Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MARCH Critical Reviews of Late Books and Literature rs: i WOMAN AVOIDS MARITAL SHOALS Newest Among “Fine Prints of the Year 1930” Deeping ATTACK ON WAR MEETS FAILURE BUT FORCES STILL OPTIMISTIC THE FIGHT FOR PEACE By Devere Allen Publishers he MacMillan Company New York ADVOCATES of peace all over the world anyone who has at heart for abolishment of martial activities among the nations cannot afford to neglect this book which tells the whole story of the peace movement during its more than a century of pioneer effort and fully outlines its status today when the nature of warfare is such that humanity is faced not with “a problem in abstract at Its Jugular vein” mathematics but with a knife-bla- By E Z HOLLIS THE BRIDGE OF DESIRE By Warwick Robert M McBride Se Co New York In the Field of Modern Writers ' Deeping Novel Considers One Solution of Divorce Problem) Collection of Short Tales Happily Selected X 22 1931 Publishers it is likely have rather largely made up the public that Mr Deeping’s books one after another' on the bestseller lists It is Just possible however that some of the feminists WOMEN de among these myriad admirers are going to turn and rend Mr Deeping when they read this newbook For while it is a woman who makes the magnificent gesture of magnanimity that is the motivating impulse in his story Mr Deeping seems to imply that women In general are mere kittle-kattCertainly his Nella Frensham presents an unusual example of womanly sufferance When her playwright husband becomes overwhelmed In the whirlpool of restlessness and tormented feeling of life’s inadequacy which catches a man in his periods of recrudescence Nella does the wholly unexpected showing an understanding and forbearance of which few women are deemed capable Probably few women Devere Allen who as editor of The has stressed again and again the need of drastic opposition if the Martian idols are to be dethroned has In part In reviewing the record purposed to throw into contrast the ineffectiveness of the earlier conventional efforts with the more vigorous deterworkers mined methods of present-da- y attitude based on stern the post-wrealism Our experience In the "senseless” and unpopular war of 1812 plus disgust with ' World Tomorrow le "are— and'ye'thdvrmanyorw"havenotknowna"woman'wrhorawareof her husband's unfaithfulness has kept silence It might seem If a man plays the utter fool and turns his back on the steady light of devotion to of passion forbearance in most cases would be follow a wasted virtue At any rate Nella loved Martin Frensham so greatly she wanted only to save him from wreck of his life andknowing him thoroughly realized that when his fever had passed he would be wholly miserable and regretwho had been present at ful Judith Ruddiger the predatory-America-n the psychological moment to capture Frensham’s restless attention was not the type to hold him once his madness was done Nella would leave the way open for his return So when the popular play writer suddenly leaves his Sussex home 'for the Continent it is on a tour “for his health’” If there are neighbors to resuspect the American widow’s coincident departure Nella heroically mains “blind and deaf and dumb "—her plan championed by trusted friends — men not women Inevitably Frensham sickens of the bold adventure upon which he had embarked with such defiant heart but the reward of Nella’s extraordinary patience which comes in the little villa at San Stefano might have been too late Mr Deeping writes with his customary tolerartce and broad human sympathy and points out a way around the divorce problem that would often be a wise and happy solution were there more Nella Frenshams in the world “The Bridge of Desire” proves interesting reading MERIT AND VARIETY ASSEMBLED A MODERN GALAXY Edited by Dale Warren Publishers Houghton Mifflin Co Boston in this “galaxy” is a writer who has not only proven EACH of the stars enadeptness in the short story field' but also has attained an works of fiction biography viable place among producers of travel Indeed several of the sixteen who form the group stand at the very top of our literary ranks' Dale Warren who assembled' the collection has shown a discriminating judgment Sixteen stories of wider range in theme and style could scarcely have been brought together Almost every form of short story is represented although probably some of these except in the looser modern interpretation are not to be called short stories For instance Harold Nicholson’s subtle impression of the bizarre “Lambert Orme” of whom he says “It would be Impossible to actually be as decadent as Lambert looked” Striking contrast of character is the essential of Phyllis Bottome’s “Blue Clay" whose picture of the little model and poetic genius whose body was burned up by its flaming spirit is a thing that sears the mind In “Double Birthday” presenting the surviving members of a quite disfamily of Pittsburgh is evidence of Willa Cather’s gifts of full-leng- th cernment and exquisite writing Irony is an important element in the “Papago Wedding” by Mary Austin and of “North is Black” by Oliver La Farge the Pulitzer Prize winner but there is a delicious humor in the brief Austin tale while La Farge’s story of the Navajo who loved a white girl of the North has Indian narration John Buchan pathos underlying the stolidity of tothe be met with even on London streets proves that romantic adventure is In his “Sing a Song of Sixpence” telling of a Londoner’s odd experience when he offered a sixpence to the president of a South American rerelates an adventure of his public Rafael Sabatinl’s famous Captain Blood and Henry Sydnor Harrison’s story of the escape of “Miss Hlnch” is as neat a bit of mystery fiction as we have come across Anne Douglas Sedgwick’s penetrative analysis of human character is seen in "The Rat” wherein a man realizes the parallel in his own nature with the instincts of this one of the lower animals Equally good in their own way is James Norman Hall’s satirical “Fame for Mr Beatty” or the appealing sketch of youth in Roland Pertwee’s “The River God” or Denis MackaO’s delightful tale of little Miss Bedford’s failure in “Wanted on the Voyage" where whimsical humor does not hide a tragic note Elsie Margaret Ayer Barnes Esther Forbes and Katherine Newlin Burt are others worthily included in this Interesting “galaxy” “Blood-Mone- y” Sing-mast- er ROMANCE UNDILUTED BUT OF CIIARM ARIEL DANCES By Ethel Cook Eliot Publishers Little Brown & Co Boston is the old Cinderella tale In an entirely new garb modernized It THIS true but scarcely less of a fairy-tal- e than the original version Mrs Eliot in this first novel has shown a talent lor easy graceful writing and lor story construction but her characters well presented as they are seem to lack the actual vital fluid Her Ariel is distinctly not of the modem type and the aura of romance that hangs about her hardly permits a clear portrait to emerge The story nevertheless is not without a certain appeal Gregory Clare Ariel's artist father had been a recluse living with his one child in Bermuda and painting pictures that no one ever saw-t- wo hundred pfttures in every one of which the dancing figure of Ariel Is a motif Once Hugh Weyman then a young student nad visited Bermuda and a rare friendship had begun between him and the artist in whose work he had believed and one of whose canvases he had carried back to New York with him So when the artist was dying leaving Ariel without friends or means and his pictures he had asked Hugh to take charge of both his daughterAriel has no doubt girl until the sale of the latter should provide for the of her father’s genius but Joan Nevins the woman Hugh loves and for whom he had bought that one picture had ridiculed it and the pretensions of the painter exThe experiences of Ariel received into Hugh’s home unwelcomed cept by Hugh himself makes her story The mysteriously lovely Grandam the modern who holds aloof from others finds the girl a kindred spirit looks to her Anne her mental equilibrium upset by a strange infatuation the famous she charms to her comes for understanding courage Hugh for Schwankovsky who recognizes her father’s art Only the arrogant Joan she finds that Hugh whom she has kept dangling for until scornful is years is chafing at his bonds KENYA SETS PASSIONATE DRAMA By Florence Riddell Publisher J B Llpplncott Company where a young courts a dramatic trial In the London OPWG Iswith under charge of poisoning her benefactor Miss Riddell’s enchanting bit of equastory moves at once to her beloved Kenyaforthat her other novels where the torial Africa which has been the setting ” romantic drama Is played out the proseIgnoring the remarkable coincidence that both John Grantshould seek cuting attorney and Althea Lancaster lovely defendant she had he the of bungled from memory prosecution he escaDe in Kenya rather well with tn hide her Identity in another's you find the author doeswoman had been although the the unusual situation presented Grant he do then when his acquitted still believes her guilty What shall partner faUs voung cousin BUI in whose coffee plantation he has become will not allow His stern Judgment in love with this lovely new neighbor? him to think of Bill's marrying a woman who is a criminal yet he would pot betray Marie Browne’s secretHUller a newcomer who has ingratiated Then the murder of Robert has overheard Marie himself with Vivian Marie’s friend and whom GrantNow he realizes also fiercely upbraiding gives Grant new suspicions to Marie’s charms The not the only one who has yielded that BUI is monster as his desire to save BUI prompts his final green-eye- d drastic action SUSPICION h k ar ” x TTfrMackWelFlm”—Drypointrby-Reyfio!ds-Be- brought-th- e- d first clear protest against the curse of war It is seen In Mr AUen’s survey The echoes of these pioneer voices have sounded down through the years since the names of David Low Dodge of Noah Worcester of William JLadd he would place on the roster of the great immortals Taking up the "religious urge tot peace” Mr AUen is forced to note that while Christian pulpits and pews have cried for peace yet when wars come “the altars have been our best recruitthe church has ing stations aud never so much as attempted an opposition 'to war that actually amounted to a snowbaU In the muzzle of a ‘seventy-fiv- e’ ’’ Yet he does not overlook Its fine services as the effective attack on De- Adventure and Mystery Tales THE NIGHT 18 LONG By William R Lipman Publishers Ives Washburn Inc New York While not likely to win any prizes nor praise as literature “The Night is Long” is a good book to read There is not a dull moment in it and Mr Lipman despite amedlocre style Is very adept at painting character and In describing contemporary scenes The locale of the novel is Broadway but not a stylish Broadway It is the Broadway of night clubs and cheap dance halls and agents and second-rat- e chorus girls bootleggers gamblers and sports It is not a nice scene — much of it will offend the prudish — but it is an interesting one and Mr Lipman describes it well enough to make it seem very real The conflict between love and a career or rather between love and the lure of the bright lights forms the plot of the novel which tells how Bailie Car-lot- ta after passing from one man's hands to another's and advancing from chorus girl to featured performer gives up the one man she really loves to continue iff the night clubs MURDER AT BRIDGE By Anne Austin Publisher The MacMillan Company New York Except that she asks us to believe a group of seven women can repeat for the benefit of the police the exact movement and the attendant remarks of a bridge hand that was climaxed by the death of their hostess Anne Austin has put together a very pretty puzzle that affords the armchair sleuths exercise for their deductive powers Miss Austin shows skill in dovetailing her events and a spirited manner is another factor in her book's favor Nita Selim diminutive actress— in Hamilton to promote a Little Theater movement — is murdered during an afternoon party at her own home when she being dummy in tha final bridge hand had gone to her bedroom to make herself pretty for tha gentlemen arriving When Bonnie Dundee now special Investigator for Hamilton's district attorney reaches the scene of the crime he finds that at least a half dozen of her guests had motive and 'nearly every one the opportunity for the crime It all simmers down Dundee decides to which member of the target shooting party 6tole Judge Marshall’s gun with the Maxim silencer which Forsyte hatma Gandhi Despite the way of the movement having been strewn with failures Mr Allen yet feels there Is hardly need for pessimism “Rome was not builded in a day still less the city of love” On the other hand he warns of the danger of a "facile optimism” His chapter in rebut- - ' tal of the contentions against the effectiveness of pacifism says: "Only when the stage is ready can the new program for winning Justice attract men generally to Its standard” but that the horizon Is brightening with signs of “the happy dawn when the fight for Justice and the fight for peace shall be as one” his book itself signalizes Mr Allen’s book is the first comprehensive and authoritative record of the movement and his pungent forceful style will bring to It many readers among those "almost persuaded” SCIENTIST MAKES PIKER OF ICARUS graduate had a dark secret in her past and who was it that Nita recognized in the picture amateur theatricals? And one of the chief suspects Is a second victim of the murderer before Dundee geti the answers Lewis Gannett reviewing Dr Hs1- low Shapley's "Flights From Chaos” (Whittlesey House) for a New York paper comments: "Icarus flew so high that the sun melted his wax wings and he plunged to death But Icarus was n piker compared with Harlow Shapley the director of the Harvard astronomical observatory Mr Shapley does not bother about wings but he soars through space if there be such a thing as space at a breath taking pace The sun is merely a few million miles away Mr Shapley’s ‘Flights From Chaos' carry him millions of ‘light years’ out into 'the great open space beyond the Milky Way” -- American Novelist Resident of China Wins Club Favor Tearl S Buck a daughter of American missionaries who has lived in China since her infancy is the author of “Tho Good Earth” selected as the March book of the Club Mrs Burk has been hailed as an important new star in the literary heavens by such discriminating critics as Dorothy Canfield Christopher Morley Mitchell Ken nerley To Mrs Buck the Chinese language is a second mother tongue the simplicity of her English style is held in part due to the influence of the “mellowed Oriental speech” Mrs are Buck’s friends and associate largely Chinese she frequently wears "Chinese dress and Uves after the Chinese fashion “The Good Earth” is her second book the first “East Wind West Wind" published a year ago won critical attention and has gained steadily over its small initial sale The new book Is a John Day issue Eyelet embroidery is a favorite trimming on silk frocks this fall There is also a decided tendency toward the use of slat and lattice effects fense Day which resulted in burying it Activities of the definite organizations for peace are giving proper place in the book and the endeavors of Individuals men and women statesmen philosophers educators who have been among the faithful have due recognition together with the exponents of the "newer peace dynamics” such as Ma- REPATRIATED Banxay Holding novelist and short story writer is an American who married a member of the British civil service Their home is in Bermuda On her last visit to New York Mrs Holding was told she could stay but six months so she applied for renaturallza-tio- n Now being an American citizen again she Is upset when told that sho speaks with an English accent I Elizabeth Hilarity on Road with Dancer months before Donohue's death It appeared at the time the popular was at the height of his career Just after starring in "Sunny” and "Sons o’ Guns” The book reveals a Donahue probably unknown to the theatergoer despite the fact his humor is apparent throughout It is the chronicle of a stage struck youth who does the old “five a day” In New England playing overnight stops and hoping for the proverbial showman’s "break” There Is little doubt many of the experiences related are such as actually befell Donahue In his earlier days on the stage "Mud” the mother whose son leaves home to seek fortune in the theater is the confidant for all the adventures mishaps amorous encounters and rebuffs from the world that the "hoofer” must make his way through ' The sudden rise of the "hoofer’s” fortunes and their as rapid fall are matters told to the mother and it Is finally her counsel that straightens things out when her son learns he is not quite as wise in the ways of the world as he had imagined Bits of characterization are cleverly done in Donahue’s letters Little Joe his brother and his father an habitual drinker stand out as clearly In his pages as though they actually spoke for themselves The bit from one of the letters saying "I had a drunk alongside of me and he kept falling asleep How Is pa?” is Illustrative “Letters of a Hoofer to His Ma” Is so In unique a narrative and so different be Its humor that it cannot possibly chuckles of appreciation read without for a master comedian LETTERS OF A HOOFER TO HIS MA By Jack Donahue Publisher Cosmo- Irish-Americ- an politan Book Corporation New -York Jack Donahue danced and wise cracked his way into the hearts of thouand with his sands of Broadwayltes passing one of the outstanding figures of American musical comedy was lo6t But the quaint humor that was his is preserved in this volume or "Letters of a Hoofer to His Ma” written but a few "BOZART” CHANGES HANDS Since the death of its editor Ernest Hartsock poetic genius of the South tho poetry Journal Bozart-Co- n temporary Verse has been taken over by the Oglethorpe University which also assumes management of The Bozart Press Tho poetry publications of the Bozart Press were or uniformly high standard "A Man's Life ” Jacques’de Lacretelle'a the 1930 Grand Prize of the French Academy has just been published by Holt’s ' novel awarded ' Book of Spiritual Content Tells Rare Love Experience WORLD WITHOUT END By Helen Thomas Publishers Harper and Brothers New York To that most beautiful story of a perfect love between man and woman told in “As It Was” published four year ago Helen Thomas has added the chapters dealing with its consummation in a union that was complete albeit sorrow had part in It equally with a high ecstasy Helen Thomas’ husband was one of the several young British poets whose singing was stilled forever in the clamor of the war guns and the story of David and Jenny begun in “As It Was” is the story of Edward Thomas and herself Those first forthright revelations of an absorbing passion whose Innocence is as recognizable as its amazing frankness have been republished in the one volume with this concluding portion of the story carrying on the loyers' experiences from the birth of their first child and sharing with us the secrets of their emotional life David is completing hts Oxford term and Jenny remains In the home of hia parents David's Inability to fall iff with the views of his father for his career makes this plan short of duration- and the young pair seek a home for themselves Theirs U not a very stable existence tor David s literary toll Is hot greatly remunerative: the little family know poverty and privation often For the sake of little Philip and the baby sisters who duly arrive to keep him company they live in the country whose freedom they ail enjoy: but circumstances necessitate frequent removals Not poverty nor work can affright Jenny's naturally happy Joyous spirit It la the terrible spells of gloom and black depression that attack David that "melancholy whlclf had its roots in no material circumstances” to which his sensitive nerve organization was subject that come to cloud their lives There were days sometimes weeks that Jenny knew terrible loneliness while David fought with his demon yet always she clung fast to the knowledge that she only was the rock on which David's spirit rested and her love never lost Its passionate Intensity For herself she evolved this philosophy: "Pain and weakness and evil as well as strength and passion and health are part of the beautiful pattern of life life is richer and fuller and finer the more you can understand not only In your brain and intellect but In your " very being that you must accept It all -- ' m'Jf without bitterness the agony without complacency the Joy" "World Without End” Is a book of deep spiritual beauty in its revealment of the close union of two souls It Is also a rarely understanding interpretation of poet's nature JACK DONAHUE What Book The Literary Shall I Read Next? Almanac Titles Just published by Putnam’s include Peadar O'Donnell’s Irish novel "There WUl Be Fighting”: Major George Cornwalli8-West’- s If you will come to us memoirs “Edwardian Heydays” "A History of Tapestry” a new enlarged edition by W O Thomson: "Samoa Under the SaUing Gods” an Indictment of New Zealand's mandate of Samoa by N A Rowe "The Holy Cities of Arabia” by Eldon Rut- - Just the Book ter Writers editors librarians in fact everybody who has to wrestle with words will have a special Interest In announcement of the new Roget Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms which Dr C O Sylvester Mawson has prepared for Putnam's The old Roget lists have been modernized and refurbished and made more comprehensive A rearrangement of the words brings every meaning under one head which wUl make it an even readier reference The Hugh Walpole novel "Above the Dark Tumult” described by Doubleday Doran as a stirring melodrama of Is only an Interlude In the "Rogue Herrles’’ series which Mr Walpole will continue with "Judith Paris” whose publication Is scheduled for fall The Piccadilly novel comes almost at once Jron) these publishers —we can help you select for an evening’s real pleasure -- DESERET v oBOIEXp CDMB&NY ly 44 EAST ' ON SOUTH TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH — b |