Show Critical Reviews of Late Books - Art4- - - JUNE SUNDAY MORNING THE SALT LAKE TJtIBUNE 2S In tlic Field of Modern Writers and BIRTHPLACE OF CIVILIZATION Map Showing Lost Continents Sea Tragedy Basis of Novel LOCATED ON LOST CONTINENT ' Compiler of War Anthology Builds Dramatic Narrative Whose Implications Are Deeply Philosophical — 'By E E HOLLIS V THE CHILDREN OP MU By James Churchward: Publisher Ives Washburn New York rrms volume Is a seqjiel to “The Lost Continent of Mu” published 1 several years ago In which the author told of a vast land area now covered 'by the waters of the southern Pacific which was the civilization “The Lost Consource so he contends of present-da- y tinent of Mu” went almost Unnoticed In scientific circles It ran counter to the accepted geological thought and was looked upon as a freak theory rather than as a contribution to knowledge Lack of appreciation has not deterred Mr Churchward however he has continued his studies and In “The Children of Mu” presents an account of the colonization carried on by the Inhabitants oj his lost conti- By Eugene Lohrke Publishers Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith New York ocean liner TAKING as motif for his narrative the situation on an Mr Lohrke met with disaster and Is gradually sinking has concerned himself wholly with what goes on In the minds of certain of thTpassengers and crew In the hour just preceding the vessel’s final plunge when in the Imminence of death they see more clearly and the purpose and pattern of their lives become clarified for them The Glarporland one of the world’s most exclusive and luxurious steamers sailing in waters “right where the Titanic went down” has struck an iceberg a glancing blow that has scraped off her bottom planks The slight grinding sound and shudder of the ship even the stopping of her engines has gone almost unnoticed by most of those on board the masque ball to close the gayeties of the trip being In progress Among them a few passengers whose own mental conflicts have kept them aloof hear and half realize what Impends one or two of the ship’s crew each besieged by his special perplexities are aware DEEP EVENING nent Ancient stone tablets found In Mexico are the basis of his theories He has translated them and claims that they together with other evidence archaeological anthropological and geological that he has uncovered In his world travels give a clear picture of a people living at least 20000 years ago and of their wanderings through the world Into the minds of these few Mr Lohrke has peered deeply probing to the Inmost core and we are able to see them Intimately Mr Thurlow Barton wealthy New Yorker is returning from attendance at an American Legion convention In Paris where he has Indulged himself In several experiments In vice unconsciously taking revenge on a mother who had bound him to herself and kept him from a normal life There is the nasty little gigolo Ziemssen turned waiter for a time until he can attach himself to another wealthy woman susceptible to flattery and Able Seaman Morgan in the crow’s nest whose brooding on the possible infidelity of the dark woman he has left at home makes him intensifying of indifferent to that breath of cloud “a curious ice shadow” which suddenly Is neither cloud nor shadow but loomingfutilAnd Mr Viersteln "dingy dim and frustrated” so convinced of his berth when the cry ity that he merely locks his door and buries in his deck” finds justification for his life In helping comes for “All out-o- - Poets From North and South VERSE OF THE NEW WEST By Iren Publisher The Cax-toWelch Grissom Printers Caldwell Idaho Love for the West and its great windswept areas of desert and forest and mountain ranges permeates every page of this newest volume by Idaho’s poet Mrs Grissom sings in easy flowing rhythms of the conquered desert: of the courage of the pioneers who built their homes in its gray wastes of the indomitable spirit of those who have accepted “nature's challenge" to carry on the civilization their forefathers brought Whether “a mocking desert stretching wide” or shining fields whose "broad acres wear a cloth of gold” Mrs Grissom is alive to the beauty the land holds and she fashions many pictures that to one who knows the West will have allure Her kinship with nature is announced in her “A Petition": “Let these be mine as life sweeps by: The rapture that the sweet spring e’ n n Mrs Simon’s escapQ In the main It is Frances dilpin Chicago society beauty and her lover Major Wandrell attached to the American embassy in Paris whose mental confusions and their clarification are dealt with most fully — the woman returning to square her accounts with the husband who had been kind and had trusted her before giving herself to the man with whom she had hoped to find all that had eluded her the man angered with himself that he had lost his balance In the Influence of this chaos each feels the ship moods Each mind is a disaster but a part of the full tragedy that has overtaken them One feels all the tensity of the situation even while its physical There is a touch of mysticism in the book a details are but suggested significance not sharply pointed yet Mr Lohrke seems to emphasize ofthat so “the ambitions of men and their passions (are) only the struggles end the ordains is It fate that bottle” a in flies glass many child-woma- “self-center- n's ed THE DIAMOND OF MARIFA By Carl B Adams The Bozart Publisher Press Atlanta By CHRISTIE LUND From the south comes an interesting little volume of poetry which takes its title from its initial offering a narrative poem telling a glamorous and love story The author imaginative shows a fine descriptive ability and his similes are good if at times a trifle forced and too profuse It is in his shorter poems that he excels Several of his sonnets are truly lovely and of rather universal appeal most of them being on the subject of frustrated love In one “Valedictory" he boasts: “ Now I have bad my day Of love let come the night I am The peace ef silent sunny fields The wonder of the deep blue sky I cannot then be wholly sad The book is in three parts the last division given to poems of a more introspective nature The poem we like best in the book is “Trees” which begins "Then said Jehovah unto Men: 'I will ' ’’ set in the desert the green fir tree There are several excellent crayon and wash drawings by Glen H Spurgeon to enhance the book and one or two photographic reproductions' of scenic marvels NO ONE MAN us life-ma- ’ AMERICANS NOT ALL NOVELS PAINT THEM te - Recently m a letter to her publishauthor of “The ers P M Mayor i Squire's Daughter” (Coward-McCann- ) apologized for the picture which her book had presented pf the American She says: family the Warrikers "When it was arranged that ‘The Squire’s Daughter’ should appear in America I felt' so sorry that I should enjoy the hospitality of a country that was represented so unworthily in its repages that I should like to have was written the Warrlker pages but I not ill and abroad at the time and able to consult with my agent as to whether that would be a possible thing to do I hasten to say that the Warrlker family are not drawn from life or even from hearsay They are got secondhand through novels If I write another book I will try to bring in an American more like the Americans-have known” y Walter Noble Bums’ “The Ride” (Doubleday Doran) is a history ' with the full of Cnicago racketeers stories of Capone and Torrio One-Wa- Friends Furnish “Life” of O Henry THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD By Robert H Davis and Arthur B Maurice Publishers D Appleton Si Co New York interest in regard That the to this magician among story-tellerinsatiable desire to know more concerning his life letters and tribulations is richly gratified in this volume by tw5 who knew him well in his days of “callphlng” in his Little Old Bagdad on the 'Subway the City of Too Many Caliphs It has bedd loving interest not mere curiosity that has kept alive the desire to penetrate the obscurity surrounding so much of his life for O Henry has been a beloved name wherever books are read These two writers who enjoyed Intimacy with William Sidney Porter who assisted his literary progress came to his aid in his financial dilemmas (constantly occurring) have told here as much perhaps as the world will ever know about this modern Haroun Alras-chi- d reA deliberate Impenetrable serve armored him in those New York days attributed by the writers largely to the humiliating secret he feared to ' have uncovered Yet even before his prison years it seems that reticence characterized him to his good friends of the Texaswasranch disdays little of his inner self closed That he was a genial lovable companion is agreed but except his talent for pictorial humor little marked from him from his fellows When coming the Columbus penitentiary vta onPittsthe burgh to make successful foray ranks of New York magazine editors Man of the he was burdened by his Old Sea— a secret that was no secret had he but known His friends knew of and him because of those thought no less of none had courage to prison days but put speak out and O Henry never could aside the memory the fear that someas him one might recognize Much space naturally is given to this never-wanin- g s on his way to Central America where extradition did not obtain His flight was confession of guilt Little is known of his Honduras days hut many of his stories particularly in "Cabbages and Kings” reflect this period When the message reached him was very that Athol his sweetheart-wifill (a victim or the white plague) Porter Immediately started for home to face whatever might be in store and the police leniently ignored his presence in Austin until after Athol's death If he suffered Innocently yet fate had kind purpose perhaps for it was during his Imprisonment— when he was a trusty serving as drug clerk in the hospital— that his genius as a short story writer developed His first stories sent' through a friend via New Orleans were published before he left Columbus— in year July 1901 the spring of tlje next bringing him to the conquering of New York It is the O Henry of this period of whom we get the clearest view through the recollections of his close associates who prowled with him in the highways and byways of Bagdad whose passing moods are reflected in his stories Makhe was ing friends everywhere yet aloof Evasive Mr Davis says is the word that best explains his personality y He looked on at life studying the own filling out their lives in his saint” the auimagination No “plasteramorous affairs: thors admit he had his drank heavily though carrying it welhis kept lounged In saloons: constantly editors waiting yet was always asking and getting advance payment on his stories Some of the letters written to his editors are as delightfully humorous as any of his stories Carefully sifting the old lcgehds about O Henry and presenting much new matter discussing the origins and background of his stories defending him from charge of plagiarism the authors have made a wholly enjoyable book undoubtedly of first importance as biby ography It brims with anecdote many literary notables that one can hardly refrain from retelling e i pass-ersb- "The Caliph of Bagdad ” O Henry ‘ - and to the probability that when Will Porter entered prison an innocent man went to punishment Of the embezzlement of funds from the Austin bank where he was four years as teller very few believe him guilty But when guilty or not he was condemned trial he going up from Houston to stand to changed trains and fled New prleans episode ‘ content" Only to contradict himself again and again by revealing a deep and lasting hurt combined with a lover's unquenchable hope In “Finality" hope seems to have been lost in despair for he says: bloom” There are other poems keyed to mood of disillusionment and ironical dl trust of happiness WOMAN’S ADVANCE IN FIELD OF MUSIC a HERE RESURVEYED WOMAN'S WORK IN MUSIC By Ar- tliur Elson Revised by Everette C Truette Publishers L C Page & Co Boston This excellent survey and appreciation of woman’s contribution in the field of music and estimate of her influence on this branch of art since ancient times has been completely revised by Mr Truette and extended to include the accomplishments of some women contemporaries who have attained prominence as musical composers librettists orchestra conductors Mr Truette’s chapter on “Since 1903’ —which was the year the book first ap- peared — mentions the later composi-A tions of euch women as Mrs H H Beach and Margaret Ruthven Lang Largest spacq perhaps is given to the achievement of Ethel Leginska noted as pianist and conductor of opera and orchestra who is also a composer of orchestral pieces ultramodern in style Miss Leginska's portrait is used as frontispiece to the book Others well known in the field among the many included are Harriet Ware Mrs Celeste de Longpre Heckscher Carrie Jacobs Bond “As yet there has been no woman composer of the very first rank comgiants among men” parable to the tonal is Mr Truette’s conclusion He offers in explanation that "women have not been generally at work in this field until the last century while men have had ' considerably more time And after all there are not many really great men among the composers The tonal giants may almost be counted on the fingers of the hands If no woman has yet become 'prima inter pares’ there are many whose work equals that of the lesser men” Mr Truette in estimating the scope of the modern woman’s work feels that “the future of woman in the realm of creative musical art Is promising in- AFRICAN CHAUFFEURS of nuMary Hastings Bradley author merous Jungle books is now in Africa with her husband and writes concerning their preparations for an expedition into the interior and of native peculiarities A native had but one Idea of drivit ing she says — when in doubt 6tep on — highest speed Always turn a corner at or Mrs danger that shortens the time Bradley turned to crime in her latest 700” in Room (Appleton) “Murder book 1 - ‘ deed” English Authors' In First Favor MODERN ” WOMAN IS DAYS OF CRUSADERS One of the ladles who played an important part in the Crusades as Harold Lamb has written In “The Flame of Islam” (Doubleday Doran) was the young slave girl of Cairo Shadjar ad Darr Pearl Spray Shadjar ad Darr was the favorite of Sultan Ayub When he lay dead In an inner chamber she kept the palace quiet and the Cairo mobs Ignorant of his death while the war went on against the Franks She gave orders to the veteran Mamluks to A1 Beg and Baibars the Panther She signed official acts with Ayub’s seal gathered taxes and sold Jewels to buy grain In spite of the ruled by prophet who said that a land a woman was accursed 6he ruled Cairo "December trees are black with grief Like windows of a common doom March sun will prick their buds to leaf — But withered love no more will yields New By Rupert Hughes Publishers Harper Si Brothers York as men? This is the query of the nature as ARE women by — a query polygamous to which Rupert Hughes the author would jacket At least if he would have us apparently answer “Yes only more is so” in nature a fair representation of believe that his Penelope Newbold by which Pauline s her 6ex There are countless Neps— Nep being the name some friends knew her — in the world he says in every strata of life only mischief for leisure and lack her opportunities The frivolous flippant Nep is a pampered daughter of wealth sciutterly without inlvibitionstenludaciously entific and cynical-minde- d men are sorely in her loves believing with Boccaclo that undying love tasked to satisfy one woman” She yearns for one great one man could with one great man god but ih reality she knows that no be content to spend satisfy all sides of her nature so that she could 365 days of the year with him Yet a girl has to get married— for a while anyway— though Nep didn’t like the way most grownups seemed to turn monogamy into serial So she accepts Joe Sturgis who is a coming man and will polygamy y therefore she feels be wholly safe But she hadn’t known that Stan-leher childhood playmate wmuld weep and rave and threaten to comNot mit suicide when he heard of it Joe must step aside for Stanley however of a being sure that Stanley would fulfill her idea — she proposes —even insists much to his dismay on a test: if they can alone together then a lifetime might be possible enjoy a week-en- d The experiment proves a fiasco — Nep’s being deathly sick from nerDeciding vousness and overeating the first night spoils all romance Nep rejects his proposal to make that Stanley is not the right man overlook — to her “a good woman” and returns to Joe His willingness her experiment captures Nep and she marries him after all But in the back of her mind all the time is Bill Hanaway— gay dissipated philanderer— and before the hbneymoon has waned hearing that Bill has been Joe caught on the rebound in the snares of a married flirt Nep persuades to accompany her to Reno for a divorce Unfortunately excesses have not improved Bill’s weak heart and their married happiness is abruptly terminated by death— yet there is indlcatipn at the end that Nep s very real sorrow will know mitigation promptly Mr Hughes has no intention either to defend or justify his heroine to present her acmerely to make a zoological analysis of her species frank and cording to the facts as he sees them He has been absolutely ruthless in his expose of the mind of this representative of the modern gay fashionabls set and her background Most modern geologists make their in hundreds of thoucomputations sands and millions of years holding that man did not appear upon the earth until long after most of the great geological movements had taken place Mr Churchward differs He believes that civilized man had existed for at least 250000 years and that most of the great geologic changes took place between 20000 and 30000 years ago He constantly refers to a time “before the mountains were raised" and tells of events in human history occurring before that time The world of 20000 years ago as Mr Churchward pictures it was vastly different from that of today There were two Immense continents — Mu and Atlantis long disappeared — and the topography of the other continents was much different than it is now South America had no high mountains and the Amazon valley was an inland sea like the Mediterranean Mu the older of the vanished continents was the home of civilization he declares It sent out colonists who He peopled the rest of the world traces the routes they tookf tells of their founding new empires describes the breakdown of these empires and the ultimate disappearance of Mu and Atlantis beneath the ocean waters It is not to be expected that Mr Churchward’s theories will be kindly received by scientists and it is difficult for the layman to appraise them It Is certain however — granting his premises to be sound and it is not easy to attack them based as they are upon knowledge not generally available— that his reasoning is plausible as that of most scientists science in its broader sense involving so much rationalization The author’s views are likely to be more acceptable to the lay mind than those of recognized geologists for world they make the history of the substihuman instead of impersonal rational of beings tuting the actions for the writhing of the earth “The Children of Mu” and its predecessor do seem to possess some claims to acceptance Mr Churchward - is no at least sensationalist consciously Most of his reasoning is sound the methods by which he traces myths back to “reality” are interesting if nothing more If his book is only 10 it per cent correct it is valuable for gives a new point of view to the much pondered history of man and opens up vast opportunities for research It bears the stamp of originality mno in georiginality in science —especially as ology— is something so uncommon to be exceedingly welcome The Lines of Colonization from Mu through the Amazon Sea to Africa Atlantis the Mediterranean and Asia Minor- - wisp-lik- W 1931 ' The Literary Almanac for Tahiti which he terms one of the two civilized places of the globe— the other being Switzerland but with Tahiti ranking first a The “Prix du Roman Populate valuable literary prize in France has been awarded to Eygene Dabit for Ills novel “Hotel Du Nord” a story of the The book is canal workers of Paris to be published in America by Knopf ’’ Robert L Ripley of ’’Believe It or Not” his fame has recently returned from expedition- - which latest took him to Africa Egypt Palestine Turkey and Europe He has promised Simon and Schuster his second volume in his Believe It or Not series “Society” is to bs the title of J P by McEvoy’s fifth novel announced Simon and Schuster for fall issue Mr "Show of Dixie Dugan McEvoy brings 'Girl” into the limelight again and penetrates into the sacred precincts of High Society fact-findi- Recently expelled from Russia because she included a Joke on Stalin in a magazine article Eve Garrette Grady came home and wrote a book on Russia which she has titled “Seeing Red” It’s a July number from Mrs Grady finds the unemployed man m New York better off than the Russian with a Job long-await- In “The' Harbourmaster’ the new novel William McFee is completing for the genDoubleday Doran he says that his hero eral Idea of the character of Is “to provoke thought" Mr Spenlove but quite to the contrary It has provoked a desire for murder In his typist who says she wants to kill Spenlove Arthur Weigall the authoritative of Nero and Cleopatra has now dealt with “The Life and Times of Marc Antony” the book to be published by Putnam’s in the fall Mr WelgaU suggests that but for the misunderstanding between Antony and Cleopatra at the have Battle of Actium Antony might hlmbecome more powerful than Caesar Rex Beach’s “Money Mad” a June Cosmopolitan book is not one of his stories of prospecting in the far north but of a far different "gold rush”— in Wail Street when the market was going up before the great crash Having delivered the manuscript of his next book “Blaine and His Times” to Cosmopolitan for fall publication Charles Edward Russell has Just sailed “Gold Men and Dogs” (Putnam s) is the autobiography of Scotty Allan three times winner of the Alaska sweepstakes Allan was one of the men to Join the' mad rbsh to the Klondike With Book Clubs Two more English novels have received the favor of American book clubs Edithbook Olivier’s of dis“Dwarf’s Blood”-tinct English flavor Is the choice of The Literary Guild for July It Is described as a wide departure from "overheated gangster stories novels of socalled turbulent youth and the syllabic accounts of speakeasy love” the story of a husband and wife whose second child has inherited dwarf’s blood from a parental ancestor Miss Olivier is the author of “As Far as Jane's Grandmother’s” and “The Triumphant Footman" both attaining a large success in America It Is a HoughtOn Mifflin issue “The Garden" the July selection of The Book League of America Is by L A O Strong the second book of his to be honored by a book club his “Dewer Rides” having been oneof the early Paper Books “The Garden” has been enthusiastically praised In En- -' gland O B Stem is one who deClares it “one of the loveliest books I have read for a long time” The trade edition of the book is published by Knopf terse-mon- o Books and Rental Library Avers: I've tailed the k seven tally teas Seeking romance far and near And plunder from The printed page— 1 am the avid Dookaneer! 4 A Atk for our summer list ‘ v a cation books and ' Expert and Courteous Service magazines i Deseret Book' Company 41 E So Tempi ' W C Winder e Jr - 57 South Main St Salt Lake City Utah |