Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
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LAS good almost kill man as kill
a good book; who kills a man kills
a reasonable creature, Gods image;
but he who destroys a good book
kills reason lf."-Milton, in Areo-
pagitica.
Gods Man, by George Bronson
Howard.
Three young men, clean-cut, eager,
full of the joy of life, yet with wholly
different personalities, plunge into that
whirlpool of passion, greed, wealth,
poverty, pleasure, and despair that
the world calls New Yorks Great
White Way. Mr.. Howard's new novel
is impressive and powerful, throwing
a mighty searchlight on the falseness
of the life that is lived by those who
set themselves up as superior to their
fellows merely because they are recog-
nized by a certain social set, with the
consequent suppression OF their
natural selves and the good that is in
them. (Bobbs- Merrill Co, $1.40).
The story of Arnold L'Hommedieu,
literally Gods Man." who through
loyalty to his friend, and in an effort
to save the family name of the hypo-
critical, unfortunately too-frequent
type of politician who was his friends
father, lost his job on a city news
paper and was accelerated along the
path down into the social depths, the
recital of which descent is a live pic
ture of phases of the great city which
cannot strike the eye of the casual
visitor Some such sacrifice as the
hero makes is needed to shock the
city into mending it's ways. The New
Yorker does not know his city till he
reads Mr.. Howard's new novel, and
the stranger to New York will have
his eyes opened to new things after
digesting these pages.
On November 2Oth, the Scribners
will publish a book by Edith Wharton,
based on her impressions and eX-
periences of the war, impressions of
the trenches, of the soldiers, of the
homes. Paris, the Argonne, Lorraine,
the Vosges, the North, and Alsace;
these are the setting of Fighting
France" The scope of the book is
suggested by the subtitle "Dunkerque
to Belforte."
The Real Man, by Francis Lynde.
Mr.. Lynde's new novel is in the
vein which he has made his own OF
late years, and combines romantic in
terest at white heat with a momen-
tOuS spiritual Struggle III Ine soul OF
the hero. The scene is laid in small
town of the Middle West, where the
young bank cashier, who is the inn
portant character and the one who
proves himself to be the authors real
man. finds himself suddenly con-
fronted with a situation of the most
tragic sort. Having the reputation of
being mere provincial social butter
fly, the shock is doubly great when
he is charged with murder, apparently
irrefutable. Although innocent, he
fees as a "hobo" to the Far West. n
transformed man with the primitive
instincts henceforth taking the place
of the former conventional ones.
Necessity calls forth all his latent
emery and opportunity develops all his
powers. He becomes the master
spirit in a big enterprise and is finally
saved from his wild and disordered
life by the love of charming west
ern girl. Thrills galore fill the book
from start to finish. (Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons, S1.35.)
SociaIized Germany, by Frederic c.
Howe.
This book is mine of information
concerning the social structure of the
country upon which the eyes of tho
world have been resting in a-more or