Show Rugged Hugged Story I of Sea Folk V Lively Realism Translation From the Germans Is Characterized by Strong Descriptions By EDITH M M. HINES Weirdly fantastic and Idealistic with only such colorful detail as can be given by one who has experienced the things of which he writes la is the word picture given us by Bernard Brnard Kellermann i ii lr his book The Sea translated V y Sasha Best from the German Bernard Ber Ber nard Kellermann one of the foremost foremost foremost fore fore- most German novelists Is not known to 0 the English reading public publio as asare asare asare are many foreign writers of ot r realIsm realism real real- al- al ism for- for none of his works save The Tunnel has been translated Into the English The Sea depicts the Breton fish fish- of northern France and Nor Nor- with Ith th their lr eari g attitude and toward life Their life is hard I must be wrested from the he sea and this hardness this this grim fight to being their live reacts in all aU their lovemaking their family life fightIng fighting fight fight- bloodshed quarrels fierce traditions traditions traditions tra tra- Ing of ot all aU are the outgrowth their fight ht to live hive The philosophy of the and their lore Is Interwoven with a a. thread of ot romance not a II lovely ro romance romanCe romance ro- ro book bool though of th mance for the type which in the last twenty years has proved to be lasting lasting- literature Is based on ugly realism but so 50 much more ferocious so much more colorful are the descriptions of the mighty sea that the disagreeable becomes of ot lesser Importance realism r Inthe in inthe inthe to lose Interest and one Is apt caveman Impulses and brute natures natures natures na na- na- na the the individuals displayed by tures for Bernard Kellermann Kel Eel ve a of ot the sea sta In awe fairly dashes one with the lenn lermann nn relentless brine wrecks one ona upon rocks and lashes one ona to the mast mastIn mastIn In the he storm other foreign writers writer have given given As us realism of ot the soil soU tho the coal en pits and the cities and as exponents literature of this sort have of will faithful followers so 50 pained gained Sea Se be popular with the lover The of sea stories rugged rug primitive primi primi- tive unlovely save for the gripping g de descriptions Robert M. M I. I McBride Co New Kew ew York |