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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY 21 193? COMMENT ON THE BOOKS OF TODAY Art and Literature NEWS OF ART WORLD AND UTAH ARTISTS Conception of Southern Scene Historic Tragedy Fully Reported The King and LONDON July 16 UP) A new poem entitled of th Fleet by th was published today by Rudyard Kipling who is in his seventlgh year The poem follows: After his realms and stales were moved To bare their hearts to the king they loved Tendering themselves in homage and devotion The tide-wave up the channel spoks To all those eager exultant folk: Hear now what man has given you by the ocean There was no thought of orb or crown When- the-single-wooden-eheat went down- Joy To the steering flat and the careless gunroom htled him To learn by ancient and bitter use How neither favor nor excuse Nor aught have his sheer self henceforth availed him There was no talk of birth or rank By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank In the steel-grated prisons where I cast him But niggard hours and a narrow space For ahd the naked light on his face While the trafflck flowed unceasing past him Thus I schooled him to go and come To speak at the at a sign be dumb To stand to his task not seeking others to aid him To share in honor what praise might fall For the task accomplished and over all To swallow rebuke in silence Thus I made him I loosened every mood of the deep On him a child and sick for sleep Through the long watches that no time can measure When I drove him deafened and choked and blind At the wave tops cut and spun by the wind Lashing his face and eyes with my displeasure I opened him all the guile of the Their sullen swift-sprung treacheries To be fought or forestalled or dared or dismissed with laughter I showed him worth by folly concealed And the flaw In the soul that a chance revealed (Lessons to bear fruit thereafter) I dealt him power beneath his hand For trial and proof with his first command Himaelf alone and no man to gainsay him On him the end the means and the word And the harsher judgment if he erred And ocean waiting to betray him Wherefore when he carte to be browned Strength in duty held him bound So that not power misled nor ease ensnared him Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him After his lieges in all his lands Had laid their hands between his hands And his ships thundered service and devotion The tide wave ranging the plant spoke On all our foreshores as it broke: now what man I gave I the ocean" The Literary Almanac ixl 4 'Jacket Design for "Deep Dark Rivar" tUK a Fiction Crop th Kaya and Jimmies are plentiful enough But Miss rather gay and casual manner almost disguises me real pttifulnesa of their story Kay belongs to that class seeming numerous in New York City of unattached and jobless girls living two or three in apartments and existing almost wholly by dinners provided by men friends in exchange for dancing partner Kay had fallen hard for Jimmy and having quite unprpmedltatedly spent the night with hint is excited at having an with this blonde god Neither was really prepared for what happened Jimmy knowing tho pre carlousnesa of hia job any thought of marriage He held aloof and Kay hurt was cool in turn which mad Jimmy more ardent Just as Kay finds that her worst fears ar true Jimmy la off" and two badly scared youngsters fight through endless weeks of distress and worry and jangled nerves to discover after-ward that lov endured through While Miss observation seems correct one finds her treatment somewhat superficial Perhaps her interest is mors engaged studying th African native THE MARK OF CAIN By Harriet Comstock Publishers Double- dayDoran A Co Inc Garden City Malcolm Churchill Bostonian who had gone through Harvard' with dig nlty If not dramatically and whose Ufe thereafter had been eminently correct and one of those mug fellows if you ask is sent kJU 9 yvi Atheist By MYRTLE TATE MYLES Ha bellava in God (or ha aald) Ha thought when a man died ha waa dead Ha read daap hooka about It And quoted them to ua Ha waa alwaya bringing up auch things to argua or discuss But well I remember whan Jim Hill died (A good man and neighbor whom lived cloaa bealda) Ha helped to waah and dreu the dead Wlth quiet handa and alow While alngtng softly to himself Gld hymna ha uaed to know From Recent AFFAIR By Emily Hahn Publisher The Bobbe-Merrlll Company Indian apoUa Ind Turning from her delightful descrip tiona of axpariancea as a female Marco Polo In Jungle regions and of jungle native life Emily Hahn makea note of her observatlona of modern morals and what has been happening among the young people of her own land during these years ot the new freedom and the depression That the brief and tawdry little romance she relates In has been enacted in actual life many times la not to be denied Three exiles two on "black and the third from Italy ar also on forthcoming list Emil Ludwig noted German writer will represented by a biography of Ma-saryk "Defender of Democracy" and Ernest Glaessr author of "Th Class of will have his second novel out Last Is the title The Italian author Ignazlo Silone wnose was an extraordinary story of an Italian town qf the present is to have a book of short stories Aristotle" now In process of translation THE MURDER OF THE ROMANOVS By Captain Paul Bulygin Publishers Robert McBride A Company New York City Seventeen years have elapsed since the horrible crime of Ekaterinburg startled and shocked the world and now comes what is probably the Most complete authoritative agd dramatic ac50unt of whafiiappened th Ipatiev House on the night of July 16 1918 It is Captain Paul Bulygin former commander of the personal guard of the Dowager Empress Marta Alexandrovna and entrusted by her with the mission of ascertaining the fate of the Tsar and his family who her gives the full details He is the one man left who witnessed and aided In the titanic task of the late A Sokolov official investigator appointed by-Admiral Kolchak of the White Armies to determine the responsibility lor the murder of th Imperial family Bulygin whoae attempt In May of 1918 to reach Ekaterinburg to obtain news of th royal prisoners ended in his imprisonment in Ekaterinburg escaped from the train on which be was removed to Vologoda and managed to reach St Petersburg Before he had gained Siberia In his second attempt having to go half round the world the crime of Ekaterinburg had been accomplished Sokolov had already attacked his task and Bulygin was mads one of his assistants and bodyguard Sokolov's investigation was prosecuted with thoroughness under heavy handicaps and took months to complete Bulygin has or given dramatic account of the dry facts of report beginning with the first imprisonment of th royal victims at Tsarskos Selo through all th tangle of conspiracy the hysterical foolish plots of the monarchists which perhaps precipitated the tragedy the transfer of the prisoners to the isolation of Tobolsk on the white plains of Siberia the treachery of Soloviev son-in-law down to all the horrifying details of the crime which brought to an end th Romanov dynasty While Bulygin omits no one of th names involved with the vicious Yu rovsky a chief murderer he places th reed responsibility higher: knew of the preparations Lenin sanctioned the murder Lenin was the murderer the others were only his Alexander Kerensky whose detailed picture of Road to th Tragedy" forms the foreword to the volume and points to the Tsaritsa as the evil genius of the dynasty says: will be those tempted to doubt that and Bulygin's account Is exact Unfortunately it Is Theirs Is th the truth" truth since confirmed by th bolsheviks themselves he adds to an isolated community of the North Woods on matter of business for a client of his firm And meets an experience that jogs him out of his course leaving a matter that disturbs his conscience Also he sees the beautiful Mayota Randolph a woman whose secret he has by accident shared and whose explanation is but a poor shabby lie Churchill feels But Mayota Is a woman not to be forgotten and though Churchill goes away his disturbance of mind remains That the two are to meet again Is of course to be expected and Mayota makes clear that their friendship Is to be on her own terms Which lays the foundation for the sort of romance in which Mrs Comstock Is adept with a multitude of matters arising to complicate the path of true love and sentiment richly bestrewing the pages praise so enthusiastically as to what the communists want or think or are or are doing they know less than bandar-log the mohkey people who flung themselves in festoons through th jungle trees and were always about to do great things a minute or two" of my age were born In the darkest hour of so-called civilization" says the boy who wrote the article sternly and darkly "We have been cheated of the birthright of intelligent human beings and we know it From those who went before us from the stupid time-serving anatlo flag wavers whose hallucinations formed our first Ideas we will some day take our bitter toll Graft corruption greed cupidity the glorification of might and the repression of rights these ar all ws see about us We are given no standards no clues In ths darkness of ths world's decay" Ww ws There is a great deal of it five printed pages And I can imagine ths boy for I know such boys swaggering about with a bitter smile on hia young face as bis awed mates praise him for his courage in saying what he believes His mother alarmed hut admiring sent me the article with a despairing letter She and I used to be schoolmates years ago and I know something of her prosperous life in an eastern city and of the boy's background have we failed the children?" she writes on her handsome mono-grammed paper with its ultra-smart address ths awful part of this Is that boys and girls seem to be feeling that they must be right" Well doea ona feel that they must be right? tor one not only feel that they must be and are entirely wrong but I feel that wa their elders are somehow entirely wrong too in letting them get so far as to express this sort of adolescent folly I feel that all high schools and colleges ought to stop aU other courses for a space of years and teach our Children only what their country really la Apparently they know Three years of intensive study of America with travel trips and films and radio programs and books and poems find programs to illustrate the glorious the unique the significant history of this country Then two years Why Do We Let Them Get Away With It? In the autumn Doubleday Doran will publish two editions of the late famous story of the Arab revolt Seven Pillars of Wisdom" numbered de luxe edition of 800 copies 'and a regular trade edition There will be forty-eight illustrations The abridged volume in the Desert" written in 1919 and having had a tremendous success both in America and England will then be withdrawn Philip Ainsworth Means is completing his book on Spanish Main" which Scribner's will bring out in October It will contain much hitherto unpublished material concerned with Spanish rule in the Americas especially the Caribbean Mr Means has recently been made an official of the Order of the Sun of Peru by the president General Oscar an honor which is the highest Peru can confer upon her citizens The early fall will see the second novel by Branch James Branch alter coming from McBride The title will be A Sylvan of study of other countries and especially of the corresponding years to their own In other countries Two years In which they might see just what the problems of youth are in some of the revolutionary centers they so and yet so admire would be my five-year plan for America's youth The boy vho wrote the article for example His grandfather was a master plumber the ambitious oldest son of a laborer He gQt Into ths beginning of the motor car industry about 35 years ago and presently established a little factory for the making of one small detail among the many that go to the completion of cars He prospered and his son this father inherited the factory and js rich The boy has had country summers medical care has had his teeth straightened was sent to fine schools finally found himself at this fine college His people note were typical American people up to this point His father waa a country doctor her grandfather an auctioneer They all loved th flag under which they had lived happy and protected lives the men fighting duly in 1775 and 1865 1898 and 1917 to protect that flag the women protesting swearing that thera should not be more wars falling in line to help when the hungry and th wounded needed them Where did th boy get the half-cooked poisonous virus that has saturated hia poor Utile half-cooked mind now? Who told him that Russia had a better theory of social and political action than he could have under that unparalleled that astounding and olutlonary and magnificent document we call our Declaration of Independence? Where does he see youth happier freer more favored than his own youth? What boys have more privilege than he? the words poetical social reUgious freedom freedom of speech freedom of movement and thought mean anything to him? Does he for all his enthusiasms know so Uttlo of Russia of communist and aocialist organization in general as to suppose he will find greater Uberty anywhere on the earth7 Human rule is faulty rule Great governments make great mistakes how honest a great proportion of our public servants America and her Corruption wllj creep in no matter HOUSE MOTHER (Continues treat free dine Put) inuch about Iht affair as I did When the day came for -Felix to leave I waa to excited I couldn't eat When Mr Bamea came aeveral of us wera downstairs You were at the library HUe remember? alwaya been sorry you missed him He looked about ai had expected him to only more so Tail gray hair a aort of kind standoffish smile and eyes that atayed the same gray and cold whether he amiled or not We ell met hum He was very proper and formal and after a few tainutes Everyone but me left so Felicity could be with her lather because wa did aeem little unnecessary She seemed crary about him end he did look more unbent around her knew I should have gone too but I Just until Mrs Lee came down end besides I was practically best friend and so I stayed sat there surrounded by Felix's luggage and talked few minutes and then Mr Barnes said perhaps they had better leave after all they had a train to catch So Felix ran to get her wraps When aha got to the top of the stairs sha called down Til hurry dad but you have to meet Mrs Lea before wa go just sat my heart fairly pounding 1 wondered if she would coma down fter all Ellie I see how she could! I must have seemed dull to Mr Barnes and it was an eternity before I heard them both coming down me atepa came first and directly behind her Mrs Lee She had on black crepe with some white lace around her throat and her hair was all ihining She looked so beautiful I wanted to try Mr Barnes stood and walked toward her Suddenly he topped and I held my breath I see his eyes but I read homing in She walked to him and held out her hand do you do Felicity has wanted me to meet you for some time so glad you came only sorry that you came to take her away we shall miss her so I sounded a little bit breamless and the moistened her lips twice Except for mat you could have thought she was meeting Just father Her hand even shake father didn't speak for several seconds It seemed forever to me I tried my best imagine part of wbat he must have felt like" I felt myself fairly drawning with excite ment and Ellie I was so desperately sorry for mem both 5 Finally he spoke and tall the warmth was drained out of his voice skid felicity tells me you have been very kind to her I appreciate it Im afraid I make a poor aort of parent for her always running off She needs someone to mother Lise put one hand to her throat and aat down heavily All me light left her face and she looked hurt and tired I had to swallow awfully hard leaned on Mr Barnes shoulder and said you believe him all me parent I need You imagine what a perfect father he Lee looked st her and tried to smile only mis time her yw HUed with pain and her voice was husky "She said 'Oh but 1 can imagine I dont see how anyone could help being a perfect parent to you! Now you must run or miss the plane' She stood up 4 Barnes picked up his hat For a minute we all stood there kind of awkwardly Mr Barnes looking at Mrs Lee and Felix putting on her hafcv I wanted desperately to say some thing but I Finally Felix came over and kissed me Then she threw her arms around Mrs Lee She said to her Goodbye be sure to write from Paris- been such a' "Mrs Lee say a word jusi held hand for a second Then we all moved to the door "On the steps Mr Barnes turned His voice was still flat and cold but he was Completely composed He said 'Goodbye Mrs Lee and thank you again for taking care of my daugb- I i he said my daughter that way 'Mri Lee went awfully pale She say anything and In a second they were both gone "When door was closed she sank into a chair and leaned back with her eyes closed I mink she even remembered I was there She sat there like that for a minute and for the first time she looked old and tired and pitiful just sat watching her not knowing what to say Finally ah stood up and climbed heavily upstairs a new novel by Stark Young author of Red the is coming from almost at once Mr Young is spending the summer In Texas An item for Dashlell Hammett fans is that the omnibus volume which Knopf is publishing in August will contain his first three murder mysteries: Daln Curse" and Maltese Falcon" and will run to over 800 pages mother country England ar freer from it than any of the other great powers and yet their records show that even the greatest of their rulers had their weaknesses feU Into serious errors That dim the glory That doesn't mean that any name in all the list of great names of all time has yet come even within th shadow of our great namea Washington Jefferson Lincoln Do we live up to their ideals ar we worthy of them? do not we are not live up to our personal ideals much less our national ones never calling ourselves a Christian civilization for on single day remembered the simple commands of the Sermon on the Mount No country as a country has ever forgiven its enemies or attempted to do good to them that hated it or to lov them despitefully used It Never not even in the comparatively 'simple medieval days did any great Christian ruler say: us forgive them Let ua give them twice th domains they demand of us Let us remind them of the one divine rule thatit is by brotherly love we art to be known as His Never! Ths whole history of ths world would be changed If they had They fought tortured imprisoned hated they burned pities and murdered babies It is only by slow and painful degrees that'th world grows kinder begin to see that that law is policy as well as goodness Th boy who wrote the essay apparently feels sure that if other men with other Ideas were to be violently put Into power all pur ills would cured What makes him think that they Would be different from all tha men who have ever held reins all the men who ever abused authority enriched themselves substituted new abuses for old? If our boy would resolve tq be silent for a year and in that year ta consider ths tremendous opportunities given him under his own constitution if hs would turn to th service rather than the abuse of his country if he would fit himself for honest public service in politics or social work it would be the beginning of a new America as wonderful as was that other beginning under our first great American By KATHLEEN NORRIS A college boy of 20 had an article published In a magazine th other day Probably a good many of hts elders read Jt with concern troubled helpless before Ita youthful bitterness as middle-age qo often Is before th challenges of youth Th article caused no especial sensation because It only said what alt know that the riding generation is saying or rather shouting and babbling and screaming at us all' the time Reading It Kathleen Norris wondered if th old days of flogging Youngsters had been wholly mistaken after alL Not that there la any answer in a flogging Martyrs have been flogged and tbetr causes have lived on But these boys and girls of oura who chatter so glibly of communism and socialism who ar sure that every other country in th world la smarter than their own who attack their constitution their natlohaMdeala their parents and society in general so mercilessly have no cause They' ara simply undisciplined children who properly trained In their nursery days who told to keep their young mouths shut and mind their manners and obey their elders and do their duty Lift has been mads too smooth for them learning has been substituted for character development their absurdities have been permitted to develop until their most ridiculous opinion is received with respect No msgaslno ought" ever to have published this article The magazine to bo sure explains that this is to show us elders what the youngster! are thinking But as a matter of fact the youngsters thinking that way at all or any way at all They ar restless adolescents as i were 30 years ago they lov the sound of their own voice and it excltea them to find fault with their world As for any other world as to what la really going on in ths Russia they.