Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY 14 1935 Art and Literature Art IN THE FIELD OF MODERN WRITERS 1 Items-t- Man’s Conflicting Loves Engage Attention in o ARTISTS’ COLONY ACTIVITIES IN UTAH Barn Show This Story of a Farmer of the Cumberland Hills Marks Doreen Wallace’s Development as Novelist Strong Penetrative Piece of W°rk : By E E HOLLIS LATTER HOWE By Doreen Wallace Publisher The MacMillan Com- New York City LEWTHWAITE a farmer’s daughter and married to a MARY of the Cumberland fells had wanted for her children somefarmbetter than a farmer's life so the bare old stone-floorthing house of Latter Howe could have no modern embellishments until the children were educated The children all took to education kindly except the youngest Lanty neglected Lanty her best-lovhis lessons for dreaming of his home in Losten Vale he loved the valley its dun bogs grey fells and bright little becks and cared to be nothing more than a sheep-farm- er like his father When war called the men away Lanty was happy to come back from Allington Grammar school to help his father Then the war claimed lus older g brother and poor old George Lewthwaite was broken by the blow Afterward there was no question that Lanty must stay to look after the farm With Mary too gone soon after the youth was not lonely at Latter Howe his work and the land he loved were sufficient for his happiness He was content in his solitude always Latter Howe might have sufficed himhad not Fate arranged that Katherine Parrett’s bicycle brake should fail and pile her up right alJLanty's gate to bring conflict of desirei into ius simple life Doreen Wallace who knows this Cumberland lake country and its people picturing them with appreciative insight and sympathy has written the quite unordinary love story of these two people with exquisite understanding Love came to them almost at first sight disregarding difference in their lives and rearing and the disparity of age which was all on the wrong side But Katherine several years the older and a university don had kept a freshness almost boyish that made her at 29 look younger than the sophisticated 22 and her free spirit was kin to Lanty’s Though his instinct was against it they were married and isolated Latter Howe was setting for a perfect love idyll The baby which proved a healthy boy was born at the farm Katherine refusing to leave Lanty even for this important affair and nothing marred their contentment But with the descent upon them of the Parrett relatives — who had accepted the farmer husband as “a cousin of the Chesterhall Lewthwaites"— and the advent of Roger's little sister a fretful weakling the disadvantages of Latter Howe were made clear It was Lanty whose pride could not brook that his wife should be shamed before her family (which didn’t occur to Katherine) who decided to lease the great Hall It would eat up much of his savings but Katherine would not be cramped for room could have a nurse for the whining Alison who was wrecking her nerves —and the Parretts would approve But this sacrifice is not enough for Lanty who finds his life complicated with problems of marriage and family Now society which had ignored the farmers of Latter Howe makes demands upon the Hall residents — is not Katherine the Canon’s niece? and most fateful development a few years in the valley with its mists and dampness brings on Katherine’s illness Because of the threat of tuberculosis Katherine must live in a different air — and Lanty must leave his loved Losten Vale and try an entirely new kind of farming on the coast It is the Parretts who select the '‘suitable” place — quite impossible to Lanty's means— and he makes the best of it for Katherine’s sake that her span of life is but a few years more having now that Submissive to fate he was “ being swept away on the tides the ebbing tides of Katherine s life: he had ceased some time ago to be his own man but he had hardly realised till now how absolutely circumstances can control a man’s movements once he has come don from the peaks of his loneliness to the valleys where the rivers of life run down to the sea of death" Only he will neither sell nor let Latter Howe— it is “home” he will have something when Katherine is gone Of all this Miss Wallace writes with beautiful restraint she does not muck around in emotionalism her portrayal of the relationship of these two whose unity is never broken even when Katherine’s invalidism destroys complete confidence is something especially fine Both in the presentation of its background and treatment of its theme “Latter Howe” is a novel of worth pany ed red-head- ed ed easy-goin- M ge Significant Catholic Novel Publishers By William Thomas Walsh New York City THOMAS WALSH writes primarily tor Catholic readers but WILLIAM will find “Out of the Whirlwind” a powerfully moving novel whether one accepts his views or not He writes with a sincerity that is unmistakable and out of a profound knowledge of the Church’s traditions and It is a book that has been inbeliefs and insight into Catholic psychology spired by a deep faith and is extraordinarily worth the reading by As a narrative it is well built and moving or those of the Church slowly through nearly 500 pages has a cumulative force Mr Walsh has a fine prose style that adds to its interest The basic theme of his book Mr Walsh found in a sensational case that happened in New England a number of years ago when a young man was accused and condemned on a murder charge serving a long sentence before Mr Walsh’s young man is a factory worker his innocence was proven birth Stephen West (the Americanized Wieskievicz) of His Polish mother is a firm in the New England mill town Hookerstown As a boy Steve had been Catholic but Steve takes his religion casually ambitious for an education but his aspiration had gradually yielded under the irksome routine of the button mill into which his father’s death had forced him Mr Walsh gives a faithful portrayal of the mill town composite of several New England cities he has known its social strata and particularly of Little Dublin the workers’ suburb originally settled by tlje Irish whose ambition had urged them upward and over into the choicer section of the town and in their place had come the Poles Lithuanians Slovaks HungaIn rians resigned for the most part to the slavery of the factory system Mr Walsh's richly peopled book many of the characters of Little Dublin as well as others who have risen beyond its dreariness are drawn into the affairs of Steve as they move toward tragedy through his encounter with Nina Mateska a fascinating young creature who having had the advantages of a period of convent training is teaching music to children Nina’s sensuous Lilith-lik- e beauty allures the young man who had had little to do with girls he recognizes her selfishness but cannot help loving her and the two engage in a passionate affair Nina’s practical mother wants her to marry Casimir Pavlonis well-to-d- o saloonkeeper who boards with them but Nina scorns him She delights in exercising her power over men but hardly desires to marry until Steve again ambitious to achieve a better way of living leaves Little Dublin for a job in an adjacent town and she In the characterization of Nina even more than in hates the separation that of her young lover Mr Walsh proves his skill showing the inception of the sinister idea in the girl's mind and the deliberate planning of a peculiarly horrible crime to remove Casimir whose jealousy she has begun to fear Incapable of realizing the enormity of what she has done she is yet clever enough to implicate Stephen so that he entirely Innocent is the one to Suffer imprisonment while the guilty Nina employing her sex lures is paroled within a short time The latter half of the book deals with Stephen’s slow regeneration during his long prison years the incentive first to develop his mind his delight in learning in reading his periods of bitter despair and hatred: his turning to science the conversion to Marxism artd finally the revival of his old faith the softening of his heart to forgiveness of those who had wronged him— and this is the significance of Mr Walsh’s story It is following this that a stranger takes an interest in Stephen’s case discovers the perjury of the witness who had given the decisive evidence against him and Stephen's innocence is proven OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND Robert M McBride and Co Polish-Lithuani- an -- IMPORTANT ART WORK Grant Wood’s "Return From Bohemia" the book on contemporary American art hq la doing for Double- -' day Doran will include reproductions of his own famous canvaifs also those of John Steuart Curry Reginald Marsh Charles Burchfield Thomas Benton and others leading the return to the American scene Graham Greene who will have a new title "England Made Me" on the sutumn list of Doubleday Doran is regular contributor to the English “Spectator" “CALIFORNIA ON STONE” Harry Peters who possesses one of' America's fmqst collections of early lithographs has prepared for Doubleday Doran an important work containing much information heretofore unrevealed concerning early California The book is to appear shortly under the title “California' in Stone" with profuse illustrations of lithographs of the Currier and Ives period The edition will be limited to 500 copies Mr Peters’ first volume of Currier and Ives prints was so eagerly sought after that it increased immensely in value within a few months collection of canQuite a vases both water color and oil sculpture and pottery has been gathered for the summer exhibition at the Art Barn galleries showing a representative group of Utah artists With the characteristic work contributed by established artists there are several pieces by some of the newer entrants into the field that will attract attention as having exceptional merit promising genuine achievement for the future And a neVcomer among them offers work to interest While one ex- pects good values from the majority of these artists who 'seldom 'disappoint it is more gratifying perhaps to note the progress shown by these new' well-varie- d ’ competitors “Grain Field" the large genre Edwin Evans is showing a spacious sunlit picture with a field half reaped and grain in shocks occupying the foreground and a farmhouse sheltered by Is one great frees in the of the most gratifying items displayed It has depth and strength its feeling of summer well defined This Is one of Mr Evans’ earlier expressions and he also contributes a charming landscape in water color a more recent creation Lee Greene Richards’ intimate garflaunt den scene where hollyhocks their vividness and a blue bank of delphiniums hedges a riot of other blossoms gives a refreshing sense of the delight of gardens and across the iris gallery the richness of many-hue- d is portrayed in one of his effective flower studies their texture as deftly felt as the sheen and patina of the brass bowl and pottery accessories Another flower piece that makes a definite high light is the Joseph A F Everett study of peonies found in the tea room Loosely treated and of delicate tonalities it captures the essential quality of Its subject Mr Everett's farmyard scene with cows crowded in a corner of the fence and an angry sky ready to loose its wrath shows him in a mood harsher than There Is a fresh spring is his wont feeling in La Von Vincent’s landscape whose motif is a spreading tree pink with bloom and It balances good ob servation with romantic feeling for mood Gordon Cope's free spirited style is marked In two landscapes one in which a vista of early summer fields Is glimpsed between great trees whose lush foliage fills the upper part of a picture that Is full of light and air Cornelius Salisbury’s "Silhouette" Is a firm and arresting portrayal of a gnarled tree sharply defined against a sky of fleecy summer clouds Alberta Kondratieva's Individualized figure studies executed after the L’hote manner claim their share of Interest particularly for their unusual color sense M F Malin's striking “Unca Sam" and an uncompleted bust of Chief John Duncan a famous Indian character are accompanied by a portrait bust of Governor Henry H Blood revealing the sculptor’s gift for characterization Showing considerable strength in the handling of the medium Leda Rawlins Ray who has worked chiefly in water colors offers a landscape in oils that is pleasing and has many good qualities The paintings of winter In the canyon with the delicate bloom on the snow and of'the river In the early year reflecting the fresh blue of the sky mark Nellie M Manning’s advance in interpretive ability Maurice Brooks' very definite talent for sculptural expression Is seen jn two pieces the graceful seated figure of a woman and the Indian warrior in bronze a virile muscular figure Paul Salisbury’s vigorously depicted desert scene "Cloud Shadows" lends value to a show that Includes also work by Caroline Parry Mabel Frazer Rose Howard Salisbury John Evans J B Fairbanks J H Stansfleld Frank W Kent Michael R Cannon T Best the latter making his entry with an agreeable mountainscape War Book and Recent Fiction Numbers A SPY WAS BORN By Marthe McMc- Kenna Publishers Robert M Bride and Company New York City That this narrative of a wartime episode of espionage following closely on the German invasion of Belgium should be tinged with bitterness is not matter for wonderment nor for critiof Belgian cism Marthe McKenna birth was a spy for her country during the war She writes here of what she saw and knows a fictionlzed account but dealing with actual Incidents told without any softening of their horror and brutality "Why do I rake up such memories?” she says In her Introduction “It Is not for the purpose of Indicting one nation but rather of Indicting the whole poisonous virus of war" She dedicates the hook to the women of all nations "who have It in their power to teach at the knee the prevention of another Her story concerns two German soldiers in that first movement of the grey tide over Belgian territory fusiliers of the same company and sworn friends yet so opposite in Character and temperament that while one stimulated by the excitement of war and in the lust of ambition and power loses all sense of decency and instincts of humanity committing foul outrages the other is sickened by the injustices and atrocities witnessed and in which he is forced to share It is perhaps because Paul Orthwald had a Belgian mother that his sympathies turn to the people of the overrun nation his mind rebels at the Idea of a strong nation oppressing a weak one whose integrity it had sworn to respect That which happens to the Vannesten family of Tower Farm— a young officer murdered without excuse a hunchback brother made prisoner and sent to the Courtrai prison cage a girl's mind shattered by its weight of horror their home left in flames— this is what makes of this German soldier an allied spy traitor to his country perhaps but true to what he held right Though it is his friend Victor who drunken with power had wrought the ruin at Tower Farm Paul cannot quite hate him and at last the bond cf brotherhood unites them in death The author who herself enters mid way of the story gives a stark picture of war conditions In Belgium under the heel of the invader and of the Belgian retaliation built up of her own experiences By THE HOUSE IN ST CLOUD Beatrix Demares Lloyd Publishers Robert M McBride & Co New York City While posing an interesting and unusual romantic problem here In this novel Beatrix Demurest Lloyd rather shirks the situation taking the easiest way to its solution Nevertheless writing of agreeable pccple who are charming to meet she lias made a very agreeable novel not of any momentousness but pleasing to read Its scenes shift from Paris to the New Engtand village which had been Curtis Lome’s birthplace and back again to the delightful “house in St Cloud" chosen as the ideal studio for a famous sculptor tired of the sycophantic mob that infested his Parisian place When Lome Is summoned home to look after the family estate as the last Lome he goes reluctantly and finds not only an unexpected fortune hut the one woman he can love That lovely Anne Meredith of whom he is commissioned to do a head should be married seems the insuperable obstacle in his path- - strange that any man could be as indifferent to her beauty and sweetness as this Derek Meredith who spends the greater part of his time at sea and out of touch with hia family Had Lome but known It not Derek but Noel the vagabond Derek's crippled brother to whom Anne is devoted and whom he Instinctively distrusts is the one that stands In holds the the way of his happiness and ' ‘ key to Anne’s future Along with the development of Anne’s story with its tinge Of mystery runs the affairs of Quentin Lome’s young friend whose mother’s Insatiable gambling spirit bids fair to maks trouble with the exacting father of his French sweetheart “The Circus of Dr Lao" Charles G Finney's mad mythology scheduled by Viking Press for June appearance was postponed because Boris Artzybasheff the illustrator insisted on doing more drawings than originally planned By Alan Lampe Publishers Claude Kendall and Willoughby Sharp Inc NewYork City A TORCH TO BURN Joan’s love for Robin was so great that without him "the very air was she cold and damp and loved him so much that sthe dldnt care what happened to her If only he wanted her Ancl Robin— who was an artist because anything rise might have required work wanted Joan for the time being she gave him a new zest for living and he wasn't at all unwilling to let his wife provide the money for him to live with Joan While the indulgent Grane who had always supplied 'the money to get him out of scrapes sent him the check he asked for— which not being sufficient Joan applied to her father Father sent his “poor baby" five hundred dollars so that she could go to Europe with her lover— Robin had said he’d get a divorce in Paris Need one go on? Well if you will— through a round of Parisian cafes with convivial compan-ion- i with the flowing of oceans of liquor and a brief interlude in a quiet French village we come to a girl’s broken body on the pavement before an open hotel wdnlow with a maudlin Robin weeping bcude it Alan Lampe finds his text in an Ezrjt Pound couplet “Sing we for love and idleness Naught else is urth the having” : Writers of Rocky Mountain West In the spring edition of Cornwall House Anthology a collection of poetry representative of the newer writers from over the country who have not yet achieved outlet In the poetry magazines two of Utah's poets are included e Bertha Woodland Richmond and I Carleson Salt Lake City their contributions respectively being “Man" and “Spring" This spring anthology according to the editor Lou Green reaches a high level and the book has been attractively bound In gray linen with royal blue covers Lu-ell- Irene Welch Grissom who Is Idaho’s poet laureate is to have a new book of verse on The Caxton Printers’ autumn list "Under Desert Skies” is the title Mrs Grissom writing of the southwestern desert of Arizona finding her material among the fantastic cacti and other desert growths Mrs Grislom is the author of several volumes "Verse of the New West" appearing In 1931 ILES’ “FRANCIS ” ORIGIN Edward Hale Bierstadt termed by Lewis Tltterton the "Edgar Allen Poe of 1935” discovers the origin of the pseudonym "Francis lies” — signed to two famous psychological novels of the day "Before the Fact" and “Malic Aforethought”— in an old English case The real Francis lies he says was a leading witness In the case of the Crown against Eugene Aram a mysterious case kept alive by BulwePa famous novel and the poem of Tom Hood Aram was executed on August 6 1759 for a murder committed on February 8 in the year 1744 or 1745 Mr Bierstadt amateur criminologist has a new novel “Satan Was a Man" just from Doubleday Doran SCOTT'S ALB CM AMERICAN for U STAMPS S complete is apace for aticty of U S fine album every detail A Willows in Spring By ELNA MYRUP DIBBLE erery Willows In the early spring Are varlhued along the stream Each wisp of willow Is a dryad In a shaded gown Around her feet a cllngingdrape Of russet brown That blends with softest yellow-gree- n Unmatched by Nature elsewhere in her A stamp tawed before JanStandard uary 1 1935 Catalogue number is each Blank pages for peoe stamp later than Jaa-uar- y L This is tbe right album for e apodal collection of United States stamps realm NEW IMPROVED EQITION time) DESERET BOOK About her phoulders that bright scarf Of saffron (Willow's saffron just at budding And if I loiter 1 an almost ce Her change her gown to one with verdure a sheen k t COMPANY (4 fail on South Temple |