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The Anchor (1930, Volume 02 Issue 05) Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC The Anchor Newspapers 5-1-1930 The Anchor (1930, Volume 02 Issue 05) Rhode Island College of Education Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/the_anchor Recommended Citation Rhode Island College of Education, "The Anchor (1930, Volume 02 Issue 05)" (1930). The Anchor. 17. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/the_anchor/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. crHBANeHOR All College Number R.. I. e. B. Compliments of Compliments of Senior B Class Junior B Class Compliments of Compliments of Sophomore A Class Freshman A Class PATRONIZE THESE ADVERTISERS FEMININE FOOTWEAR Compliments of Style in footwear is no longer Sophomore B Class seasonal. New styles are almost daily arrivals at this shop. 4 H. A. HOSKINS INC. 355 Westminster St. You will find delicately prepared food at DREYFUS RESTAURANT WASHINGTON STREET PROVIDENCE, R. I. Banquets Dinners Parties PATRONIZE THESE ADVERTISERS , The Adam Sutcliffe Co. Central Falls Rhode Island ADVERTISING PRINTING The editor and members of the hoard wish to extend sincere thanks to the student body, faculty, and alumni for their co-operation in promoting the growth of The Anchor. We hope that the fine spirit shown will continue and that the Anchor of the future will shine among the highlights with other college magazines. PATRONIZE THESE ADVERTISERS THE ANCHOR Published by STUDENTS OF RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE OF EDUCATION PROVIDENCE, R. I. General Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Editor--in-Chief ................... ANNA F. FLYNN,'31 Assistant Editor ................ GERTRUDECOLEMAN, '31 General Business Manager . ............ ,SARADELUTY, '3 3 Secretary Treasurer . ............... ESTHERCARROLL, '3 2 ASSOCIATE EDITORS N_ews ........................ MARYM. SULLIVAN,,30 Literary . .••.•................... FRANCESDOWNEY, '30 ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Circulation and Subscription ........ JEANETTECASEY, '32 Production ............... MARGUERITEST. MARTIN,'30 FACULTY COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION Professor Robinson Professor Sherman Professor Waite Miss Thompson .~ _1....... 'W'II ............... '~"" RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Vol. II Providence, R. I., May, 1930 No. 5 Faculty The Woman of Andros by 'Thornton 'N._iven Wilder New York, 1930 Albert and Charles Boni 162 pages $2.50 Reviewed by Thomas Herbert Robinson, Professor of English. HE writings of Thornton Wilder credit three novels and a volume of T should appeal to the members short plays which have brought to him of this College. ~fr. Wilder has been well-deserved prestige as a novelist, a schoolman. He is another recruit a stylist, and a young man well read in the long line of writers who have beyond his years. gone from the schools to the \,.rider Thornton Wilder belongs to a field of literature. choice race of authors. He retires Mr. Wilder is a young man, about into his study where he closets himself thirty,two years old. He belongs to with his books and pores over many the post-war group of young writers of them. From the circulation of who are proving to those people who ideas v.1hich his reading sets up in his placed confidence in them the promise imagination, he distills books- books of their undergraduate days at Yale fragrant with literary allusions, bitter College. Stephen Vincent Benet, with wisdom from the pages of dead with whom we are familiar as the masters , and sweet and almost honey, author of "John Brown's Body,,, and like to the taste of the pleasure-seeker John Farrar are members of the same in the realm of literary style. It is interesting group. his bitter,sv1eetness which is most dis, After his university career, Mr . appointing to some discriminating Wilder held a scholarship at the readers. We may be entirely wrong American Academy at Rome. In his in the account we have given of his capacity as a master at Lawrenceville method of work. We have simply School in New Jersey, he had further given our impressions. It is best to opportunity to gain experience and to let such a genius speak for himself. order his tµoughts before embarking Mr. Wilder has summed up his definitely on his career in literature. literary creed in a letter which he At the present time, he has to his wrote to his friend, Mr. Norman 109 ◄ THE ANCHOR ► -----------..: <Cl s=::=------------- Fitts, the critic. "It seems to me that status. In developing this theme, the my books are about: What is the author goes into the realm of puzzling worst thing the world can do to you, abstractions of life and love and and what are the last resources one death. The characters search for the has to oppose to it? meaning of life; they are bafiled by it. "In other words: When a human Life is presented as a tragic spectacle. being is made to bear more than a All the characters are thwarted by it human being can bear, what then? in one way or another. But there is in this book a determined effort on " 'The Cabala' was about three 'ex, the part of the principal characters to tremities,' three 'nervous breakdowns.' summon courage to live out frustra, " 'The Bridge' asked the question tion and despair. whether the intuition that lies behind love was sufficient to justify the des­ The action, such as it is ( it is peration of living. chiefly mental and emotional activity " 'The Woman of Andros' asks that is set forth in the novel) , occurs whether Paganism had any solution on the little island of Brynos in the for the hopeful inquiring sufferer, and Aegean Sea, within sight of another -by anticipation-whether the hand, island, Andros. At the opening of ful of maxims about how to live that the story, nightfall is pictured as fall, entered the world with the message of ing over the whole Mediterranean Christ was sufficient to guide us world. A more charming device for through the maze of experience." awakening expectancy in the reader cannot be found. You will read it on It is interesting, but not germane pages seyen, eight, and nine. to an appreciation of it, to note the author's citation at the beginning of Two fathers of Brynos, Simo and the book. "The first part of this Chremes, are discussing a customary novel is based upon the 'Andria,' a marriage agreement of the ancient comedy of Terence who in tum based world whereby Pamphilus the son of his work upon two Greek plays, now Simo, is to wed Philumena, the lost to us, by Menander." Mr. Wil­ daughter of Chremes. Pamphilus is der, however, has dropped characters slow about reachi11g a decision con­ from the original play, eliminated cerning the wedding day. Simo, his complications, and knavery from it, father, despite Chremes' pressure, altered its locale, changed its prevail, will not hasten matters. ing note, and devised a different end, Pamphilus, along with many other ing. The plot and meaning of the young men of Brynos, frequents the novel are characteristically his own. home of Chrysis, a courtesan from The characters are his. The anguish Andros, who has brought to the island of which their tragedy is composed all the refinements of the Greek civ, has sprung from his own view of life. ilization of Alexandria and the liter, The theme which underlies the ary memories of Athens in its great novel is ever with us. It deals with period. Stately Chrysis, a hetaera, the problem of a young man in a is without a doubt the principal char, small community who wants to marry acter of the novel-a poetess, a phil, out of his social class. It is difficult osopher with a mind full of maxims, to do it today. In Greek days, it was a giver of wisdom as well as of joy. even more difficult for a young man Pamphilus sought her because of his to marry a foreigner without Greek vague love of philosophy and not for 110 ◄---- THE ANCHOR ► -- ----------IC ;..:.%C =--------- ---- amorous commerce. Chrysis was ago, insoluble problems of what some men nizingly fluttered by the devotion of call fate. The author does not dig so the serious-minded, priestlike youth. deeply into human beings that he Chrysis guarded closely her young leaves them indistinguishable. He sister, Glycerium, whose innocent follows the dictum he set forth in feelings and movements suffuse the "The Bridge of San Luis Rey,,: ..The whole plot with pain. She and Pam, whole purport of literature is the no, philus fall in love. Tragedy follows. tation of the heart. Style is but the His problem is either to marry Phil, faulty, contemptible vessel in which umena according to the agreement or the bitter liquid is recommended to to marry Glycerium and suffer a life, the world. Perseverance in affec, time of sullen acquiescence from his tion-To have nothing to go by ex, family and their neighbors. Solution cept this idea, this vague idea, that in either way would have brought there lies the principle of living.,. sorrow. There are in the novel unbroken unity, a beautiful logic of unfold , Chrysis dies. Her dying statement ment, an increasing train of thought to Pamphilus is the keynote of the to the end, a disciplined style and wisdom which is set forth in the chiseled perfection of form (a trifle book; namely, acceptance of the aches grave, as needed), a subtle rhythm of of existence as well as the joys, and structure, and a strong infusion of praise of both. You can read it for poetry. yourselves on pages one hundred to one hundred and seven. Eventually, There is in it some of the elegance P~mphilus attains to it on a rainy of Terence.
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