Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-09
BOOKNOTES

Harry Hervey, whose colorful mystery
romance of India, Caravans by Night
has just been reprinted by the Century
Company within a few weeks of IT'S pub
LEGATION, is deliberately a romaneer, it
would seem In little speech he made
lately on some literary occasion, he said.
speaking of his resolve to devote him
self to this kind of fiction: Il would
become, decided, not maker of dreams
bur builder OF the galleOns OF dreams.
the ships upon which the hearthstone
Adventures might sail, in fancy, to their
enchanted archipelagoes My books, l
resolved, would not be sex or problem
novels, nor eve realism, but romanees
'Of course, I realized then, as l realize
now, that I would and will encounter
opposing forces-hordes in whom hrs
become fixed the belief that tales OF
spurred knights and derring do, tales OF
adventure, are merely pabulum for chill.
dren and not to be taken seriously. l
rebelled then. as / rebel now, against
this order Of things.
$50 this my first book-length effort
is, in a measure my challenge to the
legions OF realism. my protest against
the descending cloud of neurotic fiction
and my humble offering to the gods OF
romance"
y II y
"Down-A- Down Derry" Waited de la
Mares collection of fairy poems illus
trated in color and line by Miss Dorothy
P Iathrop, was published by the Holts
April Is. The book comes as the re-
suit Of a happy collaboration between
poet and artist It was Mr.. knopf who
brought the two together when a few
ha led ath Ia IL
lusrrate The Three Mulla Mulgars. Mr..
de la Mare was SO delighted with her
work on this book that a correspondence
ensued, in the course of which Miss Lath-
rop mentioned that she would like to IL
lustrate Songs of Childhood. Mr.. de la
Mare answered with the counter-propo-
sal that she illustrate a collection Of
his fairy poems So the arrangement was
made with Henry Holt & Company, Miss
Lathrop being left free TO choose from
the different collections those poems
which most wildly suggested TO her
fairy pictures. She also received from
Mr. de la Mare several new poems. In
two cases the picture came before the
poem. Several black and white imagi-
tive sketches OF Miss Lathrop's so In
terested Mr.. de Ia Mare that he wrote
poems 10 illustrate the pictures, calling
other THE Stranger the latter Of which
appeared in the December Century. Sew
eral of the other illustrations and poems
from "DOwnA- Down Derry have ap-
peared during the past few months IN the
Century Magazine. as well as in Harner's
and S. Nicholas. There are in the book ali
told three full page color Illustrations
and sixty black and whites Although
far more deliberately illustrated than
Peacock Pie" Down A Down Derry
will make q fit companion volume TO that
'.kRapsack Of fairy gold-Publtshed by
Henry Holt & Company. New York
II II II
ESTHETICS OF
THE SCREEN.
Vachel Lindsay's book on The Art of
the Moving Picture" is just being brought
out in a new edition by the Macmillan
Company Mr.. Lindsay has revised his
volume Of five years ago TO bring IL into
step with the newest developments in
cinematography.
The philadelphia Public Ledger" said
OF this first esthetic philosophy Of the
screen ;" Nothing less than the warmest
approval is possible toward the volume.
In earnest interest. in just appraisal of
the past. and fine foresight. it stands
alone in current letters. 1t praises nobly
praise and condemnation by that thor
ough knowledge Of subject which cannot
be done without
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THE PARTY
SYSTEM
A descriptive account OF the American
PARTY system, with an analysis of tie
structure, behavior, and significance of
the political party is to be found in Prof
Charles E. MerriaIn's new book, "The
American Party System
The volume covers the social compost
ton Of the party, party leadership and
machinery, the workings Of boss rule and
the spells system. the role of the party in
nominations and elections, and in the
shaping Of public policies. Theories of
the party system are discussed and ten
denotes toward It's reconstruction exam
ined. The work is based upon twenty
five years 81 observation. study. and ac-
tive participation in public affairs. THE
Macmillan Company
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AROUND THE ROUND TABLE AGAIN
A certain chair az Macmillans round
table is assuming Il very c0cky air, hop
ping about at strange angles and tenn
peramentally sticking in SUPER dig
nifled position at the wrong moment. 1t
has some reason for Its pride. In one
day it was occupied by the following
people. lights of the literary world whose
talk would have been most gay, had they
met-but alas, they passed on separate
elevators, every one: Marguerite Will
kinson (the first poet to read her works
Ia the radiol; John Clair Mnot of the
Boston Herald: Katherine Morse, author
of a Gate Of Cedar who vows she will
peddle her book from a hand cart II. w.
Elson. the historian. William Bowen
from California. author Of The Old To-
bacco Shop" Jacqueline Overton, with
the beautiful catalog she made for the
Chi1drens Book Shop: Hendrick WiIlem
Van Loan, with as merry a tongue as
ever; Ernst Filsinser. TO get some proof
for Sara Teasdale Filsinger, and Jay
Van Everen. to deliver some of his fine
pen work for Katherine Adams new
book, "Wisp."
No wonder the old chair was uplifted,
SO that 1t was continually in the way
when the big crate arrived holding Eric
Pape's fronjispiece to the new edition of
"The Arabian Nights"
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AN ABLE DIAGNOSIS.
DR.. George Coe or Union Theological
Seminary, writing Of Professor EIwood's
Iew book on The Reconstruction of Re-
ligion," says: '.The remedy for the sick
Tess of our civilization lies not In re-