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New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
The Headlong Rupert Hughes

n rs long way from Dido ard her
tears over the departing Eneas
20 April Summerlin and her tears
that "fell seven stories" as she watched
Bob Taxter striding into New YORK
distance. The Virgilian method IS not
Tat Of Rupert Hughes The Mantu-
ans smooth, limpid diction is alien
to the cracking, nervous, definitely
Manhattanese of the author Of What's
the World Coming To? (Harpers).
Hughes may be said to have no style.
His one passion in writing is to get
his story out Of his system and into
the rigidity of type before it becomes
all twisted up into something else. he
Is a New Yorker from. the top hair on
his head to his heel, and he revels in
spinning q yarn that is brilliant with
the glare Of Broadway at night and
keadlong with the speed Of an aero
plane over the Woolworth tower. No
psych ology for him. He hates it, es-
pecially in it's manifestations in the
temples of Doyle, Lodge ct al.
With running broad jump Hughes
drags us with him into the uproar of
New York over the news Of the arni-
stice of 1918, in his latest novel. At
once he introduces US to April Sum
merlin, waits page or two for breath,
and then brings her lover, Bob Tax
ter, an ex-aviator, speeding into the
group.
There must be a villain, and he in
vents the smooth Joe Yarmy, g Texan,
Who attempts, without any silly delay
to separate Bob from $4,000 recently
left to him in a legacy. The game
Is oil, in Texas, and Hughes rolls on,
with the precision Of 6 ticker tape, in
his clicking process Of telling US an
rndeniably exciting story, with much
side gusto spent in slams at high liv-
Ing, ouiJa boards and the general IN
willingness Of America to recognize
the war and it's vast significance.
To be honest, What's the World Com
ing To? is puzzingly good novel
as we see it and know it, between Its
covers, for Hughes is recorder Of his.
tory as we'll as an inventor of fiction
He gives us Bob and April happy al
the end, with good old darky Zeb smil'
ing over their shoulders-zeb and his
vacuum cleaner that swallowed $4,000
at a critical moment-and he compeis
us to admit that hero is one novelist
Who can swim with the current Of mer
and affairs and keep his chin above
water.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Youth and the Bright Medusa

nN THE shelf Of the collections Of
Z short stories of the year stands
Wills Gathers Youth and the
Bright Medusa (Knopf). This group
is an octave, ranging from & major
theme in the superb, completely ade-
quate opening story, Coming, Aphro-
dite," to the paintive yet mclodious
music Of the final story, "A Death in the
Desert" The first suggests, and ab-
serbs, an inspiration from the super
normal region that overles Artica and
the canyons Of our Southwest, and the
latter has in its mesh something akin
to the body of Browning's poem of the
same title
There are, there will be, readers of
this book who will wonder why we
refer to canyons. They have not fol-
lowed, step by step, the steady climb
OF Villa Gathers art. She began with
fictional Interpretation of phase
OF life in the broad maternal fields
Of the West or the Middle West, and
then, with the sheer music of being
athrob within her, told the story of a
singer, girl who spent part Of her
days at study on the shelves Of can
yor where, centuries ago, men reached
ur naked arms 10 the sungod Remi-
riscent, she brings into the closet
CT New York breath Of the physical
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
ARTHUR TRAIN, creator
a Of Tut and Mr.. Tut
finally, to the editorshir Of The Dav
big Metropolitan daily.

finally, to the editorshir of The Day,
big Metropolitan daily.
David had to hurdle a few dif1cult
fences in his advance. Finally. with q
fairly clear way ahead, he marri.s
Naomi Fiske, whom he has met throucb
the offices Of her cousin, Sylvia The
years prove that Naomi, pretty and
superfcially intelligent, does not nm
derstand David. When the acute mo.
mcnts come to the man. hours when
the threads of success or Of ter,norn,
ce1eat lie in his hands to be woven
together or untangled, she never unite
steps into the intimate circle If q
he'pcr' coniidante. The gilt of sue
cess, the luster on the surfac, &C
Davlds promotion, are for her ewes
ohe seems not the steel of STRENGTH
won in the fire Of contest
David, red-hot Roosevelt rnor O
critic of the Administration from 1910
onward is drawn across the ocean bv
1at war, at first as corresnoodo,+
and at length as a participant under
the flag. Naomi, in his absence r.-
oelves the attentions and the conso,a-
ton Of young Hebberton, also of The
Day-she is true to David all thronqh
and her husband finds them toreth-
er, one evening after his return in
one OF their most confidential mo.
ments. 10 him comes swift realization
OF what he has long time known
suoconsciously-that he and his wife
&c not dovetail, and never will. Seen
OF the lilacs Of Connecticut at this
point, and a memory of Sylvia!
Poor Sylvia Thornton! It is Won,
lot to drag the divorce motif into thi.
excellent novel, maintaining the recorc
OF the two stories that precede il
tt is review. You married q scoundrcl
but at last with Naomi under tn,
scd, David and you are free. IT'S .
happy ending to It story that has. al
through 1t, canny knowledge of tn,
Psychology of the human animal Gosh
Ell Street gives snapshots of New Yorl
newspaper life that are tue to colo
and action. 1t is not far from the to,
rUng Of the ladder of the season.
hctlon in its particular field.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Goshen Street

4 REFRAIN from Dom Byrnc's
~ novel floats over into the pages
Of Wayland Wells Williams's
Goshen Street (Stokes), the scent of
the lilacs Of Iitchfeld County, Conn.
The story opens in this rugged west
e,r section of the state and it ends
there. David Calf, the hero, the son
of typically stubborn, penurious New
England farmer, chances to meet a
young girl, Sylvia Thornton, daughter
Of New York millionaire, as she is
driving her cousins roam cob into
Goshen Center. There is trouble with
the harness, and David mends the diff
flculty, with an apt quotation from
Virgil thrown in on the side.
Sylvia is surprised, senses the unus-
ual in the rather gawky lad, writes
te her father, who has for hobby
the aiding Of worthy poor boys, in
short sets David on the road to col
lege, to New York. to journalism and,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

The Man From Ashaluna

THERE are strong contrasts in
Henry Payson Dowst's The Man
From Ashaluna Small, Maynard
& Co.. The rugged, snow-swathed
fields of Ashalura, somewhere in the
heart of the West, meet the refinement
of New York when Judson Dunlap
plunging through bowling blizzard
stumbles upon and carries to his home
Mary Beverly, daughter of New York
magnate and artist to her finger tips
Judson has feeling that he, too, is q
painter, has dabbled in oils on canvas
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
TITTHIN the limits of the above map showm the sections
~ of NeO York. 1Uhc fiction 7crers have chosen
for their stories


compass of unhappy husbands and
wives and find ourselves wondering if
tho fiction writer's of the year have
rrge is for a New Yorker tremendous
risk. In the case of the novel open
before us the shock of separation is
softencd through the deft, almost steal
thy, approach of the reader, conducted
by Kathleen Norris, to the hour of the
event. We are warned, we searchlight
the minds of her characters, we are
prescicnt through their actions and
their moods, of the structural need of
rearrangement of persons on q new
basis.
To explain Harriet Field is living
in secretarial capacity at Crownlands,
the Hudson River home of the Richard
Carriers Isabelle, Richards wife, forty
years old, is in the thrall of an emo
tional passion for young Tony Pope,
many years her junior.
Harriet has secret hidden, as she
believes, in the darkness of nine years
past. A quasi poet and expounder OF
Indian PHILOSOPHERS, Royal Blondin, had
induced her to marry him, using form
trumped-up for the ceremony, and then
had deserted her. Suddenly, after al
those years, at lawn party q Crowns
land, with Harriet seated at tea.
table, Blondin strides in. cool debonair
Within few hours he is plotting G
campaign that shall end in his winning
the hand and the fortune of Nina, ths
young daughter of Richard Carter.
Events follow with hectic speed ii
the little circle. Isabelle runs off Will
Tony Pope. on mis- yacht. Harriet il
made sort of major domo in the home
hlondin presses his suit with Nina
Out OF the unrest and unhappiness O
If all Richard derives one fragment O
satisfaction-the knowledge that Har
riet loves him. News comes that lisa
belle has died in Paris.
Nina's Problem
We are now at the dividing line o
this story, the watershed. There i
but one hillock to cross. the predica
ment of Harriet when she is maneu
vered by Blondin into a negative posi-
| ton, when she should be in positiv
one. You may have Carter, he grants
if you will say nothing of our pas
and leave me alone with Nina. "
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
HENRY JAMES FOR
4 Il MAN, author of Fire Of
Youth

untamed West, incarnates 1t, with a
tint Of the Athens of Phdias, in q
Greenwich Village upper floor room,
raerges it in brief but emotional love
theme, and then gestures it away
We regret that we have no space
for a decent review Of this collection
cf stories by one of Americas most
gifted writer's. The West Side, Green
web Village, Sherry's, the Waldorf
Central Park and minor corners OF
the city, figure in this book.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Peter Kindred

NNE unpretentious novel that
Z Joined the swirl Of the current
of 1920, David Nathan's Peter
Kindred (Dufield), is not to go out
with the tide unnoticed. 1t very nearly
divides its narrative equally into two
sections, one giving a laudably accu-
rate description of under -raduate life
at Harvard, and the other confining it
self to the married years of Peter in
New York. This novel is mapped out
on a simple plan. The characters in
volved in the working out Of its growth
get into play rapidly, in the early
stages of the plot, and they remain true
to their selves to the end. Peter meets
the girl of his choice at Cambridge, as
does his closet friend, and the two
couples are thrown into the welter Of
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Tho Foolish Matrons

Az HEN we are once In the tide
wv of Dom Byrne's The Foolish
Matrons (Harpers), we see the
New York CT The Age Of In
nocencc as mirage in the mists of
the past. For Bryne's book is tuned
70 the city Of this decade. Its story
Of four women and their loves finds
a series Of stages in Greenwich Vii
lage, in the network of streets around
Times Square, and on Riverside Drive
If the Mingotts and the Wellands
os Edith Wharton's pages could be-
come spirits of the air and rest on
wings poised above the Brooklyn
Bridge, they would see to-day, on any
morning. what Byrne sees:
armies and battalions Of folks were
passing ovsF the bridge, going 10 their
IL H
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
4ere and There About New York With Literary Guid
Greenwich Village Is a F Favorite, but
Fifth Avenue and Broadway
Have Their Adherents

New York to seek comfort and build
homes. A clean. homely story, we'll told
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
More Unhappiness

NWORCE again In the fourth
novel of this series, Harriet and
the Piper Doubleday, Page). by
Kathleen Norris, We complete boxing
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

Continued on page ten)
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
The Season Has Produced an Excel
lent Crop Of Fiction With
aLocal Setting
By Samuel Abbott

I'm CHANGING over the novels Of
the year that find all or por~
tion Of their settings in New
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11

Mrs. Aldrich brought me a light
breakfast, and one of the gardeners
came to say that the dogs had been
found in the woods. They had been
fed drugged meat and were sick and
even now barely able to stand.
was preparing to 60 to Mr.. Sid
neys room when the telephone rang
again. 1t was a call from the village
of Norwich, forty miles east, a place
of some repute, or i'll repute, for the
number and character Of its drinking
places and roadhouses.
The man calling me said he was the
constable of the township of Norwich
and asked If he were talking to per-
son of responsibility. assured him
he was. Then he told me that an auto
mobile accident had occurred two
miles out Of Horwich and that the only
identifying marks suggested Hartley
house as a place to make inquiries.
He asked if I could come to Norwich.
l endeavored to question him over
the telephone, but he said there was
little information he could give, a
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11
ilary. Do you know where Jed kept

diary. Do you know where Jed kept
It'll"
mo, doctor" said Mrs. Sidney. "If
there had been any chance of finding 1t
we should have taken 1t away from
him. In his absence we have searched
his room frequently"
"These people are after the manu-
script, and they are satisfied that they
have It." l said. II am sure of that.
There was small pearl-inlald box,
open and empty, in the middle Of the
floor"
ave never found such box" said
Mrs. Sidney.
"Then it might have been there?"
ut might"
"If it was, they have 1t and we must
get it back"
"Oh, If we can, we must !" she cried.
holding her hands so tightly clasped
that the delicate bones made crack
ling noise.
l tried to be encouraging and consol-
ing and, as a practical measure, gave
her a bromide.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11

Lady Butcher in her Memories Of
George Meredith" recently published,
gives the world not a little new infer
nation about the novelist which is
both significant and extremely enter
tanning. Here is one of the passages
she quotes from her diary which shows
his amazing power to paint with
words:
Mr. Meredith went with father and
me to see Irving and Mrs. Grove (nee
Bateman) in Macbeth During sup
per he explained the acting Of the
sleep-wall5ing scene to mother, and
wishing to describe the way that Lady
Macbeth pushed the palms Of her
hands from nose to ear, he said; My
dear Mrs. Brapdreth, assure you that
she came through her hands like a
corpse stricken with mania in the act
Of resurrection From Book Cos
sip"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11

man and woman in car-man past
middle age, a young woman in white !;
the man was dead, the woman badly
injured.
"I'll be over as soon as possible"
said. "Please keep the effects all to-
gether."
There was no doubt in my mind
that the quaverlng little rascal of a
lawyer with his precise way and timid
but controlling unscrupulousness had
come to the end Of his road-and at
the very moment when he had sue
cess in his hand. There was no rea-
SON. to doubt that the woman was the
maid Agnes whom l had surprised at
midnight stealing down the stairs from
Jed's room with Mr. Sidney's diary.
But If we were rid of the timorous,
grasping little attorney, we were in
worse difficulties. With the attorney
and his Spanish client, we at least
knew the manner Of dealing. 1t was
disconcerting-I might almost be for
given the exaggeration of saying it
was horrifying consider that the
diary was being handled by con
stable, sheriff or coroner or even
by any idler or resort-keeper in the
village of Horwich.
If the automobile accident had dis
posed of one ingenious enemy only to
make a half-dozen equally unscrupu-
lous ones, OF to apprise Il was tempted
to think this was worse) one incor-
ruptible officer of the condition of
Hartley houSe-in either event, we
were the worse for the change in cir
cumstance
One Of the stablemen knew how to
drive car, and asked him to bring
out the automobile which used when
l went to town. The chauffeur, when
he returned would have been up most
of the night. did not want to impose
on him. l might be gone most of the
day. In a half-hour we we're away
toward Norwich. | never had been
over the road. which ran by old farms
with stone fences and was little tray
eled except by the people who lived
along it,
Originally the place had a respect
able tavern. 1t was called the White
Owl. It was still respectable, but odd
~ enough, it was the success of the
White Owl which had attracted the
other places.
| inquired for the constable and was
told that should likely find him at
the White Owl, he being a freGuentsr
Of that place and now having a case
which needed a great deal of drinking
and talking over
l went to the White Owl and on en-
tering the barroom, which really had
an attractive rather than a dlsreputa-
BILE appearance, saw a group Of men
about a short, broad, square-shoul-
dered fellow who was talking to the
interest of half dozen or more fell
lows.
My entrance made no diversion, and
judging, from what ! had been told,
that the squat, talkative fellow was
the constable and that he was telling
the story i wanted to know, decided
to remain unidentified. have a bottle
Of beer-from the bartender, who
came half-heartedly from the con-
stables narrpt!on-and thus as an
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11
Tree saw All Presidents.

The Morse elm at the corner Of
Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth
street in Washington that has seen
nearly every Inauguration parade, has
been nominated for n place in the hall
of fame of the American Forestry asso-
citation by the Washington Evening
Star The old tree has cast its shade
over famous men for century for 1t
was the meeting place, being at the
Willard hotel corner, of these famous
men in the years gone by.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11
cI1lnete sarbers.

The Chinese are nor accustomed to
tipping the barber, As a matter Of
fact the Chinese barber is very modest
ia his prices. and his patrons can OBJ
tain a hair cut, a head Shave, a face
shave, and in addition have his Shoul-
ders and back masSaged, all for a sum
total Of less than : cents. The straight
razor used by Chinese BARRIERS is ,ri-
angular shaped blade with straight
handle, folding up as does the Amerl-
can straight razor. The blades are
made from old rails or any other crude
steel which has outlived its usefulness
in other directions.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11

A stray paragraph on WARS Of the
United States enumerates nineteen
wars. Ten of these were conflicts
with Indian tribes, Of which the most
important were probably the Black
Hawk war ana The Seminole war. II
these are called wars, an eleventh
might be added-the Modoc war Of
1878. The important wars on The list
are the War of the Revolution, The
War of 1872, the MeXican war, The
Civil war. the Spanish war, the war
with Germany. The minor conflicts
included in the list are The war with
France, 1898; the war with TripoIi,
1901; the Philippine war, 1899.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11

81 say, Harry" said miner to his
mate, whats cosmopolitan?
Suppose there We're a Russian Jew
living in England with an Italian Wife,
smoking Egyptian cigarettes, near q
French window in a room with Il Tur-
key carpet on the floor. If this man
drank American cream sodas while lis
tening to German band playing
Come Back TO Erin after supper of
Dutch cheese made up as Welsh
rabbit. then YOU might be quite safe
in saying chat he we're cosm0poli-
tan."-Lopdon Tlt-Blts.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-11-11

Itoh, II We Can, We Must" she Cried.
possible without alarming her, that !
wished 70 speak TO her on an urgent
matter.
In a few minutes the maid came
back and said that Mrs. Sidney could
see me. / found her in the sitting
room of her suite.
ut is nothing serious, Mrs. Sidney
j said nothing that we need now re-
gard rs serious; and It does not CON
Germ Mr. Sidney's health. There has
been an intruder in. the house. More
over, the purpose was to break into
Jed's room. and Jed's room has been
broken into. got glimpse Of the
person who did it, woman. I saw a
man and a woman run into the oak
grove and I heard hn automobile en-
zine start on the road. have sent
chauffeur and a gardener IN chase, but
thev are travelling against so great
~fart that have no hope. What !
800 q f1ios hey have Mr.. sidney'a