Show (Q THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE C SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER'S 1937 Discussion and News of Literary Folk New Browning Item War Causes Probed and Guilt Fixed Recent Discovery of Letters of ' Browning and Julia -— Wedgwood -- Reveal Unsuspected Attachment- of Poet’s Later Years I By E E HOLLIS- WAR MADNESS By Stephen and ROBERT BROWNING AND JULIA WEDGWOOD: A Broken Joan Raushenbush Publishers Richard National Home Library FoundaFriendship as Revealed by Their Letters Edited by tion Washington D C Curie Publishers Frederick A Stokes Company New York An endeavor to indict munitions City makers as among the chief creaANY Browning student the discovery which this book tors of "war madness” is the eviTOrepresents is one of genuine importance These letters which dent objective of this book “dedicated to the members of the United passed between Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood only Stateasen&te munitions committee sister--whof lighV-'aftevlattue' the brought younger who have through two long years died in 1935 at the ripe age of 91 — reveal a romantic passage of labor helped to revive the faith of men in the possibility of rt In the poet’s life unguessed at heretofore While Browning biogmaining alive and free” of nature Miss intimate mentioned tlje have Wedgwood raphers "War Madness” gives the authors’ this friendship had not been suspected except as likely by version of the causes of war It shows how munitions making may tome of the contemporaries of the pair be closely Allied with diplomacy This linking of the name of a woman other than Elizabeth "Shotgun Diplomacy” as one chapBarrett with that of Browning comes with the shock of surprise ter is titled charges that armament g romance been im ao strongly has the moving makers sent lobbyists to disarmawhen he met Miss pressed upon one’s mind Browning was fifty-on- e ment conferences to wreck if posWiedgwood about 1864 and his wife having been gone since '61 sible the sessions aimed at curbthe fine edge of his grief had dulled Julia Wedgwood a woman of ing war preparation Hiring of ace culture and literary interests herself a writer and critic — and propagandists to achieve the aims not fail to attract him Her qualities may efJii§j3QemSr-cjau- d of shipbuilders is also alleged But have' reminded him of Mrs Browning— at “any rate he found Miss in each and every disclosure to Wedgwood’s friendship something prize based on evidence received The fatal illness of Miss Wedgwood's older brother was ocea- by the senate committee investiSion for the beginning of the correspondence lasting nearly seven gating the munitions industry there ’67 when it was j'ears except for an interval between ’65 anddesire is an obviously preconceived con— at a the the terminated break lady's expressed abruptly viction on the part of the writers real explanation of which rriust be still left to' conjecture Miss M'V that if a naval conference or a be would that we meet “it not did better Wedgwood’s letter saying disarmament conference failed and did now at come least that you V not here” giving but again just the munition makers had an Insufficient reason: that her pleasure in his visits “had had an Drawing of Browning at 57 "observer" present then those manI to allow” Afterward interpretation put upon it that ought not The poet is seen reading “The Ring and the Book” at ufacturers of war materials in ilHIa When the correspondence but not the visits had been resumed in 18G9 A drawing by the Earl of Carleague with their observers and Naworth Castle she intimates however reports had reached her of words said by war with the and navy departments lisle in the possession of Marchcsa Edith Peruzzi de Browning that had wounded deeply— which reports Browning of of participating governments must Medici reproduced from “Robert Browning and Julia course indignantly denies have been guilty of causing the colForeign Observer Wedgwood” Just possibly Julia thought by this withdrawal to make her of negotiations lapse Charming IVIme Ichikawa friend more eager — such tactic? are not unknown in the sex’s conIt is the theme of the book that whose impressions on world duct of an affair It appears true she made the first advance m this state control of munitions making tour are recorded in unusual would cure some of the current ills Strange friendship — one of her early letters says: "A woman who has taken the initiative in a friendship with a man as I have done and piquant journal A referendum before a 'declaration With you has either lost all right feeling or has come to a very war is made is advocated and definite conclusion on the issue of all such friendships” It might DEATH OF A MERCHANT OF ENVOY the Hull prograrti for easing ten- JAPANESE LADY IN EUROPE EXTRAORDINARY By sion between nations well be too she feared the depth of her own feelings though she DEATH through reBy Norman Stanley By Halruko Ichikawa Publishers E Phillips Oppenheim Publish- ciprocal trade treaties is indorsed is at pains to insist that he knows “I am not giving up more than Maerae-Smit- h E P Dutton & Co Inc New Publishers Bortner I can afford” ers Little Brown and Co Boston as a war preventive York City Company Philadelphia Richard Curie in his introduction indicates his belief BrownOn involved the that major point Displaying in some of his preWith a big American munitions This less refreshing travel narrative no were than of But fervent one ing’s feeling Julia’s rrtby disagree keeping the United States out of a box at the opening of vious nove's of international afwith this interpretation of the poet’s attitude That the lonely amaker indenouncing war the authors assert "that the by the Japanese Lady the charnfing and the an war to fairs play wife of a scholar who is professor ability anticipate grave Widower held her friendship as precious in the first stages at makers war there is reason to events E Phillips Oppenheim One best way to stay out of wars still of English at the Tokyo Univerleast is clear but he deemed himself "too plainly a sort of tomb- look for oftrouble of them remains that preventing name the of With a once more may hope reveals stone to be scribbled over when so many blank walls spread on this Bennett from Few of sity exhibits a quite different viewstarted” Hayden introduced into prophetic sense in this narrative course getting point to the usual tourist’s Mme will this every side” That he saw the danger of embarrassment growing the curtain speech— challenge profound at the suggesinworld matters with statement cut of their ambiguous relations is hinted for no great reluctance tion of the smart drama critic to dealing and The writers continue: Ichikawa was a close observer and naconflict between trigues seems expressed in his acquiescence in her request for his withStates is absolutely her record of her impressions is the play “pdnch’’— trouble is tions climaxed by an international "If the United to a prewar boom frank and lively her commentary drawal Yet it is he who long after renews the correspondence give forego unwilling But in comes it to a scheme for assured unexpected conference on exports stimulating pungent but tolerant by quotas having as reason the offering for her reading the manuscript of his form — Hayden is shot just as the establishing pledged establishing un“an unbreakable to belligerents— and in 1937 it be- and reflective of mature thought poem (The Ring and the Book) which he had promised she should curtain falls m assailable peace” A descendant of Viscount Shibu-saw- a Europe Mr came clear that congress was not have before publication Also oddly enough her mother had invited Clifford Wells Johns Hopkins Oppenheim of course has "no parJapan’s Grand Old Man who to do this— then it becomes him to dinner and he must send refusal through the daughter professor who solved- the puzzle of ticular advance knowledge of world ready more important than ever to make was one of" the first Japanese to that she may understand — Is in affairs” he only reasons out the all “Bond Grayson Murdered” moves which will visit Europe Mme Ichikawa acIn the resumed correspondence the tone changes — it is “Dear the audience — for one best way for the nations o reach ease reasonable economic sit- companied her husband the recipinternational the Mr Browning” now not “dearest friend” — but while Julia freely Martin Rennie fortunately reamicable relations whose role had ient of one of the Kahn Traveling uation” criticises his work and Browning exhibits testiness these later quired his firing a shot as the curacAs to this on a tour that covEuropean Fellowships of thus the disposed letters hold the greatest interest for Browning students For here is tain descended Cocksure lieuten- cord— toward amazing Having which one Lord ered most of the principal cities of of world economics subjiect weighty Browning’s defensive reply to Julia’s censure of his concern with ant Mattingly is determined to hold an known as the book the British Isles and Europe after goes on to press the case a “morbid anatomy" as shown in the characters of "The Ring and Rennie as responsible for this "ac- a sportsman-travele-Englishman r contributes journey across the Siberian snows deal in manufacturers who against the Book” citing to him his wife’s lack of “scientific interest — — in cident” what if Rennie had planned importantly the impulse has been and a visit m Moscow She filled armaments would It munitions and evil” Browning’s own story of his rescue of Elizabeth Barrett’s to be married in the morning? she says "the part of a by a friendly gesture on Great have been more enlightening tb behind beautiful “Sonnets from the Portuguese” is one of the most im- Professor Wells unsettles the lieu- given Britain’s part: offering return to the lens in the form of my the had reader the dealt authors in the book and his portant passages references to “poor Landor” tenant’s conviction that this death Germany of her colonies lost in the more husband night after night while the multitude with extensively and Keats’ death his outline of how he would have written and it embraces the of issues which “Enoch is accident and finds for him the great war interna- he was intent on studying where Arden” with spicy comment on incidents of his travels make 'second bullet” to direct our focus of inspection resignation of all dictators resto- tional unrest Theprovoke however fact interest good The lieutenant being obstinate ration of imperial rule with also that they concede the international for the next day I sat up and wrote a Julia of the Josiah Wedgwood Wells undertakes the task of con- the attachment of American "oball the things which had cast situation is a major fac- down shadows and a niece of Darwin is seen as a writerpotter on my mind during whose prosy style would vincing him untangling a puzzle servers” to all foreign embassies economic their tor removes in war much causing hardly engage a correspondent in these days and a high-mindthat involves the producer— by the since as the English statesman ex- of the stigma which the book at- the day" creature but too introspective for which hjer deafness her “life way where was he during all the presses it "without America we education "limited to a girls’ makers in the Herschool" — of silence" may have been responsible excitement? — the clever critic a might as well try to build a castle taches to munitions she deplores the lack high —N C C early chapters The letters not always quite legible — as facsimile of the "deeper knowledge” to make "pacifist" director the manager who of toy bricks” Fjrmce is the recalciexamples - Included would indicate — have been edited by Mr Curie Was to be "fired” a hunchback trant her premier giving ear to her observations more interesting and the book forms a Browning item carefully of moment In truth her observations if not doorman a lovely actress maybe troublemakers — J Lord Matresser who conceals un others And because it is a worrialways of depth are highly origsome tangle nobody goes home un- der the guise of sports interest his inal and interesting Her comment til — with a few hints from Hay- government mission of investigais often quite unexpected for inden's desolate widow— the professor tion returns from two years spent stance the English cuckoo’s call "sounded like the hiccups of some can point out the guilty While the in the mentioned colonies to find murderer seems to have taken in- spies in his own household ’a vihermit” The foyer of the Paris credible risks the plot is neatly cious enemy at his doorstep and THEY SAY THE FORTIES Grand Opera with the beauties paBy constructed and Wells’ skill makes a mysterious death as immediate Howard Mumford Jones Pubrading in the intervals put her in Dr J U Giesy Is to be one of the mind “of an aquarium or a bowl of him a formidable rival for our best consequence of hisreturn An air & lishers Co New Holt Henry y fiction She confesses she “has sleuths " of mystery continues to prevail the Speakers at the monthly meeting of FOOLISH GIANT By Robert goldfish” York City no eye for pictures” — she thought Publisher Harcourt Brace presence of the exotic Mademoiselle tbfi Salt Lake chapter of the League are not arrived at you Perhaps yet and Co oh those New York swiftly and its actors offer some Stamier at the great house afford- “the dangerous ages" which are to like Greuze’s girls “but of Western Writers which is to Robe“rt Wezterby City in this first interesting character contrasts but ing romance as well as complica-tion- s the forties eyes likp rotting gooseberries” or they say perhaps you We find these foreign scenes and be held Monday at 8 p m at the Art novel telling of the beginning) of a it seems to reach no conclusion The have safely passed these “strange people are ever being contrasted heavyweight champion gives what progress of its protagonist the seas of sudden winds and baffling He will discuss the short seems authentic glimpses into the Barn With her native land and countryphysically superb but MYSTERY PUZZLES By Austin cairns”— but either how you will men though Mme Ichikawa beprjzefighting game climaxed by aimg g&rage mechanic who becomes Mum-for- d "A in find Howard story Publishers Frederick enjoyment Ripley no irritating nationalism She vivid picture of a terrific battle a trays is cluttered star up in Jones’ g the Stokes New ring York City Wallace Stegner’s prize commentary Company felt a bit lonely to leave England which matches for excitement the With irrelevant talk and incident A celebrated criminologist who long sonnet sequence which gives tovelette was an exeiting experience ''Remembering Laugh- scene of viciousness and violence With his excursion into romance Spain title to debook of verse his a conducts class in scientific not alone the Bullfights which she ter” will be reviewed by Mrs Vesta that opens the yam when a small seeming futile humoF frmilir' over the tection at an eastern pfesides found "an enthralling sport” she P Crawford and J Y Tipton vice group of radicals in a coast com- - Van and JehB Logan part Irish furnishes Austin Ripley the 60versify "Min- work ahd occasionally a ribald note was impressed by the trim fields and" ar clubbed munity are captured is Russan but Mr heard "monozygotic1 whole the of oit the Gillham Advertising beaten ute Mysteries” which he offers here part president jp and clean streets of Germany the drunken a frenzied understandby body Jones to the is able discuss twins typer to with having philosoas teasers for those who like Agency is to talk on "Commercial of ''vigilantes” to uphold the “glory peace of Swiss valleys in the midst ing of each other's thoughts and exercise their own deductive abili- phic calm the status of these of of wild of independent Americanism!” imposing mountain peaks Advertising” mind and In n “the whom “Mr sad appearance feelings ties Ninety-sevegeneration” per cent of all with Fascists will Yet one must wonder what all this these twins are wholly dissimilar crime is "simple" the criminologist Eliot with destructive magic De- only her“indisgust hemain my memory as disagreeleads to — Mr Westerby seems to — the Van to those Wasteland” the avers real criminals are not as coyed quiet peaceable giant able as bones that stick in the have no definite purpose in mind — worships his twin but the weakling subtle as inventors of mystery tales who t teeth” and "St Peter’s is a church His story moves along ’glibly and Jon — well it’s hard to know what “ live as stones would have us believe being forty which I would like to visit in jlind- The father No Jofl thinks or feels longer ahakcnby passion If ypucansolyi all the little since its vastness and gorness” who has given most of his life to the problems by tears posed here— which are aumakes man's mind progeousness victim too is a of the — he regards the young- saic "Cause” vigilantes thentic crime cases you’ll prob- Lightly on his dying bed urging the bays to ably agree More likely you won’t er generation knocking “with imThis is a travel record aulte un- escape from the handicap of his find these so "simple” however al- perative knuckles at the door” yet when The twins working before he has a kindly word of counsel notoriety though every clue they caq walking and riding the you Don't be tempted to look over for thosr "who inherit the earth” Denver rails make their way to the page for the answer — give your For Mr Jones is master of light where Van gets a garage job J on wits a chance Mr Ripley kindly satire but there sounds in his verse NOW— a profounder strain the wisdom that as usher in g theater gives you assistance 'the forties” teach When Hank itinerant tough once Wallace Stegner’s The ten love sonnets “Heartinterested in the fight racket and prize-winnibreak and certain lyrics that are honest according to his lights sees Subject Aids Biographer novelette included in the boqk show other in Van's fistic the possibilities “John Jay Chapman and His Let- phases of Mr Jones’ poetic talents prowess the young giant goes into REMEMBERING Special! The Story of San Mlchfle the game in St Louis not that he ters” is M A DeWolfe Howe’s new “OF ALL PLACES"— LAUGHTER by Axel Munthe Reg 2 00 139 likes The Further Adventures ol — Patience fighting but it is a means to volume scheduled for fall by HoughThe Green Light Richard and his chance at ton Mifflin The man himself did of Little Jon the Winner giving money by Lloyd Douglas Reg 250 139 Johnny a rrfusical career The likable giant his coming biographer a good turn Brown & Co’s $2500 advances rapidly always giving his when he wrote that: “I had rather FICTION By the authors of "Around the novelette c o n t est Wdrld in Eleven Years” sendng money to his stand out fot1 posterity in a hideous HYPNOTIC POWER Oleander River G S Stern 250 best and And By Colin written while Mr with on Jon a been as brother silhouette "genius” And Point wrong having Beyond Percy Publishers E P Dut-to- n Bennett “NO HEARTS TO BREAK Marks the violin is eaten up with jealousy every question of my time than be 300 New Stegner was a memYork Co Inc and Qity By Busan Erts The Citadel A J Cronin 260 of his twin’s strength takes all Van erased into a cypher by my biog- WritteR by one who is a prober-intber of Utah UniverAnd So Victoria Vaughn him and hoards it hates him rapher But biographers do not Y” Wilkins 260 gives the psychic the mystic and the sity’s for the success he sneers at and feel in this way toward their heroes English facThe Northwest Passage "Hypnotic Power" deals Roberts Kenneth his drastic stand the man under a telepathic 275 by nothing accomplishes they sciility a as with especially The Depths and (he Heights in the end blighting Van’s life north light in a photographer's attic ence The way hypnotism in which hypnosis HEIGHTS” “R Jules Romami 300 act At the pinnacle of success Van sits and then take the picture — whereas is induced how The Tide of Time Edgar Lee it is used bymedi man was He was life : the real in Masters Laughter” is a pow-- oi standing cal men how patients are treated 300 "there saying nothing hid-- " on tha halgony of a bnrningbuiid Ulone”— times aTmat vON-FlCTlObefited' “THE COOn fBOCISTV PB which the next moment col- ters ing on den an conflict explained in Limbo Robert By Walter Llppmann yoiUw Eurona Wallace E Sttgner formerly con- lapsed and in it he was crushed An historical outline-o- f the subBrltfault 275 Iowa farm of the semblance humanity" ject provides- - interesting reading The Arts Hendrik Willem Van JTHE STORY OF SAN VHCKE’fc” nected with the University of Utah beyond g Beautiful new 395 who is the author of the The latter chapters enter Into a SI 33 A loon Woman Surgeon Rosalie edition" novelette Isak Dirresen author of the ac- deep discussion of the professional "Remembering 300 Slaughter Morton has returned from Eu- claimed “Seven Gothic Tales” has value of hypnotic suggestion The Co ic rion at Midnight Edna200 Laughter” St Vincent Millay rope where with Mrs Stegner he turned over to Random House the manual is Written in language easily DWYER’S BOOK SHOP The First Five Centuries a summer's bicycle trip He manuscript of her new book a col- understandable to the layman and Kenneth Scott Latourette Third Floor 360 enjoyed is to teaqh at Wisconsin University lection' of stories about Africa It details a number of experiments and how to perform them Madison this winter is' to be brought out early in 1938 -- ' ' -- Barrett-Browmn- Mystery and Adventure - -- dry-pla- te ed ’ League Chapter Meeting Monday FHumorist and Poet Joined- Brother’s Love Futile Wes-terb- slow-thin- prize-winnin- -- AUERBACH’S ‘Revitalization’ of C 0 P NeedAoiced-i- n M i Is-Book on Political Issues — electors who cast their ballots for By E L BOURNE Alf" M Landon in the Governor THE SEVENTEEN MILLION By In essence Publisher The Mac- Armageddon of 1930 Ogden Mills Millan company New York City what Mr Mills offers is (his idea Ogden Mills’ latest book “The of a program upon which all RepubSeventeen Million” Is 'even more licans cotild unite including those timely than when he sent his man- who left the party to join the and those”” Demo- uscript to his publishqps Evenks within the Republican party itself crats who have changed their minds Mr have happened since that time— about many new dealisms the very recent decision of Charles Mills moves a little left to construct D Hilles to give up his post as a platform more appealing to ReNew York's national committeeman publican restive under “old guard” the proposal for a special dominance but remains to the right national convention for the Repub- of the middle of the road but not lican party the continuing rumors so on the extreme right with the of the likely voluntary or involunelder statesmen and patriarchs of tary passing of John D M Hamil- the party ton as national chairman the talk Mr Mills is among that company of reprisals against the Democratic which believes the United States over the court is on the to communism or faorphans of the storm matter the startling aspect of the scism Soway very many have used Black appointment the president’s up all available material for picConstitution Day speech and his pa- turing the cbming American dictaternal visit to his daughter and torship that he could have made (Hearstian fledglings) taki- his bool much more intriguing if ng in a vast amount of mileage and he has chosen a less hackneyed subincidental wordage ject as an opener To studiously read "The Sevento day atrocities reSurely teen Million” is to obtain an ex- ported in day the news from Italy the are pansive background for the better U S S R and Hitler-lan- d understanding of a variety of things sufficient to give anyone a workwhich will be popping "before the ing knowledge and object lesson next elections come around adequate for appraisal of authoriThe seventeen million individuals tarian government to whom the Hooverian secretary His third chapter "A Free Soof the treasury addresses his tone ciety” or the next “The Precise are the seventeen million sovereign Form of the Problem" might better have been his point of departure Of course he states the problem In the from his own point of view great grist of books on current politics rolling off the presses in the past few years this reviewer has failed to find a “precise form of the problem” that has been in agreement with the problem as stated by It becomes a quesother authors tion then if these writing gentlemen have been unable to present someTHE EMPEROR HEART By Lau- thing upon which two could agree Publisher The what 'rence Whistler luck will Mr Mills have-i- n — Macmillan Company New York trying to get seventeen million votCity Americans to upon this? Laurence Whistler who is the ingMr Mills differsagree from all others first winner of the King’s Gold in that he draws up what amounts Medal is a poet's poet rather than to a new In his party program a poet of the people He is of the statement of the problem and in younger group at singers ih Engl- his conclusion he sees such need and yet inclines to build on the of advanced social consciousness as traditional instead of experiment- to incorporate it in his present ing in new directions aq so many philosophy He concedes that “much of his own generation in England done under the of what have done The poems in this third new deal Jiasbeen is praiseworthy and helpbook — marking an advance over his ful” "Four Walls" we are told by John He does see however the average Masefield who writes an introduc- American as more concerned tion to this volume— show him a with busines greatly economics free enterwriter of sensitivity with a deliindividualism and their recate feeling for words his cadentfed prise and issues than with lated lines often very lovely the phrasing civil questions liberties He blasts the unsatisfying balanced budget the growth of bu"The Emperor Heart" is a slender governmental extravabook holding no more than 30 reaucracy gance the AAA and the N R A selected well are but these poems His mind goes back to the 1910 speaking of beauty the passion of breach and the formation of a love of life and death and things (Continued on Pane 12 ) past A trnge of medievalism runs Ghost "The in the ballad Never Breathed Of” and Mr Whistler New Books at Library seems haunted by memories inherThe following books will be added to th ited by souls swallowed in “time’s Monday October 4 1037: wolfish maw” by thoughts of the publieiibrarvMISCELLANEOUS — of dead loves tomb the sepulcher Althouse and Trlnquest — Modern Electric Gas Refrigeration a somewhat morbid preoccupation — The War and German SoBartholdy it seems however it breathes a fine net) J' 'rif- 0 off-ye- ar -- son-in-la- w ish Poet Medalist in Third Book I Search for Truth In Russia C trine-lyricism Working With Tools for Fun Mr Whistler’s poems are stamped andCollins— Profit Crocker — Henry Ward Beecher’ Speak with his own personality are unIng Art usually free of the imitative and Daliell and McKinney — Air Conditioning — Insulation possess in so large the spirit Dana — Christ of the Countrywide and Bridges Wm— Ditmari R L poetry that American readers will Animal World with Mr Masefield look for his WildDobree ed — From Anne to Victoria future work “with the keenest exEpler — Impatient Seas and Other Poem Fore) — Out of My Life and Work pectation” The decorations which Goncourt Edmond de and n brother Rex Jules de— The Goncourt Journal Gotjcourt the poet’s Lcwlsohn Richard — Profits of War Whistler has contributed are ex- Through the Age Ring Lyman — Ralston’ ceptionally charming Parker— Incredible Messiah (Father Diwell-know- vine) ordinary abounding in piquant comment so that one is tempted to quote from every page Mme Ichikawa was an untiring sightseer and what one admires more is the assiduousness with Which she set down her impressions daily for the pleasure of her mother when she returned home But the mother dying before she could hear these things the journal is here given to the public - Ryau — Tour Clothes and Personality of the M&yasr Thompson— rClvtllzation -Thomton-an- d Kiwuth Social Component In Medical Care Thurber — Let Your Mind Alone Viscose Company— Story of Rayon Young — Victorian England FICTION Bowman — Love Can Walt Ferguson — Lily of the Field Frank — Lost Heritage Garth — A Love Like That Gervals — Madame Flowery Sentiment Roche — Hard to Get Walker— Busman’s Holiday Wentworth — Down Under Woodrooffe — Yangtte Skipper nor-moc- ked ng riEW BOOKS Science of Hypnotism $200 ' $250 $250 f t cmembering $300 N- prize-winnin- ! 7— |