Show —II J‘ Tmef'rrla' m TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING TUB! SALT LAKE JULY 29 1914 Art and Literature In the Field off Modern Writers WRITERS OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST In the Former's Hound of Hoys Hay-Making- Manuscript for the third volume ir Fisher's tetralogy of which "In Trag c Lfe” and "Passions Spin thp Plot" have been published has been sent bv Mr Fisher to hu piibluhers Doran "We Are Doublpdav la the title taken as were the former titles from the lines by George Meredith ” reproduced from "The Farmer's NEW YORK - Things maj- - seem quiet you lead this but if you think they aie vou are wrong Today you and 125-00- 0 000 other Americans the whole The wrong is mixed In tragic life God wot No- villain need be! Passions spin the plot: ' - erittfn- - and cluding mountains oceans skyscrapers nd tadpoles are whirling through space on a joyride that covers 400000000 miles year eery That is not all that is happening eilher rcording to Dr Harlan True Stetson rcsearrh associate in geophysics at Harvard University While all that is going on he says in a new book entitled "Earth Radio and the Stars'” (Whittle--1 ey House) the sun with time to spays in its chase of Hercules is taking a hand in whether or not Amos and Andy or anv other program will come over the radio clearly tonight while in effect are determining whether the depression is over how long the drouth will last and to a certain extent the possibility of a third term for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Dr Stetson does not claim to be able to make all these predictions himself but in his book In which the sciences of astronomy geology physics biology and radio engineering have been intermarried for the first time in their history and christened with a new word Dr Stetson ‘'cosmetology" has marshaled more Information on the intimate between man relationship and bis cosmic environment than has ever before been “CLASSICS” EDITION Just completed by the honors faculty of Columbia college a second editfbn of "Classics of the Western World" is being published by the American Library association It represents an outline bt reading in the humanities from Homer to Freud and forrp the basis for hpnora courses offered at Columbia and the UniIt is edited by J versity of Chicago Bartlet Brebner Sir Basil Thomson its formej assistant commissioner is at work on a complete history of Scotland Yard which he hopes to have ready for his publishers Double Doran before he comes to America thu autumn Good Bair of Bafflers THE HOBGOBLIN MURDER By Kay Publisher Cleaver Strahan The Company Indienapolts Kay Cleaver Strahan a favorite of lira ever since ahe concocted the gorgeously thrilling '"Desert Moon Mystery” succeeds in mystifying us to the same degree here Yet "The Hobgoblin Murder" while It has its moments lacks the intensely gripping quality and eene-nes- s of the other As to its odd characters the pathos of whose lives upsets Lynn MacDonald's investigations one finds them bit difficult of credence At that Mrs Strahan a mystery it w ell above the average Miss Prudence Frtty who for forty seven years had made their home a veritable prison for her two timid sisters is found in bed stabbed with her own scissors end one wonders this violent death had been to long delayed agreeing with the openly relieyed Miss that the vicious old tyrant had but met her “just deserts" Undoubtedly an “inside job” Lynn MacDonald thinks but can believe neither of the queer old listers guilty of murder— as absurd as to suspect the Polly whose fright at the hobgoblins in the' hall had led to discovery of the crime— and the house'! other inmates had perfect alibla These kre the old servants Phil and Bertha Kane hating Old Prue who though their only daughter lay dying would permit them to visit her only on their afternoon off Madge Covie Polly's mother the penniless ar- rivet but a few weeks before whom Miss Prudence would have turned out except it might further disgrace the Petty name as Valentine Porniclc re- minded hark and this same Valentine ' the one person who had any liberty in the house Not one but had motive tor murdering the old tyrant as the garrulous Valende- tine easily informs the tective whose clever -- deductions have been revealed in Mrs Strahan’s previous books Her wits are tried to the uttermost here and because for twenty minutes her door remains closed a second murder is committed before she can convince herself of the incredible solution to which a burnt match and a peculiar odor had led her All clues are bared for you but you'll probably need the lesson that young Jiggers was given Bobbs-Merrll- l Hor-tens- e grand-niece- - -- author of the Frenchmystery “Shoes That Hid 'Walked Twlde” Is among the July Lippincott authors with a second crime fiction tale "The Dfcad Man at the Window" Jean Toussaint-Sama- - t MURDER UPSTAIRS Bv Adam Bliss Publishers Macrae Smith Company Philadelphia Joining the ever increasing list of of crime and mystery fiction Adam Bligs strikes the gong with hiv first blow showing a nice talent for the development! of plot and creating suspense while his people are believable persons if manifesting eccentricities of character and their behavior ia to be credited Lt Kirk Larrnbee is no super-human sleuth -- thowks feel but a pleasant keen-eyelad who can put two and two together The last plare probably one would look for muVder to happen— Mrs Penny's quiet unfashionable but excellent boarding-housSo when the new cerv-inknife disappears from- - the buffet good Mrs Penny too honest to suspect anyone else certainly not her "paying guests” of being less so only thinks it borrowed Borrowed for purposes of murder the good lady never could have dreamed and whbn crochety caustic Mr Darien falling to come- - down to breakfast the knife is found sticking in his heart she insists none of her guests could be guilty Not even when it appears Larrabee suspects Mrs Penny herself since "she is legatee under Darien's wjll can she fit any of her guests into the part of a murderer She doesn't mention the homicidal tendencies of Lucy Upham— Lucy is an old friend she conceals the gold hairpin picked up in Dairen’s room which could have belonged only to swet pretty Janet Bell Plainly the reticent Mis Starmont has a secret Com ail Withers had "been all jittery and couldn't eat that morning but what had these to do with Andrew Darien? None of the seven old guests not Marcella Cambridge maid schoolma'am nor young Talbot just arrived had any liking for Darien except Hemingway his pinochle partner —but would any murder a man just because of his biting tongue? Then there is a second murder upstairs i crime seemingly senseless Mrs Penny who is narrator sets her own wits at work and suddenly recollection of a simple almost forgotten circumstance gives her the needed clue You'll like both Penny and Larrabee aud there's-- a hint you'll find them working together again g - prise-winnin- g Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt's book "It's Up to the Women" (Stokes) has been issued in a French edition by the Parisian publishers Jacques Haumont - kee Wis It author priest and poet combined tins connection of verse breathes a spirit of humility and reverence allied with a warm humanism and a deep joy in the loveliness that nature spreads There is "a spontanenusnesj W songs as if they welled up from a heart overflowing that disarm? the critics He but evinces is no labored technician familiarity with all verse forms and' a mastery' of fluent rhythms" One may know the little town no more than Father Daly but the lyrical "Boscobel" of stately homes and ways "arched with ancient elms” will strike a responsive note in the heart that recalls the quiet peace of such villages A touch of whimsical humor flashes here and there through the- book even When "An Adventure” takes him into the' realms where the saints dwell With the closing and longest poem of the collection "The Grand Review” his lighter fancies are discarded for a splendid conception of the pRgeant Of the saints pass-“In-g before the Throne of the Almighty In Father Daly one finds a singer with whom to pass many pleasurable moments Not because it Is the best in the collection but because we like its picture his "Crepusculuiri” is quoted: is mti-ma- te j every rdof upon the house of night Some shattered shards have fallen down and glow Among the willows where black waters go In the soft amber gold as fabled fleece Tired pilgrim clouds rest id a windless peace “in-earl- A late crow with slow oarage wings Like e sun-spot- light a sun-spot- s oh-he- A lucent its way the the day sun-spo- of-th- mysteriously still tinctured with the lees of Athwart - sun-spot- ' The sky "As a race of humans” Dr Stetson find ourselves aboard a ship on the high seas of space The ship is this planet earth Contrary to the opinions of the early astronomers it Is far from fixed We are at this very moment being carded eastward with the earth's daily rotation at a velocity of several hundred miles in hour Meanwhile the earth is forging ahead in its orbit at a velocity of nearly 20 miles a second as it circumnavigates the sun once a year "Meanwhile fortunately quite unconsciously the passengers of the good ship Earth are being tossed to and fro due to the peculiar wobbhngs of the earth's axis and even the deck of the ship on which we stand the crust of the earth appears to Jbe a bit unstable as it trembles now snd then due to internal explosions within the ship’s hold While en route during our celestial journey through space as passengers on this tiny shaking craft we are subject to all the cosmic forces known and unknown which play about in the mystic ocean of ether” While Dr Stetson gives no credence In his book to political forecasting by means of astronomy some of Ins obsert vations on cycles which recur every 11 years and the economic effect of might well lead Democratic enthusiasts to believe that with celestial help1 the Roosevelt luck Is going to hold and that the tradition against a third term in the Presidential office is doomed to be smashed by the present occupant With reeleclion practically assured if recovery is sustained and prosperity achieved Dr Stetson's remarks on tha s economic effect of take on po- - MYSTERIES OF EARTH By Margaret E Bruner Publisher The Kaleido-grjjp-h Press Dallas Texas Margaret E Bruner is a writer whose verses have been appearing for a numpoels have been formed and the state fosters several poetry journals Whether ber of years and extensively in the however tne collection here assays highpoetry magazines showing her steadily er than other state gaming in facility of style and command anthologies is a of technique She writes with simplicity question That some well known names are included in the list of contributors snd imagination and her work reflects ' '"arf'I wfrgheC'bf 'Sii man values "Th ere” '“TsUnje nofedrifowever "it is perhaps worth s passing reMiss Elllston herself is represented by are times when she seems no more then mark” he says "that last fiva of eeral to touch the surface rather than reachiher rharming vrics "Talk" business depressions four outeof major and "Youth" especially illustrative of the five have followed in the wake of a ng to the heart of things but many of her gift for the short her poems reveal a depth of understandsun spot maximum The complications compressed line and Jack Conroy in such obphrase introduced by government legislation Owning the desire to "grow ing servation of lifeias "Dusky Answer" with flowers and trees and ail the extension of credit invention of cold and srtent mysteries of earth” in her nature "Journey's End” shows that he storage and various means of regulathas something to say The sonnets of poems the rewards of this intimacy is ing production and distribution might W to be s'Sen in for instance the sonnet Groesbeck and Royall Snow Halley well mask any natural correspondence are well fashioned and of value and "Old Roads? where she rloses: between the solar and economic cycles ' Blanche Waltrip Rose B Y Williams And in this tranquil spot it seems or at least Yesult in throwing such a and Dorothy E Reid demonstrate a genthat I correspondence out of phase if there uine lyric gift and originality of thought and Grow kin to towering tie were any fundamental basis for believA Carolinian who writes from Pennboundless sky ing in the existence of a correlation" Mrs Bruner is concerned with a vasylvania Archibald Rutledge's book exs numAccording to a table of presses a certain nostalgia for the south bers from 1833 to 1933 which Dr Stetson riety of subjects so often Ihe little r and ibs wanner beauty An assured techincludes in his book conditions in 1941 homely things of life and some whirh will be the campaign year for nique and maturity of thought marks portraits in sonnets show a penetrative hu work but the book would have been "Mysteries President Roosevelt’s election or deinsight into human nature the better for a careful of Earth” is her second volume and feat for adhird term should hfe'rnn will pruning While its assembles more than one hundred of be comparable to conditions in 1929 bequestioning "Chant a ia Mort” seerfts to set the-kenote of the group some her verses s collection that will interest fore the country was willing isdmit of the best'of the poems are to be found the lover of poetry that there was a depression and not just the laft section under the caption a temporary lull in business to be coped Foreword by George OHIO POETS “Veiled Eros and Other Poems” with Elliaton VEILED EROS By Archibald Rutledge Publisher Henry Harrison CLOUDS IN TIIF DESERT New York City By Beatrice K Ekman Some ninety writers gathered together When as a child I watched the desert clouds of "Ohio here under the title poets” Shape and reshape their forms upon the blue show that poetry is thoroughly alive in and redrape their' opalescent shrouds Drape of has love state where the the poesy On mountain peaks and cliffs that shouldered through Since its a been tradition sitjee founding for me a world of pageantry They wrought those singers of beautiful hymns Alice Of legend hero-fol- k and fairy lore and Phoebe Cary gave their lyrics Plumed armored knights rode forth for chivalry to the literature of the middle west Over deep moats on drawbridge-lowere- d floor Ohio has been a quite consistent contribForests and lakes and castles floated by utor to literature as well as giving noA sleeping princess softly pillowed lay bly to the list of American presidents Giants and trolls went stalking through the sky and statesmen Or fiery dragons waited for their prey "Ohio poets were represented” says Clouds thin or billowed in that desert space George Elliston in her foreword Made me athirst for beauty every place poetry collections of the ration of own its and the state had such books poets” One of the state's oldest literary organizations was a poetry society Ttie Poet's Union of Brown and Clermont Counties a Society still existent represented in the present Numerous other groups of anthology BOSCOBFL And Other Rimes By James J Daly S J Publisher The Bruce Publishing Company 'MilttaiK hill Is a black wall e says “we s A Catholic Singer With Chorus of Other Voices Night lies upon the meadow Kennelly-Heavisid- of five to eight inches since 1930 the sun has been keeping up a relentless ' chase of Hercules at 40000 miles per hour- and you jour family and everything you know or have ever seen in- witbm The Meredith excerpt being jet capable of furnishing a title or two a facetious writer has suggested for Mr Fisher's fourth book "Wot No Villain?" engraved by Clare Leighton in language which can be understood by ths layman Writing with the conservatism of ascientist Dr State con nevertheless takes his readers on as exciting journey from deeper in the earth's crust than man has ever pen- trated up past the layer against which radio wives bounce end return to earth to the regions where ngin a te presented United States in fact have traveled part nay to England and back at least 63 feet of the way and while you hava been doing that Japan in the neighborhood of Ito has been showing change ain: Co) day as morning but no morning can restore What we have forfeited I see no (Longmans Green and BACK AND FORTH 6 3 FEET EVERY SCIENCE SAYS ' ’Tig Year” Artists Colony U S AND ENGLAND MOVE V'ardis "June: Activities in Utah last grave splendor of Kent on Greenland Visit dark thought across the soul when praver Has woven calm and benediction and-we- there Can Women Over Fifty Find a Job? for Services of Such Women WithTooFew Capable Ones to Fill Positions That Are Open to Them Real-Dema- nd age rrlppled with arthritis frail nervous They always ssy that money is not their first consideration— a home first and food and just a few dollars monthly for their small expenses snd they will be content — Easily discouraged are mot instantly forthcoming they become frantic with fear and any useful-- h s esr Wefm fghr havr had -- -- it lessened'' Usually they drift Into institutions or become soured old shadows in the borne -j B KATHLEEN NORRIS Apropos of the Interests and activities that may begin for woman at 40 or 50 or 60 it is pathetic to realize how many 'elderly women not only want oepupation but must find it it they are to live V rrV A 3 s fkvejnd OYrragaia a middle age the inevitable "somethiig” tappens to them and iweeps away all- - the foundations of their lives They were NSbt working women once Tkperhapi “saleswdmen' factory ha Ads ate- ndThey had the aecurity children Kathleen Nerrte freedom from money anxiety And then either in the great crash of 1929 or in somd smaller do- metie calamity the whole dream vanishes and the woman awekena to find herself 45 50 60 and to find that she has to start somewhere anew begin all over again tired and wearied and old and somehow earn her food and lodging in a wprld singularly Indifferent to her living or dying The letters these women write for advice are desperate Many of them come from college' graduate gentlewomen who ere not only penniless end untrained for any sort of work but begin-Bin- g to feel the terrible advances of old It seems to me a good deal of this trouble lies in the attitude of the women themsylves They are suddenly in a great hurry to solve a problem that even to trained youth and even to many an experienced nufti in these times is not easily settled They won’t wait search prepare themselves- for anything Tha ideal position must be instantly found Some of them want to work as sales- uomen or in tea shops some feel companions housekeepers reader managers of small hospitals or boarding houses they might be highly successful After one discouragement however they chorus bitterly: "There’s no placa women!’1 for elderty But all th time there IS a real demand for the services of women be IweerRO'Snif BIT arid 'tier are too" few capable wbmen to fill the position that are open to them Most of the fine shops employ a great many women who have passed their youth all of the hotels do In any line hotel a healthy woman of 40 has a much better chance than any girl has Thousands of elderly women are in good secure job? the ca tch tiea in that word “capable” up there Most women of 50 who have had normal sheltered lives as wives and mothers are completely incapable They are failures They don’t want to work or help any one or make life easier To go into a neighbors’ apartment snd help nurse an invalid or wash a stack of dishes nevpr enters their heads The want to sit about trading newspapers and talking of old limes Th only things they will discuss with any vigor are their own lost glories and misfortunes - thtai self-pityi- Anyohe who in a burst of emotional altruism has ever attempted to employ one of these old gentlewomen knows just how difficult it is One can't talk to them sensibly they are too vague and ton sensitive Far from helping they need constant attention and sympathy themselves One that I had many years ago ‘to help With'chtldreri's mending and Irt the nursery used elaborately to carry all her meals upstairs rather than associate Tprarrhvstan: AiKJther'urgr dttpotrme--plo- t for a story She wanted it written because it would shame and expose her late husband "Have you started- the story?" she asked every morning Still another in a friend's house insisted on telling her at length how her 'other employes were imposing upon her snd had frequent devastating attacks of head- a aches and faintness Another friend New York writer has hopefully woman helpers of this typeg the latest and last sht tells me cheerily brought her m cups of soup and sandwiches a bit of fruit or a cooky during the hardest hours of tha morning's work snd shed silent tears when tha writer whose one anxiety js to take off weight declined them If § middle-agewoman fpuld be silent about tha pasC and really wanted soma to find nicne of usefulness there would be small difficulty in placing her I know of a score of homes—and there rtiust be thousands— in' Which such a woman would be invaluable and would be well paid: Bachelors widowers homes in which the mistress is unable to manage the house or is e professional woman would all be grateful for tho presence of a capable quiet busy person who would manage tho other servants keep an eye on linen laundry cleaning dinner parties mail telephone all tha details around'a borne that drive busy people to distraction One woman of 50 I know walked into a sroall-towdepartment store and asked tor work there without pay for awhile That was seven year ago ah I still there but well paid now and at the head of her department Another woman— an aristocrat thia one with d ' wealth position beauty power onre all hers— took a course in practical nursing advertised exactly what she had to offer and has moved up steadily from one good position to another until now when she manages a children’s sanitarium and can invest almost $1000 every year She was 49 when she started In had a doctor son just launched a daughter just married’ and would not burden their yoofig lives with the problems of her own The secret la to make yourself useful quietly jtat-simply humbly-m- ef utra hrd— let the rest take care of itself Your employer whoever he or she may be is never going to be interested in your personal tioubles or have time to listen to them Your health is your own alfair not his If you can't control yourself sufficiently to be well you ceitainly w ill have little to conrtbute to smoothing tha paths of others But on all sides of us are women of middle-agand more who havavtownd their places who are working 'away busily and contentedly without any as to the future Besides the thousands in- - shops there are many in such places as dentists' and doctors’ oJ- fires In hotels and restaurants in private hdmes and hospitals Hundreds of the smartest houses of the ” big cities hve’ apartment women as renting "igems and they never are very young women Every community center or settlement house every library and postoffice employs older women by choice So the outlook for the elderly woman who wants work Is not so discouraging after all Hor case must be hard indeed if she has not a son or friend or brother who will see her through the few months or the year that the change from one sort of life to the other requires and once established In work that I not uncongenial she may come to find herself happier than she was even in the old palmy days when she had a good and a rich father and two servant and a big car and string and all thosp other things she is o anxious to lell hout hn we are deep in work or when the rir is boiling over or whan we are in a hurry for our 10 cents worth of ribbon -- Print Reproduced from "Rockjvcllkcniiana” e mis-'givin- hui-ban- 4 d Rockwell Kent who sailed earlier in month for a two years' stay in Greenland left a laige exhibilmn of his work at the Old While Art Gallery White Sulphur Springs West Virginia The sixty-fou- r 'paintings lithographs and wood engravings are all of fiorth-ersubjects some oi which were shown l at the Century of Progress Many of them have served as illustrations for his books “Voyaging” “Wilderness'’ and the "Rockwellkentiana” Ihe n last-fal- Mr Kent plans during this vfslt M the northland to finish ht ndw book "Saiamma" sending the manuJcript on next spring to his publishers Harcourt Brace for publication another fall Hu son has accompanied Mr Kent on the present vpyage to reman for the entire two years sharing in such an unusual adventure as the average boy knows only m dreams— living among strange people in a strange country New Indictment of Hitler Regime While Adolph Hitler maintains his rigto prevent any Inkling of the disaffection in which Germany is held abroad to seep through to the German people outstanding representatives of American public opinion will gauge Ihe accomplishments of the Millet lc their virus of Hiller pol-i- i gime and hrfocr the reading public id "The Case of Cu iluation Against Hitlerism" u book w hirh ha just been published by Robert Ballou and Company id censorship i It review Hitlerism and represents an indictment of the Nazi regime based on its policy and practices during the first year of power Tha book makes available addresses by the Hon Bainbridga Colby former secretary of state: Raymond Molev Alfred E Smith Mavnr Fiorplln h La Guardi Hon Samuel Seahun Dr Siophen S Wixe and Ihe irws of Michael Williams Dr Sianfev High Dr John Hsynea Holmes Arthur Garfield Hays Miriam Beard and vanoua 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