Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-29 | Page 5 | New Delights in Familiar Books

ID eW Delights In Familiar t Books a FRANK A A. HUNT e By I Henry Van D Dyke Thice ke has as the unique o cr that makes very every very literary ary r he touches gr grOw w richer Un un- un bi iU his bis handling If you wan want t to ton toe ca Cr r e to old od favorites with new en- en n read ment h BookS It IS a volume from which one erg ot resist it quoting in order that i s may be made clear By ByC books I mean those C 8 Mt hat at are re worth taking with you on onI I journey where the tho weight v of jf f counts or keeping beside gage oe r bed near the night-lamp night r looks bookS that will bear reading often I Ze nd the more slowly you read them U je be better you OU enjoy them books tat hat not only tell you OU how things thil 9 ode ook and how people behave but interpret nature and life to toOs rA ilso Os ou roU In language of 1 beauty and ander cp SPlits power jower er touched with the p its e i t the author so that they h have ve a alj atal lj eal tal voice audible to your ur spirit In Ine Inh h e sll silence nce 1 Some of the chapter chapt r headings hea a e e The Good Enchantment of at ikens Thackeray and Real its Um den George Eliot and Real Heal Wom Wo Wo- 1 jen I m The Poet of Immortal e bulb louth and A Sturdy Believer like best is An at he he e one orie we 1 tier In a Velvet Jacket Hertan Here Her tan fan Dyke gives his Interpretation a i the spirit of Stevenson The velI veld vel- vel I a d sf Jacket which Stevenson wears wars V i It S so 50 man many of his pictures Is Js re- re 1 by Van Yan Dyke not is a dis dis- ise but bUL as a symbol It is of ofa a what rel to match a certain niceness If choice and preference e of beauty like the silver spurs broad and gay handkerchief of ot offie the fie thoroughbred cowboy not cowboy not an ment ment of the but a tri trib- trib y tIe rte te to romance says sas Van Yan Dyke Dyle rho then discusses Stevenson's forks in a delightful manner j I Of or Dickens' Dickens nov novels ls he says that r they have hae fulfilled what Dr Johnn John- John Eon n called the purpose of good I look hooks to teach us to enjoy life Ufe or hip us to endure it ft He declares n. n that tat Dickens touched London and andI I sade made de it Jt an enchanted city Van Vans s Dike docs does not seek to Justify the 3 fact bet that Dickens caricatured even h 11 Ils parents In his books but lays e the fault to his lack of ot early train- train 0 Ing Of hi his florid taste In dress ind ad other peculiarities the author I that it all amounts to one thing and goes to show that Dickens Dick Dick- ell ens himself was a Dickens character charac charac- ter Of t Keats Van Dyke says He lie HeIs Is not a feminine poet as Mr AIr Coventry Coventry Cov Coy entry calls him any more I Ithan ii than thai or Tennyson is 5 feminine for the quality of e extreme to outward beauty la Is larot sot rot a mark of femininity It is found in men more often otten and more clearly dearly than In women S Van Yan Dyke gives us a gentle and f understanding portrait of Dr Sam- Sam juel Johnson el that sturdy believer and nd there is enjoyment in Tiding his interpretation of ot the Beauty of the Bible and particularly particular particular- ly of at the Psalms Charles Charles Scribers Scriber's Scrib- Scrib ers er's Sons New York