New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
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Prairie Dawn and Villa Gather
Rv Burton Rascoe


TSRoM S. Mcclure alght with
enthusiasm
teacher from Nebraska aosthaste for her New
York that they might the possibility his
editorial assistant Villa sert Gather tvho sber
was on the TAR writing what her had her heart had
fes in the broad the Western pra Incidentally
her first heft climb peak
America She look around her now with almost complete feeling
Of loneliness which pony pricked
his ears the coyotes ca the urk dusk the Nebraska grazing
for
the matter of that call her impertnencc
Cah that the first hurt of that early loneliness
aevated not by her writings which beauty
from her hurt; for its pgnancy something
characters quite 1t has been philosophy
well the lees in her m and from persistence
has made poetic
the Sheyan angels whispering
dar Mitonc para
disc and sit meeky the right hand the
sympathetic portrayal
of the abonder in "Paus caeconcng baed
dreamer who bought glimpse of gerng beauty price
to know where her heart lies
There boodbroher pathetic Ours"
from the moment he enters the know Miss
and that she wnks ngy at his weakness He swany in an
anans costume he has cocne dravl
knowing about ladies' hghstoo dy
hank in Crystal Lake.
"why, thought Engshman" Claude on
board the troop ship Anchises
"Not quite. Majesty army two years. though
Claude admres Any one escaped
admiratonCud with overwhelming escape
pushed out of his he'll: eyes, things pretty
"Tame? My of men if you take
all the fire out Of them? They afraid everything
Sunday school snas prowng around those little
for himself of the world pnnng bloy
Ducinea Of the flesh London sympathetic sophisticated
awoman he had shot down battle high adven
re above the German nes he has Miss Gathers
for he oo took his Icarus flight toward the
ralist Purianic regimen
go ahead" says Claude "drink to the Kaiser
'Why 10 him n
It not in particular. Hndenburg or the High Command
or anything else that got out of the cornfelds.".
There have the no pognany drama
MISS Gather has und for through the of this the
she haSx To
owed had perbed
knowledge owed sinister debt Of gratitude for the
expanding cravd in his cramped existence on
the Nebraska farm The tale further tnged
fumen of the magnificent energies splendid
tive youth who had quarrel with living being
found nThe blood drippd down his coat but
de only that ne commanded wonderful
three bullet By time they
looked him again. the smile Claude had
faded Hicks wiped the sweat and smoke
Claude Wheeler alone is not the hero of cone
the American youth with fettered suang far inland
towns where refreshing breath of adventure coe play
sinful and leisure dedicated mournf
duty work. suffering piety and death The problem
that Claude faced the problem all aspiring crampe
triasm and no snirt whatever has sen ;+ I ~ = NOUS
with effective energies youth in salts
Tying experience JOY in work and happiness in play
obtain there is the alternative of all
submitting humby with bowed bloody frightfu
miracle
But let insist, this War occupies less than
third Of the book the deus nraco which
fashion the perplexie Of Claude adventure
release for his story concerned with
the Of those energies not through the specific
but through the fault Of things
Claude Wheeler is finely youth orhppea b
his mother intimdated but loved by his Industrious
ty prosperous pou Nebraska farmers M
one She thought dancing and playing
rough people did such things when girl vermontnd
wordness only another
cepon OF education should learn think;
The history Of the
already explained; and
should remain obdnty within the theological history Nat
school, but he too took For
granted that the religious institution
and that because the students there looked shab less likely
have the spiritual meu of Cauds home parental
affection obedience theological dc chnchy
well the spirit The
withered by the blight her negligible shameful
Caudes
he is lonely NTH