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10 1 COURIER-JOURNAL', LOUISVILLE, -SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1926. SECTION 3 BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS A Page of Reviews Edited By Joanna Rosamond Milner. Grace Ruthenberg Found Among new under the sun, too. Mr. Puckett set himself the task of under The Latest Locke Novel practically indispensable- to the student of literature, besides being, in itself, a delightful piece of vigorous and pungent writing.

K. W.D. CRITICAL WOODCUTS. By StuarlfcSher-man. Illustrated by Bertrand Zadly.

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. mJ Jill flf- Stuart Sherman's Critical Appreciations FROM a wide and deep fund of experience; from an innate and cultivated sense of proportion; from a critical faculty both keen and fundamental, Stuart Sherman offers his book, "Critical Woodcuts" (illustrated by Eertrand Zadig) which furnishes the student of literary criticism with a rich mine of Information, pure examples of phraseology, and a bjilliant and appropriate vocabulary. There may be those who differ from htm in ultimate conclusions, but, once they admit his premises they cannot fail to accept his judgments. Quoting from W.

C. Brownell, the author says: "The effect of the spirit of style in a work of art is precisely to add wings to it," and this, practically, is what he has done. One can feel the spirit of each writer as his personality or his work is discussed. When he speaks of Anatole France one is conscious of wide spiritual spaces; the section devoted to Ellen Glasgow rings with the din of romance; Chekhov is a figure of "high spirits," of delicious humor, artistic alertness, and steady good sense. To "cover," or even allude to each chapter in Mr.

Sherman's book is impossible. His ability to compress much into small space leaves the reviewer in a quandary. As he says about Sherwood Anderson, "The only way to determine whether all these qualities are really in him is to read his books." Beginning with Sherwood Anderson and concluding with "The Known Soldier," twenty-six chapters or sections are given. According to one's sense of values, or perhaps humor, the life of Brigham Young," "a born governor of men and women, and always working at his job," Is interesting; and George Washington, "resigning himself in the end to being sublime, just as he had resigned himself to being commander-in-chief and President'' is much more human than one had dared to hope. "Interpreting Jesus," although it is a short chapter, is one of the most scholarly and arresting in the series.

To Mary Austin he turns, as one who has thrown the most illumining rays upon this tremendous Figure of all the ages. After quoting quite extensively from her writings he says: "Furthermore, Mrs. Austin has been for years a student of the psychology of a phenomenon which she keeps under constant observation. Her insight appears to me remarkable and her treatment of the problem far more illuminating, consistent, and persuasive than that of Signer Paplnl." "Critical Woodcuts" is a volume TO WOMAN can real William Locka without feeling that she Is entertained by that most chwming'of hosts a man who under stands the highest potentialities of her sex. Perella, his newest heroine, ha them all.

She is the daughter of a rreat and pagan journalist whose outline, there Is little more, suggests tha shape of The Beloved Vagabond. Perella Is "on her own" from the beginning, a talented little copyist taking orders for replicas of masterpieces, and living in a Pension in Florence. The Pension is genteel and sordid, and Perella In it is sober, small changeling, slipping in to dinner' in a "wisp" of an old mauve evening gown. One evening, in comes thony the splendid, "broke to mgie wide" and seeking temporary harbour. He sits next Perella and her life blazes into beauty from that moment.

She has wit and stamina, as well as elfin loveliness and the intangible rarity of spirit- Splendid Anthony fails her in a human and comprehensible, but unlovable way. Another prince, one belonging to Jhe genus Septimus, loves and rescues Cinderella, who has now a crippled right arm, Silvester Gayton is thirty years her senior, a small, shy celebrity. Beatrice, the magnificent woman who has captured Anthony, Is also fifteen years older than he Is. And the stage is set. Mr.

Locke's undeviating Iov of beauty makes the drama of these four natures develop through scenes of outward pleasantness at Monte Carlo, Florence, Long Island, Tjondon as well as inner nobilities. The story's nd, surprising in some details, leaves one impressed with the sureness ani tenderness of its author's insight. His powers mellow and his vision is confirmed with time. Any lover of Locke novels and who is not? will love this one. PERELLA.

By William J. Locke. Dodd Mead Company. Kew York. The July issue of "The Tale Review," has among much other interesting matter, an article by William A.

Speck, who presents seven hitherto unpublished letters written by Car-lyla to Eckermann, the friend of Goethe). Mr. Speck says that "Through a fortunate co-incidence" they "have recently come into the Tale University Library." Art Academy of Cincinnati Endowed for higher instruction in Art, Drawing, Painting, Modeling, Composition and Design. Day and Night Classes September 27, 1926 to May 25, 1927. Summer term now in session.

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Dorsey, author of "Why We Behave Like Human Beings." Portrait by Joseph Cummings Chase. The Literary Lantern The Literary Lantern borns weekly in The Sunday Courier-Journal and la Intended to throw light on writing around and about the South. Communication! for this column ahould be addressed to the Editor of The Literary Lantern. Hawthorne's Papers LIFE has many surprises but It scarcely could offer a greater than- the discovery of the ancient manuscript of this "Tarn," found among the papers of Nathaniel Haw thorne, who seems to have mislaid and then forgotten it. At fh-st one it inclined to class It with those anonymous scripts which modern au thors are fond of "turning up" among antique treasures in some secret pigeon-hole, but "turning out" be splendid hoaxes; this one, however, has so many vouchers, such an air of authenticity, such internal evidence of verity, that it seems to have been accepted as the genuine work of Hawtjhorne's great-uncle, veritable sea-dog of the war of 1812.

In a long and Interesting introduction by Clifford Smyth, the story is told of the various circumstances which point to as a genuine document, not even fn the "doubtful" area. These need not be mentioned here, but will impress the mind of the reader as guarantees of its bona The narrative of a youth who was, as he says, too young to be enlisted, is that of the privateer, venturing upon? one of those cruises considered at that time perfectly legitimate. His first and second attempts are failures; on the third he is captured and carried to Barbadoes, 6f which he writes a long and interesting story. Then to Dartmoor, of whose misery an.d privation he tells in detail. The mest important chapter of this jpur-nal is the "Dartmoor massacre," of April 6, 1815, which has taken a rather vague place in the histories the times.

This chapter alone is enough to make "The Yarn of a Yankee Privateer" worth reading. Other chapters dealing with prison life also give the reader an unaccustomed thrill. Mr. Smyth calls attention tt the scholarly style of the manuscript whose author was yet a youth when at last he was released and returned to his home. Whether a genuine "find," or a mystery story.

the "Yarn" is a contribution to a cer tain phase of American history, both portant and interesting. K. W. D. THE YARN OF A YANKEE PRIVATEER.

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Certainly there's little enough of this In magazines issued roundabouts. We hope George Bond and his corps of assistants will keep on holding the torch even though it-burn their fingers. In "Pros and Cons" fDoran) Irvin S. Cobb has brought together tenor a dozen tales and papers first published in the "Cosmopolitan." "Good Housekeeping," and the "Saturday Evening Post." The very mention of these magazines is, in a sense, an estimate of the hook Itself; the contents were written for a large, more or less heedless, public more anxious to be temporarily diverted than really entertained. Has any one asked you lately what has happened to the Cobb of the early Judge Priest era? It is a query none too pleasant to ponder.

There's just a flicker of the old manner in "The Last of, the Bourbons," but except for this story the present collection strikes us far less than half of per cent of the old brew. From the press of the University of North Carolina come two books of allied interest Odum and Johnson's collection of "Negro Workaday Songs" and Newbell Niles Puckett's "Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro." The "Workaday Songs" collection carries on the former work of Aircraft Year Book THOUGH the Aircraft Book for 1926 is about half the size of the volame for the preceding year, this is not an 'index of lack of development. -The wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah and the subsequent charges made by Col. William flitch- ell centered attention on aircraft in the United States as perhaps never before. Investigation followed investigation and as the result appropriations were made for both the Army and Navy to allow for the junking of antiquated planes and to provide an adequate building programme for both branches of the service.

Another result was Governmental recognition of the commercial possibilities of flying and the establishment of an aviation division in the Department of Commerce. The extension of the air mail service under private contracts afforded impetus to the formation of transport lines, which during the year have grown Into a considerable Industry. The experiment of Henry Ford in es tablishing a-factory for the building of Stout all-metal planes and in the useof them as freight and mail carriers in connection with his automobile business was another move of importance. N'ot the least Important in the furtherance of the industry was the gift of Daniel Gugganheim to establish a school of aeronautics at New York University. But the survey of the Tear Book is world-wide, and this volume records in part the epochal flights of Byrd, of Amundsen and Ellsworth, of Franco, the sudden leadership taken by Germany and a general renaissance of aviation.

B. B. AIRCRAFT TEAR BOOK. 1926. Published by Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America.

New York. Log Book A SMALL. BOOK of interest to those who believe the laws governing the supremacy of mind over matter worth investigating is "Fealy's Log Book." His esoteric principles of the possibility of a subconscious contact with Keaiity seem to be drawn chiefly from Kastern sources, but he claims to have proved them true for himself. His cult differs from others like it in not stressing the material reward to be gained through its practices. FEALY'S LOG BOOK By L.

A. Fealy. The Altrunaa Societyf Birmingham, Ala. Books Received NON -FICTION. The Tarn of a Yankee Privateer.

Edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Funk and Wagnalls New fiTork. Florida. By Kenneth L. Roberts.

Harper Brothers, New York. The Beauties of Friendship. Compiled by Samuel Francis Woolard. The Goldsmith Woolard Publishing Wichita, Kansas. United Fruit Company's Fourteenth Annual Report of Medical Department.

BostorR G. Stanley Hall. By Lorine Pruette. D. Appleton New What's the News? By Harper Leech and John C.

Carroll. Pascal Covici, Chicago. Negro Workaday Songs. By Howard W. Odum and Guy B.

Johnson. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C. Education: The Basis of Democracy. By H.

H. Cherry. D. C. Heath New The Heart of Black Paqua.

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Southern RulwaySystth Dlhman Springs. Home Atmotphere" I Jjew Orleans, La. Mobile, Ala. standing the racial characteristics by approaching the negro through his popular superstitions and, sayings, The Jacket teflls us that hete are collected 2,400 previously unpublished beliefs and after wading into them we're surprised if there are not really far more th4n that. The bocjc is a mine for the fiction writer of the Octavus Roy Cohen enthusiasms, showing, as it does, the black's convictions as to ghosts, burial voodooism.

conjuration, taboos, etc. Mr. Puckett, who is riow professor of sociology at Western Reserve, comes to the general conclusion that instead of being an African heritage the bulk of these doctrines have European antecedents or parallels. "Regarding the feelings, emotions, and the spiritual life- of the negro the average white rhan knows little. Should some archaic, negro doctrine be brought to his attention he almost lnvaraibly considers it a "relic of African heathenism," though in four cases out, of five it is a European dogma from which only centuries of patient education ould wean even his own ancestors." The book Is monumental collection, bound to be a standard for all work ing In the field of folk-beliefs' of the American negro.

Archibald Rutledge is to be represented on the fall lists with two new volumes one, "Lincoln and the South" be a critical study of the real relation of Lincoln and' the Smith. tVitt fiprnn A hook 1 a collection of nature essays appearing undir the title "Wild Hearts of the Wastelands." The Lincoln book, we are told, is "the first attempt to justify both the great Civil War President and the people of the Southern States." And Frances Newman of Atlanta brings out that long-heralded "Hard-Boiled Virgin" of hers in No vember. Boni and Liveright an nounces it as a book with a new type of heroine, written in a "new" style, and full of excitements In the "new" way. We judge, then, that is a "new" book; Frances Newman has always struck us as a "new" writer certainly. And here after Walter Noble Burns had written the "Saga of Billy the Kid" and had The Kid, all decently buried, along comes a man from El Paso and writes the New Mexico Historical Society that The Kid is very much alive.

The squabble is fast taking on the proportions of a war. What have you? THE SEER. Bjf Charlotte Young. Las' night I seen a showln' from Heaven. Come a quare light; an I wushed my mind effen hit was a showin' from Heaven, hit'ud go 'way: an' hit went away.

An" agin, I wushed to my mind effen hit was a showin from Heaven, hit'ud come baok agin! an' d'rectly hit come back agin. No, hit couldn't a been a lantern nor nuthin Hif was a showin" from Heaven. TELFAIR, JR. Authors are wont to speak of their books as children. If Vachel Lindsay is given to such facetiousness, his daughter, Susan Doniphan Lindsay, might be led to speak of her father's "Going-to-the-Stars" as a twin brother, for she was born May 2sth, the publication date of the book.

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H. RICHMOND, Principal. FALL announcements of the publishers are already beginning to give us a hint of some of the books we shall soon be reading. There's Stark Young, for instance, with a first novel portraying plantation life in Mississippi. And Barry Benefield, whose "Chicken Wagon Family" of a year age- won him so many friends, is to have a collection of his short stories put out by the Century Company.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts, that Kentucky poet whose "Under the Tree" disappeared from our desk just as fast as we could get copies in, has a- first novel, too. Hers is. "The Time of Man" and the Viking Press the publishers. Story of Kentucky we We've already called attention to Ellen Glasgow's new venture "The Romantic Age" we've seen it called in some announcements; in others it is "The Romantic Comedians." The Viking Press is to publish another volume of spirituals, "The Second Book of Negro Spirituals" it is to be called. Somehow thinking about winter reading these hot days is refreshing.

A taste of what Stark Young's new novel, "Heaven Trees," is to be like may be had from the August "Scribner's." Here is printed "My Grandfather McGehee's Wedding," a fo' the war story of plantation life in Mississippi. It looks as though Mississippi was going to have aiother book. Somehow that State doesn't strike us as very literary three books in three years, so far as we know, is the record! The same issue of "Scribner's" carries another Thomason article, "Crossing the Line With Pershing," a bit of riotous writing about marines and Neptune and sailors and officers and all as their ship crosses the equator. "Harper's" for the month carries a paper on "Seven Deadly Sins of Woman in Business" by Anne Armstrong of Emmett, Tennessee, who describes herself as "one of the flop-eared yokels to whom the intrepid Mr. Mencken playfully refers.

"The Southwest Review" for the summer quarter is notable for an essay on "Art in the Southwest" by Marion Murray illustrated by a half dozen reproductions. This issue brings to a close the second year of the publication at Dallas. That the years have been justified would seem to be argued by the fact that it is Rate Ladies' half soles Neatly sewed Shine 5c 75cl Jefferson School Opens Sept. 20 A two year course night sessions. Work through day.

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Dishman, Barbourville, Ky. that you are purchase by he two sociologists collecting Negro oik song, but differs from their earlier volume in that it confines itself entirely to work-songs, the sort of thing one hears throughout the South wherever laborers are digging ditches or. working in a field. The contents so far as the songs are concerned are sadly disappointing. Imagination and any great originality simply are not here.

-One song is very like another and the whole is tinged by the "blues" formula, stupid and routine-ridden. For the sociologist, the student looking for an index to race-temperament, however, the book, is a howling success. Back grounds and points of view are certainly illuminated by these carelessly composed utterances. We open the book at random and quote the first song we find; as well as any other it shows the quality of the whole: "Keep on a-worryin What's it all aboutT Mammy-in-law Done turn me cut, Don't bring in no sugar, Don't bring In no meat. Don't never bring in Nothin' to eat.

Mammy-in-law done turn me out. Don't bring in no rations. Don't bring in no dough, 'Nother man hang around her do'. Mammy-in-law done turn me out." The second volume, "Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro," Is something has worms AD dogs cave worms puppies e6po ciaDy and must be wormed regularly. SERGEANT'S SURE SHOT CAPSULES never fail and are perfectly harmless.

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