Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 1 MARCH 8 1938 Art and Literature IN THE FIELD OF MODERN WRITERS Author of ‘Diary of a Provincial Lady Exposes Further Manifestations of the Seljf'Delusions to Which the Human Mind Is Prone GARIBALDI: The Man and the Nation By Paul Frlschauer Publishers Claude Kendall and Willoughby Sharp Inc New York City Current interest In Italy may heighten the value of this biography of Guiseppe Garibaldi whose battling red shirts did so much to found the Italian nation Otherwise it is a rather dull and plodding account of the life of a stirring and romantic freebooter Mr Frischauer’s careful research and pedestrian style do much to cloud the romantic aura of General Garibaldi and all but destroy the glamor of an adventurous life Mr Frlschauer also appears determined to make a sincere hero of his subject and becomes in large part an apologist instead of a chronicler But the life of Garibaldi— the sailor boy who became a leading revolutionist in South America thereby gaining the esteem of his fellow Italians in Europe the general who worried the crowned heads of Europe as well as his oWn colleagues— was so replete with adventure that even a prosaic account of it cannot entirely dim its fascination Mfr Frlschauer however devote a5 much of his work to establishing his hero as a mao of large caliber that he obscures much of his human appeal After all Garibaldi was a man of action with little concept of what he was about or for what he was acting And however hard he tries Mr Frisch-aucannot conceal that fact Had the author of this biography taken his subject for what it was worth the chronicle of a romantic man ever spoiling for a fight who wouldn’t count the odds his work would have been more enjoyable Had he shown him as History’s pawn Instead of her director he would have been more accurate Instead he must show Garibaldi as the patriot legend has made of hint Therefore he must apologize for even though he can’t quite explain his desertion of Mazzini his true mentor He must gloss over the wily diplomacy of C&vour who used Garibaldi to cement Italy under the Sardinian king and then cast him aside Further Mr Frlschauer falls to catch the obvious engaging personality of the man A leader of revolutionary bandits an expert in guerilla waffare who is lionized by London society who drew to his bed famed women of his time who captured the imagination of Alexandre Dumas must have been blessed with magnetlo charm But Mr Frlsohauer has him plod dully through 153 page making a puritanical tra of a hedonistic life—N R FASTER! 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By E M Delafield Publishers Harper and Brothers New York City and wise" and witty analysis which the THAT penetrative observation Lady bestowed on her own compatriots of London and the provinces and then extended to Americans are turned here to a merciless portraitizing of the woman who envisons herself as a female Atlas bearing the burdens of the world her own particular world— and loves the spectacle E M Delafield has in" many novels shown her large ability to probe and of the human expose with delightful irony the frailties and mind more especially the feminine mind and this study of Claudia Winsloe bears her characteristic deft touch Claudia was the sort of woman who does the right things but for the She declared her passion for seeing things straight for wrong reasons always facing things frankly and squarely' but she never for one moment She always had very faced herself honestly and admitted her motives good sensible reasons the very best of reasons for everything but they weren’t her “real” reasons Not that she consciously deceived but she was able to make herself believe her own legend Hadn’t she when her unlucky Everyone said Claudia was wonderful husband couldn’t get a job created a business and made it a genuine success? Wasn’t she carrying the whole weight of the home the children their education everything? She was a gallant uncomplaining wife and selfless mother wanting her children to develop along the lines they might choose leaving them free to make their own decisions True Copper had had a good position on a Ceylon tea plantation when they married but Claudia couldn’t live in the tropics — not that she had tried it but Claudia wasn’t “too" strong”— and so Copper gave' it up Theh the war came and afterward jobs were not easy to find Copper’s financial position weighed on him making him irritable and sulky but Claudia' sweetly --re- — — — fiised to quarrel with him She bought back the big country place beloved home of her childhood Of course the purit was better for the children to live in the country chase mortgage was never paid— and the children understood how hard mother struggled so they might have a pleasant home and the best of And Grandeducations ft quite distressed the sensitive young Maurice mother Peel was always insisting Claudia worked too hard while her daughter patiently repeated that “it didn’t matter” Only Sal Oliver who was Clauaia’s partner (not a personal friend) kept silent Claudia now in her forties had been a faithful wife however Copper She had men friends naturally and some of them fell in was disagreeable love with her But Claudia was “honest" these were only intellectual friendHer objection when Quarrendon one (of these friends who came ships down to Arling showed he was attracted by the pretty daughter Sylvia was not actuated by resentment at all Quarrendon was far too old for Sylvia the child was merely fascinated by an older man Besides though Quarrendon asked Sylvia to marry him Claudia knew he didn’t really want to marry And so Sylvia was sent away it was her own decision after Claudia had made her understand Obviously she must refuse Taffy’s desire to go to America with Aunt Anna it couldn’t be best for the child Anna was “lost” to Claudia —the sister whom she admitted she had ruled in their younger days had escaped her domination when she married a wealthy American Anna had seen through Claudia: “She ‘hadn’t’ any motives except determination to get her own way and dominate everybody else” This was the one thing that could hurt Claudia that Anna whom she so loved could say these things to her — but never could Claudia see that they were true Despite the candor of her exposure Miss Delafield’ is not without symis admirable pathy for her victim and one is called upon to admit much that to blind her m this woman who had allowed her power complex to grow judgment and confuse her honesty She carries her irony to the very end of Claudia’s story the denouement comes as a shock but with a sense of fitness One may add “Faster! Faster!" to the company of Miss Delafield’s previous delicious comedies ironically commenting on life and character hard-worki- BARREL ORGAN TUNE By Jane Oliver Publishers Doubleday Doran and Co Inc Garden City N Y affaire of a representative middle class family as central interest WITH the new novel by Jane Oliver author of the “Evening of a Martinet” of English- - life from the turn of recreates with ample detail a cross-sectio-n the century down to King George’s Jubilee week in 193S It is a richly peopled narrative crowded with Incident its scenes presented with lively verisimilitude affording an Intimate glimpse of England of the period the South Africsn conflict marking its beginning the aftermath of the world brawl with its shifting viewpoint and war neuroses portrayed in its later mist-hun- too” This understanding spinster Aunt Sarah a writer of popular novels with a weakness for royalty and the rebellious Ellen of militant spirit and avid interest in life hiding her hopeless love for the man who was Hester’s only —these are vivid figures in the procession that passes through Miss Oliver’s panoramic picture which touches on all the changing aspects of those years from 1900 the suffrage activity the heroics and actualities of war the peace jubilation the General Strike the depression — the world moving ’’round and round War peace war Action Birth marriage death reaction stagnation” round and round like the barrel organ in the square whose tunes indicate the mood of the times Between an Old and New Life THE SURROUNDED By Co Inc New York City on the Flathead Indian Reservation is the place called by the MONTANA IN Salish tribe Sniel-eme- n meaning “Mountains of°the Surrounded” because it was here that once the tribe had been surrounded and almost destroyed D’Arcy McNickle has titled his book ‘The Surrounded” not alone because it is set in these mountains on the Reservation but because it is a term symbolic of the condition of these Salish Indians a tribe hedged in by the land of the white man the law and the civilization of the white man their own way of life destroyed Mr McNickle who was bom on the Reservation and has a strain of Indian blood mingled with his Irish and French though he has been long absent being educated abroad and at Columbia knows the way of thought of these Indians the old ones who still lived in the past remembering the old pagan ways before they were bound to the Reservation and the Church had come to bring complexities as well as the younger generation which has found new aims and accepts a new way of life His has sympathy with the problems of these people degenerated from a once brave and powerful race and become lazy shiftless without initiative under the evils wrought through the Indifference of the government and who are exploited oppressed scorned And it is from the viewpoint of the Indian that he has told his story d Primarily it is the story of Archilde Leon an intelligent youth who has been taught at the mission schools and has escaped from the Reservation as far as Portland finding it possible to live easily through He has a feeling it would be better to stay his talent for fiddle-playin- g away from the Reservation holding no faith in the ancient truths of his people and beginning" to doubt that which the mission priests had taught him But he remembers with longing the Montana mountains and sky— “Nowhere in the world he imagined was there a sky of such depth and He would look at the sky freshness”— and the joys of fishing and riding once more he would ride and fish and go away — “Then wherever he might go he would always keep the memory of these things" But it is not to be that easy for Archilde and he becomes involved in the life through hia mother — known as Faithful Catherine befcause from her childhood she had accepted the church’s teachings and been a devout disciple and old Max Leon his Spanish father whose vast wealth did not compensate for the lack of a son he could trust Old Max is a striking character Howell Rosenbaum show Working from sketches mads during her tour of Europe and of Palestine a few yeare ago Miss Ware has created a vivid Impression of the busy Ilfs of a street in the Holy City with the confused traffic passing under the arches copper and rug merchants at the entrance of their bazaars white-robeArabs carriers a camel-ride- r at the far end of the street —a scene that is striking In its rich barbaric color Miss Ware's handling of sharply contrasted light and shadow la effective dazzling sunlight entering through a passage in the high gray walls throws figures' into sharp relief And gives luminosity to the canvas "While" this “Street in Jerusalem” dominates the show there are several new landscape studies that delight and two or three of the artist’s portraits the much admired “Ski-er- ” and the gloom-fille- d d “Suey French Books Made Available for Us Concluding arrangements with La Sequana of Paris the cluh has announced that readers of French In this country will now be able to secure Immediately the outstanding book published each month In France The distribution will bt dona by a new society just organized called the French Soclete Nouvell th club The Sequana Society has a committee of sixteen writers and critics who meet once a month and designate what - they consider the most meritorious book published In the month - The committee includes several members of the French Academy and the Institut Its membership lists such writers as Paul Valery Francois Mau-ria- c Pierrt Lyautey Andre Maurols Abel Bonnard It also has named an American Advisory committee consisting of la Comtesse da Chambrun (nea Clara Longworth) Abba Ernest Dim-nM Maurols and Professor Flrmln et Ros Tha first book to bo distributed It announced will ba a novel by a French-Swls- s author C F Ramuz which is titled “Derborence” Is Danger and Action On Chisholm Trail 'Street in Jerusalem' by Florence Ware Survey of Oregon Literary Producers Holds Interest By GEORGE DIXON SNELL HISTORY OF "OREGON LITERAPubTURE By Alfred Powers Tha Metropolitan Press lishers Portland Ora Hera la a comprehensive and appreciative account of the total literary output of Oregon from the days when Clatsop and Chinook and other Indian tribes roamed the verdant Oregon land singing their tongs and stories of war down to tha latest novel published by Nerd Jones It is a long book and a full one containing not only literary history but selactioni from th works of many famous naThe chapters on Oregon tive sons literary magazines book publishers song writers and literary gosajp help to make tha book almost definitive in Its field-- - Oregon is extraordinarily rich in Its historical background: in pioneer times Oregon was in fact tha whole Northwest and the state of today profits from the great heritage of frontier lore that has bean handed down Many of tha ’early axplorers and trappers were historians and journalists and their records maka up a considerable section of this literary history But it was not until the 60’s that aotual literary production began with a novel a group of short stories and a satire all making thulr appear- - i full-leng- A half-bree- E M Delafield and (right) D’Arcy McNickle authors of current note I An impression of the ” too an adventurer who had coma to the valley years before and found the place down he had married the daughter of Running Wolf an food Settling chieftain he esteemed She had given him 11 children but his sons disappointed him He had grown rich but what was gain when your seven sons might have been seven dogs so worthless were they lying gambling stealing “going back to the blanket” And the mother taking the side of " her sons old Max humiliated end mad built himself a big house and threatened to break the neck of any of them who came into it His sons fear his temper the wife stoically keeps to her cabin only his favorite daughter when widowed is taken in to do his cooking Not until he is an old man does he learn what can be accomplished by friendliness But here is Archilde whom the priests praise perhaps he is different not an “Indian" And there must be someone to inherit his acres and his wealth —he cornea to better terms with his son So that Archilde is held learning to know his father to desire to complete his work and his life becomes entangled with other lives with tragic consequences The story is somber dramatic tragic— it could not be otherwise but Mr McNickle has given us to understand somewhat better what has happened to this people It is a story sincere and thoughtful and challenging it has its flaws as a novel being the first story from the author but is a presentation of the Indian that is well worth reading jA? Sin-Fah- Utah lake country with its clear crisp Atmosphere is included ' also and a canvas of exquisite loveliness in it spring mood has as center of interest A fruit tree in a cloud of blossoms Miss Ware's sparkling wlnterscapes —- a new oni depicting th lats heavy snowfall where the snow is drifted to the height of the fences the delicate lacework of tree branches against a eold sky being a feature—are offset by interpretations of brilliant autumn affects in which the vivid rose-re- d of foliage is heightened by the dullness of huge gray boulders or where the darkness of a pine is sharply patterned against the gold of aspens in a very decorative composition One of those Oriental bazaar scenes Where the sheen of copper and brass and richly lustrous fabric are highlights is £ salient part of the exhibit er Panoramic Picture of England chapters The Derwents married !n 1900 are ordinary young folks typical of hundreds perhaps whose marriages were an outcome of the excitement of the Boer war Hester Broughton’s engagement to Timothy young Scottish doctor doing his hospital work in London had been broken off because of a quarrel when Hester a true Londoner protested against Timothy’s taking up practice in his border town When Timothy who had immediately rushed off to serve as a medical officer under Kitchener in South Africa was shipped home wounded his spirit bearing harsher wounds than his body Hester in a glow of patriotism and romantic dream of sacrificing herself promised then to go with him wherever he thought best There were many days however when Hester found her sacrifice almost too great to bear For in the austere gray house of Timothy’s ang cestors at Corbie Rigs iielow the Grey Fell which seemed so remote from the world she was exceedingly lonely There were no gaieties here no young people like herself and Timothy devoted to his profession was always too busy to play with her Even the children hardly compensated for this living out of the world and Hester as the years pass is frequently making long visits home enjoying a gayer social life with her former friends and gradually husband and wife grow apart And suddenly a vindictive woman’s malicious tale brings a crisis leaving Timothy hurt and resentful at Hester’s lack of faith in him A temporary reconcilement is brought about by circumstances and Hester’s second son is born but a spiritual estrangement persists the while life goes on its usual routine with the children growing up and adding their But Hester learns well the truth Aunt Sirah had given her problems yejars before: “Love’s a thing that roots slowly instead of popping up like a mushroom" and that she couldn’t live always in a doll’s house her Timothy “wouldn’t fit in He’s real and if you want him you’ll have to be One of the moat interesting and important canvases Florence Ware has exhibited recently la now on display with her collection at the tearoom of th Z C M I shown under the auspices of Mrs Alice Merrill Horne This exhibit which remains for another week or so is to be followed by a At Subject’s Cost By E E HOLLIS ARTISTS COLONY ACTIVITIES IN UTAH Far East Theme Found in Downtown Exhibition Biography Insists On Making a Hero Examining Feminine Ego real SUNDAY MORNING th Then ance within a short Interval a figure suddenly announced himself as a major voice In American poetry of the time— hia name was Joaquin Miller This strange frontier poet made his way across the United States and the Atlantic to awaken one morning in London like but Byron to find himself famous it was always from the West that he drew strength and fiber for his poems In the wake of Miller there came half a dozen writers: such as Frances Fuller Frederick Batch Sam L Simpson whose reputations are mostly local But the seed of literary expression was germinating and Oregon men and women were alive to the fertile vein of human experience that lay About them awaiting interpretation And in the course of time another poet sprang from the Oregon valleys to sing in a minor but widely acclaimed voice: Edwin Markham He spent his boyhood there but like Miller was recognized only after leaving the state of hit youth Other poets began to speak in individual accents and among these Eva Emery Dye and Ella Higglnson attracted most attention Mrs) Dye today at 81 is still a figure of great Interest and has probably more books to her credit than any other Oregon author Ella Higginson too has been a prolific and well known poet and novelist Her poem “Oregon" Is reprinted In her own handwriting in facsimile as the frontispiece of the at Eugene book The ferment of social unrest and labor troubles that have characterized sections of Oregon and the Northwest gave direct impetus to the works of one of Oregon’s most Important writHis “Heavenly ers C E S Wood Discourse” a collection of political essays with a personal point of view was published following the war and reflected Wood's passionate interest in the fate of the working clasi It rose at times to eloquent and vibrant liter- ature Another figure of International reputation to come out of Oregon wai John Reed the war correspondent and bolshevik who lies buried in the walls of ths Kremlin in Moscow Reed's literary output was not great and he is mainly remembered as a pamphleteer and revolutionary but he wrote one great book “Ten Days That Shook the World” and by the fire of his personality and the example of his life inspired hundreds of followers who have formed John Reed clubs in all the major cities of this country Mr Powers considers each of these figures and many lesser one Jjj hil survey giving detailed attention to their lives critical summaries of their works and where possible judicious selections from their writings When ha deals with modern Oregon authors he necessarily treats them more briefbut even here comprehensive ly thumbnail sketches are given of such writers as H L Davis Ernest Hay-co- x Howard McKinley Coming Ethel Romlg Fuller Alice Hanson Ernst Edison Marshall and so on Hs has covered much ground and with apparent thoroughness The book is illustrated with crayon drawings old photographs and pictures of sculpture with literary associations the authorship of which is unfortunately frequently unacknowledged But it is certain that any leader looking for an inclusive story THE TRAIL DRIVER By Zant Publishers Grey Harper and Brothers New York City One of the most exciting episodes in the history of the western cattle country has been employed by Zane Grey as basis of this latest novel of adventure In 1888 — cattle having multiplied on ths Texas plains while tha Civil war was dragging on— Jesss Chisholm drove the first" hard " of longhorns north to a Kansas market and the history of Texas was altered Within three years the Chisholm trail was worn deep with ths hoofs of cattle and Spanish mustangs and 18T1 promised to be a record year for cattle drives Mr Grey tells of a drive of 4800 head of longhorns tho largest herd Sver collected from San Antonio to Dodge City Kan and the account of hardships and dangers encountered affords a yarn that is hugely thrilling with scenes of tremendous power Whenever a motion picture producer dares to film the movement of this enormous herd— and Mr Grey’s stories eventually do reach the screen— it should prove one of his greatest pictures This great restless wave of cattle flowing over the prairie the fording of a river in flood twisting melees of animals ready to stampede the splitting of ths herd by rustlers and the 'recapture of the stolen cattle thousands of stampeding bison surrounding the herd and ths band of trail drivers— these are scene to stir the blood Adam Brlte Is ths stockman who had fathered together the Immense herd and his boss trail driver is ths lithe young cowboy Texas Jos Shipman who had driven the trail for Chisholm and who heads as tough and unbeatable an outfit of trail drivers as ever rode the Trail With them rides a notorious an outlaw on the dodge but whose loyalty to the oufit Is unquestioned while his special talent is no little useful In ths hazards of ths trail from rustlers and hostlls Comanche To these dangers Is added th menace of nature Itself In the terrific electric storms which sweep th plains and which the bold trail driver fears more than Indian or outlaw The Implausible romance Interwoven with tha events of the drive Is but Incidental In a story that interests with Its depiction of a colorful page from Texas history “The Alaskan Melodrama" whose author is J A Hellenthal an attorney prominent In Juneau Is a Live-rig- ht publication of early March Perhaps the first comprehensive history of Alaska the book lays stress on ths dramatic phases of th record and describes th enormous possibilities of Alaskan development ed gun-fight- of Oregon literature — and it nating one—will wait ing a better than this Is a long-befor- fascifind- The Bookaneer Sage Whither Politics? A pres identiol campaign nears Keep abreast el trends political with books W ber have a num- el current books which Interpret th political scon ji i i -- i |