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New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

and though it shows no sign Of set
thing yet, the experiments, like Ma
dam, are most exciting.
Every one in the book may be quite
mad but, except for poor Mousie, who
IS trific more mad than the others,
every character knows his place and
keeps in it. Mousic outrages convcn-
tlons all around. He simply will not
stay IN his place. He is very clever
about it too and changes his name so
no one can place him. Not, it is gath
cred, that he is ashamed of being the
son OF q defunct but highly respect
aole family coachman and very much
alive and ultra pious mother. but be-
cause he didn't want to have peop|s
connecting him continually with the
story OF his five brothers who had bee
Killed IN the war. Also, perhaps. be-
cause high sounding name like Lam
caster would get him into drawing
rooms where he wanted to have a bit
OF fun with the "toffs," while Lane
would have meant the tradesmen's en-
trance.
Mousie has "ideas"-above his sta
tion in life, of course. 1t was suspect
cd that he was really Socialist. No
one had ever seen him wearing a red
tie, but the suspicion remained. inst
the same. In fact, it was proved in
court later on, when he was accused of
stealing pair of earrings. But the
tale Of the five brothers got him off. in
spite OF the pamphlets that had been
found in his room.
Sometimes the author openly makes
1un OF her creations. She even makes
Titus, the horse, talk when no other
characters are around to speak for her,
Like Henry Wicken, she Is ALWAYS on
the lookout for story. Henry dashes
through the book, keen on the scent of
every trifling event, sure there Is q
story behind it. Then he takes his find
and lays it at the feet Of his friends
and watches them eagerly while thew
turn 1t over, usually with q disdainful
toe.
Erith Is especially disdainful. She
and Mousie are the length of the social
scale apart, and it is the instructive
enmity between them which forms the
basis Of the plot Erith had him ar
rested, though she knew he didn't steal
the earrings-just because she hated
him and the fact that he was "on the
make" On his part, he loathed her
pretensons and the fact that she was
we'll over the top, on the down grade
and that she and her kind would for.
ever obstruct all that he most wished
for and worked for.
Perhaps, after all, there may be nc
mystery in the dedication. Paish, who
recognizes Mousie's abilities, makes il
possible for him to overstep the hare
and fast bounds of caste by giving hin
a chance to finish his engineering edu
cation. He even makes it possible fol
Mousie to marry the little secretar,
lady who stood by him stanchly, fol
"Americans are so perfect, to women.
At all events, Madam is a book te
read and reread.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Fannie Hurst's S First Novel
Star-Dust Cries Out Against the Chinese Shoes
of Convention

sTAR-DUsT. BY Fannie Hurst. Published
by Harper & Bros.
IF THERE Is one art that Fannie
Hurst possesses above all else, it is
an ability to depict misery. She al
most specializes in misery. She has
been doing it for years, and naturally
she does it rather we'll.
Lilly Penny, heroine of Miss Hurst's
first novel, is q thoroughly miserable
person. She seems never so happy as
when there is some excuse for a good
cry. AS Lilly figured it, she was the
grape between her family. the vine, and
her daughter, the wine. She had to be
squeezed prett'r dry to make the wine
something more than one-half of 1 per
cent, but she was an eager martyr.
"If can't be Venus, then let me be
the Venus that is nearest to herl"
That was the principle that carried
Lilly Penny through life. Lilly gave
up her family, her bridegroom husband
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
The Complete Hero
A Short Route to the
Guarded HEIGHTS

THE GUARDED HEIGHTS BY wads-
worth Camp. Published by Doubleday
Page & CO.
w 7ADSWORTH CAMP uncovers the
w complete hero in The Guarded
Heights. He writes about a
young man who, beginning as stable
boy, walks through life on tiptoe until
he storms the guarded heights, d
symbol of the exalted places held by
wealth and social position.
On his march to fame the hero cap
tains the Princeton football team,
makes innumerable touchdowns against
both Harvard and Yale, goes to war as
major and wins the Croix de Guerre.
comes back and amasses huge fortune
on the we'll known Wall Street. The
only setbacks, which occur at frequent
intervals, come from the young lady
whom he has decided to marry. But
finally, in the shattering climax, he
does.
Such an optimistic story, given out
IN entirely readable fashion, will cer-
tainly please q great many readers.
And it will displease no one.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Children's Books.
Some Attractive Volumes
for BOYS and Girls/

HOW SING FOUND THE WORLD is
h hhopND !, ,,IH, Hy Sydney Reid. Published
BETTY. BoRBY AND BUBBLES BY
Edith Mitchell. Published by p. r.
Volland Company.
L0NDoN SPARROW AND MIGNON-
ETTE; Adapted by c. Nj. Duncan-Jones
Published by Macmillan Company.
BILLIE: THE STORY OF A LITTLE
BOY AM 4 BIG BEAR BY Isabel
% hawloy Scott, Published by Revell
by Alice Craig Edgerton. Published by
Lloyd Adams Noble.
TWO attractive books for little
i people are Sydney Reid's How
Sing Found the World Is Round
and Edith Mitchell's Betty, Bobby and
Bubbles. The stories themselves are
good, and the way in which the books
are made up is particularly suitable
for little hands and> bright eyes that
like pictures. These two little books
belong to the series called Sunny
Books for Children" and should have
just as much attention as the more
than q million other copies Of Sunny
Books who have gone out to children
all over this country in the last few
years.
Among old tales for little people are
London Sparrow and Mignonette.
adapted by G. M. Duncan-Jones. A
London Sparrow is particularly quaint
and appealing. One of the baby SPAR
rows in nest in London tells the ad-
ventures Of his family and himself. The
conversation of the family makes the
story more than usually good. Mipnon-
cite Is rather priggish little tale
with moral. It's purpose Is to teach
something Of good nature and sweet
ness to its small readers.
little lame boy named Angelo and
big tame bear named Billee share
honors in Isabel Hawley Scott's Billee.
Little Angelo is living in the poor
house when the story opens and joins
an Italian who is travelling about with
dancing bear, principally because he
is attracted by the animal. Life with
the Italian proves not much more at
tractlve than life in the poorhouse,
but Angelo does not desert his four
footed friend. The hardships are too
much for Billee, however, and he runs
away. The chief interest lies in the
reunion of Angelo and Billee farther
along in the story. Things turn out
very we'll for both of them, considering
the hardships they endured together
early in the book.
Endowing the forces of nature with
fairy qualities, Alice Craig Edgerton
manages to give great deal of in
formation in a manner aimed to en-
tertain little people in Queen Natures
Fairy Helpers. There are questions at
the end of each chapter which the
little reader should be able to answer.
They will give an idea of whether he
has learned anything from the stories.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Arene Translated
Excellent English Version
of French Classic

THE GOLDEN GOAT. Translated from
the French Of Paul Arene by Frances
Wilson Huard. Published by George H.
Doran Company
DAUL ARENE has been placed be-
side Guy de Maupassant by no less
person than Anatole France, who
says of this volume which Mrs Huard
has translated
II had never read a modern book
which conveyed to me as much as did
The Golden Goat, the idea of ANTIQUE
/ beauty, of Greek poetry in its first
flower, its fresh newness."
The setting of the tale ia in
Provence, the authors own corner Of
France, and the flavor Of the country
pervades every page of the book.
High up on rock, quite apart from
the other inhabitants of the province
live tie descendants of Saracen pirates
whose poverty is mitigated by the
knowledge that somewhere in the
village lies buried the thousand-year-
old treasure of the King of Majorca, to
which the golden goat may one day
lead them. In the words of Skipper
Ruff:
ut is that which makes them so
proud-a golden goat that may be met
at night browsing on the mountain
moss. No one has ever been able to
catch it; it runs so fast. But hope
keeps people alive, although it does
not fatten them; and if the Moresques.
as they are called, are all thin it is
because they have only lived on hope
for good long time"
Despite the skipper's scorn of his
fellow Provincals, the professor who
tells the story determines to visit the
village to pursue his studies. Having
fallen asleep at the foot of the rock he
is awakened by the tinkle of a bell
and sees before him a goat with tawny
fleece and hoofs that shone like dia-
monds. He tries to catch the goat, but
she eludes him, dropping in her scram-
BILE through the bushes the little bell
and an ivory bolt which. fastened it to
her collar, both inscribed with Arab
characters.
With this tangible proof of the leg.
end in his hand it is no wonder that
the professor becomes interested in the
search, and when he further learns
that the secret of the treasure is in
the possession of the beautiful daugh-
ter of his host, the Mayor, there is an
added zest.
How he pursues his quest, in spite
of the hostility Of the townspeople,
who have been set against him by his
rival, both for the treasure and the
girl, is told in most delightful way
Then just as he has the secret within
his reach he has to choose between the
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
The Romance Of Old New Orleans
Stories of Famous Creole Families Told bv
Grace King

admit that there is no historical basis
for it.
New Orleans, however, is also rich in
f1esh-and-blood heroes. There is Ber-
nard de Marigny, the wealthy young
heir of an old French family. whose
name is synonymous with wit and dar-
ing and lavish hospitality and aristo-
cratic tastes. The story of Marigny's
woolng, as quoted by the author from
another source, is characteristic of the
man:
"Arriving at Pensacola, Marigny
went to ball, where his attention was
attracted to the most beautiful woman
in it. He expressed his admiration and
asked her name. His informant thought
proper to warn him: You will meet
trouble That's what like answered
Marigny lightly, and at once engaged
the young lady to dance and made him
self agreeable to her the rest of the
evening, to the exclusion of her other
admirers.
THE next morning he received seven
challenges. I cannot fight all at once
he answered, but I will meet one every
morning before breakfast, until all are
satisfied His first opponent fell with
a sword thrust through the body. The
six others professed themselves satis-
fed and made their apologies: we see
that you are a man of courage and
honor Marigny obtained without fur
ther opposition the hand of the beau
tiful young lady"
Marigny's skill in dueling was pro-
verbal. On one occasion he wounded
an opponent in such a way as to make
him walk with pronounced bend for
ward. Fighting second duel with the
same man, he observed to his seconds:
This time I shall try to straighten
him." He did succeed in wounding his
adversary in exactly the same place,
and as a result the latter lost his
stoop and gained bend backward that
made him even more conspicuous than
before.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Dramatic Stories
Richard Washburn Child
Utilizes Darkness

THE VELVET BLACK BY Richard
Washburn Child. Published by e. p
DuttOn d Co.
I'm THIS collection Of short stories
it would appear that Mr.. Child
loves darkness rather than light.
Certainly he is master of suspense
when it comes to describe events
that occur in the "velvet black" So
realistic are his descriptions of dark
ness that one can positively feel it.
In most of these stories the crux Of
the situation comes in darkness and
Mr. Child extracts Avery ounce of
thrill out of the struggles that take
place when "the night, the house, the
velvet black, were noisefess" The
characters, too, come from the dark
ness Of the underworld and their
primitive emotions flash across the
pages rs the guns flash red and silver
splitting streaks, which rip through
the velvet black
The longest story in the book, "The
Cracking Knee" Is laid in China. The
Orient fares as we'll at his hands as
the underworld. There an Englishman,
a conscientious objector, is locked
in tho dark with degenerate coolie.
AT sound, "into the plush heavy
blackness before his aching, staring
eyes sprang a picture Of his imagina-
TONS own painting, the vivid details
Of thrust of pointed razor-edged steel
through neatly parting flesh, into his
heart or lungs. made his fingers clutch
cautiously in the moments Of pause as
they crawled along the floor in front
Of him. His hands were moving as If
exercising their own wills to find and
seize the other knife which he had been
told would be put there"
How the darkness worked its ter
rors on him and finally goaded him
into using the knife despite his prin-
ciples is told in a powerful way. If,
however, 1t was designed as an object
lesson to conscientious. objectors. it
failed of its purpose, for his sweet
heart, bound and gagged was also in
the dark cellar, and it is only by sheer
good luck that he doesn't kill her.
Mr.. Child can justly be called a
brilliant writer of tense and dramatic
short stories.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

in the hearts and labor Of m.n
Stephen Vincent Benst, for in,,.ss ,.s's
We like much in this book: ~r,.
tort Discourteous," 1870 A. N. IN ~, ~,
Street." "The Etcher," 4Exnr..'..a sSa'
Near the End Of Winter" Come .,sl' p. w.
and "The Song of Cold and p.s
which begins: ''
Colder than leopards' eyes IN. -.
Where all the freezing sta-s sc
Black wind runs trotting to the ,g,uao,
Striking cold hoofs on the cold ,z s.z
The array Of those titles sr..
how joyously Mr.. Benet looks 'S e.
and tastes in every quarter. We ,o.,.
quote indefinitely. There are the .t...
full lines which every one might ,s,..
now and then as old age creeps m.
For or, we ar ,, yogng.and youth is st.s,,
The spaniel worlds sink In to hs.Ii
The joke is that worlds really 4.
come to heel if only one is sure n,
are going tol And we wish We eor,,
quote at length from Flood Tide r..
seems to have little more crest n q.
wave than any other piece in the bool
little Kiplingesque, immensely hs,,
tiful and true Of picture and sens.
But we must give due to that er..,
lent artist, Mr.. William Rose .ps,s.
who in his new book shows the orov.,
of his years and combines yopthsr
araor with precision and a rare ma.
terry of word. There are few writer, :.
English to-day who can equal Mr. p.-
nets rich and varied vocabulary. wn.l
Of this volume relates tales o, -.
Renaissance, and no color Is van,i,.
upon Mr.. Benet's canvas to max. tbo,.
gorgeous years live again. Sometin.,
the lines are too crowded to flow earl,
into the mind. They are always yisy.
Gus and speaking.
We have preference for Mr.. Bs,t.
writing off his own bat-about a Zen,..
lin bomb in THE Silver Balloon sb.u.
The Voyage" and "Menagerie." Hsh
lieves IN his Quattrocento, but his B.
lief is too full Of modern wisdom s,3
the modern confusion and excitemm
to give the reader that graceful, round.
ed, bloody age completely. He does ii,
contemporary people with a delcicr.
humor that gives exactly the riss,
crispness. If he took his Rensissar.
heroes with the same straightforwsu.
ness they would be true to themsslu,
and incidentally better poetry.
If the poetry championship Of Ia.
world is ever fought out by fanills,
no literary bet could be safer than I,
back the Benet brothers against al
comers. It is certainly an extraordinsr
literary event to find two such brillisn,
poets as these, of such nearly eau,
achievement, issuing from the san.
mouse. G.P.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03

and the love nest on Page Avenue, St.
Louis, for just little pinch Of star
dust. And at that, when the final para
graph Is written, 1t proves to be second
hand dust.
If a reader can hurdle the opening
paragraph of the book there is consid-
cradle likelihood that he will go on and
reach that fatal last line. But the
opening is difficult. In it one learns
that Lilly was the kind of person
whose "young mind had habit of
transcendng itself into some such IL
lusory realm as this: Springtime seen
lacily through a phantasmagoria of
song. A very floral sward. Fountains
that tossed up coloratura bubbles of
sheerest aria and a sort of Greek frieze
of youth attitudinized toward herself"
Fortunately, this pace is not main
tained. Miss Hurst steps down and
tells US in plain English about the St.
Louis boarding house, about Lilly's
parents, Lilly's beau, and eventually the
Wedding.
with the sexlessness of young
tree" writes Miss Hurst, Lilly, with
all her rather puerile innocence left
her, walked into her marriage like a
I'D \
sensitively."
After three weeks of living with
man who carried a celluloid toothpick
in his vest pocket and worked his tenn
pies when he ate beefstak, Lilly began
to cry out against "this trap-mar-
rage!" She confessed that she had
"let the molasses lake of family senti-
ment" suck her in.
"Id rather be on my own in a gar
ret, Albert" she said. "It's kinder to
tell you. We mustn't get into this thing
deeper. Nothing can change me. Don't
try!"
From here on Miss Hurst, through
Lilly, combats the Chinese shoes of
convention, scorning the "inevitable
mothers with little broody household
ways" Lilly brings up her baby, Zoe,
according to her own peculiar notions.
When Zoe graduates from grade school |
her mother takes her aside to explain
the mystery of the sexes. Zoe is an |
apt pupil.
"If me and Ethel kiss" hazards Zoe.
"it isn't sex, but if me and Gerald kiss,
i. is"
Apparently Lilly's system works, for
Zoe blooms into young lady and full
fills all her mothers hopes and plans.
And Lilly, resigned to her fate, goes
back to st. Louis to take up the old
life on Page Avenue.
There is much that Is entertaining
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Poetry by the Benets
Volumes by Brothers Show High Achievements.
That Are Nearly Equal

HEAVENS AND EARTH. BY Stephen
q Co
MOONS OF GRANDEUR. BY william
Roae Benet Published by George H.
Doran Comrany.
TT is an interesting task to try to
define and distinguish those bright
and adjoining stars, the brothers
Benet. The family resemblance be-
tween them is striking. Their diver
genee is even more marked, and it in
creases with the years. Perhaps as
suggestive starting point as any is
to say that Stephen Vincent, the
younger, is Greek, and William Rose,
the elder, is Roman-with all that the
words imply.
The chance that Stephen Bcnet led
his last volume with two poems CON
corning the immortal Helen gives an
easy opportunity to test his Egean
quality. 1t is ravishingly authentic at
its best. When the Centaurs run they
cover the ground with true Homeric
leaps and laughter. Very uneven is
the quality of the First Vision" Let us
agree at once that there is writing in
Stephen Benet's volume that simply
does not come off; there is shown a
distinctly evener level, a more con-
sistent craftsmanship, steadier in
spiration and clearer lf-criticism
in his elder brothers work. But at
it's crest we are completely enthralled
by the younger mans sweep of verse.
The Last Vision Of Helen" for in
stance, includes the glowing Song of
the City of Troy, that never falters to
the end. Very strong wine is this
whole poem for any one with weak
ness for things~Hellenic. Mr. Benet be-
lieves with bis whole sole in that
extraordinary age and people. believes
it 80 intensely that he makes you be-
lieve it intensely, makes you read on
more swiftly to find what came to the
Golden Queen in Egypt when the
Sphinx sang her last song.
Faith can move verses quite as we'll
as mountains. Mr.. Stephen Benet de-
serves the praise Of being called Greek
precisely because he does believe so
limpidly and simply in the beauty and
magic of life. In that morning of
great art in Greece, those all too brief
Phidian years, when the wonder of the
visible world first broke upon the eyes
Of the greatest artists our earth has
Street" "The Etcher," "Expressions
ever seen, there was no possibility of
hesitation, there was no haze of past
doubts or debating self-consciousnes
Even to us of to-day a glimpse at
fragment of marble carved by these
immortal hands can bring back this old
sense of breath taking wonder. All
too quickly this first bloom passed-to
recur again and again, for moments,
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03


HE history Of New Orleans is
lnseparably bound up with the
1 Creole families which founded
the city and brought to it the
ceremonious dignity of Spain combined
with the wit and grace of France. New
Orleans, as the name indicatess orip;.
nally was French settlement In
1852 Louis XIV arbitrarily handed it
over to Spain, very much against the
wishes of the inhabitants.
revolt was organized by some of
the leading citizens, and the first Span
ish Governor was driven out. UIti-
mately, however, powerful Spanish
meet took possession of the city and
the leaders of the revolt were executed.
A number of Spanish families arrived
III New Orleans and, after the bitter
memories of the revolt were softened
certain amount Of intermarriage took
place between the old settlers and the
newcomers. The city was restored to
France under Napoleon. who ceded it
to the United States.
The French and Spanish colonists of
Louisiana were very different from the
hardy English Puritans who landed at
Plymouth. A large proportion of them
were adventurers of noble rank and
their pedigrees in some instances can
lie traced far back into the Middle
Ages. New Orleans even boasts the
legend of royal romance. AS the
story goes, Charlotte, daughter of the
Duke of Brunswick and wife of disso-
Lutte Russian Gar, escaped from the
court, where she was miserable, by
means of pretended death and sham
funeral, and came to America, where
she rejoined her faithful lover, the
Chevalier d'Aubant. After telling this
pretty story, the author is compelled to
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Novel Dedicated to America
Also There is an American Automobile Manu-
facturer in Madam

MADAM. BY Ethe, sidgwick. Published
by Small. Maynard & Co.
q EEMINGLY every one in Ethel
- Sdgwick's latest novel is quite
mad. The most extraordinary
things happen and no one expresses
any surprise. Then perfectly ordinary
events occur and every one is shocked.
OF course it may be the fault Of the
author in making them appear mad
when they are really quite sane. for
she keeps the reader leaping hurdles
20 the very last page in order to fol-
low her bewildering lead.
At the end the readers are left ut
terly at loss as to why the novel
should have been dedicated to Amer
ica. To be sure there is an Ameri-
can in it. Paish, an automobile manu-
facturer, who, it is supposed, may be
called the god of the machine. But
ne is HoI especially american, ana, SO
far as the tale is concerned, one
doesn't see why he should. have been
American at all.
Hurdles are mentioned advisedly
The style is decidedly "iumpy." Not
the orderly jumpiness of May Sin
clair's latest experiments, nor yet the
frantic leapings of James Joyce. The
war had a queer effect on English
rovelists. Certainly it turned the staid
old form Of the novel topsy turvy.
However the new form will crystalline,
New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Filming the Jungle
CABLEGRAM lust received from

AZ @AoA LIZ NAsAn JuSC received from
Major A. Radcliffe Dugmore to
his publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co.,
announces his safe arrival at Port
Said, Egypt. Major Dugmore has un-
dertaken an expedition to British East
Africa with the purpose of securing the
most complete and elaborate motion
picture records of jungle life that have
ever been attempted. The reputation
which he won before the war as an
artist and photographer of big game
predicts his success in the gigantic un-
dertaking. Accompanying Major Dug
more is Sir Charles Ross, the eminent
British authority on tropical travel and
diseases.
Major Dugmore also expects to write
book on the expedition and plans to
obtain for illustrations many unusual
photographs and sketches in color.