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Show Latest Effort of Waldo Frank Is Literary Bomb By JACK VIVAETTAS. A literary bnmbnr.rll or infertMl machine might bs an apt dests'im u-.n for Wsldo Frank's laient achieve-ment, achieve-ment, "Holiday, " If such terms io n-t Involve that e orient bustejir, a rvi metRhar. Holiday suiely reiutrd all the Ingenuity arid urtiairy in tha making' that are needed to compi' a firm -eUa infernal ms hlne n n Its Inirirat? Innards of clockwork an J ether svnvhronni par phernalla. t'holcs of a ther me. elwas an nu-thor'a nu-thor'a prerogattv usua Ity ts Ind native na-tive Of the purpoae, but In iM1i -- It la dtffeult to discern an att")'i. a renson for one with s'tch an unu.vil gift of deft description nnJ ev expression ex-pression dwetimr at such Ungtb on such a morbid sithiect. It Is not to be denud thst the lontt has had a great menv 1 nrhlnri, unl Itkewiae. M erllr pettnvM thit the North, and 'that term rnt!v in-elude in-elude much f th West, unrtr' an-: s very little of the motives le-adirK ut to such drastic methods. As a ru,, such ihlnica are hardly the r-"nlt f common motives, ami tha one Krank takes such pains to elirjc upon and elucidate could har'Hv tm con l dTed a common one. I 'n fortunately, for-tunately, too. much of his beauty vf deacrlpt'on. cf menial reaction to certain cer-tain conditions, both natural and political, po-litical, muat be lot to the vounf folka. for It la certain that even th moat lltaeral-mlndd muat ahrtnk fro., permitting anvona of Immature experience ex-perience to read It. In former works br this autrr One haa been aide to fathom hta thought beyond the written nieasri. to get ha viewpoint without t a least dlffi-tlry. in HoltdAy. ao ri- h In description of uncommon seen-, In the rete)Mon thHt might tinrtori: tha Inelerant and ui.kswful ans of a downtrnilden rare ware lis members mem-bers lnlel1(r,nt eriotijrh to think of It, and (In.iHy of the Inevttel'U effects ef-fects of concentrating too long t-n morbid themes, with a I thai, el can hardlv feol that In ralin th book h baa accompllahed a aln a detail of his educeit'on or etpei"1 '- thst will h of tha leat value. Ho.it ft Llverlght, New York.) |