Show 1 Romance Color Color I Found Pound in Book by t Writes Vivid Yarn in UTh Th i j I Story of the t 1 Gypsies g f By FRANK A. A HUNT V L To read of ot tIre the Gypsy G satisfies yet t both picaresque the and the longing that i is within us all Konrad iron Ion rad BercovIci whose short stories i ame came Into Immediate popularity has j written ritten The Story of ot the G Gypsies a IL history of ot these strange people y i Unlike any other race on earth I they have always ays been a a. puzzle f fI Where here did the they ome from Boor Boor- I covici answer ans and there is Js no ofie one today toda who can rtin prove that I he lre Is fa wrong Iong I Ben coviel paints a n wonderful I background baek for these people eople for tor ho ho l oas raa teas feasted ted drank danced and traveled traveled trav tray with them in almost country In Europe Gypsies aro ate found everywhere The They are always i- i different yet always alays the same They are the last of roman romance and color left in a prosaic world Err Err- 1 Covici tells of how they have o fought and end laughed and loved lo their theira way way- a through the ages lIe He gives shoes tite varied marled legends their tribal customs customs' describes the cult of the tho dead ded makes them live In every ery line until one sees the flicker of the campfire through brought the trees and hears w gentle sobbing of or the violins f HAVE NO RELIGION The author estimates that there thera i 4 are ne-c Gypsies In tn tho the United 4 I States He does not believe that k they will ever be absorbed but sees them changing V No boundary in iii any continent has v vever ever stopped the Gs He Gypsy holds to his tribal rites but he has no religion The TIle most moat wretched restless rest rest- less person in person the world is he who has a strain of Gypsy blood who Whit hears healS the siren call cal to wander wand r at nt the first touch of spring and yet t who dares not yield d. d Many a poet and musician today has a Romany strain but keeps his Ms secret Others Other aro merely Gypsies at heart Hall hail pralo pIao I am nm writing says sars Bercovici of or ofa orn a n people whose vocabulary lacks lack words duty and possession Tho Gypsies are not of Egyptian pUan origin They hey came from India Th They y have exactly the same cranial measurements of the Juts or on The very ery name means robber but the title was not self bestowed PLAYED ON PEASANTS The description of their early ap ap- ap In Europe is highly amiss amus ing lag and characteristic They play played upon th sup superstition of ot all especially espe- espe daIly of the peasantry yet et somehow somehow- one comes to feel fee that they brought brou their moneys money's worth of ot variety color and music to the stolid villagers m ers Is to be taken as An on authority on a subject so elusive that he stands practically alone Irving Brown traveled tra about with tho the Gypsies in America and hl his hi book on his hi adventures 1 Is 13 cx excellent end and yet t one I. I is Inclined to believe that if it Brown had only load had Berco- Berco icis background had known the tho G Gypsy y in Europe and Asia he Asia he would have hac written n something different dif dif dif- ferent Bercovici Berco went to school as a. a with Gypsy boys bors He lie seems to tobe tobe tobe be almost a A. blood brother of or Uio Ike o r race race and and yet et if it ho he were vece he lie w ray a so and make you OU feel that ho was proud to own it Once when his Gypsy nurse grew heartsick for her tribe rIbe she was wee allowed allow d to take young Derco to the forest people It Ita Is a a safe fc bet that as' as asa a result Bor Bor- colci can tell teU your our fortune from your our our right hand and play tunes on the lie violin violin however however Tetch wretchedly Ir though thou he ile does not mention either cither accomplishment THRILLING VIBRANT j A brief brier review can do little Ja jl isis isis' lice ice to such an nn exotic thrilling vl- vl f brant nant book as all this It doe does not total mat fl ler ter Cr what the subject once D Berot O F t thas has sea commenced d his hili alchemy It 1 iet ft comes omes glowing sparkling gold A R i The Jaded reader can ran find rind ii a 1 In a evOl every new book by this author who elm as M did Jo Joseph ph Conrad writs tully well In a 1 I which he did ditl not learn until man mate hood Cosmopolitan Book corpo- corpo rn atlon t |