| Show K THE SALT la the Field of Art Modern Writers LIFE IN THE YEARS 1900-192- Artists'jGolony Doctor Covers Broad Canvas In Record of Crowded Life 5 — ‘ “"' Man Reaches Prime it 70 Author’s Cheering Advice After Edward’s return to the battlefields Miss Brittain was sent on foreign service at Malta in whose glamorous sunlit beauty her heart wounds found somewhat of healing Later she knew the horrors of the general hos- pital at Etaples through which passed a ceaseless stream of Tommies dur ing the sombre days when the German offensive rolled forward Here too she watched “the United States physically entering the war our deliverers a formidable bul at last marching wark against the peril looming” All of these strenuous anguishing experiences make engrossing if painful pages it is through the letters of Ron ald of Edward of Miss Brittain herself— three trained to expression of their thoughts — that one realizes the fierce agonies of their generation the depleted generation It is not intended to minimize them for this testament of youth is meant as a challenge to z -- - eration that they shall know what war means That glamor and magic will remain Miss Brittain thin-blade- d -- knows but she insists “The causes of ’ war are always falsely represented its honour is dishonest and its glory meretricious" There is too comment on the injustices the follies and “un- imaginativeness” in conduct of war that results from mature reflection and understanding ' The record carries on through the postwar years in which this maimed youth struggled gallantly to gather up the broken ends and rebuild its life In 1919 the year “dominated by a thoroughly nasty Peace” Vera Brittain returned to Oxford accepted not “welcomed” as one of those “immoral” V A D’s The story of her rise and of activities as journalist lecturer author internationalist is scarcely less moving and important than the earlier chapters Her book is not one to read for pastime but is one that insists on being read It is at once beautiful and terrible and tragic and written with brave honesty 4 i McFee’s Latest Novel MR PETE & CO By Alice Hegan Rice ComAppleton-Centur- y Publishers pany New York All the warm human qualities that won to "Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" and "Lovey Mary" the wide attention that brought translation into six different languages are found again in Alice Hegan Rice’s latest book Even these last not afdesperate years it seems have nature fected Mrs Rice’s faith in human she remains untainted by the morbid realism that has overtaken so large a number of the writers Nevertheless she is an acute observer of life equipped with an abounding humor and sympathy and a genuine interest in the less favored of humankind Mrs Rice’s gift for the creation of quaint and picturesque characters who impress us with their realness and take hold on our sympathies is still marked' and one will add the meek and unfortunate and lovable Mr Pete to the group that shd has given us to remember Mr Pete is Marmaduke Petree who banished by his Kentucky family had wandered a derelict bither and thither in far places Hawaii Japan China India At bis father’s death the old homestead —now-suca ramshackle tenement his wealthy and enterprising brother has no use for it — falls to his possession and he returns egger to be “home” again Slight and stooped with bent knees gray bang of hair and one eye with lid permanently drooped Mr Pete “looked as if Nature had spoiled him in the making and cast him aside as a second” One can see that the ambitious Ed Petree and the elegant Clara will have no place in their home for such a figure If there is no welcome for him there is less for the vivacious Mimi hisbeloved Chow— Clara doesn't like dogs Among the ragbag crew that tenant the dilapidated old tenement— in the region known as The Bend on the riverfront the city’s dumping ground and surrounded by coal yards stock yards the old and scavengers’ shanty-boat- s man finds friendliness here he does not feel unwanted And here he settles down puts up his sign “Mr Pete Sc Co” opens a curio store or thlrdhand junk shop to become friend and confidant of the community rather than landlord his big heart open to all its needs and problems The place is painted and scrubbed and remodeled flowers bloom in place of refuse and Mr Pete’s business grows— his business of salvaging waste products of humanity In the lives of the Pilsners the Kurtz es the Zenders he is ultimately Influinvolved eerting a beneficent ence and particularly in the affairs of the spirited attractive Marlene with the four youths who complicated her life — the theological student Jasper whom she so admired the prodigal Milt who brought fun into her days Ben Petree Mr Pete's handsome nephew with the ilk of the unattainable and that other -- color studies of Colorado heights As has been mentioned here the collection of water colors by Elizabeth Spalding which has been on view at the Hotel Ben Lomond gallery Ogden is now to be shown'at the Art Barn Salt Lake's public will find a dual interest in this work as representing an artist nationally known and one connected with GLASS WALLS By Alden Hatch Publishers Lincoln MacVeagh-ThDial Press New York Built around a financial crisis on Wall Street this novel concerns a skillful gentleman whose wise foresight enables him to escape unharmed from the crash but who when he steps into a fray with fashionable society is taxed to the limit of his abilities to emerge victorious When the millionaire out of the West Mr Timothy Bevis who commands the financial world because of his position as president of T S Bevis Company finds that preoccupation with business has left him on a lonely eminence and decides to enter the social whirl his passage 1s blocked by an equally arrogant personage Miss Charlotte Livingstone who has made herself social dictator By manipulating stocks to her disadvantage during the crash Bevis is able to force his opponent to introduce him into the proper circles Having accepted the Inevitable and made a bargain with the victor to manage his campaign the self-mad- e i t '&? ' '( ' v'ff- - j'i t tv ryif r the late beloved Bishop Spalding Miss Spalding's forte is the painting of mountain structures the mountains of her Colorado having been her study in all their infinitude of thoods “Hog Back Road" here reproduced is one of the striking impressions to be seen in this group just hung at the Art Barn It shows kn early fall of snow with the autumn foliage yellow predominating peeping through around the crags of the foreground mountains rise in the background against a sky of paler blue In it is revealed the inherent strength and rythmic quality of the artist's painting There is happy variety In the show wide landscape vistas and “close-ups- ” little intimate studies end all well-or- ganized and crisp in color Miss Spaldschool ing is of the and one who knows what she is about' vaii-tlnte- ety keeps one entertained at the same time she succeeds in completely mystifying the reader Yet she Is wholly fair all the clues are there before one to be viewed In their proper relations if one’s own grey cells are functioning “13 at Dinner" is proof that the superb Hercule and Miss Christie have lost none of their skill EYE By Milward Kennedy Publishers H C Kinsey and Company New York When the idea of employing a private detective had been subtly introduced Into her mind Mrs Eleanor Docking thought the coincidental appearance of the card of "Sir George Bull Bart" (that title was so reassuring) quite providential It was merely a matter of a missing banknote— s yet if Sir George came down to possibly he might observe her husband’s conduct and discover "the lady in the case” Not that she wanted a divorce only to bring her erring husband to his senses So Sir George appears at the Dodk- lngs’'house as a childhood friend of the WtthW-WtSseer1 ment of guests But within a few hours Lacey-Luca- n one of Faulconer neighbor a discredited doctor (not unknown to Sir Gebrge) is found dead in his little cottage and at once the matter of the theft is forgotten even the theatric Richard Docking’s amours become of secondary importance except as they s death: For are related to circumstances lead the police to connect man’s sudDocking with the den pnssing is able to conHowever Sir George vince the police it's a case of suicide arranged 'to look like murder his suspicions concerning what is back of it he keeps to himself believing they can be turned to his own advantage As they eventually are white his investigations lead to discovery of a past crime and a criminal but calculating do not prevent a genuine murder One is inclined to dislike the unusual sleuth in the beginning nor does he grow In favor as he proceeds in this strangely item tangled affair It’s only a BULL’S Faul-coner- Lacey-Lucan’- d so-s- o e Latin-Americ- a FEUD OF CATTLE KINGS By Robert Ames Bennett Publisher Ives Washburn Inc New York City Back in the picturesque days of the d Blue-tone- d T GUILD SELECTION Antonio de Fierro Blanco’s gorgeously colored story of the Californias of more than a century ago "The Journey of the Flame” la the Literary Guild’s November choice Houghton-Mifflipublish tha trado edition West when the great haciendas stretched over leagues of the plains and the hacien-dado- s ruled in almost feudal magnifi-- " ccnce Robert Ames Bennett has laid the scene of his latest adventure story Two young Texans a worn brothers aince the from a Mexican firing squad were s trail herd of longhorns for hrough sale at the Colorado gold camps Tired of fighting for treacherous Mexican generals in the1 Civil War they planned to gather up wild mavericks for tale until they could stock a range of their own From Eagle Pass on tha Rio Grande they had drivan their herd across the ranges of all cow outfits (the courtesy of the plains ) but swinging away from the trail to escape the Cominches they found themselves on the Valez grant and in an impasse The “great haclendado Don Jorge Mardel” bluntly refused to allow the drive through his grant They could not turn their herd back over the wateriest desert just crossed and to the west the Klowas were on the warpath tha one way to save their herd is to shova it through the forbidden pass In his dilemma Lon listens to Apache Hank owner of the fittingly named Rat- tlesnake outfit and thereby the partners are involved in the bitter feud between the two cattle kings which began when Don Jorge’s son died at the Hank— amhands of the bushed the don declared The fact that Lon has surrendered at his first glance into the bright eyes of the old hacien-dado’- s granddaughter makes his diffibut in the culties the greater struggle that follows— which supplies plentiful action and excitement even lor these war veterans and gun experts— the odds are with Lon and he wins a fortune and a bride though he loses his "hermano” (be Brazos Kid It’s a well written story in which Mr Bennett has caught some of the glamor of the Old West pushing-t- g hard-bitte- n hard-foug- Livingstone pride compels the social leader to “deliver the goods” but she still abhors Bevis insisting on regarding him as boorish and crude albeit New York's aristocracy finds him acceptable What is at length the outcome in the conflict between these two strong natures— which also involves the affairs of two young peoplg Dan Bradley and Camilla McKim because of their close relationship to the principals— will not greatly surprise the reader A society scandal sheet's attempt at blackmail brings about the climax of the complicated lightly entertaining but not very credible story The author started out perhaps to satirize the “society racket” but his Western hero is not at all the usual type of social climber Bevis' aims were commendable and natural however inconsistent his method of gaining his ends I h h WILLIAM McFEE st d of whom she had not thought as lover Tbe story abounds in human interest and its underlying thread of humor and honest sentiment guarantee for it a wide audience who will find numerous of its characters appealing additions to Mrs Bice's collection 1 'St light-hearte- d and Other Current Fiction NO CASTLE IN SPAIN By William Me-Fee Ptibhshers Doubleday Doran Sc Company Garden City N Y Virile romance set in exotic and unusual surroundings is what one expects from the adventurous romantic William McFee and “No Castle in Spain" moving from New York City to Colombia and the Central Cordillera fulfills all expectations Besides it has his wonted skillfulness in creating piquant characters and vivid realization of background effects with a touch of medievalism to give accent to its modernness Its shift of scenes gives opportunity for bringing into strong contrast our modern society and culture and that of Yvonne Mr McFee’s vivid heroine gave the impression of one who preserves “a calculating chastity in order to achieve an unimaginably gloriol destiny” the sort of girl who captures the imagination At least so she affected the man who tells the story an American engineer whose firm frequently sent him into the wilds to search out hydroelectric Thus it happens when possibilities Yvonne (originally Bathsheba) finally discarding the nice but weak young Ronny whom she had been dangling goes down to South America to marry Don whose romantic the English-Spanlsposition had fascinated her it is not long before the narrator (unnamed throughout the story) is enabled to follow her— to him being given the role of the knight who rescues the maiden in distress Haying been twice married but the knight is matrimonially shy yet has no desire to eschew feminine street West Fifty-firthe society In apartment where Yvonne had arrived from the Middle West his attentions had been carefully divided between its three writer of occupants: Yvonne well-paiadvertising copy the odalisque Mathllde (her parents' Matilda) an “beautifician” and Mrs Tanford an opulent southern widow The latter had really been the knight's interest but he bad felt safe she was engaged and Yvonne bad Ronny while Mathijde had a series Yvonne had desired the knight but believing his defenses unshakable bad thought to find compensation in the aristocratic Don Federicq Adalbert she had “a sort of ambition to marry an Englishman” But Don Federico as she finds has much less in his blood of his buccaneer English father than that of his mother’s noble Colombian ancestors and in the medieval magnificence and restraint of La Concepcion his great estate with the don’s five godly sisters as a bodyguard of duenas Yvonne "Hog Back Road” one of the ' Elizabeth Spalding water Mystery and Adventure died through wounds received in " THE JOY OF LIVING Vol s By handling by experts— that small minorDr Frederick H Martin Publishers ity who had succeeded In envisioning the principles of antiseptic Doubleday Doran Sc Co Inc Garden surgery and who had mastered its City N Y Tha technique Are doctors people? Evidence in the transition of this entire subject develaffirmative is furnished by Dr Frederick oped during" the medical career of one who entered on the practice of medicine II Martin in his autobiographical work during the regime of the old who early Nothing could be more human and less became a disciple of the new and who professional than the story of the strughas lived to see the day when gle of the Wisconsin farmer boy against is assured in 98 per cent of recovery It is told with a simplicity privation cated opening of the abdomen uncomplior other makes real that it poignantly serous cavities and when an infected canvas we broadens and the Suddenly wound carries with it a suspicion of hav4 before us the war among scientists criminal negligence on the part of the Dr over the germ theory of disease surgeon or attendant” Martin lived through one of the greatest Again proving that doctors are Just crises in the history of therapy 'and he people our Dr Martin fails in love imparts to the reader of his book the suffers all the agonies that go with the fears doubts and misgivings of the young grande passion and is cured by the forpractitioner facing the momentous choice mula of a parson between medical heresy ana orthodoxy The curtain rises on a new act The The price of error is human lives and a doctor quite by accident gets a close- heavy toll is paid before experience up of the beginning of the World war settles the contro’versy Also by accident he finds himself at the What that controversy meant to the head of the medical organization of the out clearly in a single layman is brought United-State- s — forces writes? “hr 1889 — paragraph: The rest of the work will be valuable of 90 cent wounds at least operative per as a source book for the historian It became infected and practically 75 per consists largely of official orders reso- cent of abdominal operations performed lutiona and state documents Such thrills by the average surgeon proved fatal as the lay reader gets will be from the Then were exceptional cases but they brief but illuminating characterizations were either accidental or the result of of men of the period as Samuel Gom-per- s Daniel Willard Newton D Baker-another striking personalities with whom Dr Martin was associated as a member of the'National Defense Advisory commission Since the war the doctor has busied himself with the scientific aspects of therapy and one who follows his papers before learned societies will feel thBt an interesting and important part of bis HOW TO STAY YOUNG By Robert autobiography is still to be written Hugh Rose A B M D Publishers Funk and Wagnalls Company New York Do you wish to extend your period of youth retain your best mental and physical qualities and increase your joy in 13 AT DINNER By Agatha Christie Publiving? The whole secret says Dr Roblishers Dodd Mead St Co New York ert Hugh Rose is “moderate eating" Well perhaps not quite the whole secret It is always a pleasure to watch Agatha of longevity— you must also avoid disChristie’s celebrated French aleuth the eases and live hygienically The health one and only Hercule Poirot at work to organizations accomplish much fn the study his technique and the operation of his superior deductive intelligence prevention of disease but the individual must begin where the health boards The amazing little egoist has never had his “grey cells’’ more severely taxed than leave off Dr Rose’s book broadcasts Informain ”13 at Dinner" and perhaps but for man A Is most tion that a pair of pince-neencouraging being where they should be in his prime at seventy and shouldn’t a' very cool criminal might fallows tules the he if he be to scot have gone free says may enjoy the fruits And it is quite probable that within one of a deliberately planned crime 50 be cent least at may actress Jane The beautiful American per generation added to the average life period He Wilkinson (Lady Edgware) wanted a cites cases of numerous prominent men divorce She couldn't live with her sadiswhose lives of fruitful endeavor were tic lord and anyway she had captured extended far beyond the common limit bigger game the young Duke of Merton-Lorand points out that their methods were Edgware refused her a'dlvorce so she asked Poirot to persuade him otherapproximately the same —correct nutriThomas the chief principle tion being wise she might have “to go round in a Edison- Daniel Frohman- Chauncey M: taxi and bump hirh off herself” Getting Curtis K are among rid of husbands is 'not Poirot's business Depew Cyrus H Louis of course and the men mentioned but the matter intrigued him To his surCornaro "the father of Life Extension” prise he found Lord Edgware more than who lived to 102 willing in fact had already written Jane No need for the modern man to seek to that effect Hbwever that is that very the- jJener — he is found in his ' presents here a dietary which fulfills her husband library all nutritional requirements based on stabbed in the neck with a the latest scientific discoveries The diet weapon of the average American is not properly The butler and secretary both declare balanced he says the chef should be an Lady Edgware had visited her husband expert In nutrition but the idea never that evening Inspector Japp hasn’t a aeems to have occurred to him or to the doubt of her guilt But promptly it is him A that one who employs learned Jane was at a dinner party at chapter 'headers or women will interest young the fatal hour also Poirot had told her old is that on "eat for beauty’’ in which previously of her husband's agreement he insists that "Beauty of face and figure to divorce which removed all motive results from correct eating and proper It is necessary to look for another with for crime — and there's a daughmotive hygiene” the lifeMethods of rejuvenation ter who hated her father his nephew and heir who had quarreled with Lord Edg-- ' shortening diseases and habits and their preventives are other ware about money a clever woman imWhile he insists matters discussed personator "an getor who wanted to throughout on nutrition as the essential marry Jane— besides what about the in life and health Dr Rose points out in Duke of Merlon who maybe wasn’t in his summary that (jje rule in eating and Paris A second and third murder occurs before the unscrupulous criminal Is undrinking applies to exercise habits work or play it should be “moderation in all covered would if attain longer life things” While Miss Christie’s you gay- n d” because Edward’s and Ronald’s friends France Forceful Work by Denverite i By E E HOLLIS— TESTAMENT OF YOUTH Publisher The MacBy Vera Brittain Millan- Company New York rTO THOSE who as Arnold Bennett believed that when Time had A given true perspective the great war stories would be written this book will seem verification It is a book whosfc-designificance can hardly be overestimated Of importance in its historical aspect It is also a spiritual record of Impelling power Dealing with the war period it is yet unlike any other story of those years that we have come upon Vera Brittain was of that generation to whom the war came ta Interrupt its preparation for lif e to blight its budding hopes and to put a new and uglier face upon its whole world Her autobiography is the testament of youth to what English youth suffered and lost in the dread holocaust Her story covers the first quarter century and makes startlingly clear the extraordinary changes wrought in manners and morals in society and in politics Her childhood as a daughter of the middle class is passed over briefly When the first rumbles of the war were heard Miss Brittain had succeeded after much difficulty in overcoming free father’s opposition to college for his “little girl” (an opposition seeming scarcely credible to an American girl of today and strange even to 1914) in securing release from the boredom of “provincial and was preparing fdr entrance to Oxford Life was opening joypusly her bent for literature was to he satisfied and also dreams of love were stirring she had found a most congenial companioiriirhqrl brother Edward’s school intimate Ronald Leighton (brother of the gifted illustrator Clare Leighton) a brilliant youth winner of most of the first prizes at Uppingham Speech Day Miss Brittain went up to Oxford but Edward who was to have gone up the same day and Ronald to have gone the day after were now in uniform All she had worked so hard to win had now become savorless war and love had overshadowed ambition By the spring of 1915 she hack become a V A D (of those women soldiers of whom it was said later “no one less than God Almighty could give a correct definition of the job of a V A D”) doing unpleasant tasks cheerfully feeling that in a measure she shared the hardships her lover was enduring in France and living on the letters from the front At Christmas in 1915 Ronald was to have his leave On leave at home she waited joyfully' for his message— but the message was from Clare to say Ronald had died of wounds at a Casualty Clearing station on the eve of his return Battling through her “individual hell” she carries on at the London hospital and is able to nurse her dearly loved brother one in the convoys Months later flowing back to the hospital after the orgy pn the Somme Edward was killed in action on the Italian front The two next in her heart young-ladyhoo- MORNINC? NOVEMBEK 12 1Q3J Activities in Utah An Autobiographical Story of the War Generation of England Moving and Beautiful and Tragic —— OXE TRIBUNE SUND AY is a caged spirit Between the lines of her letters to Mrs Tanbury the knight reads something of the situation He has been in South America and had had misgivings so that when he is suddenly sent to Colombia he plans to see Yvonne In Puerto Berrio-hhears of her — Don Federico had locked up his young wife and the lady had run away Undoubtedly jt is for her friend to play the knight errant Of the runaway’s further experiences and of knightly efforts in her behalf Mr McFee must be allowed to teU The New Yorker’s cablegram to Yvonne brings him under suspicion by the Jealous husband but there are other knight erranta — for Yvonne has a way with men The course of events introduces several very interesting and individual characters “yanquis” in exile especially the mining engineer-authq- r Corder the independent English girl Rose Ann Dr Ramon Gamarra insatiable amorist a typical McFeeian character One finds in the narrator a kinship with the philosophic Mr Spenlove of “The Harbourmaster"— which is to say perhaps with the author himself As to Yvonne she is no doubt a little naughty butchBrming And "No Castle in Spain” while it does not offer the exciting ax tion one looks' for In South America will have its own fascination for McFee readers Personal-Sxclusi- ve- Refine(L Pain disappears with it penetrates e - k "Ben-Gay"- deeper faster lasts longer Now is the time to come in and select them We’ll deliver them when you want them Xmas Books— a deposit will hold them until Xmas Tha pains flnmbigo sciatica ncnritli o down to defeat with a good thorough the original application of “Ren-Gay-” Banme Anaigeifqne For “Ben-CaV bypoaenaitizing (pain relieving) action penetrate right through the skin through the fleth into tho very joint— directly to the pain area That if why ft works falter give relief more anrely than any of Its many imitators Get a tube ef Baume Bengui today ” This genuine baume has a red on the box cover Look for it y -- Too come in and select your — “Ben-Cay- Deseret Bopk Co 44 East on South Temple RU1 PAIN AWAY WITH BAUME ’BEN-GAIT PENETRATES Y' |
