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best. the wife of such a man could have
only gift for him. And perhaps IL she
had loved him, however clearly she had
seen his attitude CT mind toward her. she
Would have accepted II as the right one
As 1t was she only saw that he was under
misapprehension. and one that must
never be put right II she had had a
personality. 1t was TO be effaced. subordi-
mated. If her married life was to be
duet. ii was one in which she must al
ways play the bass; il they were to be
one. he Xas the one they must he,
We feel that Manuella could not be
other than what she was and that her
marriage with Migotti was as inevitable
as its outcome was inexorable. We see
, the genius of the self-centered man to
whom music was his whole world, and
We understand it to such degree that We
are unable to reprehend him for his
egotism or for his thoughtlessness of
others. From chapter to chapter. through
description of failure and triumph, through
accounts Of his fervor of composition and
struggle for recognition. We find IN him
believeable genius. even though We
know that the novelist il trying to make
fiction appear like history. and although
we are certain that no such composer az
Harston Mgotti ever lived and that no
such operas as THE Chariot Queen" and
! II Traidtore" were ever written
No less, however, do We watch ManueIla
through Harston Migotti's brief career
She becomes a mother she become, the
jealous wife, when II Is a woman as we'll
as his art with whom she thinks that her
husband is in love. but through II all she
keeps in her the heart OF a child. IT Il
plausible that she. a wife and mother
before she is twenty should fail to realize
the import Of her sexual appeal to Peter
Graham, and that she should be rescued
from his protection by Lord Lyssons only
in the nick of time II may be that the
close OF the story. with a Jealous hus-
band bringing catastrophe and death into
the climax Of Misottfs great triumph.
savors OF the sensational, but since life
itself savors Of the sensational, II IL by
no means an Illogical elimination both
to the novel and to his career
DR.. WILLIAM LEROY BRorS. epmplsted nv
Thomas J.. Brown. The Meals Pubhshtnx To-.
New YORK. Prioe 500.
The glory of DR.. William Leroy Broun's
life was its usefulness, its utility. II was
not what he knew, but what he did: not
what he idealized. but what he realized
not what he visiOned. but what he made
possible, that gives his name a permanent
place among the benefactors OF his race
A university man. a college professor. a
college president, the peer of any college
bred man in the country, his life wa
not a scholarly waste, lost in abstractions
and literary reflnements.-
This book Is not memoir. The com
pliers have selected the material that
they thought fitted for the need. arranged
II in logical order. and published II with
out comment. When Vanderbilt Univer
sity was founded DR.. Broun with a corps
of eminent educators organized a course
of study. and defined its plans and poll
cies He performed the same great serv-
ice for the University of Texas. In 1ss2
he was elected president Of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. and for twenty
years he directed the work of that school
He was one Of Americas greatest
teachers