Show If You Would Write Well I Beware of Frothy Frosting a I H ai j s sI I 1 I i II I Ui UiL L Anatole France and anti his wife in his study Death Death of Anatole France I Recalls His Own I Criticisms With the passing of Jaques Anatole Anatole Ana- Ana I tole tolo known to tl th the World as Anatole France there will be I thousands o ot of readers seeking to read books bools concerning the life and I work wort of oC this contemporary master To these the Book Boo Survey suggests sug sug- that one of the best portraits sug-I sug to be had ma may be found in a re- re work ork The Th i r s- s sr sAl Al Altol tol Pra- Pra c ions oC of r Anatole France Knopf opi a really remarkable piece of pf reporting I on the part of Paul Gsell Osell In this the most mordant Iron ironist 1st of his time and ojie ope of the kindliest humorists hu hu- hu- hu of ot all time Ume Is ls shown at I gatherings pictured Intimately ex expressing expressing ex- ex pressing his views Ie and revealing J the processes of his argumentative method I- I Another quite recent portrait is I provided by James Lewis May in I Anatole France The Man and His Work Dodd Mead i Co In a biographical first part May My M y concedes concedes concedes con con- cedes that he is deal dealing ng with a most difficult subject because of his multitudinous interests and his bewilderingly bewilderingly be- be f rapid change of point of view ie In discussing the immortality of ot I this great wit poet stylist critic philosopher May believes it Is France the poet who will wall outlive I r the rest that rest that is France will live because of his sty style e rather than what he said May will ill find plenty to argue this point with him Another excellent study was done by Lewis Shanks an American and published some years ago In Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago because at the time t there ere was a superstition in New York that only Englishmen were capable of producing ing commentaries on French letters To all who would write or would study writing there is one of ot the greatest lessons to be found In Frances France's of his early work Jeanne DArc D'Arc It IL goes something like this t 1 Beware of 01 pastry Pastry Is factitious factitious factitious fac fac- adventitious It Is whipped d I cream that fails to hide the poverty of the cake It Is a hideous plaster garland trying to transform a garret garret gar gar- I I ret Into a palace It renders the most beautiful pages precarious In my early earh visions of Jeanne I DArc D'Arc I gave them pastry I wanted to be picturesque Be pitiless I yard toward these stupidities Today Toda they make me inc sick at heart France was one of ot his own most roost I ruthless critics He is pictured with shears turning printers' printers proofs of his writing Into Jigsaw puzzles Also he wa was wall a a. relentless searcher I for opinion He would rise grumbling grumbling grumbling grum grum- bling In the morning a a. philosophic question on the tip of his to tongue gue This he would ask of tho the chambermaid chambermaid chambermaid chamber chamber- maid when she came to clean the room Later he would ask the tho de delivery delivery delivery de- de livery mil n the thc antique dealer the house painter and the bookbinder At the end of a week he would be ready to write one of his inimitable I papers I |