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I irI'M 111 IP Gwenivere Gwemv UKI I -IC; 1 ere ktnentat Tone and Action Mark r. O'Rahertis Stories 1 I 11P.P.O IP a II I 4ms di 1 Emt I I 1.4 I dni os 41.4 I 1 tot 4o ot AVALLIIr AVIt I -LUIICILLI BJcul Ica I TA A. "Mk I I I In III AM 0,111 I OM ArNr.AI, ill Ili I I II IL 1 Et JI I pzi LL VII I .1 -1 I I I I It I I I I I I I Loma er I I 'lb o- Netv------ Discussions 0 the Physical We Can Tune Not the 1, Player; Russell' Is 4. Tough Minded; i I VI i WO" -S I L. I-al I IAJ Ut LI le 1111S1 Ca th( the I ''IS 1 4 I Two Critics The Latest Booksi.

1 A Selected List Gon'oral Me Latest 1 I A 1, I Acquies cent Rather Than Austere- or Morose; Settings in Ireland. MoodsAre Acquies-- IPS 0 01.10 1 Mystery Fiction ti 4 THE BACCARAT CLUB. by Jessie Louts Rickard. Liveright. Gets high score under any exciting effect without a single murder.

without detectives. with out polies The Baccarat Club, an accomplisheat gang that plays for high stakes. fastens its. tentacles on beautiful innocent Lady Solwyn. Abducted.

and ifhprison, ed In the lush surroundings of Villa Caprice of Dillard, she aPpeare unknowingly in the role of courtesan who has forsaken her Eng. lish husband. The Baccarat Club, Pursuing its complicated operation under the directions the distill-, gutshd and sinister Sir Mick Lawson. meets its match in Mayer- tOn who plays a lone hand to win. Lady Selwyn is rescued.

but first MaVerton, in the role of an English clerk, has to make love to the lightful Franch maid. Ninette. 11. exciting effect without et single arro sclutrdpeorlic4wityhohuet molikhod- that olavg for MIDSUMMER NIGHT. By John Ma 'afield.

Now York. $ti Ity 't H. DAVIDSON For ages and ages, threullt song and' story, 'the mighty, sword of Lancetot has fallen upon many a bravo and knight and lat. him in the dust- For ages the star. Ukt boanty of Queen Uwerilvers.

)evran's Mumbler. has been an un4 dying theme for dying and UndlinS poetry: Itaimuth as Edwin Arlingtan, Itobintion covered 'the Tristram cape so thoroughly. Mr. Mantled bly felt that it would be unnet4 assary to mention that gallant lover in "Midsummer Night." a series of poems based upon some of the Ices familiar lesonds of tit Arthu. riltn M.

ilasefield does mention Lancelot. Owenivert. King Arthur 111111111, PC II Ira -a-1. vo Z. I --el I zrit i .4 rit-' 1 Air1 4( 1..) THE NATURE OF THE 1 PHY i4ICAL WORLD.

By A. S. Eu dIngton. New York, Macmillan Co. $3.71.

OUR KNoWLEpaE ot-1 ExTERNAL By Bert rand Russell. New York. W. Norton itc, Co. 1 Ily LYLE H.

(Vandrbilt Univrsity.) PHI' 3. Eu Ilan i 111.. Brt W. -4 THE MOUNTAIN TAVERN. By lAstm O'Flaherty.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. By WARREN TAYLOR Mr. O'Flitherty's sketches and qtories are distinguished by an astringent selection-of events, a richness of perception and comprehension. and a marked skill in writing elear, cohesive prose.

His characters are birds, beasts, peasants and fishermen. His settings are of the coastal and rural sections of JOHN A. pOrtrait In oils. By John K. Winkler.

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By Charles Edward Russell. Lippincott al. A lecture. el AMPIONSHIP BRIDGE IIANDS. By Wilbur C.

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Dodd Mead. The story of a gray-White stallion. DON CRISTOBAL. By Ernst Goodwid. Dodd.

Mead. A swashbuckling story of the Spanish Main. THE RED PRIOR'S LEGACY. By H. Bill.

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By Stuart Martin. Harpers. $2. A. mystery story.

1 1 DARK DUEL. By Marguerite Steen. Stokes. Tragi-cotnedy of artiXts life. 'MR.

HENRY SEIDEL CANBY-and Mr. T. S. Eliot Issue their criticisms from opposite sides of the Atlantic. That Is not the only reason some knowing ones would sayfor not speaking these two critics in the same breath.

the intimation being that Mr. knot. as Priest of the Sacred Wood, should not be sullied by the briefest association with -such a journalist-critic as Mr. Canty. To tell the truth, I am a HMS -abashed myself at intruding into the Presence without having first washed my feet of vulgar Tennessee dust and tendered I burnt offering -perhaps consisting of Mr.

Canby himself. Rashly I would insist that the separate residence of Canby and Mr. Eliot is the point at which discussion of their most recent critical productions begins. I refer to by Mr. Canby (Harcourt, firace lk 13) and efor Lancelot Andrentes," by Mr.

Eliot (Doubleday 12). Mr' Canby is onlabout the sermons Of Hooker. Tay- or us. Like all good Attie. liar.

Dunne and even less about the cans. be is more- concerned inside history of the Church of "with the days work than with England. The 's st I could do was eternal principles. and in that fact to see that Ellors pros quota- tions from Andrewes have the met- bis great usefulness- Hip writes easily and nith generous insight it that ha claims- I was even a'aciut the books and the tendencies off wth John Bramhall. and al- that the American audience is most al had off with lfachlassili trystd in; an editorial estimate and Bradley.

when Hardy or Amy Lionell passes Furthermore. I am much intimi- dated by Eliot-s -frtipressiv avray; Cabeirs romantic triunes about sea; Mr. Lewis ez habit of referring to authors quite -ceiient rtpurting; the -gyring a JIG das with the presumption Strabane of Joyce and Stein; by Ihaeahryt. iStr not knows them fact I do standardizing and rosmupolitaniz- "ow them at all or never heard of int tendencies; occasionallY the 301t1. It is terrifying to be referred AmericansThoreau.

Emer- I ta Atari Prat. Gentillet and Dr. son. Henry James when they with a pas in snake current a pPearentes. HIS wai'e of the hand.

Sly sin temper Is is catholic and perceptive. fusion and lennraneo. tint Mr. Whoa a mood new 'a Flier 131errites liarning. are blame-worthy.

is Quick enough to edJection is to be made. it must TIMOtTill and assist his mergencol be te- Nit. Elio pontifical air. A with sympathetic expository Ssuteur is part of his that clear the way for 'ter: one auspects it to be the lic agpreciatium uyscholcrical defense of a lonely hell. At any rate anti feels IcilY there.

is no critic revelled. nut in one's proper un- in the country uho ean beat routh it is the same as being clewed through a monocle. Mr. 12-toby at the hard Liss jr- In the country who can beat Mr. Canby at the hard Usti WILL DURANT Whose newest went is "the Mansions of Philosophy." THE INCONSISTENT VILLAINS.

3v N. A. Dutton. 12. H' Winner of a $2500 first prize in the Dutton-Methuen contest.

this tYPical English mystery story will give sound satisfaction to the average reader. The ingredients of the Plot are not unusual. but they are competently mixed. To a. cottage by the sea come a famous English detectiv and his very Dr.

Watsonish Theft vacation is interrupted by a series of weird happenings: a cry in the fog: a bloody scrawled on the window-pane; discovery on land and in water. Simultaneously. in other Parts of England.queer things happen. A young lady disappears; does a prominent official. Tha detective.Arbutlinot.

works discreetly, and the story comes' to a Rider Haggard finish with a combat in a deep cave between a band of young defenders of King anl Country and a gang of fiendish conspirators. i I Something Unknown- is and a score of others. HO does mote than mention them. li we know not whatthat is who titles them with the sniritnet our theory amounts to. We ca axe.

Me revives the old valor and the tune but not the player leaves no heave. complicated net- These two sentences from Profes work to his theme. sor Eddingtotes remarkable volun Take. for 'simple. The Fight represent hiss conclusion about ti type of knosvledge of the won On the The ring of Nteet which we ma expect to gain by will sound again as Lancelot.

at for the honor of his queen and bay in a narrow passage. and fight- the application of physical science methods. This conclusion I comes 'nit lover. cuts down KONTeVallee of after a penetrating surrey of the Gower. Agravaine the Gifted.

Covet seneral concepts which have revo- the Red. and eight or nine more: utionized the physical sciences during the past two decades. 'And Mador drooped and top- Eddington knew. of course. that he pied over.

would reach this point of view. That latid-tneuthed ward of hut his problem was to arrive WTI. there after a detailed considera- To feed no more on (he green tion Of the methods of modern clover physics. by way of showing that The white-faced kse. these methods could never discover for us the ultimate natuse of hear no more sand-raddled fly.

He might have stopped there Severn and admitted that probably no Pass out to Pe in son other methods are positively going a g. tut fill a rass-plot at St. Ks- In make this discovery. but if he vern ir had done that his function as Ca- ford Lecturer on Natural Religion would have remained unfulfilled. do lni.

wha Ca layer 'rote ohm it tl The action and the tone of the stories, as well as the people and the scenes, are elemental. There is rievei an Intricacy or plot. There are never questioning and hazardous character studies. There ia no effort to build Alp a adorned form. Often commonplace happenings which most writer would deliberately avoid in their search for novelty and surprise are made to serve those ends.

A'cow's first calving, the receipt Of a letter from America, or the flight of a young bull from a little white dot are given an unexpected though fitting significance. Betrayed by Precision. The moods of these stories, imrelied by deaths at sea, infanticide latent Das lions. hate, impotence and frenzy in time of war, are neither austere nor morose. They tend towards becoming in most cases stoically acquiescent, but one may not say that they do or that I) Not six feet Ion." It would hardly be possible for anYene who loves poetry to read Midsummer Night" and not want to read It agttn.

Thrilling ea The Fight On the Wall" is. one will be won over tzt the fine rhythm and imager of "Arthur and His Ring." "The Sailing of Hell Race" and "The Death of Lancelot." The latter poem is perhaps the most beautiful in the book. The emotion is calm hut terribly real. Gwenivere she who heard Lancelot cry his cry Not six feet lonz." DEATH ON SCURVY STREET. By Ben Ames Williams.

Dutton. $2. 1 Starts very promisingly. having a setting and a set of characters cleasantly reminiscent of such recent talkie successes as "The Trial of Mary Dugan," etc. The vtry prominent owner of a famoni newspaper is discovered dead In a chap house on a 'loan strcet.

A discharged tepori er ferrets his way among the details of the mystery, and of course wins bin Job hack qn't got 31 IL w.le the bargain. The trot with the book is that Mr. Williams "cry poLent style all goes ftr nothing. the ident'ty of murderer is painfully obvious be-the book is two-thirds over. new edition of his Lowell lectures, originally delivered in 1914.

Mr. Russell is interested in the knowledge of the external world from the viewpoint of the logical-analytic method. It is interesting to note that he makes no attempt to solve the problem of the nature of ultimate reality, primarily because he does not believe that the status of existing knowledge. either scientific or philosophic. justifies an attempt at such a solution.

A considerable portion of his book is devoted to a criticism of the classical philosophers (and their tradition) who believe "that by mere thinking the most surprising and important truths concerning the whole of reality could be established with a certainty which no contrary observations could shake." Mr. Russell is himself very much interested in thinking. tor he believes logic to be the es, genre of philoso5hy.1 advocates however. that philosophers ture themselves to a critical evaluation of the forms of thinking. or what self-consistency is before they hasten to more complex prob, lems with tools inadequate to the task.

Mr. Russell is an example of what William James called the Dr. Eddington belongs to the opposite category. to the "tender-minded." Mr. Russell is willing and glad to know anything in philosophy.

He is Content to leave "the final. the over4lapping things" to the future rather than to complete a system fOr the sake of symmetry. smoothing over the recalcitrant items byl wishing rather than by thinking. .1 Dr. Eddington believes that the inference from his own personality to personality as the nature of ultimate reality Is justified: he prefers to elate system "0 temperament.

0 mores." 1 1 presenting a book appreciadvei). asid front this function. which Is no mean Onf. he Is often shrew and jaitt in his obeervation of tendenries -A hundred critics shout-Down with Babbitt are not worth cne poem. one novel one play.

which represent CI till? Babbitt is not but may very pos.1,i'ibiv to be- Criticism. whirh written for the cutqvated. st-tt, today with 1E4 pa-4 s. -There is on one theme with blood and life in It for our centuryReduced to lowest it is the effect of machinery on man-- Lake Mr. Mencken.

he saes he -crass tioliy of many American phe-' but he does not share Mr. Slencken jocose pessimism. It Mr Canby has a central doctrine. It is a quiet faith In the ability of American cenius to find the right takirict this all in g)od 1 Part and. like an idiotic American.

relusitir to he, voithoed. cne sees the drift of Mr. criticlom and grants it wriat diotinctioneven its present if it can cross the Atlaati and get farther inland than New Tork City. Mr. Eliot tiqt throe more volumes.

which if vo- are paltent will in time explain his position fully. Th moot interestinz utint to me in hia recent rritical eitctrin is that Mr. Eliot. a "classiciot- in loosely called an "Intelicclual. a -radical.

and what-nothas flatten a religious turn who will re-road "Tile Waate h4r.4 in connection with tho now tAiume will see that Mr. Mint Leen healin.t toward religion all time. The poem was not rnly on expression al modern tut reproach of its tr That led like trumpets In at. tackinz To victory." mourns nig death In a chapel by the sea: Manner Is Impressive The really Impressive thing about this book is not the general conclusions reachedfor they are familiar In philosophical circles but rather his manner of reaching them. By a careful examination and evaluation of physical methods and results, rather than a "priori" reasoning he shows how the "intertninacy" of the behavior of physical phenomena leads to the expression quoted above.

Eildington begins with Newtonian physics. which dealt with measurable properties of "matter." Matter played an important role in classical physics. just as it still does in every-day life. Within the short span of ten years. however.

this hard-won stuff and the measuremnts of it were given a death blow. Einstein. with his principle of relativity. showed that the assumed absoluteness of physical measurement was illusory even though it remained perfectly consistent for practical purposes. This measurement Is entirely relative to the terrestrial position of the scientist.

to his "frame of space." Then. in 1911. Rutherford discovered the nucleus of the atom. and so dissolved "all that we regard as most solid Into tiny spaces floating In void." The human body. for example.

would barely br visible with a magnifying glass if all of the unfilled space were eliminated. all the electrons and protons being collected into one mass. "Microscopic" Research. Cuts the Cackle I. ACTION.

By C. E. Montague Doubleday Doran. $2.50. "I had last seen him as A flag In air.

A battle banner bidding mon out-dare. Now he lay dead; old. old. with silver hair. hAd not over thought of him as old This hurt mo most: his sword-hand rooId not hoM Even tho erns upon the sacking-fold.

"Ifs once so ringing glad among the spears Lies where th rabbit browses with droppt Sara And shv-foot stags come when th moon appears. I 1 Dreadful Reahty i they properly should. One usually feels that Mr. O'Flaherty's artistic precision has, in this respect, be- trayed him. He hold wick, lamp.

BLACK MAGIC. By Paullktorand. oil and tinder, but the flame burns The Viking Press, New York, uncertainly. It flutters. At times 1929, $3.00.

it does not shine at all. The I writer's conscious restraint jeads, in James Weldon Johnson bas said. addition to a frequent articiciality In that the arts of the negro of setting, to a too often brusque objectivity. to overstatements that are today influencing European are flatly stark. This Is especially and North American music, art, evident in the least successful of and drama, to the extent that the the twenty pieces.

They are the concepts of the black man form the title story "Mackerel For Sale," "Prey," and "The Strange foundation for all new departures, in line. color, textile designs, sculpA an unconvincing study of a priest's ture. music, and literature. This attitude towards the absurd sheep noloeldn Painted Woman," which stories in this book PbIaetulailsa.mr alarm. ingly corroborageletteagdm8ibeyt: rilawnede'llstrigildaeack are The Celli-se, a French book, represent.

presents the enmity of two brothers ins( the view-point of Europe rath- after the younger marries, and than Otir own. The book deals "The Child of in which -a with negroes in. such various en- late son, turned atheist and artist, vironments ea Baton Rouge. despite monastic training, is; after Charleston, Haiti, and Liberia. It committing an alleged is concerned with, the race, it times driven from his parents by the in Its most untrammeled and flat- irate villagers and a priest.

These ural state, and again, in its con- pieces are noticeably cOmpressed, ilia with white man. Th0 perhaps -to the detriment of their author seems to haw spent a great 'effectiveness, and are not so pun-deal of time, and to have traveled gent as they have been, nor as the widely in his observation of the shorter pieces are, negro people. "The Oar," one of them and un Common Germ of Thought commonly effective. pictures a. There are eight stories of entire- storm at sea and the conventional), different subjects and plots.

All lized wailing woman of Irish literaof them have a common germ 01! ture on the shore. In "The DitCh." thought. The negro is shown to be a laborer kills his illegitimate child edreaftelat defeated at every savagery rann db by bY his childishness. and by the still- become 'friends, are reembittered oonquering white. But black magic, and taken: an old man comes to stupidity.

i'su p- and serves a penal sentence. In others. enemies meet in a shell hole, the negro vitality, forces it self up- his death by grappling with a stone ward into the whitv-racial stream. which he, in his youth: had lifted Read "Congo." 1 the story of a and kissed three times; a woman Parisian dancer, negress; observe withers after death of her husband. becomes insane, is known in the village as the Evil One, and goes daily to strike the rock and mutthe ter over the stream where she had been first kissed.

The stories of the three husbands Red Barbara, of the attempt of a puny old man who had vistops of swild lawless men in rolling plains, herding women, to seduce his maid. and of a refined and in- tellectual woman's desire for her husband, a brute of an athlete, are more. arresting and memorable. In them and in the three exceptionally splendid and bird Blackbird's Mate." "The Fairy- Goose." and The Black Rabbit." ikfr. O'Flahertys' flame burns mcire securely and brightly.

The lasting effects of short stories and sketches perhaps, be-le. cause of their scope, are comparatory tively in minor keys. Among them. however, it is evident that examples as worth -while as the O'Plaherty's other collection." "Spring Sowing," published 1929. do not appear ton frequently.

negro people. Common Germ of Thought There are eight stories of entirely different subjects and plots. AU of them have a common germ en! thought. The negro is shown to be defeated at every trurn by his'sup-. Orstition, savagery, and stupidity.

bY his childishness. and by the still conquering white. But black magic, the negro vitality, forces it self upward into the whitvracial stream. Read the story of a Parisian dancer, negress; observe path His sensitiveness to the better side of modern American i Pin now' r--nt finds i point in Mr. Irving Pahhterature te a quality that we re- bitis proposal of humanism as the joke to discover In the editor ofi chief elesatnt of salvation.

Human-The Saturlav Review. our only liem with religion is. to his notion. devoted wholly to. critt-.

titer'''. atad humanism itself It makes up. In great part-I not. he a.teligieta. It te doubtful for a certain lack of savor in his vi I.eth I- civilization can endure and we should Wail witheitt -elision, and reltflon with'- that Mr.

Canby has not. like somI out a chutt.b. of hi9s aca-lemic contemporaries i HIS particular essay sheds a Irving Flabhitt and Paul Elmer I for. for inetanee retired dig- 1kward light. not only on treetty behind the cents In soma the other essays in the book.

-lf hie ees-vv4 hO has taken pains to hu" also on Mr. Eilot's studies ilt define the paths of older American the aeventeenth century metaphysihterary that a contem- l'al Poets In fact. it illuminates a great rarv writer profitably follow deal that seemed obscure in up He 14 not overly Mr. Ell-1's writing heretofore. It trv eTe.

intinrtal.ri from I by the tendency of some of out arid It to adopt foreign modem: shows tvitat he can do when he "Our young writers tiro going to Forsakes the safe ground of the i Paris and London an never before. Past tend enters the debatable Tire'- wtil find nothing being writ- 1r-6unt ct contemporary thinking i ten there more vital than what we It Is a pleasure to see the thorough are roducin; here. They wilt nes4 vial which Mr. Eliot zpose find less Inventiveness In tech- the shatiownesa of Arthur Symons' rtnue a narrower range of literarylanpinvelt Eaudelaire. and one is' 4oulajects.

and in style with a new desire to these results of a long antirthdy the lizabethans when 1 omo7er lt ieu culture. which It is ot. hats read his essay on Nlificilemoet darzerous for an outsider to ton: hut the PFSSV on Irvin Bah- bitt IS. for contemporary purposes. 4 worth tioarns wit the other sort.

I I WU III. lor CtintrMpOrilli-v puz-tkurs, worth l000ns 41f the other sort. a 1 Suggestions THE THE MODERN GIRL. By Various Authors. Houghton Mifflin Boston.

$3.00. This is a symposium of wise suggestions from eight women educators of girls. a study of what girls should study and how they may be gently led thereunto, with an introduction by the President. of Smith college. Witham Allan Neilson.

All the writers are -degreed." They are. Mahe lie Babcock Blake of Smith. Caroline of Rosemary Hall, May Robbins Hillard of Westover. Jessie Hewitt of Ethel Walker, Dorothy Waldo of Dana Hall. Lucy Madeira Wing of Miss Madeira's, Mary Agnes Elcock of Greenwood.

and i Frances Lee of Lee. By RICHARD S. WEST, JR. The late C. E.

Montague was IL man of parts. His work is leisure' 1v, and one is apt to categorize it tno quickly Ills title story is the present collection is "Action." the World war la the background. and it first sight it 'would seem queer to have bell and action depicted in a mood of such peacetime tranquillity. The reader of Mr. Montague's stories therefore needs to be told beforehand what to expect.

In the first place it might help tn announce that Montague is an Englishman. He is not a journalist of the Wells-Bennett variety. or a stylist- like Joyce. nor a satirist like Shaw. nor a reporter like Galsworthy.

He is a queer combination of essayist and poet. His style is that of numerous learned essayists who write culture articles for the "Atlantic Monthly." Elia situations are similar to those found in the poems of Hardy. ironic perhaps but not overburdened with a philosophy. A critique by Mr. Montague in the April "Atlantic" On contemporary art might well have been used as an Introduction to the present volume of stories.

Prefers Short Story. if Mr. Montague had not been an essayist he might have written these stories as novels. but his preference ran toward the briefer scope of the short story. A quotation from his Atlantic Monthly article helps to define the ideal he sets for himself: "The art of prose fiction has not yet felt the full weight of the reforming hand.

But its case is not seriously different from those of the other offenders. If Hugo or Mr. Hardy. brooding over the life and death of some Gauguin of Jude. has been mentorialy moved.

hadn't he better impart his grand emotion itself, and at once, and not spend some tens or hundreds of thousands of words in working out kind of effigy of this worthy's career? "Cut the cackle and come to the 'oases, give us the laughter or teats without all these heavily wrought simula ern of bulky portions of life" Mr. Montague "cuts the eacklaw" and gets briefly down to business. When he makes "an old bit of racity flash like a jewel," he teke a theme large enough for a novel and compresses it into the small space of an essay or short story. And his style, heavy with allusion, I ainteresting enough, but likeiv at times to defeat his story. How- ever, if one realizes beforehanA 1 what the author is attempting to -do, Mr.

Montague's work is apt to be found very interesting 1 I IR natural that the criticim of ltr. Canby should be tndict- CAN but lament that the I ed for Its journalistic quality. i else of CanbY and Eliot It has tho extemporaneousness. the shows one of the common lack of that is inherent I MN nt wir timethe impoosibility lts erlitin To bo an editor and a let all-round-ness anywhere. Neithor hairallo of a Book Club at the iMr.

nor Mr. Eliot carry out i Arrold neat Idea of tho critic as a 'same time obviously injures Mr. work as a critic; his lean- I "rt of Rain the IIRMIgt preparing 1 rot-It tS to receive the Word. Edi- tership xpresa itself in doed4, often in in wordo. perhaps Canb! ill PIMPIY In' thin AttS7' to develop Critic Coolly into how her abandon exceeds anything that Paris has to offer in brilliance, and sexuality.

"Congo is the colour of lodineall her- teeth, the arcade of her gums as flash from her mouth, and her unwinking ves thrust forward from their orbits." Congo gives a party:" in this lofty cabin of the Dukes of Re. she is heaping up all classes. grinding all races' in the mill, crumpling up the sexes. Whatever Congo does is infectious like a disease." 1 Defeat Is Victory Read the story of the white negro family who attempt to invade the society of real whites. Their defeat is victory for they, have, in, a meteoric flare of animal splendor.

out-distanced the pale and tepid race with which they mingle. Road "The Black Tear," the story negro's momentary con-guest of Haiti. Read "Syracuse" in which an educated negro reverts to the savage at the sight of the ancient symbols of his racial life. It is all fiction, but fiction of dreadful reality. The full page illustrations are bizarre in the extreme.

and as disquieting as the text. They are tho work' of the negro artist Aaron Douglas. They remind One of the terrible stunted flatness of Egyptian art, and the concentric sterility of the Byzantine. They are conventional rather than pictorial. and they possess thee soul-shattering angularity of modern expression.

One looks through incredible lines. circles. -and angles tote Oita of horter. The style-ot the text is brief and vivid, but it betrlys an inner feebleness. One comprehends that Paul Morand no.

core of -strength; he has sensations, but not sympathy. "Black Magic" is a painful book. It uncovers dark and poisonous areas, of the human mind. and excites terror Without D. W.

how her abandon exceeds anything that Paris has to offer in brilliance, and sexuality. "Congo is colour of Iodineall her- teeth, the arcade of her gums as flash from her mouth, and her un- winking eyes thrust forward from their orbital." Congo gives a party:" in this lofty cabin of the Dukes 3f Re. she is heaping up all classes. crinding all races in the mill, up the state. Whatever 2ongo does infectious like a lisease." Defeat Is Victory Read the story of the Blooms.

a white negro family who attempt invade the society of real whites. rheir defeat is victory for they, Lave, In a meteoric flare of animal out-distanced the pale tepid race with which they Road "The Black Tear," ti ---I- negro's momentary con- of Haiti. Read "Syracuse" in rhich an educated negro reverts to he savage at the sight of the an- lent symbols of his racial life. It is II fiction, but fiction. of dreadful not sin ars fartunately.

He has h.s in -effective a Heels, -inter- real inapirational value, but It does blind One feels that is ha i 'et In contemporary literature place it with other literature ea a been exceseively enthusiaatic about datan't go along with i aeries of documents with human real inspirational value, but it does place it with other literature as a series of documents with human 7 Th breaking up of the solid A Human Book I atom gate impetus to brilliant "microscopic" research in the field UNRAVELLING THE BOOK OF of physics the most striking out-BOOKS. By Ernest R. Trattner. come of which was the quantum New Vork: Charles Scribnees theory. A single atom emits light Sone S2.75.

discontinuously and this energy can be measured. Likewise the A reviewer who has written for natural period of vibration can be tills page has made the statement determined. This provides the in another journal that the fundaphysicist with the data necessary mentallet in religion under 30 years for measuring a "unit of action." of age le becoming a rare bird in eince the association of a given the Snuth. If all the others would quantity of energy with a given read this honk. and learn far them-period of time xonstitutes the con-twelves how the Bible was put todition for the discovery of gather.

under what eircumstancee tel various honks were written. and such a. unit. It was found by experiment that the product of what was really in the minds of these two factors energy and time. the various authors when they was invariably the same.

regard- wrote the different books; they I lees of the type of atom furnishould be competed to change theiri ing the light. If we have any views of the Bible. I instinct that can recognize a fun-After all. the Bible Is a very hudements! law of nature. that inman'book.

and It was put together stinet tells us that the interaction by very faulty human methods. of radiation and matter in single This Mos not detract et all from its quanta is something lying at the root of world-structure and not a ramiel detail in the meehanism of the atom." The important philosophical con-that otequenees of the experimental work or the atom may be summed up in what Eddington calls the "printo -iple of indeterminacy." The post-mime. lion and velocity of a particle can- not be measured exactly, i As veple's locity is measured more-ond more accurately. the determination of ooeition becomes less and less exaet, 1 and vice versa. Rouehly.

this it-rank plies that it is impossible by mors and more refined methods to nature. There is no such absolute determinacy in nature as our commonsense thinking assumes. fact that in every-day life w.1 an pretty accurately the behavior of objects is due to the fact that we are dentin with the average effect of vast numbers of Individual particles and processes: laws are statistical rather than transeendental. Thus it would seem that experimental physics dealt a pretty heavy blow to norm. 'Cr "deteren'nistic" theories of na- tore.

At lesst it should teach us hat we must not generalize too; we must not generalize too am good but not first-iat au- 1 hro-oughnega and finieh--and Mr 'imitations. There is nothing here that every well-educated minister has not been taught. but there tire many litho have not yet been able to put tt over to their people be limitations. There is nothing here every well-educated minister has not been taught. but there are many who have not yet been able put it over to their people be- 'thors.

Sot them detects are incs- 1 ceobv suffers lee than many I on to the poettion Where. An the other hand. thori that Mt fills: an And a cha r- ouzlinees and finish seem to have 1 man ittf a nook Club is bound to an affinity for London Arent thors. Bt these defects are incs- calmly. suffers lee than many on suPPesea.

to the position Where. An the other hand. thr- I that Mt fills: an And a cha r- oughnees and finish seem to have man ittf a nook Club is bound to an affinity for London Jo.t.:. Areal, 1 News and Cornmen.1 I make re mist than an a e.ever- I engenders trepidation. and It detached critic.

At leaNt be is: the world slides buoyantly heil- were timid ax to what siith us and of us. Its is in the whiie M-. EWA is germinat- I rralit he the effects upon the Deo- giving and taking bloss nZ 1 i fr.olpr:eet idols for a posterity religiou faith. We shall never Its is mia ng with eients. nos sulk- i nt'Arly gory to the devil.

We may I I nice i i plea he free from the petty divisions in ng in a corner. wish that Mr. Canby would be more the- ehureh Po harm as the facts of this book are withheld from the leilbsrat esen more heartily we ND Mr- T. S. Mot Is far.

Ur caul-I si ish tohit Mr. Ellotcould be rank and file of the church. Unity i 114 nnt only In space but in 0--eevame se. I can think of no In medern religious life will come sel.tti,i. thanto invite him only as we met away from an inter- I.

II-- 1. 4e- Is "Kr. 11" r--e- vointese. I can think of no in modern religious life will come away. not only In i- th pace but in bettlati 1.

anto in vite him only as we get away from an Inter- Anglicized they were timid as to what might he the effects upon the Deo- religious faith. We shall never he free from the petty divisions in the chureh an bang as the facts of thie book are withheld from the and file at the church. Unity in medern religious life will come only as we get amity from an inter- Each of the eight treats a special subject in separlite chaptereover her facsimile signature. In- Influences," Miss-Rlake places a degree of responsibiliry upon the parent. and not in en old-fashioned sense.

She says In so many words that girls need the help of thoughtful parents, and thiows out many hints for the parents: among others. this: 'I am much less concerned about the fear that students will beeome too radical, than I am about the danger of parents becoming prematurely stabilized." Academic Program Suggested. Caroline Rutz-Rees writes on "Academic Influence," and ceveals a strong leaning toward the classics. She suggests an Academic prOgram which be compressed here. She justifies her partiality for Latin.

and in spite of that partiality displays a well balanced course of academic study for the poor little girl Nvho aspires to be a sweet girl graduate. "The Spirit of School and Religion" by Mary Robbins Hillard is in two parts. The' first part. which deals with the school as a unit and, a tradition, is definite and practical. The second part, whichi deals with religion is vague and presents difficulties, due perhaps to tne connotation of the Word "religion." Spiritual consciousnese e.Taild seem a more accurate term.

Jesse Hewitt gives consideration to athletics in the chapter on that subject, while Dorothy Waldo discusses scholitstici aptitude in a chapter headed "College or Not." She holds taat for the large majority of girls, college training offers the best system for attaining the true alms of education. but she does not claim that majority means all. I ALLEN TATE'S recent book ot verse. "Mr. Pope and Other Poems." was recently awarded the Caroline Sinkler Prize of 8100, by the poetry Society of Carolina.

The prize is for the best book of poetry of the year. written by a Southern author. Mr. Tate's-pugrenheim Fellowship in cresttive writing watt recently renewed for a period of six months. IN THE Charles Scribner's Sons will publish what they announce as the "first full and impartial record of the life of tin amazinsr Eddy.

the Siography of a Virginal Mind." Edwin Franden Dakin. THE FittST BOOK of the new publishing f1rm.1 Jonathan Cape nd Harrison Smith. to be issued In JU1Y. will be "The Wave," by Evelyn Scott, formerly of Clarksville. Tenn.

It is announced as a largo-scale novel of the Civil war. "Her effort has been," say the publishers, "to grasp the Civil war as a whole, to show what its ities were to everyone who felt its shock." I Russians I time. He is an to crone vver sod enjoy himself for pretation of the Bible which the lAnierican. who now us- a L. book itslif does not justify.

The sor.bes himself as 'classicist in Bible is more of a book than the literatUre. royalist in politics. and literalist claims it to be. Its spirit gives life: its letter is Tner is nothing new in this book. but in an age of controversy to repeat the old.

and to repeat it in such a. way as to clear away the false foundations upon which reit- tion has been built. is to perform a genuine servico for religion. N.V. 1 Welcome I THE DEATH OF THE GODS.

By I Dmitri Merejokowtiti. The Mod-rend ern LibrarY. 96 cent. This new edition of a work that has bten unavailable is wel.1-11ther coma. indeed.

Sierejkovrskie The Romance of Leonardo d4 Vincr is i tradually becoMilig fairly well I We should be reniinded i that that book is only one of a tri- I clottv Of historical novels that have pretation of the Bible which the book itellf does not justify. The Bible is more of a book than literalist claims it to be. Its spirit. gives life: its letter is Toor is nothing new in this book. but in an age of controversy to repeat.the old.

and to repeat it In such a way as to clear away the (also foundations upon which reit- glen has been built. is to perform a genuine service for religion. N. V. I Welcome I II Welcome I DEATH OF THE GODS.

By Dmitri Merejoitowesi. The Mod- ern Library. 96 cents. now edition of a work that has bten siimost unavailable is wel- come. indeed.

Sierejkovrskra The Romance of Leonardo d4 Vincr is tradually becoMing fairly well We ehould be reminded that th.tt book is only one of ii tri- clog of historical novels that have I anglo-ratholic in religion-- Somo-11 I bow one gathers that he is not writing for 131 hungry sateen. swot- Passes Dthe ial 1 tian wtth the svind of temporal doe- I Vith the July issue. publication trIneg. bNit for posterity. With trou- of -The Dial" will be discontinued heart.

one su-wises that Mr. This rionthl he lately tinder 041 would rer.ard the poosibiiiii, torsibla of Marianne Moore. held tiof writing cn Sineleir Lewis with for some yearn an imilortant place "exactly the same revulsion that he among American periodicals. Its "would contemplate a visit to ho policy was independent and often emother country-. The Sacred Mood radteal in the extreme.

but it play- literary traditton that )Jr. Eliot ed a considerable part in Introduceexplores critically la a ruefully Ins to the American public the rarely 'Vending ris- works of T. S. Eliot. Sherwood Ansiond the seventeenth century.

firs demon. E. E. Cummings. and othnew book.

th third critical volume, era. The Dial's yearly award of be has publ shed. consJits of eight Slinen for services rendered genui.rather brief essa ys: Lancelot An- I me literature. although It almost aelrestes. John Bramhall.

NceoIol Invariably went to Dial contrifol1, If achiavelti. Francis Herbert I tors and was often as much the willradley. Raudelaire in Our Time. I subject of criticism as tht Punt- fThomas Middleton. A note on ter awards.

was considerul a disRichard Crashavr. The Humanism) tinguishod literary honor. let Irving Babbitt. The laat of thee. rtessys is the only one that act- tially enters the contemporary I tfteld.

though I an sure etat Mr. I I 2 Biographies I defenders would say with justice that the other essays PRINCES OF THE CHRISTIAN ijiave a tentemPotorl rneanlOt for FULPIt AND PASTOtIATE. BY ycli Os who can read wisely, 11-thrre elms a 941 ash PRINCES OF THE CHRISTIAN puunt AND PASTOItATE. By Harry Clay Howard. Cokesbktry ho one gathers that he nut Dial anglo-catholic in Some- 1 Passes 1 i "Me writing for us hungry ghep.

swot- Nan with the rind of temporal doe- I Vith the Issue. publicatloo trIneli. but for posterity. With trou- bean. one sw-wises that Mr.

of -The Dial" will be discontinued This voonthiv lately tinder the etli rexard the polasibiiity of Marianne Moore. held riot WritaIX Co Sinclair Lewis with for some years an imilortant place LezactIV the same revulsion that he among American periodicals. Its urould contemplate a visit to hs policy was Independent and often 'enother country-. The Sacred Mood radical in the extreme. but it play- Literary tratillaon that )Jr.

Eliot ed a considerable part in introdoc- xplores critically is a caiefully ing to the, American public the -vicketed area. rarely extending works of T. S. Eliot. Shervrood An- the seventeerth century.

Has dersoro. FL E. Cummings. and oth- mw book. the third critical volume era.

The Diale yearly award of be bats publ shed. consaits of eight Stnen for services rendered genu- brief essa ys: Lancelot An- Inc literature. although It almost John Bramhall. Invariably went to Dial achiavelti. Francis Herbert tors and was often as much the 'Wadley.

Baudelaire In Our subject of criticism as tht Punt- 'Thomas Middleton. A note on ter awards. was considersdr a die- 'ilichard Crashavr. The Humanism tinguished literary honor. I Parrar and Rinehart, Publishers.

have -their Appearance in the book field. They will begin publishing operations in the autumn. I-Both men are well known, In liter- ary circles. Mr. Rhinehart.

the new president. was formerly sales CI rector of Doubleday, Doran coin-- natty. arid before that of Doran. Farrar Was editor of Doubleday Doran. and formerly was the of "The He Is also the author of several volumes of 'essayi and poems.

Tully. the author of "Niters of and, "Jarnegan has sailed for Europe material for at new book to be published by Doubledm Doran. He' visit the historie places and interview the faMeus men, both literary and It will be caIIM gBeggars In 'Eurepe." It is fairly Certain that. few. It of tne men interviewed will be satisfied.

1' I I I PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT. By Joseph Kessel. Macaulay. New York. $2.

Poverty. degradation wild Inge for the life that was in Rua. sia before the War. born of conviviality In an attempt to forget the present horror, are paraded starkly through this novel of life In the Russian colony in Paris. The characters glower from squalid refugees or plunge, into mad abandonment in the night clubs of Mon.

martre. More specifically it is the story Of Helene Borissovna. her plunge deep Into the abyss and her redemption at the hands of a wealthy EMphatically realistic in its treat. ment. it finds its Characters roman.

tic in spite of themselves. The pictures it dm depressing they are, prove highly interesting. 7 THE PACT that customs authorities in Boton have prohibited Int. portation of copies of Voltaire's "Candid." does not Mean. of course.

that the book cannot be published in this country. The Vanguard Press will publish next fall a volume of Voltaire's satirical works. Including "Candid" The bonk is also available in the Inez. Modern Library series, and In ether editions hastily from superficial appear I All of this. however, le negative as far as the function of the Gil-This ford Lecturer on Natural Religion is concerned.

Phylecal knOwledge may consist of aeries of "poiner readings." and science may have nothing to Say about the nature et atom. since the latter in itself a achednie of pointer readings. but whore do we find knoWledgs that Put Mc: ejltowski's name very high is more than a schedule of pointer amt Nig re-creators of the past. "The Death of the Gods" (Julian the v(adings? Let Professor ddinge Apostate) is the first novel of ton answer this in his own wordsf the trilogy: the "Leonardo" is the "the cyclic scheme of physics pre- second. and 'imposes a background outside the "Antichrist" (Peter and Alexis) le the third.

The treeete. seep, of its Investigations. In the tion in this excellent handy edition heckground we 'must find. ftrac. is by Plornard Guilbert Guernay, four own personality.

and then per-who also translated for the Modern hips a greater personality." That Library th Romance of Leonardo is to say. the only real knowledee di litcl. we have is self knowledgecon sciountsa. If we postulate any-Harold Lamb. thi author of thing about the ultimate nature of "Tamerlalne" and Genghis Khan," reality it must be in terms of what used a seaplane to travel over much we of the region a that followers of those Me men traversed to pain- New Lewail Lectures.

fully on foot. lIolder of a Goggen- At th's point let me inirliduca leirod follottship. he is now writing Mr. Bertrand Russell. matheniatit history of the crusades.

and elan. logician. philosopher. The proravefinx by air over. -not the ductiod of It.

Russell 'with which tracks of these mediaeval pilgrims. we art immediately concerned is "The Future' Trend of the Private School" is. according to Lucy Madeira Wing. toward higher stenIdards of scholarship through freedom in experimentation. Mary Elcock writes of the influence of summer, camps.

as "the honeful element in our school system. and Frances Lee of Lee school in "Partners AU." takes as her theme an active cooperation through a balanced training. by offering some freedom of choice along with correct discipline. Young girls. if they are serious enough to be 'disturbed over the problems of their education.

will find many good suggestions in the book. So also will parents and teachers. especially if they real it for the good their own souls. and not alone with their weather eye upon the subject of which the book treatti--the modern girl. SPECIAL: lists of children's books ars announced by various publishers for 'early summer issue, paralleling somewhat the Lit-entry Guild's attempt to found a children' book club and VI, make the publication of.juventIes an all- YeIx-round affair ipstead of a function of Santa Claus.

Dutton announces twelve Children's booke' for June, among which are netts "A Buccaneer's IjoL" I "Mc. Mahon'. "Good Fatty 'tales; Irish Ones." Bathe and Swetzey's Boys Book of Astronomy." RWIN EDMAN. author of "Adam. the Baby, and tits Man from Mare." will serve ax visiting critic for of the slaw York Herald-Tribune during.

the summer Professor Ed- man is a member of the department of philosophy of Columbia University. Nashville. 2.50. Dr. Howard, second book in thil.

series is ne whit less intorestinot or valuable than tile first. It contains 12 bloorraphies of men eminent in the Christian ministry. rangin, from Bernard of Clairvaux to Dr. S. 11.

Buckler. Bouthero readers will especktliv interested in the admirable a topreetation of Bishop Galloway. Dr. Howard writes with discernment and therm lnd lover of ecclesiastical bloaraphl grill be disappointed in this book. MR- ELIOTS essays are built on the prcsumption nit i they sr to be read toy 6 phople of snood and ttani! 'Atka rning.

es 'has this he is sure to bo III at toatt. and be will not appreciate QV, remarkable degree of lutil ttencentrat en- For instance. I was 1-ot a stand la reading the essay on 40 great -churchman. Lancelot Andrewas. since my ectieniastitel eduraT01 Is poor: I know little 4.

I 1 Charles Finger of Fayetteville, Arkansas, boo been i.awarded the $2.000 priso in the Green Juivenile Fiction Contest The book. Couragoous is tho story of a young English lad who sailed with Magellan on tho first trip around the world. In 1114 Mr. Finger was awarded nib 1(Iftvbilrry Medal for his "Tales from Silvtrlands." I landa." I annou. csa publication in a biographical and critical study of tha late Dann Byrne, Thurston Macau- 1 i 4 I 1 -16 1 I' I I 1 1, 1 1 7 f- 11 I ,,01.

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