| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY- MORNING DECEMBER - 13 Art and Critical Reviews of Late Books L In the Field of Modern Writers WORTH WHILE BOOK TELLS Biography of Moment COMEDY AND SOCIAL SATIRE 3 1931 OF SEEING AFRICA WITH CAMERA RATHER THAN GUN Author of “The Constant Nymph” Executes Deft Narrative of Pure Comedy Situations Scin-lillant Wjlh Nfit By E E IIOLLIS- - RETURN I DARE NOT By Margaret Kennedy Publishers Doubleday Doran & Co Garden City N Y HERE Is Margaret Kennedy’s sparkling wit at its topmost — in a which forgets her delightful Sanger family entirely yet Is none the less successful and brilliant entertainment "Return I Dare Not” which deals with a week-en- d party at an English country place Is a smart modern comedy of manners Its characters drawn with the deftest satire with the author avoiding exploration of emotional deeps not permitting herself to any one of her people seriously This assembling of a week-en- d crowd is no new device but while there Is intrigue going on It Is not at all the usual affair as Miss Kennedy handles it There is no mystery no family skeleton exposed no crime — committed unless one looks upon Philomena’s attempt to steal the man Invited for another as theft — in fact the action is negligible yet there is no lack of titlllation of one’s interest Perhaps Hugo Pott Is to be considered the center of the story— Hugo being the newest celebrity so recently "arrived” as to Ye unable as yet to forget his public having a reputation as modest unspoilt young man to be kept up Honesty and simplicity had been natural to him really until under pressure of world publicity they came to be no longer entirely spontaneous His plays had been an enormous success — three running at once — and he could fill a theater even in the middle of the heat wave This invitation to Syranwood where Lady Geraldine was the elderly d and very hostess represented a new height achieved He knew brilliance was expected of him he had been Invited to amuse Aggie Lady Agatha Mclotte for long “a business rather than a pleasure a career rather than a diversion" but whose word was powerful and her favors therefore angled for But how can a man be brilliant when he needs sleep? and what with Aggie’s petulant exactions and the gosslppy Corny popping up everywhere with Philomena— who could make Aggie look like a marshmallow — bent on completing her affair with him and with his mind disturbed by young Marianne’s coldness Hugo can only snatch at It's Marinne’s unseen presence too that spoils the reading of his sleep new play to Aggie Philomena Grey married 15 years and really loving her husband felt her youth was slipping away from her only half savored but some way with the children’s teeth and Ada giving notice and Glbbie who had promised to be understanding being quite otherwise her ‘‘affair” never came off Anyway what right had Lady Geraldine some of whose own children’s arrivals hadn’t balanced with her husband’s comings and goings to be censorious? Particularly as here was her daughter Laura with her new boy friend Ford Usher—did anyone believe he had been asked only to meet Walter Bechstrader! Actually Laura’s affairs were "mudh cry and little wool” she was a good woman her husband was sure if a silly one Laura always went to church at the penultimate stage of her affairs and there she was with her prayerbook But poor Ford didn’t know this —and he is desperate —until he gets a new Idea concerning his culex pseudopictus discovery While he worries and the distracted Glbbie tries to decide what a Good Man would do Marianne settles Hugo’s future and his escape from his wearing popularity marks the close of this sophisticated week-encomIt is all so lightly delicately handled with such sauve satire and edy refreshing humor and sure craftsmanship as to be wholly enjoyable With it Miss Kennedy proves her artistry in a different field of fiction Philip Gue-dal- la ed biogra- pher of Eighteen Authors Devise Story on Identical Plot "Wellington” Guild’s De- cember selection Portrait ( by Dorothea C Parrot) absent-minde- BENNETT’S CRAFT PROVEN THE NIGHT VISITOR and Other Stories By Arnold Bennett Publishers Doubleday Doran & Co Garden City N Y dependable of writers Arnold Bennett never gave to ONE of the most public a book that was not quite worth the reading even if not all approached the height of his "The Old Wives’ Tale” or "Mr Prohack” or "Rlceyman Steps” So this posthumous volume collecting seventeen of his magazine stories Is bound to pique the Interest to give fair measure of entertainment while not likely to leave any marked Impress on the mind These stories Serve admirably as Illustrations of this author’s method of creating building a story upon the oddities and humors of some person or some happening that intrigued his attention as he looked out upon the stream of life turning his imagination to picturing what such person’s life might be how such occurrences might affect the lives of various others Thus he gives us his concept of the connoisseur acquaintance who admired the Poussin in the National Gallery probably a collector in reality a cloakroom functionary at the Majestic hotel Or “The Comet Player”— whose cornet case however was empty— who occupied the next table at the London Inn or Mr Cardy who thought he wanted Emilia but proposed to Janet instead as a point of "Honour” There are one or two good stories of the theater "The First Night” to mention one of the best This tells of a young understudy suddenly given his first chance when the star gets "upstage” and walks out After a violent week the young lead faints at the dress rehearsal Fat Addle the leading woman’s obscure dresser proves efficient In the crisis taking care of him all night and he goes on the first night to a big success Then through the leading woman who likes the lad it is shown that Addle Is In fact his mother whom he isn’t brave enough to acknowledge lest it injure his position Another unusual tale of the theater Is “The Understudy" where a millionaire finds himself an Involuntary understudy for his sick brother lest his gradually growing proud of his uncovered talents being Jealous brother resume the role and at the last moment falling 111 himself so that he cannot go on Some of the best of Mr Bennett's situations have a hotel background as his "Imperial Palace” but with less importance The story of Mr Helford’s eccentric experiment in his "Strange Affair In a Hotel” for Instance has unexpectedness and humor A restrained humor of sardonic tinge is one of the chief Ingredients of these stories with an unsentimental approach to romance and a wholly cheerful mood The variety in situation and characters Introduced is demonstration of the author’s resourcefulness FOR ENGLAND AND QUEEN BESS OF DESTINY By Jeffrey Farnol Publishers Little Brown Si Co in other fields Mr Farnol has now hied roamed for some HAVINGback to his home years pastures —or those he has made his own df England of the early centuries the days of ruff and doublet and farthln1500's the when late of against king the plotted Spanish the days gale Good Queen Bess and ardent English Catholics gave him aid It Is In period the fabrication of romantic adventures of this that Mr Farnol Is himself a very entertaining self and Ingenious in the building of dramatic narrative One of these same plots to destroy Elizabeth Is at the center of A which Jade of Destiny” which has Its beginning however with the task the Lady lone Fane set the swashbuckling Captain Jocelyn Dinwiddle late from fighting In Flanders— to rescue her beloved brother youthful Earl of Aldrington from hl3 gaming friends In London and bring him home to his castle Which the bold soldier being “Dinwiddle" accomenemies plished right smartly but made himself thereby some dangerous and menaced the successful outcome of his real business In Sussex county earl Yet the captain had made a friend In Aldrington and the young conthe since was Chase This him at the to advantageous desired keep friend Sir Roger williams had been spirators whom he and his grizzled sent by Minister Walslngham to scotch meant to involve In their dasher brother already suspected because tardly plot the fair Lady lone and of their Catholicism For there is one who would use this plot against the My Lord Rlderwood who by Queen to bring the downfall of Aldrington a to treasonable pact which he Earl’s the signature has gained trickery arms Is villain enough to his lone to the Lady holds as pressure bring Ood wot but an even wilier than he creeps In the background Is more than Though Captain Jocelyn Dinwiddle’s sword and cunning a match for the plotters and his determination proof against a lady s not proof against love and as at the end haughtiness yet Is his pride to Aldrington Chase her enemies la d by come now safely the Queen— the doughty Dinwiddle and gruff Sir Roger— Is minded the heels through closes as happily as Mr Farnol s are wont romance the to reward them to overgarnlsh the Elizabethan dialogue A Jade to do Despite a tendency of Destiny” Is agreeable reading and will please the large following of this narrator of romance and high adventure In Mcrrle England A JADE Boston cloak-and-swo- EXPLAINING REALITY "Mind— C f a U v e and Dynamic" whos author are Charles W Ruell nd Gertrude Copperman attempt to seriously give an answer to the questhe meaning of renlitv'‘ tion "What It Is a presentation of the philosophy and discussion of dynamic psychology and sponsored by the Authors’ Internallonnl Publishing rd HAVE YOU A THOBIAT new book John Vassos in hi "Phobia” (Covid Frlede) explained through text and drawings twenty-thre- e of the more popular feara to which the human mind I prey Since Its puberm to nave lication numerous other been observed aome more practical than scientific as aquaphobla— fear of glnophohla— fear of bathwashing tubs radiophobia— fear of loud (peak- - n Legal work absorbed him during the war period but In 1923 he turned to writing again By 1023 he had published five books and decided to retire from the law to devote himself exclusively to writing Since that time he has produced regularly although “Wellington’’ is the first book for three years the work requiring extensive Last summer Mr Guedalla headed a delegation of undergraduates to the universities of Argentina His last visit to America was In 1927 but It Is understood that he Is planning to return during 1932 The regular edition of "Wellington” comes from Harpers two books the author of Philip Guedalla "Wellington” which has been honored as The Literary Guild’s choice for December Is an Englishman who doesn’t look like an Englishman according to Selma Robinson a writer who baa repoet cently appeared as a Mr Guedalla Is described as having of his all the swarthiness Portuguese ancestors and seeming much younger o is deeply forty-twHe his years than interested in politics and has friends among politicians and financiers as well as among writers Mr Guedalla was a lawyer before he became historian although as an Oxford undergraduate he published shy swift overture In the moonlight” Realistic depiction of the strength and cunning of the beasts of the wild is a thing In which Sarett Joys— witness his "Two Woodsmen Skin a Grizzly Bear"— but he can also write sensitively of nature's moods and can sing delicate songs of love as In "Frail Moment”— “Try me no longer! Make But one more wistful overture And the granite of my will shall break — Break with the beat and ache That smoldering blood no longer can endure In a WINGS AGAINST THE MOON By Lew Sarett Publishers Henry Holt Si Co New York That thentic Lew Sarett speaks with an auvoice In poetry has been estab- lished since the appearance of "Slow Smoke” a season or so ago With this new volume he reaffirms his right to be placed with the singers who count in America He is a lyrist of power and infinite charm who is a lover of the wild making the things t the wild his chief tnemes His close familiarity with wild animals with Indians voyageurs men of the woods is marked in all his volumes However well he has observed their life and 6hows sympathetic Insight he never grows sentimental In his verse Sarett’s keen interest in and vivid recording of the ways of wild game are seen in many of these poems in "Broken Drake” or "Coyote Brood" or "Clipped Wings” In his excellent picture of a "Mountain Goat” Is that tinge of humor that often flashes through his poetry as again In "A Dog's Life” and "Strange Harvest” It is In his interpretive Indian poems tli at Sarett Is at his best hts most virile giving forceful trenchant deThe section of the book capscription"Water-Drums” contains many tioned finely understanding poems and such an Interpretation of Indian legends as that of "The Birth of And there is this portrayal of k a Circus Indian” "Chief throne of who on "his make-beliebasswood box" Is: "An owl that holds in the sockets OFF THE BEATEN TRACK By Major C Court Treatt Publishers E P Dutton Si Cb New York Deep and sincere love of Africa and Its peoples and Jungle denizens Is apparent on every page of Major Court Treatt's book of African adventures Tney’re not adventures to the Major and he doesn’t treat them as such yet few more thrilling volumes on life In the Dark Continent have been written The author Is noted for his photographs of wild life rather than for his writing ability yet his story told In forceful straightforward langreater writers attempt and guage often achieves what other and fall in— description of wild life Hts chapter on elephants In which he describes hunting them with spears the only weapons gives much new light on the habits and Idiosyncrasies of the pachyderm Including the old controversy over whether the beasts sleep lying down or standing up Major Treatt also olfers expert guidance for future elephant hunters diagramThere are 18 conspirator In "Mr ing the exact spots In which to inflict Which Oxford the the fatal wound Fotherglir Plot” Many excellent phoUniversity Press ha brought out a tographs accompany this chapter Ha first hook of current fiction Mr All the familiar animals of the African jungles stalk through hts pages Fothcrgill the publisher explain i the landlord of an old coaching and many that are not so well known He Inn at Thame in Oxfordshire The chapter on smaller animals Inla an must and man of lettera To cluding several rare varieties of the cat Ms inn he has attracted all the best family Is particularly diverting and made more valuable by the Inclusion of the literary world In England of numerous photographs a number and is well known to many Ameriof them taken at night can authors Photography not slaughter Is Major Treatt’s hobby as To these authors they came lie as his book gives ample proof handed a plot bidding them go away A special chapter dealing with the and write a short story on this theme thrills and hardships connected with By degrees the stories have come back to h’m—hen e the book shownight photography Is as exciting as He also gives any he has written ing how these authors have managed details about what takes place at the to treat the same theme with little scattered waterholes and explains how Some of the tales are similarity to build a waterhole hideout where thrtlleri some grave aome gay one the animals can be observed without placed in modem America one In their knowledge England of 1840 one In Persia makThe Dinka tribe of Africa regarded ing a unique book Among the conby many explorers and hunters as a spirators are Martin Armstrong people to be avoided If possible are Gerald Bullett Thomas Burke G shown In an opposite light by Major Delafield E M K Chesterton Treatt He and Mrs Treatt who ach Shelia Margaret Kencompanied him on the majority of hts nedy Frank Swlnnerton Rebecca trips found these people particularly West and others of note friendly and helpful with of course a few scattered exceptions Perhaps the reason for much of the aversion to COLETTE PORTRAYS this tribe Is the fact that their most ONE WAY TO SOLVE polite form of greeting Is to expectorate on the visitor’s chest which Isn’t TRIANGLE PROBLEM done In the best circles In other lands Taken as a whole “Off the Beaten PubTHE OTHER ONE By Colette Track” is a flrstrate book on Africa lisher Cosmopolitan Book CorporaNo matter how many books on Afrition New York can exploration and life one has read triever with the he will find new tdeas and new Inforfascinating Dealing and in new a mation In this one And one will slightly cynical angle never be bored in reading it altogether tolerant way Colette lets her Emil Ludwig’s own biography by himself just from Little Brown has a final chapter of comment presumed to be by his son (8 years old) who says: "I wish as a witness who can bear testimony to those times to place on record after 50 years my impression that In his ‘Gifts of Life’ my father comes off too well but that his portrait of my mother is not up to the mark" Kaye-Smlt- heroine solve the vexing problem of "the other woman" in a manner which though repugnant probably to most women must often have been used in times past For after all what is one to do if she hns too much joy in living to commit suicide too much love for her husband to leave him and yes! too much love for the other woman to live completely without her companionship? Colet'e gives a peifect delineation of the struggle in the mind of Fanny her portrays Jane m vivid protagonist flashes shows the young boy with unusual sympathy and paints Farou the hero or villain or what you will as an unsavory ihinacter whom one nevertheless might lose to love At least many women did love him and one— his wife — enough for a tune Colette's conclusion that after all within themselves women have the only weapon with v huh successfully to combat the promiscuousness of men — tolerance— may be consoling and again It may be what Colette obviously intended ii" thcr consoling nor frightening but only a mere statement of a fact ONE CARTOONIST WITH ‘ SOX’ APPEAL Don Herold humorist and cartoonist has made an amusing contribution to n the series of ads by authors being presented by a national hosiery Mr Herold recounts howr life house was sweetened for him by the wearing a of certain brand of hosiery and explained: ‘‘Mrs Herold has madseveral starts for Reno to get a divorce from me on the ground of socks" His disposition he says was being ruined by leaky hosiery and when he learned what brand his wife was In the habit of buying he observed “What’s socks for the goose ought to be socks for the gander" He found the salesman of that brand “a true sockologlst" and now he’s happy Mr Herold by the way has a book coming from Little Brown Ip January It Is to be called “Doing Europe— and Vice Versa “ well-know- even-temper- TWENTY-YEAR-OL- D POET WINS AWARD Frcsli Air Taxicab Comp’ny Dennla Murphy who ia still in hla twenties is the verse writer whose book “Boy With a Sliver Plow” was accorded the Kaleidoscope Book PubThe Dook was selication contest In 1929 lected from 176 submitted In a state-wid- e contest held by the Wednesday Club of 8t Louis Mo Mr Murphy was given the award for a group of poems John G Nelhardt being tne judge The Kaleidoscope is so gratified with the results of the contest that It has Immediately launched another to open June 1 the winning volume of verse to be published by the KaThe leidoscope Publishing company magazine is offering numerous other poetry prizes also War-Haw- ve of his eyes Through stolid sun the beauty of a night Gone Into yesterday: a lonely pine Leaning Its tip upon the moon the cool Deep sough of wind among the sighing firs A far low quaver from the gloom the blur Of outspread wings that whistle down the wind An Ives Washburn title of the moment is “The Private Character of Henry the GLORIES OF FRENCH CAPITAL REVEALED BY TRAVELER’S PEN I Frederick Chamberlain who wrote "The Private Character of Queen Elizabeth” In 1921 Mr Chamberlain ha been made a fellow In the Society of Antiquarian founded 400 year ago In the time of Queen He is the ixth American Elizabeth to be ao honored By CATHERINE NUTTER SEEING PARIS By E M Newman Publishers Funk Sc Wagnalls Co New York In this the eighth volume of hi Traveltalk series Mr Newman ha given to hi reader a delightful picture of France’ fascinating treasure-hous- e of age-ol- d tradition and modern gaiety Though any attempt to adequately must necessarily thi wonder-cit- y fall short of perfection Mr Newman has accomplished what many author have failed to do Aided by hi remarkable camera hi pen take us on excursion to remote places neglected by the guidebooks Thus we see revealed the Paris of the Parisian not merely the city of Notre Damq and the EBOOKS be White Hire Firing— Bni B Aldrich 22 00 Ten Commandments— Warwick Deeping (2 BO Westward Louvre Whether we walk with Mr Newman along the boulevards pulsating with activity or stroll through the parks stopagain before an historic ping now and monument we are constantly aware that our guide might almost be a native Frenchman so well does he understand of Parisian life the characteristics With him we visit the Latin Quarter and the “Boul Mich" we dine at the Tour d’Argent we stop at a newspaper kiosk or linger at a flower stand along the Seine and everywhere we are reminded that In these very spots history was made Parisian of haunt The favorite France’ literary figure are not neglected nor i the artlatlc significance of the city and Its lurroundlngs Ignored tn fact some passage seem to be the work of a literary historian or Whole rhaptei are of an art critic devoted to the treasure of the Louvie the most renowned of the Paris cathedrals the public squares and the The elegance of the Frrmh theater court Is reflected in the d scriptlona of Fontalnrbleau and Versailles a fitting climax to any story of Parts "Hie pen pictures that Mr Newman has drawn of the capital of Trance though vivid In themselves are Intensified by the addition of over three hundred photograph author Eighth” whose Margaret Passage— A Barnes 260 Brothers In the West— Robert Ranoltl 2260 gi aramouche the King Maker— Rafael SahaUnl 2260 Bed Pgpner BeCar — Oraoe Richmond 2200 the Magnificent— John it Winkler 2360 Morgan Andy: “Pull on de Amos: "I’se pullin’ the two entertainer radio undoubtedly of the day whose popularity ha bebest-kno- astounding come more phenomenal than the radio itself will bilng you new chapters of 'I hts is their dialogue Initial literary effort and no doubt its warm welcome from their radio admirers will rail for sucteviors Hill book tell how this exl inordinary pair fame to leave the Georgia farm to make their fortune In the ntg city of C’lii ago — they nearly dldn t when Andy “inulslfylng" of tnc I ’6 72 fare made over 8409— of thetr efforts rather Mark Twain— Clara demon LOOKOUT!" IIFRE THEY ARE— AMOR 'N‘ ANDY By Charlea J Correll and Freeman F Oosden Publishers Ray Long As Richard R Smith Inc New York Caught for the first time between covers Mr thing" to find work (Amoa'a effort) thetr their’ neeting with discouragement Miss Ruby Taylor and tlie Impression she made on Amos with her Interest in getting him a Job of the origination of the taxicab business tlielr purchase of the first "rolling stock” and Andya ele turn of himself as president cheerfully allowing Amos Uo rairy the title of "Chief Mechanic a Mute Fixer of Automobile llald Drtvpr of the Comp nv and Chief Illznrss Getter” Crrteinlv here Is the real the real Important Andv Amos who have won tire public as frvln Cobb says In hla foreword because they are "so natural ao simple so full of an unforced Jnyounness so dogtjtmed Wellington— Philip Guedalla 2400 Man's Own Shew: Ivlllratlon— O-- or A Dorsey 2600 Jungle Wars— Win Beahrook 2360 Colnmhua Came Late— Gregory Mason 2400 DESERET ease-lovi- slow-will- 2600 BOOK ed COMPANY 44 East South Temple |
