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New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
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The Black Knight
High-Spirited Story of Ad-
venture
TIME BLACK KNIGHT fuenrv

IT HE BLACK KNIGHT Henry
Holt) has its preface at the
back of the book, and there It
tells something about Mr.. Crosbie
Garstin and Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, the
authors of the book. Mr.. Garstin, au-
thor of stirring adventure stories, into
which he had never permitted a hero
Inc to enter, was asked by Mrs. Sidg-
wick to introduce a heroine into his
next story and she offered to furnish
the heroine. The responsibility for
the present story is thus neatly di
vided between the collaborators. and
both have acquitted themselves ex-
cellently.
The Black Knight is a thoroughly
diverting and high spirited yarn, which
ranges over Canada, England and the
Continent. Michael Winters, the indo-
lently bred son of very rich English
promoter, finds himself one morning
the heir OF some very bad debts be-
queatehd so hin, by his father, who had
run his company on the rocks and
committed suicide. In Canada, after
many exhilarating vicissitudes, he re-
coups the family fortune and returns
to the Continent. There, under ex-
traordinary circumstances, in a French
gambling salon, he meets the heroine.
She is a high spirited, adventurous
creature-an English girl, who, weary
ing of the narrow life of her English
village, sets out to seek her fortune
with her French relatives and falls upon
strange adventures
In The Black Knight it is the unex-
pected that always occurs, and this Of
ten in the most vigorous manner. The
mode of the story, too, is extremely
diversified. Certainly Mr.. Garstin and
Mrs. Sdgwick have not failed to fur
nish fresh and startling adventures,
nor have they failed to make their hero
and heroine people of real and engag-
ing charm.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
IROSBIE GARSTIN On
~ hsmselt), co-author aUith
hrs. Alfred Sidgwich of The
Black Knight
Persian Letters
War Impressions OF
a British Official

THERE is good deal of leisurely,
fashioned literary charm in the
series of letters published by E.
r. Dutton & Co. under the title From
Persian Uplands. The author. Mr.. r.
Hale, served as a British diplomatic
official in Persia from 1913 until the
end of the war. He was stationed for
time at Birjand, a small Persian
town, and his letters give an excellen,
picture of little known corner Of the
world
During the rrst months of his So
journ he finds life in Persia placid
agreeable and rather uneventful. He
plays bridge and tennis with the local
governor. goes out hunting occasion
ally. and draws frequent contrasts be-
tween the simple pastoral life of Per-
sia and the hurried, complicated in
dustrial civilization Of Great Britain.
He takes an active interest in Persian
rugs and Persian literature.
With the outbreak of the war life
begins to move at faster pace, even
at Birjand. Echoes from the European
fronts, together with stories of Ger
man and Turkish intrigues, begin to
creep into the letters. The author de-
scribes the penetration Of Persia by
the Russians and the break down in the
morale Of the latter as a result Of the
revolution. Toward the end OF the
book new enemy appears on the hori-
2on. The Bolsheviki arrive in the Cau-
casus regions; and even the Russian
troops in Persia begin to display symp-
toms Of revolutionary infection. In
the winter of 1918-'19 Nj Hale makes
the following comment on the political
situations:
India is not yet safe. The Turco-
German threat is past and imperial
Russia is no more; but fresh source
of apprehension has discovered itself
to our watchful political representa-
tives during the last twelve months:
the ghost Of Bolshevism troubles their
sleep. And Persia? Persia is the long
dark passage down which the horrid
ghost may come to our precious India" j"
The essential charm of the work lies
in its numerous descriptive passages
The authors sense Of romance is by
no means deadened by his round Of Of
fetal duties and he imparts a dis
tinctly sympathetic touch to his pic
lures of Oriental life. He gives a
notable account of caravan journey
by moonlight. with the natives sing
ing their weird, monotonous songs. No
one who has felt the mysterious fasci
nation of the Orient should fail to
road Mr. Hale's book
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

speaks for duty; tho artist FOR iov
between these clashing impulses he
Is never able to evolve an ADEQUATE
solution.
holers austere psychological drama is
played against a physical background
OF remarkable beauty He often seems
10 seek relief from the harassing soul
questionings of his characters in AL
most lyrical descriptions Of Norwe-
g'an scenery, wild fjords and noun
tains' vast fields of white snow, gor-
geous red sunsets. Here Is typical
passage, describing the thrill and ex-
nliaration Of skiing party:
A Skiing Party
Many miles off, tho white horizon
rose and fell. assuming fantastical
shapes OF men and animals. To the
north stood two old wives, with their
heads up in the sky, gossiping on just
the same subjects as they had dis
cussed from time immemorial. A As
sure in mountain was valley con-
tanning many villages, and beyond
were more mountains and more fls-
sures. 1t was Norway. Holth could
have described it all in the school
room, and yet it now seemed as if he
had never seen it before. In town the
sky was only theory, but here it was
an actual fact. 1t glowed in the south,
II flickered in the west The skis
glided of themselves; the feet moved,
but only to yield, not to work. 1t was
like voluptuous dance across a floor
bounded by infinity itself, beneath a
dome whose height none had measured.
The mind is filled with rhythm, and ono
looks about smiling"
In sober and restrained sense,
Bojers novel is an indictment of life.
1t gravely measures the inevitable, vast
gulf between human aspiration and
human capacity. 1t is full Of tortured,
twisted, bleeding souls, broken on the
rack of relentless destiny. With stern
insight, which he shares with Aeschylus
and with Thomas Hardy, Boier shows
what portentous roles fate and chance
play in our lives, how little scope is
left for the human will. The work is
not unworthy of its daring title; 1t is
very faithful reproduction Of the es-
sential factors in human existence, con-
ceived in reverence and executed in
beauty. Taken in connection with his
other novels, Life marks Bojer as per-
haps the most significant figure in Nor
wegian literature since Ibsen.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Books Received
Fiction


ROSE q THE SEA BY Countess Barcy-
ska. Published by Houghton- Miffin
Company. New York and Boston.
The romance of B founding girl and
a wealthy young baronet.
THE WASTED ISLAM. BY Eimar o'Duf-
fy. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co, New
York.
a story of Irish life which reaches
its climax in the rebellion of Easter,
1916.
THE MAN FROM AsHALUNA. BY Henry
Payson Dowst. Published by Small May
Big Business" adds touch of ex-
ctement to this tale Of placid Asha-
luna.
THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS. By Ed
ward Shanks. Published by Frederick
A Stokes, New York.
A vision of the world as it might be
in 2074 if it were subjected to the
horrors of Bolshevism during the in
tervening years.
SIDE ISSUES. BY Jeffrey F. Jeffrey. Pub
llshed by Thomas Seltzer, New York.
A group of English war stories
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
How To Write Editorials

D. Appleton 4 Co. are publishing >
book by L. N. Flint, professor Of jour
nalism in the University of Kansas,
entitled The Editorial. In this volume
the subject of the editorial is con-
sidered from all viewpoints, the his
torical, the critical and creative. the
functional and the typographical. Prac-
teal helpfulness is the keynote Of the
entire treatment and the book is one
which fills an important place in the
practical literature on journalism.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
A Work Of Tragic Genius
Deep Pathos and Subtle Insight in Norwegian
Writer'S Novel, Life
.HE peculiar qualities Of Johan
Bojer's genius are already
known to American readers

~HE peculiar qualities Of Johan
Bo;er's genius are already
known to American readers
through the translations Of
me Great Hunger, The Face of the
World and Trescherous Ground. Life
.Mofst, Yard. differs from the au-
.hor's other novels chiefly in the fact
that it Is painted on somewhat
larger canvas. without losing any of
his capacity for intense psychological
anslvsis. he distributes it more evenly
smonc the various characters of the
story. Life is not dominated by any
single individual, as The Great Hun
Ger is dominated by Peer Holm and as
Treacherous Ground is dominated by
Eric Eyje.
Portrays Scope of Life
On the contrary, what Bojer gives
Is is miniature Comedie Humaine.
He takes a cross-section of Norwegian
lie and examines il carefully, faith
July, minutely. True, the strange,
oittersweet romance of Reidar Bang
and Astrid Ris holds the center of
he stage, but there is ample room for
he other characters as well. And
sore Of the minor episodes in the
novel are stories in themselves. The
picture Of broken-down old Captain
giis, cropping about after his futile
schemes Of revenge, suggests Ibsens
John Gabriel Borkman. And there is
rare, haunting psthos in the expert
ancs. Of the middle-aged school teach
er, Eolth, who RECEIVERS his youth in
single moment Of mad, glorious, for
bidden romance, which is irretrievably
matched from him as soon as he has
enjoyed it.
Boier is a profound pessimist and
realst; but his realism is not that of
zola and his school. Despite the gray
sadness which permoates his work, the
Norwegian author is not an utter
naterialist; he seems to retain some
iaith in the existence of ultimate
spiritual values. He is ironic without
eynicism; he is somber, but never
brutal
Boier has the soul of a Puritan,
satisfied only with the highest peaks
of spiritual achievement. 1t is the
battling complexity of human existence
hat drives him to uessimism and de-
spsir. He cannot endure the per-
petual compromises of life, the fire.
luent choice between the bad and the
leas bad, the constant intrusion of
petty and unworthy cares and motives.
He often confronts his characters with
he alternative of narrow, joyless duty
and Of selfish, csrefree pleasure. And,
whichever horn of the dilemma they
nay choose, he is never satisfied with
he result. The Puritan within him
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Rupert Hughes Home From the West

Rupert Hughes, author of What's the
World Coming To? published by the
Harpers, has at last completed his in
termittent return journey from Cali
fornia, and is now at his home at Bed
ford Hills. Mr.. Hughes is working on
proofs of his new book. which the
Harpers will bring out next month. 1t
is a collection Of short stories, many
of which appeared IN popular maga-
zines throughout the country and bears
the interesting title, Momma: and
Other Unimportart People
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Popular Ch emistry

In order to popularze the fascinat-
ing facts of chemistry and to show
how much we human beings owe to
the science, the Chemical Foundation,
Inc, q semi-offcial corporation, has OF
dered from thu publishers (The Century
Company a large special edition of
Edwin Z. Slosson's Creative Chemistry
for distribution to selected lists of
people.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
lhe Vacation of the Kelwyns
Posthumous Novel by William Dean Howells
Pictures a Bygone Day

is too late in the day, or per
maps it is too soon after his
n death, to make any notifications
OF the estimate of William Dean
Howells. He rose to his emincnce with
the era Of the '7Os, in them he lived
wildly, and when the '70s vanished he
blurred and receded with them. He
never really emerged from them-they
were the season of his power, and
more and more reminiscently he harked
back to them. Of course, as he grew
vaguer as literary figure he loomed
correspondingly larger in sentimental
regard-and thus in way was COM
pensation roughly made him for the fact
that he had been jostled out of popu-
lar favor by younger and perhaps
cruder men.
How thin and attentuated Howells's
literary resources had become, how
remote he was from his time is strik-
lngly demonstrated in his posthumous
novel, The Vacation of the Kelwyns
(Harper's). And yet it is, too. the
more vivid picture Of a bygone era
because Howells still partook of its
feelings and its way Of thinking.
The material Of The novel is the ad-
venture INDUCED in by a professor and
his family-an innocuous, prim and
timid adventure which only the in
tense cautiousness Of that colorless
family makes important. The Kelwyns
were fearfully embarkine for the sum-
mer on the hazardous enterprise of
seeking their summer rustic diversion
in an unaccustomed place-a crude
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Alias Craig Kennedy

Arthur B. Reeve, ,..thor of The Soul
Scar and other novels in which the
scientific detective Craig Kennedy plays
the major role, has had concrete proof
that this brain child of his has achieved
human proportions. The other day Mr.
Reeve received letter forwarded to
him by the Hsrpers, addressed Craig
Kennedy. Franklin Square, New York. I"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

Although Franklin Square is place of
many byways, the letter was delivered
to Harper & Bros, Mr.. Reeves publish
the Craig Kennedy stories. In The Soul
Scar, Mr.. Reeves latest published novel,
Craig Kennedy solves a romantic mys-
terry through the psychoanalysis Of q
beautiful woman's dreams
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

domestic arrangements, their burning
anxiety TO maintain their accustomed
superiority in this unfamiliar place.
their careful weighings of proffered
friendships these comprise the
emotions Of the novel. There is an
unmistakable authenticity in these
people. One has a conviction, gath
cred from Mr.. Howellss afectionate
regard Of them. that Of such was the
intellectual middle class Of the time
infinitely assured of its ordained su-
periority, infinitely jealous of its Dig
nifty and infinitely meticulous and
shrewd in it's judgment Of social dis
tinctions-utterly, hopelessly unat-
tractive and depressing "nice" people
Mice" is Mr.. Howells's description o.
them many times in the course of the
book-to be nice" is the pinnacle Of
grace.
The romance of the book, the heart
interest, IS furnished by the tepid. or.
extremely tepid, love affair of Parthcn
ope Brooks, visitor of the Kelwyns,
for the itinerant teacher, an Emcr-
sonian sort Of young man.
1t cannot be said that The Vacation
of the Kelwyns engages vividly the
Imagination or the emotions OF tho
present generation. Yet it has an un-
deniable interest. Out of the what
nots and antimacassars OF the country
parlor, out Of the waterfalls" OF our
grandmothers' wardrobe and out OF
the novels of William Dean Howelis
we may reconstruct, if we are S,
minded, the social history of the mid
die period.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Religion

THE POWER OF PRAYER Edited by W
=. Patterson. d. y. Published by The
Macmillan Company. New York.
A selection and criticism Of the best
essays submitted in competition for a
prize offered tine best paper on this
subject.
MOsLEM sEEKE AFTER GOD. BY
Samuel M ZweIner. Published by Flem-
ing H. Revell Company. New York.
The life and work of medieval
Persian mystic.
CHINESE HEART THROBs. BY Jennie
V. Hughes. Published by Fleming II
ReveN Company, New York
Sketches and stories by woman
who has been missionary in China
for many years.
THE SYSTEM OF ANIMATE NATURE.
BY J. Arthur Thomson. Published by
Henry Holt & Co, New York.
The second volume of a work by a
we'll known writer on natural history
1t combats the tendency toward de-
terminism and irreligion.
EACH MAN HIS OWN PRIEST. ny A. J.
Bowen. Published by the Hovell Press,
New York
\ work which emphasizes the sig
nifcance of Jesus Christ in the re-
ligious life of every individual.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
New Edition of Work ON Anthropology

The Putnams have lately published
new edition OF Il famous old book,
Tylor's Primitive Culture, which first
appeared in 1871. This book gave the
author, then professor at Oxford
University, the foremost place among
anthropologists Of his time.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
New Editions of Old Books

Maurice Leloir's gift for picturing
the eighteenth century with exquisite
gayety and grace is the wholly justi-
fable reason Brentano's seems to have
for issuing new editions of Manon
Lescaut and Laurence Sterne's A Sen
timental Journey.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Notes of Books
And of Authors

ISIS LULU BETT, the novel by
IVA zona Gale, published by D. Ap-
pleton & Co., which has been
nailed as the outstanding novel of the
year viii soon be seen on the stage in
dramatic form. Brock Pcmberton is
the producer and he intends to put the
play into rehearsal as soon as the dra
matte version of the book is completed
lhIs means that Miss Lulu Bett and
her companion characters, who are
known to thousands of readers, will be
seen in New York before the holidays.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
An Author Who Knows the West

Robert Welles Richie, author of
Trails to Two Moons, one OF the Little,
Brown 4 Co.'S new Western stories. is
a former New York Sun man who now
resides in California. At one time he
lived in Wyoming, where he witnessed
the pursuit cf cattle thieves so pic
turesquely described in his novel.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
The French Accept ''Gentleman' p
Academy Has Admitted the Word to the Of1cia
Dictionary

full significance Of birth as well as
mental and moral qualities"
Some persons may not know there was
Shakespeare festival this summer
ana perhaps others are unacquainted
with Robert Smilie, otherwise called
Bob the boss of the miners union.
IT Charles f. Murphy is an A. B. in the
school of politics Robert Smillie holds
doctors degree. The Morning Post
respects "Bob"-a fact proved by the
frequency with which it refers to him.
Smillie is an idol in the eyes of the
miners; Bolshevik in the opinion Of
the coal owners. "Somehow Mr.. Smil-
he and Shakespeare do not seem 10
nave much in common" says The Morn
ing Post.
Our national dramatist, indeed.
stands for everything which Mr. SmiJ-
lie and his friends at home and
abroad are out to destroy. He was so
provincial as to be patriotic, so crude
as to prefer kings to crowds. so
bourgeois that he would rather have.
say, foolish old dotard like Glouces-
ter than a sprightly active young Boil
SheV'k IKE Edmund In a word, he was
hopeless old Tory, who preferred men
TO measures and loved ali the thines
which simple people love. Therefore
we may be sure that the British Soviet
wlll have to take the Bard drastically
IN hand, Perhaps, along with the
blple, ne may be abolished Altogether.
but II he be retained and made harm,
less' we do not envy the Soviet it's
job"
Robert Lynd. the literary editor of
The Daily News, whose recent artic,es
from ireland has attracted much st-
tention, says he considers one of the
pest books Of the summer il Dead
towns and Living Men, by c. Leonard
"ooley. Though written by an arch
biologist, the first book contains many
amusing stories of The authors expert
ehces In Egypt and Southern Italv.
Some of the contributors to the
columns of The Saturday Review are
expressing alarm over "the degradation
OF English" Army life is held largely
responsible. "Sanguage," they cali
IT, One writer offers this paragraph: :
gu have already noticed in vour
columns the spread of odious and nm
lnteillgble Americanese by means of
the American films, which almost ro.
nopolize the cinema houses Of this
country. All Americans. except few
pfo1essors' talk the same slanguage.
no doubt owing to the fact that ali
classes go to the same school in child
mood. What, by the way, is caption?
suppose 1T is American. but | don't
know its meaning.'
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
By Arthur S. Draper
LONDON, October s

wv 18TH almost the same pleas
NM ure a boy shows when he
gets his first air rifle, the
british hnua rocaiual 4ho
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Business

OFFICIAL REPORT OF TIE SEVENTH
NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE CON
VENTlON. Issued by the Secretary. In
dia House, New York,
The complete stenographic report of
the proceedings of this convention,
which was held in San Francisco last
May.
THE LITERATURE OF BUSINESS Sc
lsctod and edited by Alta Gwinn Saun-
ders and Herbert IeSourd Creek. Pub
lIshed by Harper brothers. New York.
Extracts from many sources, all bear
ing some relation TO various aspects Of
modern business.
THE ELEMENTS OF MARKETING. By
Paul 7. Cherington. Published by the
Macmillan Company. New York.
concise study of the concrete
problems of merchandise distribution
THE BUSINESS MANS ENGLISH. BY
Wallace Edgar bartholomew and Floyd
Hurlbut. Published by the Macmillan
Company. New York.
A summary of the rules of correct
English, especially adapted to the use
of the business man.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
War

THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IN THE
GREAT WAR. BY Henry p. Dawson,
Published by tho Macmillan Company.
New York.
A new edition of this authoritative
account of the work of the Red Cross
in the war
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Miscellaneous

SOCIAL SCANDINAVIA IN THE VIKING
AGE. BY Mary WilhelYnine Williams
Published by the Macmillan Company.
New York.
How the rough Morse sdventurers of
the Middle Ages lived, dressed,
worked and fought Ths author IL as
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

full significance Of birth as well .
mental and moral qualities"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

A MOsLEM SEEKER AFTER GOD. BY
Samuel NJ. ZweIner. Published by Flem-
ing u. ReVeli COMPANY New York.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

CHINESE HEART THROBs. BY Jennie
V Hughes. Published by Fleming II.
Revell Company, New York.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-03-28

great pain, due to the attempt of the
inner ear to increase its pressure as
fast as the outside pressure increases.
From 10000 feet down sufficient
oxygen was in the air to supply my
needs, but something was necessary
to rouse me from my stupor. The
seemingly explosion in my head,
caused, no doubt, by the rush of air
to the inner ear to equalize the pres
sure, caused conclusion effect SINH
lar to an explosion, this sudden shock
rousing my Supplied nerves sufficient
to make me realize my position.
Upon examination of my eyes, the
doctor pronounced their condition
only temporary. Except for a vary
ing fever | felt quite normal. My
pulse was quite high, and after a
careful examination it was found
that my heart had expanded almost
three times its normal size. This
conditions gradually disappeared
| do not believe that my record
Will be eclipsed very much in the
near future, though | am confident
that | would have reached 10000
feet if | had not been blinded by the
exhaust freezing upon my goggles.
Certainly, no airplane can reach that
height without employing the super
charger | used. The limit to the
height which plane can reach is not
the pilot, but the supply of fuel which
can be carried. As for balloons and
dirigibles, think it will be some
years before they can be built OF
fabric strong enough to withstand the
terrific internal pressure.