotions to some sort of conclu
sions. The book is not a volume of de
fects, however'. The problem is pre
sented in an interesting manner and
remains interesting throughout
"The Heart's Justice" l)ears reading,
and is, on the whole, well written
and entertaining.
light than ever on Lincoln's back
ground. Of course the book is over
shadowed by the immense quantity
oft biographical data already avail
able, and the first thought is apt
to be that enough has already been
written about Lincoln. This, how
ever, is quickly dispelled. Mr. Weift
has labored prodigiously, in bis ex
aminations and searches into record,
and with meticulous care has
brought out all new material that
he was able to find that was reveal
ing of the personal side of Lincoln.
chose when Ire realized after living
a while in Chicago that he had
spent the rest of his life 'n central
Europe, one of the tempest spots of
tne world. As a result of this real!
zation, he has written these ten
sketches of prominent persons which
maKe worthy additions to that list
of papers on personalities included
in such volumes as "The Mirrors of
Downing street," "The Mirrors of
Washington" and "Behind the Mir
rors," that have come to grace our
bookshelves within the last two
years.
The book is highly appropriate
and timely. The most important
wheels grinding out history are re
volving in central Europe right
now, and Mr. Bagger's book serves
to focus the att ention of readers
on the personalities which oil the
wheels. He has described and char
acterized his ten eminent Europe
ans in such excellent manner that
they can be known quite as well as
Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Wilson
or any other limelight figure.
Queen Marie of Rumania, the'
woman who talked of' her starving
subjects while she fingered a S250,
000 string of pearls, is aptly de
scribed as a person who happens to
have rare royal gifts of beauty and
a talent for publicity; a woman who
is unhappy if she has not spent two
hours of every day in the saddle,
riding her horses too hard, and two
hours' painting. King Ferdinand, it
might be said, comes out the little
end of the horn, for, as in most
other writings about the royal pair,
his fascinating wife outshines him.
Bagger does not write sympa
thetically of all ten of his subjects.
He is an Hungarian and has a right
to be bitter toward some of them.
For Karolyi and Horthy, his coun
trymen, he has almost unstinted
praise. His understanding and praise
of Paderewski are generously ex
pressed, but even so, the composer-
prime minister does not come off
whole-sKlnnea. Tne other five are
rather liberally censored, but it can
easily be seen that Bagger has at
tempted to preserve a balance of
justice, and to write with as little
partiality as possible. Whether his
selections are the ten really eminent
Europeans is a. matter open to de
bate. Like such contests as finding
the ten most beautiful - women in
America, the ten best authors, or
the ten best anything, the ten most
eminent Europeans should be picked
by the composite system of group
ing. Nevertheless, Bagger has chosen
ten interesting characters, nine men
and one woman who have had their
fingers in the central European pie,
and he has written interestingly and
illuminatingly about them.
Raphael, by Felix Laverty. The Frederick
a. btoKes company. New York city.
Books on such subjects as the
Florentine and other early masters
must- necessarily ne chosen carefully
In such localities as Portland, where
opportunities to oecome. informed
and acquainted with the works and
lives of the great painters are for
the most part limited to the printed
record. This book on Raphael is
not for the reader who would know
something of his mode of living, his
hards-hi-pa and struggles and the per
sonal side of his achievements. It
Is rather for the student of his
works who would care to learn the
history of each painting and the par
ticulars connected with its execution.
ei'ix Lavery has drawn largely
for his material from the biography
of Raphael written, 30 years after
the great painter's death. Added to
what he could gilean from that work
are his own findings during ten
brears of diligent research, and judg
ing irom tne results the ten years
cannot exactly be called wasted
time. (
Lavery has divided the 18 ve-ars
of Raphael's life as a painter into
three periods, Ts first period be
gins in 1504 and the dussion
traces the influence of Rachel's
teacher, Perugino, which can be seV
in sudh paintings as "The Cruci
fixion," "The Madonma. Ansidei" and
"Agnolo Don-i." In this period also
appears the first vestiges of the
Florentine manner, due to the fame
which Leonardo da Vsncl was gain
ing at that time. .
The middle period covers the years
from 1510 to 1514. The work of Ra
phael in each period, descriptions
o'f.the pictures arranged in chrono
logical order as they were painted,
is discussed. The middle period be
gan with the1 adoption of the Ro
man manner. The more important
pictures bearing this influence are
reproduced. The third period takes
Raphael from the year 1514 to his
death in 1520.
One point of the book deserving
more gratitude than any othe !s
the new d'aba collected on the paint
ing, "The Nativity." Lavery devotes
much space to this subject and has
been successful in tracing the com
plete 'history of the masterpiece.
Anooner excellent feature is the ex
position of the work of various col
lectors, including Cardinal Mazarin,
whose devotion to collecting re
sulted In the present method of pub-
no museum display.
For anyone interested at all in
painting-, and especially in Raphael
tiavery s dook ls extremely valuable.
It should make for a far keener and
more comprehensible appreciation.
Nothing as complete has ever been
written on Raphael before, and the
text, combined with the renroduc
tions of paintings and preliminary
oirawings, leaves little to be desired.
A Homesteader's Portfolio, by Alice Day
Pratt. The MacMill&n company. New
York city. .
One can readily Imagine a pros
pective homesteader setting out for
the promised land with a few tools, a
few dashes, a few clothes,, many
hopes and a large blank book to be
used for a diary. It seems to be
chronic for prospective homestead
ers to keep' diaries, usually with a
view to publication. Many of them
have proved exceptionally worth
while; most of them achieve wide
circulations, but, even so, the un
sympathetic reviewer m'ght have
passed this new book by, had he not
noticed on the "blurb" that Miss
Pratt's homestead was in Oregon.
And then perusal proved that even
with the local interest one of the
main features of the book, there
was a great deal more besides which
makes Miss Pratt's account decid
edly wotth reading. For .one thing
she has' put an agreeable limit on
the effusiveness and enthusiasm of
her writing common faults with
many homesteaders' diaries and she
has endeavored, with real success,
to make her story informative as
we'll as entertaining.
Miss Pratt Is delightfully frank.
She says that in the year 1910 a
small child was reprimanded for
speaking of old maids in her pres
ence, making her realize that she
was one or almost one, and she
should take steps to provide her
self with some big adventure. Con
sequently she picked on Oregon and
arrived at Pendleton during a
Roundup, which, makes material for
an Interesting chapter.
First came a job as a teacher in
Athena, while she studied the state
and decided where to cast her lot
Then, late one afternoon in June,
after various excursions with locat
ors, a wagon rumbled away until
the sound' of its rumblings was lost
in the distance and left her on the
"high, central Oregon plateau, and
the adventure was begun. First it
was in t a tent, later in a tiny
house; gradually the first brood, of
tiny chickens (the incubation hav
ing been a tremendous adventure in
Itself) grew into an enviable hock
of White Leghorns, and other assets
were added until homesteading was
completed.
Miss Pratt writes her story in
sprightly fashion, picking with en
joyable eagerness the interesting
topics from her experience. Many
fascinating "characters, human and
animal, came within her vision. One
of these is the "old Oregonian," who
provides a genuine taste of Oregon
.ioneer life and who gives
valuable added touch.
Sam BUek'g Diary, by Stephen C. Noland,
Harper Sl Brothers, New York city.
Sam Blick had a wife and daugh
ter who hoodwinked him by making
him believe he was boss of his own
house, a furnace, a ten-dollar raise,
a pup, and a lot of funny neigh
bors. The only thing he didn't have
was a sense of 'humor. .If he could
have traded his new year's resolu
tion to keep a diary for a sense of
humor, we might all have been
happy. -
The most amazing thing is the
consistency of the author's own par
ticular brand of humor. Maybe the
book is autobiographical and was
actually written from day to day as
Sam ls supposed to have written in
his diary. Maybe Sam is the usual
sort of man, a quartermaster .for a
wife and daughter, thoroughly gul
lible and thoroughly blind to. things
around him, fortunately an optimist
and always a firm believer in him
self.
Wit is like liquor; eome of it is
sparkling, some of it is dry and
some of it is slow. This resembles
home-brew in both taste and appli
cation it should te applied apolo
getically on account of its taste. But,
then, is it fair to criticise a foolish
book seriously Sam Blick is a naive
old man. If such a thing is possible.
He tells his wife and daughter that
they should resolve to. limit their
expenses to the family "income and
they answer that he should resolve
to say nothing unpleasant at break
fast. Sam gets a ten-dollar raise and
decides to keep it a secret and come
out 500 to the good at the end of
the year. He spends that extra J500
about six times during the year. He
plays rhum with his daughter's beau
and causes a lovers' quarrel. Daugh
ter wants a fur coat and Sam. picks
one out for her while he resolves
that she shan't have a fur coat. The
neighbors talk about everything and
Sam. and his wife talk back. All
of the fallacies of day-to-day family
strife and happiness are carefully
chronicled in a fashion about as hu
morous as a moderately lively din
ner party, although with not quite
as much originality.'
"Sam Blick's Diary" might ' be
taken as a parody on "Main Street,"
and as such it ought to go over big.
The book would make a fine Christ
mas present for friend husband; he
would think it was funny because
he is one husband that wasn't at all
like Sam, and ire would agree that
most other husbands were.
The Kingmaker, by Burton E. Steven
son. iodd. Mead & Co., New YorK
city.
There are a few of us who must
admit a sneaking liking for a really
good melodrama; not necessarily the
zounds, villain or ' save my child
sort, but something where diamonds,
pearls and beautiful women and the
ribbons denoting royalty figure in
descriptions, where kings and queens
are tossed in and out of thrones
with an improbable and fascinating
liveliness, and a red-blooded, quick
witted American hero wins his game
while blue-blooded, shrewd Euro
pean courtiers lose theirs. Once in
The Story of Don Quixote, by Arvid
Paulson and Clayton Edwards. The
Frederick A. Stokes company. New
York city. .
Cervantes, if v he could read it,
would be mueh less horrified at this
children's version of his fine old
classic than at most of the other
versions which have been published.
He would be rather interested and
maybe gratified, at the unique vein
of humorous satire which has been
lifted wholesome from his epiq 'and
imbedded in the prose for juveniles.
His satire is one of about three
qualities in the origiinal and of them
it is the one which should by a,U
means be perpetuated.
It would be interesting to trace
the history of humor and satire in
literature. It seems always to have
existed in gome form or other; Boc-
carao made extravagant use of it,
and it crops out now and again in
varied form in works of many mas
tens since his day. The present rage
for it can scarcely be called a chip
oit the old block because . modern
satire, in its highly developed form,
is a thing entirely apart from the
quaint originals.
Cervantes had a wonderful sense
or humor, and ror that reason
abridged versions of Don Quixote
make valuable reading for children.
climaxes. Those who know only the
American short story of magazine
variety will, occasionally, upon read
ing their first Russian story, read
it a second time to grasp the point
they missed. Then convinced that
there is no point, they suddenly see
that it lies in a mental turnover
Instead of the customary emotional
close-up.
Take, for instance, the story from
which the book derives its name.
'England, My England" Egbert had
no place in .the world beyond his
home. There he was self-sufficient,
but sufficient to no one el'se. He
refused to make himself so. The
natural ending would seem to be
that the war at least would change
mm. Dirt it seems far more natural
that one of his mental meanderlngs
would delay him just enough to be
killed by a chance shell.. Such an
ending serves a better, tf not a
more satisfying purpose, but it is
not the ending that matters so much
in Mr. Lawrence's stories. He ls so
effective in his portrayals, whether
they be concrete exposures or subtle
inuendoea, that almost any pass is
a revelation. Nothing could be more
characteristio of thecasuaj Egibert
than that he left a sickle where his
best-beloved daughter would fall
upon it and lame herself for life.
- Another good example of Law
rence's force is found in the -story,
"Wintry Peacock," wherein the wife
of a soldier asks a stranger to read
a French letter addressed to her
husband. The whole- reason It is
gathered that the little Belgian irl
should write to the father of her
new-born child, is the love of the
wife for a temperamental and af
fection-craving peacock, and the"
point . is put with such extreme
nicety. The husbandX before he
knows of the letter, tries to kill the
peacock almost the first day he re
turns.
The other eight stories are equally
good and equally significant, al
though some are more likeable than
others. Their titles are: "Tickets,
Please," "The Blind Man," "Monkey
Nuts," "You Touched Me," "Samson
and DeMlah," "The Primrose Path,1
"The Horse Dealer's Daugihiter" and
'anmy and Annie."
Grace Hall's Rights Sold.
Another bit "of good fortune has
come to Grace E.. Hall, Oregon au
thor, whose first book of verse,
Homespun," arrived in. Portland
just four weeks ago. Here is a let
ter received yesterday from her pub
Ushers, podd. Mead & Co. of New
York, in which the information Is
given that second serial rights for
her book have been sold to a large
syndicate company of Chicago, pend-.
ing approval of the sale by the au
thor. This should be exceedingly
gratifying, following so quickly, the
appearance of Mrs. Halls first book,
and bespeaks the widespread appeal
of her verse. Grace E. Hall's work
has -been a regular feature - of the
editorial page of The Oregoniajn for
the last five years and she hasmany
friends in Oregon who will be glad
to learn of this last success, j
THE LITERARY PERISCOPE-
" f " a " u""fB ."'"V-I-Muoh of the value, however, depends
niscence of the nights when "Nick..ln.n t!h. mbast, th, !A;
and the authors of this volume can
be praised in this respect, for it is
so written ss to provide keen train
ing for youthful perception.
Florence Choate and Elizabeth
Curtis have carried out the authors
points of view - most admirably In
their splendid colored illustrations.
The whole book is so gotten up as
to prove delightful to any child into
whose 'hands it falls.
Support, by Margaret Ashmun. The
McMillan company, New York city.
A setting very similar to "Main
Street" with a good bit of the same
vividness applied in a more per
sona! way, this making a back
ground for the turmoil in which
Constance Moffatt settles the ques
tion of her right to a divorced hus
band's support, is in brief Margaret
Ashmun's new novel.
Constance Moffatt divorced her
husband in New York, and, living
on his support, she returned to her
, home in a small middle western
' town, a borne that was as unnat
ural and different from her cus
tomary environment as it possibly
could have been. Her family was in
Btr&itened circumstances, her mother
had degenerated into a wbiner and
her father imagined himself an in
valid. Rose, her sister, was discon
tented with her lot. and in love with
a suitor not altogether desirable. I
The whole family was partially de-1 nephew and flees to a mountain
Old Crow, bv Alice Brown. The Mac
Millan company, New York city.
Praise is merited by those au
thors who choose for themes certain
unlikable human traits and the
fruits which such traits bear. Sen
sitive folk know that there exist
these peculiar complexes in the
broil of life and know their de
pressing influences; yet they can
do little toward bettering such con
ditions, and the novelistic isermon
stands as one of the few weapons
of any degree of effectiveness.
"Old Crow" is a story of the suf
ferings of a few persons because of
one man's insane jealousy. Strength
of telling makes of it a powerful
novel. Miss Brown has a knack of
relating in simple fashion, and
with a precision in diction and
usage, the facts which go to make
her story so that they stand out
with particular vividness. Her
characters are unusually clean cut;
so much so that even the least Im
portant of them stands outv as
markedly as even the leading char
acter does.
John Raven is something just a
little bit new and yet conforming
to a certain type of fiction hero. He
is the open-minded New Englander
somewhat of a student and philoso
pher. The war spoiled for him both
war and peace, and on top of his
disillusionment he is asked to ad
minister a fortune left to the per
petuation of the French spirit.
Raven turns over this task to his
The Real Uneoln, by Jesse W. Weik.
Tne JHougnton-Mifflln company, Bos
ton, juass.
Natural obscurity during his
earlier years, a peculiarity of social
status attributed to personality, and
tne various spheres in which Lin
coin moved during the different
stages of his career, make personal
biography for the most part a mat
ter of chronicling his years as i
statesman and president. William
Henry Herndon's life of Lincoln is
perhaps the accepted biography of
the great liberator, but upon its
publicat'on many who knew Lincoln
expressed the regret that it dealt
primarily with public life and not
sufficiently with private life.
At a matter of fact, Lincoln's pri
vate life s not such an obscure
record as many persons would think.
He undoubtedly leads the list of
American notables in anecdotal lore,
and acquaintance of more or less
personal nature, even at this latt
day, with Abraham Lincoln rests
largely upon the desire to search
into files and archives and living
memories. By searching a good bit
of the personal side can be uncov
ered, and fortunately not all of it
is the romance of poverty-stricken
childhood and exalted youthful
integrity.
These s'delights on the life of the
emancipating president are. how
ever, now set forth in book form for I
the first time by a really capable
author. Mr. Weik was the collabo
rator with Herndon in the latter's
book on Lincoln and was the first
man to receive the criticism that
the personal side had been- neglected
in that book. Herndon was Lin
coln's law partner and knew more
about him than did any other of his
associates. It -"was Herndon who.
immediately after Lincoln's death,
realized the scantiness of his early
history and made a pilgrimage to
Kentucky to gather what informa-
Carter" or "Buffalo Bill" came out
from under the pillow as the crazy
quilt was pulled up around the ears
and a rag carpet had been pushed
against the crack at the bottom of
the door to prevent parental detec
tion. It ls like putting a jazz record
on the phonograph at the end of a
long, hard day.
First of all this story is played at
Monte Carlo; a fitting background
for princely gambling and royal in
trigue. An American newspaper
correspondent has been startling
diplomats and aspirants with his
sharp, accurate stories. Suddenly a
woman of exceeding beauty singles
him out and tells him she owes him
a great debt because he was instru
mental in securing the death war
rant of a highly undesirable hus
band. Just at present the "countess"
is working for plotters interested in
re-establishing a dethroned king to
an imaginary central European
throne.
The president of the newly-made
republic is a very likeable young
man, and he is in love with one of
the two most beautiful women in
the story, while the newspaper cor
respondent falls in love with the
other. The president's girl has two
thingsenough money to put the
down-and-out king back on his
throne and a socially ambitious
mother who sides with the king
against the president and her daugh
ter. There is also a scapegoat
prince, son of the same king, who
gambles and has discreet love af
fairs. All these and a lot of other
personalities watch each other from
England, My England, by D. H. Law
rence. Thomas Seltzer, New York city.
It is something to write' one ex
ceptional short story, exemplifying
at least a single flash of gemius en
during enough to permit its express
ion, but to group ten stories that
fairly leave you gasping- with their
force within the covers of one small
book is something entirely different-
Such a group means a per
petual flame of genius that will en.
dure for ages.
An entirely new set of adjectives
is needed to pay Lawrence his de
served praise. He is so miraculously
energetic; conveys his thoughts with
such sharp and distinct rapidity;
moves so swiftly along his stories
to their subtle conclusions,' that
words somehow fail to fit descriptive
Justice. . v
It could easily be surmised that
Lawrence is an outcropping of the
MY DEAREST: The other night
I sat watching your wonderful
profile. I was drinking in all the
sweetness of that last half hour with
you and thinking of what an in
delible impression that profile, yes,
all of you, every inch of your livable
personality, has made oh my mind,
I said I longed to possess the art of
Anacreon that I might paint that
impression In words of glory..1" But
I would possess it for much dearer
reason. . For it is a fact, dearest,
that-I love you more than life itself.
Old Anacreon could perhaps express
his emotions in words, but he could
not love one whit more the lady of
his heart than I love you.
It is an old story, chere, but this
is the first time I have ever loved
you, the first time I have ever -loved
tanyone, and the only time l shall
ever love anyone, as the senorita
said in our little love story, a Carlos
loves but once. I am giving you
all the love of which I am capable,
and I am no Eskimo.
The proof of the pudding is in the
eating, they say. And while Petrarch
could extol his Laura with flaming
words, Horace his Lalage, and Cicero
his Tulla, when you find yourself in
my arms, sweetheart, you will want
no proof other than that which my
not altogether weak arms tell. And
then when I feel your warm lips on
mine, I shall wonder why it is that
one is permitted such joy outside of
paradise.
Yours, dearest. SAMSON.
BY JENNETTE KENNEDY, ,
Assistant in Circulation Department,
Public Library.
CENTRAL AMERICA is a vague
locality of small republics to
most people, except when some
arresting incident brings . it into
publicity and the flash in tiio pan
Illuminates the scene for a moment.
A book recently published called
"Typing Through Central America"
gives just those familiar touches
which lend reality to a distant scene.
A Journey by foot, horeback and
train throughout the whole five re
publics was accomplished by Eu
gene Cunningham and Norman Hart-
man and the volume is made up of I
their experiences, narrated by -Jar.
Cunningham and photographed by
Mr. Hartman.
To the people who know the del
icate distinctions between different
kinds and colors of. troutflias and
what lure to use at T o'clock in the
morning and what catches the high
ly specialized fancy of a trout at
eventide. Major John W. Hills' "A
History of Fly Fishing for Trout"
will appeal. Major Hills goes back
to the 15th century for data ana
brings the story of flies, rods and
lines down to date.
r. -
Edig-ar Saltus" last novel, written
just prior to his death, "The Ghost
Girl," is a story based on psychio
phenomena.
Some of the chapter headings in
Francis Hackett's sincere inquiry
into modern American life, "The
Golden Calf," are: "The Highbrows,"
The Half-Gods and the Hair-
Baked," "ThePsycho-Antics," "Batik,
Hootch and Henna," "The Fallacies
of Freedom."
Despite its wide use, the story of
wallpaper had not been told until
Dr. Phyllis Ackerman produced her
work on "Wallpaper: its History,
Design and Use." This work should
prove valuable both to decorators
and home makers interested in dec
oratlve problems.
s
Franz Molnar"s "Liliom" attracted
a great dealf attention both in -its
presentation ow the stage and in
book foam .as a drama to be read.
Mr. Motoar has two satires which
are to be presented on the New
York stage this year: "The Swan"
and Fashions for Men." Both of
these dramas were widely discussed
when produced . on' the European
stage.
'
A noteworthy translation from the
Italian has been made by Professor
Wilkins of the University of Chi
cago in "Four and Twenty Minds,'
a collection of essays by one of
Italy's foremost critics, Giovanni
Paplnl. These essays deal with
Spencer, Hegel, Dante, Nietzsche,
Swift, Maeterlinck, Walt Whitman,
Croce and others. v
- The naima of Clarence Darrow is
so well known as that of a great
criminal lawyer that a book by him
on unme: us i;ause ana treatment,
will command attention His conten
tion that crime should be treated by
wise and humane specialists, as
much as any other disease, is sig
nificant.
eel o on he ears of most -American-'
schooled individuals. , ?
s
The literary editor of the Boston
Evening Transcript, Edwin Frances
Big'-ett, has ooonpiled some of his
humorous "shots" at things and peo
ple which have appeared bi-weekly
in a volume called "Slings and. Ar
rows." -
Harvard's celebrated footbalrtoaon
-has written a timely book for spec
tators of the game instead of for
the players themselves. It is en
titled, "Football and How to Watch'
It," by Percy D. Haughton, with JO
pages of illustrations showing form?-,
ations and representative plays. -
t '"' .....
.A book of humorous versa which
portrays the characters, -incidents
and setting of a typical American r
university town is "Lyra Lewis," by
Edward Bliss Reed. -
The "Tiger of France," who is
just now so much in the day's news
during his visit to leading American
cities has been faithfully presented
In biography by a leader amontg
British socialists, H. At Hyndiman,
in his volume called, ''Clemenoeau:
The Man and His Time."
- . . .
B. L. Putnam Weale, who has writ
ten "indiscreet" letters before from
the orient, now has unloosed, further
"state secrets" in Ms new volume,
"An Indiscreet Chronicle from the
Pacific" Mr. Weale is one of the
chief authorities on the far eastern
situation, and as a special agent for
China to this country and Europe
in 1921, and as one of the advisors,
of the Chinese delegation at the
disarmament conference, he has had
unusual opportunities for observa
tion as well as the advantages of.
having lived in China since child
hood. :
. . .
i -
In "The Call of the Mountains."
by Leroy Jeffers, the mountains of
the Oregon coast are among the
northwestern mountains described.
Glacier park. Mount Rainier, the
Canadian rookies and the Yellow
stone also are pictured.
Robert W. Service, so definitely
associated with virile poems of Al
askan adventure, has just written a
novel of Monte Carlo called "The
Poisoned Paradise."
'Tilsrh't Interviews With Shades"
are some opinions on timely topics
which various experts have given
through mediums translating from
spirit-land, for instance, "King Solo
mon on Family Vacation Trips,"
"Captain Kidd on Tag Days," "Adam
on Feminine Fashions, ' Shake
speare on the Movie" and other airy
topics which occur to the mind of
Robert Webster Jones, the news
paper man who has secured these
interviews.
Henry Kitohell Webster has added
to his series of novels dealing with
Chicagio life, viz: "The Real Adven
ture," An American Family and
Mary Wpllaston (a new one), Jo
seph Greer and His Daughter."
...
Mary Johnston, who has so suc
cessfully handled various periods of
our history in her historical ro
mances, has taken the period of dis
covery itself for her new one, "1492,"
date wiMeh will strike a familiar
Intelligence Test Success.
Washington Star.
The teacher was ' giving a few
general questions to test the intel
lisence of his pupils.
"How many races are there?" he
asked.
"Two," replied a, small boy, who
had been feeling the cane some
time previously.
"Two! Well, what -are they?"
"Please, sir, teachers and pupils.'
"What do you mean, my lad, by
saying teachers and pupils
queried the teacher.
"Please, sir," was- the reply, "the
teachers are the 'canine' race, and
the pupils are -the 'feline' race."
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