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"48 02r6u m 'Tf4 44 'WJ - gfeS (TSsSW i v (j I) 6 4 Sunday Morning - iXJjc Salt £ale tTntmnc- April 2 - 1939 s Reviews and Comment on Current Books and News of Literary Folk “UV VennonkTS Mcel World Problems Resolutely In Nov Canfield Novel Artist’s Concept of Vermont Scene Meek Husband Einstein Personality Yet To Be Revealed Present Eseapes to New Adventure The Adventure of Christopher Seasoned Timber By Dorothy Cunfitld New 1 ork ( ity Publishers Ilareourt By E E - Ilollis Columnin Brace and Company CANFIELD lias an Immense following among readers because of her vital analytic portrayals of human life and its pioblems but not for several years before has she piesented us with a novel That “Seasoned Timber” comes at the present when events abroad constitute a daily increasing menace to American democratic ideals and America’s traditions of freedom ajid liberty for all is this distinguished author's recognition of the challenge of the times What happens in her little New England town takes on a profound symbolism the test met by her Academy and Clifford people has a far wider application Seasoned Timber is a leisurely moving profoundly thoughtful novel which reaches deep down into the heait of living Its scene is Clifford a town surrounded by hills set in a corner of Windward county a scene whose splendor of beauty becomes an element In the story Daughter of an old Vermont family Mis Canfield ins a love for this Vermont country that has been expressed in earlier novels and emanates from every And she has that unpage heie derstanding of Vermont character that gives her novels definite values apart from her skill as story-tellProblem Not Peculiar to Yermont One might look upon thtse New England villages as our far western hamlets as communities Isolated fiom the world drama unstirred by woild problems concerned only With their immediate businesses International politics fascist By Sylvia Thompson Publishers Little Brown and Co Boston For the first time Sylvia Thompson author of a number of serious penetrative novels allows a natural gift for gay comedy to have Its full way and in "The Adventure of Christopher Columnin” starts out giving an original turn to what might have been a dramatic situation When Alice Columnin Christophers unappreciais wife affected tive shallow caught by the flattery of a preten-Uoh- s local author being entertained president by her club Its clear-eye- d is moved to warn the husband Rut JOROTIIY ?Vf y ’ ‘ ft inso-letn- or racial prejseem questions udices would not touching them closely But Mrs Canfield as her story proceeds makes clear these are Issues which may face any American community end knowing her Vermonters their sturdy indepen- of character and inherent honesty is confident of their decisions where basic principles arc Involved Cliffords local educational Institution the poorly Academy equipped but liberal In its teachings quite unexpectedly becomes the recipient of a huge endowment left by the vulgar trustee who had sought to overturn Academy methods The more than & million legacy has provisions — that Jews are to he cxrluded eliminated and the Institution to be mada over Into a modern streamlined preparatory school catering only to 'gentlemens sons” who can pay large tuition fees— all in the name of protecting its assets of New England tradidence money-arioga- co-e- tion ” This is the matter which furnishes the climax of Mrs Canfield s long and carefully presented novel and in the two months’ struggle which follows — on the election of a new trustee dependent Cliffords rejection or acceptance of this proposition — both sides of the problem are impartially set forth and in its outcome Vermonters are vindicated Schoolmaster of I’urts dollar-graspin- g insisted on of in the that the Academy for 20 years old Wheaton’s million was ’an attempt to bribe us to betray the principles on which our country was founded’ and he would have none of it In d this scrupulous loyal and unselfish T C we have as fine a picture of a schoolmaster as has been portrayed in fiction and we are allowed to know him thoroughly both in this crisis and before in those preceding weeks when Susan Barney comes into his ken and he know'g the pangs and agonies and joys of love and realizes that he has reached the dangerous years of middle-ag- e The political climax involving the town comes at the moment of his realization that maturity and its riches cannot compete for love with youth and its vitality end its demand on his leadership carries him over the crisis While Timothy Hulme this edu- To T C Hulme-- he name-princi- pal Dorothy Canfield color of keenly-endowand trained mind is the center of the story and through him the authors views on various of today's problems aie expressed other noteworthy and original figures mirk the book — old Mr Dewey staunch trustee of the Academy board a true Vermonter "greatly gifted with Yankee contrariness " who stands by Timothy to answer this "snarl from one wolf pack that Is closing ed in on dtmocracy everywhere” be- lieving that "if we surrender now it will be taken as a sign that Americans haven t got the stuff in them to stand fast" And young Eli the farm boy dragging himself out of poverty in his eagerness for education yet savwilling to spend his hard-woings to battle this attack against freedom cryptic Miss Peck herself in perfei food for her boarders and the terse texts on her bulletin board eccentric Aunt Lavina who lives in the These are part of the finely-draw- n pas‘ pattern of community life in which this sudden injection of a social problem comes about nat'Seasoned Timber' is in urally truth a work of fietiorrxrMnriance and ripened judgment n liberal-minde- mmmn’P'' DWYER'S BOOK SUP EASTlilt SUKKKSTIOXS Madams Curia vo Cure — edit ons W t mfl only a f ' fu a b q pi 9 r h y by $3 SO - 149 Stephen Foster America t TroViba dour " Reg $3 50 69 Now only 'The Autobiography of Katherine Cornell ' Now “Penthouse ous by 300 " of WooLe'Tiuf Theros fernard “Designs in Scarlet roes to Crime by Courtney Rytey Cooper FICTION “ “Harlequin ofHouseThe by Mariory Shjrp author Nutmeq Tree 250 Down " by Elizabeth blt author of 'Young Mrs The Far Cor gQ Tha Trte of Liberty by LI (obo h 1 arje Dwyers Book Shop-thi- rd Into Floor 1 1 1 Dock King of the Rangeland Publisher By J E Crinstcad Dodge Publishing Company New Reproduction of Jacket Painting by J O’Hara Cosgrave II for “Seasoned Timber” the new Dorothy Canfield novel of vital timely theme Glowing Renaissance Pageant ible Champion With Artist as Its Center Argues Case and realism Tuscan Spiing furnished Of Literature descriptions James ( Publishers By laugh Keynai and Hitchcock New ork ity Vividly achieving a full canvas of rh h period of the Italian Renaissance with Its brilliance of color Us tumult and violence its abundant aitistic life James Cleugh’s book Is first a revealing study of the man and artist Alessandro del Filipepi son of a Florentine tanner who is known to the world as Botticelli a Same deriving not as has been told from the goldsmith who was his employer but through his barrel like eldest II Rotticello brother ’ Giovanni Botticelli meaning “Little Barrel’ While Botticelli's own life — the life of an artist given to dreams and mysticism to poetic idealism a questing of that high spiritual quality in beauty— ran no turbulent course It touched on dramatic happenings In those Renaissance years when Italy was racked by internal dissensions when French invaders destroyed and despoiled her cities when and corruption reigned and the monk Savanarola s Impassioned tongue stirred rebellion and brought him martyrdom intrigue Apprenticeship With Lippi We find Botticelli first as an apBrother prentice of the easy-goin- g Lippo Lippi onetime monk whose too great love of the (Jlesh affected not the magic of hid brush and whom the visions troubling Sandro worried not at all It is Fra Lippo who obtains for him the commission for his first ' Adoration of the Magi and advances him toward the fame so surely hi destiny We see him in the studio of the Florentine Pollaiuolo master of where he painted hi anatomy Fortitude ” his model the sullen Cecilia who so drastically resented his physical indifference to the beauty inspiring his brush and in the workshop too of Andrea del Verrocchio before in Florence he Mr establishes his own studio Clough gives us not only an illuminating study of this ascetic the elements in life which held his Interest and his individual style its mixture of romanticism poet-arti- gun-slingi- Rhal of Tarzau Exploit Honor Without ll Queen Mary who decides to marry but he avoids this by looking up some distant cousins down In Cornwall Then having been accepted into the family is prompted to repay this affection by taking the two young Columnins — a charming pair delightful to know— across the Channel with him while he looks up still another distant connection And In “M Lacaze” has a surprise awaiting him It seems that Christopher’s distinguished simplicity is appealing to French women he becomes entangled with the fascinating Duch-ess- e Zaza just divorced from a handsome movie star and a third extraordinary adventure with a lady he Iinds under the waves of the Mediterranean brings him back to America to be honored In his own home And the third proposal Christopher receives saves him no little g worry and Though Christopher's meekness at times exasperates the reader as in that encounter with Alice and her parasitical author at Avignon he is an engaging hero and one follows his course from Green Plains Mass to England and France with amused Besides young Sabrina Interest whom Christopher fancied as partly Uke a flower partly like a puppy is herself worth a story and big careless Herr Fritzl will charm others than the Columnins Study Able but Limited By Dale L Morgan Albert Einstein: Maker of Universes he has splendid of his many famed works and their inception— the Venus and Primavera for which By George Snell his Inspiration was the ill fated Vespucci symbol of his In Defence of Letters longing for the unattainable beauty Publisher By Georges Duhaine His friendship with the younger The Greystone Press New York Leonardo da Vinci and ( ity their spiritual contrast and his reIn this gloomy book one of the to the sponse teachings of the fiery Savanarola are passages empha- brilliant members of the French Academy presents his case for the sized printed word in imaginative literature against the two young upPageantry Rich and Colorful It is a glowing pageant that Mr starts the motion picture and the radio It is a blast against these Clough spreads before us through new methods of the portraying which moves most of the noted figures of the times the Medicis Lo- stories pf men and it cannot be renzo the Magnificent Giuliano the denied that Monsieur Duhamel puts over some telling biows But in the cousin Lorenzo dl Pierfraneesco end one feels even the writer himwho was to become the artist s speself realizes he w championthat cial patron Popf Sixtus IV the cause and that the a losing ing Cardinal Guidobaldi degll Orsmi novel and the short story to say and tha artist great And much of the legitimate drama blood as well as paint is spread over nothing have to some extent lost their mats the canvas as warfare rioting assassination execution furnish the appeal M Duhamel fulminates against story the movies and the radio on the ground that both are puerile Both aim to please the widest segment of popular taste and hence sacrifice those subtleties and deeper meanto Value ings that are alone found between the covers of books He grants Vitalize Your Speech however that the motion picture By Edith E Gattis Publishers has developed a technique which is The Caxton Printers Caldwell extremely effective and that might Idaho conceivably be put to good use Edith E Gattis herself a well and that radio also could possibly deliver satisfactory aesthetic enknown lecturer in Hus book comjoyment That either of them ever pletely and clearly covers every will he doubts very strongly phase of necessary assistance for Such is the argument of a good those who must make public talks half of the book and it is always as well as those who expect only to The stimulating and intelligent meet the public or occasionally to latter part ' is devoted to little greet it sketches of the Parisian literary The secret of the art of speaking scene notes on the novelists art of course lies in having a clear and and advice to young writers HimMrs mind Gattis tninking points self the author of two important out how the natural gifts of the novel cvrles the moat recently pubwould-b- e be made lished being "The speaker may Chronmore brilliant and added to abun- icles” M DuhamelPasquier is eminently s a dantly through nurturing ojpone well qualified to discuss these matones ters His book 10 well worth readmemory ones imagination and ones personal vocabulary ing and is especially recommended grace to the attention of aspiring writers There are special chapters devoted to radio broadcasting— this one most timely now — to parlia- AYvard American mentary law to the making of convincing sales talks and to correct pronunciation and articulation of many woids that have proved stumEstablishment of a gold medal bling blocks even to accomplished award for American authors ' respeakers new and distinctive talent All sorts of speeches are dis- vealing the field of imaginative literacussed and outlined fiom those re- in ” ture has been announced by the quired in club work to those which arc only intended to be the occasions Society for the Libraries of New Harold O Voor-h- i of fun and hilarity And crowning York Umveisity He surprisingly great bulk of good who vue president of the society made the announcement at the mi trial in the book several classisociety s annual dinner recently cally (orrect speeches for widely said are appended made that the first award is to be various occasion at the annual dinner in 1940 M Pearl Buck John Chnmberlain and Clifton Fadiman have bten named to act as the jury of selection and the noted sculptor John More Outstanding Flanagan has been commissioned 1 to design the gold medal cold-eye- d Hints for Public Speakers for Writers Announced r 4 GAIUICN HOOKS heart-burnin- In Former’s Favor A Husband By Joseph MiKTae-Smit- h for Hiliary Publishers McCord PhilaCompany delphia Really it was a nasty trick young Clayton Odell put over on the pretty mermaid to whom he lent the refuge of his canoe one afternoon on the lake To his interest the impulsive with responded Layne Hiliary frankness concerning the “shriveled ' up and grouchy old Mr Wardlaw owner of the Norwood mills and her employer — the mills affording the only jobs in the little town Hiliary was unaware the handsome stranger was the boss' nephew who was going into the mill to assist his uncle However Clayton had meant only his own opinion to corroborate It was old Roabout this uncle mulus himself who made trouble for Hiliary through jealousy of this nephew whose time and interest he would confine entirely to the mill So with Hillary's loss of her job the budding romance runs into snags Clayton finds his business agreement with his dictatorial relative too oneious and likely to ruin Until with that unhis happiness explainable fire in the mill office something of the old curmudgeon's grouchiness seems to melt away or maybe it is Hillary's courage in standing up to him Here is a lightly entertaining novel with typical small town background and characters and with more of humor than is Mr McCords wont Annual Rep ri 1JK orTemhug ( At Midnight fm Mini) JJ Cut lent— nfc of the RMwcods Couhett — bf lUon of hurniture After Ihoi Lhts on the U 8 (ule ( L H 200 J Bailey Our Trees— How to Know “ Them $375 Arthur I Emerson We I arm for a Hobby Henry 2°° Albert Einstein From drawing by Schrelber Force Must Match Force to Quell Totalitarianism Men Must Act Publishers By Lewis Mumford Ilareourt Brace and Co New Y'ork City No subject has gripped the American people in the present generation like the question of how this nation can maintain its civilization and its democracy in a world threatened with annihilation of free govLewis Mumford maintains that totalitarianism cannot be appeased by rational means He has previously urged meeting totalitarian ambition with its own weapon— force Whether we like it or not he writes the United States has been accorded the "honor” of meeting the brunt of the dictators’ attacks Now and perhaps for ten years or more to come he sees this nation made the target of totalitarian propaganda Respect for democracy Mr Mumford argues will be more effectively maintained by armament than with pacifism "To preserve our civilization we must be ready to give the world more than we get” he contends “Only on such terms” he adds "in an hour as threatening as the pres ent one is can our permanent human heritage be maintained " To resist "the fascist barbarian’s will to destruction” is the gravest task this country faces he declares Forcefully written this book presents challenges to thought whether or not one agrees with the Mumford strategy of rheeting the International political problem — N C C New Pontifi -- Childrens luduun and created a crisis and which stijl remain fraught with perilous poten5nftrnfre Foundation for the Advancement lor Amarua rehl! Awln Hayward ( arpemry Rook Jaujues Caime Country Jeriam Textbook on Konst S R “Diplo-mnticu- Manage KIir Jr Fullenwitler— Pacific Northwest Lane N irtnn J ifnr — Pallet Tr im nal to Modern M u kenzle r Thj esiry lmj Mawurvk -- MiKHivk On Thought and Life Conversations VV ih Karel (Mjek — U j htnttt Melljtnd Afrt I ilskv ft lxtor J ree nhea M isle lent- - fundamentals of LleUricai Li kt ne Hi a Kft Ht Si turns keit Tslhv Aerial Fxniorinir r and Terresiriul I A iipnit (re t iNU J I Our Name Art Now Ost nr W tide k MBUicerl It h Trouble I dh i H t a mt Juliet I c AppHcftMnrtfl hotoranunelry if tint! l M isfjusrade ilwtrius Candle litill er u DrHere t ms Wife Nut dr Welsh h of the Huordmaker -Wurucr The Irifiesor W tialities these two small volumes may furnish enlightenment for readers who would study tha background of these affairs writer on is a political questions and according to the jacket blurb his consideration of the Czech “minorities” problems is characterized by Impartiality But it would seem that the trend of hi argument is po less favoi ablo to the Berlin viewpoint In respect to German Sudetenland than that of his fellow Writer Bertram cle Colonna who is frank in his lashing of the Prague government That these writers base (heir essays jtm “fats”J without doubt whether llitir lutuiLtations are wholly unbiased only one thoroughly versed in mjd Europe history is qualified to a well-know- n met t of o IP o mt el a! y II Ci It al d e Einwith- in limits handled competently For a superficial survey of the scientist's life and for an interesting exposition of the nature of the theory of relativity the book is indeed quite satisfactory But Mr Garbedian has occupied himself with relatively trivial aspects of Mr Einstein's personality and we ihall have to look for a more searching and understanding study' of the great German and his life Mr Garbedian appears hitherto to have occupied himself with scienwhich possitific popularizations bly accounts for the shortsightedness displayed here It appears to me that biography is first of all the examination of personality in relation to the forces determining it and determined by it and that Mr Einstein could have evolved 20 theories of relativity and still not be a His fit subject for a biography work in itself however indispensable in extending the bounds of man's knowledge of his universe is largely irrelevant to his fitness as a biographical subject What makes Mr Einstein biographically important is his status as a world figure (quite irrespective of the accident of his becoming such a figure) and the manner In which Mr Einstein a experience has affected both Mr Einstein and contemporary society Man Himself Apart Trom Theory tt ti tt Ei Id ti A directly related to man and the y la st ii w la G ti tr 01 A Einstein independent of humanity and even the human mind Mr Einstein is biographically important for himself as a personality and for the interests of his later years which have nothing whatever to do with his outstanding achievement and we will hope to see him examined by a biographer who can bring to the study psychological and sociological insights quite lacking in Mr Garbedian That future biographer perhaps will devote somewhat less than three chapters to relativity and somewhat more than one paragraph to Mr Einstein s unsuccessful The first marriage story of the Einstein personality its development and mature character will be a fascinating one and will read it with as much interest and surprise as the general d fi la tf N tc ei (X A ti le w P B ft oi ex- pressions of his living Accomplishment In art music or literature is of general personal importance because through these media man expresses the total complexes of his feeling whereas mathematics ultimately must be refined of all feeling drained of personality Shakespeare's work is the reflection of all he was and all that happened to him the theory of relativity is Independent of anything that ever happened or could happen to Mr m 01 cl I dispose of the theory of relativity so cavalierly because it la not Rushed to press for publication March 31 a biography of the newly elected Pope Pius XII by Joseph Dineen will appear under the imprint of Robert M McBride and Co Mr Dineen author of the novel "Ward Eight" is a well known newspaper man reader on Bocttifcer Out H l 4 Within Bulb for lour Allen H 275 Wood Jr The Garden of Larkspur h leanings and impelled him to Zionist activities In exile from Germany today he live at Princeton having taken out United States naturalization papers Study of Subject Superficial These external facts of Mr stein’s life Mr Garbedian has New Books jit Lihrar) Lilies for American Gardens $550 George I Slate Within My Garden Walls O 8 S3OO Whitman A By DlploiuaUui PubBy Bertram de (olonna Thornton Butterworth lisher The following books will be added Ltd London England to the Public Library Monday Concerning those central Europe MU cHunemi Pain Clans ni IaiUi nf Scotland peoples whoso problems so recently — J J Garden f The Czechs and Their Minorities a p cl £ Czech Frontiers And Problems Cecho-Slovaki- fJ popular conceptions of the scientist and yet beyond this a positive and refreshing personality The story of his life is simple and at 25 a marriage eventually unstraightforward Born in 1879 near successful he had a child at 26 and Munich Albert spent his childhood had produced hi famous "special years In south Germany and Italy theory of relativity” at 27 finally settling in Switzerland Teaching for a while thereafter at where he became naturalized and Zurich Prague and Berlin where completed his schooling Marrying he became honored as the foremost German mind he saw himself become after the close of the war a world figure and popular for his brilliant "general theory of relativity” World events “sldce the war hRve confirmed his socialist modified his pacifist sympathies ernment Odds Between Love And Business 1 By II Gordon Garbedian Publishers Funk and Wagnalls Company ? New York City R GARBEDIAN brings us what I believe is the first biography of the man who is at once the world’s foremost intellect and its foremost Jew Famous since 1920 for his theory of relativity a contnbution to man’s knowledge in which the man in the street has taken a pride almost inversely proportionate to his understanding of it Mr Einstein comes from this book with charm and simplicity gentle unworldly naive kind— an individual incorporating all the Turn York City For ten years the powerful owner of the big Lazy K ranch had been king over the McKinnon country of Texas so called because of Fort McKinnon So ably had this king cowhands with hus kept peace within his domain the army had nothing to do and so it is ordered to New Mexico ' With its departure imminent Two howevei hell bleaks loose men are killed In a poker game — In Now maybe they shot each other -- and a family feud starts that threatens to sweep the range It seems these Carson of Venus Tex is men had mistaken the knave By Peter Rite Burroughs Pubfor the king end a new deck has lisher Edgar Hire Burroughs I lie lurzann Cal to be opened— which young Clove Gaunt sees to pronto and an amazHere the creator of the mighty ing series of gun affrays follow Tarzan leaves his hero after recording his experiences in reaching the Nnv Forbidden City' ok flouth Amen-- a Awarded to return to that adventurer to Kaii ‘Wind Carson is the Mays Carson Napier whose aviator projected Martian Herbert Krause of Sioux Falls ltd him S D was honored by the Friends flight being miscalculated to the planet Venus instead where of American Writers recently when nRturally enough romance overtook the $1000 annual award of the so- him and he won after thrilling adciety for the best novel of midwest-er- n ventures the daughter of a king life was given to his novel Carson and his princes are atWind Without Rain" a recent tended by misfortune No sooner Mrs have they estapetf the malignant publication Samuel James chairman of the so- rulers pof Hnvatoo ' in the airship ciety's Foundation for Literature Carson had built them than new said that the novel was selected be- disaster befalls Duare being cause of its "originality of ap- snatched away by savage women proach beauty of style dtamatic warriors In Amtor’s strange lands characterization and realistic pres- a thousand new perils await the entation of Minnesota farm life ” snares of new enemies dungers revoMr Krause whilo he sptnt his from savage men and beR-st-s boyhood and youth on a Minne- lutions and racial wars before the sota farm declare that his story Is love of a serving maid for Duare in no way autobiographical as It enables them to esrape appeared to many critics but was Burroughs' Inventiveness In crewntton from impressions gathered ating strange planets strange peothen and out of which grew its dom- ple and civilizations with new st inant elements of fear and hatred devhes does not fail him But these Minnesota memories en- here and rxuting intrigue conspirabled him to give hi stoiy it au- acies warfare and tnrills to beggar thentic background imagination fill the chapters Bobbs-Merrl- V y " AuAo NEW Wrong King Gets Christopher for twenty years submissive and forbearing suddenly learns Alice doesn't really matter and at a moments notice escapes to Europe leaving the field clear for the ambitious author But while Christopher free to do as he pleases after his years of bondage might be expected to embark on indiscreet adventure it is not so at all To be sure there s the masculine Lady Charlotte of the $ I a st y L a ic ei fi ci I! i' c ti a rt ct ( F a b it rr t y |