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fi&iews of New Books PEOPLE AND POLITICS: Observed by a Massachusetts FEditor. By Solomon Bulkley Grifin. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. l oped character and standing makes the best possible ‘Watch tower for the survey of events and movements, for the organization ©f these into bodies of significant his- toric fact. Such point of advantage HE continued editorship of .a inewspaper that has devel- is held by Solomop Bulkley Griffin, Who for forty years was the manag- ing edifor of the Springfield Republi- can. Looking back upon this fort Year term of service, Mr. Griffin has gathered out of it many notable peo- Plo, many events of political signifi- carice, many movements, of nation L en_international, importance. TOom the Wilson administration these reminiscences reach back for almost half a century evoking, along the way, politiclans and statesmen; po- litieal campaigns, conventions and clections; the rise of new men and measures; critical points in the his- tory of the country; turning points in the affairs of the world at_large. aturally, thé politics of Massa~ slon of the national pects of this theme. There is an intimacy of effect with the Whole at glve these cast that tends of opinions ‘set . The first part of the book n over to pictures of New Eng- nd life. The second part deals with © and national politics. - Different theme, these two parts are differs 150 in bpirit and treatment. The tormer has more leisure about it ;T:wro is time here for picture after y the soft. and_reminiscent phere of youth. Delightful, these other part with its recollections of politics and politicians becomes more strenuous and urgent, more pos- e in statement, more conolusive in gment. Different, and highly in- oresting because of this difference in titude that bespeaks, however, no difference in general purpose. An un- opportunity here has been met a full measure, and in # beautiful anner, out of the rich storehouse of « highly useful and influential life. THRIFTY STOCK, and Other Stories, By Ben Ames Willlams, author of lack Pawl,’ ete. New York: E. . Dutton & Co. To be sure, the drama of life is everywhere—ott on- the street, down cods, upstream tear-smudged face og’s laugh or in his hful eye—everywhere. But the thousand ne see it. Then the ihousand-and-first man ‘sees it and, just maybe, he can gather it up and hiand it over to the rest of us. Ben Ames Willlams can. He is the thou- sand-and-first_man, who can' do that very thing. You read this book of short stories. You'll see. It must call for great art to write the story— these short stories. One has a notion that knowing just when to stop, just when to withhold the hand, just what point to selze, have much to do with the making of this kind of story. Now this man appears to plck up almost anything, just a bit of #mything so that it is alive. _And out of what ap- pears to be a trifiing incident he turns off a thing that creeps into one's heart, and stirs his sympathy, ‘and blesses him with a sense of beauty, things that seem cold and unsympa- thetic. New England to the lite in its small town aspécts. This fidelity to a locality that has been of 8o great moment in the life of the whole coun. FRENCH LITERATURE DURING THE LAST HALF CENTURY. By |d! J. W. Cunliffe, author of “English Literat: During the Last Half Century,” and Plerre de Bacourt. New York: The Macmillan Com- pany. In order to comprehend adequately the last half century of English lit- erature, the student requires an out- look for a corresponding period upon French literature. The latter has been generally Influential in certain literary movements of the past fifty years. Within that time France has §lven to the novel a new purpose, new direction, practically a new form. To the short story it has contributed a special technic, created a special field. Out of France a now schoel of criti- clsm has come. Under Its initiative the drama has taken on a new pur: pose and content. It was in France t free verse first declared ftself. The book in hand gives the outlook of French literature that the English student needs. Here are reviewed, succinctly, the works of representa. tive French writers—Zola, de Mau- 't, Loti, Anatole France, Rolland, and cer- dramatists, Con- temporary poetry and the new mnovel areé analyzed in their relation to th: changed conditions of life and out < these are bearing upo whole Is arranged, sp concise, mary of facts Hographies recognize peed for further research. The whole, worked out by these two professors of Columbia University, stands as a useful expert treatment to which both the special student and the general readers, as well, may turn for infor- mation of the satisfying kind in this particular tield. HOLIDAY. By Waldo Frank, of “The Unwelcome Ma New York: Boni & Liveright. Only one day shut in here—a “holi- day.””” ¥rom one dusk to another. In the south—black folks and white. Oh, a wonderful country, where soft waters woo the land to & sumptuous fruitfulness of tree and vine and clog- ging moss. A country of curious lights and strange shadows and eerie silenqes and haunting sounds. A country of blood strains that chal- lenge life and insure death. So jt was on that holiday. A calm morning of staid movements, the growing day with simple festivals—and the quiet negro youth looked into a white woman’s eyes. One thought she look- ed into his eyes, t2o. That muet have been & mistake. Some one saw that look in the eyes of qulet and steady John Cloud. And that night—‘only the body of a man, in the alr, stays unmoved. About him flame. Beneath him night. Fair bronze body ielting in the fire” Lightning plays about one here, jarring and shocking him at 2 thousand points in this amazing needlework of electricity. An as- tounding seizure of the spirit, em- bodied in live words that sting and smite and whip witn scorpions. Sub- tle? 3 AR AR AR A A THE LAND OF FORGOTTEN MEN, ;h Edison Marshall, ithor of e of Retribution.” Boston: Little, Brown & Co. a ho région. rivalry of two men for the favor of & woman. Oddly enough, one of them s the woman's husbapd, though she ia _unaware of this. A novelist as well ag a poot takes his licen you his iy @ case in point. It is & that a -shipwreck could a man, or change him, past knowing. One won- | PO However, the way of here. And what ls licate wo rom the south dolng in Hunting for her fugitive hus #rave in order to take the body back for a home burial. The other man is a family friend, cherishing hopes out of the family bereavement, Upon this line of invention the authbr pro- duces a love story that ends as the novel reader likes to have a story end. It is, however, with the strenu- ous life in @ hard land that the ad- venture gets its value. Here the writer appears to be more at home than with the mysteries of the hu- man heart. With the sea and the long reaches of loneliness and aus- terity he 1s much more convincing and certainly much more interesting. The woman runs thin, and one of the men is an oriental mongrel of Mon- gollan complexion. Neither one sizes up with the hisband, supposed mur- derer and drunkard. A real fellow, this one, well worth better objects upon which to expend- a.genuine brand of manliness. - THE UNKNOWN SEVEN. By Harry (l‘!overdule. New York: Chelsea ouse. The modern detective, deriving from Sherlock Holmes, is a captivat- ing fellow, whose extraordinary 1t an | 8! wers seem never to exhiust the ::odumy of readers.. Kingdon Cale. | hero of this {lnlenhr adventure In ;fl'mlnl.l hunting, is not materlally| man job in thi he turns off with the y apl his school. The old alchemist's dream of turning baser metals into’ #gold through of mod- | ern pseudo-sclence provides the vil- lainy upon which. Cole exercises his wers. A secret soclety, led § “the unknown seve! . New and combina~ other here in a growing complexity of mysterious adventure. The matter ends abrup! 1y, leaving & question that the-read would like to have answered. What' the reason that there is no word about the young woman? One is de- lghted that Cole and the doctor el caped from what appeared to be th unescapable—but why leave the girl in whet was & clear extremity when last we had word about her? THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Library .and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Biography. 4 A, W Viscountess. My, Two Countries. . E-As$s, Baring, Maurice, The fi’\lflpel Show of Memory.: E-B23b. | Werner, M. R." Barnum. B-B26sw. | Battersea. Constance de Rothschild Flower, Bayoness. Reminiscences. E-B32 - Bishop, J. B. Charles Joseph Bona- parte. E-B6367b. ‘White, 8. E. Daniel Boone, Wilder- ness Scout. E-Béiwh Burke, Edmund. Letters; ed. by H. J. Laski., B-B917a Melviile, Lowis, wua. The Life and Letters of Willlam Cobbett in England and America. 2 v. 191, . M. D. W, P. Morgan and His Wife. 96! relser, Theodore. A Book About Myself. E-DS14. mr}\m 8. S Henry TFord B- m, Foulke, W. D. A Hoosier Autobi- Ta; E-F825. . Knut Hamsun. E- Wil Légste. Boswell, Jame: ite of Samuel John- 80 Fourteen Years & W. Lincoln. E- 8L0. Punch, London. Lloyd-George. B- Li77pu. Raymond. . T. Mr. Lioyd-George. L7 T The Log-Cabin Lady; an anonymous autoblography. E-L8256. Taylor, J. S. Montaigne and Medicine. E-MT644t. Neitzsche, F. W. Selected Letters. 1921, E. Noyes, J. H. Religlous Experience. E-N8736. Rainsford, W. §. Varied Life. Cotton, E. dore Roosevelt. Baron. Johni . _The Story of a B-R1336. J. The Ideals of Theo- E-R673c0. Letters to Isabel. Distriet of Columbia Supreme Court. Eulogles dellvered on the occa- sion of the announcement of the ' ot Homn Fdwin M. Stunton. 1E-5t268di. Btlnslzl'l. Mrs. death 1870, B Cady anto: revealed in her letters. 2 v. D-St2683a smg:ndl, J. A. Letters and Papers. 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