Show 4 THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE StTNDAlt MORNING APRIL ON THE BOOKS OF 'TODAY 11 ':1::ik)ther--'''-Aii-oshig---Titg'"---Fonfi- 1935 L lie r at ur e and CO313IENT 1 7 NEWS OF ART WORLD AND UTAH ARTISTS French Literature d ir -- ':i And Maid Figures Keenly valuated tholoolowino :: 4e '! ' ""oreweArh n 04 '''Jv-'- vor-- ' 1 4 o ' Left 4o Jones Lie's Soe - MODERN Harbor Scene — I ! s 1 1 t1-44 FZ ii) 4 tilt f 4' 4 1 k ' v 1 i g 4t 47?4woloimN4: Right 7i:545c k 064 "Village Landing" —lane ef George-- t - ls Co New York City This review of the field of literature In France by Regis Michaud writer and scholar than whom le might be better qualified for the task comprehends all the various "schools" of thought and experimental phasesof the let three' decades going back to survey the literary features of the last half of the nineteenth century as a preliminary to understanding of developments in the present The book is a thorough appraisal of the French literary scene today with its ligbificant figures graphically 1x)rtraitized Professor Michaud holds an eminent place in American letters as author of such important studies as "Emerson the Enraptured Yankee" and "The American Novel Today" and as professor of French Literature in the University of Illinois while his native France has —awarded him Auderny Wort Pfobtbly no one writing in English as done could possess as broad familiarity with trends in French letters today and the literary revolutions the century has shown With a brief prefacing exploration into the schools of realism scientific determinism pessimism Professor Michaud traces the main literary roads of the first 18 years of the century the development of French traditionalism and nationalism with'Paul Bourget Maurice Herres' Charles Maurras Charles Peguy France Loti Bergsón as dominant figure As to war' books he finds they "can be written as almost zero in the history of French literature The truth about the war was told outside literature in the diaries and letters of those on the front" And he adds: "The war did not well prove Darwin's doctrine of 'the survival of the fittest' It killed heroic Peguy It deeply and saved Marcel Proust altered public morals and individual characters and made a revolution not in art but in psychology" In succeeding chapters be discusses the "late Symbolism" its development from an expression of decadence to a new vitality and the poets who deserted the field of revery for "a poetry of action" coming to Paul Claude who stands somewhat apart as one for whom writing was "not so much an art as an act of faith" and whose spiritual influence is not to be ignored Professor Michaud gives entire chapters of vivid interest to "the Proust complex': the leadership of Andre Gide who has "tided as a disintegrating force in French literature" DuKamel Romains and "Unanimism" a social and collective principle to the "adventurers globetrotters and 'ingests" and their literature of exploration He studies the upsetting experiments of Cubists Dadaists and Surrealistes the "pure poetry" of ' 1t "1r THOUGHT AND LITERA- TuRE IN FRANCE By Regis Michaud Publishers Funk and Wag-nai- - Lights" "Morning t qt'k VA C:rr he-h- Pearse Ennis' 1 1 canvases D Futile' Réi7o1ution Martin's Belief Pleads for Liberalism N ::J :: 1'0 ? 9 :ON FAREWELL TO REVOLUTION By Everett Dean Martin Publishers W W Norton and Company Inc New York City It must be regarded as good fortune in a time when demagoguery 1 0-t- 4 ? ij 2!4? Is filling the air and the printed page that Professor Martin after fifteen years t3pent in scholarly study of history from the viewpoint of the psybhologist brings forward a book of such profound importance as 'Farewell to Revolution" Its theais is that we are now at the close of a major cycle of revolutionary activity of which there have been three since the time of Solon At the end of each cycle he finds complete rtpudiation of the ideals which inspired it The idea which aroused the greatest social unrest four Itundred sears before the Christian era was the struggle for a kind of ideal - Ip c$ equality among men—and it ended in the despotism of the Caesars The the eleventh century and was animated by the spirit fill Christian brotherhood but at the end emerged modem nationalistic rivalries The third of English origin began in 1642 From then until the outbreak of the World war revolutions were inspired and rationalized as strugges for constitutional liberty parliamentary government and the rights of Each came out exactly where it began ITyln All revolutions exhibit stereotyped forms of behavior the phenomena of any one being repeated in all others The believe themselvet to be men of destiny but they are only the instigators rs of crowd futile hysteria Revolutionary propaganda in all ages Is deNtised to turn society from a fel lowshM of people as persons into the delusien of man acting as "MASS" Pro fessor kartin makes it clear that man 'sio as untifferentiated mass does not really vent liberty He makes it clear too eat the progress of culture has been achieved not by revolutionary massel but by lovers of civilization— inventere artists scientists and phi- losophers "It is far from my purpose to suggest that even radical changes in our political and economic institution s be resisted" he writes "But change of this nature has little or nothing to do with revolution It should 'zP be achieved deliberately and by people fte' wile are competent and should not be atteinpted by mobs in the street" 004 Martin believes that there V:a me r has been a revolution which I co d not have been prevented had th e in authority been able to recog- nIz4 a revolutionary situation in time an4 had they acted wisely He doubts If y great problem ever has been ohed by revolution The national so- reP411"::41th cia ts of Germany the communists of Rulaia and the fascists of Italy are victims of the same fictions that motivated all revolutionary leaders of the 0 past in spite of the lessons of history Revalutionaries persuade themselves that the present capitalist system or "liberal bourgeois democracy" is near ing the hour of its death agony that it ban drawn into itself all the forces of reaction and evil that its festering body is filled with the germs of destruction and that the people must take control and liquidate the system Arguing to the contrary the author contends that social problems are solved only when people of varying in this author's opinion was filled with ' types are enabled to live peaceably in I romance His revolutionary strategy the same community They are not rather than his economic doctrines enlved when one faction massacres all Pit critics and rivals Why is it he asks "brought revolution to success—and to Its end" "After Russia" he says that people who begin a revolution in can be only more and more the the belief that they are fighting for brazen rule of faction over the body liberty almost invariably accept the :tyrannical dictatorship of the revolupolitic" Since Mussolini and Hitler he writes "communist revolution is an tionary party which follows the overthrow of those forms of repression outmoded method of social procediere" vhich existed under the old order? Every one of the 10 great revoluProfessor Martin presents a supreme tions was "a drama of delusion Not one accomplished its aim" "All were bevesty drawn from history Twentieth century revolution he remarks has irrelevant and quixotic efforts to achieve by sudden violence what was sctight to destroy the very nineteenth century liberalism which gave it birth really being achieved by the advance arid to erect a state in which liberty of culture" Revolution he says is dces not exist! Extravagant ideas bankrupt destroyed by its own altut "the people" lead to extraordi which have revealed its corn nary demands for a socialized industry plete futility which "implies a measure of social conProfessor Martin concludes his imtrol over everyone and everything" portant discussion with a plea for lib- Theie demands as he sees them grow eralism the hope of the world To it Out of emotion rather than intelligence he argues we owe freedom of speech Revolutions commonly begin in simireligious and political tolerance unilar sitiations and end either in reaction versal and popular education and n and or in their own "whatever humanitarian and philanforme of dictatorship The revolution thropic movements differentiate our In Rattle in the last century of the re times from the earlier Christian centuritta" publin he regards as the The inevitable conclusion is that in revolutien He traces it to a struggle "for freedom and the common man" tonfuelort spite of prevalent chaos its end vas the overthrow of Most of wouldba worse confounded by another the libertes of an ancient revolution Though it holds the power society and ea - toretrwhat otlibeft—rfor-TrittnrSentliflthe end ::1070verthrow7ty-phydca- 1 -'The revotitions of the middle ages may be one form of oppressive tyranny were net Ale to economic causes the it casts helpless masses into the mael'strom of terroristic tyranny far surReformatich began "with lofty professions of the ematicipation of humanity passing in its brutality and fierceness and ended after aperiod of terrorism that which was overthrown He makes strife and pompromise in something his case against revolution He leaves quite differnt! The Puritan revolunothing to be said in its defense Revotion in Enjand he offers as the first lutionaries will not agree of course to "dramatize the in modern-timebut by the dispassionate analysis of homicidal Irish of the crowd and its factual history they are left without a passion forrevenge by killing a king" leg to stand on Neither violent nor The Frencb revolution succeeded "for peaceful revolution can bring order the trtne in turning society quite upand peace to the world There is no side down" hut it vas throughout the coil for razing oil that mankind hos st'ork of minority erected throughout the ages no call The communist manifesto of Marx for another Noah and another deluge 4' t I ' A' ANIVet :Vi 1''Os 4 siecond cycle began in color-beare- EIN Above "Gulls" Arthur Spear's BOAT-ROCKE- NI4'0:4ek ? R qt t : j i' Boat-Rocke- A Left "Fisherman's Goodbye" Charles by P Uruppe terment" zealots The monerspending spree was great fun for a while but the town woke up with a headache of debt and taxes People then had time to think over the had arguments the "Old put forth and they came in increasing numbers to humbly ask his advice So in 1931 the citizens of Francisville having had their bump were not to be easily stampeded by the Mountain West Jeremiah Stokes the author of that successful juvenile "Thunder Cave" has recently issued a new volume titled "Modern Miracles" It is lit effect a testimony of faith and gives Instances of the remarkable manifestations of God's power in aid of His children today Each of these "miracles" achievements that could not have occurred without aid beyond the human is attested by a living witness As a climactic event the historic battle of the seagulls with crickets commemorated in the beautiful seagull monument is related u orunter-revolutio- flrit-"world- -- - Advice to younger feminine readers is Offered freely by Kenneth R Hodder announced as a native of Utah and onetime Salt Lake residentwho is now living at Twin Falls Idahe'His book on "What Eviry Girl Should Know About Men!'—men of every profession —has just been published by the Meador Publishing Company of Boston Mr Hodder is a merry fellow his enlightening "facts" about men e con- Play on words :Aild he uses all the quotation marks inthe linotype magazine on every page lest one miss the point of his humor "Saga of Old Tuolumne" by Edna Bryan- - Buckbee is a story of the Argonauts who came to the Mother Lode region in search of gold related with gusto The Press of the Pioneers has publid it is that revolutionists will not history but perhaps the multitudes may he held to rationalism by this sweeping survey This ix a consumpaLion devoutly to be wished The pity wee fit 4 ft t 14 iAr 4 of the New Deal It appeared to them to be just another spending spree What Lem Hucklabee conservatism and with his hard commonsense has to say about Its extravagance and inflationary tactics can well be imagined But Lent Is only the most vociferous character In the book there are other quaint townsfolk too who express their opinions giving the reader enjoyment of many a hearty chuckle at their tiroll humor and homely wisdom To them the alphabetical government of the New Deal is just confusion and the agricultural programs of the Brain Trust "pettessers" who "never ran a farm in all their lives" strain their traditional Democratic loyalty to the breaking point In a host of incidents and anecdotes the weaknesses of the New Deal are cleverly satirized The author does not pretend to be wholly unbiased Throughout the book he gives no quarter to the administration and the closing chapters abandoning the subtle satire of the earlier onesattack with a swollen anger All in all Mr Mudd has not only worked up a very convincing case against the administration organization but he has also shown a rich knowledge of the locality and the people with whom he deals He has captured much of the atmosphere of the rural south and his characters much more than beingmere mouthpieces for his Invectives are really interesting in r4 - n I - $tf ) 4t-- t 4 1f A Boat-Rocke- r" rock-ribbe- Writers of Rocky 11kt - 441 ' self-ma- ii:::-- t Etching Exhihitl Goes To Various Schools Having been shown itt the West high school since its exhibition at the Art Barn the splendid Alfred Hutty collection of etchings dry points and lithographs is now on display at the Ogden high school under the supervision of IA Conte Stewart Later the group will be shown at the Brigham Young university and the Utah Agricultural college — "I Wish I'd Said That of the art of repartee or the comeback from Talleyrand to der Wentienti is a 1tie of the issued by Simon and Schuster thors whose dissection of the perfect Alrixan moment The auvarious '::Ot'!i: 44: iciA-sa:&611kna:RPMk- "Saturday Shopping” by C Alerrill's Journal Commemorates Past Being of the nature of an- anniversary edition commemorating the 100th year of the organization of the Council of Twelve and of the Quorum of Seventy the April issue of The Improvement Era Is espe-'''''41:ratik4 daily full of inter- for the student of L D S church In 1835 a history K number of events of marked importance to the church then of but five years' existence were re corded in addition to the founding of the organizations mentioned The first Doctrine H R Merrill and Covenants were accepted in that year and the first hymn 'book assembled also the Book of Abraham now one of the standard church works was developed tor ell these reasons this commemorative issue has been planned The purpose and history of the Council and the Seventy are given and of other societim of the church as well as much current history of the movement The edition is amply supplied With photographs and biographical sketches of post leaders and of pres ent authorities Maps tracing the migrations of the church and showing its ex istimg Maim and missions are 'Mere-slinfep tures Harrison R Merrill during his regime as managing editor has brought the journal to a forward place in church literature and this edition celebrating the past achievements of the chureh is one of his best Wues Elsie Talmage Brand ley as associate editor has aided In adanceinent of the Era A striking cover design for the issue is the work of Fielding K Snilth et Chatterion K Paul Valery whose insistence on form may also have helped in"the deflation of lyrical values" There follows a quick survey of the novel—old and new" which necessarily deals only with stare of the first magnitude and the author dissects the conflicting modern doctrines both Right and Left Wings showing "there are enough new energies now brewing in the great of 'political and social pasmelting-po- t sions in France to look with confidence to the future" while yet there is the "Action Francaise" lending its efforts to "stir the spirit of civil war" and Leon Daudet sharing with Maurras the part of "muckraker" For the reader who would know what Is happening in French literature this book by a student of the subject offers strong values The authenticity of Captain Paul Bulygin's account of "The Murder of the Romano Ifs" which McBride will publish soon is attested by Alexander Feodorvich Kerensky who contributes the foreword Captain- - Bulygin was formerly commander of the personal guard of the Dowager Empress An English authority on Russia Sir Bernard Pares writes he Introduction The Bookaneer Saps IF " ADVANTAGE OF OUR Jack give may word SO BARGAINS-- DO - NOW "' loq -- kiit114 08 "11 Special Place's on— Many Church Books and AV 4I P YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN44 g knds of wit this title covers are Goodman and Albert Rice who helpful succestions on how one assure himself victory in these skirmishes t vf?1'::::' 111:01r) 111MkadolleinedocalWASsolitvah1W04"210101MI d themselves x 4r high-pressu- pros-unti- A ‘ City Along about 1923 when the citizens of Francisville Georgia were led by a group of salesmen into a building and expansion program that they could ill afford one Lem HucklaMerchant and farmer bee a berame known as the "Old because he so stubbornly opposed the frantic schemes of the "civic bet- "rewt--lutio- ' 711 By L A JUDGES THE OLD By Witham S Mudd Publishers Dodd Mead & Company Inc New York creation n I Directed Against New Deal Policies "1' - 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