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In the Field of Modern Writers SALT ETOB TRIBUNE, BTTKBST STOBNITO, 5TTTLY TC, Art and Literature THE.SCROLL OF A MAN'S LIFE Producer of Monumental Piece of Literature 1 Picaresque Narrative of Vast Scope Covering Late Eight-! eenlh Century and First Years of Nineteenth, a Vivid, Memorable Novel ANTHONY ADVERSE. By Hervey Allen. Publishers, Farrar and Rinehart, New York. Book-of-the-Month Club Selection for July TN "ANTHONY ADVERSE" Hervey Allen has achieved a novel of tremendous power and proportions. It is a novel of romance and high adventure, but it is much more than that.

It is given a fascinating historical background of the Napoleonic period and it tells of the struggle of a man's soul, the outward influences that shaped him and the forces that wrought within. It is a vast canvas amply peopled, but no detail of setting is neglected, and every foreground figure is fully characterized. Mr. Allen has done a finished piece of withal P3geS are tcuched by a poetic beaut y. but have vigor and gusto Beginning- in French Auvergne with an idyl of illicit love, it moves through many changes of scene to end at a hacienda of a Mexican mountain village.

But what a rich fund of varied incident, of wit and wise philosophy he between! As poet, biographer, critic, Mr. Allen has been important- this 3 are stor y- teller his wealth of experience and knowledge matched by ability to make use of the material at his command. The book's realization of scene and atmosphere is extraordinary, one might believe the author present on the sinister African Rio Pongo with his hero; or at Livorno when the carriage of the pale, lank-haired Corsican rumbled through its a0Sh rleanS When Louisiana came into sses fe of that lov idyl at Auvergne, between the young wife of a Spanish noble and an Irish guardsman, was born in a rough hut high the the mother had witnessed her lover fall at the point of Don Luis sword. Fate laughed at the Spaniard by taking his Maria leaving her babe for his torment. The tiny orphan is abandoned at a convent Liivorno, Maria's old home, and its fi'rst years are tutored by a kindly padre.

When Anthony is 10, the quiet, dream-filled convent life i.s exchanged ior the bustling Casa da Bonnyfeather of the exiled Jacobite, Maria's father. Don Luis had kept Maria's secret, yet the old merchant sees in his small apprentice the semblance of his lost daughter, and rears the boy as a Bonnyfeather heir (never acknowledged), instructs him in business leaves him his fortune. The quirk of an old Scotch clerk bestowed on the hid the name "Adverse," as befitting his circumstances. Sent by his grandfather to Havana to collect a debt, Anthony is advised owing to Spam intricate policies and politics, to sequestrate a ship, a slaver and visits the African Grain Coast, where he seizes the Gallegos post and for three barters profitably in black men, -at the cost of much inner misery. He escapes, after harrowing events, moved now "to order life from within rather than to have it overwhelmed from without." Old Bonny- feather now dead, Anthony is.

claimed by Paris; becomes involved in the bankers' scheme for rehabilitatjng European finance by means of Mexican bullion; meets the First Consul, now on the path to Emperor; accepts a mission from Talleyrand to buy "gloves" in England, which is not fulfilled. Then, via London and Spain, Anthony's vyay leads to the New World of Louisiana, and to great success, tragedy, exile and prison b'efore he fully accepts the meaning of life symbolized in the little Madonna, his one possession from his mother which accompanied all his travels, and finds peace. Women are not missing from Anthony's story, Florence, Angela, Neleta the Circe of Africa, Dolores, all have their place; and the undying hatred of Don Luis forms a strong element in the story. Numerous striking scenes and Cibo, the philosophic Havanan; the ascetic Brother remain in the mind, and such priceless incidents as that of the miracle in the chapel, unwittingly planted by Captain Jorham, who is himself a person to remember. "Anthony Adverse" is like a gem of many facets, cut and polished to brilliance.

It heightens the dignity of Mr. Allen's literary rank. Four years Mr. Allen spent in producing this nearly 1200-page unvaryingly absorbing indicates the care with which he has set up his scenes and his actors, both created characters and personages of history. A LITTLE BRUSH OF THE IRISH THE MARTYR.

By Liam O'FIaherty. Publisher, The MacMillan Company, New York. A GAIN a passage in Ireland's civil struggle is recorded by Liam O'FIaherty, who writes with an integral strength and sincerity that gives to his narrative a vital reality. The story is fiery, intense, melodramatic, but it rings with truth, and its swift, well-motivated action makes it one of those sit-up-all-night stories. Mr.

O'Flaherty's. presentment of the Irish character, its strangely opposed mysticism, violence and cruelty, and passionate faith, is deeply understanding. In September of '22 the County Kerry headquarters of tfie Irregulars at SalJytown learned that the Free State forces were marching to an attack, and the rushing events of the next 48 hours make the entire story. The commandant of the Republicans is Brian Crosbie, dreamer and fanatic, whose earlier extended hunger strike had made him a hero. He has no aptitude nor mind for soldier leadership, rebelling at war and the spilling of blood, believing that martyrdom only can "purify the national soul." Opposing him is Captain Tracy, brutal and reckless, a Socialist whose God is "steel an" combustion." He would clear Ireland of the British Empire, and religion as well.

Recognizing Crosbie's weakness and rejecting his viewpoint, Tracy usurps his authority, scheme for holding the place against the overwhelming force approaching. But his plans go awry, since he cannot be everywhere to foster courage. Of the Free State forces, Colonel Patrick Hunt, commander, is a grotesque corpulency, his fighting done at the table, or wherever the confiscation of food and liquor is worth while. His second in command is Captain Sheehan, "Crackers" Sheehan, strong, handsome, mentally undeveloped, but a brave soldier, sticking at attacking a wounded man, and about fed up with fighting one-time comrades. Sheehan has no stomach for the tactics of Major Tyson and his "traveling circus." In Major Tyson cruelty and evil are symbolized; it gives him malicious pleasure to torture men, and Crosbie, whose religious fervor and idealism he despises, becomes his special target.

Crosbie has submitted unresistingly to capture. He is offered release on the most humiliating terms; and in the horrible climax is led to his desired martyrdom, a new Calvary on a mountain of Ireland. All of these figures are strongly presented; only with the woman, Angela Fitzgibbon, a revolutionary from the 'upper class, an enchantress of men who seemed to bring death in her train, is Mr. O'Flaherty's portrayal less sharp and convincing. "The Martyr" is less a story of war than a study in character and its extremes.

LIAM Great Men of Today and Yesterday FRIENDS OF MEN. By Charles Franklin Thwing. Publisher, The MacMillan Company, New York. As clergyman, university, president, and active worker in social and educational movements, the author has numbered among his associates and friends many of, the most noteworthy figures of his times. In the years since he has retired from the active presidency of Western Reserve university, he has occupied himself with writing personality sketches of a number of such men, the leaders in various domains of thought in this and the preceding generation.

A few years ago he published such a collection under the title, "Guides, Philosophers and Friends." The present book is a companion volume, and contains over 30 of thsse interpretative essays, briefly picturing men who have been in the forefront of our cultural life. Some of these, as Phillips Brooks, his first subject, were objects of his admiration in youth, others known later years; the majority of them arc Americans; but two distinguished Englishmen arc among them, Arthur James Balfour and Viscount Haldane. Dr. Thwing's treatment is sympathetic and penetrative, his purpose to interpret the mind and thought of his subject rather Dian to present his outward life and achievements. For this reason, he prrJ- each sketch with a concise recite! of biographical facts, and proceeds at once to a study of the man's inner life and an estimation of his influence on life and thought.

A number of the men with whom he deals were of own profession, and particularly interesting is his discussion of the character of Woodrow Wilson, as reflected in his conduct of the presidency of Princeton, university, rather than during his years as chief executive of the nation. While he finds that his college administration was "a partial'failure," due to complex conditions and to certain fundamental traits of his of the spirit of conciliativeness and his want of it finally resulted in a triumph that "transformed him into a force and personality of the world." Such figures as William Howard Taft, Walter Hines Page, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Barrett Wendell, David Starr Jordan, are-antiong Dr. Thwing's subjects. From a review of his two books of interpretations, he arrives at certain conclusions. That the average years ot these men the Scriptural linit reaching the eighth decade, is a fact worthy ot mention.

While their gifl.s were diverse, their common possessions were intellectual understanding and "ethical they represented creative force in varied domains, 1hev ware hard they prarlicrd friendliness lovvsrd man, and were fundamentally reiifiious. Harvey Allen, who wrote "Anthony Adverse" and one of Allen decorations for ihe book, Africa Resident's Life Story Makes Stirring Record CONGO'JAKE'." C. Collodon. Publisher, Claude Kendall, New York Monotonous and moan uie Congo drums reverberates through the Arrican forests and-blends with the weird incantations of the medicine man. Dusky feet of African warrior-menials pound out a macabre tattoo on the matted grass.

The dance is ages old an important Congo ritual when the trees beneath which the participants revel were but saplings. This time, however, the dance is recorded in the brain of a white man. 'Gustus Collodon has imprisoned a share of this celebration in hij remarkable autobiography, "Congo 3 KG. It is a story, in the author's own words, oi a dancing puppet on a very loose string, a man born on a canal barge in England, later transplated from such tame surroundings to the very heart of Africa. The adjustment of Congo Jake ew nis Darning of the law of the "eat or be eaten," provides what may well be classed among the years roost unusual and vivid books Written' in the clear, forceful style of a simple man, it is filled, with hundreds ol fascinating incidents and vibrates with spontaneous humor.

'Gustus, at the age of 10, was sold by his father to the captain of a round-the- world trading vessel, on which he served as cabin boy until the death of the courageous old skipper. Deserting the ship at Lagos, in Africa, he went far inland with a white trader, known as the Rhino King, and there he lived for many years in Yorubuland. Here in the wilds of Africa he met Milla, daughter of Rhino, ana was married to her by the native ceremony. Driven from his inland home by a black war, 'Gustus once more was forced to roam. Rhino, despondent, took his own life, and Milla and 'Gustus went on up into the Congo.

For years Congo Jake ('Gustus) made long excursions deep into Africa, and on. one occasion was caught by a fierce cannibal Held captive by the villainous Rhenco Rici Bull he was informed that within three moons a giant banquet should be given, at whch Congo Jake should be, not the guest of honor, but the main course. Fate, however, intervened, and Jake escaped the dubious distinction of being the succulent white dainty into which the cannibals sank their shining teeth. Jake tells many fascinating stories among them the tale of the mad Irishman who "tried to fight a lion and came off second best." The part of the story dealing' with Jake's visit to England and the Americas is equally as interesting as the African narrative, for he lived as freely and as fiercely in America as in the Congo. But, misfortune triumphs over the man who had been her master so long, end 'Gustus returns to England, alone, a broken and tired old man.

He has a fascinating and a real story to tell, and he tells it in splendid literary form. The spirit of the book cap. best be given in Congo Jake's own words, "I have done much. have seen much. I have lived." Story Three writers, recognized as respective representatives of the highest development of the contemporary short story in America, England and Russia are among the contributors to the August issue of Story.

These are William Faulkner, who in "Artist at Home," has written a story quite different from his usual mood; A. E. Coppard, the English writer, whose "Duiiky Fitlow" is a story to rank with his classics in the Golden Cockerel volume; and the Russian Mikhail Zost- che'nko. Zostchenko's story, "What the Nightingale Sang," is a love story, but a very unusual love story, particularly to come out of soviet Russia. Grace Stone Coatos, assistant editor of The Frontier, is also represented.

Among six unknown young writers included in the number are: Nelson Algren, a Chicagoan, whose "So Help Me," given first position, is a story hoboes in the southwest; Linda Henly, John McNamara, Zora Neale Hurston, who is the first negro to be admitted to Barnard college, and Elisabeth Wilkins Thomas, Story, which is so largely represented in the Edward J. O'Brien anthology short stories for is preparing its own anthology, it has been announced by Whit Burnett, one of its editors. This volume is to be published in September by The Vanguard Press. Wise Departure By ELINOR LENNEN Let frustration wonder Why the sun must die, Leaving ghosts of glory In a graying sky. Let dissatisfaction.

Mark the brilliant flower That must fade and wither. In perfection's hour. Happiness i.i wiser Than our greedy hesrU, And to keep ju, marvel Wanted, it departs. Mystery and Adventure SO MANY DOORS. By Laurence W.

Meynell. Publishers, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Friday the amateur theatricals at Oldmcadow Court requiring among other properties, three daggers, a combination that suggested bad luck for someone was quite on the cards.

But it wasn't one of these amateur players. All of Lady Watf.irson's guests were gathered in the New Room for rehearsal, when, one of the daggers, or small bayonets, turns up missing. Later, his secretary sent to call Sir John Watterson discovers him dead in his had found a use for the dagger. Everyone had gone, so all declared, directly from dinner to dress for the play and-had not left their rooms until they came down for Mark Foster, youngest and handsomest of Scotland Yard's men, very 'quickly learned nearly every one of them was lying. Sir John hadn't been popular except perhaps fluffy little Mrs.

Anderton, but who hated him enough to desire his death? Was it a jealous husband, or a young secretary in love with the victim's. beautiful wife? A tiny sequin from a lady's dress, a half-burned cigaret in an unused room, a scrap of dried clay, these are the clues; but when they are run down, it serves.only to eliminate certain suspects, bringing Foster no nearer real criuiiiial. Discovery of a romantic intrigue carried on by the handsome chauffeur, Jervis, introduces a new element, and another puzzle for Foster is, why the page from the prompt book It's a well fabricated mystery and, if Foster seems a bit deliberate in his in- yesligations, jumping to conclusions isn't one his weaknesses. That he i.s no cold-blooded dispenser of justice i.s by his action when the criminal is finally in his hands. German Literature And Early Dramas Augment 'Library' GREAT GERMAN SHORT NOVELS AND STORIES.

Edited by Bennett A Cerf. FAMOUS PLAYS OF THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Publisher, The Modern Library, New York. Having deputed to another the task of selecting the material to be included in this volume of German writers, and being disappointed, Bennett A. Cerf did his own editing, and found it a difficult task, due to the limitations of book and the fact that the German idea ot the short story runs to greater length than the American.

Fifteen stories is the sum of his selection, the majority oC Ihe authors represented being of the contemporary period. The collection, Mr. Cerf believes, gives a comprehensive and sound impression of German literature. Peasant folk-lore -is represented by Heinrich Heine's "Gods Exile," the best known tales of the Brothers Grimm, and Hoffmann's "The History of Krakatuk." Goethe and Schiller are of course included (since no German anthology would be complete without their work), with "The of Werther" and "The Sport of Destiny respectively. Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" is fact, Mr.

Cerf held it so imperative a part that, if permission to include it had not been granted, the book probably would not have been printed Stefan Zweig and Arnold Zweig are 1he youngest writers deemed worthy of inclusion, and Arthur Schnitzier, albeit he is not really a German, must have his place, "The Fate of the Baron" representing him. Professor Cecil A. Moore of the University of Minnesota has given the interesting introduction to the group of 32 early century plays which make up one of the latest of the Library "Giants." Sheridan's popular comedy, 'The School for Scandal," Goldsmith's delightful She Stoops to Conquer" anJ "The Beggar's Opera," John Gay's brilliant satire, are those of widest fame among the 12. Sheridan's "The Rivals" is also included. William Wycherly, with the comedy "The Country Wife" (1672); John Dryden's artificial "All for Love, or, The World Well the tragic "Venice Preserv'd" of Thomas Otway; Congreve's comedy of manners, "Love for Love also, "The Way of the John Van- brugh's "The Provok'd and' George Farquhar's "The Beaux' Strnte- gem," are selections.

Between Farcjuhar and Gay's sensational ballad opera -almost four decades intervene before the playwright-actor, David Garrick, fanned Ihe waning spark of comedy with such plays 3K "The Clandestine Marriage," and heralded, the arrival of Goldsmith and Sheridan. Professor Moore traces the development in theater from thti Jtetoi-a- tion, and aivfis each writer his place in the movement. THE LOOSE RIB. Bv Ausleu Alien Publishers, H. C.

Kinsey luc New York. Robert Ferring, who ran a Jobs Advice bureau, had been for some time suspected by Scotland Yard, but Inspector Ord had been unable to actually connect him with any of the crimes he had instigated. For, when a writer oC detective fiction takes to crime, it's a bad day for the Ferrin's books were well known. It is Mark Challen who brings Ferrin to grips with the Yard. The willful unprincipled Mark, a superb flier but otherwise unstable, sets out deliberately on his career of crime.

He is unfortunate, however, in selecting as a blackmail victim the novelist, Sabina Gibson Sabina, as readers of Mr. Allen will recall is Ord's very good friend and assistant being also a student of crime. Mark's first little scheme being nipped in. the bud, thereafter he consults the crrin and Ferring, impressed with the young gentleman adventurer's social gifts and special talent, sels him a number of little jobs. It's the aifair of the Corot stolen from Bofield park that brings the wary Ord again on his trail.

This is but the beginning of a sequence of puzzling events, climaxed by a pair of murders, with Ord doing some neat deductive work, and the odd loose rib' finally implicating Ferring. Yet that clever rogue slips through Ord's lingers, and we will undoubtedly shortly hear of some fresh excitement in Ireland Of course, Sabina has to mix into gets herself kidnaped; but, as a a i' er oi fact she "ther more of a hindrance than a help to Ord. There are some ingenious features here bul on the whole, "The Loose Rib" is but a so-so Uem. ARTISTS IN SHOW AT ART BARN John and Emerson Evans, Salt Lakers whose pain tings at the winter show of the Utah Art Institute attracted much admiring comment, are following the Ralph Helm Johonnot exhibit at the Utan Art Barn with a group of oils and water colors. The show is to remain for a month, the gallery open to the public daily from 10 a.

m. to 10 p. m. Selection of the personnel of the gallery's art jury, which is to determine all policies in relation to art matters, was made at a meeting during the week. The jury will consist of the following: Harold H.

Bennett, chairman; Mrs. Waldemar Van Cott, Miss Helen Sheets Nielsen, Mrs. J. Reuben Clark, Airs, o' W. Adams.

Activities in Utah Artists' Colony Points Highlights Of Chicago's 100 Years' History PARMELEE CENTURY: 1833- By Henry Justin Smith. Publishers, Consolidated Book Publishers Chicago. Enterprise and vision, with enough admixture adversity to make the same worth the are the outstanding characteristics that have Eone to the building of Chicago, as the same forces have now buiJt for the world the Century Progress exposition. Since interest in the latter is a part ot today, ihe history of Chicago becomes a topic to hold the attention. That history has it all the elements to make a lascinaling story.

Henry Justin Smith's bonk, authorized by the Century oE Progress, gives a wealth of material, historic and romantic. He sees history from the viewpoint oc the newspaper man, as a series of which make news. He pictures the highlights, the peculiar incidents, and outstanding personalities that would make the front page. Just 100 years ago, 13 far-secirtg vounjr men voting 1o incorporate, the city Chicago was born. With 150 inhabitants, Indians still a menace, and isola- 11 Unsolv ablo problem, small wonder that the vision of a town seemed niiJy a vision, outside (he realm of possible fact.

But with all its drawbacks or perhaps because of them and their appeal to the instinct to gamble, people continued to come to the tiny frontier- town. vVithin 10 years the housing problem became a real one, as it continued for decades. So Chicago grew. Ils population has always been a strange mixture races and classes with contrasting ideals, but always the march was forward. By 1850 the railroad came to Chicago; the same year the manufacture of McCormick harvesters was begun, and then, Mr.

Smith points out, the combination of agricultural wealth, harvesters and branching railroads could not be bnaten." Disasters came in the form of plagues fires and financial setbacks, but the city advanced, becoming a cultural and educational center, and taking an important political place. Always men could see the possibilities of the future, and that faith put Chicago definitely on the path to becoming one the world's largest cities One of the most interesting pages of Chicago history is that telling of the realization of the mistaken gilt of the city lake-front to new business, and the years of struggle to regain that land and to transform it into a beautiful heritage, a 35-mile stretch devoted to pleasure and education. There is always interest in finding parallels jn modern and earlier times so we note that as early as 1850 Chicago had a reputation as a hotbed of crime; and in 1870 the financial conditions were so precarious that scrip was issued, and for many months teachers were unpaid. Details of the Columbian Memorial exposition for which many cities contended but Chicago won, are given It was then that Editor Dana of the New York Sun, irked by Chicago's boasts named it the "Windy City," a name that still clings, though its origin Is frequently misunderstood. The wonders arsd eauUe that fair were talked of throughout the world, but the marvels of that time are commonplaces today and the ideals of beauty have changed.

So Chicago has again built a cele- orate ner own great century. Mr. Smith, having reviewed the various phases of the city's development, ana its accomplishments, pays this tribute: 'Not many of these things could come about had not the city exhibited om the first the joy of breasting obstacles, a willingness to discard useless tradition and a warm hospitality to both new ideas and new people." VISITING ARTIST' RETURNS TO COAST Mary Teasdel, former Utah artist, now for some years resident in California, loft during the week for her home at Los Angeles after a visit with Salt Lake friends. Teasdel came up primar- permanent collection, which lamed in her honor, the Mary Art Collection, and for which Her group of sketches formed the nucleus. With Mrs.

Alice Merrill Home and several Salt Lake artists, she attended the program given in Smithlicld tabernacle two weeks ago. The Literary Almanac A study of litei-ary interest is Ruth Mom's "The Three Estates of Medieval and Renaissance Literature," which is to come from the Columbia University Press in August. The e.rtates were the classes into which feudal society was divided, and the literature which grew up about theue divisions provides a commentary on the life and customs of the Middle Ages. Francis Stuart's new novel, "Try the Sky," has just been brought out by MacMillan. "Men Crowd Me Round," a fir.st play by Mr.

Stuart, has just been produced at the Abbey Theater, Dublin. It is described as a fantasy concerned with the fate of an Irish delegation sent to London for negotiations. Over 600 manuscripts were submitted in the $20,000 international prize novel competition, of F. A. Stokes Co and Hodder Stoughton, of London.

The prize was offered for the best novel subject, including translations." "Anyone in any country" was eligible. Announcement ot the winning prize is yet to be made. Timed with the opening of the Century of Progress exposition on June 1, Milo M. Quaifc's book on "Checagou: From Indian Wigwam to Modern City, 1673-1835," contains some new and interesting facts concerning the city's early days. To Mr.

Quaife's discovery of an ancient, dilapidated drawing made by Captain John Whistler, the commandant, is due the reconstructed Fort Dearborn, which is to be seen at the exposition. Mr. Quaife's book is a publication of the University of Chicago Press. Another title that coincided with the Exposition's opening is Charles Beard's important "A Century of Progress" a Harper book. Other publications of the month are: Glenway Wcscott's "A Calendar of Snints for Unbelievers," "Montana Rides!" by Evan Evans; a new edition of Shakespeare's and Thomas W.

Lamont's biography of his friend and partner, Henry W. Davison In fho nnnr future, J.ippjncott announces, Carlcton Bcals' new book, "Tht Crime of Cuba," is to be published. In this Mr. Bcals illuminates Cuban matters as he did Mexican and Central American in "Mexican Maze" and "Banana Gold." In Susan Erlz's new novel, "The Proselyte," which D. Appleton-Century company are to publish this fall, she deals with the early followers of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism.

Her heroine Is an English girl, who marries a missionary, gons to America with him, and walks with one of the ill-fated handcart companies to the Great Salt Lake A New Lot of ifty Pottery for Shower and Wedding Gifts To See It Is to Like It COMPANY EAST ON SOUTH TEMPLB SAU tAKK "Headquarters Stamp Collectors".