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(15) 5 I uj vgy KJu (c-K( zds- Mil.lWWiiir- mnm-). Tir T-T" "l-wiuiier WKWWW'V-vr. THE MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE: DECEMBER 13 1923 Sherwood Anderson, Greatest The Literary Lobby Concerning a Boxful of Christina gifts and G. Moore's hew Novel and Drinkwater and T. Edison and T.

Raine and an Oppoitunity for Poets and This, That and the Other Thina. Distinctively American Writer, to Give Lecture Here Monday WITH Christmas coming: we were moved the other day to make an inventory of the Trinket's toys and we have come to the conclusion that her world, in spite of the books which are closed to her, in spite of the limits of, her wandering is infinitely more exciting than our own We stand the toys for the Art Institute's Famous New Titian, Temptation of Christ Will Be Shown PublicToday Purchase of Painting by Minneapolis Museum Is Symbol of Growing Appreciation for Art in Northwest. Author of Much Discussed Book, 'Dark Is Foremost Delineator of Life in Middle West. what about the nation's digestion? This Swiss on rye with a glass of dark in 15 minutes hasn't made our pocketbook any fatter, so far as we can sec Gertrude Perry West of Poetic Thrills wants poems for a new magazine of verse, but she wants subscriptions first "your poems," she addresses the poets, "will not be paid for (by Poetic Thrills) until you have created a market for them with your influence and This Is your opportunity. You cannot get recognition without expression.

You cannot get expression without a medium. The established journals give you little expression, or none. This then is your opportunity. Grasp the straw. Send us your poems and subscriptions, and become charter members of the only poetry journal in North Carolina, and, with few exceptions, in the south.

We welcome you with the glad hand of fellowship and brotherhood. Indeed, if we had some bread, we could have a cheese sandwich, too, if. we had some cheese Well, we are grateful someone is looking after the poets, poor dears Nellie Barnes1 has collected the poems of American Indian tribes and Macmillan will bring them out this month. Mary Austin writes the foreword for the book Gabriel Wells announces the Bonchurch Edition of the works of A. C.

Swinburne in 20 volimes. liy Joseph Warren Heach. HKUWOUD ANDERSON, who is to lecture at the chinch mi evening in Dr. Mabel Ulrich's of lectures, is distinguished at a novelist, a poet, and a writer of short stories. At present he is very much in the limelight on account of his latest novel, "Dark Laughter," one of the most read and most talked of books of the year, and his fascinating autobiography, "A Story Teller's Story," which occupied the same position last year.

Two or three years ago he sprang into prominence with his novel "Many Marriages." Before that was known to liu-rary connoisseurs for his short stories; find liurarv fc.nn.'isurs still, for the most part, find his strongest and most linishfd iiit in the volumes of short stories, especially "The triumph of the Kcr" ami "Winesburg Ohio." He also published a volume of poems entitled "Mid-American Chants." By Burt Allen. THE arrival of "The Temptation of Christ" by Titian, which; has been heralded all over the country, is an occasion call-. ing for display. The Northwest is now on the artistic map, not chiefly because of its artists, but because its main museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, has spent an enormous sum of money in buying a famous painting. The history of that painting has been well covered in the newspapers of two weeks past.

The painting itself can be seen this afternoon in the institute, and during any af teraoon following consequently a description of its colors and its effect is not necessary. The critic in this instance feels that it would be more profitable for him to discuss the value of this work of art from the point of view of national importance. Throughout the east, the attitude moment in a row around her playyard. I here is aandy, the squat mongrel with the tawny hair, and, "Ba-a-a," the white-hide calf; and Bow, the wooden white bear; and Beezer, the squatting pup; and Dinathe primordial green dinosaur, which enjoys a contortionist's joints. Among the dolls Nathalia Crane's pink and white flat one that squeaks when squeezed; Jinny in Blue, who cries a plaintive cry when pressed down upon the bead W'hitey, the rubber doll, excellent for teething, and still in use; Uncle Rastus, the three-foot rag Negro cook, who is, unfortunately, these days neglected and Viio lies disconsolate, but grinning, in the corner.

Among the miscellanies the "rock-rock" or rocking horse, an antique chatelaine, a blue and red string necklace with a bell on end, a collapsible silver cup, an ivory and a celluloid teething ring, one red papier-mache egg) 35 blocks, three pasteboard boxes in varying stages of disrepair, a discarded vanity case with a mirror inside, i old brown feminine hat with a brown pompom, a backless "Mother Goose," the "dogs" ripped out, four Yolland cloth story books as limp as linen, but, even so, a paradise of color; a green basket, its handle gone; a generous collection of pages from a variety of, magazines and three hard-used books, taken from our own shelves, off and on, in momentary desperation to keep the Trinket amused. rrHESE are her waking world with flowers in the 1 vase and almost any article of furniture in three or four rooms, for a kind of remote research must be a world that beggars our own, for the Trinket achieves a degree of sustained enthusiasm and interest which would, for us, promise nothing less than nervous prostration within the week We can place against her toys, our own and we have Tonly books. Only books, we the Trinket might say, only toys, and mean a great deal For we have a number of excellent books, excellent new ones proper Christmas gifts, since Christmas comes but once a year, and our formal suggestions as sparingly. Attend! If you would make a father happy buy him for Christmas this new three-volume reissue of Boswell's "Samuel Johnson" (Dutton) the only edition of the life has attracted us ever. Or buy him Scribner's popular South Seas edition of R.

L. S. 32 volumes, handy size they fill a yard long shelf, no mean array in a quiet, cozy room, for those who have not outgrown Stevenson. Or buy him A. Edward Newton's "The Greatest Book in the World" (Little, Brown), which rambles in and about everything after a most inviting fashion.

THERE are other members of, the family, whom we de not wish to neglect. To them bring tiie jewels of Araby; Darrell Figyis' "The Painting of William Blake," a sumptuous edition with no small number of these searching and vast conceptions in color; the Frank Pap edition of Anatole France's "Penguin Island" as naughty and cunning a book as we care to linger over; J. Lucas Dubreton's "Samuel Pepys" the very next thing best to the diary itself; the whole series of Bodley Head quartos 'and a selection of the Broadway Translations; Edouard Herriot's "Madame Recamier, Marmaduke Pickthall's "Said the Fisherman," and, finally, the little book which has come to be more than a book and something very like a social need, A. A. Milne's "When We Were Very Young." There's a selection of dreams and notions and images as rich as the-vaults of Croesus.

And they can be bought and given away When we cast even a casual eye over our best books we understand how really wealthy we are The Trinket, doubt VtMm V7E HAVE been interested in "Parson Primrose," that life of Henry Francis Gary, intimate of Charles Lamb, who translated Dante. Through Cary, George Darley, the poet, came to know Lamb. And we fell upon the verses written by Darley, who frequented the reading room of the British Museum when Cary was librarian. They mock an ode: Reverendissimo Translator of the Inferno, From this poetical Epistle you may ponsibly, by some means or other, hook or crook, contrive to learn-0 That I (Deep dweller of the Museum Purgatorio!) Am in the second story-O. Tell me, tell me, Sage Anglificr of the Paradisot Will there be, at four o'clock today, anything on yovr table, in the inviting form of Or, haply, a stray potato.

To be ate-O) If that there will, (Grave Sir!) pray favor with a line-O, And, perchance, may condescend to dine-0 Crack jokes and make me merry With you and. Mrs. Cary; As of old We are told Great Jupiter, King of Gods, came down from' Heaven, to cram his eternal fauces. At the expense of that most horpitable Couple, PhilC' mon and good Baucis May fifteen. In Reading-Room, wait The fate That you, shall doom; Whether I am to get dinner, Or fast like a poetic sinner.

Hearties, there's a man who could burlesque Eli Siegel even, and get away with it royally, mist rises over the city, which we see out our window. Here and there, yellow lights pop up a muggy yellow. Why, and we ask it with reasonable gravity, does the sky tower and the sun go in, when we retreat to this alcove of the aliments? AMONG recent novels we enjoved are Karel Copek's "Krakatit," Floyd Dell's "Runaway" and Ford Madox Ford's "No more Parades." The latter is one of the few novels we've read whose title is really significant. A small voice in the beginning, in dramatic crescendo, through the pages, the title lifts, until, with mocking refrain there rolls its thunder on the last leaf. We have used the word so many times it is only right that we point for Christmas Bernard and Elinor Darwin's "The Tale of Mr.

Tootloo," a child's book, Nonesuch Press, one of the very few unlimited editions to be published by them, or it, as you please. McCoy, in "Ulysses," isn't it? who calls "Tolloll!" ingenious fascinating paper might be written on colloquial farewells and their etymology. Lo, as we close this column for the day, there comes to us from Dutton a Christmas card, a pretty big one, with A. A. Milan's "Vespers," out of the Christopher Robin verses, quaintly decorated.

It would put any one in the proper mood for any Christmas. Why not add it to those gift books for father we've been talking about? KENELM DIG BY. Cojrri(M, 1831, Kt York Zenin Poit. less, approximates the same thought when she looks at her toys. Ah, well, we were, never wealthy or poor, but thinking made us so.

TrE LEARN that the Nonesuch Press will publish; in the early spring George Moore's new novel, "Ulick. and Soracha," in an edition limited to 1,250 copies. It's a story upon the 14th century background of Robert Bruce's invasion of Ireland. Ulick, son of an Irish-Norman or a Norman-Irish family, declares himself to be the last of the French trouveres. With his squire, he sets out on a fantastic journey, steals from a convent Soracha, daughter of an Irish king; their happiness and their love of beauty and pleasure give rise to rumors of pagan worship, which threaten to throw Ireland into a civil war The story holds possibilities for Mr.

George Moore, nicht wahrf John Drinkwater is by now in California; Thomas Edi son declares you must read Tom Paine ana the Thomas Paine National Historical association obliges with a new patriot's edition of the works of Thomas in 10 volumes It is said the short lunch hour has contributed to the prosperity of this country, but, we ask, Tabloid Reviews of the New Books i 'I'u lei 'ers look eatrorlv for s.ii:i ly American r-roduot In Mr. Ar.ui.rson is likely to loom up a our frreutpst writer of fiction, fsjit-cialiy fur those who regard the liiiiliil" v. c-t as more distinctively than the Atlantic coast. In tone and suiistar.ee, one tntprht almost fay in feel and smell, he renders the fcnse one has of life in the middle west, cr the sense one had of it a generation sco. From irsonal exHrience he Knows what is talking about.

Born in small town in Ohio of a lioor and lio-account family, he has earned his living in, and loafed around the streets of towns and cities in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, 'Wisconsin. There is evidently something about him i which leads people to. talk freely to, him of their most intimate affairs and notions. He has worked at all sorts of trades with his hands; he has leen a factory-owner, and thrown it up! lie has written advertisements for great syndicates in Chicago: he has also lived in poverty and In ease in New York arl New Orleans. Pictures Growth of New Country.

"What he chiefly does in his stories Is to picture the unrest and disorder In tlie new settled country, the rpld growth and industrialization of cities and small towns, with the consequent throwing out of pear of the life of the people. He pictures the narrowrsss and cruelty s. nail-town life. "Wines-burg Ohio," is the "Spoon River An thology" in prose, but with more of the tenderness of Sandburg than of the harsh iron of Masters. These are the two American writers with whom he has the most affinity.

Anderson is always the sympathetic Interpreter of failures, rebels, seekers. He makes a. specialty of cases of morbid psychology, which he treats at the Fame time with scientific precision and with humane feeling. A friend of mine who is a physician and a trained psychiatrist gives it as his opinion that Anderson, by intuition and observation, has penetrated into the motivation of human behavior at least deeply und accurately his more heavy-handed psycho-pathological con-tcmpora ries. of course this makes reading sour on the tongue of the average reader.

It noes without saying that Anderson is realist. But he is not a realist of the painstaking documentary sort, like Arnold Bennett or Sinclair Lewis. For all that he makes you see people and places, and many things are brought to the reader with great vividness, especially from undistinguished small towr: messy back alleys, livery barns, dark utairways leading to dwellings above stores, steamboat landings, men sitting around in front of hotels chewing tobacco. Anderson writes little of the well-to-do and the fashionable. He loves especially men who work with their hands, and.

love their work carpenters and the like. Ixives the Maimed of Life. He loves all people bruised and maimed by life and stviety, who yet In their crazy way keep some candle lighted iu their souls. In one of his poems he represents a broken down fellow talking, to a girl of the songs that will come from this western country. "I'm the broken end of a song myself," ays the bum.

Anderson recognizes the complexity of human nature and the trange cohabitation in the. soul of good nd bad. In this he is strongly suggestive of the Russian writers, especially Dostoievsky. In his early navel, "Marching Men," he tdls the story of a Pennsylvania miner's son who makes himself a lawyer in Chicago and tries to realize his dream of putting trder into the life of the workers. In "Poor' AVhlte" he gives a convincing account cf an Ohio town 1n the period when life was being transformed by machines.

His latest novels are concerned chiefly with mistit marriages, and the effort at readjustment in the relations of men and women which is so typical of our time. It taken him a long time to secure recognition. That is partly be cause of his extreme honesty, and partly because his stories are not machine-made according to a standardized formula. In structure and style he aims at tsreat simplicity. Of plot he has very little.

He is not concerned with what men do but with the meaning to them of what they -do. He hits developed, for presenting men's minds, a method entirely original and yet in line with the most advanced novelistio technique. His style, like his structure and his thought, Is so plain, and yet so fastidiously wrought, that it. has long deceived tlfe critics. It has recently been discovered that this man is not a slm- pletlon but an artist of great signifi cance.

"THE HOI SE OK AMERICA." By Richard 1). Ij Guardia. The ChrUtn. pher Publishing House. A liner full immigrants; now tney scattered, where they went and what happened id inem.

"WHEN SIMMER GOES." By Mary V. S. Toy. Hartford, The S. N.

Ncranlon Co. New England, Including Aunt Lydia and Uncle John. aV be wasted if bought permanently by a western museum. And that attitude' is given further point, because Minna- polls seems so very much farther' away than it actually is. The famoua Titian In the collection of the late Mrs.

Gardner of Boston Is no doubt consid- ered available enough; Boston the "Hub of the Universe," as Boston people used to say. Is only a short Journey of six hours from New York and eight hours from Philadelphia. At least no one has eve raised a row because-a famous Titian went to Mrs. Gardner's collection in Boston. Institute Open Daily.

Yet, an a matter of fact, the Gardner Titian is much more difficult for the avi rage erson to -e than the "Temptation of Thrift" in the illnneapolie Institute. While Gardner was alive, her pictures mere shown to the public for only two weeks or so every year; and it was not always easy to obtain admission cards, when such, cards were essential to access to hei collection. Now her pictures are on public view, uim the payment of an admission fee. Contrast this Willi the Institute', policy, typical of publlo museums In this country, of fiee days and long-hours, so that the objects ir the rolled tan are visible to the public every day cf the week. When an admission charge is demanded, Is small and it does not Interfere with the tlslts of those who jome on the most popular days, Saturday and Bun-day.

Instead of the "hands off" attitude In some eastern collections that have been made into "public" cr aml phere is one of welcome to everybody. And the ict that the institute belongs to the city of Minneajiolls and to all who pay tax- Is evident in the 'attitude of the visitors to the galleries. Art Institute Growing. The new Titian is a symbol of the growing interent of the northwest In old palntinc. Visitors from the northern part of the state, for should have their opiwrtunlty to see the kind of paintlntr which Titian, the greatest of the Venetians, has producedexactly as visitors to i Boston-have an opportunity of seeing there muny fine pictures of aU periods and schools.

Nationally, the purchase of the insti-tute's new picture means that the circle of interest In art is growing larger and spreading out from the Atlantic coast in waves of heightened appreciation. If the nortqtiest answers the in- stitute's purchase by a rush of Interest and appreciation, the proof cf that statement will be evident. The bulletin of the Institute1 for this week state that its new picture stands for an Ideal worth more than the purchase of 106 leas popular pictures, "as evidenc at the standard to which the museum aspires and of the quality which ail ages admire." Surely any part of the coun try that believes In that ideal of aspiration and admiration deserves to poe- sess in its midst as many Titlans as It can get for itself. REJUVENATED AND HAPPY. "THE IMMORTAL GIRL." By Bert Ruck.

I bald, Mead Si Co. It's the- old story cf Faust. The oI4 professor wants to try out his prescrip- Hon for restoring youth and Marigold Owen, old maid of the village, is willin'. In the twinkling of an eye Marigold be- comes a charming, beautiful girl and her troubles begin when she meeUl Billy Iffley, who alms to marry her. At first, held back by the difference In their ages, she avoids him and then.

even though she has fallen in love with him, she tries to disillusionize him by i telling her story of rejuvenation. BOljr is too much in love for. that to ballc him. Well, they live happy ever after. SCHEMERS AND A BRIDE.

"THE GILDED ROSE." By May Chris- tie. G. P. rutnam's Sons. Pretty little Kosilyn Page made a whole lot of trouble for herself and Landls Ridge way because she believed schemers and overheard things intend- ed for her ears and to deceive.

It all happened on her wedding dayi and i Lydla Harbrook, in love with her hus- band, was the villain aided by Rupert Briscoe, who wanted Rosllyn. Of course, things were right in the end, but there was a lot of unnecessary ui- happiness for Rosllyn. At i'r An i WILL LEVINGTOV COMFORT, Whose new book, 'Somewhere South in Sonora," is recommenced as a literary meat ton, W. L. Comfort's Novel Declared Literary Treat 'Sortie where' South in Sonora' Captures Spirit of Great feOUtnWeSt LlKened tO Hergesjieimer Book.

"SOMKWHKRK SOl'TH IN SOX. I Will lifvinglnn Com- fort. Houghton Mifflin Company, I Itoton, Reviewed by Dawn I'owrll. WK RECOMMEND "Somewhere fouth in Sonora," as a literary vacation. The yellow cover is a door to prairies, deserts, mountains and a vast sky.

Mr. Comfort has written a book that captures the spirit of the great southwest a book that exhilarates and ventilates minds grown stuffy from too many sophisticated novels. Klbert Sartweil, a yodng Easterner, Is the central figure of the book. The tale is of his wistful cuent for the long-lost "great open spaces," and of how he finally attains his desires somewhere below the border in Sonora on his dangerous commission to find Bart LeaUIey. Bart was the son of.

Bob Leadley, San Forenso miner, and a Spanish woman. Bob was a wise, tolerant man, but he hated the Spanish streak in his son the gift he had with horses, the way he lounged against the hut door strumming a guitar, the way he instinctively allied himself with the Mexican group in Pan Forenso. When Palto, Bart's Mexican chum, was hanged at Ked Ante by the older Lead-ley's friends, the boy ran away, never to return until old Bob, dying, sends young Sartwell Into Mexico to find him. Once started on this quest, the reader Is caught up In a web of glamorous adventure, bandits, midnight oaptures, shootings and magnificent gestures. Mr.

Comfort has drawn some superb pictures here, and one is not likely to forget the description of Monte Vallejo's the pandits leader's execution. The entrance of the feminine element in the shape of three girls In a Ford is disappointing, for it puts the story out of Its regular gait From a long, easy swinging lope it Is jolted into a mincing, artificial walk. The book is actually one of the rare few that needs no women. While one assumed that Elbert, being an agreeable, handsome young man, would eventually marry, we hoped that he would get through his Mexican adventure with nothing more entangling than an exchange of sighs with a sloe-eyed senorita. Or perhaps Mr.

Comfort had handled Elbert's romance in the moving way he did Elbert's passionate devotion to his thoroughbred horse, one might have forgiven him. But Mary Oert-Ung Is not as fascinating nor as convincing as Mamie, the horse. She ia about as interesting as the fiancee your pet bachelor friend eventually chooses. SHERWOOD ANDERSON, Who lectures Monday evening at the unitarian Beau Brummell Made More Real hyNew Portrait Lewis Melville Depicts Society Character in More Noble and Tragic Guise Than Usual. 'HKAl" HR I'M HIS LIFE AM) LETTERS." By Iwis Mol- ville.

New York. George II. IJoran Co. Reviewed by Walter Yust. IX 1884, FROM Caen, Bryan Brummell enclosed a letter to his old friend.

Lord Alvoney, with this paragraph: "My old friend. King Allen, promised, at least was so represented to me, to send me some habiliments for my body, denuded like a new born infant and what a beau I once was!" It was the same man writing who years before reigned arbiter of fashion in London; who in all arrogance could say, after a prince smubs him: "Alvaney, who's your fat friend?" "What a fall, and how tragic: For the beau, according to the case Mr. Melville makes out for him, was a man of taste, of simplicity, of commendable pride and of very real dignity. Exiled, his days proved, out of all proportion to his deserts, miserable. But he never lost pride.

He never begged of the kifig Indulgence. (He begged his friends, many of whom owed him much.) He died in rags and in filth; his mind shattered, but quick with the glories of his The beau's arrogance hurt only his enemies; afjer the chaff is- sorted from th wheat, the reasonably, authentic stories from the palpably invented, his victims deserved all they got. Insolence, after a fashion, was the beau's stock in trade. "Who," he once asked Lady Hester Stanhope, "would ever have heard of George Brummell if he had been anything but what he is? Tpu know, dear Lady Hester, It is my folly that is the making of me. If I did not Impertinently stare duchesses out of countenance and nod over my siiouider to a prince I should be forgotten in a week; and if the world is so silly as to admire my absurdities, you and I may know better, but what does mat signify?" Mr.

Melville hag creditably arranged material by no means abundant. So far as is possible, it seems, he has recreated the actual Brummell a figure not so glamorous as- the world would- nave mm, certainly hot a dandy in the exquisite or popular sense of the term. The Brummell who emerges from the mass of supplementary Information con-, cerning the styles, the clubs, the habits of his period, from the many letters (most of them written after his exile) is a credible Brummell more impressive, more tragic, nobler, toward the close of his life, for that. Melville fashions absorbing books. And this one is no exception.

Copyright, im. Ktw York Erenin, UU "IJTERARY I.ANES AND OTHER BYWAYS." By Robert Cortes Holli- day. George H. Doran New York, A pot pourri of literary vamps, Del-monioo's delectable bon mots from celebrated wits such as Beau Brummel. Sheridan.

Whistler on.i others; nightgowns, publicity books, reauing, advertising and what-not, writ ten in that engaging style that is alto. getner Robert Cortes Holliday'g. THE BEST COLLEGE SHORT nenry Sclinlttkind, Ph.D., and Horace C. Baker. The Stratford Co.

Ii.ep luted from college magazines. "WINGED DEFENSE." By William Mitchell. G. P. rutnam's Sons, New York city.

THE written criticism of the Intrepid Colonel Mitchell of our military policy in general and our aeronautical policy In particular. And in passing: While there are those who do not agree with the colonel and advocate his incarceration, perhaps, on the charge of seditious utterances, one cannot help but admire him for having the courage of his convictions. The day will undoubtedly come when Colonel Mitchell will be enshrined as a masculine St. Joan, a prophet, who listened not to celestial voices but to the voice of common sense and bitter experience, coupled with an unusual gift of looking ahead. He has dedicated his book, "to those officers and men of the air service who have given up their lives in the development of our national air power," which list growa and multiplies almost dally.

Mitchell attempts to prove in this book, as he Is 'attempting to prove in court, that the United States does need a large air force. His book Is both a warning and a plea to which, perhaps, some day we will too late be phtcs," written by the Jlev. Roy L. Smith, pastor of Simpson Methodls' Episcopal church. Doctor Smith, in his talks, reaches right down to the heart of real life and its problems, setting forth a philosophy that Is unquestionably right.

One can glean much enjoyment, helpful counsel and good, sane advice from them. He bases his subjects on the comments of his fellow-men, his experiences in his busy life, his observations of this and that along the streets and In his contacts with the world. For instance In "Four Wheel Brakes," Doctor Smith shows wherein society Is in need of "brake control." In "Flat Tires," he draws a unique comparison between individual life and flat tires. He says, "the man who knows about his flat tires will never be ambushed by his weaknesses and secret faults." A few of his other Interesting subjects are "Out Of Gas," "Enjoying Poor Health," "Keep To The Right." "Waste Basket Virtues," VGirls Will Be Boys." "THE HARPER PRIZE SHORT STORIES." Harper Brothers, New York City. The 1924-25 prize winning short stories brought out annually by the Harpers magazine.

They represent almost every type of writing, some written by famous authors, others by entirely new writers. In this group the first prize was awarded to Fleta Campbell Springer for "Legend," the second to Conrad Atken for "The Disciple," and Edwina Stanton Babcock for "Wavering Gold." "MODERN CONCEPTION OF LAW." By Frank Johnston, T. H. Flood A Chicago, III. A survey of law complied so that it Is easily understood by the "general reader as well as lawyers and students of law.

The author, who is Justice of the Illinois appellate court, Chicago, shows In an Interesting way that law Is not something imposed on us, embodied merely In a book, but as he says, "the Common Law is life itself and its historical development is part of the history of social development, that it Is a flexible system of rules of conduct contracting and expanding with the changes that are continually taking place In social growth." He shows how primitive customs have developed Into laws and that custom is still a lawmaking force. Among the topics are, "The. Jury System," "Kings, even though possessed of despotic power, did not make laws," "The reasons why there are uncertainties and conflicts in judicial decisions," and "Explanation of the resemblances of customs among different primitive races," Mary C. Nolan Wins Contest for Best Review of 'Power and Glory' This Week's Suggestions "COUSIN JANE." Bu Harru Leon Wilson. (Cosmopolitan.) "STUDIES IN SEVEN ARTS." By Arthur Symona.

(Dutton.) "BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE OPERA." By Mary Fitch Watkins. (Stokes.) For Younger Readers "THE MERRY PIPER." By Harold Gaze. (Little, Brown TYKE-Y, HIS BOOK AND HIS MARK." By Elinor Whitney. (Macmillan.) more than willing to hearken! It is a complete and colorful account of the development of air power, its past and present with a glimpse Into the future. "FOUR-WHEEL BRAKES." Br' Roy L.

Smith, D. I). Chicago, III Fleming II. Revcll collection of heart to heart talks popularly known as "Fireside -Philoso- "La Salle's was a triumph won by sheer strength of character and unconquerable courage; for his enemies were many and powerful, and he had no suavity or social graces with which to divert the tide of hypocrisy and intrigue which swirled about him. The few who pierced his armor of reticence and shyness loved and trusted him; but to the rest of his fellow men he was a dour, cold fanatic.

lie sacrificed wealth and home and love to his cause; but on every hand he was beset by obstacles and perils and attempts upon his life. Through all this hatred and adversity we see him move, lonely and wistful, yet grimly resolute; whispered and plotted against on the Canadian frontier, and In the brilliant court of Louis XIV. menaced by savages in the wide, green spaces of the forest; facing starvation and the discontent of the colonists he had brought to the new land; persecuted on every hand; but steadfast and true to the last the noblest pioneer that history has ever known. "Altogether. The Power and Glory' is a fitting tribute to such a hero, well named, veil written and well worth MISS MAHY C.

NOLAN, 3 East Thirty-ninth street, Mlnneapo-Us, waa adjudged winner of the prize offered for the best review of Sir Gilbert Parker's latest book, "The Power and Glory." The prize was offered by the book section of Powers store. The many manuscripts which were submitted have just passed the scrutiny, of the Judges. Many good reviews had to be eliminated because of the failure of the reviewers to keep within the 300 word limit. Miss Nolan's review follows: "Shakespeare doubtless was right about the rose, and Sli; Gilbert Parker's new novel, 'The Power and under any other name might be read as stirringly: but surely no other title could so aptly sum up the thrilling romance of La Salle's struggle for the Louisiana territory. Not so much the regulation historical novel, this, as a verbal taiestry palntakingly wrought by a hand that loved it's task.

It is a tale of power the superhuman power which enabled La Salle to struggle through difficulties that would have en gulfed a weaker man, to glorious achievement; and none of Sir Gilbert's many books have so worthy a hero. After he picks her, you don see much of Elbert or the bachelor friend any more, There la an underlying rhythm in the book comparable to the invisible beat of the malaguena accompanying Ilerge-shelmer's "The Bright This Invoked obllgato gives magic to the book. In the Hergeshelmer novel the figures were woven into and out of "The Spanish Rhapsody." In "Somewhere South in Sonora" It is the strains of "La Paloma" that are thrummed on gultare offstage, conjuring' hot blue skies, sprawling Mexican towns, and bandits galloping thtougb bullet fire, defying sun and stars. Corxrlsat. mi, Vw York Zrwlsg ton.

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Pages Available:
3,156,115
Years Available:
1867-2024