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PART FOITR THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 193g UKKi Reviews of Current Books i Subtleties and Nuances India Interpreted Kindly Bronte Sisters Were Loveless Forsyte Saga Continued Latest Novel By French Author Supreme in Her Field of Romance Kathleen Norris' "Most Personal Story" and Some Westerns, One About Indians. Mrs. Pym, an Englishwoman, Trained in Journalism in America, Gives the Indian Point of View on Matters BcAh Spiritual and Temporal, Jiy I fJ J'fl Queen Victoria did more than all the British armies of occupation to hold the country to the empire. The rise of a personality to grip the imagination of the people possibly Mahatnia (Jhandi, possibly Jawahlr-lal Nehru, present revolutionary leader, or Just as possibly Lord Irwin, governor-general of India would go far toward solving the problem today, she feels.

Ohandi, Mrs. Pym rather surprisingly declarer to he a political mountebank. Eut. she didn't get along very well with that gentleman. Her Interview, as she tells it, is rather funny.

They were talking about the status of women. "He told me," she says, "with a note of "Wlndsingcr." By Frances Gill-mor. Minton, Balch and Company. "I have spent considerable time on the Navajo reservation," says Miss Gillmor. "There I have been able to see much of the life of the Navajo hogans.

I have seen sand painting in the making, a very rare privilege for a white person, and something which women, either white or Navajo, are seldom allowed to do. I have been to chants and Kntahs where I have been the only white person present, and where in the dramatic serenity of the firelit ceremonies of song, I could easily forget that I myself was not a Navajo." Using her knowledge and personal observation of Indian ways and customs, Miss Gillmor has written a dramatic novel with tile Black Mesa as a background. "The Rider of San Felipe." By Charles H. Snow. Hale, Cushmarr and Flint.

A novel of the west that has everything you expect from that part of the country'. It is about the looting of a mine and about the adventures of the stranger. Jim Holt, who rides into the thick of the excitement. He manages to solve the mystery of the plot involving a scheme of large proportions to terrorize the and dash, romance and drama all are to be found in this novel by an author who has a reputation for good "westerns." "Tim Power nf India." Achieves In Character Study hated Jew and has studied It carefully, until through her subtlety she has attuned the reader to Golder's slightest reaction. So accurately has she recorded these reactions Irene author of "David Golder." that we find them highly interesting and hesitate to put down the book until we have reached its final page.

Golder is bitter, cruel. There is not one appealing strain In his makeup, unless It is his love for his golden-haired daughter. Joyce. The entire book is a photographed slice of life, glittering with its steely coldness and selfishness. It is the (picture of a man obsessed of monev-makinir.

and of his familv. bound to him only by the glitter of the gold which he amasses. et somehow the author makes us view them through glasses of tolerance. Early in the story Golder receives word of the suicide of his former partner, Marcus. He realizes that his own refusal to assist his partner in business has brought on the tragedy.

The author pictures him 1 as he considers the situation, safe in the luxury of his suite. It is the first tune the full meaning of death has come to Golder and ho is stunned. The realization suddenly comes to Golder that he has missed life In its richest form. He fears death. and frantically sets out to live.

This is an unconscious reaction on bis part, which crops out suddenly in his new sternness with his wife, and finally with his daughter. He is no longer David Golder. a money-1 making machine, but a tired, lonely old man hungering for understand-1 ing. Biarritz with its kept women, its gigolos and its feverish, tawdry emotions serves as a background for much of the action. In "David Golder" Irene Neml- unction In his voice, something about his 'Hindu brethern' not al- ways treating women properly, but mat.

in spite or tnis, women in India had more power than anywhere else in the world. To this I demurred, bringing In the American woman. Whereupon Ghandl informed me that the power of the American woman was based upon 'something equally discreditable to her and to the men." "When I recovered from the shork, I wanted an amplification. 11 l'W" usually was though so far I hadn't noticed this about him he could not be more direct in mixed com pany. Whereupon I'm afraid I sat and lectured Ghandi about the American woman, and after that I got up and went away." Vassos Fantasy Highly Creative By Mary Griffin.

"Ultimo." Bg John and Ruth K. P. Dutton and Company. TirE AUK thoroughly familiar rith the actor who has a play written to emphasize his particular genius; not so familiar with the artist who needs an especial vehicle to bring out his talent. John Vassos, the young Greek artist, falls into this category.

He Is highly Individual, super-modern, imaginative, sensitive. His works are always creations, whether as in the case of "Salome" or "The Ballad of Reading Goal," they embellish the conception of another, or whether as in this case they are self-conceived. For surely "Ultimo," written by Ruth Vassos and with projections by John Vassos was nt least partially the Idea, of the youw? Greek illustrator. Tho black and white drawings and the narrative blend into perfect oneness. "Ultimo" is called a scientific fantasy.

In form it is the document of a man of the future lock ing backward. He recalls a time when men had a strange custom called marriage, and a weird amusement called crime. He tells of the perpendicular cities In which buildings of lricle proportions stretched skyward, over which swollen Zeppelins coursed, casting shadows on the earth below. The1 ground was used solely for the transportation of commodities. Men had individual airplanes.

Into this civilization came a demonCold. Winters grew longer and more intense. The snows of one winter did not melt before the next. Summer became a dream of the past. Men hastened from their skyscrapers to Hat homes huddled the earth near the equator, but the cold followed them even there and finally they were forced to bore into the earth to the regions where the heat of the earth's core and the frigidity of its surface neu-; tralized each other.

Here men learn conquer space and time. Their lives assume fantastic lines and the vassos laient hums brightly. In her wonderfully terse style Ruth Vassos describes the encroaching cold: "Humanity suffered and was fearful of the white menace. All over the gU.be the migration went on as peoples even-where were drawn to the worlds still warm girdle. Millions perished The tall and beautiful cities stood abandoned and desolate towers of frozen immobility'.

Civilization estaMiahed itself around the equate. civilization with one dominating idea to continue to exist." Readers with a mind for the weird, the extraordinary, will find rare pleasure in the Vassos ration. It is interesting both in text and drawing. The boards are red. black, white and gold; the mar- gins are spacious; the type attrac-, tive.

"Art Principles In Practice." By Henry Rankin Poore. G. P. Putnam's Sons. This book completes a trio of noteworthy books by Mr.

roare, the first, two being "Conecp- of Art" and "Plrfnriai rnm. sltion" It "'u more constructive, readable, us- By Aita Fikes. "On Forsyte 'Change." By John Galsworthy. Scribners. SATISFYING and pleasant though it is to have these tales to fur ther illumine the lives of the Forsytes for those interested in that family, the merit of this collection of short stories docs not consist of that.

Without previous knowledge of Jolyon, Soames, Ann, Swithin, or any of the others, these stories can stand alone-choke literature of our time exquisitely portraying phases of character, moments of keen, cutting disappointment, or sheer exulting Joy. There is a Quality of Intimacy about a 8ood snort story which is iosi in a longer narrative, in 101- lowing the movement of a novel plot, we get only brief glimpses of interesting situations, and can only guess at what is going on behind the scenes. But a short story supplies the little detail, extracts the full flavor from a given moment, and allows us to concentrate on the significance behind tho fact presented. The atmosphere created by Mr. i tercoume.

as though before an open Ualsworthy is one of friendly In fire he chatted of mutual friends in the spirit, that makes for deeper understanding. Here are little side-lights on the dispositions, thoughts and feelings of the Forsyte "clan Sketches full of interesting details of what made up the lives of the less spectacular as well as the more prominent members of tha' family. Aunt Hester, for instance, who sat always so quietly and primly. Only a few sheets of yellowed diary revealed why in her youth she had come back from her "little tour" of the continent so changed. And even from the diary it could not quite be determined whether memory of fleeting happiness with a German soldier lover, or bitterness of her disillusionment, preoccupied her.

There is pictured also the anguish of the elder Jolyon over the lost confidence or young Jo, when Jo, during his first college year con ceals his debts from his father. The courage, the bitter hurt, the lesson to young Jolyon through the handling of that situation all stir the reader deeply. Nineteen stories of old and young Forsytes of several generations! Francis as a child In "Revolt at Rogers," and as a woman in "Krancie's Fourpenny Foreigner." TruTv few writers can tell a talc as Mr. Galsworthy tells one. Russia Viewed By Journalist By Thelma L.

Cobb. "Black Bread and Bed Collins." By Xcgley Farson. The Century Company. THIS collection of vivid little word pictures could very aptly have been titled, "A Russian Sketch-Book. It takes you by devious roads and with numerous stop-overs, from the ultra-moderns of Moscow, to the snowbound huts of semi-barbaric Karachaites, high in the Caucasian range, where almond-fared handmaidens still kneel, and gratefully eat from the leav ings of their masters.

In company with the author, we meet a young Communist nnd his family, voluntarily living five in one room, and on 35 dollars a month. How does he exist, with rayon stockings nearly three dollars a Negley Farson, author of "Black Bread and Ked Collins." pair and beefsteak 40 cents a pound? However, Mr. Farson says, only about one Russian in 10 belongs to the Party. We visit a topsy-turvy prison, where a murderer is serving four years, and a horse thief eight. We sail down the Volga and what It loses In romance of one kind, it gains in another.

Wa see peasant boys of eight years, victims of their elders' pathetic rush for culture. man, uL-iungy na botany. fat peasants cry tnat they are starving, the result of a quaint Rtis. isiim custom which recognizes only bread as food. Our friends.

It seems, 'are fasting on chicken nnd potatoes. tlon! There are, I know, many who feel definitely, and even bitterly, on this ijuestion. Both sides will he able to read into thia book a power- iui u.uiikui men espec. nve i i-'neoL ha i'j nimiu. una -resents his findings in a casual, journalistic wmmuh.

i The Russian experiment is vrrv 1 real, and extremely important, whether despised or accepted, to the people there. Mr. Parson pre- rents it simply. a3 i thir lives, a to riraw your own For as cne who have th.it opinion to'i'd be touches and you 11 i n't The i a of as he of by to the The nUc By Marion Holden Bemis. 'Three Virgins of Haicorth." Peing an.

Account of the Bronte Sisters. By Emilie and Georges Romie.v. K. P. Button and Company.

AN ACCOUNT of the three gaunt, moorland virgins from the north of England by two ardent members of the Latin race! Could any approach be more paradoxical? And yet one feels the urgent possibility of truth In their viewpoint that all the troubles of this remarkable trio sprang from the fact that they neither loved nor were loved. Translated from the French by Roberts Tapley, this triple biography has an explosive appeal, a vivid way of blurting out the dramatic incidents and passing with a fine sweeping indifference over the trivial. The book leaves a memory of three heroic figures In bronze, outlined against the uncaring moorland, symbols of Anglo-Saxon women defying the life in which they could find no beauty, no ease of living, nothing for rejoicing but the trials that, like the elements, hardened at least two of them Into super-women but made them inaccessible to any simple human contact. The picture is worth looking at both for its suggestive power, and its symbolic aspect. No Englishman could have written thus of the Brontes, and no Englishman has.

It took poetic Imagination, reaching up Into the colder north from the civilized, comforting south, to recreate these figures in heroic mould. Emily, of course, Is the most heroic of the three, the one most set apart, the enigma to most observers, but to these Frenchmen, coldly beautiful over her vibrant intensity. "What partner would have seemed worthy in the eyes of that lofty maiden whose hand, mind and heart never trembled? What hero, what conqueror, or what poet to have mated with her? None. "Providence had miscalculated. On the one hand, this wonder! On the other, mere men She pours out her harsh tenderness on the rocks, the grass, the wind, the rain, and on beasts." And here is Charlotte, she who lived longest, knew fame, was sought many times In marriage, married at long last and too late that "narrow-minded curate" upon whose devoted head she had hurled ugly adjectives in one of her novels.

"The other sister, the second in genius, is all passion, all sensibility. Her nerves are freely exposed. She makes mistakes, has the weaknesses of her sex. And how human she is, this woman! Wherever she appears, the thin, bespectacled creature, devoid of external charm, fires every masculine heart. How explain the enigma? There is no enigma, only an Illu sion.

Beauty is a feeling. It Is In the eye of the beholder. Or, better: it Is in his mind." How well this Latin understands why Charlotte's lovers failed to move her! Brusk men of affairs, they did not know that a woman of imagination must be approached through the imagination, "the lover's best aMy." most elementary art," they add sententi-ously, losing sight of the fact for a moment that to the Anglo-Saxon "man of affairs." It is the subtlest of all things, the least easy to acquire. Then Anne: "The third sister remains apart, soliciting silence. She is all sweetness and humility the virgin of the imploring eyes, endowed with all wifely graces -behold her con sumlng her forces in anxious delaying for him who was never tc come." Mad Patrick, the brother, Is known through his prototypes in "VVuthering Heights" and Charlotte's books.

Without him, who was child to his sister Emily, "that moorland vessel of the vibrant soul" could not support life. She died, and then came fame and fortune, to the three sisters, one of whom would never know it. Exactly what Charlotte made of her fame is not clearly defined by these etchers In acid (I am aware of mixed metaphors but. so is our authors' approach a little mixed), i'l'hev are more Interested In causes than in effects, admittedly, and because of that their book I With Murder grim trial and all the punishment nreakpr nf It. it any wonder that financial houses no longer trust the nufcllc f0lJce and employ their own guards "ior Zlr ana nire armored cars to insure upon the funds streets? With Detroit watchine the actions of 22 men in a grand jury called to investigate racketeering and organ wlsh that eve juror mjg h( tne bnf)k thu, i liainuitc lllftu 1 1 mi, um tin.

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Publisher The iiar crop i 'ems heavy in South HOT jii.l ng by this title, but i's not in a ha titl. inn The erse-the pione.rs. the past and -ir nance Ita in their it. "William's in as that her than By J. M.

Haswell. "The Power of India." By Michael Pym. 0. P. Ptttnam't Bonn, HERE is a record of what India is, rather than what it is not; of ita naturalness, not Its strangeness; its successes in eojving problems of human conduct, not its fail ures.

The Darners in me way vninininir tho eastern view of things eastern to the western mind are. probably insurmountable, but Mrs. Pym makes Indian life and customs more natural and more understandable than any recent author I have encountered. And the truth about India, obviously, is the Indian view, not the foreign view. This is what Mrs.

Pym, an Englishwoman trained in American journalism she made her entry into the field through contributions to The Detroit Free Press has tried to grasp during four years of travel and residence in tnnt erowaea ana troubled country. She has sought the Indian view of British rule there, the Indian view of religion, art, literature, manners and morals, of the primary purpose of life. It il a long quest, and she makes a number of interesting discoveries on the way. "India does not believe In the validity of western civilization," she finds. "It challenges the intellectual conceit which sees a man as the supreme formation of matter, with the spiritual wisdom which realizes the limitations of the lenses and of the intellect.

"To the ideal of happiness dependent upon environment, India opposes that of happiness rising above environment a question of Values, of attitude to existence." Ministers in America sometimes Bpeculate on what would happen to a man trying to obey Jesus' teachings literally if he should appear in New York or Detroit. My own ffuess is that, his sanity would he challenged. Such a man. however, would be reverenced in India. There the search for understanding of God Is the most, honorable of occupations, and there, as Mrs.

Pym understands it, the search has progressed much further than Jesus carried it. Religion, says the author, Is the focal point of Indian life; not, as in western civilization, politico economic conquest. It gives meaning to the Indian caste system, to Indian art, literature, music. It makes the British occupation of the land a minor problem, About Hie British rule of India, though, Mrs. Pym has much to say that is illuminating.

Primarily it has been disastrous. India is poorer than the day the British first appeared. Those parts of India under the direct rule of the British are the most poverty-stricken and unhappy. Conquerors India has seen before, and always before India has assimilated them. The struggle of the I Indian national party today is, fundamentally, an effort to assimilate these new rulers, to make them understandable to the people.

Personalities, Mrs. Pym says. India can understand. Through affection, not fear, they ran be governed. The love they bore toward the late You Can Count On Sheehan's Children's Books In our recommenHithonn of children booki we follow closely th recommendation of the Detroit Puolic Library.

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She lives in the Palais-Royal gardens, a short, hearty-bodied woman with a crop of wood colored hair, with long, gray, luminous, painted, slanting eyes and a deep alto voice. Her felines, her Siamese cats, her wild cats and dogs form one of the jeeentric traditions of Paris. This description of Colette is supplied by Janet Flanner in a foreword to the translation of "Mitsou." The subtlety and the finesse of the author's manner of bringing the love affair of Mitsou and the Lieutenant in Blue into the reader's understanding is indeed marvelous! Mitsou is 24 years old, a little Parisian in a revue, and the time is 1915. -There Colette, author of "Mitsou." Is in Mitsou's background a "man of means" who has supplied the apartment and the necessities of life for three years before the advent of the young lieutenant in blue. A few letters and one visit and the reader has grasped all of Mitsou's life and philosophy, her greatness and her tragedy and through her can speculate on love and life.

In a style as limpid as spring water, tnc author is able to write of depths of emotion seldom plumbed. She searches out the most minute shades of feeling in the hearts of men and women and pins them down unforgettably. Her frankness is never offensive. "The Lucky Lawrences." By Kathleen Nonis. Doubleday, Dor'an and Company.

Mrs. Norris has woven part of her own story into this novel of the Lawrences. Gail Lawrence at 23 has the responsibility of managing four young brothers and sisters and Is mistress of a neglected but once lovely ranch in California. Gall and her romance and her troubles with the family Edith and Phil, Sam and the impetuous Ariel will keep the reader interested. The homely little touches which lend an air of reality to all of Mrs.

Norris' work bring the story within the reader's experience and add to its charm. Old and New Verse Makers "Modern British Poetry." Edited by Ixjuis Untermeyer. Harcourt, Brace and Company. This revised edition of UntermeyCr's excellent anthology of British poetry finds the volume mora than doubled in content. Thirty poets have been added, 440 poems.

Mr. Untermeyer begins his anthology with 1(430, and Christina Rossetti, covering a 100-year cycle in bringing his work up to the present day. He writes an interesting preface history of the evolution of tho modern poetry movement in England. Preceding each group of poems he gives a brief biography of the poet and pointed criticism of his work. "Thorns Are a Style." By Ruth Hannas.

Henry Harrison. The key this concerto, played in verse, Is: Heaven ls an awkward inn to reach, set back from the road's un- lighted pits of questions marking the spots where travelers have been and lost themselves." The poems are marked by originality of thought and Interesting word manipulation. Miss Hannas chooses to sit among the thorns sne knows rather than see an1 uncertain heaven or a hell of I which she knows nothing. I Best Sellers The ueek'ti best sellers Detroit's representative stores are listed Mow in the order of their popularity. FlCTiriX.

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Not until a notice was inserted in a newspaper by the publisher was the writer located. Little else Is known of her. Here is a simple subject which might have been tossed aside by lesser artist, but the author has fashioned it into an excellent novel. She has taken the character of a German Author Refutes Guilt 1 iiefutatwn of the. 1 ermillrn War Guilt Thesis." Alfred von 'encri r.

Translated by F.dwin Zeydcl. nop THE theory that Germany was, with her Rllies, solely responsible for the outbreak of the World War, is the thesis which Herr von Wegerer sets out to disprove. As editor of Die Kriegssrhuldfrage, devoted to the study of the problem war guilt in particular for the last 10 years, he Is the outstanding authority in Germany In this field, vouched for by Harry Elmer Rarnes, one of the foremost. American leaders of the "Revisionist" school of contemporary historians. The evidence is carefully amassed with the patient scholarship and overwhelming detail for which Germans have long been noted, The detailed developments of those few days in July and early August, 1014, are represented in full length for careful study and comparison.

The facts stated are, presumably, unchallengeable, since the author has been careful to Indicate wherever has not relied upon authoritative documentation. The late kaiser wrote to Austria that he could not countenance a war for Germany a few days before its actual outbreak; the German government did not mobilize in any sense until Russia with a larger force started complete mobilization directed, according to known plans, against Germany "and declined to stop. Sir Edward "Grey, British premier, repudiated the im- pression he had made upon the Ger- man ambassador that he would i guarantee the neutrality of Franc. aim i-uijiana proviueu uermany stayed out of the conflict, within the week of the actual warfare. Some the difficulty of negotiations is laid to the mischance that the Austrian ambassador to Germany was growing did and forgetful and was shortly recalled, after pn.bahly causing diplomatic mlsundei between the Central Allies.

These are only episodes at random from the pictures pioved Von Wegerer. The trouble resolved Itself into a dispute for the hegemony nf Austria in the Uar.s. Serbia was delib at b.eaking up the Austr.an 'a ejiijjiie. wan uie aiu oi Ku-ia could the affair have been lorahrcd these countries, it might have been onlv another Balkan uallv 'the nefarious war; of alliances invoiveu tne we; tern powers as well. If there is any lesson from this study, it is that extenive armv n.er.t only invites war; no power desired war e.t that time but fear that another rnltht in St foreed one afte American ad vet: in the light of st unnecessary; on, which lure in.

i'o the M'cnis c.VTi oil. I ci hni. war r. 'ich. i to i' laal ui ill f.n ale his rovsky has contributed an excellent has a reason which gives it a dell-book to contemporary prose.

Her nitn place beside those others which hero will live because he is a char- have been mostly Interested in cf-acter that cannot be ignored. foots. He Gets Away By Andrew Bernhard, "Al Capone, The BiuomhV Of a Self-made Man. isy treau. Pauley.

Ives ashburn. MMENSELY rich, tremendously powerful, probably more public- ized than any other living Chica-gnan. Scarface Al Capone stands before the American public as a mock ing, sinister reiuiaiioii oi 7 and the impossU biluy of winning at crime. Hjs career is a sardonic laugh in the facea nf solemn nubile officials who, I ntl.ft,inn oanquet. or assert that ours is a guveimi.e.u oi tain rue jn jjetroit.

Strictly speak-laws, not of men. inK. there is not much new in this His henchmen slay with apparen hook about Capone. Most of the impunity. Mr.

Pasley believes that material has appeared at various able text, Art principles are Idrn- Naturally, the word "Communist" tical in painting, sculpture, poetrv occurs frequently In every chapter and music, but Mr. Poore considers But imagine a Russian visitor only in connection with counting his travels in the I'nited graphic art. He considers balance, States without mentioning prohibi- nrface himsell is no Mi-n8 in newsnanem. hot It i murder. Yet he moves miougn me assassinations, bombings and mart chine i-o American scene to- baron or a seventeenth century pi- rate captain, nu public enemy in Chicago but a temio nnera and the theater with bodyguard larger than that sur- rounding tne im I'nited States, dispenses hospitality a mncninccill I'Sime in mi ma.

rides in state alorj Sheridan road. It guards before ana i.y Orut'13 IU i i- nnf nil I fir. ci's- lfcmll, jolly crew of s-, tnleets. machine trunners. dealers In mavhem and arson, shoot, bribe, psl-; lage and bomb their merry way i hr.Mf et or Hindrance, ier- roru'ine legitimate business, seizing control of labor unions and traie a.v'-oejHt ions.

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iv hke some medieval ronDcr proportion, sequence, recurrence, rhythm, design vs. pattern, and other art principles, in terms easily understood by layman as well as artist. The lavman cannot be over- lofiKeu in iiuuiers ui an, nn p- ioc umun in mi ui mi ruui.ii' eo i layman than that of an artist who i i'i icaa Lighty reproductions illustrate Mr. I Poore interesting work. "The Meaning of Art." I5v A.

Philip McMahon. V. W. Norton and Company. A thoroughgoing analysis of art, in which Professor McMahon, of New York university, discusses such questions as is Pleasure (lie Mfaning of Art'''' "Is Imitation the Meaning of Art'" "Is Illusion the Meaning of Art?" Is ti p.oduet of and "Is True icat ion Th'- it 'loei for-.

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