Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-21
Literary Notes.

NOaChs
FOUNTAINS in the Sand" is a recent
publication from the firm of Seeker,
in London. 1t is notable for its OBJ
servations on the desert and its char
acteristics. To those whose interest
in the home of the Arab has been
aroused by 1.-THE Garden of Allah" or
the Arabian Nights" of Sir Richard
Burton, the book will prove enlighten-
ing. The author, however, has failed
to give due prominence to the infiu-
ence of the desert upon its denizens,
the Arabs or Bedouins. There they
show the fiery elan which brooks no
resistance and which ends only with
death. There, uncontaminated by the
vices of such homes of iniquity as
Omdurman, they give way to the
same wild fanaticism and passionate
energy which made them the terror
of Europe in the sixth century The
desert still has it's mahdis and der
wishes ready to spring into activity
and only to be conquered by the ex-
IRENE power of European guns and
munitions. Even at this day 1t is
dangerous thing for Europeans to
venture into the desert, just as it was
in the far distant days of the Omml-
ads. This fact is strikingly Illus
trated in the Italian campaign IN
Tripoli. The Italians have maintained
scarcely footing. The moment they
have attempted to advance beyond
the range of their naval armament
they have been abruptly halted with
pitiable disaster. If not disheartened
as they were in their Abyssinian cam
paigns by Oriental methods of war
fare impossible for men to face with
courage, they have been compelled to
admit the futility of their tactics.
Attacked on the desert side, the Ital-
ians are powerless. The Arab is still
uncomfortable.
Irishmen will be interested in new
edition of the autobiography of Wolfe
Tone, published at the end of the year
by Maunsel, in Dublin. 1t is recon-
mended to those who have not already
perused the book. Wolfe Tone was
brilliant revolutionary and an extraor-
binary man. 1t should be the task of a
historian endowed with at least a
share of the power of Gibbon in de-
lineating character to write his life.
He was man so remarkable that
his genius won the admiration of the
Duke of wellington. His tragic end
ing gives to his career an added
touch of dramatic interest. The
approaching full triumph of the home
rule cause is another reason why the
autobiography will be read at this
day.
Many university graduates look
often with melancholy interest upon
their Liddell & Scott as it lies I'M
opened on their shelves. Regret at
wasted opportunity, perhaps, has
much to do with this melancholy.
The possessors of the lexicon may be
interested to learn, even If they can
not now read a line of Greek, that
a new edition of the lexicon is be-
ing prepared The man who is en-
gagged in this onerous work for the
Clarendon Press is H. Stuart Jones.
The dictionary was first given to the
learned world in 1s43.
Duckworth, of London, has just
published 1.-THE Contrast" by Elinor
Glyn, to whom referred in a recent
issue of the Evening Star as having
somewhat modified the fervor of her
eroticism In 1.-THE Contrast" there
are exhibited some of the ways in
which man finds it necessary to
love a woman. 1t is needless to say
how Elinor Glyn would have man
love a woman 1t is also right to add
that Elinor Gyms theory is, perhaps,
the one most acceptable to the woman.
There are five stories in 1.-THE Con-
trast." One, fragments" is a wom
ans relation of her experience as
the wife of a paralytic. This mono
logue reminds one curiously' of play
by Beaumont and Fletcher, a really
wonderful drama, but ill-adapted for
reading or acting in modern society.