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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, ART CRITICAL REVIEWS OF LATE BOOKS Incredible Book Repeats Picture Of War's Horror From "Out of the Coal Fields" Christ's Life Done in Pictures Beauty never visits mining places. For the yellow smoke taints the summer air, Despair graves lines on the dwellers' faces, My fellows' faces, for my fellows live there. Rcproductpn of "The Woman at the Well," one of Dean Cornwell's illustrations from "The Man of Galilee," his latest work in covers. ... I. ' pen afterwardf" It is the plteousncss of this wasted feneration that has inspired Re- marque's book Admirably he has emphasized the consequences to them of the war tragedy. It is a book that should be read around the council table where wars are made. Throughout the book's fabric of gloom, the one golden thread is the preclousness of the comradeship these young soldiers fed. Sara Lockwood Williams, formerly assistant professor of Journalism at Missouri university, has given, in a volume, a full and complete history of that institution's school of Journalism, which has been published under the title, "Twenty Years of Education for Journalism." This school, which lays claim to being the first school of Journalism in the world, was established in 1908. The Missouri university had previously offered a course in Journalism under Prof. David R. McAnnaly, Jr. 500-pa- Walter Williams was appointed first dean of the department, and has held the post for the twenty years of its hlstorv. His first assistant was Silas Bent, who is a well known magazine writer today, and other members of the faculty were Charles G. Ross and Frank L. Martin, the latter having been continuously with the school since Its establishment. Every phase of its activities in the two decades of its life have been covered, the founding of the daily newspaper, the University Missourian, and its development: complete programs of the Journalism Week, reviews of the bulletins issued, and of several organizations which are the school's OrVTNG AWAY "POOR WOMEN. "I cant bear to have women given ewav to that extent." Margaret Cul-ki- n Banning writes of Norah Hoult's "Poor Women." "I gave it to a fr4nri nf mine fn rMd whose hus band has a mind without prejudice but I told her almost involuntarily not to show him that book. . . Give It to a M of men to review they'll lore it for its matter and imagine it's for the style. And style it has!" Arthur Train's next novel, to be called "Nothing for Nothing," is saw to concern Wall Street, according to his publisher, Horace Llveright, . INTERPRETATIONS OF CREATIVE Publishers, Minton, DISTINCTLY orlginaMn its pattern, this story has been exquisite delicacy, and its blithe, whimsical spirit makes it a refreshing volume to come upon amid the prevailing dreariness of the clay's literature of futility. Miss Rosman here shows a tender HBB-MMunderstand i n g of youth and its viewpoints, its defiance of the elder generM s, where no bird poises. There on My fellows' wan children tumble and climb, Playing in the dust, making shrill noises. Sweet human flowers that will fade ere their time. slag-heap- ation, its enthusiasms and its fine loyalties; and the book Playing in the slag with thin white faces, Where headstocks loom by the railway lines, Round-eye- d children cheated of life's graces, My fellows' children, born for the mines. Frederick C. Bodeu in "Out of the Coalfields." r CLEVER PERPETRATOR GUILD OF ELEVATOR CRIME LAUGHS AT SLEUTHS r Old-Tim- .. Twelve scenes from the life of Christ, pictured by Dean Cornwell, the well known painter, book and magazine illustrator, are comprised In "The Man of Galilee." a late publication of the Cosmopolitan Book corporation. Bruce Barton has sup-pilthe text which accompanies the pictures. The original of "The Woman at the Well," which is reproduced here, was shown at an exhibit of the National Academy of Design, which is an unusual distinction for a commercial illustration. Mr. Cornwell's paintings from the Holy Land were reproduced in colors in a beautiful volume, titled "The City of the Great King," published in 1936, in which Dr. William Lyon Phelps was the collaborator. First known merely as an illustrator, Mr. Cornwell is attaining a reputation as a colorist of unusual talents. .Siin Mysteries Now Shown as Hoax . ed Ask a sailor which is the greatest of all sea mysteries and he is likely to answer, "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste." The Mary Celeste, so the story goes, was a brig which left New York in 1873 with ten people on board. Later it was found in deserted by all but the ship's cat. Breakfast stood ready on the table with cups of tea still warm, and the galley stove still hot, yet no trace of the crew visible. Numberless guesses have been made, and numerous writers have attempted to answer the problem. Now Lawrence J. Keating, in "The Oreat Mary Celeste Hoax." which Houghton Mifflin's will publish In July, tells the whole story of crime and deception from its beginning, exploding the theory of a "myatery" that has no solution. , mid-ocea- n, DELIGHTFUL LYRICIST GATHERS SONG GROUP THE DEATH OF LAURENCE VIN-INBy Alan Thomas. Publisher, J. B. Lipplncott Co., Philadelphia. Laurence Vinlng died and there was none to care, except perhaps Scotland Yard, to whose aid the famous criminologist had often been called, and. one might think, Dr. Ben Willing, who had played a stupid Watson to Vlning's Sherlock Holmes. Vinlng had been a man utterly devoid of any of the softer feelings, his cold, sarcastic manner had won him many enemies. His assistance to the law had been given, not through but because it Interested him to display his devilish ingenuity in unraveling a mystery that baffled other minds. Then his, own death provides a puzzle more bewildering than any he had solved eveh the last, the "Shop Case." in which he had tracked down a murderer. Vlning's body is found in the lift of a London tube station, with a Malay kris plunged to the hilt In Its back. He had been sole occupant of the lift, to this the liftman on each floor swears. It was imrjos-sib- le for anyone to have reached him. yet the man had been stabbed, .death being almost instantaneous, as Dr. Willing, who fortunately had been waiting for the same lift, testifies. How then had the murderer escaned? e. Suspicion falls upon Jack the dead man's disinherited nephew, who also has vanished. But Jack, to anyone's knowledge, had not been near the scene. And Grace, a maid at Vlning's house, had been there wearing a red hat, the identifying mark named bv the writer of the mystery note which had taken ' Vlning to the station. Inspector Widgeon is baffled; the facts will not intro duces a most appealing trio of young people, of the type with whom the reader can be friends from the very first HONORS Ran-som- mm storm-buffet- ed d, . The Literary Almanac 4. j prize-fighter- s. Ooward-McCan- meat-eatin- -- Lvelyn Scott, whose new book, "The Wave," dealing with vast theme of Civil War, is Guild r choice, chapter Miss n. R os-ma- novel and exsuccessful periment Is to nave the entire action of the story take place wit h i n boundaries of one room, where Hugo. its. chief figure, is a prisoner. Otherwise, o q 1 j a throughletters bride's to her husband, written never but posted, do we get additional light on its events. Thia Hugo, through whose sickroom the current of the story flows, is an individual of irresi 1 1 1 b 1 e charm. Lying helpless through an Evelyn Scott's new novel, "The Wave," has been the choice of The Literary Guild for its July book. "The Wave" is the first issue of the new firm ot Jonathan Cape St Harrison Smith Mrs. Scott, who is a southerner, although she left New Orleans, her birthplace, when she Was 30 and spends much of her time now in New York and on Long Island, deals in the new book with the subject, of the Civil War. She gives the following explanation of the book's title: "Whatever the philosophy of an actor in a war. he must constantly be convinced of his feebleness when attempting to move in an emotional direction contrary to that of the mass. This propulsion of the individual by a power that is not accountable to reason is very obviously like the action of a wave." The book is said to be quite unlike the usual historical novel's treatment of the theme. Joseph Wood Krutch, noted critic and writer, has called it one of the most Impressive novels written in twentieth century America. "In choosing the Civil War," he says. "Mrs Scott has chosen the largest subject which the history of her country affords. And she has given this mighty theme the most adequate treatment which it has ever received in fiction." TRAVELERS accident which has injured his spinal nerves, he faces fate with a grin, with the true instinct of the Englishman masking his misery and rebellion under a stream of To the fear that he may never walk again, is airy nonsense. added the more unbearable be- lief that he is outcast from his Hugo in her aid. This delightful father's love. Bunny who, too, had been outraged by the older generation plots with Estrangement From Father him to outwit the, whole world of Burdens Invalid's Mind. 11 Sent down from Oxford undeservedly, his father's anger had prevented his offering the defense he might have. Then he had gone out with bis car to be brought back a wreck and had not seen the father again. No one mentioned his name, and the sensitive, reserved lad hadn't the courage to ask why he never came. In the long, tortured nights this question revolved in his brain, until he came to hope the answer was, that his father was dead. Everyone came to Hugo's room, but no one ever told him things. "Life that strange thing he had left behind him in the winter dusk came to him now through a sieve made by careful hands." Only Bunny. Bunny, being no rabbit, could be depended on to toil things and not to pretend; to give the truth about his friend Paul's imprisonment; to know, as Hugo did, that Paul was no thief ; to believe in Paul's wife, whom Paul's parents refused to accept, and connive with SURVEY COUNTRY GOD GAVE HIS 'STEPCHILDREN' AFRICA'S WHITE MAOIC. By Joseph H. Appel. Publishers, Harper and Brothers, New York. It is something of a tourist's report that is given here, but a tourist that had his eyas open, to a country of surpassing charm and color, and who studied its history as well as its topographic and scefile features. Mr. Appel's is a conversational style, and many amusing and picturesque incidents are Interjected into the descriptive and historical narrative. Despite the suggestion of his title, Mr. Appel touches but briefly upon the vital questions of Africa's development, whether the continent is to become a "white man's country," physically, mentally, spiritually. Summarizing. Mr. Appel inclines to the belief that the country's great natural resources will decide its future, since "where there is potential wealth the white man will find the way to make the country livable." He suggests a possible danger in the establishment of a common, universal religion, that is not Christianity, in which case the mental and physical aspects would "go by the boards." The cruise, whose course is told, was along the west coast, beginning with a stop at Dakar. n Senegal, where one senses in the rhythm of the native drums, the very of Africa. Freetown on the old Slave Coast; the Island of St. Helena a chapter being devoted to Its famous prisoner; and the party reaches the "New U. S A," the country of Oom Paul. From the awesome sight of the Victoria Falls, through the great to Durban and Mr. Drakensbergs A dd el stops for a discussion of Cecil Rhodes and his Other ports of call were Mozambique on its coral island, Hellevllle in the Madagascar Jungle, Mombasa, where the party divides a group planning an elephant hunt, and the rest a sight of big same In Nairobi. Then "good-b- y to Africa," for. though there Is a visit to Port Sudan and Cairo. Egypt is Egypt, not Africa. Mr. Appel's book is saturate with the exotic color of the land, and there is much to entertain in his travelog. Not Its least exciting portion is the chapter added by the returned elephant hunters. life-be- empire-buildin- g. NEW RUSSELL BOOK. Waiting to finish a manuscript for The Century company, Charles Ed- ward Russell plans to soon be off on his annual walking tour of Switzer- land. Tne new book, From sandy Hook to 82 Degrees," is for autumn publication. HARPER'S. With his citation, in an Informative article in the July number of Harper's that will give surprise to many, of seemingly incontrovertible evidence that "The Crumbling Color Line" is a fact in America, Oswald Garrison Vlilard (who Is grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, which perhaps explains his deep interest in the negro problem) rejoices, the while he marvels, that much of the Impetus toward this social change comes from the South Itself. He says: "The truth is that the races are coming together: that the points of helpful contact are steadily increasing and, above all that, the whites are really getting to know the blacks, especially the educated ones It is the plainest of facts that the South can two races if the progress only dwell together in harmony and good will: that the attempt of one to dominate the other and deprive tt of Its civic and human rights, can only breed strife, bitter and antagonism that cost heavily in commercial values and far more in moral ones." Mr. Vlilard points out the marked change that has taken place in the attitude of the Southern press, the new spirit shown in Southern educational institutions, and the progress made by the admirable interracial movement In bringing about more understanding relations between the two races. But Mr. Vlilard Is not optimistic enough to conclude that the fight is won. for there are still places where colored men and women are murdered and no one is punished. He concludes: "It is still just beginning. . . . But the thing to rejoice over is that, while the North grows more prejudiced and reactionary, help comes from the South. Only a minority as yet . . . but a miIn numbers and nority increasing Influence and so steeped in prinof human and doctrine the ciple as to leave no brotherhood doubt of their eventual triumph" In this number also is Gamaliel Bradford's fascinating portrait. "Eve in the Apple Orchard." of Jtinon de Lenclos. in whom some of the conventions of morality are contradicted." pretty thoroughly James Truslow Adams analyzes American civilization as "A Business ll, at . i parental authority. Group OrAetors Fill Cast. Then there is Mrs Hallett, Hugo's "very private secretary." who is helpful, who also has faith In Paul, ana who after all isn't really "Mrs. severe Hallett." Robin, Bunny's dragon, standing up to the gossipy Aunt Eleanor, proves a friend, too; and Hugo's pretty, lovable mother. Even the bland Tright, his guardian, shows he is not really an enemy. Not all the world of parents Is wrong, it seems. Then comes that day of destiny, and Hugo's universe topples, to right itself forever. "Visitors to Hugo" is a story of uncommon charm, bright with humor Its well delineated, delightfully English people converse In the most natural, unaffected manner. Slight as is the plot structure, it is wholly sufficient to keep one absorbed. It is altogether a book for which to be thankful as a respite from those concerned only with life's uglier Btwtainlag Scanning the Magazines Cass Day Liberalism Freedom From Traditional Beliefs Provide No Mental Security. To the keenly Intelligent production of "A Preface to Morals." recently provided by the New York editor, Walter Ltppmaan, a writer for the Springfield Republican's literary department, has gives very thoughtful analysis?, considering the work, while "hardly a contribution to philosophy," a genuine inducement to the deeper thinking in which America is lacking, and as new proof of an increasing conservatism among our literary and social recortatruc-tlonis- u. He notes, with a half disagreement, that: "Mr. Lippman finds that the modern man it likely to experience moments of blank misgiving in which the 'civilisation of which he is a part leaves a dusty taste in the mouth.' Probably It is only the more sensitive and meditative souls who thus question the essential drift of their men tolives and of their age day worry very little about their intellectual difficulties If the general circumstances of their Uvea are favorable. Few today experience any real pangs at having to abandon a traditional creed, as so many of the great Victorians did. . . . Proof Everywhere That New Freedom Dutajtrotu. "Mr. Lippman is mainly concerned in showing that our growing emancipation frgei traditional beliefs has not provided us with a more valid religion or a more logical code of morals. In religious thought and morals alike our passage from orthodoxy to liberalism has Increased our confusion without reestablishing our mental security." And. according to Mr. Lippman, "the evidences of these greater difficulties lie all about us: in the brave and brilliant atheists who have defied the Methodist Ood, and have become very nervous; in the women who have emancipated themselves from the tyranny of fathers, husbands and homes, and with the intermittent but expensive help of a psychoanalyst, are now enduring liberty as interior decorators; in the young men and young women who are world weary at 31; in the multitudes who drug themselves with pleasure: in the crowds enfranchised by the blood of heroes who cannot be persuaded to take an interest in their destiny ; in the millions, at Mast iree to think without fear ot priest of policeman, who have made the moving pictures and the popular newspapers what they are." Cogency of OU System Wanting in New. The writer points out that Mr. Llppman's argument is not for "a religion of authority or a moral eada He is based en religious merely stressing the fact a fairly obvious one that a religion of intellectual abstractions or a merely humanist system of morals lacks, for the average man, the cogency and imperativeness of a theological or moral system which claims supernatural authority. . . . However, it la far from certain how far the morals of men at any age have been controlled by religious belief." While the tone of Mr. Llppman's criticism is "predominantly negative," the fact is not held to his discredit, for, the writer says, "It Is clear that we cannot wisely shut our eyes to the 'Cost' of departures from traditions in morals, religion or general culture: on the other hand, if we are to go forward from the prevailing candid intellectual confusion analysis may well prove a prelim-lnato constructive inspiration." .... the s. I N D ERELLA CARGOES. By George Elllston. Publishers, George Sully Si Co., New York. While these are not poems for children, as Miss Elllston's title seems mi to suggest, there are many among the nearly 150 in the volume that would delight the children with their DIVERSITY OF THEME dancing Joy mood. Miss Elllston has a gift for lyric rhythms, and her CAPTURES INTEREST A spiritual lines sing themselves. ecstasy of life seems to blossom in IN CHAPB00K SERIES her poems, an emotional response fit together that her soul cannot contain as she But suddenly a news item of a herself defines it: tram accident gives him the key piece and the whole puzzle falls into CLIO AND MR. CROCE. By Allen "For I was ever one whom dreams place. Knowing the murderer, howRogers Benham. ever, he knows, too. he hasn't a shred Caught in a silver net; I can be happy for a rose, of evidence to bring the man to JusVICTORIA, B. C. By Viola Patterson. A pavement glistening wet tice. So the "Lift Case." product of a diseased mind, remains one of the A PRECURSOR OF PERRY, or The Perhaps I am a foolish soul unsolved mvsteries. Widgeon even Story of Takano Nagahide. By But never would have known how the Herbert H. Gowen. beauty's ecstasy to Has ever filled more my cup crime had been accomnlisheti had MONSIEUR De BALZAC ENTERThan its capacity." not the murderer obligingly left TAINS A VISITOR. By Pierre detailing the whole intricate diary Loving. Publisher, University of She knows the aching Joy that little scheme. Washington, Seattle. can things bring, the uplift of spirit In his first attemnt. Mr. Thomas Mr. Benham 's critical essay, the which follows some seemingly trivial has shown a nice skill In the devising first of these four little volumes now happening. In her "Small Treas- of mysterv plots which will, insure appearing in the Interesting company ure," she writes of him a welcome from the addicts of of the University of Washington this type of fiction. not is an Chapbooks, only analysis "Days I've known when someof Benedetto Croce's volume on "Histhing TRAVAIL tory: Its Theory and Practice." but I bought in a shop is also a consideration of the old Took me up and tossed me It anyone asks, tell him that the To a mountain top." controversy over the question whether history is a science or an art, with, spring betrayed me, The as well, some light on the relationspring with drowsy fingers Miss Elllston strives for no proMr. between Clio Proteus. stroking my face. and ship fundities, simplicity is her characteriIf anyone asks, tell him that the Benham finds Mr. Croce's boos of stic. Yet her poems often reveal a wind mislaid me no assistance in deciding the controremarkable philosophic Insight, and In a high, forgetful place. versy because of his peculiar attitude often probe the deeps of human emotoward his subject, a Protean atti- tion These have a poignant lovelitude. According to Mr. Benham, ness, and a humanness that will Here I He like a sparrow Mr. Croce would identify history with make her volume treasured. SomeTossed out of the reaches of siphilosophy, and his book on history times there is careless writing, as if lence and sound. is rather what is called "a philosophy the author were too eager of spirit And only one voice comes up to which Mr. Croce has had difficulty for the slow vehicle of language, and me, stark and narrow, in evolving. And Mr. Benham her tendency to elision frequently Like a ghost from the ground. doesn't find a "tremendous annoys. But how much of wistful profundity" in the book, or apparently reaching after beauty, and of charmThe voice of my mother and of In Mr. Crocs either. ing lyricism remain to haunt the all the mothers The twelve woodcuts in which mind! Chanting out of the darkness Viola Patterson gives a panoramic their paen of pain: view of Victoria a GETTING HI OE ORGAN. "This we bore, we bore, and there reposeful town," as it is termed in One of the greatest organs ever will be others. Frederick M. Padelford's foreword-refl- ect made in this country is be in inBear it thou again!" much of its quaint, stalled in Carnegie hall. New York, Jessica Nelson North, charm. Mrs. Patterson inclines to by George Kilgen St Son. It will reIn The Harp. an overuse of blacks but in "Oak quire 13 freight cars to bring" the Gulls" "Sea and the patnicely Bay," to New York. Some of the Louise Lerch will appear with the terned "Oaks at the Uplands," light parts pipes are 33 feet long, almost four Friends of Music next season on Janand shade are more evenly distrib- feet in diameter, and weigh five tons. uary 5 and 13 and February 3. uted, and these are especially attractive. The efforts toward liberty by Japanese patriots within the great wall of exclusion built by the Tokugawa regime, prior to Commodore Perry's breaking of the barrier in 1853-have Interested Mr. Gowen to the "Machinery," McKnight Black's is to be published by J. G. Francis, writing of hit brochure. The story of Takano Nagahide. his chief con- book published by Horace Llveright, creator of the "Book of Cheerful cern, is one to excite admiration. was chosen by The Poetry Clan as Cats." Takano was one of the noblest among its fourth book to be sent its pa- Announced for publication this the pioneers of the New Japan, a summer by Appleton's, is a new disseminator of the new learning, trons. novel by Susan Ertz, author of the and originator of the more enlightand faddists are the targets delightful "Madame Claire" and ened political policies. Takano's work of Fads "Now East, Now West." This will be Dr. Morris Fishbeln in his new for the liberating of his country from on Health," a late her first book for two years. Its title Hour "An book, old feudalism brought issue of the mists of the Lipplncott house. Dr. is "The Galaxy." him pitiless persecution by the Fishbeln is said to be an authority even end. at the and court, A weighty book on primitive reliShogun's on health movements, and he de- while the blows of the rescuers from clares road to health gions for Harcourt Brace, is to be the the that royal outside the wall could be heard, he lies not in any formula next book of W. E. B. Seabrook, au was forced to take his own way out some former trainer of promoted by thor of "The Magic Island." Mr. of life, having been betrayed to the "The worst thing about exer- Seabrook and his wife, Katie Sea-- I authorities by a Judas friend. are now in Africa, collecting cising to reduce," he says, "is that brook, Pierre Loving, in his slight sketch, exercise and for stimulates appetite and diet material for the new volume, beencounter a on African child life which book a delightful pictures becomes torture. The vegetarians tween the novelist and the melanssy that animals living on a vege Mrs. Seabrook is to do for choly dandy, Baudelaire, in which table diet are strong and tractable, g something of the poet's lronicphilos-oph- y while the animals are Donald Barr Chidsey has handed is revealed, and M. de Balzac's ferocious. The most ferocious man troubles own temperament and sugI ever saw was a vegetarian who had over to his publishers (John Day) the gested. eaten a caterpillar with his lettuce." manuscript for his biography of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough VAN VECHTEN DUCKLINGS. which is to be a fall volume and A biographical and critical study the around Carl Van Vechten. who is now of the late Donn Byrne by Thurston Is now meandering abroad on some mysterious business Macau ley is announced by The Cen- Florid ian islands, the Keys and the local whl"h he re fused to reveal even to his tury company for late October pub- great Cypress Swamp, gathering publisher (Knopf) once prophesied, in lication. Mr. Macauley sails for Ire- color for a novel that is to be written "Excavations." future literary success land in July, where he will be the soon. Mr. Chidsey. unlike the mafor certain writers, among them Ar- gttest of Mrs. Dorothea Donn Byrne jority cf authors, finds that he writes thur Machen, M. P. Shiel. Henry B. at Coolmain, and is to complete his best when he is doing a dosen other Fuller. To Messrs, Machn and Shiel book In the same study where some things. While doing the MarlborIt has already come, and now Henry of Donn Byrne's famous novels have ough biography, he was railroad and marine reporter for a Florida paper, B. Fuller is to have a book published been written. so it is probable he will find a Job on which will appear In the fall under In August a new book of humor- a newsoaper in the Dakotas or some the Borzoi imprint. So another of the Van Vechten ducklings dons the ous drawings and verse for children more distant spot while he prepares titled "The Joyous Aztecs" iCentury; his novel. swan's plumage. C AMERICA Lack in Modern VISITORS TO HUGO. By Alice Grant Rosman. Balch St Co.. New York. There by the wayside dusty weed drowses. The darnel and dock and starwort run rife; Gaunt folk stare from the doors of the houses, Folk with no share in the beauty of life. old-wor- ld History of Journalistic School Fully Recorded MU SIC 13 DEFT, ORIGINAL STORY DEALS Lippman Argues WITH YOUTH UNDERSTANDINGLY stone-hearte- d, -- G LITERATURE' Neither "Accusation" Nor "Confession," but Hon est Report of Facts. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. By Erich Maria Remarque Publishers, Little, Brown St Co., Boston. Horror, stark, naked, the concentrated horror of the battlefields, is made realizable here as never before In all the mass of war literature we have encountered. Tt is at once a remarkable and a terrible book that Remarque has written, one that no man, else he be can read without being moved to. the depths. With a power gripping in intensity. Remarque puts before us a picture of the war that is beyond our previous conception, yet that impresses us with Its truth, and that utterly strips war of whatever glamor it may yet have held for any. Erich Remarque was himself a soldier in the German army, and the experiences he relates may largely be personal ones. These show us a young student, Paul Baumer, and several of bis class, as common soldiers, submitting to the petty tyranny of drill sergeants, snatching a bit of amusement behind the lines, cowerlngvin dugouts under shrieking shells, emerging to meet the enemy attack like madmen, caught in deadly barrages, lying in crowded hospitals, on home leave in an atmosphere where they are now alien, meeting death one by one this Is the record set down, in trenchant, forceful language, with a clinical frankness that will repel the fastidious, binding his material into a hard, compact narrative. Records Ghastly Incidents That tinman the Soul. There are grim scenes that etch themselves on the memory. There in tne trenches wnen, under the tension of hours of continuous shelling and with hunger tearing at them, young recruits go insane. There Is the appalling episode of Baumer's killing of the French printer, done involuntarily in self defense, but affecting him as if it had been deliberate murder. There is the moment when bombardment ceases, the attack comes, and, with the machine guns mowing down the advancing enemy "I see one of them, his face upturned, fall into a wire cradle. His body collapses, his hands remain suspended as though he were praying. Than his body drops clean away and only his hands with the stumps of bis arms shot off, now hang in the wire." Remarque gives insight into the psychology of these young soldiers: "We have become wild beasts," so Paul Baumer, whom he makes the narrator. "We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation. It is not against men that we fling our bombs, what do we know of men in this moment when Death with hands and helmets Is hunting us down-n- ow, for the first time in three days we can see his f aoe No longer do we lie helpless, waiting on the scaffold, we can destroy and kill, to save ourselves and to be revenged." Waste Of Young Life i Chief Theme. Th ese young men, "who, even though they escaped its shells, were destroyed by war." Taken from their classes at 18. at 20, to be thrown into the gaping, crunching jaws of the war monster, to be torn and broken, and changed; they know "nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow . . . What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing it was our first railing in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will hap- 1929. . . g. .... ry Man's Civilisation"; in "The Peppermint Years" Sarah Corns tock Indian Stave Trade to a defense of the older generation; Max Eastman shows how Material of "The Tendency Toward Pure Poetry" is Increasing; John R. Tunis conHistorical records concerning a siders "Women and the Sport slave trade carried on in the early days of Utah between Indians and Mexicans are quoted in articles by THE YALE REVIEW. several writers in the July quarterly "In crimination and recrimina- issue of the Utah Historical magation, as in wine, truth is often re- zine, which shows that this nefarious vealed," says Charles Seymour in practice existed for many years. Dr. William J. Snow of the B. Y. U. discussing for The Yale Review of the quarter the facts being brought university history department, prek sents a paper, "Utah Indians and to light by statesmen and high officials of all the belligerent nations, Spanish Slave Trade." which tellaof who are busily "Relighting the War an expedition from New Mexico InUK on Paper." As Mr. Seymour writes: the Utah basin to 1813, ana making reference to selling of slaves which "The complete story of the war Indicates that Spaniards engagea cannot yet be told; it will be with the Utah Indians in this traffic decades before the evidence ulalmost continuously from Escalante's timately available is duly set time until the coming of the Mordown in workable form. It will mons. Dr. Snow gives other inbe longer still before anything stances of record, and also Includes approaching unanimity of Judgsource documents on the matter But already ment is attained taken from the Narrative of the Unitthe apologias and the arguments ed States Exploring Expedition headof the leading participants . . . ed by Charles Wilkes. U. 8. N. are sufficient in number, taken In "Indians on the Old Spanish in conjunction with the published Trail." T. J. Famham gives valuable official documents, to enable us data concerning the Yutas of Utaws. to Isolate certain major military An excerpt from Daniel W. Jones' and diplomatic questions at is"Forty Years Among the Indians" sue." tells of- Brig ham Young's opposition to Indian slavery, and several other While each nation and each official passes the blame to the other, documents having to do with the not only as to the war's origin, but. same subject are Included in the among the losers, as to why the war number. was lost, and among the victors, as to why it took so long to win it, "au- pressure from the United States. Mr. thoritative historical opinion has . Seymour's conclusions are: reached the conclusion that it Is im"The national leaders stumbled possible to assign a major share of and staggered into war; they responsibility to any one power. It muddled through it blind to emphasises the weakness of statescountless opportunities; in the men in the face of danger of war. end blame the for the but it attributes they found themselves powalof to give effect to all the erless to the system catastrophe ideals for which the armies bad liances, engendering rivalry and Yet they were been fighting. fear, rather than to Individuals." At least one post-wcertainly men above the aver- question has . . . been definitely settled, according to age. Nothing is now plainer Mr. Seymour. Publication of the than that something more than House papers show that it was not good intentions, military skill and political ability is needed to President Wilson's influence upon Allied leaders which cope with the conditions proprevented duced by modern war. . . . AsFoch's triumphant march across the Rhine to a dictated peace in Berlin. suming that the capacities of the human race cannot be develooed Wilson merely made peace practo a awjch higher degree, war , ticable by putting Germany's request has now become too dangerous before the Allied leaders; it was an instrument to bring into op- opinion that prevailed In " eratlon. For it lets loose forces the end. The armistice and Its terms which can be kept under control were left entirely to the supreme war council and the Allies, without only by supermen." comes Journal - . ar , V |