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THE Reviews of New Books|™E PUBLG LIBRARY THE DON JUANES. By Marcel Pre- vost, author of “Les Deml- Vierge: ete. Translated by Jenny Covan. New York: Brentano's. ON JUAN is not always of the male persuasion. Marcel Prevost here admits it. The qualities that go into the making of this particularly devastating brand of human are sometimes dealt out to the female of the species. It is of these—of the “Don Juanes"—that this outspoken and cleverly analytical writer deals in this novel. The female Don Juans of the world are a war product; that is 1o say, the war definitely com- 1nenced the process of knocking down tae artificial barriers that custom and tvadition had built around women on the false assumption that they were of a fundamental nature different from men. The difference is, as a matter of fact, hardly skin déep. It 18 no more than a matter of denial and concealment. In the liberalized atmotphere created by the war M. Prevost . depicts the different reac- tions of four highly individualized women to this new era of personal freedom. This author is straight, both In his seeing and In his words. 17 There is not a doubt in the world as} tion and adaptability of this artist to the soundness of his psychology, as this is objectified in the acts and attitudes of one or another of the women with whom he is at the mo- ment concerned. The four in their contrasted feelings and urges and be- haviors project, in sum, certain char- acteristics of the general social con- dition, not only of France and the rest of Kurope but of the world it- self, wherein women are stepping de- liberately and freely out into the open. The peculiar French clarity of mind and precision of exnru-lon are at their highest in this study by a French writer of acknowledged dis- tinction. MY BOOK AND HEART. By Corra Harris, author of “The Circuit Rider's Wife,” etc. Illustrations by Frederic R. Gruger. Boston: Houghton, Mifiin Company. This autobiographic account is in reality but an expansion and elabora- tion of “The Circuit Rider's Wife” and the other Corra Harris novels, which, one now sees, are but single designs picked out of the full pattern of life disclosed by “My Book and Heart.” That which made direct appeal in the novels makes the same appeal in the autobiography. In both one sees the same gallant heart in command. In both one feels that sense of humor that, instead of slamming the door in the face of hardship, invites it in to talk matters over, until finally hard- ship walks away, ashamed of itself under the smiling ridicule with which it has been met. In “My Book and Heart” we find more of fact and cir- cumstance than in the novels, but no other difference, since all are sourced in the same hopeful and smiling philosophy. Here is the story of childhood in the South during the hard years of reconstruction. Not long after it becomes the story of early marriage to a youth of serious bent—one temperamentally leaning toward a mission that found fruition in the career of a Methodist preacher. Tt is from this period that the stories grew. One catches significant phrases—a sick husband, attendance upon him from morn till midnight, writing from then till dawn, and so on through vears of equal stress and strain. There'is a daughter, her mar- riage, the death of the “circuit rider” himself—all woven into an account whose courage never lags nor fal- ters. This is probably the best of the Corra Harris stories. That is saying a good deal. It especially like the last of it, because it reaches a beau- ti£ul climax of rich deservings. Down in Georgia there is an old log cabin, built 100 vears ago by a Cherokee chief. Deep woods surround it. There Corra Harris lives. There she wrote “My Book and Heart.” There we leave her, happy in her happiness, and grateful to her besides. THE SHORELESS SEA. By Mollie Panter-Downes. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. They meet, the boy and girl, just as boys and girls have been meeting since the world began to go round. They love, of course. The accident that brought them together then sends them apart, but only after the seed of affection had grown to g beau- tiful blossoming. Later the girl is married. Still later she again meets the boy of those lovely voung days. There the real strength of the story begins. For there the girl for the first time finds out what life is really about. There is no doubt about her love for the boy mor of his for her. But a fine fellow of a husband stands in between. And what is one to do? That is the question for this girl to settle, and anybody will be both in- terested and impressed with the an- swer that she finds as its olution. So much for the story itself. But there is a good deal to be sald for the qualities that forward it on its way. In the first place, it is a story of youth. Not a voung story. There is much difference between the two. Here is the buoyancy of young days with hope and beauty and innocence and grace as its handmaidens. There is that out-reaching of youth after a world of wonder and invitation—here all on the side of aspiration and achievement. These natural yearn- ings come out here in descriptions of great beauty, in meditations that are poetic and rare. Then, too, there is the courage of youth here, daring to attack artificial conventions. For In- stance, one of these which the writer opens up is the delusion of family affection and loyalty. Sometimes these no not exist. There are family antagonisms and disloyalties. There are such in the family of this girl. | The author is frank and open about the situation. Wholesomely 80, too, since It is a truth with which she is dealing. There are other evidences of youth and courage in the writer of this book. And it turns out that this,novelist is only about 16. One wonders what she will do next. Rather if she can do it again. If she can, this is genius. Let's wait in hope for so great an outcome. EPITHALAMUM. By Jacques Char- donne. New York: George H. Do- ran Co. - The Northcliffe prize story, brought over from the French into English for a more general circulation of the .qualities that secured for it this dis- tinction. The theme is the common- est in the world—love, courtship, marriage. The universal adventure i cast here along the mid-levels of common life—neither great heights nor depths to distort it away from anybody's partaking of it as akin to his own personal adventure. Its power does- not lie in the direction of heights and depths. Rather in the calm beauty of its development, in the deep tenderness of its spirit, in its fidelity to the workings of the human heart, in its seizure of the true sources of human action. Albert and Berthe are the center of this simple story. Around them people come and go, all acceptable and be- lievable because all are woven of the elements that go into the making of @ach of us. Birth, environment, oc- cupation, have produced these folks, just as.they have produced us. In inelr own place they move as nat- —:ally and expectediy as we do in ours. It 1s this realism—a broader realism than that which lays out and life but a thing of genuine beauty as well. WEITE LIGHT NIGHTS., By 0. O. Melntyre. NewaYork: Cosmopol- itan Book Corporation. Writers of the O. 0. McIntyre stamp are to places what scientists are to the natural world. Without them we should wander through an inextri- cable jumble of multitudinous and bewildering facts. They group things that belong together, setting out their identifying features, interpret- ing their uses and their meanings. They gather the trees into forests of special feature and habit and mean- ing, for instance. This is what O. O. McIntyre does for the big chaos named New York. Out of its monot- onous bewilderment of buildings and streets he picks up, say. Union Square, the Bowery, Greenwich Vil- lage, Fifth avenue, what not. To each he gives not only its face and feature but, better even, he gives to it that which it has built into its spirit through the uses and adven- tures of its existence. These points and localities take on personality and atmosphere, which is the only thing about them that is at all worth while. More than this, through the divina- each of these expresses itself in its own particular vernacular. By way of him you come into a clear ac- quaintance with that stately person- age, “The Avenue,” or that quaint old character, “The Bowery,” or that wild-eyed damsel, “Greenwich Vil- lage.” Individuals also cross your, path here—Paul Whiteman, king, probably the one that most clearly embodies the spirit of a con- spicuous part of the great city it- self. The best story of all, however, is not about New York at all. In- stead it is about the writer's dog, who appears to have taught him more about really worth-while human behaviors than the whole town put together. If 1 were in his place, I'd pick that story out and dress it in the garb that it merits and send it here and there, not only in honor of the clearly deserving dog but for the sake of letting thousands of human beings in upon the proper behavior of humans, THE PINES OF LORY. By J. A, Mit- chell, author of “Amos Judd,” etc. Decorations by Albert D. Blash- field. Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Co. You may have read this story 20 years ago or more In that case you will be able to bear witness to the fact that time has not staled ft, that it has not in the very least grown old-fashioned or otherwise dimmed. | Its adventure is as fresh as this morning. Its flavors are exactly those of these sky-larking days by land and sea, where it is as easy as nothing to get marooned or lost or strayed, as these three did. The third one was the dog. The other two were the man and the girl—ripe for ro- mance as well as for adventure. All set, under the pines of Lory, on an island bitten off the coast of France, the gay adventure grows as the bright days follow one another toward the not eagerly desired day of deliver- ance. A sparkling story, whose points of clear suspense hinge upon the growth of romance that is young and hopeful and clean. No social problem smudges the development. That s one advantage of its having been written before literature had lost its mind on the subject of prob- lems of unsavory and uninteresting character. The ather advantage is that of its fresh and immediate charm and appeal. WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? By Harrington Hext, author of “The Thing at Their Heels,” etc. New York: The MacMillan Company. As a matter of fact, the answer is that nobody did. An unfair dis- closure? It would be were there not enough of mystery and susperise left for half a dozen tales without this single seemingly crucial point. The mystery story nowadays follows a set pattern. We know the formula. It opens with the crime, some one done to death at the hands of a per- son or persons unknown. The action thereafter follows the familiar pur- suit of many clues, out of which, finally, the true one emerges under the masterful activity of an extrava- gantly nonchalant and casual super- detective. This one follows a differ- ent plan. Here certain conditions are clearly defined, motives are devel- oped, ‘these are openly transformed into action. The reader himself goes along as suspicion arises and shapes thereafter the course of a singularly unobtrusive sleuth—a dull little man, he appears to be. “Jenny Wren” and “Cock Robin.” so called from baby- hood by their fond father, are the twin daughters of ah archdeacon. These are the chief figures in this romance. And the reader follows them through a pleasant story of girlhood and courtship and marriage. Just over this line one of them, ut- terly self-seeking, as it furns out, becomes gradually embittered at her husband's inability to make her a rich man's wife. Disappointment brings indifference, and then dislike, and then hatred, which works itself out in a peculiarly ' ingenious and vindictive line of retaliation and re- venge. A plausible invention? Off- hand, no. But in the face of every day's print one hesistates to assign implausibility to even the most sur- prising, even the most heinous of human behaviors. Rather let us here speak of a well constructed story that takes up a curious line of cir- cumstances and carries it forward consistently on the basis of human selfishness and the vanity of a woman. TAKES BANDIT'S GUN, KILLS HIM WITH IT War Veteran, Remembering Trick Taught Him by British Officer, Victor in Hold-Up. By the Ausociated Press, CINCINNATI, August 16.—Remem- bering a trick taught him by Brit- ish army officers during the World War, Robert J.- Blake, Syracuse, N. Y., former assistant trainer of race horses for Bud Fisher, cartoonist, dis- armed a bandit who attempted to hold him up here early today, and killed him with his own weapon. Blake surrendered after the shoot- ing. He sald he was walking along the street when the bandit stuck a revolver against his ribs.. “I grabbed gave it a fon of it.” Blake said the bandit started to run and “I followed, firing as I ran. After I fired five shots the bandit crumpled and fell dead.” Blake, when arraigned in police court, was dismissed. The court con- gratulated him. R BANKER AND BLISS SAIL. NEW YORK, August 16.—Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank, and Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, Tetired, sailed on the Majestic today. the former to visit branthes of his bank in Europe, and the latter to sit as spectator at sessions of the league of nations at Geneva. Mr. Mitchell predicted that the United States would experience a con- siderable business boom this Fall. His forecast was based on a belief that there would be a great renewal of peoples a sirgle Main street—that moves the story into one’s own im- mediate world of daily personal ac- tion and outlook. Added, of course, is the crystal clearness of the writer. The two, working together, deliver over to_us not only a little section of activity among muulncmuu of goods for European expo! He declined to say -hcthor his European visit was prompted by the possibility that his institution @uight be. called .upon ‘to 'participate in L Men. the Jazz}\wells, T Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. Fiction. Anker-Larsen, Johannes. The Philos- opher’'s Stone. . The Best News Storfes of 1923, Bottome, Phyllis. The Pecfect Wife. Bromfield, Louis. The Green Bay Tree. Byrne, Donn. Changeling, Byrne, Donn. Messer Marco Polo. Canfield, Dorothy. The Home-Maker. Deland, Mrs. Margaret. New Friends in Ola Chester. De Selipcourt Hugh.. One Little Boy. The Great House in the Park. By the author of The House on Charles Street. Hudson, W. H. Fan, the Story of a Young Girl's Life. 18 Lutz, Mrs. G. L. H. Re-creations, McFee, Willlam. Race. MacMurchy, Marjory. House. Marshall, Archibald. of Anthony Dare. Minnigerode, Meade. Phillpotts, Eden. Diary. Poole, Ernest. The Avalanche. Sabatini, Rafael. Bardelys the Mag- nificent. 2 Underwood, Mrs. E. W. The Passion Flower. Waller, M. E. Deep in the Hearts of The Child's The Education The Seven Hills. A Human Boy's frs. E. N. J. False Dawn. Mrs. E. N. J. New Year's Wharton, ‘Wharton, Day. Wharton, Mrs. E. N. J. The 01d Maid. Wharton, Mrs. E. N. J. The Spark. g The Dream. Widdemer, Margaret. Graven Image. Willlams, Mrs. A. V. D. The Spirit of SUNDAY ' STAR, ‘'WASHINGTO the House. Williams, B. C. ed. Thrice Told Tales. Essays. Avent, J. M. ed. Book of Modern Es- Y-9Av; . AV. A Late Harvest. Y-El 81. Forster, E. M. Pharos and Pharillon. Y-F1778p. Hind, C. L. Life and I. Y-H5821. Jacks, L. P. Realitles and Shams. Y-J1251. King, Richard. Some Confessions of an Average Man. Y-K587s. Lucas, E. V. Luck of the Year. Y-L9611u. Morley, C. D., comp. Modern Essays, second series. Y-9M825ma. Macauley, T. B. Essay on Johnson. Y-M115eja. Dog and Duck. Saflor Town Days. Y-Sm528s. Taylor, Warner, comp. Representa- tive English Essays. Y-9T215r. Terhune, A. P. Now That I'm Fiftty. Y-T274n. White, People. A. The Editor and His Y-W586e. Travel. Dixon, W. H. Westward Hoboes. G93- DE48w. Gregory, J. W. and C. J. To the Alps of Chinese Tibet. G664-G864. Grifis, W. E. Proverbs of Japan. G67-G8T4p. McKenna, Stephen. of Providence. Muirhead, Findle: By Intervention G97-M193. and Monmarche, Marcd\, eds. Northeastern France. 1922. Ref. G39-M8%4 Nutting, Wallace. Massachusetts Beautiful. G844-N97. Nutting, Wallace. New Hampshire Beautiful.. G842-N97. Ragg, Mrs. L. M. Things Seen on the Jtalian Lakes. G356-R126t. Richardson, Leslie. Things Seen on the Riviera. G27-R396t. ‘Somerville, E. A, OE. Wheel Tracks. G42-8053w. Tatchell, Frank. eler. GD-Ti8h. — BOOKS RECEIVED. CONFUSION. By James Gould Cox- zens. Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRY. By James Myers. New York: George H. Doran Co. BUTTERCUP DAYS. By Ethel Cook Eliot. Illustrated. New York: Doubleday-Page & Co. JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL. By Wil- liam Belmont Parker. With Ii- lustrations. New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company. LIFE AS I HAVE KNOWN IT. By Walter B. Vincent. Boston: Lo- throp, Lee & Shepard Co. HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT. By Raymond G. Gettell. New The Happy Trav- York: The Century Co. INTERNATIONAL LAW. By Charles G. Fenwick, author of “Political Systems in Transition” etc. New York: The Century Co. THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERIES; ‘The Expectant Mother. By Robert L. De Normandie, M. D., F. A. C. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalis Co. THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERIES— THE VENERIAL DISEASES; Their Medical, Nursisg and Community Awpects. By Willlam Freeman Snow, M. 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