| Show HUE FCVLT LAKE TRIBrXE’ SUXILYY JfOHXTXB ILXT 23 wag t: In the Field of Modern Writers Exemplifying Stewart Robert Marshall Saja He I omul in Remote Kovukuk Region the Happiest hoik I Had Ker I’nroiintrred’ By E ARCTIC VILLAGE ria Art and Literature CIVILIZATION IN Till! AKCTIC 4 -- F ! Holhv By Robert Marshall and Robert Haas Inc New Yoik ’r Publishers Harrison Smith for May T IFE above the Arctic Circle is not commonly held as especially alluring of aspect but Robert Marshalls account of his fifteen months’ residence in a village at the headwaters of the Koyukulc river in far northern Alaska gives entirely new meaning to such an experience Looking at a map of Alaska Mr Marshall to whom blank spaces are fascinating found a section of the country that seemed almost uncharted which appealed to him Rationalizing an investigation in plant physiology his profession he made a two iiiuuthb tup and came away with the lmpicsMon that he had found a truly happy people So he planned to go back to study the people and their civilization jL ifa' Jtt tea- - — f’ t - 4 ! "Farmington— March ” and (below) s "The Haunted House” tuo ‘U ity splendid Le Conte Stcuart ’ J ’ft LhX r landscapes now in Ogden show 53 It tes" 3 J’l'UV as well as the plant life of their region Arctic Village” is the result It is a richly informative absoibing book that in its intimate detail of the lives of these white and rxkimo brings them closer to us than any other volume people on the Arctic has done Mr Marshall went alone into the community of Wiseman and lived as one of the people he won their confidence and affection and learned all about them how they live what they think and talk about all their interests customs amusements romances and quarrels Some of his trips in the region he sajs would lead me to Isolated cabins miles from the closest neighbors where midi r the stimulation of unanticipated companionship lonely men would MX’itk to me of j earnings and d strivings of scciet satisfactions of tragedies of splendid Ideals and of constant groptngs through many years of contemplation for the meaning and significance of life " long-burle- The community of Wiseman is not confined to the immediate town but includes everyone who tiadrs at the store This entire Arctic civilization totals but 127 people of which 77 are whites — the remnant left of the when ‘‘gold was coming from Koyukuk’s second boom period of 1915-1- 6 the ground in hundreds of thousands of dollars and fortunes seemed within evervones grasp” Fortv-fou- r Eskimos six Indians make et tip the remainder Only four of the white people have been to college Stanford-Bine- t tests demonstrated that the number of Kovukukers tn the supenor intelligence class was greater than among noimai Americans Tests among the little Eskimos give them the advantage over normal American white children The E'kimos and whites treat each other as equals though A viewpoints vaiy among the whites as to the inferiority of the native significant fart noted by Mr Marshall is that the whites who held the Eskimos as distinctly infeiior were those who were least popular with their own race Citizens of the Arctic are extieme individualists among them an anarchistic attitude toward law prevails In spite of this Mr Marshall notes time have been only three murders m all Kovukuk history and there has never been a large thrft or robberv An economic cuib on the making of intoxicants is more effective than the legal one A major tenet of the religion is to be happy and make others happy the authors record indicates that the whites have for the most pait attained this objective but tw civ e expressing discontent w lttt ' their life While Mr Marshalls book is an invaluable sociological study and his Kojukuk biographies hold much of the drama cf life there are also pictures that give us the grandeur of the “As far as one can scenic setting see up and down the Koyukuk the flat valley floor is flanked by puie while mountainsides jutting into jorky pinnacles which catch the sunlight hours before the lowlands Jacket Design for “Arrtic Village" are out of shadow” tly V CUBAN ISON IX OF MUST VIRTUES WANTS BUT LITTLE By Wilson Wright Publishers Albeit b Charles Bom Inc New Yen k tJERE is a young man who with his fird novel wins a definite place for himself among Amencan writers It is not onlv that he has worked a comparativ elv new field tn fiction but his book has narrative merits the ordinary and a delightfully simple clear-cstyle ‘Man Wants But Little ' giving us a poitraval cCuban hie viewed from its center rather than from above is as iewarding a fust novel as several seasons have offered That Wilson Wrights knowled££of Cuba was not gathered fiom the verandah of any fashionable Havana hostelry but from actual contact with the cabins of the sugar-can- e plantations mining company bungalows and small villages there is ample evidence His creation of character and the flow of events has an an of authenticity that convinces The book beginning about the penod when the war— though the Cuban peasant haidlv knows there is a war— is creating new activity m the manganese mines and higher pi ires foi sugar pictuies this unwonted prosperitv the excitement of speculation with fm tunes accumulated overnight to be as promptly lost m the depression that follows and the revolution that comes on its MMxT be-vo- nd ut U H hoc Is All this is economic t basis for the stnrv of Jose Terduga voung Spanish immigrant whose industiy in the Big Miguel mine gains hint the interest of Senor Wilson American manager But this Americans kindness pushes Ihe simple-hearte- d unambitious Jose into a wav of life wholly alien to his nature and dcsncs All Jose wants is o have a small faim like his fathers in Spain where lie can work in quiet where there will be food in plenty whether mines aic worked or not and to have his wife and little family aiound him For this one must have a little money however and in Cuba for this money one works for the Amencan companies Senor Wilson has maiked Jose as one to trust so places him at the canteen at San Diego— when the lazy Marco mixes in politics — and then Jose must For revcral years Jose go as labor boss to the new mine bevond Bayamo fou ex himself unhappily to do this job as to Ins fitness for which he disagrees with Senor Wilson but it is only a penod of waiting Finally he does attain bis little coffee plantation all the swirl of politics and revolution aiound him failing to move him from his simple puipose Side by side with Joses story inns that of Marco Sanclemente his who neglects Senm Wilsons business at the canteen 1o fathei stick his fingers into politics emulating his cousin Tomaso a distrut boss It is really Mama Rose fat casv going who would have been Marcos wife if thev had botheied about mat nag1 who manages the canteen When Jose courted his pretty Maua Marco opposed the affair having othei plans for the girl Later when Marcos stupid muddling in an election in Santiago has brought about a cusis Joses direct action saves the clay Nevertheless Marco humiliated beais him n grudge Thereafter Marco temains in Santiago abandoning Mama Rose and the brood of Sanclementes and under the wing of the great Tomasco becomes an important politico The cousin even arranges for him a wealthy mairiage The wedding is nearly disrupted at the church it happening that Jose and Maria were having their somewhat belated wedding at the same Mama Rose creating some excitement for her own amusetune and cast-oment While Marco rises to power in the shadow of Tomaso it pleasures him to thwart Joses smaller success once bv snatching away the tiny farm Jose has managed to buy Tomaso goes clown in the post-wcollapse but Marro is left banging hallway a ti if le of lus wifes bank balance him fiom winch position he plans a greater triumph over Jose S nor W'lKnn however has a woid to sav about that old affair lhat puts fear into the (lull Mirco No that Jose continues hapnilv in the life he wants building up a line hacienda piospetous as a coffee glower and lespeitcd in the rommunilv And always he is a figuie in which to believe finely piented and” dominating a book that is Oiled with individual chai-artizations ci The Literary Almanac fixture r ilainld I ( Oan' f ' lathnm ire president of The MacMillan rnmpanv reluming re Miitly from England brought with him N JWU we to newspaper alignment all reporters dream about He was sent out to cover the world for the New York Sun hat was in 1925 and score that time he has become one of the worlds bestkncfwn travelers Told bv his editor not to stop Until he bad seen everything theie was to see of the globe Mr Davis took bis assignment literally If there s any place left for him to see he hasn t heard about it This volume is one of the of his travels A lifetime spent in editorial rooms ad given Mr Davis the faculty for seeing and recording the unusual and the glam- orous and of accurately sensing the human motives that marie the stories he tells tor instance In the pages deutod’ to the Hawaiian islands he tells the story of the origin of the song 1 arew ell to Thee" perhaps the most popular of all Hawaiian melodies It is a stoiv few mamlanders know For Punress Lilmokalanl wrote the lvric at dawn while horseback riding composed the music the following dav and within a week “Aloha Oe was known fiom one end of the Islands to the olhcr ‘ Islands Far and Near is filled vc itli lhat kind of stories — unusual and eolni-fu- l found off the beaten trark Its descriptive passages cannot be equaled Mr Davis writes of places so that instead of black type on white paper the reader sees the artists canvas with all the colors blended to perfection Not onlv the phvsicnl properties of far plac es but also the spirit of the peoples and the times is caught and recorded The chapters dealing v cl h the Hawaiian islands will perhaps most mtei-es- t readers for the legend and romance that have grown up around them have covered the world in song and store But don t pass up anvthmg Mr Davis has written about the Caribbren island- the Florida Kevs or the British Columbia roast There is something unusual in everv chapter some bit cf sheer beauty Ml down on almost every page ’ r tSsnY AM) FORTHCOMING Forty print bv American artists an exhibit sent out bv the Prtntmakers’ association school -- ‘ is scheduled A splendid collection of paintings g large number of our Utah artists has been hung by Mr Alice Mer- Far East and Other Topics MANCHOtKl’O CHILD OF CON-- I Bv K K Kawakami PubThe lisher MacMillan Company New A ork K K Kawakami who is Washington ronrspomlent cf the Tokvo Hochl hhimbun believes that Japan has lac ked cm er case in Man‘good public ltv churia both m Ctneva and America His jicscnt volume which may be le-irdc d as a sort of sequel to bis ‘ Japan is an attempt to rectify this Speaks but although an ably written volume is scarcely a 100 per rent success At the present time with the facts an doe to the observer it is difficult for even the most impartial person to form an accuiate estimate of the rights and wrongs of the Manchurian emhro-glIt is almost impossible for a w i iter L1CT 1 g ’ Among Current Titles ‘ Black and white and colored ing of the building which for June 11 ‘ v re- etchings drv point and aquatint make up the collection which represent many of the best known worker in these — mediums Later this collection will be shown at the Utah Art Studio forming one of the early exhibits after the official open- ‘ tic-lif- e have been on display cently at the Ogden high school under the direction of Le Conte Stewart head of the art department and at the Polk 1 AI L IN THF PA S BIDING Bv W ill s Charles Scribner a James Pubh-he- i Sons New Turk al KX II I HITS CLIHREXT results FOIIOl K AS NOW I 1ST a f g ire in He (banning Pollock Ameiican theater wider and prcdlnei of It full length p'avs 10 rmmeat cou show him rdie and o hrt pie self as a ncvehvl his slorv of theadi eal life 'SlarMsgie ' appearing serially rn k popular magiUUie sup-jioitn- ig ’ 1SI ANDS FAR AM) NEAR Bv Robert H Davi Publ shtrs D Appleton & New Totk Bob Davis once received the kind of Two novels by English wrilrri which MacMillan have scheduled for fall arc ' M tndon Mandna' bv VVinifi ed 11 oil h and 'The Old Man Dies ' bv Tliabeth Sm ingge lor bo'h of w hie H a lai ge Amri nan inleiest is snluipaled era Bill tains autobiographical ‘Testament of Ttuuth" u also promised ar o Of Island Places the manuscript of Francis Stuart newt novel ‘Try the Sky" which will appear in late summer and also Sir William “The Universe of Light” In Biagg June I lam O Flaherty s novel The Martyr” will be published bv this company which is to publi h this author In tiic fuluie ff Albert Mordtll whose "Quaker Mill ant John Giecnleif Whiltnr is to be a M iy title of Houghton Mllflm r is the of sever al volumes among llum author ’ V slue' " ' T he 1 he Shilling of I rntie Milne in Iiteialure 'The Lit and Drama Will Jame whose dexterity with the lariat has been m aled bv the skill w ith which he handles a peneil and pen for telling in both plrtuie and text of and exploits of the eowbov sa that this writing business furm-he- s him a double pleasure because it enables hint to live over again experiences on the trails that might otherwise lave slipped from his memm It is a p'easuie paral leled bv that of the reader who accomhim through these adventures si panies realistirayv set forth and inleiprderi bv his skelches In a vernarulcr natui al to one educ a1 ed in a university whose loofs ace He skv and the floors piairie sod Mr James lells nil about the itnge rider and is wa ' of hie of the thirty years’ g cthei-m— Ihe rnwhov s bedroll warehouse the remucla arid 'chuck' wagon and shows sou that its not merely for pic weais the tureque effect the cowboy big hat the high heel- - and is never without ‘the old slicker" As for eti quette don t for a minute think the range table haxri t its etiquette as well as the diningroom mahogany The lchosvnrrasies of the “miter" — vernacular for cattle in general-a- re given a chapter and in The Itodeo’ le takes vnu right down into the arena tn meet the actors and learn what it all ' about Then in the ' Cowboy ( the seasonal round of activities on the lange fiom bucking Ihe clrif's looking for snowbound slock ihe thinugh spimg loumlup fall cutting out” o the wmlri camp again is detailed II is however Mr Janies slonrs of the inode ills not quite in the routine bill lhat are rountrd all in the day i iding ' that furnihli thrilling reading although Mr James mvs he has never 'floweied up any of mv wntings so as a frllrg would think the row boy s life is eav wild or romantic ' Such ca ual incidents as tbit of ‘Down the Wash' or In the Faglo Territory" with 'l‘p ' Spooks" the pony misbehaving at a critical point are tales that leave one breathless at tunes Iquallng these Is ‘On the Drift " Illustrating how gient It Is to be a eowbov ' so free w llh nothing to do but ride and ride and rule — througn a blizzard Mr James sketches as al w tys amplify the text -- On May 19 Waller etc la Mares first Volume at poems in six years was publisher! by Knopf Its title ‘ Ihe Hoetmg and Other l’wnw" The book followed try but a f’w weeks the distinguished English poets sixtieth buthdiv Raconteur Catches Color Some twenty five or so of those spirited versions of the W'estern landscape s which mark Le Conte Stewart artist as one of our finest interpreters are to be on exhibition for aev-eiweeks under the sponsorship of Mis Maiy Wattis Brown in the long gallery of her home 85J Twenty fourth street Ogden Mr Stewarts unfailing pictoiial sense and tesponsiveness to nature s infinitude of moods are manifest in the amamg variety seen m these canvases painted chiefly in the country aiound Huntsville and his home The old houses and farms of this region the wide valley and encircling hills are subjects rendered with fidelity and with sound draftsmanship But the artist shows much more than academic interest In nature and these canvases assert their individuality They are vital and ipres-iv- e Mr Stewarts inteipietations sensitiveness to subtleties of color and of values in large areas of perception landscape are alwavs apparent Particulaily is this true in such pictures as the spacious ‘ Farmington — March " whose nuances of color enchant Its central motif Is an old farm building and yaid with a broad vista stretching away to the low blue range the lake a giay ribbon between Patches of snow lie here and there but a feeling of new life js in every shrub and tree and greening field And there are wtnterscapes v ibrant of color and tonic In atmosphere v hile others are concerned with the glow and richness of autumn days One or two stirring pictures give us the southern desert of gray sage and rabbit brush and low lying buttes a theme (or which the artist has a speciat fondness He paints with a surety of ef feet and Inherent sincerity that carries ronviction His 'Desert Wash After the Rains" showing the soft red clay banks bitten into by the rush of waters Is a characteristic painting A canvas that emanates a subtle mysterious charm for which the subject “The Haunted House" is not wholly responsible achieves its effect through its subtle rendition of light and delicately related tones This deserted ramshacklv houso set amid bare brown trees and shrubbery is likely to haunt one A foreground of dirt road and barren field ac centuales the atmosphere of desolale-nes- s but it is all beautifully painted Kayg-ville- T s 3- Choice of The Literary Guild Vigorous Interpretations of Utah Scene s 7 f Activities in Utah’ Artists' Colony OF lkF Publisher nF Bv I lone I llnuser laurie Kendal New 5 ork I lonel llousei who is the hleiarv erii toi cf a San Francisco newspaper combines a talent for dramatic writing wdh F I C an imagination that inclines toward the fmtastu Hnd macabre incident and when this first of lus novels reaches these rc c ii— as it inev itabl v w ill — vou can be prepared for sue h a apuie tingler as von have seldom seen lake of fire' is n Inch inn wend violent and me red ildchut Mr Houser has shown a cei tc n pov er in telling his stoiv that will n it let vou put it down until the final m e ne- - Ttc piologie set in Hie present cm liadv porch overlooking the Rivei (inlaw at m India is misleading One anticipates something of a John Rusell talc will) Ihe Colin of the East fven Ihe open ng chapter gives no idei of Hi Ini We find horns ftiNl idling cm the yellow Iirawaddy at a heat drenched village kept theie it een s bv the peculiar to say Ihe least o w his a of ill stipulating is ions father pi is traveling for four years no less than a thousand miles from New oik al w avs w llh a young woman filled to be a H ildorn s wife as guest The lovely lady who chaperoned bv her mother in bis present guest is Night Gambler whom Norris would like to marry except that It had been I is fathers hope Hi the town lie comes upon fd Blai so life him lb it Norris feels he is milling hirnxelf Whereupon he conceives the funtastie idea of evuri ng Ihe H mis of the will bv leaving bis double t unpcisona'e bun in the east wh le le leturns to America but hs ptlec r edulousness proves tinwai lantrd It is Blac khurn w ho hav mg no qualms about marrying the beautiful Night sails barkr to Ametira to spend the JUlriorn mil linns leaving Norris In a most linplra sant predicament There Is Intioduerd Hun the allurieg and loving Burme e girl Narapatee ami Norris is Involved In the exceedingly gruesome incident of the planter Meter-dat- e and his grotesque ‘housekeepers" Very shortly however the story jumps to San Francisco with a sensational murder and its consequences providing one amazing situation after another rli-need bv a horrible scene staged on that floating gambling hi 11 off the California i oa-- t w Ini h has ns ptopi ictor one It mie hld a raikctcer who hnd left both legs out on the highroad one rainy night as irsult of a battle with hi jac kers and is now obes ed bv a passion for legs 'Cine of Ihe rhairns of fnend-H it le a i e i ol eh orbed ii ar j hv it thev reserve themselves fm love from ‘The All of Friendship ” by Abel Bonaaid a Hal-clor- n v i v h v I -- 9 i 'who is one side of the ques tion as is Mr Kawakami to present his views In a manner wmch would be wholly acceptable to anyone but bis adherents This difficult) whuh is is at the praiticallv insurmountable base of Mi Kawakami failiue as a propagandist 'Propagandist' is after all a rather misleading term to use in connection with Mr Kawakami for he is operating in the open and is presenting his views as a Japanese and not as a disinteicsted It is however the only term paitv there is to designate Mr Kawakami for he is advocating a specific cause and is the while he is very fair piesentmg onlv one side Mr Kawakami s thesis is that was founded upon the will of the Manrhutians and that It was not set up bv Japan ns a puppet state In the next breath however he declares that (lima which he pictures as a disorganized barllv governed count) has suf fluent stietg'h to reconquer Hie 'rebel Manrhoiiquoonx and that the mamte nance of Japanese troops m Manchuria — with the it lv to be supposed subsequent thrust into Jehol and North ( Inna — are necessary to maintain the new nations liberty He also declares that Japan can put no faith In promises and treaties of the Nanking government at the same time Justifying Japan course bv Nanking s refusal to recognize Mam houkuo All in all Ihe book is a bundle of couti adictions since its chief piemi-- e is a diplomatic fiction — that of the Man not rhoukuo levolt-an- d is therefore However it is an Informa convincing tive and mstriutive book Although its statements must be taken with a giam of salt thev do throw light on the Jar f astern problem and prove to the reader lhat Japan has suffcied manv wrongs at the hmds of ( hma or rather as a lesult of Chinas disorganization- - and lhat her poliry is founded upon some 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