Show WOMEN N LAG AS WRITERS v OF LOVE STORIES J j By THE NEA BOOK SURVEY I It may be that women have gr greater great great- ater at- at er insight than men in the problems of love But men men seem to have excelled in n writing about the gentle emotion Glancing Glancing- down the lit list of authors in Twenty nine Love Stories Stones Appleton we note that the editors Ernest Rhys and nd C. C A A. Dawson- Dawson Scott have the W work vork lk of ot but seven women writers two Twenty great greet love stories by men to seven by women is no mean average a Yet the interest of women in the greatest subject in the world is universally declared to be more in in- in tense Perhaps suggests one of the editors men writ about love but women live lve it It cannot be bo said that the selection was made by minded masculine-minded editors for one of them Is a woman The test isn't fair say several The c collection of ot stories dates back hundreds of years ears and only in recent years have women been permitted to write itIs itis it itIs Is pointed out A check shows hows five flye such ancient tales tale and all an the res rest t tare are of comparatively cly recent vintage intag which still leaves the score 17 to 7 Furthermore the seyen seven love lovo stories written by women women are all an the products of moderns modern Katherine Katherine Katherine Kath- Kath erine Mansfield Sheila Kaye Smith Violet Hunt Constance Holme Flora Anne Steel Kathleen an and anu C C. C A. A Dawson Scott tt This sounds like a good argument to start at th the next meeting of the Ladles Ladles' Tuesday club FRIENDS OF MR SWEENEY McBride by Elmer Davis This Davis This book was was made for diversion alone Frolicsome and at times Umes it relates s the high adventures of ot a modern day swashbuckler who en entangles entangles entangles en- en tangles himself in no end of adventure adventure adventure ture while trying to get b by on no 1 pair air as a friend of Sweeney THE VATICAN SWINDLE I Knopf by Andre Gide One Gide-One One of th the b best st of the present day French writers writers writ writ- ers writes a floe fine picaresque tale replete with irony and satire ISRAEL Boni Bom Liveright by Ludwig Lewisohn A A story of the Jew that Jews Jews- and Gentiles alike will find absorbing This Is no segregation of or individuals but the I massing of a a people in a great geat an and reaching far chronicle It is quite disinterested and intensely interest interest- Ing THE NEW NEGRO A A. A and nd C C. C Boni edited by Alain Locke Locke Locke-Do Do I C fr 4 I s 4 e s V f fr fri i e 4 4 ts 4 I es e si sil lr l r- r i s st t d 4 s I Ive c x Thomas Hardy one of the few prospective immortals of this is shown here personally watching a rehearsal of the dramatized dramatized dramatized drama drama- version of his classic Tess of the Hardy being ill the dramatic company went from London to Hardys Hardy's home in Dorchester Dorchester Dorchester Dor Dor- chester and the Hardy library became the rehearsal sage stage you know what the negroes are doing in the arts This book speaks for the negro as as' as has none other because it is a collection of writIngs writings writings writ writ- ings a and art work of colored people Some extraordinarily good w work r isto isto is isto to be found here The part it should play in the te growth of tolerance is too obvious to need comment par comment par particularly if it you happen to read it TH THE E CLIO Scribners by L. L H H. H Myers This Myers-This This we are aie told h is the best seller of the London season Certainly it do dogs does s not seem to begetting begetting be bo getting the attention It deserves on this side The author also wrote that remarkable novel no The Oris- Oris sers It is of the sophisticated School and surely if tr Michael Arlen is worth woith r reading ading then this tale should not be neglected |