Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1925, Page 3

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1925 Books and Bookmen } | | ; [aot By TED DUSK IN THE LOW COUNTRY A league of broomgrass, rose, and -mauve, and umber, Gashed by a road into the setting - sun; | Three heavy laden carts that groan and Jumber. Toward. the woods, then vanish one one by one, A Iine of scariet, and a blar of mad- r Behind the trees. The resting earth exhales Warm, humid dusk; sadder ‘Than death or birth, a lone marsh creature wal's, and infinitely Land of wide waiting. You have made loneliness a thing to seek.’ How small our loving seems, how little hating. How less than breath the scattered words we speak. Here where the neons pass, and sea- sons flutter Like sun and chade across your am- ple breast silence thunders down songs I utter, Who came to be your singer, and your guest. —Du Bose Hayward in the Bookman. Being a humorist ' a dangerous business—at least if one cherishes, as every clown {s reputed to do, an ambition to write Buropidean trag- Your the A Colunin of: Gossip and Opinion beauty, and eternal | young wife to India. OLSON interest, In craftsmanship, in char- acterization his story is well above the run of popular fiction. Most readers will find Jane and her cous: ins well worth meeting. eee Rather a gruesome revelation of Hindu customs is “A Rajah's Hon- our” by Pearl Weymouth, The book is published by Thomas Seltzer. It is not particularly happy reading. The plot ts good but has not been handled with any high degree of skill, Oriental phrases interspersed with platitudes detract rather than add to the Interest, but with all this the ceader is presented with a sit- tion ef no unusual Interest. An englishman, a doctor with Spanish blood takes his beautiful There she Is made to belleve that he ts part na- tive because of his complexion. He becomes repulsive to her while she succeeds in falling in love with an- other man. ‘The doctor wins the friendship of the rajah by perform- ing a professional service, and the latter in turn seeks to bring the wo- man to justice for her unfaithfulness. The results are surprising.—G. M. Perhaps it is unfair to-give space to’a discussion of a book which is not to be purchased—or at least is purchasable only at exorbitant price. “Continent's End, an Anthology of Contemporary California Poets,” is published in a limited edition with the original intent of limiting its cir- culation to contributors and to mem. bers of the Bork Club of California, edy, to strut the boards as Hamlet. Poor Mark Twain discovered that. Really the most morose of American geniuses, he was doomed always to have his profoundest efforts greeted with mad mirth under the impression that he was being funny is a new and puzzling fashion. Even Charlie Chaplin has been credited with yearnings to play the melancholy Dane, though of late he has denled It which issues it. I believe, however, that a few copies have been sold—for a’ mere trifle of $15 each. There is a surprising amount of excellent verse in this anthology— surprising to those who have re- garded California as more prolific in climate, oranges and film scandals than {tn literature. Of course, the editors have exercised great latitude in thelr definition of Californian. roundly. When the Cosmopolitan Book Cor- poration announced that Harry Leon Wilson's new novel was in a serious vein, moet of us were a bit regret- tul, a trifle alarmed. We recalled that long phalanx of funmakers, from Bunker Bean through Ruggles and Ma Pettingill and on down to the admirable Merton and the inim- {table Professor. And we wondered whether Wilson might be deserting a fleld'in which he ranks among-the highest for-a dubious venture in one to which his talents were Uttle fit- And one realizes on contem- platfon that there never was real ground for it. The creation of hu- mor—good tumor—is an art in no sense inferior to other forms of cre- ation. Mr Wilson’s humor has al- ways been the humor of character— exaggerated, to’ be sure, frequently sheer carcicature, but deriving its appeal from the comic aspects of traits recognizable to everyone. At {t= best, as in “Merton of the Mov- fea,” {t touched the Iine where com- edy blends with pathos, where de- risjon ylelds to sympathy. So, in this “serfous” novel, Mr. Wilson has merely changed his emphasis, not his methods. It ts a story of ehar- acter In which the comic !s only one of the many of the elements which make up a life. * Jane Starbird is the last scion of a California fortune that has crum- bled into oblivion. The story intro- pees her at ten—the product of an eelusive San Francisco girl's schoo! —leaving that school in the custody of an ancient famfly retainer to be taken back to the moribund, mining camp of Union Hill and the ram- shackle mansion of her fathers. The fiction is preserved that her with- drawal from school is to be only temporary, but the plain fact is that there are no funds remaining for her education-and {t {s twenty-ocd years before she again sees the World beyond Union Hill. In the old mansion Jane finds her only surviving kin—three cousins. Marcy Tedmon is a dilettante, pol- ished product of European school- ing, but helplessly impotent in deal- ing with reality. Sarah nourishes a flame of frustrate youth and beauty beneath the grim cynicism of dis- {lusionment, and eventually seizes upon an amazingly simple method of breaking her bondage and van- {shing into the world beyond the hills. Wiley, debonair and magnifi- cent even as a hopeless paralytic, keeps his lordly raiment laid out by his bed against the time when he shall rise in his old strength and rehabilitate the family fortunes on the stock market where he dissipated them. Last of all. there fs the put- tering man of all work, Seth Hacker, who has his own visions of a for- tune to be made raising turkeys but Sever quite musters energy to launch the project. For he, ike everyone else In the old mansion, ts frozen to impotence and lives in a world of make-belleve, In this atmosphere Jane grows up, in.a world so static that time scarce- ly’ exists, Trifling incidents form the milestones along the level road —the discovery of a modest store of treasure which {s to emancipate them all and which of course goes the way of the rest under Wiley’s Inept manipulations: an adolescent aftair with a neighbor boy: the visit of'a troupe of film folk who use the old house as local color. And then, at last, the burden of the years, descends suddenly upon Jane. She realizes that she is grown up—and perilously near growing old; that if she wants her “filng” she has no time to delay. How she does escape to the glamorous outer world and how her venture ends it would be unfatr to tell. I think that here Mr, Wilson manipulates Ler destiny with rather too arbitrary a hand in the strug: to shape a satisfactory Saturday Evening-Post ending. Mag: azine stories, unfortunately, must have a patterned finish, fe seldom does, It might be felt, perhi that the tenants of the old mansion—‘Ted mon’s Folly"—are too deliberately picturesque to be wholly convincing that Rere ang there the echo of Mr Wilson's broader satirical method emerges jarringly. But one can for. But even after the dubious names have been weeded out, there remains ® group of writers of whom any Joe Benjamin, S<&R TRIBUNE-HERALD Tornado Toll Is We are very many people in our midst will avall themselves of this most excellent op- portunity which the Casper National Bank offers. ’ PAGE THREE States har annually issued a procla- mation for the observance of a day of thanksgiving. ——— has presided over the destinies of the club during the past ‘ear. scthics Fhe sure that a great Since the first administration °F | Linco!r the president of the Unit Why __not_an_ Essex for Xmai known as the “@helk of Holly- wood,’? and ghis wife, Marion Nixon, screen star, are firm be- levers in plenty of outdoor exer- cise to keep one in excellent physical trim and thus en- hance one's worth in the work -a -‘day 2 Dead, 18 Hurt YAZOO CITY, Miss., Dec, 5.—VP) —Two dead, eighteen Injured and property damage to the extent of nearly a half million dollars was the toll of a tornado that dipped here Friday. More than 100 were made homeless by the twister. The two dead are negro women and five of the eighteen injured were white persons. A detachment of national guards- men was ordered here for police duty by Governor Henry L. Whit- HAROLD HAZEN HEADS =| CHEYENNE KIWANIS CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 5.—Har- old Hazen, assistant secretary of the local office of the Prairie Ol! and Gas company, was elected president of the Cheyenne Kiwanis club for the ensulng year at the election of officers, held at the Thursday lunch- eon meeting. Hazen succeeds Oscar Lamm, who world. Most every day you can find the two out for a jog on some country highway far re- moved from the city’s noise and hustle. Here they are shown on one of their usual jaunts, Bejamin, in case you don’t know, and stability, "orty to give the fla- vor of radical xperiment, and Miss state may be justly proud—George Sterling, James Rorty and Gc » vieve —_—_—_— ——o Tagegard's fine discrimination com ing somewhere between. And it Is ‘not too blatantly provincial. ‘The David Sts. convenient terms to suit Pay out of ‘income helped thousands to “BETTER HOMES.” Than a Gift of Chamberlin Furniture Co.. give these minor diucordances, In RIENMENSTE MAE Drink Hillcrest Water. If you can’t pay all cash we arrange has What Is More Fitting or Practical field, to prevent p'llage in the storm wrecked area, while reclamation | work is in progress. The tornado was preceded and fol lowed by heavy rains and. winds continued throughout © the day. ee a CHRISTMAS. 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