Show NOVELS OF FUTURITY By LEONARD A. A A BARRETT We have been reading re some of ot the I novels no published about twenty F 8 ago aio which at the time were ranked as liS first sellers Trail of ot the Lonesome Lone Lone- some P 11 1 n e b by John Fox Jr The Theo o Oho h 0 I 1 t Invisible by James Lane AlIen Allen Alten Al Al- ten len and 0 others t b e r s. s We were much Impressed Impressed impressed Im Im- im- im pressed with the wholesome style of ot these boo books k 1 and their clear delineation tion of at characters I dominated by that knightly spirit of ot n n 0 feudal times limes chivalry The Influence of ot such books hooks upon the young people of ot these days was most beneficial and andIn andin In tn no small sense helped to develop character Of Ot course these books are still being read and upon Inquiry at ata a public library In a II town of ot about ten thousand population we discovered that they are dally daily withdrawn The I publishers of ot The Trail of ot some Pine placed a reprint edition on the market In 1031 31 When we contrast the modern novel especially the novel of ot the war post-war period with those of ot twenty five years ago Ogo we are seriously Impressed with the absence of ot this element of ot chivalry chiv chiv- alry airy The so-called so modern novel makes Its appeal to sex Bex and the morbid depressions depressions de de- with delineations of ot character character character char char- acter largely In to the field of ot psycho analysis This Is not true of ot all literature literature litera liters ture which has come from our press or that of Europe but Is quite characteristic characteristic characteristic charac charac- of ot what w we call the American novel Books of this nature have been sold In large quantities which In Indicates Indi Indi- Indicates U- U cates a demand of ot a certain type On the other hand books on n philosophy and blo biography raphy have ad an equally large sale which clearly Indicates that popular demand was not wholly on the side tilde of ot the no In one of ot our leading magazines there recently appeared a cartoon which pictured a producer movie looking lookIng lookIng look- look Ing out of ot his Ids window at a crowd waiting to gain admittance to a theater theater theater thea thea- ter where the film Little Women was on the cr screen n He lie could not understand understand understand un un- why such a n picture appealed to so large a crowd and remarked ItIs It ItIs Itis Is not In accord with human nature One needed only to glance at the walls of ot his bis office filled with salacious pic plc pictures pictures tures to understand how grossly grossl he be was misled In judging the demands of ot the popular mind Movie producers producer have hue sensed this very fact tact and are arenow arenow arenow now filming novels of ot recognized literary lit tit merit Perhaps we shall shaU soon loon have hue a new era for the novel as we seem Cem to be promised for tor the movies e. e water WIra Nw r Union |