| Show fr pi-- tt s n 1 1 JlHfi“l V i TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE r i f i1 SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 20 Art and Literature Critical Reviews of Late Books FIFTH HARPER PRIZE NOVEL Young Author Takes Place VI itli Notable Lit That eludes Marguret Wilson Anue Parrish GIcnway VTcseott Julian Green In- - VIEW OE CIVILIZATION TODAY 1 By JACOB TRiPP CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL By C Delisle Burns The MacMillan Company New Yoik Dr C Delisle Burns English author and sociologist of note gives us In this walk a reliable and compiehensive view of the world situation -something sorely needed today when changes are so piodigious and rapid that one finds one s bearings with difficulty In this able volume we are provided with a large-scal- e map which illuminates our whole field of vision Dr Bums first gives our map in three solid colors showing the areas in which we can expect respectively primitive medieval and modern conditions Then he goes on to show modernity rapidly spieadlng into the primitive and medieval areas with sociological results which affect age-o- ld habits and social relations of entire peoples An Interesting analysis of medieval areas reveals the factors which dictatorships peasant popproduced fruitful conditions for the post-wulations high birthrate and deathrate illiteracy and authoritarian religions Illuminating comparisons are made with countries in which modern civilization is combined with the democratic tradition Primitive and medieval societies are thus seen to be rapidly changing due to the inroads of modern industrial civilization But modern civilization itself is seen to be in rapid flux During the last twenty years we have j MODERN — By E E HOLLIS BROTHERS IN THE WEST By Robert Raynolds Publishers Harper & Brothers New York the coveted Harper prize award went to a novel as THIS year In its way if not as powerful as the study of abnormal psychology In “The Dark Journey’’ by Julian Green which was Its has told the predecessor Robert Raynolds the new story of two brothers In the pioneer years of the West but his book is less a picture of pioneer life than it Is a saga of brotherhood For between these brothers — who remembered neither their birthplace nor parents only themselves— existed a rarfe bond a bond that was their strength “In all things thej were brothers together’’ and together found more joy than most men They were free rovers these mighty brothers Charles of the led beard and crooked disconcerting eyes and the darker David They desired no settled habitation needing freedom of wide spaces and they trapped and hunted through the south and west from Mexico to the Missouri Nor did love of woman so often the dividing wedge come between these two When David’s desire grew toward blonde Karin who had been the French Grosj can’s woman Charles aids him to kidnap her— Karin altogether willing Thereafter she rides with them in their wanderings and comes to share in the understanding between them Though both men love her their love for each other Is greater— and later Charles contents himself with the gift of herself the young Spanish Carlota offers Little Jean Grosjean following in his fury at losing Karin to kill the brothers yields to the power of their peisonalities and joins their journeying s loving the brothers even more than the girl Others are caught in their train — Steve a settler's wild lad orphaned by Indian raiders lonely Padre Llorente deserted by bis flock Jasper and Olivia left homeless by d Donald brooding over the child he had killed a tornado the rather than leave it to die in solitude— and bide with them to found a community high in the mountains where at last they build a home for prize-winn- ’ i Yield Baum ‘ I author of er ' X s V Xrx5 successful J “Grand totcl ” writes ar $ 4-- I if “Mari in' 8 Swm mcr' j V ? J p t riA J? Plav’s Puzzle Goes Unsolved By Playwright i During the run of Ills plav "As You Desire Me” (it the Maxine f lllott Theater in New York Luigi Pirandello It Is said recelv ed the following cable "Tell us the truth w as she Lucia or was the not?’ To which the Italian playwright replied "But I don t know" This play which has as its theme If a woman hailstorms herself as she thinks ft man de sires her does he reallv love her latural self or her transformed (elf?" Is a September book of Dut on s Estimating Arnold Bennett i half-ma- Kaiim For while the brothers had no need of a' roof Karin who felt she "had left little bits of her soul at each ot numberless campfires” must like have a home She “had given away day after day of Her life sacrifices upon an altar and no gods answered the piayers of her heart” but there in a home made ready God might hear and send her the child which was her desire Mr Raynolds has termed his story a legend and his chief figures are of legendary character But he has given them a setting that is authentic Born hi the southwest Mr Raynolds knows the country thiough which Ills brothers travel and he can place its changing scenes before one He effectively recreating its beauty and grandeur and desolatcness paints a wide canvas in which there is beauty and a sense of movement out his design does not emerge with clearness Nor do the giant brothers despite their rugged strength and love of the free life wholly fit into the scene ‘‘Brothers in the West” while hardly as distinguished a piece of work as some of its predecessors is jet a book to read with interest and is a distinct promise of something fine to come from Mr Raynolds’ pen As a grand man and a great one a sort of English Cjiano de Bergerac is the author of "The Old Wives Tales ” of “Rlcejniau Steps" and other notable successes estimated bv Rebecca West in “Arnold Bennett Himself" the appreca t'on which was recently published as the first of the John Day pamphlets Miss Wests portrait of the filsim pllshod English novelist is done wilh discernment and wit and will be of cn tertatning interest to all familiar wuh ilie literature he has produced Mes West presents a figure of poi lentous personality — which was not at all the real Arnold Bennett but an impersona ton of “the perfect Londoner" merelv a character he had built up "It was a baroque exterior Into which a shy man hvd converted all the oddities of whdi he was mat sensitive so that lie could have somewhere to hide Bom in the Industrial Five Towns the son of a tradesman when to be "in trade tv” Arnold Bennett possessed an exuberant vitality that refused to accept the res' net ion of his class "He simplv looked the woi Id in the fare and announced loudlv and distinctly t hat lie was not gting to submit to any restriction whatsoever He was going to do eventhli g He was going to know evervthing ' And ids dvnanne energy accomplished it he acquired knowledge on ail subjects bul ness and high finance old fumitme or rookerv : the language' marie him eelf familiar with painting and nuelc as well as literature traveled olten and widely In truth he conquered the wond So diverse were the eminences he reached Miss West finds the srveial positions he occupied In English litca-t"r- e analogous with those very sepai ate positions Piled in Amerlea by S S Van Dine Sinclair lewis James Huiekei Theodore DicImi William Ljon Plieip Even Wordsworth he "resembled mere closely than the hasty might suspect” He Is Joined with Shaw and Wells and Galsworthy In Influent lug the state of literature in an age that cried for inure solid food than it had been receiving As a critic ‘he inspired a whole generation of writers Just as Httnekpr old In Amerlea ” Even w hen as a novelist he vas declining he was “still to pass through the most Influential phase of Ins career” Iris weekly book page exercising an influence o nthe English book market comparable to that Dr Phelps old once on the American "No critic In England" Miss West avers ‘Tms ever approached his vast popular success the among the frivolous the earne-P'ous the atheist the lettered the 11 literate He got them all ’ TRIALS OF A HANDSOME ATHLETE Publisher Cosmopolitan Book By Vicki Baum New York of “Grand Hotel” and auditors of the dazzling stage success READERS it will undoubtedly grasp eagerly at this new novel by And may possibly find disappointment therein Weld Baum It often success follow so a remarkable falls to first novel short the that happens We understand too that “Martin’s Summer” was writof expectations ten before the “Grand Hotel” Frau Baum unquestionably has the gift of reading human nature particularly its feminine exposition yet there is a certain brittle glittering quality about her people that makes them seem not quite real They are endowed with very human traits jet they do not all have that flesh-and-- v blood actuality which demands our intense sympathy in their trials their Our attitude is rather detached however genuine is our joys and woes interest In their story It is our mind rather than our emotions that 13 engaged Martin Hell an engineer out of a To give an outline of the story Job and funds has to accept a place as swimming instructor at a mountain lake resort while he awaits results from an invention for uninflammable films he has put into an agents hands which is bound to make his fortune Handsome young and athletic he captures the hearts of the feminine contingent of summer visitors at Frauensee and to avoid their e pursuit is one of his problems Good Frau Birndl wife of Ills employer and about to add to the enorAnd mous Birndl progeny can only sigh and bring him tarts and eggs these are welcome for Martin is paid only for lessons and there were days and days when it rained and cold winds blew— even adoring ladies couldn t come to the bathing place and Martin couldn’t eat or dined on Nor would his piide let him accept even a milk and apples or chocolate tip though he starved But theie’s plump Frau Mayredcr who hated the water but valiantly floundered in her strap at the end of the pole because of the handsome instructor at the other end And dainty Amka the pseudo countess ostensibly married but anxious to repeat the affair of his student days Stefanie with her appealing eyes Vesi the pretty waitress frankly offering her charms and the dangerous Bojan the actress whose sirenlc ways frighten Martin Only for one girl has Martin ejes He is the only one who can tell So May the boyish one knows which is which of the Lyssenhop twins itus indeed love that he swears for her and her own emotion matches Of Martin’s though circumstances are plentiful to upset her jealousy the straits into which Martin’s devotion leads him and that which happens to poor little Puck that appealing creature of fantasy from Tulip land who saves Martin's life and wins but ill reward one must leave you to read for yourself The book has piquancy and novelty and while it ran add nothing to a reputation established by "Grand Hotel” neither will it detract from it And it Is a book that asserts a definite personality MARTIN’S SUMMER Corporation El - deaf-and-du- ' i H- - ROMANCE IN SOUTH AIRICV Company By Florence Riddell Publisher J Philadelphia stoiy of a young wife whose reward for her remarkable WITH thlfland foibearanee might to some seem hardly worth the trouble Miss Riddell lias added another to her creditable list of African romances While It follows a stereotyped pattern and its characters are commonplace 1pes the btofy Is readable Mbs Riddell knows her Kenya and its life— d as well as Us effect on young men who find in attacks of B Lippincott WIVES WIN weak-wille- £ “Kenya nerves” excuse for all sorts of pect adllloes Doll Kennedy who comes out alone from England to Join her fiance after he has been three yeais in Kenya on the farm that her own money had bought finds that ills loyalty to her hasn't withstood the strain of Because the beautiful blonde who has her elutet ea Kenya’s solitariness qu him happens to be absent for a time Terence welcome Dell and she But when the sirenlc forgives ins defection and marries him promptly CTaiic returns and shortly an accident makes her a widow Dell finds it all to do over again She accepts the counstl of the wise though bizarre Jane that "wives always win if they wait patiently" and in the end Terence comes back to her But one wonders was it worth it— for there was Stephen Lang worth a dozen Teienccs whom she lost ALTAR FIMWBy Grace Ingles Frost rare old lace grown golden with the years The ftondy foliage of the taniari k Shines through n mist A mist that Autumn wraus of umhed tears — That here and there lier carmine Ups have iDsrd Like While out beyond a ridge of nigged hillLike altar fire there flames a crimson raj Binning -- burning deep Into my hear'! Dear God Ihe mighty beaut v of it fill I piaj! My soul wltti b( nedietion-an- d e the Field of Modern Writers ii ANALYST TAKES OPTIMISTIC Popular German Novelist 1 $ 1931 ’ APPROPRIATE TITLE COINED FOR UTAH'S SOUTHERN PARKLAND RAINBOW CANYONS By Eivind R PubScoyen and Frank J Taylor lisher Stanford University Press Stanford University Cal Intriguing as is Its title the material of this book is even more bo to those v ho have had their Introduction to the beauties whereof the authois 1 o the uninitiated It should speak the tales of "Alice in Wonread as did ’ derland to their childish minds This wonderland of 'Rainbow Canyons " of which Messrs Scoven and Taylor write is familial to many loial folk but its glories remain to be explored ' by many The fanciful “Carto-giap- h Just Inside the covers by Ruth 7 ayldr White will be followed with fascination and amusement by those who have visited the beauty spots described In the gav little volume The authois explain m thp verv first paragraph of Ihe book that the title “Rainbow Canyons " is a misnomer for no such ranvons exist on the maps but are known bv the pio-sanames of Zion and Brjce Canyon National Parks They also state that southern Utah Is replete with rainbow canvons "carved m brilliantly tinted rock unexplmed jut "there THE BOOKMAN Slrfe It Is understood today that "if we cannot get our feet on reality and talk like men poetry is a b irsted soap bubble Arthur Colton In the month issue of The Bookman gets down to "Stripped Rcalitv and tclL us what it is He says tn part: -- ’ ’ have Mr Feo en and Mr pointed wl'h then gcologital inhumation many amusing inddents and the whole Is a veij enjoyable nar- in-r- oi IKON'Y lifts Denwood coauthor with S Jonathan F'wler Wright of "Under the TViutili stone" which ha been an English Book society rhotre ts ri"lng according Hi- - book written to a recent dispatch ten years ago was rejected by nine pub Now that e ran no longt r enlNhert joy It surer ss comes JOOlO copies of his Wide book alreadv having been sod 1 h book was being kit ked from puli' Mr lx nvvood w us m cl i er to publish! rale rued of money for tru'd cal alien His Is ok lion whlih came too lab will be n O(tobr publication of Cox erdM'Cann to beans' Iff or ' NVU 1SSI1 " that realltv is a get-tm- radiations citement Tliere also ex tram diriarv universe! Too curious for a young nun to feel dull In And as for the old theirs is the regiet that their time is too short to grow med ta the new vision of It But then they aie iisd to reg’et ' Sooner or lab r a dlslllu lorn d age begms to xuspet t that Its disillusion liu lit Li liitisni Ihe hard world ot lai I I a romance It( ahtv Is not hue ft rx k It Is more like a fla'h It nay be that we are 'In or a 11b fiarv iieilod more like the age of Divden md Pope thnn like the age But that of C’oleildge and Keats iiu ana an unreill tc age an age of Him 'ons It thinks the dent Is tie lealilv and not the x mu thing or it Dial what a n an r ahtv and what he diiams that made lx ’’ of one of those sophisticated stories of love and Intrigue for which Mr Maugham is noted A haeknevid theme almost completely disguised by novel and nn ii' mil situations Last hut not Irast la Mr Morttmir Ellis the mu h married phi losopher A man w ho undei stood women and whose ambition was to make his eleven marriages a ‘ Round Dozen ’ Written in hts beautifully clipped uave prase and with Ills customary type of satire this collection of stories should add new laurels to the literary ciown of this distinguished author Thr ‘ quite on a par with hts Cakes nd e Ale” and of "Huinan'Bondagc” LIKES AEMRICA Henry Williamson whose "The Dream of Fair Women" ha Just been Issued by one of but very Dutton believes he few authois who have returned to En pland 100 per cent enthusiastic about Ameika Mr Williamson dreams Of living In America some day and an American citizen He now has under wav a new novel to be called 'The Star Born 1 goes reallu Thereby hang the law and the prophets History is its reverberation and piativ thr attempt to give it a ri’me ft (lows down the centuries K Jumps from John Webster to me fhe drip that lalleth unto dee)) Is the ? pint of one men callit g to anot tie urro's longer and long) r of time aid ‘pair What an ot n r ’ VV OULR'stT MAI GUAM -latpmorit whnlelv s till one c nmol h Ip but f( el HihI ca h and every one of his rhai Htlers Is a living person for Mr Maugham s gi nius tms bieatlicd llle Into tin m In "Virtue" we meet Margery Bishop Who c stubborn virtue plays havoc with three lives Tur own the voung and lonely ( ipi "v and the pathf tit ally rr C'pl) his v Jed Cliai Says: books thr® W p ‘oUh?HR ' You umilrin t B j anv chiui On lie Perhaps the most outstanding tale L This Is a travlc ftnrv of a young Jew wliae ftllur because of his gi' at wealth had been raised to tie f rage The boy Is exe ted to carry on in forgetting his unn 'try and bei t m Ip proxe by 0 tnd Whl'lixl whlili Api ro-t mi S av e 1u t brought out tells the antic lilb rv of Van Dm k laniou at t st ITe xtorv Is ba d on an ok1 la If grid It hture thr lio'al le gl 'I t i f 'll "limn Vvl II tii 1 I ue ‘unouatiu J II Wallis publKher final Dally Niu r i of the Dubuque ms to Imv e ern-- b tried oil a rarer r of lioinlelde Ills ‘Muitbr bv formula iDuttoin wa luminit ed an iru V a My-iu- II'H g nimd Npw Volk vx no he pin's a l rime in e N il loll S I aplt t! to UP r r III rad Arid others that Are colored nlib " lie Allen Corn " The beauty of roinaiH oa th all Me popular of subvert and nature lor titles Instead hlx ig an English gentleman h ve for muMC is the tonsumli g pasion tn hlx life and falling to hf come a grt at I plan st he refusis to become a jatr It Is an Inteirelv lnlen sting psuno logk al study One in puts tiiat Mr Maugham chili kled as he drt w thr pit hire of Jm e i ho f aid jut t liu tame l hlngs as t lit d n d dd foi thr la t thirty the veins jo one thought hf r humorous I’ iL t' rust lido Lonrkn xxrty wbnr the truth was a uovrltv she became a rage no one bring tnrue 'iirprisid than she A no! a i u mg f pizidf 1 ) In pul e ns ti c O P tiutnnii ot ptkli g ly fun at ic Intel on Deseret Book ‘ giarf'id s Tgrntsla when Mis Forrester's perfect husband Albert leaves the rarlfled at masphere of his home for the "nice cozy llitlp piaie ' of the family took In ‘The Human Element’ we hate R'-- of laughter crashes ot exmutters of expectation and ARIteT a volume hs teacher Itubin When you get down vou find g flash oi a thrill and to talk of vour feet on it Is not talk like a man but to talk like a ihlld Its the very thing you never cun get your fret on ou ran only get them on tbe Illusions You ran be as Intimate as tliut with the dents It leaves but not with the thing Itself "You can exrhange badinage with an automobile but not wllh an electron The livid streak splits its cloud and Is fol'owed by Us due crash and rumble mlrat ulous and yet usual There goes reality! Thereby hangs the cosmos Zigzag streaks run through the body sot Ml tlirobbing rumors shoots of pain and anger don AY Bv W Somerset Maugham Publishers Dou bledav Doran & Co Garden City New York In an Introduction which Is quite as delightful reading as the storks them seivis Mr Maugham states that W'th one exi option his characters are built While one ac UiZiii no living person FIRST PERSON SINGULAR 11 li not 1 4 cds-lan- rative hi' 'But reality Is not the breakfort dishts not the details of Monday s v ah neilhtr U it the liuth about Bpom Rl'cr epitaph nor the empty lx rail xm pr shell of Hlielkyan bunked nor the universe desMrated to a mechanism "product-invention- New Set of Bland Satiric Tales Maugham’s Offering L Magazines are literally thousands ot them large and rinall What a heritage for a state and its peoples The book is splendidly and aecurate- ly Illustrated with photographs and camera studies and the geological explanation of the formations and the time tt lias taken for their sculpturing is more clearly given than In anv other work we have read It is all made understandable to the geological lavman At the Grand Canyon the layman may best learn how these gteal and The mafestic gorges were formed canyon Is a mile deep at "Phantom Ranch” near the foot of Bright Angel Colorado The tm Indent canyon bomethmw called "the worlds dlgglng-e- st In Is rlker" responsible pait for these marvels of nature The plateau was formed cut It has which into by the great slow upheaval which erected the elevations of Brvce Zion and the The rest of the rainbow uiuntrv carvmg performed by the river and tbe erosion paused bv rains blizzards and winds aie entrrtatnliiglv dfsntbed by the authors who tell how sooner or later every visiter raises the quesTo tion ’How did It all happen? arr apt to rcplv which the Ta-lo- r ’ f Scanning the formation' muiv as' unnamed and that ‘It rained rainbows” "Natural Government" a small volume that has lust been published by BenJ B btrtngham offers a solution to the present economic pioblem that tv distressing the country -- and occupying tho minds Of many of our leaders It considers the results of modern machine development and consequent mass production thp detriment to mankind of uncontrolled wealth and labor s predli as a preliminary to presenting "Natures Plan of Government’ as a remedy for these evils— a plan upon which he points out the Constitution of the United States was founded Present conditions are out of harmony with natural laws he says and their adjustment will require national legislation It Is not a matter for charitable or religious organisations to handle but for the government which wa formulated for tills purpose "to establish Justice promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty " Of Mr Stringham s book C N Lund says "It Is worthy of the serious atten tlon of economists Industrialists and financiers and the general public and If read with an open mtnd Will give a wealth of new Ideas and fix In the mind Its definite and sensible plan of Natural Government t ic bfdimentaiv il UT4I1 OFFERS RE ATTEMPT TO SOLVE ELOOMIC PROBLEM passed hrough a new Industrial revolu "lion of whiih we are still barely con felons It has meant a passing from process Invention to product Invention Mod e’n civilization has taken on a worldwide character with the same operating on the human mind and on social culture In all parts of the world this iPads to ‘a wider area cf expeii-enc- e for each man and a claser integra-1nn of all men " Relations between coun-tile- s have been entirely tiansformrd though diplomacy and polltlial phlloso phy have not yet adapted themselves these changes The unrest and discomfort of our ago arc signs of vitality of humanity finally bursting the bonds of medievalism The iltuatlon as the authoi sees It holds muny possibilitu s for good These possibilities ran only be realized in a world at peace The pioblem of moriern'zlng live relations belwicn States Is lundainenial and pressing If the nations within the democratic liaditlon become strong hi the chRiac t distiia of modernity as outlined by Di Bums i'n an able concluding chRptrr then modern i iv lllzatlon will indeed vin dicate Itself These characteristics &te fcen to be expel Imentallsm abolition of all authority hi the old sense of the word as a control of the past ovpr the futuir self expression or expansion of poisonalitj and a sense of social co 0eraUon for economic and cultural pur poses bavs the author of America - "America has tremendous vitality but no sense of direction The modernization of the industilal world has now brought Into clcsrr contact the vitality of America and the sene of direction peculiar to I u rope without which vitality Is wasted It follows that Ihe defects of chUi may be amended by the cooperation of both EuIt must be a genuine cooperation civl-II rope must learn from America the ed life of the future must be democratic In Its social assumptions and must be experimental Culture must be In the streets made out of the material of to day— cinema films steel and concrete — not a mere survival among modern habits and modern material And some element not only of the material basis but also of spiritual Insight in modernity may be learned by Europe from America On the other hand America Is neither so clever In the use of material as her business men seem to think nor so Idea She llstlc as her rhetoricians declare nmv learn from the older tradition of skill and fine lnlght In Europe America nmv well civilize Europe wnen Europe " i lv lllzes America Company 44 Salt v 3 M I Innpl ke ( IU |
