Arizona republican., 1920-05-16
LITERATURE and ART
BY j. w. MARTIN


 THE RED SEAL, By Natalie Sumner Lincoln. D. Appleton and company, New York, N. r., publishers. Price sl.45. Natalie Lincoln has won fame IS a writer of mystery stories and 10 one who enjoys this kind of a story will find the Red Seal intensely inter esting and when they start to read this book will want to stay with it until ghey finish it. If you can detect the 1ulprit before the final chapter you will be far more clever than the aver age reader One character in the book suspects the other of committing a crime and then committing other crimes to cover it up. The daughters suspect the father. The lover of one of the girls suspects her, the father suspicious the young man and there is a general tumble. But all is we'll that ends well and the real culprit is final discovered.
 TIME TELLING THROUGH THE AGES, published by Dolbeday, Page < Co. for Robert Ii. Ingerson x Bro. New York. From the preface of this book we read: "In the midst of the world war, when ordinary forms of celebration seemed unsuitable. this book was conceived by Robt. H. 1nger- soil & Bro. as a fitting momento of the twenty fifth anniversary of their entrance into the watch industry and IS OIIereQ as a GOn11buAlOn lO HoIO- logical art and science. Its publication was deferred until after the signing of the peace covenant. The book is a history of the telling of time through ages and of our modern time pieces. It is handsomely illustrated and is q book of interesting information that has taken ardous research work on the part of the authors to compile
 LANcELOT, A Poem. by Edwin Ar lington Robinson, Thomas Seltzer, New York, N- l., publisher. Price Sl.75. Robinson is conceded to be the great est poet of America, and fLancelot'f is the ripest product of his poetic talent. Though the theme is ancient, Robin sons treatment Of it is throughly mod ern and full of meaning for us today. The Arthurian legend is here used to lay bare the profoundest depth of the tragedy of our time. The mediaeval atmosphere of war and strife furnishes the author an excellent vehicle for the poetic interpretation of the. questions and issues that have agitated us dur ing the war and since the cessation of the war.
 Apart from it's poetic and timely value, "Lancelot" is readable and highly interesting story
 THE THUNDER5oLT. By G. Col more Thomas Seltzer. New York N
 
 very difficult to review this book. It is a book that we believe some will enjoy reading and approve of the char 2cters and that others will very posi- lively disapprove of and dislike. To solve our own difficulty we will quote what the London Nation says;
 The Thunderbolt is certainly the most remarkable modern essay fin imaginative fiction the present writer aas read during the last five years.
 1t is divided into two very distinct portions, each of them so different i've tissues are the actual dramatic personae and the mature, balanced, weighty and detached style of the author. Yet in spite of the fact that these two halves of one book embraces as great a difference as there is be- tween Romeo and Juliet and sTroi1us and Cressida the transition is as smooth and inevitable as natures own transitions in the passag of the sea- sons. The handling of one material and then the other with the same ease and flexibility is in itself an artistic triumph. The first part of The ThunderboIt' is light satiric comedy in The best tradition of the Jane Austen model Mrs. Benham is the altar of Stottleham society, not because she is richer or abler or finer or more truth fuI than her discreet worshippers. but because she embodies the narrow. com piacent. posesssive security of Stottle- nam from the rest of the world"
 SARAH AND HER DAUGHTER. By Bertha Pearl. Thomas Seltzer, pub fisher New York. N. Y Price $2.5O, has the one great virtue of being en- tirely new in theme, the first thing of it's kind to appear, at least in this period. As a piece of literature it has considerable promise; whether the promise is fulfilled rests upon the Judgment of future years. As a plain Twentieth Century story, to be read for amusement and entertainment, it is doubtful if it will meet any great sue cess or reach popularity.
 Whatever appeal Sarah and Her Daughter has rests upon the unique