Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1925, Page 4

eucuerrenere PAGE FOUR Books and Bookmen ‘A Column of Gossip and Opinion y TED OLSON. - THE LAKE OF THE FALLEN this thing. MOON Scme amazing things bappen to All day the thundering of water fills} the reserved American. Drawn into That throat of ‘rock beneath the | the power of the man with red hair peaks, All day through the .ove of a girl also in The pines hear, and the trail that wears a way From snow to snow in lonely granite hills. Rarely, in gold of dying afternoons, Bronzed riders driving mules from grass to grass Peer up the booming canyon as they pass And see 4 glitter like a fallen moon's Par off, between the dark of woven trees. Some say that there white chains of water fall sheer thousand feet of main- in wall, e of blackrimmed mys- Down Smiting ter es To restless light. And men might track the gleam From ledge to ledge, and reach the canyon floor, And sprawl in misted ferns beneath the roar monstrous magic the stream .. . And foaming of All day the thundering water shakes the pines, Tossing in foam against the granite wall Rare passing ridets linger at its call And search the woven branches where it shines; Always they gaze and. wonder, al- ways pass, Driying beneath the peaks from grass to grass. —Frank Ernest Hill in The New Republie, pole’s “Portrait of a 1 Hair” (Doran) is de- “a tale of adyenture.” It ll of that. It ig such a tale that most any other writer’ had dared to give it to us, minus the saving grace of Walpole’s style and intimate knowledge of character, {t would stand in danger of being dismissed as an entertaining thriller. The author sensed this and in the dedication throws out a challenge in the statement that he has here pro- duced a tale and nothing but a tale. But there are few who will agree with him, few who wilt not, if they resist the desire to read an allegory into it, at least yleld to the impres- sion that something more than the story is between the covers of the book. Crispin, the sorrel-topped gentle- man, purported to be the central fig- ure of the story, is a character pos- sessed of extraordinary materials and intellectual wealth, but of a men- tal twist that gives an impression of insanity. Believing himself to be an altruist, and desiring té bring others to higher planes by first teaching them to suffer, it is his delight to get someone into his grasp, to inflict torture, and then to show a friend: Mer side. It is his expressed phil- osophy that suffering is beneficial and that he is a little god striving to be « bigger god. Into his power comes Charles Percy Harkness. Harkness “was so shy that he was thought to be conceited, so ideal- istic that he was considered cynical, so chaste that he was considered a most immoral fellow with a secret double life. Like the hero of “Fle- geljah he ‘loved every dog and wanted every dog to love him’ but the dogs did not know enough about him to be interested; he was so like so many other imn: lately-dressed, pleasant mannered an wandering American cosmopolitans that no- body bad any permanent feeling for him—fathered by Henry James, un- cled by Howells, aunted (severely) by Edith Wharton—one of a million cultured, kindly ‘mpersonal Ameri cans seen as shadows by the mat- ter-of-fact unimaginative British. Who knew or cared that he was ionely, longing for love. for home, for someone to whom he might give his ro:antic devotion? He was all these things, but no one minded.” Ilis greatest weakness is his fear of physical pain. It is this man whom ¢we find in Yingland on his way to Treliss on the Cornish coast where he ts to ar- and where he {s to old hotel, all be- an exciting ex- an Unglish- exciting Here's an attractive Wes- rst Percolator you would be to Ask the to See your dealer. Casper Supply Co. 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DISTRIBUTORS 268 Industria) Ave. Tel. 27 the man's powet he is dsugerously near death and escapes it only after he has faced {: without ftnching. “He bad been shy of man and was shy no longer; he had been tn love, was in love now, but had surrend- ered {t; he had teen afraid of phys!- cal payn and wns afraid no longer; he had looked his enemy In the eyes and fad brone tim no ill will.” This is Harkness after he has been accomplice In an unsuccessful plan to remove the girl from the house “of Crispin, after he and his companions in flight have become lost in a fog on the coast, after he has given up the woman he loves to another who loves her, and after he has been subjected to torture in the white tower, of Crispin’s remote dwelling. . And so it is that the chief human interest in the book is not that of Crispin, an abnormal creature whose brain would furnish,excellent study in the scientific laboratory if it had not been dashed to pieces at the end of the book, but of Harkness who achieves new things in life, be- coming a part of it although he has been for so long apart from it. The tinge of the weird and the supernatural has been arriyed at in the story without sacrificing much if anything in the way of possibi!- ity, although coineidence and the finger of fate play a sufficiently large part to create anything but an air of plausibilit eee There is material for a Ph. D. thesis in the survey that might be made of the puzzling brevity of the creative period in American -poets. It is just thirteen years since that amazing efflorescence of talent be- gan with the founding of Harriet Monroe's Poetry magazine and the publication in raps succession of so many books of new vitality and orig- inality. ‘What has become of that striking group whose work was hailed as the renaissance of poetry in America? Amy Lowell, chief spokesman of the new school, {fs dead, but her last years were devoted primarily not to poetry but to her monumen- tal biography of Keats. Edgar Lee Masters has continued to issue books at lengthening intervals, but they are sorry specimens of mediocrity compared with the brutal virility of “Spoon River Anthology.’ John. Gould Fletcher has been missing from, magazines for years; I think his last volume was “Breakers and Granite” a half-decade or more ago. H. D,, never prolific, still appears aw longer. Kodaks $5 up— Brownies $ Christmas Cards If you have your own copper plate or want them printed don’t put it off any WE CAN STILLS. Hoff hine’s Becklinger Building occasionally. Sara Teasdale publish- es perhaps a half-dozen lyrics a year, Vacel Lindsay has done nothing of real significance since “The Chinese Nightingale.” Carl Sandburg writes as well as ever but his output is very scanty. His time appears ,to be occupied mostly with lectures and readings and the writing of chil- dren's books. And so the list might be multiplied. There are only three—perhaps four —notable exceptions to this general sterility. Edwin Arlington Robin- son, whose appearance far antedates the others, continues to produce Ught-locked sonnets and cerebral nar- ratives that show no diminution in his high sincerity and exquisite craftsmanship. Robert Frost, while by no means prolific, is not mute. Conrad Alken’s "Priapus,” though a re-issue, has much new work. in ‘it. And Edna Millay—but one recalls that it 1s two years and a half since her finest volume, “The Harp: We: er,” was published, and Bratth- walte's last Anthology did not lst a single poem by her. ‘Surely, at thirty-two or thereabouts, she can- not have written herself out. No graver tragedy could happen to American literature. ‘Whatever the reason may be, the fact remains that the notable poety today Is signed with names that were virtually unknown five years ago— Joseph Auslander, DuBose Heyward, Leonie Adams, Marjorie Meeker, Robinson Jeffers, George Dillon, Countee Cullen, Genevieve Taggard, James Rorty, Babette Deutsch. Will thelr tenure of the slippery slopes of Parnassus be as brief as that of their predecessors? ee ‘Truly these are creat days in lit- TODAY ORDER THE ENVER POST LATEST NEWS: BEST FEATURES 10 PAGES COMICS ON SATURDAY 7 DAYS A WEEK Anywhere in Casper 65c Per Month EARL KEENAN Agent Office at Pep’s 146 8. 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