The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-11-24
eY ALICE LINDSEY WEBB.
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in the highest civilization the
book is still the highest delight. He
who has once known its satisfa ction
is provided with reserve against
calamity" Emerson's Letters and So
cial Aims Quotations and Originality
I'm glad Lord Dunsany is such q
good looking person. There seems to
have been great many writing folk
Of recent years who have been wild
eyed, or wire haired, or untidy, or too
whiskery, or a combination OF these.
young lord with busy mind, and he
is clever and kind. That is the natur-
al deduction from his latest play, III"
(Putnam) Just issued in most pleas
ant form from the KnickerbOcker
Press. CThat means clean Typography
with no errors, and substantial but
unusual binding)
The play, being by Dunsany, is
whimsical, of course. 1t is the tale of
middle class Englishman who missed
a train years ago, and because the ILL
manners Of the guard" ranked, that
was the one thing he chose to go back
to when the gift of curious crystal
gave him power to re-live ten years OF
his life. So ne caught the train that he
had missed and met young woman
who was the means of his encounter
ing strange adventures in Arabia. Part
Of the pleasures Of reading III" lies
in the inevitable conjectures 1t
arouses as to what might have hap
pened to the reader il some different
turn OF the road had been taken long
ago, or a train caught or missed.
80 $50
1.-THE Skyline Of Spruce" by Edison
Marshall, little. Brown; $1.75) is an
out of doors story, as the title ind1-
Gates. wolf" Darby was woodsman,
splendid specimen physically, and
a "throw-back" to the primitive IN
some ways. In the war, before the
story opens, he had won distinction
because of his courageous leadership
but shell-shock robbed him OF his
memory and twisted him into a brief
session of crime from which he awoke
just in time for capture by the police
He was parolled in custody OF an Ole
mining prospector, "Ezram," who lao
Just been willed a rich claim, FOL
which the two Immediately started
Three claim jumpers murdered EzraH
and took possession. They were aDou'
to get Darby also, from ambush wneI
ne carried off the daughter OF th'
leader in canoe as revenge. He raj
the rapids and reached place mac
cessible except by weeks OF overland
travel by mountain and deep timbe
routes unblazed There he guarded ne
In cave and awaited the coming
v rescuers. whom he could pick OH a
his leisure. A tree fell on him, incl
ammunition was gone, and their 100
q nearly exhausted before he was aDi
to get about. Then her father and nj
brutal accomplices arrived and wer
disposed of by the timely interference
Of wolves led by one raised from
cub and tambed by Darby, but ma
gone back to the wild state. There ar
several unlikely features to the TAI
but life shows sucn unbelievable o.
entrances occasionally, so why not us
them in books? Also one Is dislnciihe
to bubble over points in a story
entertaining.
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Tokichi Ishii is dead. on the sea
fold, for most henious crimes. 81
behind him he has left ais autoDl
graphy which Miss Caroline MacDo'
aid, worker among Tokyo prise
inmates, has translated, and pupiis
ed under the title, "a Gentleman =
Prison." Doran, $175). 1t is a stranl