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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
New Benson Novel
British Author Returns to
His Old Field

A NUMBER of English novelsts
~ who were caught in the whirl
of the war and wrote novels of
the front and of contemporary life in
England have returned to their early
habits in writing. Z. F. Benson, who
showed the shadow Of the great con-
flct in three or four of his recent
books, has harked back to the scenes
of his Dodo-days. 1t is with genuine
pleasure that we close his Queen
Lucia (Doran), after reading every
page of it, for we have found at least
one novelist who can resume the mood
in which he was most welcome to hosts
Of friends.
Benson must have chuckled to himself
as he wrote Queen Lucia" for more
humanity funny skit on the foibles of
British society in little VILLAGE has
not been published in many a day. The
book is not conceived in the vein of
burlesQue or an extravaganza. All its
chapters hold true to the daily posi-
bilities of fact in life. But it is to
fact charged with humor, even with the
ludicrous, that Benson pays strict al
legiance in this quantity sarcastic vet
normal story
Queen Lucia, or Mrs. Lucas, is the
self-designated arbiter of art and let
ters in Risehome, village fashioned
in the Elizabethan mode on a rivulet
int bo
is the cultural center, where she sways
and advises. She plays the opening
movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight
Sonata'-she can get no further, al
though she will not admit her inability
and she speaks a doggerel Italian
with her husband. Her aid, her Mer-
curry at Olympus, is one Georgia Pill
son, who plays the piano, paints sup
posedly good pictures and embroiders
his neat little designs in cloth and
thread.
Now you have, in way, the setting
and the atmosphere Of the opening
chapters of Queen Lucia" How the
great soprano, Olga Bracely comes to
Riseholme to live, with her real music
and her real Italian; how the village is
thrown into sequent frenzies over an
Eastern mystic, who proves to be a
burglar, and visitations of occult phe-
nomena; all this is given by Benson
with keen sympathy with the pleas
ant personalities of his novel. Poor
Queen Lucia totters on her throne,
attempts desperate ruses to hold her
grip on her subjects, is left at the
end somewhat battered, but complacent,
still on her pedestal.
The many characters that appear in
the chapters of "Queen Lucia" are
drawn with all the skill of Benson at
his best. They are living, speaking
entities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Cowboys Of Brazil
Mr.. Cunninghane Grahams Brilliant Descrip
ton Of These Matchless Horsemen

neck pace. dashing through the thick
scrub in away that must be seen to
be believed. Menacing boughs hang
low and threaten him. He throws
himself fiat on the horses back and
passes under them. A tree stands
in his way right in the middle of his
headlong career. If his horse. highly
trained and bitted, fails to stop in
time he slips OFF like a drop of water
from pane Of glass at the last mo-
mcnt, or if there is tho smallest chance
Of passing on one side lies low on his
horses flank, after the fashion Of an
oldtime Apache or Comanche on the
warpath.
"On foot they (the SertaneIos) walk
like sailors just come ashore after a
whaling cruise, rolling about upon their
legs, banded by early riding, as do the
coWpunchers of western America, and
as the Modes were said to walk by the
Greek historians.
Hunting the Jaguar
Nevertheless, they go out with q
forked stick and long knife on foot
to kill the jaguar, called by them Sucu-
rama, which must be a Tupi or some
other Indian word The method thew
adopt is simple, for having tracked the
jaguar they rouse him from his lair with
dogs, and when he charges, as he gen
orally does when he finds himself at
bay, the man who carries the forked
stick drops on one knee and catches the
beast with it as he springs. His COM
panion, who either has a long knife or
a short, heavy spear, loses no time in
burying it in the jaguars belly or his
throat. This sport, which must be quite
as exciting as shooting pigeons from a
trap, is often fatal to the sportsman if
anything goes wrong. In Brazil. in
Mexico and Venezuela, many large cattle
farms have a man called tigrero, for
the jaguar is generally called ell tigre
(the tiger) in the Spanish republics.
whose office is to kill the tigers who prey
upon the stock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Looking Ahead to When the Heavens Fill With
Age Of Flying Near at Hand
G. Holt Thomas Sees Developments Bordering
on the Miraculous

wv THAT Is Civil Aerial Trans
~ port? How can it be es-
w tablished? Will 1t supplant
all other forms Of trans
portation because Of its almost I'M
limited speed?
These and several other vital ques-
tions concerning aviation as means
Of transit are answered in this i'm
portant book ("Aerial Transport" by
G. Holt Thomas. Houghton & Stodder,
Ltd, London, publishers). written by a
man who is not only prominent in the
world of aeronautics, but who success
fully organized and ran the first sched-
uled daily aerial transport service.
Mr.. Thomas has written a very re-
markable and timely book in charming
conversational style. that can be fol-
lowed by the general reader, and yet it
Is an important addition to the world 3
written knowledge of aviation.
Promises Great Future
The practical experience Of the au-
thor, dating back to the very inception
of the art of flying, has given him a
true perspective Of tho scope of avia-
ton. He does not indulge in any flights
of fancy in making his predictions of
the future, but he holds out to US
promises of performances that border
on the miraculous
In his Introduction he hastens to
4pk bo< hn
compete with the existing forms Of
transport. 1t does something they can
not do; it supplements, not supplants
them" This Is the concept on which
the entire book Is based.
There Is In the introduction, too,
note Of grave import to this country,
which more than any other nation has
neglected the art to which it gave
BIRTH He says (speaking Of England:
FINALLY, striking a note of gravity, l
should like to emphasize one absolutely
vital point. 1t is that the safety of
this country now depends on our main
tanning an aerial power, which shall be
ready instantly, fully equipped, should
any attempt be made to invade US
from the air and to paralyze, before we
could defend ourselves or retaliate, our
vital communications and key indus
tries.
Such potential air power. ready for
any emergency, with It's designing de
partments, factories, aeroplanes, pilots,
skilled mechanics, can be assured only
in one way, and that is by the govern
ment Of the country developing and en-
couraging In every way possible, in the
tional security, the use Of aircraft for
high-speed transport"
All Of this can be applied with equal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
MIR. Morley in Philadelphia
Hunor and Charm in Sketches of Life in the
Quaker City

It's turing and changes. Best Of all ;.
likes to take the footpath way into y.
country, a jaunt that fills Kim wiz
fancies for pleasant recounting.
In his sympathy for the less ft,r.-
nate lies his greatest appeal, and nj,
best papers are those that deal with
people. painfully tedious as peonla
often are" he remarks, "they have n.
sublime quality Of interesting ONE
Particularly readable are "The B,o.a
Street Station" 1.-THE Madonnas Of -.
Curb" and "The Paradise Special Tho
paper that tells about the noisv
rollcking settlement house boys start.
ing for their summer vacation.
In Pure Essay Style
Occasionally there is paper in Dur.
essay style, such as "a Slice Of SIM.
light" In contrast is an exceIl.,.
parody, Travels in PHILADELPHIA. q,
They Would Be Reported by Soma
Eminent Travellers" Poo, Baedecker.
Whitman and Henry James). VALLEY
Forge" IS an unusually good piece o.
writing, and the paper on Poe's pe.
cat, "Catterina of Spring Garden
Street." is one Of the best Of tie col.
lection.
Less successful ara the sketches
dealing with the conventional Sights.
the Mint, the Library and the Penn
statue, which seem to be but -hlls,s.s
evils incidental to a series written m.
der the pressure of the demands Of q
daily paper. 1t IS hardly fair to Mr..
Morley's ability to perpetuate soma o,
the writing that of necessity had to bs
momentary and careless. Faults tia.
seem trifing in the evanescent form
Of daily journalism, when hardened
into the permanence of The book. grow
troublesome
The charm of the essays lies less
in the matter than in the style. Al
though Mr. Morley is guilty Of soma
annoying mannerisms, it would be
grabbed reader indeed who would fail
to be won by his charm of phrase
and gentle humor. For Mr.. Morley can
really write.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

OF comedy, almost grotesque AL
most, but not quite. A dim sort Of
heroism hangs about him. For in a
vague and stumbling sort of way he
struggled with the battling problem Of
his destiny. "lncomprehensible! was
word he was often heard to mutter
to himself, as he tramped the country
roadsldes, but no one in Dungarrow
knew what the word meant. And In
comprehensive" was the last word he
said before he died
And there is powerful figure of the
predatory Columb Ruagh, wolf-lke
man, whose impulse to power found ex
preston through his cunning rather
than through his huge strength, and
who writhed under the lash of obscure
passions. There is the Legitimate
girl, Maureen, and Cathal Cassidy. the
young Sim Feiner, and Sally O'Rorke.
the witch doctor, and Peggy Ribbir.
the cobbler's wife, whose house at the
crossroads held strategic position for
news, and a host Of other pungent char
acters. What makes "Maureen" so in
teresting is not only that MacGill has
transferred the local quality of Irish
peasant life, but has given a sense Of
the astonishing variety and richness
Of human nature contained in even the
narrowest community.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
one who knows not Philadel-
phia and must learn it's flavor

M%HE one who knows not Philadel-
N phia and must learn it's flavor
n from general floating impress
sions comes to believe that it
is a staid, sober sort Of place, watched
over by William Penn and socially
situated at the confluence of the
Biddle and Drexel families" Humor
or romance or stray bits Of beauty
he does not associate with the
Quaker City. How mistaken such a
person can be is taught by the "Trav-
els in Philadelphia" Of Christopher
Morley David McKay), who has sought
out the whims and caprces and by.
path sentiment that the brown walls
md orderly streets try to conceal
Pleasures Of Strolling
In this book Of sketches reprinted
from "The Philadelphia Public Led
ger" Mr. Morley shows what quaint
episodes and unexpected delights dis
close themselves to the traveller who
saunters through his home city with
the same leisure and the same aban-
don to the interest Of his surround
ings that he carries with him on a
more distant journey. II love to be
set down haphazard among unknown
byways," he says. But that Is moth
ing to the way his readers love to have
him set down among byways known
and familiar, there to discover un-
familiar things.
What Mr.. Morley has discovered
most exhaustively is the out-of the way
eating place. He has partaken, evil
IDENTIFY, Of more varied and original
meals than any other one person, and
his adventure in seeking food in the
odd corners Of the city are entertain
ingly related. He has a fondness. too,
for once fashionable squares, inhabited
by broken-dow actors and dirty white
poodles, and for the Italian quarter,
with it's "chromatic show windows" and
fervent theater crowds. He delights
in walking the length of a street, re-
lating, in the manner of q biogra pher
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

After all, one of the most interesting
paragraphs Of his book Is that DEALING
with the possibility Of "Aying pirates"
Concerning this he says:
The Aerial Pirate
II do not know whether what I have
written will reassure the timorous. who
have been talking lately, | observe. not
only of aerial smugglers but also of
aerial pirates. There was one story
was told recently of dashing criminal
who intended to establish himself on
some remote island in the Pacific and
prey on the transocean flying routes as
soon as they were established CONNER
clally. His island was to be camou-
haged. He was to listen to wireless so
as to learn Of the movements of the air
craft which he intended to hold up. It
all sounded very exciting; but I don't
think that | should give even this enter
prislng person very long career.
"If one studies wireless only little.
and realizes the progress which has been
made during the war, and the absolute
ly uncanny things which are now DOS
slDie, one sees what an extraordinary
instrument 1t can be made in the detec-
ton of any such scheme as that | have
just mentioned-even assuming such q
daring coup was attempted. A single
whisper echoes around the world.
A raider, as we have been shown in
the war, gives himself away directly
he begins to talk through space. The
sound Of his machine would be heard,
even when he flew at great attitudes.
We must remember, too, the speed at
which patrol aircraft can move and
the immense field of vision it obtains.
If the aerial lawbreaker could avoid
having to make a landing, if he could
ascend somewhere, to some starry height.
and lurk there between raids on the
traffic routes, it might prove difficult to
deal with him. But as long as he has
to provide himself with landing place.
and even granting him the lmitless ex-
panse of his field of operations when
aloft, he would find that aerial law has
a phenomenally long arm and that
net Of observation and detection would
cnmesh him"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

TT N THIS day Of easy idealism a
good deal of modern writing
Il seems to have been run through
the same colors Of thinking
and run through the same emotional
processes. We are just beginning
to realize that realism can have
its easy formulas as we'll as ro-
nance. 1t is the chief distinction of
"Mauraen" (McBride) that it carries
the sense that Patrick MacGill has
hewed its truth out Of his own quarry.
In this peasant ireland, this Ireland
of tho remote Donegal hills, he deals
with a way of life simple and passion
ate and rich with elementals. 1t is n
world in which wonder and supersti-
ton and fear are still alive. It's ex-
preston is in that blend of fancy and
shrcwdness which makes a kind Of
spontaneous poetry. It's people have
distinguishing twists of character and
manner, like trees with which the wind
has had its way.
And yet with all this senstiveness to
the form and color of this little world.
MacGill maintains a sort of aloofnes.
from it. He can resist its tug at his
heart enough to see it in the blend Of
usliness and beauty, sordidness and
poetry, cruelty and kindness which any
community contains. He has wide
enough vision of life to see that all
these elements may not only be
blended in one community, but in
one person and each Of his char
acters has the fluid quality. Eamon
ma Sgaddon, the pitiful scholar Of
the community, with his absurd grand
liouquence, his abjectness before a
shrewish wife, his one moment of pas
sion and his futile expiation, is figure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
German Liberty
Influence of French Revo-
luton Analysed
FENHE French Revolution naturally

ME French Revolution naturally
IL. produced profound repercussions
in Germany. The "Aufklarung."
or cultural renaissance. which Ger
many experienced in the latter part of
the eighteenth century, predisposed the
Ieutonc intellectuals to q favorable
consideration Of new ideas. The abo-
lition of monarchy and feudalism in
France terrified the mobiles and petty
princelings on both sides Of the Rhine.
Moreover, Germany was most directlv
exposed to a practical application of
the Conventions famous principle. ex-
pressed In the phrase: "War to the
chateau, peace to the cottages"
Germany and the French Rcvolu
tion." by G. P. Gooch Gongmans.
Green), is very fine feat Of histori-
cal scholarship. The author traces
many German reactions to the French
Revolution in most minute detail He
describes the attitude of Goethe. Schil-
Ter, Klopstock, Fichte, Heeel and MANY
other writer's and scholars. He also
analyses the progress of French
ideas" in the various German states.
On the whole the revolution pos
sessed few consistent friends and par
tisans in Germany. The Teutonic in
stinct for law and order was shocked
by the French excuses, and the svm
pathy which was generally extended
to the revolution in its innocuous
stages was generally withdrawn before
the sanguinary days of 1893 and 1894.
Klopstock, the venerable poet, upheld
the French cause strenuously for a
time and was proud to receive the
honor of French citizenship But he
was mortified by the execution of the
King, and his later attacks upon the
Jacobins measure the depths of his dis
illusionment.
Kant, the great philosopher, even
in the reactionary atmosphere of
Koenigsberg, maintained an unwaver-
ing faith in the ultimate moral value
of the revolution. But he was an ex-
cepton. Most Of the German writer's
turned fiercely against the revolution
in Its more violent developments, and
demanded war to the death against
Robespierre and his associates Goethe
adopted a typical attitude of Olympian
detachment, although he was present.
somewhat reluctantly, at the Battle of
Valmy.
The influence Of the revolution and
the Napoleonic wars upon German po-
litical and social conditions was
marked and beneficial. The author
does not exaggerate the stimulating
effects Of French ideas and French
arms when he says:
"The signal for its (Germany's) de-
liverance from the thraldom Of me-
dieval institutions and antiquated ideas
was sounded by the tocsin which rang
out In 1882"
Mr.. Gooch does not ignore another
aspect Of his subject-the contribu-
tons made to the French Revolution
by certain individual Germans. He
describes the career of George Forster,
the internationalist who welcomed the
French troops in Mainz. He gives q
sketch of that picturesque figure, An
acharsis Cloots, the "Orator of the
Human Race" who played an active
part in the Convention and the Jacobn
Club until Robe sphere had him guillo-
tined for atheism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Politics and Love
Viola Roseboro's Hero Is
a Gallant Warrior

IGOToRMs OF YOUTH" (scrib-
y ner) is the first novel by Viola
Roseboro. who has in times
past written some excellent short
stories. Her novel follows charac-
teristic American pattern which mikes
entertainingly politics and love. Her
hero is the typical idealzed young
American, David in politics and a
Galahad in matters of the heart. He
returns from college with the idealis-
tic determination to clean up the poll
tics Of his native town. In plays and
stories at least this type is uncon-
querable.
Fighting political dragons and
shielding woman's honor, he acquits
himself as calamity as composite
prototype Of these ancient heroes
should.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
A Correction

In a review Of the Pencils "Life
of James McNeill Whistler" published
in last weeks issue Of The Tribune
Magazine and Book Section, D. Apple
ton & Co. were enormously given
credit for the publication of the work.
The book is published by ]. B. Lip
pincott Company, Of Philadelphia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
0 HORSEMEN in the

v can surpass the Sertanejos,
~ the inhabitants of the sertao,
bleak upland region of
Brazil, according to R. B. Cum
ninghame Graham, British author
ity on South American life and
history. Mr.. Graham's latest work,
"A Brazilian Mystic" (Dodd Mead,
contains the following brilliant descrip-
ton of these South American cowboys:
"No race in all America is better
fitted to cope with the Wilderness. The
Sertanejo is emphatically what the
French call "a male His Indian blood
has given him endurance and a super
human patience in adversely From
his white forefathers he has derived
intelligence, the love Of Individual as
in the Latin races, good manners and
a sound dose of self-respect. His tinge
of negro blood, although in the Scrtao
1t tends to disappear out of the race,
at least in outward characteristics.
may perchance have given him what
ever qualities the African can claim.
Far from demonstrative, he yet feels
deeply, never forgets benefit and
cherishes an insult as if it we're a pearl
of price, safe to revenge it when the
season offers or when the enemy is Off
his guard.
Marvellous Horsemen
"Centaurs before the Lord, the Ser
tanejos do not appear (almost alone of
korsemen) to have that pride in their
appearance SO notable in the Gaucho.
the Mexican and in the Arabs of North
Africa. Seated in short curved saddle.
modification of the 'recao used on
the pampas of the Argentine, the Ser
tanejo lounges, sticks his feet forward
and rides, as goes the saying, all about
his horse, using, of course, a single rein
and the high hand all natural horsemen
affect Yet, when bunch of cattle
break into a wild stampede. the man
is suddenly Transformed Then he sits
upright as lance, or. bending low
over his horses neck, flies at break