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Show 4 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER ART reviews French Novelist REVEALS Shows Us Tragic Soul of Ireland Into Intimate Portrayal of Her Struggle. . . LITERATURE LENGTHY NOVEL TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN OF WASSERMANN OF DEPTH AND GREAT POWER IRELAND Roger Chauvire, the French novelist who writes of Irish revolu tion in "The Sword in the Soul." Loving Understanding Goes Dermott, who refuses to consider England's trouble anything to do with him. It is when Francis, invalided home from France. Is called upon to serve in Dublin during the May rebellion, that the question is brought home to him with fresh force, when Dermott, with a young boy who had been Francis's orderly in France, Is among the Insurgents arrested and doomed to death. During the hours of the night spent in the cell with his friend, to whom this tragedy has reunited him. Francis comes to his decision. Never again will he lend aid against Irish patriots, to see crushed under the machinery of an alien government these brave .hearts which cry only for freedom. Teats' Beautiful Play Becomes Part of Story. There in the depths of Dermott ' devotion- to his country; In the exaltation of his Joy that he is not to die in vain, that he has been, permitted to do his bit for the cause; in young Mick's insouciant courage; to the picture of these two, with their execution but a few hours away, raising their voices in song to their "Dark Rosaleen," that is intensely moving. The unrest of soul that follows this emotional crisis for Francis is beautifully interpreted through Yeats' "Kathleen Ni Houli han," parts of which are Incorporated Into the story. M. Chauvire, the while he presents this tender picture of Ireland's people, has no condemnatory word for English policies; It is not his purpose to study the political angles of the matter, only to help to understanding of Ireland. And Irish readers will be deeply grateful for his sympathetic portrayal of their tragedy in this inornate, sensitively written book. - FRAILTY OF YOUTH DEPICTED LN TALE OF MOVING QUALITY CAY HOLIDAY HOUSE PARTY FURNISHES 'CHAPTER IN SERIES BLUE BONNET'S FAMILY. By Lela Horn Richards. Publishers, L. G. Page & Co., Boston. Leod Ralne, Clarence E. Mulford find his book meritorious. Mr. Ripley Is a Tacoma man, who oh is more at name in tne oouin. VOISON PRIZE WON BY LEO FAIRBANKS IN OREGON EXHIBIT Award of the Adrien Voison bronze medal in the third annual exhibition of the Society of Oregon Artists, which closed recently, was made to J. Leo Fairbanks, former Utahn who is now head of the art department of the Oregon State college, for his painting, . "Quaking Aspens." The award is made on the basis of the Votes cast by patrons of the show. Mr. Fairbanks o&nraa received the highest number of vote among the 8000 who were in attendance, according to announcement received from , Corvallis. ... V .The winning picture was painted in the Rocky mountains last fall, and the aspens are shown in their bright yellow autumn garb. A path under the trees leads to a distant slope covered with the bright red of the oaks. In the sculpture division of the ex hlbltlon, Mr. Fairbanks' "Relief Portrait of President. W. J. Kerr," a piece finished last spring, was given honorable mention. The Oregon harvest scene painted by Mr. Fairbanks, which was reproduced as a cover design for the Literary Digest of September. 1028, Is to be Included in a traveling collection sponsored by the Western Society of Museum Di rectors, which Is to be sent over the western and southern states. Leading contemporary artists of America are "represented in this exhibit. This collection was displayed In connection with the exhibit of the So ciety of Oregon Artists. acquired a feeling of superiority. This young person, however, finds her superior attitude deserting her before the poise and cheerful uncon cern of Constance Cornell, whose breezy westernism attracts her; and that Constance's brother, Richard, is very good fun, even though he seems unimpressed with her fascinations. Altogether, Blue Bonnet's party, which Elizabeth had scorned, turns out a most delightful affair. Even Luclnda Carleton, who had dreaded It because she knew her clothes and her manners were all wrong, and only came because her mother Insisted, blossoms into a new person. The hand of tragedy comes close, but Is not allowed to spoil the good times. wnen young men and women gather in daily companionship, with balls, costume parties, airplane rides. midnight waffle suppers, winter picnics and other hilarious doings the order of day and night, one naturally expects to find Cupid taking a part, and so here the little fellow's activities are chronicled, too. ' J Erich Remaraue's great war novel "All Quiet On the Western Front," if. said to have sold at least 3,000,000 copies throughout the world. Scanning the Magazines THE CENTUKT. Of the unusual quantity of worth while matters brought together be tween the blue and buff covers of the new Century, to its initial num ber as a "popular quarterly,' the most pertinent perhaps, and one of. the most significant discussions,' is Jerome Davis's consideration of the "Challenges to Democracy, specifically the British labor movement and the Consumers' Cooperatives, which are attaining "world sweep." In these, Mr. Davis sees "two fundamental-challenges to a democratic state," one proposing "to remake our civilization through political action"; the other, "to build up slowly within our economic order a new distributive mechanism." Americans, he feels, cannot afford to ignore these developments. Concluding his presentation of these matters and of Amer- - ' C That same large generosity of nature and charm of manner which made the younger Blue Bonnet so delightful a companion as thousands of readers of this popular Juvenile series will attest is to be found in the gracious matron, adored son and daughter, who by a grown-u- p is still the most significant figure of mis latest dook irom Mrs. Richards' pea Here she is Mrs. John Church ill, wife of a wealthy Boston plane manufacturer, but unspoiled by luxury and position, still going about doing things to spread happiness among those less fortunately situated. It is in this spirit that she plans a wonderful Christmas house party at the old Woodford home, inviting the sons and daughters of those old friends of the "We Are Seven" club (a title greatly amusing to her mod ern daughter). Not only does Blue Bonnet want to give pleasure to these young people, but feels that associa tion with others than her own gay set of indulged children of the rich will be beneficial to her sophisticated Elizabeth, who, while she inherits her mother's charm and loveliness, has Numerous writers of western ad venture stories are giving praise to Clements Ripley's "Dust ana sun," recentlv broueht out by Payson and Clarke. Peter B, Kyne, William Mac- GIVE ME MY BIN AGAIN.. ByNa- - ica's indifference to their Imporoml Royde-Smlt- h. Publishers, Har- tance, Mr. Davis declares: per and Brothers, New York. "If we are to keep our politiIn this second novel of Devonshire, cal and economic life sound we which follows the unanimously acmust continually make adjustclaimed "In the Wood," Miss Royde-Smltments to meet the modern Indus- -. whose particular genius has trial, economic and international been recognized by critics both in this conditions of our changing social country and in her native England, order. We cannot do this suc- has struck a deep new vein, both to cessfully unless we know and un- -' subject matter and to style. derstand what the latest tono- -' Her story is of a London chemist's vators to the political and social daughter, barely 18, to whom love realm are doing. Communism, came before she was mentally or Fascism, British Labor, the Coto meet Withit. spiritually equipped operative Movement, all have out emotional stability, knowledge of their challenge and their lesson. the world, or friendly guidance, WinOur ' governmental mechanism nie Skinner gave herself up commust be flexible enough to take care of unrest while it is still relpletely to a passion too strong for her, and which finally overwhelmed atively insignificant. . . . her. "Every new sign post on the Written with directness and peneroad to a better and fuller human life, whether it comes from tration, and with a deep sympathy for the wistful little fUrure- - it porOreat Britain, Russia or Italy, trays. "Give Me My Sin Again" Is must be studied with sympathet.the most profound and moving story ic insight and interpreted accome from that has yet this distlng-tcurately and fairly." author's pea Indications are positive in his first installment that Henry Hazlltt's FORMER DEAN MEETS "Quarterly Comment." a new deH partmerit for the Century, is to be delightful features. WITH BOQKFELLOWS one of itsE. most Dodd reviews the factors William in "The Passing of the Old United Mrs. W. C. Jennlng formerly dean State".; the new history being made of the East high school, who has in Rome is Adam Day's topic in "The Joseph Emergence"; spent the greater part of a year Magnificent abroad, is to speak at a luncheon of J as trow, eminent psychologist, warns "The Freud the Bookfellows Monday, November gainst the menace to lan Temper" of the present; "what 18, at the Hotel Utah, on "Some Imbe saved?" to have must a The of My European Trip." president pressions luncheon, is to be at 12:15 o'clock. is Edward G. Lowry's concern to "A Mrs. John C. Weeter will Introduce Preface to Hoover." -Policies connected With electric yie speaker, Reservations should be made prior utilities, discussed by Matthew 8. How3!oan in "The Merger Movement," to Bundav evening with Mrs. or with and papers on a variety of other matard Means, H. 4U-R- , ters are included, I . Mrs. F. M. Gray, Was. 9908. K Jt CREATIVE AMERICA' Woman's Honest Presents Stimulating Exhibition M -h"-:1 ;: Sinning Tragic In its Effects representative of Sclden Conior Gile's brilliant studies, now on view at university of Utah art rooms. - l Great Middle Class Again Field Studied by Swinnerton. London's SKETCH OF A SINNER. By Frank Swinnerton..' Publishers. Double-da- y, Doran & Co, Inc., New York. -Mr. Swmnerton's capabilities as a novelist are of no mean rank, as the applause which met the appearance of his "Nocturne" fully determined. . Later novels have firmly established " nis position, yet not always have bis succeeding performances fulfilled ex- -, : pectations, occasionally indeed bis books have fallen far below the nigh standard he himself set. Here, how, ever, to his story of the quite oral- -, .' nary wife of a London dealer to an ( tiques, Mr, Swinnerton again approaches closely the level of his great :r . successes. , It is tot so much while one is read-t- og the story of Mr. Swtonerton's . sinner, Lydia Rowe, that one Is lm , pressed with its living drama, as -, to reflection, when one real- . izes that this Is actual life he baa portrayed, that his Lydia is a very real person, albeit an unremarkable , one. No more than an insignificant fragment of the great human tide that sweeps through London's dingier sections, yet, as Mr. Swinnerton on impor- - ; presents her, Lydia takes tance and a definite-- charm, .. . Wife's Dtul Content , Saddenly Broken. For six years "six happy years." Sebastian said Lydia had been wife . of the elderly shopkeeper, living to the dusty, shabby, crowded- . museum of old treasures, her sleeptog room above and the kitchen to the half basement back of the shop.. Being only a menial in a boarding-bous- e when Sebastian bad approached ber, she bad accepted him thankfully, despite more than twenty years' disparity to their ages. He was all kindness, she loved and respected . him, and, though his failure some- -, riuf Hii At: it ; WORLD'S WORK. Mark Sullivan, in an Interesting article covering "Thirty Years of Progress," which marks the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of World's Work magazine, enumerates the features of scientific and Indus. trial advancement in thft period, but follows with this comment on a less gratifying angle of "progress": "The material enrichments that have come to man have been accompanied by some effects on the, so to speak, nonmaterial part of man. He has been given greater potential leisure, but he has not in all cases made the po- - ' tential leisure actual. He works fewer hours, but Is required to work at a much faster tempo. . . Probably there is less of the spirit of leisure, and less re- -. flection, in America today than there was when America read the first number of World's Work. "Undoubtedly tbi bulk of what ,, Is here described is beneficent. But 'progress' is one of those words. We are expected to bow before it; to examine It coldly is an impiety to one of the most venerated Amer- lean gods. Obsessed with progress, we run the risk of thought- lessly conferring th sanctity, of that word upon all motion, in whatever direction." Mr. Sullivan points to the fact that the beneficient favors of science in the conquering of disease are almost counterbalanced by the perfecting of the automobile, since the death rate from the automobile exceeds that formerly resulting from these con quered diseases. He intimates also enrich that some of the ments may be delusions. For exam ple: "A voice coming a thousand miles over a radio is the same voice still. Magnifying the distance does not magnify the value -of the message. It Is the quality of the speaker that is mechanism for Important; the transmission Is negligible I- - sometimes suspect - that our -modern emphasis on speed of transmission, and the quantity oi the voices that hurry about the world, is a negation of the atmosphere to which great men ". can be produced. It Is so incon- ' sistent with the ripening quality ; of. reflection." - - In this anniversary number also E. El Free describes "The Scientific Revohition'Zi. Silas Bent writ?sof the agencies active to "Collapsing Time Sonce": Ronald Miller tresis of "Massed Machines": and Clyde Furst tells how "Wealth Grows Generous.'' ... . " new-fou- ... - - aii Etzel is but sixteen years old, the son of the attorney general of Berlin, whose cold, harsh nature and rigid disciplinary ideas have killed any affection to the boy. Etzel knows nothing about the mother, whom the austere official had divorced years before. In the boy a strong sense of Justice Is an outstanding trait. Strange actions of an old man who seems to watch both himself and his father-arres- t Etzel's interest, and he reads this Maurizius' petition on behalf of a son who is serving sentence for the shooting of his wife. Seeking out the old man and hearing his story, EtzeFis convineed of the prisoner's Innocence, and visualizes the horror of his years in confinement. The matter obsesses him to such deep extent that he runs away from home to search out the one witness who knows the truth, the man whose word had convicted Leonhard Maurizius. The youth's persistence, sincerity and directness win the truth from this Waremme, who had been the evil genius in the affair. Not Maurizius had killed his wife, but the wife's sister, for whom he had conceived a passion, and over whom Waremme held a hypnotic power. s In the meantime, the perturbed Hen von Andergast has recognized the faulty structure of the case against Maurizius, has visited the prison and listened to the convict. Thus when Etzel returns to present tne evidence abstracted from War' emme, it is to learn that the prisoner nas been released by pardon, the Judge, his father, unwilling to bur den the court with the complications of a reopened case in order that Maurizius' innocence may be publicly established. Which gross injustice sends Etzel nearly mad. Maurizius' of his descriptions years of incarceration, of his horrible mental experiences, and his review of the events preceding, are some of the books most forceful passages. His story, together with Waremme's own confession, builds up a picture of this Satanic character, in whom great gifts are linked with evil, that is as powerful as it is repellent The novel is strong psychologically; Wassermann digs deeply into the soul of mankind, and has arrived at the root 01 crime. It is the interest of this profound student of life to treat of faulty social Justice. . : . ard 4Ak' in in ji.- mi- - . ' . i ........ v. .. 11 .1 - .' .. ' , .i.ii 1. .11 " r " v V'f A, - r ...... ,v 'ii nTT t m- : .v. slow-goin- g, " 1 vy -- times hurt her unbearably, hardly thought to rebel at the narrowness of her life. It was Sebastian who wor- ried and felt that ber youth was wast- ed amid the age and decay about her.' - --- r--" , . :"' ' Lydla'i stoning is not through passion or revolt; rather Is she propelled, against ber Instincts, almost against her will, by some overwhelming, force that hardly seems to have root In hex own being. The excitable, sensitive, half mad Ambrose, who comes Into the shop for a coveted china shepherdess and falls desperately to love with Lydia, wins her interest, but it is only a maternal love she feels, though she is driven to resentful action when Sebastian, fearing to lose ber, Is roused totofran- tie jealousy. Yet Ambrose Is pass quickly out of their lives, and the ac- tual menace Sebastian does sot . -- GOOD MATHIAS' RULE CREDULITY FRAYED LN HUNGARY GROUND BY BOLD IMPOSTOR FOR VIVID PAGEANT L GIGANTIC PLOT OF NAPLES. By THE PHANTOM IN THE RAINBiisios suranyi. v uonsner, uos. BOW. By Slater Le Master. Pub- .THE WOMAN mopqlitan Book Corporation, New York. Back into the colorful past of Hun gary, Miklos Surayni carries us, re creating the tumultuous years of the iuteentn century when a laction-ri- d den empire was held together by the strong hand of Mathias Hunyadl. wno nas been counted the greatest man oi nis day and one oi the greatest monarchs who ever reigned. Unlike Napoleon, with whom he has b;en compared, Mathias was of fine moral character, an exemplar of the austere Magyar ideals. He was a patron of the arts and encouraged science; having put his country to order and freed her from foreign menaces, he turned his attention to rebuilding and improving his cities. Surayni, a leading Hungarian novelist, has woven a vivid tapestry of the period, whereon Mathias-move- s a figure of dignity and power. Against him is set the beauty and brilliance of his intriguing, disloyal, licentious wife, Beatrice ot Aragon, whom distrustful Magyars termed "the Wor man of Naples." Beatrice, reared to the voluptuous Neapolitan court, dis dained tne simple virtues and followed the god of pleasure, her extravagances and her amours the scandal of the empire. When lovers and gorgeous revels palled. Beatrice's ambitions grew. She had borne Mathias no heir, but she was determined that Corvto, his illegitimate son, whom Mathias should succeed him, should never gain the throne and power she craved for herself. She intrigued with her husband's enemies; she bribed his ministers to thwart his purposes: she planned - a brilliant coup toseize the Bohemian crown for e lover who asUlaszlo, her pired to the throne on which Mathias meant to place his son. These treacherous political intrigues Mathias could deal wi,th. His shrewdness could outwit her ambitious scheming at every turn; but her amorous deceptions she practiced unchecked, for he could not bring himself to believe to her infidelities, and would allow no word of scandal against her. Its opening scene laid to besieged OF MpPRETATIONS : h, V MUSIC Si One of Bernard Von Eichman's forcefully characterized street scenes, and (below) Oakland's busy waterfront, By Jacob Wassermann. Translated by Caroline Newton. Publisher, Horace Llveright, New York. novel, the last by this outstanding Oerman THIS stupendous to be translated into English, presents a fabric of tremendous strength. It Is a work of power lrf every part, at times its Impact Is overwhelming In force; but that it Is difficult reading cannot be denied. Its somberness of tone, unillumined by a ray of humor or gladness, oppresses the reader, and to find paragraphs of three, four, or even more, pages long is daunting. "The Maurizius Case" chosen for November by the Book League Monthly Is of that series which some few years ago Wassermann Indicated his purpose of writing, a series to be called "Der Wenderkrels," meaning novels of a tropical character, or to do with that latitude of life that might be termed tropical. That It is not the last book of the chain is suggested in the final sen- tence. "Thus ends the Maurizius case, but not the story of Etzel land. Sir" Francis' Interest in the study of the Celtic language and his friendship with Dermott O'Donoghue, a fanatic leader of the rebels, is greatly resented by the Austins, his neighbors and the family of his fiancee. Even Beatrice herself, though she re-- I uuuii ivjrni m xiiiii, uiattpproves. Almost the outbreak of the war brings a relief, when it proves Francis' allegiance is still to England. The war makes a breach between Francis and 4U' THE MAURIZIUS CASE. .THE SWORD IN THE SOUL. By Roger Chauvire. Publishers, Longmans, Green & Co., New York. .Here we have the somewhat curious phenomenon of a Frenchman producing a novel that reveals' an understanding, unequaled by many of her own people, of the distressed spirit of Ireland, and of that intense adoration which . animates those many of her sons who have laid down their Uvea in a hopeless fight to bring national freedom to their .beloved Numerous French writers, as James Stephens says in his foreword, have written of Irish affairs with unpre-Judic- e. if not with sympathy. But M. Chauvire has done more than this. None but one whohad been moved to a deep and sincere feeling of affection for the Irish people and a genuine insight into the desire that has actuated their revolt, could have created the character of Sir Francis Hackvllle, the young man who takes me leading position in the story. No one perhaps but one who had personally witnessed something of the struggle in those crucial years that preceded the establishment of the Irish Free State, would find it easy to comprehend the feeling that led HackvlUe, one of Ire land's ed aristocrats those family had owned Olencoe House in County Wlcklow for generations, to embrace me side or the Irish insurgents against his own class; that drew him to endanger his position among the gentry, even to sacrifice his love, because of the inner compulsion to live up to his convictions of the rlghtness and Justice of the Irish cause. Young Rebel Stands By His Convictions. 17, lishers, A. C. McClurg Si Co., Chicago.. As implausible as It Is abounding to suspenseful moments, Mr. Le Master's novel will no doubt hold many a lover, of mystery thrillers under "midnight oil" during the next few months. uniuceiy as it would seem that a young brokerage office attache, with a loathing for lawful fleecing, could step overnight into the shoes of a multimillionaire and, posing successfully as the man of means, conduct a gigantic business in a lucrative manner, this Is the skeleton on which the author bravely builds his story and manages to entertain. Mystery and thrills are woven Into the creation with utter abandon. Le Master makes his Impersonator the victim of weird and ghoulish activity on the part of the man he has succeeded to the financial throne. Sigmond Van Mortimer, actual possessor of the fortune, has been away from the United States since childhood, and to foreign countries has become addicted to drugs to his effort to discover the something that will give him the ultimate thrill. He even dabbles in the occult. Returning home, he Is spirited away and Edmond Fletcher, the broker's employee, who bears resemblance to Van Mortimer, steps into his a wve element enters into tne place. story through the fact that Van Mortimer has a lovely sister, and Fletcher needs must live to the same house. Three quite distinct art techniques in handling of water colors are "observable to the exhibit now on view at the University of Utah art gallery, where the opaque water colors of Elsie Palmer Payne, a member of the Laguna Beach Colony, have been added to the large collection of pictures by Belden Connor Otle and Bernard Von Elchman, Oakland arti- sts. soap box orators haranguing the crowd, an old man selling newspapers, a corner to Chinatown, daw dling negroes, ramshackly buildings, hurrying shoppers, automobiles, shop windows, and all the multifarious activity of the street. . finds Hla Subjects. In Everyday Life. This artist does not need to go far afield for his subjects, he finds his interest to the life around him, and sits down anywhere to paint. His pictures, directly treated, evidence a cloae and humorous observation of his effects 'with types. He obtains the greatest-ease- , showing an almost too great facility. However, back of this facile quality, as Miss Mabel Frazer, acting head of the university art department, commented on his Each of these northern California artists is an intense individualist, he paints entirely to please his own esthetic sense rather than to satisfy the public taste. Von Eichman's art, however, as revealed here, may be understood even by the uninltiate, while Gile's spectacular depictions, though arresting, are likely to bewilder the unaccustomed eye, preventing full appreciation. Von Eichman's display Is largely exhibit: a portrayal of Oakland's street life, "There seems to be a sound knowlwholly interesting and, fascinating edge of underlying principles. His to movement and character. Here sense of line comes naturally, he does are vividly presented crossing scenes, (Continued en Past ItttMa.) The Literary Almanac Csas . . Strang Love Wins ' ' Ita To Objective. stranger The dark, somber-eye- d who stares at ber one night In a restaurant and whom afterward fate . unnta tn mild hr nrntjwtir. pinnnt be forgotten. Twice be shields her to a moment oi danger, men ne seeu out her parents to aid them to their im- ml Tiajul Thli Omni ia so perlous, so sure of himself, so un-- '; like the Innocent that Ly- Sebastian, dia is at first angered, then fright- - ; ened and gradually conquered. But It is at last Sebastian's unwarranted suspicions that sends ber to Gerard.Fundamentally honest and un- , riavtnna in natiiHi. Lvdla is torn be tween these three men she loves. Be' cause she Is the chosen instrument of a tragic destiny for these three vhn lov hor mint she be accounted of love. J a sinner. . And, wlUi the. cup . V. V DTOxen at ner ups, must u uiuugm, back to serve her sentence as nurse 1 to a paralysis-stricke- n old man. NEW YORKER FINDS LIVING THRflJLFUL Peadar O'Donnell's "Adrlgoole' Brace, a biography of "Edwin (Putnam's), which is set to the bar the Photographer," which, to ren hills of Ireland, was also indorsed addition, is a contribution to the by the Catholic processes to club, the second of the Irish novel progress of printing lst's books to be selected. The club's America. The book is to contain 48 first choice after organization was photographs reproduced by the Mr. O'Donnell's first book, "The Way Knudsen process, which Mr. h considers the finest reproducIt was with Them."tions he has ever seen. "For the Defense" is the title EdAn Important foreign translation ward Marjoribanks gives to his biography of Sir Edward Marshall Hall which Harcourt, Brace are publishthe great English advocate, which ing Is De Sanctis' "History of Italian MacMllian has Just published. The Literature." done into English by who has already book includes detailed accounts of Joan Redfern, forty "causes celebres" with which he proved her skill as translator with was connected, and which make lie other monumental Italian works, one tional murder mysteries seem quite a book on Michelangelo. W. R. Burnett, author of "Little tame by comparison. , i Caesar" (Dial Press), has decided to Bapara Wilson's "The House of Alfred Kreymborg's book, "Our Memories," a November book from make his home to Los Angeles. His new book. "The Iron Man," is to ap- 8inging Strength," represents the The Dial Press, has the indorsement first history of American poetry to of Maurice Baring, who says: "When pear to February: one reads an English book written to be publlsned, as indicated in its subVienna, with Galeottl. Mathias' loval title, "An Outline of American Po- appreciation of French art or literaLargely Mr. Kreym-bor- g ture, one expects It to be as good, astrologer studying the situation for etry, devotes himself to consideration as witty and elegant as a French his king, the story moves rapidly forbut ward to the hour of the king's death of living poets, of whom he gives a book. This seldom happens, and the passing of the House of fund of interesting data. It may en- Lady Wilson's book fulfills the expectation.'" Hunyadl, for Corvin's reign was a courage budding poets to know, for short one. A glimpse, too, is given instance, that during the first 20 Dr. Arthur Livingston, the editor to Frost .wrote which Robert years of the final moments of the repenbut f 10 a year of the "Memoirs of Lorenzo Da tant Beatrice, deserted by Ulaszlo poetry, be averaged n are pub Ponte" (Lippincott), recently lec from it. and alone in Naples. tured In 8unbury, Pa., where Da lishers of the volume: Ponte spent a largepart of his time In "Zero Hour," a second Little, en his first visit to America. Sun-buhad been unaware, of its celebBrown novel to deal with the war from the German standpoint, Georg rity until Dr. Livingston brought the information. Grabenhorst tells the story of an of wealth and poTo our chagrin we learn that it is sition, who nevertheless serves with Play me no music, now . . . there is enough the rank and file. . The author, a "Mrs." Shelby Little who wrote the Of sadness In .these leaves along the ground, doctor -- of. philosophy, is losing ..his splendid "George Washington" reAnd in the bare boughs they are "dreaming bl eyesight as a result of his experience cently published by Minton, Ba'lcH, a biography of such strength and de. Iri a wide silence deeper than all sound. in a shelled dugout during the war. -- There Is no music tached viewpoint that it never oc anywhere so lonely to us to question its mascuAs long farewells that fill this listening air, during" the month Little, Brown's curred -.- . line authorship. Where no sound-iand no sure light, but only published Elizabeth Robins husbiography of her famous 'The misty starshlne where.the trees are bare. S. Giiy Endore, a young American, band, "The Life and Letters of Johi- " seph Pennell." This work, which is has prepared the first . Something is passing, now, In this half-ligh- t, of the. great amorist, In two volumes, will give all that was ography Out of the world forever, over the rim left unsaid in the artist's own book, Jaques Casanova, although' many Of lost hortzons and so frail, so slight - .TheAdverttures books-hav- e J,Joseph"-Permelconcerning That none has heard her footfall, and so diin him. Mr. Endore's "Casanova: His of an Illustrator.". her-graand lovely face, That none has seen Known and Unknown Life" is a Not Whose going saddens every lonely place. Carl Sandburg has a "new book on vember issue from John Day Com David Morton itf The Commonweal. the November list of Harcourt, pany. C Stel-che- n, Stei-che- r one-tim- 1620-1930- .", Coward-McCan- ry One Passing . officer-candida- . - te Pen-nell- , full-leng- th been-writt- en l: " ve . ON PLANET OF MARS THE PLANET OF PERIL. By Otis A. Kline. - Publishers, A.C McClurg & Co., Chicago. Transported from a luxurious life to New York City by astral projection to the planet Mars, Mr. Kline's Robert Qrandon is plunged Into wild and terrifying adventures among people and animals that would be strange even to our dreams. Huge and vicious carnivorous creatures ramble the new sphere upon which he has entered, people strange" to body and mind are there. Orandon, to his new life. Is the Slave of a tyrannical and beautiful queen,- - but escapes the toils; and Immediately sets out to form an op- -. Gathering about position party. him a group of warriors, he leads them against the queen. During the conflict both Grandon and the queen become separated from their contingents, and are thrown together through a trick of fate. There follows a series of breath taking events, as fantastic as have been coniured up for many a day, and that will give Mr. Kline's story a place in the hearts of those who seek thrilling excite- ment In their literature. " Salt Laker Appearing In National Journals . . In the December number of ScJ- ence Wonder Stories, a magazine of ic science fiction stories, a Oscillator tale, "The TimetKal1rwvat ta n Kaesai4 mi Viaf l iiismt travel backward or forward in time, is the contribution of HenryF. Kirk- ham, a Salt Lake writer. The story, savs the editor, raises an old oues- tion that has never been settled and presents an entertaining if not dem-- rionstrable solution, Mr. Kirkham is also appearing to The Reflex, which is devoted to Jewish- Interests,- - with a erte of on "The School of Philosophy." of which installments were published , to the July and August numbers, with the third yet to come, ' pseudo-scientif- - arti---cle- s " |