Show Romantic i manti Tale by Charles Oharles Major Follows Style Work ork Battles for Favor in m Age of of Materialism I By HARVEY HANCOCK 1 tones tone's nes ns traditional apathy toward fiction Is not altered by I Rosalie a nov- nov r the pen of Charles Major he book steeped In j stimulates the same dee deje dexie de- de xie je e of ridicule as would attend a oman in hoops at a 1925 New Nework I ork rk social Like its predecessors D Dorothy rothy Vernon of Haddon Hall 1901 and Majors Major's first success When Knighthood Was Vas in Flow- Flow r ff r. r 1898 it might have achieved he rank he-rank rank of a best seller had it 1 n published in the days das of long go Today it faces an Insurmountable I I mountable o materialism and a pub- pub mind that views with banter I. I such uCh heroic outbursts out out- bursts as Oh John My love my myie ve I should die I puring e the declining years of the century and the beginning begin begin- ie ing ning of the twentieth there was wasch nuch ch discussion about the germ of disease Toxin and antl- antl were as as debatable as evol ion n Is today Realizing the nal na- na l lonal nal temper Major expediently treated Dr John Alden CoIling Colling- rood d and pl placed ed him in a setting Il he chooses to stylistically all an historic atmosphere In 1901 h He author devoted several pages of popular magazine in explaining his Is definition Of historic atmosphere atmos atmos- phere here Which is is' is briefly nothing re nor less than the realistic deletion de- de Action of a character in his en- en fin In n his meticulous l ius research of I letters and nd pap papers rs of o the arlous arious periods of English history had discovered a fertile field fiel f fA subject matter patter In fact he was uch an an- assiduous o s siu student ent of Eng- Eng sh life that on one Is pleasantly sur- sur to find him a HoosIer l lawyer wyer stead istead o of a dapper Englishman He much material concerning the o over the Introduction hito to ito England about 1820 of the o teachings of Samuel m a a German physician Be te familiarized himself with the story of the st standpatter sos sos' os war against a certain Dr j juin uIn in who was beca because se elfo lowed the new theories WIth that background bi of at knowl-i knowl 1 dge he took Dr Collingwood made physician of him a typical English English- 1820 with the exception of language lan Ian guage of the period which Major seared feared would stiffen his Is di dialogue logue rid rid- led him through a series of ii situations Persecution Ion tion the death sentence an escape rom from roni prison a budding romance kith rith ith R Rosalie saIle shipwrecked ship mao ma- ma o n d upon a a lonely Island I d off the st of North America all all- were were Is' Is ex Incidents that culI cul- cul I I In a sentimental ile Ie i d with a splash of early American Amer Atner- ican- ican an melodrama fhe i story like his others other is in- in ensely romantic and melodramatic actors fors that make it like the others adapted to the stage or the screen creen reen It contains the virtues he set d down wn for authors hen he wrote one sho should have no finger er boards ft lor kr r a novel Major Creates reates situations rarely causes them hem In his bis story story- in ord order r that he hey may y lead up to certain things which he wishes to say Bay or wishes to use n doing those things an author t be adroit a technical technical- factor facto wi which h he did n not t always follow JMaJor whose real name name was Edwn Ed- Ed wJ wn was vas an American lawyer wyer born bom in Indian Indianapolis Polls Ind md He was the product of the JIo sier s schools at and later ater r practiced law in his hO hon home e town His of books aside from those h se mentioned are The Bears of Blue e Riv River r l 01 Lolanda Maid fB 1905 A Gentle of Burgundy 1908 The TheAttle Little Attle King 1910 and The Theo tittle touchstone o of Fort Fortune ne 1912 He died In 1913 The Macmillan com com- NewYork York t He Tells Us What Is Good Cj rG Lowes Dickinson the author ofiA ofA Modern S Symposium I and The T e Greek View of Life Lite a book which has been an integral part of ofu u university life for the past twenty years is also the author of The Meaning aning of Good a dialogue of which J ich Doubleday Page Co have re recently imported a sixth edition Mr Ir Dickinson Is a fellow of Kings King's c college l ge Cambridge who is famed both for the lucidity of his philosophical philosophical philosophical philo philo- works and the charm of their of style SIn In In The Meaning Good o d he couches couch s in the pleasant informality of a dialogue an inquiry nto tp the diversity of mens men's Ideas about ut good and the controlling in- in fi ence that the individuals individual's idea c good exercises up upon his choice LE GALLIENNE'S ODES o be published this month month- Is a 3 anew 1 new new- of Richard Le Gallienne's Tendering of Odes From the L. L C C- Page Co for fox the society Mr L Le Galline Galli- Galli ne as Js s his custom makes make's n of giving a a. word word-f word for or of Hafiz His purpose ra as been to give a true i of the great Persian poet the medium of English poY po- po try Y So while he has at all times ept sufficiently close to to- the tl-e al ai his odes are offered In the first al lace se as poetry and secondly as n atlo Other new editions of similar in- in west rest st to Mr Ir fr Le Gallienne's Hafiz t Edward Fitzgeralds Fitzgerald's famous P-famous' famous famous' of Omar Omaz and andr andree tree r ree e books of Bliss Carman The J of Art The Kinship of ture and The Poetry of Life eSe four tour modern classics will be bet t by L. L C. C Page Co in inI I I |