Show ' An' Prm: SALT in'the Field Modern Writers His "Magnus Merriman" a Scottish Prototype of the Juan Whose Adventures in America Amused Book's Gay License and Gusto Engaging By E E HOLLIS MACTRUS MERRIMAN Publishers Farrar and By Erie Linklater Rinehart Ne w Y ork with that zest and vigor which are Eric Linklater's unfailing possessions this book worthily succeeds the account of the adventures of "Jtian In America" and readers who Were enthused by that picaresque Indrildualts lunatical and hilarious progress will delight to follow his brother Magnus In Scotland for Magnus is true kin to Juan Be is poet rake lighter and more than a little the clown - Mr Linklater's high spirits and zest for life furnish bis hero with - - though a young artist has been the recipient of numerous awards among them the third Hallgarten prize Me National Academy of Design won in 1919 when be was but 18 In 1923 the second Hall garten prize fell to him Several galleries have acquired his atilt life subjects Mr Carlsen's work in the Macbeth group is a charming study of delicate tonal values and subtle contrasts Like that of his famous father his method is — 4 ntatlf ' ' $4 er-- "(''' I ot 1 "' ' '31 - st ' - 4 ' 1 t '' r t f‘ q : 1 I 0 f t l ' 't ''''': ' : ' i - 4' ) --- - - - ' - " MODERN ' ' -- ' 4 '' -:-- '' - ' f' ' -- Of '''' RidtVa lit el 1 - - GOLDEN A ' Yen? - - That final tragic solving of the tangle while one does not feel its inevitas bility comes rather as a relief f or the gentle old realities and the picture evoked is a daddy unpleasant revelation of human ' i - ON as :- t ' '-'' ' ' 's' - - :4 CPap 'painstaking out thought andliiiiiiidellitilithfully )÷ ' -' ' ' '' - I - J-- - ' ' "' - f ii ‘ '' ''' '"' 1 '' - ' 1' - ' I' N 'i 'y ' ' : executed In this canvas The Mandarin Coat -t- he Chi nese garment forming a baCkground for an arrangement of vues bowl and beads with scattered leaves has used a limited palette gaining 'a rich effect with chiefly yellow ochre and blue through which flash countless in-teresting tints "Mountain Town" by A T Hibbard - ' - '' 0' ' - ' ‘ 4- ' "‘ ' ' ' - '' - t t '' 0 N V - - - 1 " ' ' - - - st ' - 4- 1 N g ': 0 1 1- I ' iii - ' - - 4e 1 4 of tk 111 ''' P - - 1 k s' :i ' - ' ! "i - i-- '' " 4e e ' '' t ' 1 4 - ' t ' J' 1 -- 1 s4 it 1 - ' ' '' t - ' ve" '' -' ' ''' - A ' - 0- '' I''' - ' t ' 7 n i '' t 5 ' : " ' ‘ - ' ''''""- - -- - - - - )100sem'1outl ea0 ' ' - ' - -- - Because of the controversy that has been raging something of a tempest in a teapot created by the hanging at the Art Barn recently of a nude study be A Print Brass the California artist a meeting - is to be held Wednesday- at 2 ' - - )I tt ' - - ' ' p in at the Art Barn at which Mr Brass will discuss modern art in general and his paintings in particular-n9- tat psaints sense offering defense o Int attacked for art that la honest needs! no defense Mr Brae talk is to make cleafer the principles of modern art and the modernists' attitude toward truth in - ' art - ' ' ' - The pregram for Wednesday is under the direction of Mrs John Jensen pre&dent of th e organization and b vonsored by the Women's Council of the Art Barn It will include a round table dia- cussion on art with Miss Lucy Van Cott Miu Caroline ParrY Jacob Trapp Leon Loothourow and Ranch S Kimball u 7 E ntstotary Record n V II Rare Affectz on - - - Beauty or - Truth in Art) -- - - su1:: ' THM tErrERs OF ROMAIN ROL0 LAND AND MAL WIDA VO N IdElr Translated from the SENBUO French by Thomas J Wilson Pub- Bailers Henry Holt and Company' New York Tender and beautiful was the friend- ship disclosed In these lettere the strange intimate kinship of spirit be tween an old woman of more than 70 years and a young man in his twen- - ties which lasted for a decade and more when her death broke the tie Remain Rolland who has won to the heights of literary fame was but 24 and almost unknown when he first speakers Comment on the Brass nude who apparent purpose was to express the fruitfulness of nature has been general some objecting strenuously to the paint-ing because of what they termed itsindecency some merely finding Its ughness inartistic while others found this very ugliness an expression of truth that b the highest form of art toAt any rate discussion has served bring to a ' the head the question whether art in Utah is tp be bound by a narrow viewpoint "We cannot discard any form of art ihst hi honest Mn Jensen says "There - -- --- - : "Times Square-Nig- ht" engage 'Urn- tion Ja an always welcome contributor The California contingent of artists has no stronger representative than Maynard Dixon San Francisco muralist whosestriking "High in the Morning" captures the awesome beauty of Zion Canyon as no other portrayal we have seen Mr Dixon's creative power is again CE4 pressed in the superb 'Approach to Zion" and a picture one will take to his Cabin ° heart is the small "Old-tlin- s William Wendt's spacious "Into the ley" whose climbing hill lopes open to lead the eye into far distances Maurice Braun's In Harbor" showing sallbosts at anchor William A Griffith's ingrati-sting study of a "Summer Sean are other things that lend interest Karl Yens too returns to the show with a vigorous can rd mi - f - Alard tamill Is her new novel will show She is also planning a first lectura sloes great exploits—which bear- - out self by expressing IV Rolland says in ' Bear r eat" maGe description of him as tour in America for next year the fine foreword he gives to the book modern times A new novel will come this fall front the greatest daredevil he had encoun friend who understands one is :file ' "A Golden Highway's Is a rich record one's creator In this " sense 'I was ' Francis Brett Young who will deal with tered—in the chief's own matteroffact of history and romance end a line eons ' created by Malwida Had I been English life in a section known intimate' style yet the account will stir the blood ' alone perhaps I should have destroyed and one will share the sadness of White ' trihution io the literature of the west ly to his youth Rose Macaulay has a newis ' ' ' r Bull when the Sioux ' novel under way and J B Priestley ' acceding to the my work I felt too strongly Its insuf ' ' ' Inal hell" white "Grandfather's peace t e r m a finishing a book on life and conditions in ficiency" THE CATCH IN ' IT ' Bull's Bull White Chief Joseph Sitting English provincial towns today' while While Malwida was no critle of his ponies and weapons were taken front In "MyRussian Neighbors (Whittle - 'Aldous Huxley is at his home M south them and he knew the end of their brave ' sey House) of "fighting nephew: who went on his first a work literary being "poor judge the author explains in coin' ern France to finish a novel I life had come Since 18711 the chief has warpath at sixteen and became a tintyouth's ' va ue s" and easily excusing rnenting on the beer houses "the rules leader among the warriors of his generafollowed "the white man's road" and far seeing her loving as to drunkennem are v e disCern ton is the hero of this book Son of an honors have come to him not only front iii essential ' ' ricnoriwarrINo 4' n as you like but you mustn't of the rai get drunk his OWn tribe but from his white broth- not done but hereditary chief Makes-Roo'he bad what atrength u mustn 25 ng Hoffman' yo Arthur yeare Sullivan' you : Whit Bull Sioux era and he counts one of the happiest powerful Minniconjou what he wanted to do and could glory a net which catches practically was trained tor the warpath and eager saleel experience as a magazine editor and se in the future she saw for hi m eves days of bis life that on which be w as d r un k n R ussians " ' ' critic and teacher has resulted In the before the warriors to ride with honored at the peace ceremonies on the long be was despairingly struggling while of- Makes Room thought him old enough ' ' r orter battlefield — ' -' svaver have ninown a mind so young - - making ok"The Writing of Fictionwhich-7 - tering a survey of writers needs His boy name of BullStinding-withCoMuch ot the lore of the tribes Indian 116 tireleuly open to all the s SHELLEY POETRY be AWARD o says ' those new a book Norton Is Among was changed by the proud Makes-Roocustoms and beliefs war strategy and Judges ot the Shelley Memorial Award Inspirations of youth" She lived her s 11h0ra Hoffman has aided and who in to White Bull after that battle of his size ' Youth titer again in those she loved tactics has been woven into the story of disilded it this year between Frances in which from returned he dorsi Ills methodsare such writers as teentb year the deeds of this hero "straight out of Frost and Lola Ridge Miss Frost whose : Tbe letters reveal much of the pets Ines Sinclair Lewis T S Stribling enemies Homer" s t ideallatie great glory of the their writers narrative o struck three "Woman of This Earth" poem sonality ' ' '' of these "coups" in this first lights-twHaynes Irwin Larry Barrett° Dorothy nature of the W01331L12 the passion and (Houghton Mifflin) has recently been Canfield and other BUSY MR POUND ' being "firsts" besides stealing ten good Published also was recipient of the first despair and hopes of the young writer ' Three books by Arthur Pound are on borses Having so distinguished himself ' prize for Poetry offered by the magazine by reuon of this revelation1 Interesting TITLE BY BALLOT three aeparate publishers' lists of the White Bull thereafter was invited to join are also important as the record Young Israel the award given for her they To the late Hugh Weir Samuel Mop every war party from the Minniconjou apringt'Once a Wilderness" a novel Autumn" of st'' human relat)onahip of unique is a Reynal & Hitchcock atle "The Turn kins Adams owes the title of his novels or Sitting Bulls Hunkpapa camps quality The Gorgeous Hussy based on the tu It Ls from Chief White Bull's own se ing Wheel" a history of Genera Motors AMERICANA '' is brought out by Doubleday Doran multurius career of Peggy Eaton The title Van w Yck M130a ennmilled seven counts that air Vestal has obtained hi "State Names Nicknames Flags Seals and MacMillan is publishing "Golden ' Songs Birds Flowers and Other Sym- WILI selected at acocktall party at the Washington embassies to get his data cc story of the many battles in which the Forth" a study of Manhattan real estato curate for the new mystery upon which: Adams farm "Wida Waters" where 150 hots" is the lengthy title of a honk tom thief engaged He has sat in the tamp of Mr Pound's fletional ereation deals with he is engaged which is to deal with the the old warrior now more than eighty per cent of the guests those Mr Weir piling authoritative data An in of these title from a list offered Hough hi native Michigan the other volume international armament trade and which suggested years old and listened to his tales of the subjecta This ncyclopedie ot facts is - ' ' ' tha egima club Inc will issuo tot Mdflitt have lust publlekg4 iltek Dtill odd" 'Stem M W Wilson Company CWat us itettly4 lobal 'Cords of the e and bu quoted many blending the together to present complete picture of the 185(l's end of - -14-war- Vestal-sic-or-cis-t- flak wh-ol- or which one bad robbed ons's ' ) 45 ' ''' ''' - jerwarrtTHIN FON B0 ' c v - 'i - ' to the affected prem Mired blotches to fadeout and texture atrol ree lsiritta ahi 110111111i the guarantee rlailp airoil dote pot relieve yottietthtr Peeksaad iroa bearerefunded tr7rT'cia your money will intorinatioa opts thia stow troattoott writ" to Rally ' - 3226 bloomed Ste - let 'lel Noll Mk room ewe tan intatimotio —timonewittainesstodpso - - t MOIL :LABORATORIES ' I k SIROIL this ai It daDeribes the and m trestmitiiTee tor which Won Is a ' vn ' SOOKLIT Os bet-al- v ' - - 4 ' ' ' I - - DJ OF' d ' you ' ' th sparkling landscape its muterly treatment ot snow showing the mark of genius !fit an exhilarating picture one feels the bits of the sir and the shivery dampness of the deep snow offset by a of warmth and shelter In the houses clustered around a church spire Mr Hibtard who works in Boston and Rockport Mass is a pupil of De Camp Major and Tube' Among hia honors and swards are the first prize et Dux bury1920 first Hallgarten prize Sesnan gold Medal' second Altman prize and his "Ice Pond" wall purchased hi the Ranger Fund an d presented to the Phil t lips Academy Alpert L Grollwhose "Flying Clouds" is in the collection is a New 'York artist1 but has been accorded credit for bringing to the realization of America the artistic i possibilities of the desert lands of the West and Prticularly of Arizona His picture depicts the broad plains of sage brush bunch grass and cacti clinging cloes to the arid yellow soil with a boy ering sky of silvery cloud effect& 11'1Y Ins Clouds" is true to his reputation that he never makes a hopeless desert" but Introduces gold and silver underblors to ' achieve ahimmering light Ann Brockman with °Northeaster and C X Chattertons with "Water making an effective first sp aranmcez and Belmore - Brovine - who also makes a personal entry is in the group his "Mountain Jade" giving one of his strong Canadian Reties Jay Coons way's "A Dark Sea" represents him most delightfully and Ilayley Lever's Omni- Jul harbor scene completes the groupy Usher DeVoll whose colorful circus scenes end intriguing Impression of - '' i : far '" -' -- ‘ - - - each brush stroke carefully well ' ' 2 tatk-o-wth—A-iz4ha- da NI 4s 4 '' it : - in miles it is yet Ane of the richest physically o and historically see -of America-Tput this richnsas between the toms of a single volume is an immense task that Mr Glasscock haw dial superbly The tide started when Sam '' Brannon strode into San Francisco on that memorable spring day in 1848 and bellowed: "Goldi Goldi from the Amen can Fork Vhich virtually swept avound the world ' Many of the camps established along the --comeMother Lode - today - oa - tons however' have been de veloed - into ' charming an d progressive cities where any of the descendants of the pioneer smo idseekera and a sprinkling of the pin- leers themselves still reside It is from these that Mr Glasscock has gath ere d much of the material for his history The writer has a unique gift in that he shows the reader the camps es they originally were and then almost In the same breath' the modern towns stand before you on the page Many of these places are due for re vival Mr Glasscock believes for the Roosevelt administration's gold policy increased price for the metal has set thousands again search big for the riches that vet lie hidden be ' - - t 7 Boa-Stanl- adventure individual freedom a nd dar- -' ing" they went forth with the same joy of battle which inspired Achilles and his followers on the plains of Troy To the heroes Of such warfare Mr-- Vestal does honor they were not animated by the 'virtues4 which have turned modern war into "a vIciotui destructive and di ' ' - k ''-'- I: - - - Duty" subsequent Mifflin Company i --- Ranger - - ' ' a ' : ll t - May-Decem- Vestal Is probably 1 : --- - L b a - - By C B Bobbs-Morri- - poss Not After-even- ts era Houghton I - HIGHWAY Glauciick! Publishere - find expression - : tw:- ' 4 do --- lions ' 'fcl t‘ - turned to wild ducklings is unfailing in her sympathy and tenderness Rather unexpected is the tolerant understapding of Herr Kahn when Irene on her first adventure away fromtheefaWly home giv‘es herself easAly to a young officer sent from the front to her aunt'S hospital and b sent home in disgrace "We have to remember that there' e a war on" Herr Kahn me Irene's marriage to the willing Alexander is arranged but forgivingly the young man is not quite the eager lover to rraulein Eula's anxious eyes Lottle whose bill : nor do these loving eyes fail to see that the Laney attracts Alexander has Conceived a passion for him reveal that in each of these sisters were depths unsue pected by the foster mother The restless energies of LOttie whose desira for a career on the stage has been restrained by her father ars curbed when CirCumatances force her to enter into his busineu and the unfortunate passion which she tries to stOle out of loyalty for the sister she loves keeps her from forming any deep attachments The dark angel that bros over her destiny brings her to e meeting with Alexander whose consequences rraulein Zulats best efforts cannot avert The difficulties result in Lottiesa marriage she had drawing back from the rather disgusting th ought would give her a career and she goes to Irene to escape t 'rho complex situation which results from the strange deception in which the sisters join has its culmination some years later in an ugly scene when 'Attie impulsively snaking an unplanned visit to Irene's home hotly retaliates for Alexander's jealous accusations and truths are revealed that startle him and drive Irene when her attempt to cut the coil11its foiled by the bitternesses efforts of the others to an insane outburst in which-0- ' k l' - ' ' 't CanPS ' ! The MacMillan Company New By Gina K au& Publisher ''- '' 'i - - -- :z y bistory-of-perma- ' ' 4 ‘ - ' - 'EPISODE IN VIENNA '' CmPanY1 indiana"111 Once gain Mr Glasscock turn' to his '- ' -' '' favorite subject—gold—and once again 'nent produces a- VIENNA' the always fascinating1 Is preSenteltere-lnitrwa- r and'postwar-- --ho value This time the historian of "The Y aspects the years of stxtu of inflation and currency' depreciation of Bonanza" and "Lucky Baldwin " Big speculation and extravagance with which many writers have dealt The turns to the Mother Lode and its sources author of "Dark Angela" however bas not been primarily concerned with ' of onetime roaring camps to build a these social and economic changes this new Vienna is portrayed only as lasciuting history linking the past and background for her psychoanalytical 'character studies brought forth starkly - the present and looking too a little into ' and uncompromisingly ' t the future 'rho Mother Lode country covers little : The story 'Placed in the mouth of the elderly governess Traulein'Eula well-to-is the story of her charges motherless daughters of a enough territory yet there is material jeweler there for a score of books From San of Vienna To these girls the governess has been as a sectind mother leving ' Trancisco the "golden highway" Ueda up them too devotedly to exercise any austere discipline Irene amiable tubs the north fork of the American river to missive rather inert seemed destined to be a happy wife and mother but Eraulein Eula worried somewhat about the talented ambitious Lottie whose - Auburn and Georgetown north up the Sacramento river through Shasta Whisky r form radiant spixit desired expression in In her relation of the dark and troubled course of their lives the olds ' Town Dougiu City and Weavervillea on idhoes Pearl! ' irnivit:r largo meutthe iatnernra fashioned fraulein though startled like a bewildered hen whose chicks have an t' ' 0 1- ' - — ' ' - DARK ANGEL York ' - :: ' ' - - -- '' s ''' - - sense 4 thetaKart - - - --- '''0oe -- — - - - in: 1 ' ed - A by Cartsen ' I t -' ! 4 Datr l' k ' ' ' " — -- n : co - s m and ' - 41 ' -- - 7414v—-i- '- Left " The 1 rA 4 - - i 1 I ' - A - l '1 5 - — Hibbard ! ' r - ii ' V":11"c by A 7 ' the-Orkne- y S' )1k it: 1 1 Yawn' i Artists' Colony 7 Right vitality and Magnus Merriman lives in his own right a gay flamboyant whose affairs literary political amatory provide diversion - — personality 1 1— Born in Islan4i (as WOO Mr-- Linklatertoo by the wile) ' Magnus knew an uneventful childhood But this and his unstimulative years at Inverdoon university curious war Adventures as a Gordon Highlander further university experience acquiring a repute for bawdy mots literary indiscretions as a Bombay teacher a Philadelphia editorship novelistic sues cess and love fiascos back in England are passed over briefly Magnus find- ' ing ionic element in life seemed bound to "trip his heels whenever his head was highest is diacornilted 'I'm a buffoon" he thought 'I'm Troilus with -----a cold in his nose-nthe Grecianlente--rm--i- f sighing ' ROMOO under the wrong window" H e would eschew women and devote him- - - : self to literature Seeking retirement in Orkney he stops in Edinburgh to become involved through his friend Meiklejohn itithe Nationalist movement muttering among Scottish heather purposed to recreate Scotland's independent sovereignty-' and young woman recently from through his own folly with a hard-boil- -America-Lukewarm at first Magnus' enthusiasm grows as a Scots patriot— "If Scotland did not yet want independence it should be made to want it" Almost equally important after a few potations is to convince Melklejohn that Shakespeare is a greater poet than Racine a controversy that occasions after the Tarascon episode of the snuff in the olm ore than one good fight-an- d in a prison cell Magnus' patriotism flames bright saxophone a dull week-en- d ly wren he is asked to stand as Nationalist candidate for parliament but the is a fiasco his election agent has escaped with his money and the American PHrieda's attitude bores him so that Orkney gala calls him - --'-- ' In the end we find him settled down as a email farmer having been captured - of intellect' and his by a fiery little farm beauty without ambitious pursuit to make a Greek If ever Magnus' activities lag a bit his commentary ever refreshing- - The course of events planned as ocfportus nity for satirizing the trend toward nationalism communism indivi politics in general it also gives occasion for exposition of other topics love marriage literature "Magnus ' and of Rabelaisian extravagance - ' -- Activities in Utah - - Always among the outstanding contri- butions to the Springville exhibitions the Macbeth Gallery group this year is extremely interesting and bringruveral noteworthy eastern artists who have not before made their entrance but whose repruentation ii of-- a character to assure their welcome hereafter The late mu- ter Emil Carlsen whose work has how ered the show several times has given place to his nal Dines Carlson who - —Alm - 1 tIMONEMOMIMMINE ' 'AP - FROLICS MR: LINK - EITINDAY MORNING n d Lite r tur A of tan TRlittNt' : Nuns Add city I |