Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY j Art and Critical Reviews of Late Books In tlie Field of Modern Writers LATER CHAPTERS IN WILSON’S LIFE TOLD WITH AUTHORITY MODERN ERA IN THE SOUTH Chronicler of Corinth Returns to Portray for Readers a Generation in a Brief Group of Its Post-Wa- r Ward Greene Episode of Their Lives whose third By E E HOLLIS WEEP NO MORE By Ward Greene Inc New York book ' Publishers Harrison Smith "Weep No More ” GREENE we have an unhesitant commentator on FWARD society and the shifting moral code particularly as noted In his southern Corinth— the same Corinth that scened the activities of "Cora Potts" and witnessed the rise of the egoist of "Ride the Nightmare" In these books Mr Greene’s creative efforts were directed to the depiction of one dominant individual and his course In life With "Weep No More” he has distributed his attention dealing with a group of characters who if they are less bizarre and spectacular are much more credible and provocative of sympathetic interest His group of young Corinthians sons and daughters of the old families keeping alive the sagas of Southern chivalry regarded as their rightful heritage are nevertheless definitely of the new generation living lightly and gayly if moving a little bewildered in this post-wworld of new moral codes where galnew to and where as the silver-hairhave seem lantry meaning chivalry shous il : ng to- if- ' matures talent' ? i ar ed Major Wallace MacArthur bemoans: you were a cad if you did not say to the dipsomaniac who had smashed your furniture mauled your women and sullied your ancestry Forget it old man you were a trifle jingled!’ ” This deplorable situation was held due to prohibition by the Major though by prohibition he thrived w since his Tony Bergo the town’s ' most prosperous bootlegger was generous and admiring i Nancy the Major’s clever charming daughter who had found Tony’s worshiping loyalty a far better thing than the duplicity of Howard Craycraft had been one of the old “Lee Street crowd” of the author's concern Though by her marriage she had forfeited her rights to some extent yet on occasion she was still “one of us” Of theothers the handsome Craycraft holding grandly the tradition of the sanctity of the home and of Southern womanhood the while he violated both and Sister Craycraft since tippling was recognized as correct amusement for the day drinking to help her forget Howard's indifference and her disillusion the shallow Sally Chapman and her Bo always rocklike no matter how drunk the others Fred Prentiss an outsider who by insistent pushing had established himself as belonging and Eloise King the envious cat from New York returning to her home town and setting in motion uncontrollable currents that bring tragedy into the group Mr Greene has handled his material adroitly and his pictures are vivid and done with the touch of authority Underneath the liveliness and gay satire of his tale one senses a slight regret for the old order He says of his contemporaries through the Major as he muses on the insanities of this at once harder and softer stronger yet curiously weak feneration all“They areand are satisfied by none They go at life violently yet things how inevitably they seem to miss happiness!” son-in-la- By Sylvia Publishers Little Brown & Taking Campaign Too Seriously Eddie Cantor s forthcoming book on “Your Next President" is prominent on the spring list of Ray Long and Richard Smith who have scheduled it for March about the time presidential politics begins to warm up The publishers describe it as just the book to keep all of us from taking the campaign too seriously It is written with the same uproarious humor that Eddie put into "Caught Short" and “Yoo Hoo Prosperity” David Freedman collaborated with the Co THOMPSON made a place for herself in the English literary world after with “The Hounds of Spring" which was followed by the penetrating Portrait of Caroline" Now she has further entrenched her position with “Summers Night" an even stronger piece of work which gives evidence of finer analytical powers In its study of a young pair for whom love was & deep reality but who were strangers to each other’s Inner nature If Miss Thompson's title puzzles In Its seeming Inaccuracy turn to Donne's lines In his “Loves Alchymie": So lovers dream a rich and long delight g summers night But get a So it was with Charles Bltterne last of an old English family and Jasmin Lengel whose Jew father Lord Whlchford had earned his title and a fortune during the war These two had fallen in love at their first sight of each other when Jasmin has come upon Charles in the retreat where he had hidden himself from her parents who had come to buy Melcombe ancestral home of the Bltternes The generous extravagance of Theresa Charles’ fascinating mother— much eare has been given to the picture of Theresa and she emerges a living alluring figure— had made it necessary to let Melcombe go but Charles feeling the wrench of leaving the old home could not but resent its purchasers particularly as they were what they were vulgar people with Ideas of “modernizing" the place Even had he not loved Melcombe Charles' artist nature would have revolted But he couldn't resent Jasmin though he didn’t want to love her— perceiving that unconsciously she would as Theresa did make demands on him that would Interfere with his art For two whole months while he painted furiously he kept away and Jasmin pined— and walked up and down outside his house hoping he might come out Then Evelina the cousin who had loved Charles since they had been childhood playmates divining Charles’ feeling and needing to know its depth deliberately threw the two together— which was fatal to her hopes Lady Whlchford whose plans for Jasmin with her incomparable beauty had looked higher than an almost penniless artist might have made obstacles had not Theresa— moving In a society which denied entrance to the vulgar rich— swallowed her prejudices and sought the young people's happiness So the two were married and knew some blissful months The author makes clear the Inevitableness of disaster to a marriage between so different In temperament two people of so widely opposite backgrounds Charles sensitive and reserved swayed by old traditions aloof and sufficient to himself Jasmin spirited and impulsive needing gaiety and people around her content with Charles but not understanding she must accept a rival In his art With Charles disliking her friends unhappy and Irritable when they must visit Melcombe with Lady Whlchford still critical of her marriage and Jasmin seeing her mother’s faults and worldllness yet susceptible to her influence with the worshiping Evan Campbell always standing by unable to endure that any unhappiness should touch his beloved Inevitably a gulf slowly widened between husband and wife Yet love with each had been once and for always and In the end the chasm was crossed Miss Thompson has given deft portrayal of the changed aspect of society In present-da- y England Her characters have been keenly perceived and she has ’ written an altogether engrossing story whose restrained style Is not least of Its SYLVIA comedian One of the highlights of the book is a speech by Eddie to a big meeting of bankers in the grand hall of the Mills hotel BROADW AY RACKETS ALSO GIRL AIDES ALL DISCLOSED winter-seemin- ? Publisher COLLECT By Lois Bull The Macaulay Company New York This like the author's preceding novel "Broadway Virgin” is a story of life along that famed New York thoroughfare Its swift moving mystery and intrigue the adventures of its heroines Dolly and Pauline make good enough reading but the climax is much too impossible even for Broadway Dolly and Pauline the latter becoming known as "Tiger" are chorines and as such they work miniature rackets on the men who take them places It Isn't long before they get deeper into the business becoming cover girls for high stake poker games That is they stay away from their apartments when they are told to and during these periods the rooms are used for big gambling games from the fiuits of which of course the ' girls receive their cut Now it seems the "Big Boss" has his eye on the girls and it isn’t long until Dolly is sent on a sinister errand to Panama and Tiger goes to Park Avenue where her job is to "get the goods” on any member of the Four Hundred who is lured her way Object: blackmail Tiger gets the breaks and is soon on Intimate terms with practically everyone In the social register reporting her findings in a highly mysterious manner to the "Big Boss" But Tiger begins to think things are growing crooked She wants to get out of the racket She wants to get married to the man who Is going to be the next district attorney She wants — oh well why list her desires? — she gets them Then comes the tearing aside of the veil — the truth about everyone is revealed which my children is a big big surprise txcellent qualities SOCIOLOGIG EXPERIMENT OF 1910 BEYOND HELL York w By Stephen McKenna “ Publishers Dodd Mead & Co NEW YORK — Two stages of Woodrow Wilson's life are presented minutely in the third and fourth volumes of Ray Stannard Baker’s "Woodrow Wilson! Life and Letters” Wilson as governor of New Jersey has and again as president been scrutinized by Baker the study yielding two books packed with sifted and analyzed facts The amount of carefully checked detail that has been amassed about Wilson places the blog- raphy In an authoritntiva position Also it is notably reliable in that Mr Baker does not attempt to peisuade the render to fixed conclusions but Instead makes a report of situations and events and what Wilson said and wrote about them The summaries that Baker occasionally makes about Wilson are in direct line with the material about Wilson's life Clues to the chaiacter that made Wood-roWilson a strongly individualized president lie in such intimate letters as one written soon after his inauguration in which he says: “The old kink In me is still there Everything is persistently Impersonal" The efficiency with which Wilson developed specific abilities to fit a need Is shown by his statement before going to Washington that he believed himself more prepared upon domestic problems than upon foreign affairs and then by the speed and diplomacy with which the president handled complications which soon came up for consideration in Latin America and the Far East By such methods of juxtaposing facts Baker carries moie conviction than a dozen personal estimates could convey In the same way the effect which the governorship had upon Wilson and his after life is shown by actions decisioni and opinions of Wilson that mark hi progiess and his potentiality An abundance of conversation brief description and quotations from letters give the biography added vitality and a briskly moving tempo 1913-191- Winners of French Literary Honors Published Here ' Two novels which have Just been awarded the highest literary honora in 1931 are to bo given in published in America by Century according to recent announcement These are the Goncourt Prize novel “Mai d'Amour” by Jean Fayard and "Vol de Nult" by Antoine de Saint Exupery winner of the Prlx Femlna Vie lleureuse "Mai d'Amour" is the story of a young Frenchman of this generation who has a seorn for romantic love and sentimentality but who finds his heart betraying his logic when he falls in love with the mistress of a great English painter In Ireneh literary circles the work has elicited more than the usual controversy merits Jean about Its comparative Favard the author v Is the son of a well known trench publisher "Vol de Nult” covers one night In the lives of a group of aviators who are attempting to forge a new airway in South America and connect it wllb Europe via Asuncion and is concerned chiefly with the emotions of these courageous men Andre Gide savs in his introduction that the novel Is written In the epic mode bygone day” but say the authors the wav a dish is served has as much to do with the eating as the actual ingredients Good advertising aims to make it palatable pleasing and popular After a good copy water has finished a job aftei proper research to find the logical market then comes the choice of media to Insure the turning of a need into a want The functions of newspaper magazine and radio are each studied and merits of each pointed out with a word of caution regarding the improper method of using each Stunt adveitismg produces no lasting worth and should be seldom used the authors say Style pnde love fear all plav a pait in the winning of customers and that the youth of America do dominate to a large extent the purchases of their elders la a point not to be overlooked All in all the book Is verv Interesting Its illustrations cleaily outlined Being short snappy and to the point it is all the more enjoyable To Prevent One’s MARRIAGE IN ENGLISH SOCIETY BUMMERS NIGHT 5 14 1932 New the minds of his readers almost a decade into the future Mr PROJECTING the story of a sociological experiment carried out in the year 1940 on an island In the Pacific— an experiment of humanitarian purpose originated by an American sociologist Indorsed by the League of Nations sitting at Geneva and ratified by the governments of the signatories This "Sunday Island Convention” provided In place of capital punishment or life Imprisonment for the murderer an opportunity where though segregated from the world he might live a normal busy life In whatever craft or profession he had followed Sunday Island its Inhabitants said lay "three miles beyond Hell" and at the beginning of the story the colony had been established for some time long enough to prove again that theories hardly ever work out In practice due to the Ilcd-le- y depravity of human nature The clmpters Mr McKenna adds as Professor Dixon a political scientist who visited the Island to report on the experiment tells what happened then shows that society evolves along the same lines every-here that man develops In essentially the same way wherever transplanted Taken as purely an adventure story “Beyond Hell” is highly exciting and aside from Frofessor Dixon's annoying tendency to suggest critical events before they happen and to worry as to whether his own conduct had been In accord with the best ethics a very Interesting narrative far above the usual adventure talc Professor Dixon's interest In Sunday Island was not wholly soclologlc for Anthony Druid a young doctor friend convicted of killing an English baronet who had seduced the girl he loved Clare Frensham had been sent to the colony And Clare who was as an adopted daughter to the professor and his wife had fiercely asserted her right to come with Dixon that stie might see again the man who had avenged her shame At the moment they arrive at Sunday Island It is seething with rebellion not only among the prisoners but the garrison of American soldiers Is disaffected Through Tony In the practice of his profession information of the brewing trouAn unwise order of the garrison commandant precipible reaches the governor The governor tates a crisis and promptly the Island Is aflame with revolution and most of his staff are murdered and new leaders arise The story of the horror of "Black Week" of Mallow's herolo act of the new forms of government set up and the part that Professor Dixon plays and of the final escape of Dixon and his friends Is a record full of thrills and drama And In many respects the course of developments on Sunday Island and the problems brought to Professor Dixon are not unlike those with which civilizations bevhere havs been faced w On Lecture Tour Sylvia Thompson English author of "Summers Night" now in America ON THE EDGE OF THE PRIMEVAL FOREST By Albert Schweitzer Publisher The MacMillan Company New York As a missionary doctor In equatorial Africa the author of this volume first published some years ago In England gained a remarkable knowledge of the of the River hinterland unexplored Ogowe the district in which his hospital was established and where for four and a half years he labored Dr Schweitzer who took up medical atudy when he was 30 graduated as an M D in 1913 and went out almost immediately accompanied by his wife qualified as a nurse to begin his missionary work He had chosen this particular region of the Ogowe lowlands because of its great need of medical supervision on account of the prevalence of the sleeping sickness He gives an interesting chapter to the subject ol this disease and others peculiar to this region It is his personal experiences during his humanitarian labors that Dr Schweitzer relates for the most part but he also offers the result of his observations concerning the labor problems (there seems to be a real labor problem even here In the wilds) the problem of the educated native whose position and temptations are peculiar relations between the native and the white man alcoholism polygamy native fetishism As his work was carried on in connection with a French Evangelical mission the mission also problems and accomplishments come in for a chapter The book deals altogether wdth a period before the war One striking bit of comment Dr Schweitzer makes in respect to the white man’s difficulties In Africa Is that the man of culture strangely enough can stand the life in the forest better than the uneducated person can "because he has a means of recieation of which the Mental work other knows nothing one must have if one is to keep one'a self In moral health in Africa” UNDERSTANDING ADVERTISING By Raymond Hawley and James Button Zubin Publisher The Gregg Publishing Co New Yoik Advertising like dynamite is a tool It may be used in its place to remove sales barriers and make room for indusThat few people undertrial progress stand how to use it to best advantage Is the fact that prompted this 150 page book The clean of one of America's largest colleges for business administration asked the authors for a four months' Their couise in advertising fundaments response is contained in the 12 lectures of advertisfield not only outlining the ing but pointing out a plan of avoiding many of the pitfalls of commonplace practice in preparing ads Many larger books on the technique of writing copy are on the market but the discussions here are pointed and The various kinds of adverpractical tising are dissected with thought of which type or style of advertising befita a department store a food product plec e of new machinery or a ream of bond paper How to write copy to provide “human Interest" be coneise and of friendly appeal is carefully gone into Ten pertinent rules are outlined for the making of an advertising program from a determination of the needs of the product or service to the market research to determine the proper channels for advertising and method of reaching the greatest number of prospeetg "Whtpped cream and human emotions are supposed to be obsolete relics of a FOOTBALL STAR AUTHOR George A Bagby who appears as the author of "Bachelor's Wife" a January Coviei Friede book Is said to be the pseudonym of a former college football star who desires to keep his identity concealed A football star who avoids publicity is Indeed unusual— but Mr Bagby has reasons Some of his Incidents have to do with rather hilarious passages In the life of one of his bosses “THE NINTH WITCH" Edward Davison’s newest book of poetry "The Ninth Witch” (Harpers) wai written during the past year while h was in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing MAYS VEXGEAXCE IX SUBTLE FORM DESTROYS EXEMY THE MAN FROM SING SING By E Publishers LitPhillips Oppenhelm tle Brown & Co Boston Being a master hand at story telling Mr Oppenheitn’s deftly built up narratives usually have their surprises and the element of the unexpected is not lacking in "The Man From Sing Sing” even though from the first chapter when Reuben Argcls having betrayed his friend and business associate Is making his escape from New York on the steamer Fernanda you know in general what w ill follow That smile on the face of Moran Chambers after sentence had been passed upon him held a sinister meaning for Argels whose perjured testimony had won his own security at Chambers' expense Though Argels knew this man was fast least — even 'In Sing Sing for 10 years atChambers off the best conduct could get no more than five of his 15 years' sentence— that smile was to haunt him remembrance to make him fearful and in the end wreck his nerves when he most needed his cool assurance busmes In London Argels begin anew plans great financial coups and v ins — his operations "set the City on fire" Seemingly the firm of Andrew Pulwltter — Pulwltter who remamsi Chambers' friend and refuses Argels' hand— it not doing so well That halfblind Australian nephew whom Andiew had taken in seemed a queer fish without business ability Miss Withers who had been Andrew’s secictary losing her bepost when it was discovered she had come a friend of Argels had been helpful to Argels In passing on Information a Amhotiy-pconcerning Andrew's affair fascinating cinema iar who had been devoted to Chambers and whom Argels desires more even than success now allows him favor giving him privilege of hacking one of her pictures Yet always Argels senses some intangible adverse Influence sudden odd happenings send him Into a panic underneath hit daring confident manner live fear Only those frequent message from his friend a warden at Sing Sing reassure him — bow was he to know that the "prisoner 1790" who died of heart failure was not the man who had smiled at him from the dock? Then suddenly he knows the truth and his courage is gone one of his brilliant moves would save the Imminent crash but his nerve is broken Mr Oppenhelm however Is mercifully Inclined and his story take an unlocked for turn Stuart P Sherman' "On Contemporary Literature" brought out hr Peter Smith being distributed by A reprint of 1 Cape & Smith t tijc - 4 4 UNDERADVENTURES ALICE'S GROUND With illustrations by the author Lewis Carroll— Publisher The MacMillan Company New York One of the most Interesting and volumes brought out In connection with the Lewis Carroll Centenary whose celebration began In January this lim red book rontain a facsimile of the original Carroll manuscript— 90 pages of script by the author himself — as it was pi evented by him to his little friend Alice Liddell and later published under the title of “Alloe in Wonderland " It is accompanied by 37 reproductions of the very sketches with which Carroll illustrated it While Charles Lutwidge Podgson was still a student at Christ Church— when e he afterward remained for many yeais as lecturer and instruc tor in mathematics —one of his chief amusements was to take the three little daughters of the dean on picnics und tramps in the woods or rowing on the river The children Lorlna Edith and Alice Liddell had the greatest pleasure in his companionship delighting In his stories and the poems lie invented for their entertainment One when they were on the river and he was about to tell a story the little Alue begged there might be nonsense in it Thus came about the adventures of Alice In Wonderland which afterward l)odg-sowrote out in hi hand for the real Alice and which have since afforded delight to millions of children and adults ss well When some years afterward the stoiy was published by MacMillan & Co of London' the author made request that "the profits If any be given to the chil dren's hospitals and convalescent homes for children ” So to this day the memCarroll Is kept alive by a ory of cot in the Children's Hospital London endowed by public subscription The immense popularity of "Alice in Wonderland" made necessary the sequel “Through the Looking Glass and What clier-Ishabl- e n " Alice Found There" and countless editions of the two volumes have been le-sued In the years since do f omrthe dear--es- t treasures of little folks' libraries This present volume is an exact reproduction of the original manuscript which Is now a guarded possession of an American collector being displayed In connection with the centenary observance THIS— ANI) MANY OTHER NEW BOOKS— The Worthwhile Kind AT TICE DESERET BOOK COMPANY AC EAST ON SOUTH TEMTTE |