The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-09-11
BOOKS I'm BRIEF
CALUsHA BANGS. professer .

iuueeu I'll tpfOIebsOrt are IN IlcuOnDs
In quest OF health, stumbies upon
the little town OF East .wsilmouth,
Cape Cod, and becomes thereby the
central parsonage OF Joseph G.
Lincoin's latest story Of the region
: Of fogs. fisheries, and fiction.
''Galusha. the Magnificent
It Il not necessary to tell any one
who has read one Of Mr.. Lincoln's
stories Of those pectiiarities Of style
which have ,endeared him to thou.
sands Of readers, but lest some row.
ing eye rest upon this. whose owner
knows not the joys Of Lincoln and
Cape Cod, We have no hesitation in
pronouncing this one OF the best Of
his books.
When the Professor makes his
advent into East wellmouth IN the
midst Of q bad storm he finds refuge
In the home OF Martha Phipps.
where he eventually becomes :
boarder. Here the reader makes
acquaintance with q typical assort-
ment Of Lincoln characters. who
furnish constant amusement with
their queer remarks and homsly
philosophy.
Among the characters slxetched 30
skillfuiiy by Mr.. Lincoln are
Primmie Cash. maid-of- all-work In
the Phipps household; Captain
Jethro Hallet. keeper Of the light
house. and an irascible old sea dog
who is addicted to spiritualism; hir
daughter Lulie. and Raish Puicifer.
financial magnate OF the village.
Rash 10. In q mild sort. Of way. the
villain OF the piece. but his clumsy
Vaccinations are foiled by Galusha,
who. as he resains his health large.
ly through the fundamentally of
Martha's cookery. loses his heart TO
that estimabie woman, ami the con.
clusion Of the story finds her on a
honeymoon tour Of Egypt with the
professor.
THE death Of Harriet Prescott
Spofford at Amesbury breaks
one Of the most cherished links
with the past. 1t ia, perhaps. sixty
years ago that she. as q young girl.
appeared in the office Of the Atlantic
Monthly with the manuscript Of
THE Amber Gods" Her reputation
was made almost Immediately upon
its publication, and to this reputa-
ton every line that she has written
since has added.
Mrs. spofford's success ls a writer.
her charming personality won for her
the friendship OF the great literary
figures Of the day. among whom
should be especially mentioned Haw.
thorne. as he was an ardent ad.
mirer Of her work. and Whittier,
whose home. like hers. was In Ames-
bury. Mrs. Spofford continued her
writing with unflaGging power and
increasing wisdom to the very end.
Last year in her eighty.third year
she published q volume OF short
stories. The Elders People" QIough-
ton Mifflin Company. The critics
who reviewed and praised Il were at
least q generation removed from
the reviewers OF sixty years ago,
who had first acclaimed her as one
Of the great literary women Of New
England, but they felt as keenly the
magnetism Of her charm.
IN his preface TO Sea Power In
the Pacific." Mr.. Bywatsr warns
the reader that II he belongs to the
asgressiveiy militant party In either
japan. or America. he will find no
encouragement in his book. But he
points out, near the end. that wide
circles in Japan are imbued with
the political doctrines Of the Prus-
sian school. and hypnotized by the
doctrines that lured Germany to her
ruin Tho old cry Of 'Weltmnch
oder Niedergang has been taken UP
by the military caste. and IN echoed
with equal or greater conviction by
'Intellectuals' and hard-headed men
of business" .-.'
SOMERSET Vaughan, In an inter-
view recently reported In Sydney
paper. calls to the attention of Aus.
tralians the new and vital litsra.
ture sprinsing up In America. IF
they want to know what Middle
West America really is. they can't
do better than read 'winesbnrg,
Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
collection of stories
which suggest Chekhov in their
subtlety and realism"
IN honor of the six hundredth
anniversary of Dante's death,
the Yale Review will publish
lin Its October number an article
on 1.-THE Young Dante and the