Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1925, Page 5

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1925 Books and Bookmen' A Colunin of Gossip and Opinion By TED OLSON. IMMORTAL The last~thin acre of stalks that stood Wes never the end of the wheat. Always something fled to the wood, As if the fleld had feet. In front of the rose— Mouse, or weasel, or hare; We struck and struck, but worst blows Dangled. in the air. sickle something our Nothing could touch the little soul Of the grain.» Itran to cover, And nobody kney In what warm hole It slept till the winter was over. And early seeds lay cold ths ground. Then—but nobody saw— It burrowed k with 2 sound, And awoke the thaw. k Van Doren in pring Thunder.” Gertrude Atherton seems destined te score another popular success with her latest novel, “The Crystal Cup,” (Bon! and Liveright.) Perhaps this is because the noted author of “Black Oxen"” again has conducted a probe into what she considers, and what few of the present generation will be likely to deny, {s the basic Influence actuating human relation- ships. If there {s anything the mod- ern reader seems to enjoy it fs a probe, and the farther down the sliding scale of morals that the be 1s made the better, apparently, it {s enjoyed, Mrs. Atherton's work of dissec- tion is not objectionable. She has take as her subject one Grita Cart- eret, a heroine who has all the charm that other heroines possess and yet ts lacking in a quality of emotion considered the Iife-blood of the average novel, She {ts not A man-hater particularly, but men bear no appeal to Love, she claims, fs but an ace ntuated stage of liking, and though she {s.not in- capable of forming friendships with men she appears utterly invulner- able to anything deeper, One realizes at once that the young lady cannot remain this way, that before’the story Is finished she is to achieve thate higher. degree ‘of perfection which will make her in the eyes of men a woman very much to be desired. ‘The euthor sets out to bring about the necessary series of events calculated to remould this most unusual girl along the liner which God, it ts presumed, intended she should be moulded. The author has made an interest- ing story. She even -has made a fairly interesting heroine, despite the handicap, but that ts about as is nothing very noteworthy In any of the characters, despite the evi- dent genfus and sophistication with which she bas endowed them. One is {ntroduced to a group of intellec- tuals or to young ladies whose ap- pearance of worldy wisdom is hardly convineing and who stand out, {f at all, quite different from most other young peonle as does Gita Carteret herself. ‘The heroine, instead. of forming Conspicuous presence against 2 dim background is herself dimmed by tributed to the apathy which fs at- her. : hindrances, the author has by ting a problem that should attract attention, by crowd: ing of brillant scenes and by well located touches of the melodramatic. chieved an entertaining story, but hardly isfactory one. There is a trifle too much struggle. Opposing elements are somewhat too opRosed and the result is net a har- monious blending. Dregs have been but the consequent one which would e of the connoisseur —G. M. of Van Doren writes . because his {dlom and restrained, it would be to dismiss tim as a Frost. That | would Rebert wy | nd erroneous. “Spring Sak | (Seltzer) has a quiet dis- iad 4 | jon of Its own, a personallty no alta { use it ts not flam- seat fe thay 4 : stentorlan. é 2 | Mr. Van Doren pictures the serene ¥ ound of rural life; he details with x oving precision the minutiae of routine that to the ordinary eye might appear commonplace. But | he brings ¢o them a discerning scru- tiny that percelves the deeper sig: have a clear skin*and vitality such as SSS. gives HERP’S an irresistible attrac- tion about a well rounded form vibrating. with energy; full cheeks and lips, sparkling eyes and a clear, velvety kin. This is beauty! And it tells of healthy, tich, red-blood- st ‘ou know there could be no at- tractive, beautiful oe) orivigs crous, up and doing men without plenty of healthy, red-blood-cells. 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There is much shrewd observa- tion and mueh luminous interpreta- tion In this book, Mr. Van Daren knows his farm-world. I lke his ture of the pigeon: “Used to sitting on ‘bright ledges And looking into darkness;” of the mountain house in December, its “hands folded in for warmth;” of “grass nibbling Inward Mké green fire.” I like Premonition,” with Its admirable recreation of that strange hushed sense of mcrtality that some- times fills the brightest September day with the presage of winter. When has poet pictured with more sympathetic urderstanding the com. panlonship of man and beast—the mare following the moonlit road homeward though no hand guides her: the dog kept by the hermit “For comfort. and to lay a paw Beside him when ‘he slept.” There is comprehension here with- out sentimentality, There is room for but one regret —that Mr, Van Doren sometimes {s too easily satisfied with a phrase or arhyme. It is too bad that his title poem should be marred by a rhyme- why word which obviously - has . deen dragged in simply because {t does rhyme: ‘Come under the trembling hedge— Fast, although you fumble... . There! Did you hear the edgo Of winter crumble?” |The last two /lnes are excellent: the second is abgmirable. But be atones for It twice over with a.poem m toy heads this | Well-Merited Success } A dating 1 citizen, -honored wey ally and esyonally,. Dr. R. se pleture appears success. few have lis pure herbal remedies “y stood the test of, fifty eUll among the “best gel; ‘s Golden Medical blood medicine and ‘iterative. It clears. th ‘uiifies ft, increases» the ly and the circulation, and nd eruptions vanish quick- uty ls bat skin deep and good beneath bovh. For your bli our stomach must be in cor, Uver active. This Pierce's puts with ail the ob tabletesto Brot Hotel in Buffulc Ne Ys Re "valid » Ady } high praise as can be offered. There |’ i | ) | Thanksgiving OUT OUR WAY \ WHE: Lg YW) 7a Leggy yy Wye MOMENTS WED LIKE 70 LIVE OVER — THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE. column, or with “Crow" or any of a dozen others. eee “Meadowlark Basin" (Little, Brown & Co.) is one more in the long succes- sion of Western novels by B. M. Bower. “It {s/not one of the best, but it is a readable fiction and has‘ per- haps a little more vitality of char acter creation than’the run of Wild West yarns. It is the story of a feud between two cow outfits—did neighbors ever dwell in amity in the pages of any Western novel? In the efforts of the masterful Larkin and his henchmen -to clear then: selves of the suspicion of -bank rob- bery shrewdly directed on them by their enemy, there {s much hard: riding and a gratifying expenditure of powder and lead, In the end, of course, the’ false accusation proves & boomerang; the conspirator Is con- founded and his ‘eoliorts: shattered, and all ends’ happily. reele There is justification for a digni- fied editorial hornpipe in the an- nguncement of McBride that ‘next spring will see the publication of a new noyel by James Branch Cabell. “Straws and Prayer Books” {mplfed very strongly that Mr. Cabell con- s'dered his fe work completed. Ap- parently he has reconsidered; per- haps retrospect has convinced him that all the strange and delectably naughty history of Poictesme has not been narrated. His new’ book, “The Silver Stallion: 2 Comedy of Redemption,” 1s set in that same mythijand: he declares {t is positively his last chronicle of that province. eee It ts rare Indeed to Yind a pub- lisher's press agent “kidding one of his own authors. Yet Putnam's announcement of a new Ethel M. Dell book, ,Man Under Author- ity,” confides: ‘The hero {s, from all reports, not quite as strong and silent as usual.’* cee John Curtis Underwood does not helleve that free verse {s obsolete, He has just expended $1,000 to dem: cnstrate its vitality—that fat sum being apportioned in three: prizes to the writers of original vers Mbre. First prize $499. was captured by Willlam Morris Stah! of New York, whose name is strange even to a fairly diligent reader of poetry mag: azines. Mary Austin was award: ed the second prize of $299,.and the third prize, $202. was divided be tween. Winifred Grey Stewart’ and tarl> Scott. cee Which arouses the reflection that is almost time -for the annual poetry ecntest. If «you bave any unpublished, verse master. Meces stored away, dis them up and n ready to send in I n i New Year's Day twe And Harriet Monroe's “Poetry” ‘Iso ~has announced «its annual wards. Leonora Speyer receives the guarantor’s prize of $100 for her “Ballad.of a Lost House.", Ralph Cheever Dunning’s “The ‘Four Winds” earned him the $200, Levin- son prize—and 2 ever was an award more justiy made.. Countee Cullen, the ycung negra poet, wins the John Reed memorial prize of $100, and George H. Dillon. brilliant young University of Cbicago undergrad. uate, the $100 encouragément. prize. prrcalient cholees in every instance, "ee Col. Wiliiam Mitchell's appearance before an,army court-martial should at least hélp to swell the sales of his recently published book, “Winged. Defense.’ e ele Brisbane recently | re- marked, tn his habitually oraculaf fashion, that, the average. reader'a real need. was, “100 essential books botled down {nto ‘ten. volumes.” Doubtless Mr. Brisbane has his hun- fired “essential” works at the tip of his tongue, or at least at the keys of his typewriter, Perhaps he would even be willing.to’ undertake the holling down process if he could spare time for It from the conduct of the Hearst editortal policy, But T wonder if {t ts quite so simple. Would ‘the’ same hundred prove'es- sentin! to Dr, Johnt Roach Straton and ; Bishop’ -Brown,, fér » instance? Or to George Wharton Pepper and ‘4 ne* Bob” La Fdllette? Or to Macauley and. Herold. Bell Weteh'? Or to Irving Berlin and Or to Mr. Bris. Arthur Stravinsky? word WLS Mencken? ' ‘tally, T should Ike ito re} a particularly stored fgridicon . Ebe Casver Sunbav Cribune ---By Williams tist ehurch, our me a talk, the main obje Mr. Olson. ‘T c were Scoutmaster S. M. Kreuger, C ner and Bowerma Troop 8 is same place Last Tuesd pep and next has not ast month, 1 their second better. During his merit badge school, which w s to set the pace, so “ ed. a lot of fine things were lecrned ! go-” Clyde Fread, scribe. JEWEL GAS RANGES WITH THE LORAINS2:385 REGULATOR neg » RW Lams, 10-3/ #1925 BY WEA SERVICE INE, BOY SCOUTS | And Troop Activities-Reviewed | The last session of the Scoutlead- ers’ training course, condurted by the Casper Council, Boy’ Scouts of Amerlea, was held Friday night in the partors of St: Mark's Episcopal | church. i * This was,a feliowship meeting of scoutmasters, assistants and troop committeemen. A fine © luncheon | prepared by the wives of the sco officers was served at 7:30. Community singing conducted by Scout Executive BE. E. Skinner, ded zest and a spirit of good fellow- ship. | R. 8. Bllison, president of Casper | council)» delivered a short address | on the subject, “The Opportunity of | Scouting.” Mr, Ellison has lead the | council through one of the most dif- ficult years in the history of gscout- ing. ‘The work was carried on un- der his direction for more than six months without an executive and the work was in better condition at} the time -it was turned over to the new executlye. | Ex-Governor R. D. Carey followed | Mr. Ellison, giving a very helpful’ and inspirational address, He spoke { of his interest in the scout work | since its beginning and also spoke | very highly of the camp held during the summer of 1925. He is very desirous of having 200 boys attend | the ogmp in 1926. Governor Carey | is-onftat the national scout commis. sioners and has manifested his in- terest in thd work by giving to the Casper council one of the most beau- tiful camp sites to be found any- where. ‘The men inferested tn the scout movement who attended this meet- ing expredsed themselves as being highly pleased with the spirit of helpfulness and good fellowship shown, and also expressed the wish that the men backing scouting have more of such meetings. Troop 6 1s now organized with a new scoutmaster and we are going to put on a real fagut program. Mr. Larsen ig our scuutmaster and we aro going to meet regularly and have some peppy programs. Our troop committee consisting of Mr. Bur- well, Mr. Bacon and Supt. Slade, ts on the Job and we are going to make things hum. Ned Turner, scribe. Troop 6. Last Monday night was the first time Mr, Olson, our new scoutmaster, has had charge of this down” “boll the classics for pop- | ular consumption. A book should | be read as the author wrote it or| not at all, If the reader then chooses to do tls ‘own. condensing | by marking certain passages for eee Richard Le Gallienne’s series of articles {n the Saturday Evening Post on “The Romantic Nineties” ts rich in snecdotes of literary, Lon- don in those remote days when “The Yellow Book" dazzigd and horrified post-Victorian tastes. Le Galllenne writes of those somewhat shrunken celebrities with Intimate’ understand. Ing. One “fels, indeed, that he is closer kIn to their period than to our own more robust ani! roistering age. | repented reference, well and good. | | | Harper's gazing celebrated its seventy-fifth birthday by taking on iu new lease of Iffe. Recent numbers have been singularly vigorous. and Interesting. Read 1 West's | opinion of American women in the November {ssue, | eee | Literary families appear to thrive In England. The Powys tribe te overshadowed {in numbers if not in achieverhent by the Gibbses. There @re Bir Philip and A. Hamilton and Cosmo 'Hamiiton and Sir Philip's sgn Anthony—all novelists. And now {t 1s rumored that the wife of one of them—I forget which—hes a book ready for publication. eee 8 " "A book purporting to give an au: thoritative survey of the world’s lit erature {s a stupendous undertaking, John Drinkwater, tried {t—tn severa) | ponderous volumes. Now John Macy kas attempted it in one—'*The story troop. He was formerly assistant scoutmaster of Troop 13, and from what I hear, he wag some assista’ but take it from me, he makes a better scoutmaster than asaistant. | I hear he {e the best human jackase in Natrona count No, I don't want you to think’he has long ears 1 and all that, but OH! s turped out to greet Mr. Olson. Dr. Bowerman, minister at the Bap- FRAMING—NEV PICTURES Casper Mirror and Picture Frame Co. Cor. Second and Durbin Downstairs Hig Origin of Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, is lost in the mists of antiqui You can’t weigh overcoat value by the pound. 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