Arizona republican., 1919-03-23

ments of all kinds, and you say to | yourself: Give me the state that | nas. come through all this, and I'll | bank on her against all the others!" 1 Isn't it true that the most passionate | lover makes the strongest hater; the 1 more wicked one has been, the more vlrtuouS one will be? Arizona has gazed upon enough immortality to Sicken of it: to have learned of it that virtue is the enduring path. So, I say Arizona Wins" means that Arizona has sought and found her soul; has lived through it all; lived it all down; comes among her sister-sta the greater for what she has been. What state in the union has more to her discredit than Arizona? What state in the Union has more to her credit than Arizona? Between these two facts, she stands ears and eyes above all the other members of her family.
 Will Robinson has read and studied much to give us what he has. He had no small task when he started, for to have followed the paths that other his torians have trod would have gained him nothing. Without the introduc- ton of hitherto unpublished incidents by the multitude; without the clever V d without brand new point of view, we need not have expected very much from Story of Arizona" In this book, however, published by Berryhin Company of our own city, we have all the innovations that enable the reader, already more or less familiar With Arizona, to pick it up and read it through without duplicating more than a very few of the outstanding historical facts contained in all other histories of the state. In other words Robinson has made his own trail through the state, taking us alongside a great many features of interest that none of the others have even hinted to exist.
 1.-THE SECRET CITY" is a Hugh Walpole creation that measures fully up to what l am beginning to term d "Walpole standard" It is true with most readers, 1 believe. that they have certain almost unconscious standards in their chosen subjects and authors. Unwitungly, at times we are prone | tosay That is not to be compared with so-and-so,' so-andso in that case being the said standard. For a while, Ernest Poole was almost standard among the late Writers-is yet, as a matter of fact, so far as American stories are concerned. But, Just now, l am almost inclined to | regard Walpole as the unconscious standard among English writers. In this book, "The Secret City" is Petrograd; the action takes place just before, during and shortly after the abdication Of the cZar; the material is typically WaIpolian, mostly narra- md fF-o
 pect not to find this a war story; it is not. It is a tragedy, however; d trag- edy Of the deep-down struggle of real Russia to find herself.
 Walpole walks with you down the Nevski Prospect on the fateful nights | when machine guns rattled like the | throats of dying men; .ushers you into fashionable homes, where mere mention of Freedom and Democracy" and Liberty" were but invitations to ar 1 gument, strife and possible bloodshed; ;
 takes you to the dusty smelly session of the Duma when Petrograd went
 wild with the knowledge of her vic
 tory over the Romanoff family. And. | as you walk with this author through these historical scenes, you seem to close your hand upon his. fearing to be left alone for even a moment A l gripped the wonderful city hangs over you all the time
 In the narrative, you are almost
 made a member of the Markowitch
 family; you are impressed with the younger girl, Nina, and tremble for
 her safety as she goes to live with
 Grogoff, a husky reVolutionist you
 shudder at Semyonov: you blush al
 Bohun, the ''undisciplined" Britisher;
 you admire the stalwart Lawrence
 whom Vera, the real heroine loves, al-
 though married to Markovitch and
 you wish her godspeed as the devel-
 opment of the tale brings her closer
 and closer to the first love of her life
 I have said before, in reviews oi
 Walpole. that this wizardry in DOT.
 traying the intimate lives of his peopl,
 is unsurpassed. I repeat it. His de
 scriptive powers are no less marvel
 ous. When one can become so thor
 oughly enveloped by the spirit tha
 must have enveloped the writer whei
 he wrote. we can say that the write
 has q power that We admire. Walpolt
 makes me shiver at will; blinds me tt
 all else save that which he wishe
 me to see; moves me at pleasure iron : emotion to emotion; from pathos l.
 tragedy; from the chill banks of tn
 Neva to the warm fireside of Vera
 home. He makes me hungry for som ! of the Russian meals he describes
 thirsty for the special wines.
 But, this is a story of an impossib, love made to come true; the weir,
 tale of a disappointed man. too high l; minded to kill himself, but cleva enough to antagonize another so sue cessfully that the other saves hin
 the trouble and murders him. Ther
 is much to the book, but it is foun , in the spirit that Walpole breathe into the story of the stricken cit , where he lived when he wrote it. IA the publishers, George H. Dora company. say of it: "Drenched wit color and passion and drama a wor of art which mingles the element : of Wilkie Collins and The Golde Bowl here is the most penetratin
 picture yet given of the soul whic
 bore the worlds menace today-bol SheVism."
 l REFERRING TO RODlON again. 7 is both refreshing and delightful t | have received from Mrs. Charles ( Ellis of this city a recognition of tn artistry of Richard Mansfield in "Ro q dion, the Student" With Mrs. Eli s permission, l quote from her commu nication:
 T was greatly interested in you
 article in Sundays Republican o e 'Rodion, the Student I had the gres S privilege of seeing Mansfield as RC t dion in the old Mason Opera House " Los Angeles in either 1895 or 1S9 s Until recently, I had the program h Though quite a young girl at the tim s Ethe evenings entertainment has stoo n out in my memory through all the!
 years. I can never forget Mansfiel
 How wonderful his hands were-evt