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7 THE WORLD OF BOOKS Edited By Rosamond Milner ews an eviews An Artist's The Till. AUTHOR OF MASTERPIECES The Work of a Great Artist Connecticut Countryside A Review By EDITH ALLAH AX. I A Review by ROSAMOND MILNER. Is I Way ronica Treasure" career, that "A Buried DIALOGUES WITH RODI7T. Bv Helen All of this set in a coun Beauty." By Edna Ferber.

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To those who are interested in the artist's approach to life, this monograph on Auguste Rodin the sculptor has a certain value. Written by a devoted friend and disciple, the picture of Rodin is sympathetic almost When an Edna Ferber novel Is published it Is read by not less than 100,000 people. Miss Ferber most recent story, "American Beauty," was released on October 15. Since that date this book has been one of the six best sellers over the entire continent of North America. This, Indeed, is a proclamation of success, but a try which "has a resemblance to our own dear Kent, but the sky looms larger, the trees grow higher, the rocks seem more grim.

It has quite another kind of beauty. A kind cf American beauty." writes Captain Oakes to Sir Christoper. The third stage of the novel reveals to us the decay cf the Oakes family and the invasion of their country by the Poles, a view of the thin-blooded, disintegrated descendants of the Mayflower being pushed by people whose passion is the land, whose very life is that earth into FIGHTING THE RED TRADE MENACE. Br H. R.

Knickerbocker; Dodd, Mead Co. New York. 1230. Having described the operations of the Five-Year Plan from the Inside of Russia, Mr. Knickerbocker now turns his attention to the effects of the Five-Year Plan on the rest of Europe.

In the principal capitals and trading centers he details the alarming growth of commerce as conducted by the Soviet Union's Foreign Trade monopoly and the gradual ousting from the market of the United States and other countries. Russian wheat in Italy and Russian oil in France are pre-empting those fields by under to the point of worshipfulness, but it does present a clear view of the art ist's philosophy and his relationship to his work. The fact that the whole book breathes the atmosphere of a proclamation on the back of which is inscribed Miss Ferber's potential failure. The author abounds with undeniable ambition and bigness, but these very qualities she allows to be signally declares itself. Philly is like no other heroine her creator has drawn.

Little and quick, sensitively attuned, she is like an ageless grown-up child in essence, reaching out to everything and everybody. The tale Is hers, it flows through the medium of her consciousness, her sensitive awareness of the minutiae of life, from the swarming mites in the wood-box to the bones, skin, hair and general temper of old Andy. The boy, Ben Shepherd, is the spirit of her race, a continuation of her consciousness. The wider countryside view of the tribe, out of Philly's range, is conveyed through him, his awareness narrowing into detail as it merges into Philly's, broadening and becoming tribal as it passes from her to him in their organic relation. Only ample quotation could show how brilliantly this-ls managed, but a last touch may indicate it: Ben, having completed his task, obeyed "his father's summons." He brought back to the tumbled graves in the glade the period definitely past in artistic criticism shows how quickly time has performed in Rodin the metamorpho successively interrupted by what we sis from the shocking revolutionary believe to be a consciousness of her public.

to the figure of almost classic ac ceptance. which they sow the seed. A continuance of this racial con flict carries us again into the year or 1930. The last Oakes, Tamar. is buried, but there remains her child, the son of her Polish husband.

Ia this son, possessed of many goodly Side by side with her shortcomings Reverently, the reader is fed to gaze selling. Likewise Russian lumber and Russian chemicals are invading Germany and other nations. But the title is ironical. There is no fighting or no concerted action to bar So'iet raw materials and manufactures Russia's trade is growing on the sources of Rodin's inspiration, there are many passages of warm beauty and really brilliant pageantry. A combination of these assets and liabilities leaves one with much the it as upon the monument that marks his grave.

We feel vividly his response qualities, Miss Ferber wishes us to A BURIED TREASURE Bv Elizabeth Mi5ox Robert. The Viking Press and the Literary Guild. 2.50. into the commonplaceness of a mall Xann day a buried kettle full of gold and silver pieces emerges from an old etump's roots. No legend of It has survived the by-gone time when It was put there.

Among the coins, tied in a scrap of rotting silk, Philadelphia Blair finds two clear pearls rich pearls, fltten for a queen, but smaller maybe." The tale goes on, the lively elements of its plot dovetailing with a beautiful precision. Old Andy hides the treasure in a new place every night; it? coins are burnished and the pearls sewn into a bit of fine linen. Philly plans endless uses for it. but the one nearest her heart is "a wedden" for her young cousin Imogene, who means to marry Giles Wilson, although her father warns off all suitors with a Fhotgun. The book's first division ends with the approach of theguests Andy and Thilly have asked to their surprise party.

The surprise Is to be the announcement of their find, but matters take a very different turrj. The story's second part introduces 17-year-old. Ben Shepherd, whose vaguely defined father has sent him to get names and dates from the old Shepherd burying-ground. Ben Is neventh In descent from the Tobias Shepherd who was one of Harrod's men and the common ancestor of most of the community. The boy Is tramping and camping.

The narrative goes back to describe the unearthing of the treasure through Ben's eyes, as he sees it from a tree where he has hidden. His interest sticks to it; but he has wanted no place among these people until he passes two delightful girls in a lane and tips his cap to them. This scene in the lane is as same feeling as when seizing, with: heed the benefits of inter-class mar-excited expectation, a fine old leather jriage; to mark that from the union ot volume marked 1680, one finds it to Yankee-visioned aristocratic women be an emptv cigarette box. jwith eager, bn-ad -fisted Polish soil- to the stimuli of art and nature, and his strong sense of kinship to Michelangelo and Beethpven, whom he called "those great benefactors of because Russia, in need of cash to purchase foreign machinery, is cutting prices, and cheaper goods are everywhere in demand. mankind, who are the possessions of whitened Shepherd bone he had Miss Ferber has chosen as material lovers will ensue the saviors of our for her new novel the settling of; Nation.

There Is an inevitable sameness In the chapters setting forth the growth Connecticut. She has divided the chronicle into four parts: 1930, 1700, The tele is finished. The reader is disappointed. He is left perplexed, maybe vexed, with the thought that Miss Ferber has had her hands fuH of magnificent material, tharshe has come within intimate range of artistic of Soviet trade in the various cities and countries. There are the unavoidable statistics of comparative exports.

There is everywhere the those who would work with them." We feel the intense reaction of his imagination to such diverse, yet related phenomena as a Perugino crucifixion, an Italian sunset, and Goethe's "Faust." His passionate nature-worship reveals itself over and over, in such phrases as "heaven can hold no greater happiness than the memory of earthly forms which endure for all eternity." Only occasionally does the failure to put up a united front ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS. The Kentucky novelist who is the only writer who has books chosen by major book clubs. had three 1890, 1930. The opening episode, which might be termed a prologue, deals with True Baldwin, a health-broken Chicago millionaire, and his urbane, architect daughter, Candace. Leisurely, they are riding through Connecticut In search of Baldwin's health and the site of his boyhood against the Communist menace.

But as in his earlier volume Mr. Knicker bocker goes over the entire field, sees found, and had planned to turn to his own boyish uses. His passage through the brush was not difficult. In the small inner glade the daylight and the moonlight were dim. but he found his way.

and he laid the bone down where it used to lie. Then he is seen no more. Yet he is a very human boy in all his lineaments. It Is in idea that he takes on the other character Miss Roberts has managed to convey with sucn marvelous shading. The story grows, with a fine sort of detachment, through all its episodes, into the love story of old Andy and Philly, lightly touched, gently irradiated.

Andy has taken the two fair pearls to wear next his body, and for a day he lent them to Hester Trigg. for himself, the workings of the State The Literary Lantern achievement and has failed to reach the goaL Full of this unsatisfaetlcn, one must conclude Miss Ferber is either unable to discriminate between her good and bad writing, or else she knowingly halts on her road to triumph to recogn'xe the insidious dollar. sculptor's conversation reek so heavily present day such writings are strange of the flower-in-the-crannied-wall and quaint, but not unwelcome. home. With their arrival at Oakesfield the story swings back to 1700, at which time are introduced Captain Orrange Oakes and his family, who were the most splendid figures in that small philosophy that one turns a little green at the gills, and must rush for "Lady With a Past." by Harriet Henry, raised in Savannah, (Morrow, $2), Is a piece of modern monopoly, studies the conditions favorable to Russian imports in the various countries and presents his findings in intensely readable form.

If the former volume was more interesting, that Is simply because it was a graphic tour of Russia, an insight into the vast projects undertaken and the activity put forth to complete them. The reason for the herculean effort, commercial power if not supremacy, is indicated in the company of early settlers. Page after page is aglow with the pageantry of Plays of The Year romance which belongs on th screen of a movie house. It is entertaining plenty which marked this period, the rnlrirfiil I17 vurrr nf eillrc nnH vlvpts lovely as a bit of tapestry with ladies froth, no more, and the central char i. i 7' THE BEST PLAYS How Elizabeth Mad ore Roberts' novels have missed winning the Pulitzer prize is one of the mysteries of that often inconsistent award.

It would take a lot of explaining to convince us that Margaret Ayers Barnes' book of last year is superior to' "The Great Meadow," which has a quality and beauty of style distinct in American fiction. The book clubs have recognized Miss Roberts by selecting three of her five novels for their lists, and now the Pulitzer committee has another chance to honor her. The new novel, "A Buried Treasure" already a Literary Guild choice, is a simple story, having the peace and dignity of a pas OF 1930-1SJI. DuCld, Mead pacing on palfreys, and nothing is But Philly, who is one to keep a flame acter Is Innocuous, nothing like the i aanuis Edited by Burns Mantle. alive, says nothing till she knows they disturbed when Bonnie calls in her Stephany Dale in Miss Henry's first book.

"Jackdaw's Strut." We had from distant China. And Oakesfield, Co. 3.oo. too. that beautiful old dwelling for) The task which Burns Mantle has which Sir Christopher Wren has sent himself for a number of years book.

BARRY BULLOCK. looked for something better from the creator of that young woman. ELIZABETH LAY GREEN. are back. The book Is an achievement that emphasizes, more concretely than anything its author has written, her unique position as a poet-novelist.

She has the port's unity with form, the novelist's passion for human be This Novel toral poem. ings; but beyond both inadequate definitions, she has something that is essentially her1 own: She seems to feel idea as if it were of the tame sub i The dominant note with Southern lb, fiction writers has been the romantic stance as flesh, or simply an exten and it continues strong despite the past, that of selecting the ten bet plays of each theatrical season In New York, is at once a useful and a thankless one. Through the medium of his annual collection, many lingering devotees of the drama keep paca with the progress of the modern stage. At the same time, each lover of the theater sets himself up as a critic, and in that capacity he invariably takes issue with Mr. Mantle's choice and his rating of the year's theatrical crop.

True to this tradition, the reviewer hastens to express his surprise at the award of fourth place to such a barren little effort as "Green Grow the lilacs," by Lynn Riggs. which creaked along woefully even through the fine 'Theater Guild production. And why" was the innocuous Rachel powerful realistic tones of our Thomas Wolfes and our William Faulkners. We detect a strong romantic tendency "pretty "Say, Robbie May, does Imogene take cream to Coulter's?" Ben. feeling he must have a local habitation and a name to justify his gesture of greeting, takes a few days' service with a farmer, meets there two house-painters who are rogues, and comes to Philly's party burdened with the knowledge that the thieves have come, too.

And Hester Trigg is there, the comely widow whom Andy disapproves, with no other reason than Tony Weller's, but Philly notes that he Jostles three other men in the race to turn down a lamp lor her. Here la romance a pot of gold, a runaway bride and her raging father, thieves in the offing, quaint triangle, brave youth ready for the tomorrow of love's adventure: And Miss Roberto uses all the brightly colored threads to spin the very stuff of life. All of her distinctive art is in this book, but it is as a remarkable triumph of technique, perhaps the most skillful and difficult of its author's Rodin and Helene von Nostity- Hindenburg sketched by Hermann Post. relief to the tonic frostlness of a Picasso abstraction. Baroness von Hindenburg, who is now lecturing in America, has performed a labor of love in this monograph.

For that reason it is biased, and florid, yet genuinely interpretive. Within its limited scope, It achieves its purpose of providing a better understanding of Rodin and his work. BARRY BINGHAM. Is Caviar THE GLORIES OF VENUS. By Susan Smith.

Harper, $2.50. The people In this novel of modern Mexico are real and to a degree amusing a group of artists, masculine and feminine, a song collector a professor indigenous to New York, Boston or Paris, drawn together in Mexico long enough to register their impressions and voice their opinions. They are casual with their loves and free with their phrases; bright, in the work of such a reputedly real sion of that substance. She is a vehicle of the universal rhythm, beginning with Terra, the earth, accelerating into men and women, on into pure idea, but always the same rhythm. So she makes patterns beautiful in every part, though mean things and the disgust of them enter istic writer as Ruth Cross, whose new novel of the Southwest, "The Big Road" (Longman, $2), follows after three which were classed by re into their reality.

They are the ere viewers as realistic studies. "Enchant ativework of a great artist, true sym One of the wood cuts that illustrate Edna Ferber's "American sophisticated and a little wearisome, like a consciously clever dinner where bols. "A Buried Treasure" is a miracle of design, and out of it, as out of ment," "The Golden Cocoon," "The Unknown Goddess." Her latest novel, to illustrate, centers about the character of Hector Strawn, who is as gloriously typical a stae villain as paradoxes are bandied about. At Charles Scribner's Sons have secured the American rights to Sir Oliver Lodge's autobiography, which the publish this fall under the title, "Past Years." the great design all art reflects, times they seem to become a mouth Books Received thrusts the strange sharp flower of piece for editorial comment; as when beauty, whose roots are hidden. ever strode in doublet and hose.

the song collector remarks, "The only Change of costume, the background! Crothers comedy, "As Husbands Go," chosen while the exhiliratlng "Private Lives'' was thrown Into discard? The keenest bit of criticism in tha book Is the judgment of "Grand, Hotel," which, despite the deceptive excellence of its production, is seen as "a great adventure in the theater rather than a great play." BIOGRAPHICAL. G. Calhoun. By James JUVENILE. The Secret of Halts House.

By thing Americans are not ashamed to A. of a crude, sprawling new country, New John Barnes. York. admire is sunsets." Dodd, Mead Nina Brown Baker. Lothrop, Lee some details of ordinary life these London Letter By HERBERT AGAR.

But through this glass not darkly cannot alter the romantic cast of the Roosevelt In the Rough. By Jack but sensitively, faithfully shown, is Willis. Ives Washburn, New York. story. Mexico the country, from pink cathedral to patio and from thieves' Few readers may agree with th It is said that Helena Lefroy Caper- editor's estimates, but that makes it- market to plaza.

How the idea of ton owes her romanticism to a blending of the inheritances of Ireland and death pervades life; how the people will go without food, but not without flowers; how everything from the words" on record fittingly spoken by the heir to that accursed throne. And on the Russian side of the long battle line, the same doom impends. It Is ironical simply to read off the names of the Russian generals as they bring up their fifst, fresh, confident armies, for most of those names are now associated with a tragic end; suicide, exile, murder, disgrace, or all the merrier for Mr. Mantle. Tha very criticisms which the collection arouses show that there is still a place for such a volume In a theater that stubbornly Insists on keeping aIive.

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It is Mr. Winston Churchill's "The Eastern Front," his account of the war from the point of view of Russia and Central Europe. The book has been held up until after the general election, but it Is so obviously a subject after Mr. Churchill's heart that there has been a most flattering impatience on the part of the public. However much people may distrust Mr.

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'What does that 'The Flight of the Children of Israel from 'Where romanticism. The stories lend themselves naturally to such treatment, being fragments of transmitted lore, reputedly true, handed on through generations. Their fragrance is that of a pot-pourri, breathing of dead illustrates its style: All the town was in the church. The Nino Dios was carried down the aisle, pink and smiling in His bed of straw. Seraphic little girls in white dresses with long dark hair supported His crib, and peered fondly over the aisle into His face.

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