v ~- 'l______BT l i7 ¿i it The SundayJTribune's News and Reviews of Books and Authors i Note on James Branch Cabell The Lay Critic London Letter By Burton Rascoe ÚSa Hurst's New York The Latest Fiction FIOVRj;-- or EARTH, THE CREAM OF THE JEST, CHIVALRY, WHEN Miss Hurst chose for By Douglas GoIdrtrtg OF tX>VB, A u*?**1* *_Itkt THS UN» CERTAIN HOUR, THE CORDS OF her recent volume of short AHOPEFUL of Isabel Paterson THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'a stories the title "The Verti¬ sign the vitality) By Î***»ïf,lrNE! NECK. HEYOND I.IFE, of English letters has been THE eONKIOSST^NS OF A WEM, MEAN- it. And the of Ann'*» «^.^ juPDESN WAT. THE LINEAGE OF LICKFIELD. Published by cal City" she trespassed on IN'i; ,'OMAN, By Sto-p-a-an McK.eD.-iu. 'repetition Lady '-o. New York. the of dozens of the foundation the Doran. cliches becomes tedious. Still, for M M.tínte territory during 0 «hose with SweetiM-M and senti¬ ÉÜ. writer., and of million- of New Yorkers. past few years of a number of THE HTKONOEH INFLUENCE. By F. E. cloyod wore astute critics who have John Mill« Younir Dornn, mentality it ought to bn refreshing, trw of th«- appraised the work of Galsworthy has »aid that every "amateur" publishing house» like lemon after have failed to call man has two countries.-his own and THE JUDGMENT <>F CHARIS. By Mrs. à drop much chocolat«-«. F i mes Branch Cabell attention to that extraordi- France. which specialize in the of Baillle Heynold«. l>oran. Similarly every one in the production E. jjokegjou which makes bis very latest novel a further United States has two home towns. good books which the com¬ PERE NX IAL F. Mills Young, in "The Stronger flowering ordinary controversy rages aimed at a earliest work. his own and New York. But there is mercial around the Influence," problem novei. °*d of bis very literary Especially among his later a publisher would be afraid to question whether the The idea is hi«- enough far the length seem to difference. New York does not rc- put in his list. These of 4^_!i the scheine of each dovetail into the scheme of the main for long the American's second presses p.re usu- output of English fiction main¬ the hook, but. tac problem is stated ^ of his take on the love. The nlly run by enthusiast.., and the hooks tains a better of so baldly it seems almost mathematical »d the «hole writing character of an uninter- original home t^own, once average quality and took* human It is the this the native son moves to Manhattan, i which they turn out are nearly always than the American. Leaving out the appeal. ~Efáiscotirse. To phenomenon, which is at once a fact and an relegated to the well Enoch Ardc'Tv plot The heroin«i Esraa ^ background, forgotte printed and handsomely bound. 1 giants among English Lester, Is a »r»¦ t j* music teacher In a f continuity, Mr. Cabell himself has consciously contributed, not unless attacked, at which time the fl¬ The three? writers.Hardy, ing embers of most successful of our free-' and the like, most of whom to a South African town. Going to the high a elaborate use of loyalty may be fanne belong veldt r'or a S*>°b subtly conjunctions, by repetition and by into a flame. lance publishers are the holiday, she ma&t'' at a ^ momentary "Egoist Press," passing generation.and simply measur¬ summer hotel two men who Ja ir_z characters from his other books, but by actually setting But New York claims and receive- the "Golden Cockerel Press" and the. the promptly in ing second raters and ephemera fall in Jove, with her. It is diificuH to .rttess in genealogy to the genial task of devising a tree primacy devotion; and if is indeed "Hogarth Press," and each of them has each see her choice falls Paul ^'! family a tempestuous and jealous against other, expressed opinion why upon and heroines. which infu.es passion given us books of first-rate interest, soems to lean to the side of the Hail'tiii, morose, seltnuh, idle man and £ to*** every one of her swains which not English a confirmed and drunkard. Not one might otherwise have found solitary But ff th'. were an actual continuity, more tangible than that fluid ab- will let ài^y other claim her their into none the less. They have more finish, she loves him. lie acquaintance. Kach resident lifts his way print. The "Egoist their reforms, temporar¬ .-" are cat! the life force; if it were merely a tireles_ nose Press" is, the oldest of the three and say champion«, more charm and ily; they are married, but as he take« r*CÎ1!/ reiteration and at the ether and exclaims "You the most no work of kind he don't ' has distinguished record. Dur- depth. They know their ¡business better. up any naturally r of character?, Mr. Cabell'p work would have an unbearable know the half of it, dearie." into his old vicl«. rtcw«-*é. This hugging of the ing the past six years it has issued But de thry? relapses While drunk ^ )m tj.jg apparent continuity has no more material to skyscraper city the p< ems of T. S. Jamen Joyce's he accidentally pushes his wife down ,Äoto *' one's bosom, this assertion of ex- Kliot^, The first business of a of stair:-. jjgg t>,,, thread of lineal descent. To insist elusive and "Portrait of the Artist As a Young a novelist is flight HI« «remora« for this upon it is to special familiarity, is not, ufan" and "Tarr" and "The De¬ to tell a story, to act takes th«.« eoctraordinatry form of ^^ obscure'!, the epic of Mr. however, surprising. New York is like Caliph's keep something hap¬ into the wilds, bis rtistence^i^CÖrt' ^ range Cabell's creative The Truth.an absolute concert in sign'*1 by Wyndham Lewis, it is now pening. And there are an disappearing leaving is to fail to observe that he has treated in rumored th-.t an EïigtisJ. edition of astonishing «Aife very ill and quite iiunformtd of 3 It his many books theory, yet bo intricate and extensive ":''-,. lea" will number of English novels in which not his whereabout!. His idea is to stay as to he no he published by this ainsoring of human action, and that his themes have been the comprehended by one. "'¦ ii b.rs I hone enough happens to justify their form .-way nntil he can gire up drink. Later ." Each New Yorker; seeing in the city only. and ni» d«ath is ^^ -; impulses which have in them heroic Each that which he trust that the en.erptfise may boa sue- and length. An American writer would repone«!, with circumstan¬ qualities. desires, exhibits his tiny c.iä!*.; it is certainly tial confirmation. Alter tone j*e volume has the unity and harmony of a and detail under the title, of the entire courageous. easily condense one into a short story; Esme marrie«- !__ "te complete separate canvas. * ? . « widowhood. naturally ^. .. if he spun it out to novel h*- the suitor she re- excellent reason that with the consummate skill of an artist This The "Golden Cockerel" I length again, taking fir«t Manhattan scope, this versatil¬ press lives, would find an j«M:ted, a very decent sort of fellow. in each book with one this eri.whli.-i~ the re, in Sonic hardly American pub¬ ._ cerned exclusively definite heroic impulse ity, of individual Buckinghamshire, She is content with him. They havs a is part of the city's peculiar charm. or ¦¦.-. mu ¦:¦. from London. lisher, and assuredly not an English " whom Esme i_d its frustrations. .'en.*, baby girl, adort-í, The*i The bobbed-haired girl from Bad Axe,' in .o-operr-tive one. That may be because the short returns the first husband. He has been It - of course, that like the fruit of the tree of pro .-ioTi"--whatever that true life, Mr. Cabell's Mich., ban find lier place in the Follies; may :tory market in Ergland is to the- war, a prisoner in for" a the Ober!in can be at home in an. (It suggi to me, extremely Germany from first graduate -.. ¦¦....¦¦ s» an three What is progeny sprang conceptual germ."in the beginning the .iiiijaMnr-waMB-M«. ',-v.--i..---a cot- limited, English author who has years. Esme to do? Broadway Tabernacle Church; or, pleasant country an idea c-f env kind must make it a Ilallam has no doubts, nor con¬ That animating idea is the that if life 7yhe above is a '.''(I a of enough assumption may perhaps the situation is reversed. At reproduction of one of the nineteen, original woodcuts by group young novol or Here arc three ex¬ sideration to keep from thru»; ^' rate no high ideals and nothing. Ehave an aim it must be an aim to terminate in success and any there i. limit to the vari¬ made by as illustrations wavy hair.) hibits which hover on such a situation. Be expects her to ety of types of life offered. Irnairine Henry Barthelamy for "Count Mórin, Deputy," he h t a the result of "oo~operation" those dubiously-between it the high, fine importance of the or Anatole or n t, its painful alternatives. They be¬ return to him.and she does! To an postulates excess, choice the divergent New Yorks of Mayor by France, translated by J. Lewis May, and publications have all been a. to the American reader «eems just published by di t to the eye, while in A. E. long order of literary confec¬ she incredible, rv of an overwhelming impulse in life and a conscientious dedica- Hylan, Mrs. WHiurd Straight, Egmont Dodd, Mead & Co. Cop-¡ tions, trille» to which is all that saves her from John paid it has discovered a poet and short- airy whipped up a being of one's to its fullest realization. is Arens, Roach Straton-, Mary Hay froth to give them bulk. irritating. It is almost a good novel. energies ït the quality and and Garrett story writer of unusual charms. Mr. . * * Mary Hay. first »< « . tensity of the dream only which raises men above the . « . Coppard's book, "Adam and Evo biological norm, und Pinch is to ,\!r McKenna's "Well Wo The plot of "The Judgment of the dream which Me," likely acquire Meaning Charis"-- -au _rd it is fidelity to differentiates the exceptional figure, wonder, then, that the reader A Novel of the considerable "first edition" value be¬ man," Lady Ann Spenworth, confesse« obviously manufactured WHATseizes with and with Congoo fore have to ti^le is more, tenuous, although il the m&n of heroic stature, from the aimless curiosity « many years passed. indirectly many handicaps, whicl muddling, mediocrities _ _ about of _ she I wo ladies fall i- What the dream is matters not at something porcupinity a volume The Hogarth Press has its head- valiantly endeavors to present a Jam all.it may be a dream of saint- which calls itself "The Vertical City,'' By Will Cuppy quarters at Richmond and specializes assets. As a peer's daughter .she ha times. Chans Osbourn««, daugi«'«¦.: "a Lord run- hood, kingship, love, art, asceticism or sensual pleasure.so as it is just like that. Will it be the New York BATOUALA. By RENE Maran. Trans¬ in translation« from the Russian, its little niche" in society, withou Ringland, away from home long of Edith Whnrton, of 0. of lated from regarding objectivity no fi«g as to sup¬ latest is enough to maintain it. to escape s too suitor whom 'oily expressed with ail the resources of self. It is this sort Henry, tho Frenen by Adele Szold publication the native and money She ha her persistent of comple- Julian Street? Will it concern the Seltzer. Thomas Seltzer, 1<3Z'¿. press any reflections that others might rather painful autobiography of Count- a good-natured drifter of a husband family urge upon her. Working or ess and as a in London, she lion or its ironic frustration which Mr. Cabell has elected to depict in all cabarets Convent Avenue'.' Or will attribute to me," he tells us. Obvious¬ Sophie Tolstoy, which has been a thoroughly worthless son. Sh typist stumbl s it, perhaps, picture, one or moro of the ICHTY in war, cruel as the translated Mr. S. is a snob and a fool, into the« arms of a Canadian million¬ fligwork; the complete sensualist in the ly he thinks the only course for a nov¬ by Koteliansky and constantly cadgini Demetrios, complete phrase maker many foreign infiltrations? panther he was the Mr. Leonard Woolf. on her more prosperous or aire who wants a secretary. It may be the hunted, elist with is to kin, upo she in Felix Kennaston, complete poet in Marlowe, the complete lover in The reader's bristling, however, is c h ief Batouala feelings write prefaces. * * the nouveau riche. Her chief anxiet supposed marries the millionaire, In each he has uncalled for. Miss Hurst has not told Batouala, But God is good. the The is to find a good job and a rich wife fo which supposition would be erroneous. Perion. shown that this complete M the of so Forget preface. Sitwell family continues to en- self-expression is mokoundji more more about fields already explored, nor many In spite of his -esthetic and liven literary London by its pranks. her scamp of a boy. All these item The tale has ingenuity than that. gihieved at the expense of all other possible selves, and that herein lies has she surveyed any new areas. The villages. Beautiful and schooled in love missionary Osbert Mr. McKcnna pitilessly compels her t It is quite a clever and pleasing little preoccupations, Rene Maran "can write. Sitwell, who is one of the best reveal however the tragedy of the ideal. Perfection is a flower and is title of the book is the only essentially was Yassiguindja, Batouala tho mo- satirists we have had for through her own mouth, alie story, thin: the character«« ere costly cultured New York which it "Batouala" itself is A [ has many years, the manner of Mr. E. F. Benson wit nicely differentiated and the hero de¬ a strict husbandry. quality suggests. koundji's favorite wife. And there was suporb. strange, revived with great effect the eight- cnlyby All the stories are laid in Manhattan, exotic work, with many points of excel¬ teenth century lampoon. His particu¬ his characters, but never so deftly an cidedly likable. The millionaire is All this is, we see, the ideational it is true, but not so. The Bissibingui, the family friend, the tall¬ lar amusingly as Mr. Benson. It is .ikillfi rather preposterous. His home address gonfalon under which surge the essentially lence, it will live on, I think, by the bètes noires are Messrs. J. C. for romanticists; but from the evidence at hand it is the banner tale, which bears the same name a_ the est, strongest youth in Ubangi-Shari, Squire. Edward Shanks and others of all that, but the picture is too dis appears to be simply Ontario, Canada, to which life collection of stories, concerns a girl, the eteroi-.l tprtium quid. simple, powerful story that it tells of the "London who agreeable throughout for entirely goo A citizen of the world could hardly bears It is in the Mercury" group, It has a also allegiance. humanity's records that it has reserved its a Liliom, a Coney island and a foreseen They have their chief Batouala and his yassi and award each other prizes and laudatory reading. kind of ill-nature i sound more spacious. its tragedy. It take in the given potent blood, reviews with such jenors i"or romantic figures, it remembers its Caesar, its great saints might place these vivid, lustful to René her lover, Bissibingui. depressing regular- its sinners. underworld anywhere, or more likely Africans, ity. He brought in to me yesterday find great It applauds, with a complete suspension of moral nowhere. Maran's "Batouala," so that the book the MS. of his latest effort," which is jjudgment, its heroines and its heroes who achieve the greatest self-realiza- "Guilty," a boarding-house story hav¬ lives mightily. This novel of native could resist this tale of pas¬ called ".lolly Old Squire and Shanks':3 ïrvin Cobh's First Novel And ing a bizarre plot, and "Back Pay," life in the WHOsion in its blood-red Mare's Nest." If it ever gets published from the splendid triumphs and defeats of French Congo by a full- setting? we ftion. tragic humanity's concerning a high-class prostitute, are Yes, it is the triangle in shall have some fun. It will be in- individual strivings have come our of smartly told, but have no ear¬ blooded negro, crowned last year with Ubatigi-Shari. to see how the J. POINDEXTER, COLORED. By Irviji has no money of his own. The heritage wisdom and of poetry. especial A tumescent of love in¬ teresting "Squirearchy"': R. Cobb. O