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frHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, 'APRIL' 22, 1934. In. the Field off Modern Art and Literature Activities in Utah Artists' Colony MR. LINKLATER FROLICS His "Magnus Memman" a Scottish Prototype of the Juan Whose Adventures in America Amused; Book's Gay License and Gusto Engaging B. E.

HOLLIS MAGNUS MERRIMAN. By Eric Llnklater. Publishers, Farrar and Rinehart, New York. with that zest and vigor which arc Eric Linklater's unfailing possessions, this book worthily succeeds the account of the adventures of "Juan in America," and readers who were enthused by that picaresque individual's lunatical and hilarious progress will delight to follow his brother Magnus in Scotland, for Magnus is true kin to Juan. He is poet, rake, fighter, and, more than a little, the clown.

Mr Linklater's high spirits and zest for life furnish his hero with vitality, and Magnus Merriman lives in his own right, a gay, flamboyant personality, whose affairs, literary, political, amatory, provide diversion Born in the Orkney Islands (as was Mr. Linklatcr, too, by the way), Magnus knew an uneventful childhood. But this and his unstimulative years at Inverdoon university, curious war adventures as a Gordon Highlander further university experience acquiring a repute for bawdy mots literary indiscretions as a Bombay teacher, a Philadelphia editorship, novelistic success and love fiascos back in England, are passed over briefly. Magnus, finding some element in life seemed bound to "trip his heels whenever his head was mghest," is discomfited, "I'm a buffoon," he thought; "I'm Troilus with a cold his nose, not sighing but sneezing toward the Grecian tents. I'm Korneo under the wrong window." He would eschew women and devote himself to literature.

Seeking retirement in Orkney, he stops in Edinburgh, to become involved through his friend Meiklejohn in the Nationalist movement muttering among Scottish heather, purposed to recreate Scotland's independent sovereignty; and through his own folly, with a hard-boiled young woman recently from America. Lukewarm at first, Magnus' enthusiasm grows as a Scots If acotland did not yet want independence it should be made to want it." Almost equally important, after a few potations, is to convince Meiklejohn that Shakespeare is a greater poet Uian Racine, a controversy that occasions more than one good fight, and after the Tarascon episode of the snuff in the saxophone a dull week-end in a prison cell. Magnus' patriotism flames brightly when he is asked to stand as Nationalist candidate for parliament, but the by-elqction is a fiasco, his election agent lias escaped with his money, and the American FHricda's attitude bores him, so that Orkney again calls him. In the end we find him settled down as a small farmer, having been captured by a fiery little farm beauty without any pretense of intellect, and his only ambitious pursuit to make a Greek scholar of his elder sou. If ever Magnus' activities lag a bit, there is always Mr.

Linklater himself, his commentary ever refreshing. The course of events planned as opportunity for satirizing the trend toward nationalism, communism, individualism, politics general, it also gives occasion for exposition of other topics, love, marriage, literature. "Magnus Merriman" is a Justy novel, its comedy rich and of Rabelaisian extravagance. MODERN EPISODE IN VIENNA DARK ANGEL. By Gina Kaua.

Publisher, The MacMillan Company, New JL Ol the always fascinating, is presented here in Its war and postwar aspects, the years of stress, of inflation and currency depreciation, of speculation and extravagance with which many writers have dealt. The author-of "Dark Angel," however, has not been primarily concerned with those social and economic changes; this new Vienna is portrayed only as background for her psychoanalytical character studies, brought forth starkly and uncompromisingly. The story, placed in the mouth of the elderly governess, Fratilein Eula, the story of her charges, motherless daughters of a well-to-do jeweler ot Vienna. To these girls the governess has been as a second mother, loving them too devotedly to exercise any austere discipline. Irene, amiable, submissive, rather inert, seemed destined to be a happy wife and mother, but Fraulem Eula worried somewhat about the Jalenled, ambitious Lottie, whose radiant spirit desired expression in less commonplace form.

In her relation of the dark and troubled course of their lives, Ihe old- fashioned frauiein, though startled like a bewildered hen whose chicks have turned to wild ducklings, is unfailing in her sympathy and tenderness. Rather unexpected is the tolerant understanding of Hen- Kahn when Irene, on her first adventure away from the family home, gives herseli easily to a young officer sent from the front to her aunt's hospital; and is sent home disgrace. "We have to remember that there's a war on," Herr Kahn says forgivingly. Irene's marriage to the willing Alexander is arranged, but the young man is not quite the eager lover, to Frauiein Eula's anxious eyes, nor do these loving eyes fail to see that the 15-year-old Lottie, whose brilliancy attracts Alexander, baa conceived a passion for him. After-events reveal that in each of these sisters were depths unsuspected by the foster mot her.

The restless energies of Lottie, whose desire for a career on the stage has been restrained by her father, are curbed whon circumstances force her to enter into his business; and the unfortunate passion which she tries to stifle out of loyalty for the sister she loves, keeps her from forming any deep attachments. The dark angel that broods over her destiny brings her to a meeting with Alexander, whose consequences Frauiein Eula's best efforts cannot avert. The difficulties result in Lottie's drawing back from the rather disgusting May-December marriage she had thought would give her a career, and she goes to Irene to escape, The complex' situation which results from the strange deception in which the sisters join has its culmination some years later in an ugly scene when Lottie, impulsively making an unplanned visit to Irene's home, hotly retaliates for Alexander's jealous accusations, and truths are revealed that startle him and drive Irene, when her attempt to cut the coil is foiled by the untiring efforts of the others, to an insane outburst in which old bitternesses find expression. That final tragic solving of the tangle, while one does not feel its inevitability, comes rather as a relief, for the genUe old frauiein has not shirked realities and the picture evoked is a darkly unpleasant revelation of human natlirn nature, A Hero Out of Homer WARPATH. By Stanley Vestal.

Publishers, Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston. Stnnley Vestal is probably as well versed in the history ot the American rcdman as any contemporary writer, and perhaps he is closer in understanding of the redskins' nature than most others. As a native of the West, the Indian has been familiar to him since his boyhood and he is at home in the Indian camp. The fighting Sioux of the prairie country have his admiration; he has already told the story of one of their greatest warriors, Sitting Bull, and it is with "the greatest daredevil" of the tribes that he deals here. That period of the jnid-ninteenth century before the Indian tribes were wholly subdued, while they gloried in battle, is one glamor for Mr.

Vestal. For the Indian war was "an affair of personal adventure, individual freedom and daring," they went forth with the stime joy of battle which inspired Achilles nnd his followers on the plains of Troy. To the heroes of such warfare Mr. Vestal does honor, they were, net animated by the "virtues" which have turned modern war into "a vicious, destructive, and dismal hell." Chief Joseph White Bull, Sitting Bull's "fighting nephew," who went on his ir.st warpath at sixteen and became a ringleader among the warriors of his generation, is the hero of this book. Son of an hereditary chief, Makes-Room, of the powerful Mlnniconjou Sioux, White Bull was trained for the warpath, and eager ride with the warriors long before Makes-Room thought him old enough.

His boy name of Bull-Stending-with-Cow was changed by the proud Makes-Room to White Bull after that battle of his sixteenth year, from which he returned in great glory, having struck three enemies in this first fight, two of these "coups" being "firsts," besides stealing fen good horsea. Having so distinguished himself, White Bull thereafter was invited to join every war from the Minnlconjou or Sitting Bull's Hunkpapa camiis. It is iro-n Chief White Bull's own accounts that Mr. Vestal has obtained his story of the many battles in which the chief engaged. He has 5al in the camp nf the old warrior, now morr than pjjjhty years old, and listened to his tales of the adds bii note to the book, to say that "My friend His-Name-ls-Every where (Mr.

Vestal) has questioned me; nit that I told him is -straight and true." For "The man who lies is a weakling," in this warrior's creed. Chief White Bull participated in several ot the most famous engagements between United States troopj and the Piains notorious Fetterman "massacre," which Mr. Vestal shows was no massacre, since the troopers died with rifles in their hands and ammunition in their possession; and the memorable battle of June 25, 1876, which brought death to "I-ong Hair" Caster and gloi-y to the 28-year-old White Bull. His account of the battle known as the Wagon-Box Fight, the only Indian version of the affair, illuminates some of the points ot controversy. It appears white historians have allowed their imaginations to riot, estimates of tho number Indians gaged running much over the facts.

Mr. Vestal records this daring warrior's great out "Boar Coat" Miles' description of him as the greatest daredevil he had the chief's own matter-of-fact style, yet the account will stir the Woodand one will share the sadness of White Bull when, the Sioux acceding to the white "Grandfather's" peace terms, ponios and weapons were taken from them and he knew the ehd of their brave life had crime. Since 1876, the chief has followed "the white man's road" and honors have come to him not only from his own tribe, but from hi.s white'broth- ers; and he counts one ot the happiest days of his life that on which he wn.s honored at the peace ceremonies on the Custer battlefield. Much of the lore of the tribes, Indian customs and beliefs, war strategy and tactics, has been woven into the story of the deerla of this hero "straight out of Homer." HUSY MR. POUND Three books by Arthur Pound are on three separate publishers' lists of tha spring: "Oni-e Wilderness." novel is a Reynnl Hitchcock title; "The Turning Wheel." a history of General Motors i.i brought out by Doubleday, Dornn, and MacMillan is publishing "Golden Earth," a Mudy Manhatlan roal c.rtate.

Mr. Pound's fictional ovation rical.s with native Michigan, the other volume, NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATIONAL ANNUAL Always among the outstanding to the Springville exhibitions, the Macbeth Gallery group this year in extremely interesting, und brings several noteworthy eastern artists who have not before made their entrance, but whose representation is of a character to assure their welcome hereafter. The late master, Emil Carlsen, whose work has honored the several times, has given place to his son, Dines Carlsen, who, though a young artist, has been the re- i cipient of numerous awards, among them the third Hallgarten prize at the National Academy of Design, won In 1919 when, ho was but 18. In 1923 the second Hall- garlen prize fell to him. Several galleries have acquired his still life subjects.

Mr. Carlson's work in the Macbeth group is a charming study, of delicate tonal value. 1 and subtle contrasts. lake that of his famous father, his method is Right, "Mountain Town," by A. T.

HibbanL California's Gold Camps Make Story Of Rich Values A HIGHWAY, By C. B. Glasscock. Publishers, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Once again Mr.

Gla.sscoclc turns to his favorite once again he produces a history of permanent value. This time the historian ot "The Big Bonanza" and "Lucky Baldwin" turns the Mother Lode, and its sources ot onetime roaring camps, to build a fascinating history linking the past and the present, and looking, too, a little into tha future. The IVTother Lode country covers little enough territory, yet there is material there for a score of books. From San Francisco the "golden highway" leads up the north fork of the American river to Auburn and Georgetown, north up the Sacramento river through Shasta Whisky Town, Douglas City and Weaverville on tha Trinity river. South it crosses a halt dozen rivers to come to an end at Mariposa.

Not far in miles, it Is yet one of the richest, physically nnd historically, sections of America. To put this richness between, the covers of a single volume is an immense task that Mr. Glasscock handles superbly. The tide started when Sam Brnnnon strode into San Francisco on that memorable spring day in 1848, and bellowed: "Gold! Goldl from the American Fork," which virtually swept around the world. Many of the camps established along the Mother Lode are today ghost towns; some, however, have been developed into charming and progressive cities, where many ot the descendants of the pioneer goldseekers, and a sprinkling of the pioneers themselves, still reside.

It is from these that Mr. Glasscock has gathered much of the material for his history. The writer has a unique gift in that he shows the reader the camps as they originally were, and. then, almost in the same breath, the modern towns stand before you on tha page. Many of these places are due for revival, Mr.

Glasscock believes, for the Roosevelt administration's fiold policy with its subsequent increased price for the metal, has set thousands again searching for the riches that yet He hidden below the surface of the earth. And where would be a more likely place to see wealth than along the golden highway ot the Mother Lode, whore the earth yielded millions, and where-the careers of many national leaders in finance and commerce were launched? Already these towns have felt the first surge of the new tide. A new optimism reigns and new businesses are springing up. Men are again tramping the mountains with pick and pan, hoping to uncover a new lode. But it is the past that holds the great.

e.st interest. There was glamor and color then. There was crime, and swift and oftlimes fatal justice. There was adversity to be met and fought and conquered by strong men and women. There was an empire to build, so builders came from the far corners of the earth, builders and parasites.

Glasscock has caught that glamor and color on every page of his book. Countless anecdotes have been gathered, often painting a truer picture than the records of any historian. Yet the author doesn't overlook the serious records of the day, and has quoted mnny, blending the whole together to present a complete picture of the 1850's, and of moaern times. "A Golden Highway" is a rich record of history and romance, and a Cine contribution to the literature of the west, THE CATCH IN IT In Neighbors" (Whittle- soy House), tha author explains, in commenting on the "the rules as to drunkenness are very simple. You can get drunk as you like biit you mustn't sins, you mustn't light, and you mustn't sleep: a net which catches practically all drunken Ru.ssinns." SHELLEY POETRY AWARD Judges the Shelley Memorial Award divided it this year between Frances Frost nnd Lola Ridge.

Miss Frost, whose narrative poem, "Woman of This tHoughton Mifflin), has recently been published, also was recipient of the first prize for poetry offered by the magazine, Young Israel; the award given for her Autumn." AMERICANA "State Names, Flags, Songs, Birds, Flowers and Other Symbols" is the lengthy title of a'bonk roni- pilinp authoritative rtflU on all of these subjects. This encyclopedia oj facts 13 Company. Karl Yens' "Forest Ranger on Duty." Beauty or Truth in Art? Because of the controversy that has been raging, something of a tempest in a teapot, created by the hanging at the Art Barn, recently of a nude study by Franz Brasz, the California artist, a meeting is.to be held Wednesday at 2 Epistolary Record Of Rare Affection THE LETTERS OF ROMAIN HOLLAND AND MALWIDA VON MEY- SENBUG. Translated from the French by Thomas J. Wilson.

Publishers, Henry Holt and Company, New York. Tender and beautiful was tha friendship disclosed In these letters, the strange intimate kinship of spirit between an old woman of more than 70 yettrs and a young man in his twenties, which lasted for a decade and more, when her death broke the tie. Remain Holland, who has won to the heights of literary fame, was but 24 and almost unknown when he first met this frail, quiet little lady, a descendant of Goethe, who had been the friend of Wagner, of Nietzsche, Herzen, Mazzinl, Liszt, all "the great free birds of the century." It was in 1889, when Malwida von lleysenbug had lost the last of her great friends, Warsberg, that the young 1 Frenchman called upon her in Rome, and it seemed that her dead friend might have sent him. The inti- macy of soul established during the days of their "Roman, reveries" was continued in correspondence through several years. The weekly letters the years 1890-91 are pubJished here.

In them is revealed the young dreamer who-in Rome had come to realize that the career for which he had trained himself at the desire and need of his family was not the one he longed to follow, that he could not bs a teacher when tho urge to creation possessed him. Malwida understood his longings, his hopes and fears, and gave him encouragement and counsej. "Her intelligent heart gave back one's faith, of which one had robbed one's self by expressing it," Re-Hand says in tho fine foreword he gives to the book. "The friend who understands one is one's creator. In this sense, I was created by Malwida.

Had I been alone perhaps I should have destroyed my work; I felt too strongly its insufficiency." While Malwida was no critic of his work, heing a "poor judge of literary values," and easily excusing youth's shortcomings, her loving, far-seeing eyes could discern its essential strength, not what he hnd done, but what he wanted to do; and could glory in the future she saw for him, even while he was despairingly struggling. "Never have I known a mind so yoxmg," he says, "so tirelessly open to all the Inspirations of youth." She lived her youth over again In those she loved. The letters reveal much of the personality of their writers, tho idealistic nature of the woman, the passion and despair and hopes of the young writer. Interesting by reason of this revelation, they are also important as the record of a human relationship ot unique quality. p.

m. at the Art Barn, at which Mr. Brasz will, discuss modern art in general and his paintings in at all in a sense of offering a defense of the painting attacked, for art that ia honest needs no defense. Mr. Brasz' talk is to make clearer the principles of modern art, and the modernists' attitude toward truth in art.

The program for Wednesday is under the direction of Mrs. John Jensen, president ot the organization, and is sponsored by the Women's Council of the Art Barn. It will include a round table discussion, on art, with Miss Lucy "Van Cott, Miss Caroline Parry, Jacob Trapp, Leon Loofbourow and Ranch S. Kimball as speakers. Comment on the Brasz nude, whose apparent purpose was to express the fruitfulnesa of nature, has been general, some objecting strenuously to the painting because ot what they termed its indecency, some merely finding its ugliness inartistic, while others found this very ugliness an expression of truth that is the highest form of art.

At any rate, the discussion has served to bring to a head the question whether art in Utah is to be bound by a narrow viewpoint. "We cannot discard any form of art that is honest," Mrs. Jensen says. "There must be truth In art as well as in literature, and the artist should, not be deterred from painting what he sees as truth, even if it be ugly and earthy In aspect, because of any sentiment against it. Real art is not restrictive and narrow.

Art appreciation in Utah must broaden and keep abreast of the current of progress." Hostesses for the Wednesday meeting will be the Elks'Ladies and the Chi Delta Phi literary sorority. EDITOR REPORTS ON AUTHOR ACTIVITY H. M. Tomlinson, Harper author, working on a new book that examines the human and spiritual balance sheet's of international warfare, according to Eugene F. Saxtoh, editor-in-chief of Harper and Brothers, back from abroad.

He reported also that Sheila Kaye-Smith is still concerned with the fortunes of the Alard family, as her new novel will show. She is also planning a first lecture tour in America for next year. A new novel will come this fall from Francis Brett-Young, who will deal with English life in a section known intimately to his youth. Rose Macaulay has a new novel under way, and J. B.

Priestley is finishing a book on life and conditions in English provincial towns today, while Aldovis Huxley is at his home in southern France to finish a novel. painstaking, each brush stroke carefully, thought out and his modeling faithfully, executed. In this canvas, "The Mandarin. Chinese garment forming a background for an arrangement of vasei, bowl and beads, with scattered he has used a limited palette, gaining rich effect with chiefly yellow ochre and, blue, through which flash countless interesting tints. "Mountain Town," by A.

T. Hibbard, is a sparkling landscape, its masterly treatment of snow showing the mark of genius. It is an exhilarating picture, one feels the bite of the air and the shivery dampness of the deep snow, by a sense of warmth and shelter in houses clustered around a church spire. Mr. Hibbard, who works in Boston and Rockport, is a pupil of De Camp, Major and Tarbell.

Among his honor- and awards are the first prize at Duxbury, 1920; first Hallgarten prize, Sesnan. gold medal, second Altman prize, and his "Ice Pond" was purchased by the Ranger Fund and presented to the Phillips Academy. Albert L. Groll, whose "Flying is infthe collection, is a New York but has been accorded credit for bringing to the realization of America the artistic i possibilities of the desert lands tha West, and particularly of Arizona. His picture depicts the broad plains of saga brush, bunch grass and cacti clinging close to the arid yellow soil, with a hovering sky of silvery cloud effects.

"Flying Clouds" is true to his reputation, that he "never makes a hopeless desert," but introduces gold and silver undertones to achieve shimmering light. Ann Brockman, with "Northeaster" and C. K. Chatterton, -with "Water Street," are making an effective first appearance; and Belmore Browne, who also makes a personal entry, is in the group, his "Mountain Jade" giving one of hia strong Canadian scenes. Jay Connaway's "A Dark Sea" represents him most delightfully, and Hayley Lever's beautiful harbor scene completes the group.

F. Usher DeVoll, whose colorful circus scenes and intriguing impression of "Times engage attention, is an always welcome contributor. The California contingent of artists has no stronger representative than Maynard Dixon, San Francisco muralist, whose striking "High in the Morning" capture. 1 the awesome beauty of Zion Canyon as no other portrayal we have seen. Mr.

Dixon's. creative power is again expressed in the superb "Approach to Zion," and a picture one will take to his heart is the small "Old-time Cabin." William Wendt's spacious "Into the Valley," whose clim'jing hill slopes open to lead the eye into far distances; Maurice Braun's "In Harbor," showing sailboats at anchor; William A. Griffith's Ingratiating study a "Summer Sea 1 are other things that lend interest. Karl Yens, too, returns to the show with a vigorous canvas that has a story to tell, "Fire Ranger on. Duty," and an imaginative conception of "Genesis," a vast gray sea from whose mists one can fancy a world coming into being.

ALONE By CARLTON CULMSEE When she is alone at night. Often the darkness seems Like an ear pressed to tho ground, Straining for every sound. The old house creeks ai if feet Moved slowly and softly; Shadows are tense with a thing Ready to spring. "Bitter Bread," Nikolai Gubsky'a novel, published by Holt, was originally called "Its Silly Face," from the lines: "I wish I loved the human race I wish I loved its silly face." Van Wyck Mason consulted -seven Washington embassies to his data ac- rur.ito fnr the now my.story upon which he is engaged, which is 1o rloal with 1he international armament trade, and which Ciimt club, wil i FICTION WRITING Arlhiir Sullivan Hoffman's 25 year.s' experience as a magazine editor, and as critic and teacher, has resulted in the making of "The Writing of Fiction," offering a survey writers' needs, which is a new Norton book. Among those whom.

Hoffman has aided, and who indorse his methods, are such writers aa Sinclair Lewis, T. 3. Stribling, Inez Haynus Irwin, Larry Barretto, Dorothy Canficld and others. TITLE BY BALLOT To the late Hugh Weir Samuel Hopkins Adams owes the title of his novel, "The Gorgeous Hussy," based on the tumultuous carper of PeRgy Eaton. The title was felncled at cocktail party at the Adams farm, "Wide Waters," where fin per rent of thft euest.i rhose Mr.

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