Arizona republican., 1919-03-09

hiaiu sister lie LOOKS Tor a long time upon the dainties and delicacies that nave been tastily ordered tb please the iemlnlne taste; quietly closes the door. walks softly tO his old den; carefully arranses his pallet of straw: crawls in after lighting his pipe; picks up an un- finished book; stretches himself out full length and concludes: This is the best after all"
 WILD YOUTH AND ANOTHER Sir Gilbert Parker's latest book. is a nttng successor to the authors prev ious works dealing with Canadian life. should be noted, however that Park CT has written better books. and others less interesting.
 Ihere are really two books in the volume, Wild Youth and Jordan IS a Hard Road" Both are laid in 4 ittie western Canadian town of Aska- loon. Two of the most 1ascinating characters in each book are the same, the young doctor, who is the mos; life-like and interesting, though his role Is that of a philosophical on locker and Patsy Kernaghan. a wild Irishman whose brain is characteristic ally poetic.
 Wild Youth has a plot that is
 
 sltional for the occasion. l. centers around Joel Mazadine an old Biblical hypoerlte, and his girl wife, Louise. whose mother compelled her to marry him and whose outlook on life is that or eaged canary-too colcrless to be true
 The rest of the book is very plausible. Orlando Guise. a handsome rancher, meets Louise and rouses her to life Ihey Tall In love with each other and are conveniently joined to each other after much trouble, by the murder of old Joel by a Chinaman he has mis- treated
 Jordan is Hard Road" is shorter and much more readable. It deals with Bill MiDden. train robber who reforms tO live near his daughter. who does not know him as her parent. Mlnden becomes religious and is made mayor of the town on account of his personality, though in the end he car rled out one more robbery to obtain funds for the development of a mine owned by young English nobleman. with whom the daughter is in love Minden dies unsuspected and his daughter and her successful huband live happily on the funds obtained. -O-
 DAWN" is the next book of Mrs. Eleanor Fl. Porter. ready March 29. By way of introduction she has authorized an interview that breathes a potent criticism against the predominant real ltieS of life that pervade so many of the recent publications. In this state bent, Mrs. Porter says:
 Just why the realities of life should always mean the filth and brambles. sticks and stones and stumbling blocks of our daily pathway, have never un- derstood. But such seems to be the case. To most critics there are evi- dently no pleasantly agreeable, decent realities of life But-I believe that there are, and that these pleasantly agreeable, decent realities of life may lend themselves to just as sincere and direct an interpretation of life as may the other kind.
 ! There is great difference between an idealist and a visionary. Perhaps all visionaries are idealists, but not every idealist is visionary An ideal ist may be very practical at times, believe.
 "Of course, an optimism that keeps our head in the clouds to the utter | disregard of the direction our feet are | erous. And we need sweepers for our crossings, certainly. But when these sweepers labor so energetically that their work results in nothing but dust clouds of problems to blind us, believe there Is need of an occasional reminder of the blue of the sky. the warmth of the sun, and the singing of the birds in the treetops. There is a blue sky, there is a sun, and there are birds that sing in the tree-tops. Then why should not their presence be noticed-some- times. Even if we grant that for every star and bird and sunbeam there are t thousand annoying sticks and stones and stumbling blocks in our way-then all the more reason, it seems to me, that we should make the most of the stars and birds and sunbeams that We do have.
 'Is there, then, no human experience that deals with the good, the happy, the beautiful? Are joy. faith and pur- ity utterly illogical? Is only the thun- der-cloud real?-the sunshine a sham
 "Oh. yes. realize. of course. that this sort of thing may be overdone But still contend that always to look at the hole instead of the doughnut is not only foolish-but very detrimental 10 ones digestion.