Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 7

SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 192 Books and Bookmen A Column of Gossip and Opinion ‘By TED Dryad. The choric beauty of thé stars Enmeshed her wasting soul, by night; Her heart went hungering on the winds, The city’s straitened acolyte. Her hopes, mured at the gingham ¢ounter, Her loveliness, kept still unspent, Uncloaked their warmth within her eyes, A wild, unshameful armament. She saw the faun’s ears in his hair Beneath a Leghorn (latest cut), And goat-lege, underneath his suit, Crooed with a strangely familiar strut. She heard an oaten-pipe, a shout of delrious satyrs’ laughter; KN youth came beckoning; er prancing senses drew her after. She found? give, Bare beauty by a careless pool She lost? That ts for reason: And titillators of the school. —Donald Davidson in “An Outland Piper.” What cities could not In “The Crooked Mile,” (Minton Balch) Bernard De Voto has written a story of a new west and of a new generation—a weet foul with the smoke of smelters and factories, a generation that is “nothing but an intelligence that has eaten away the substance; nothing but a mind without a will.” To the age which he pictures the epic Odyssey of the pioneers is only a legend, a myth; the frontier is a vision mildly ridi culous to their ennufed new wisdom; life. is a thing compounded of golf and mortoring and flirtations, fi- nanced by the income from the pir acy of predatory sires. Mr. De Voto's novel covers 30 odd years out of the life of Gordon Ab- bey, third scion of a pioneer clan In him the flame that had brought old Jim Abbey westward with coy- ered wagon and ox-team, that had enabled Pemberton Abbey to perfect the copper-smelting process which had made Windsor a populous in- dustrial city has burned out, leaving only the flurried ashes of unrest and discontent. Skeptical, sardonic, scornful, bel'eving in nothing and least of all in himself, he lacks the resolution either to achieve or to pin successfully. There have been such heroes in contemporary fiction before “The Crooked Mile.""| There have been other pictures of the jazz-mad gen- eration. Flaming Youth” and “This Side of Paradise,"’ for example. But somehow Gordon Abbey has a life such as Fabian and Fitzgerald fatl- ed to breathe into their creatures; somehow his groping quest for the finality which he ridicules {s wist- fully real and moving. And in the end the dreas which he has scoffed at and denied possesses him against his own ‘will, and as the book closes he swears fealty to an enterprise as madly quixotic as those to which his fathers were pledged—inspired part- ly, perhaps, by his hatred of the sprawling octopus that his native town of Windsor has become; but more by his ploneer heritage !mpell- ing him on to a new and last fron- tier. ‘There are other characters no less true and convinelhg and fully re- alized. Old John Gale, for instance, @ftocratic New Englander, who de- votes his lifetime to puncturing what he terms “the frontier delu- sion;” who writes book after book to prove that “the pioneer was not a superman dominated by visions of empire, but a hell-ridden calvinist driven west by economic pressure,” that, “not God's whisper urged him out, but bankruptcy among his stronger brothers,” that “he sought not something lost behind the ranges, but free land by which he might repair his fortune: His daughter Hope, cool, aloof aristo- crat, somehow holding herself free of the turmoil of life. Louis Far- OLSON. The girl from the gingham coun- ter, meeting her cake-eater swain, is keeping tryst with Pan in the wood- land. The world, for Donald David- son, is still a place of sorcery and black magic. There is something of Edwin Ar- lington Robinson, more of T. 8. El- Lot in this book. But fundamentally {t is Donald Davidson, and it entitles him to rank as one of the most in- teresting of the younger poets. The first issue of The Golden Book, the new Review of Reviews monthly publication devoted to re- prints of famous fiction, carries among other masterpieces, the first half of Stevenson's “Prince Otto; the opening Chapters of Gaboriau's “M. ecoq,”’" Mark Twains “Jump- ing Frog,’ O. Henry's The Phono- graph and the Graft," Kipling's “With the Main Guard,” Owen Wis. ter’s “Specimen Jones,”" and Anatole France's “Man Who Married a Wife.” Dumb tor Borah, in an article in the on “The Repub- at Shall We Do 2"" voices the belief that the greatest needs of the time are a thorough housecleaning to insure honest and competent conduct of government, a program of rigorous economy, and an independent, non political international court whigh will enforce a new international code outlaw'ng aggressive warfare. A new novel by Homer Croy, eu- thor of “West of the Water Tower” and “R. F. D. No. 3," will be tssu- ed next spring by Harpers. Croy at present is touring the Riviera in a filvver, Ruth Suckow, whose “Country People” is a veracious but rather dull account.of the stagnation of rural family life, has left her native Iowa for New York, where she is at work on a new novel. Sa Wanda Landowska, who has ap- peared in harpsichord recitals with many of Amer‘ca's leading orches- tras, is the author of ‘Music of the Past,* which Knopf recently pub- lished. Two autoblographies of sporting celebrities are published by Put- nam’'s. James J. Corbett, one-time heavyweight champion, tells of his life in “The Roar of the Crowd Wille Hoppe writes of “Thirty Years of Billiards.” A rare collection"of famous short stories, with 12 chapters of com- ment and criticism, makes up “The Short Story’s Mutations,” by Fran- ces Newman, which appears under the Huebsch imprint. The second volume of “The Pea- sants,”" the monumental novel of Polish life which won for Ladislas Reymont the Nobel prize last year, theads the Kriopf Ust of New Year publications. Other Borzol books of Interest, judging by thelr author's Past performances, are “Red” by Carl Van Vechten, and “The Wolves and the Lamb,” J, 8. Fletcher's lat- est detective thriller. One more novel of college life is It is cal ed ‘Wild Marriage,” and is by B, H. Leliman, assdciate professor of English at the University, of Cali fornia, The January Pictorial Review ha: an ‘extremely tempting — fictional menu, It contains short stories by Theodore Dre'ser, Wilbur Daniel Steele, and Donn Byrne, as well as an installment of the Edith Wharton serial. Clement Wood {s not afraid of en thusiasm. He acclaims Sheila Kaye: Smith’s “Ind of the House of Alard’’ as the greatest work of prose fic- tion eve, written in the English language. Why that particular Kaye-Smith book? ‘Joanna Godden"—and to this opinion most critics subscribe— is a much more powerful and finigh ed work. We question if any woman has ever written a better novel. And her “Tamarisk Town” is not far in- ferior, All of which indicates just how widely judgments can vary. Hugh Walpole also gives Miss Kaye- Smith place among the best 20 books of the century—but he selects “Green Apple Harvest.” If you don’t know this young woman's rich and subtle studies of Sussex life you have a treat in stor CASPER MINISTERS TO HOLD MEETING MONDAY A meeting of the Ministerial_asso- ciation has been called for Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, in the Meth. odist ohurch, Important matters are to come up for discussion and a general attendance of’ the city's pastors is desired Mrs. W. H. AVIS WEAK WOMEN y; NV D Health Is Most Vital to You Council Bluffs, Iowa.—“'A fen years ago after motherhood I could not gain back my strength. 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The book is beautifully written Bernard De Voto has, more than most of his profession, that intang. ible magic, defying analysis, that we call style. His prose is sensitive, highly-colored, resilient; his phras. ing almost invariably happy. * Superlatives are dangerous coin- age, and reviewers are right {n shun- ning them. But nove and then here comes a book so good that the reader hungers to pass on his dis- covery for others to share. “The Crooked Mile" 1s such a book. It is the best first novel by an American that this writer has encountered in many a moon. Tennesseans who have given “The Fugitive” a unique flavor among the dozen or so poetry magazines, Donald Davidson is one of the group of young Tennesseans who haye given “The Fugitive’ a unique flavor among the dozen or so poetry _ magazines. 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