Arizona republican., 1919-05-25
LITERATURE AND ART
 .. Conducted by LEW HEAD

 enter the conflict, even after the hor- TOTS of submarine warfare had been revealed. and the various other phases of the nations mood, just before it galvanized into eagerness to get into the war. H.M.
 THE SILENT MILL is another one of the now celebrated grewsome tales of Hermann Sudermann, pub lished, this time, by Brentanos New York. There is always a. feeling that possesses me, whenever I pick up a Sudermann tale, that I will not lay it down until I have finished it. This is fortunate, for Sudermann is not long drawn out He never dfsappoints those who seek in literature that sor- did, yet most artistically constructed, plot that this author invariably de- velops.
 Three brothers introduce the tale. One, the eldest, is owner of a terrible temper and while under it's sway, acci- dentally kills the middle, one. The grief is so weighty that he dedicates the remainder of his life to a strong affection for the youngest boy. In time, the latter goes into the Uhlan service, leaving home and the owner snip and operation of the old mill to the older brother. The latter, during the youngsters absence, becomes very melancholy, missing the object of his devotion and suffering the tortures of his accusing memory. As a relief against the terror of his own recollec- tion, he meets and falls easily in des- perate love with young and beautiful neighbor girl.
 The time of his service expired, the | young Uhlan, with the spiked mus 1 tache and natty bearing, suddenly re- turns home. Upon meeting the young wife of his elder brother, the lad is deeply impressed by her, chiefly on account of her similarity of age with
 his own and the playful, mischievous
 nature she has. The affair grows rap l idly on her part toward him, while on hls part there is a, constant struggle
 between his respect for his own broth
 CT and his increasing love for the girl
 wife. Left much with him, she soon
 recognizes that he is a far more suit able mate for her than is the morose
 and, at times, melancholy husband.
 The tale comes to a rapid crisis when
 their love is mutually bestowed. The
 lad is overpowered with the knowledge l
 leaves the home; indulges in prodigal
 habits, and in 8 state of abject disso- | lutness he is found and urged to re-
 turn by the great hearted brother. h. stead. he escapes and prepares to leave
 the country. Calling to bid the wife | farewell, he is persuaded by her to
 take her with him. Succumbing to the temptation, he prepares for the elope- ment, when the affair is discovered by the brother with great anger. Search | ing for the recreant couple in the dark. bearing an axe with which to finish his purpose, the two brothers meet on the sluice gate of the mill which col lapses and both are drowned Intense- | ly significant is the last sentence that Sudermann pens:
 She is expiating the great crime which is youth
 1.-THE JERVAlSE coMEDY- by J. D. Beresford (Macmillan). It is sin cerely to be hoped that the writings of Galsworthy, Drinkwater, Wells and the other modern English novelists who have joined in the attack, will work a lasting reformation among our English friends of the upper class. There ap- pear to be few reforms more desira- ble. few of the most desperate cases could stand civilizing quite as needful- ly as the bolshevists. So far as the knowledge of the little social amenities of life go, they require a brand new start. They need to be taught that a proper consideration of the rights and feelings of those about them is one of the first and, by far, most important of life's lessons. That inoslence and habit of insulting people, right and left, so peculiar to the Briton, is a thing of the past, as is the barbarism of the middle ages. They need to be awak- ened from their snug self-complacency and from their false ideas of inherited rights and privileges, and made to see that the world is fast turning from the worship of their god of respecta- bility to a deeply sincere reverence of the God of love. Unfortunately, they have been so impervious to criticisms and so determined that, come what may, their tight little isle" and their way of seeing things shall not change, that it has seemed impossible to reach them. In his description of Lady Char lotte, in Joan and Peter, Wells has given us a splendid likeness of "the female of the species" After dwelling upon her dense ignorance, he says: Her style in contradiction is very good her insults were frequently wit ty; she could pretend sto love horses