Show Ebony and Ivory Approved by Dreiser Ebony and Ivory The title calls cans up pictures of ot the African Jungle the he veldt and the trek There is a preface by Theodore Dreiser Certain It Is that Dreiser would not lend his name to a book unless he sincerely believed In Its worth And so GO we open the pages and find tind finda a collection of ot excellent short stories and sketches About half halt are aro of ot life In Africa the Intimate life lite of ot the white whiteman whiteman man mon in the tropics and the tho others are of ot England England but but not the prosaic England England England En En- gland of at every day doy All An the scenes and Incidents are In Interpreted Interpreted interpreted In- In through tho sensitive Impressionism Impressionism Im Im- irn- irn of or Llewelyn Powys And how the man can writs writ Although his picture shows him to be a man of ot mat mature ma ma- t ture re y years he has something of or the modern school combined with a method method meth meth- od all his own Wo We cannot do better than to quote from Dreiser who says A collections collections of impressions and sketches such as these embraced In this t small mall volume Interest and Impress me mo from various points of ot view They are ore so serious so pathetic so so-In so In the main somber main somber and so beautiful They are aro so full tUII of ofa ofa ofa a genuine understanding of ot life lite and of It ofa ofa Ita a a. of ot sane sorrow because of ot the tho fact that In general things are no necessitous so hopeless and so warded And yet et there Is a courageous courage courage- ous and anti hence Impressive joy in tho the amazing and ebullient beauty that In Informs informs In- In forms torms this necessitous and Inexplicable and process which we know as living Powys is a master muter of ot contrasts Compelled by ill health he went to Africa and spent several years raising sheep There under the tho blazing African can sun on tho the shores of ot a weird lake ho becomes aware of ot the primitive urge of at life tho the vast ast innumerable manifestations manifestations mani mani- of ot Inscrutable nature and he ho feels lessening of the bonds of tradition tra tra- dillon the restraints of his mind and spiritual faith as maintained In In the tha midst of ot civilization As weird original nal nat and as interesting a n collection as we ws have read In some somo time May J Powys writes novels short stories stories- anything but poetry Certain feminine feminine femi femi- nine critics have praised his poetry of at which there Is none In Ebony and Ivory hory but wo we maintain that as a n poet he Is a good sawyer of ot wood As a prose writer he writer he shows wonderful promise American Library Service New York |