The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-05-04

By ALICE LINDSEY WEBB.
Questions gladly answered. Write
De In care of the editor.)
Noah Porter, speaking of Books
nd Reading" says: mo man can
BAD with profit that which he can
lot learn to read with pleasure
Two women obsessed with the ter
lble fascination of Death Valley, with
shovel, big water canteens, blankets
md food in an auto land later a Cart ),
raved the hardships of the desert
md the result in a most interesting
box, "The White Heart of Mojave."
dna Brush Perkins is the author, and
he has dedicated it to her cOmpan
>n in the adventure, Charlotte Han
as Jordan. They tell of THE won
ers of Death Valley, its beautiful
Ugh mountains, it's shining white
oor, its lot brightness it's stiffness,
lu the llONciS IL yOu 81 tHCiS
pu will see something that you'll
ever see anywhere else in the world"
hey tell how they found the Mojave,
|hich became more beautiful and
lore terrible at every mile; the meet
kg with disreputable old prospectors
nd bandits, half-wild burros and
holly wild coyotes, little brown birds
nd an owl that kept saying: Hoo,
loot Skidoo!" The whole adventure
J told in a lively, familiar manner,
18th many vivid picturings. (Boni, So.
4 Here Is one of Christopher Morley's
Translations from the Chinese" (DO-
hn) that seems worth clipping and
is quite typical of the thoughtful
1umor of the volume:
A Happy Lie.
The American poet, Whitman,
Did little to assist the razor industry
(ut he erected a plausible PHILOSOPHY
II Incidence
Which without soft concealments,
Who were busy putting up buildings
md tearing them down AGAIN.
That they never forgave him.
He was deficient in humor,
But he had a good time.
Who are the "old style" novelists OF
Today? Who are the five apostles OF
n rnC or nd at-gyt
Tive who practice delicate literary
brit? Who, Of our story book writer's
|bf today are leaders Of The Revolt
from the Village? l know of but one
book that answers this series OF gus
lions correctly. Carl Van Doren
Contemporary American Novelists
E(Macmillan). He covers the first two
decades of this twentieth century In
Ia careful judicial study of our living
'novelists: Hamlin Garland, winston
Churchill, Upton Sinclair and Theo-
|dore Dresser; Booth Harrington
Edith Wharton, James Branch Cabell
VILLA Gather and Joseph Hargeshelm-
Ter. He reviews what he calls The
|dwindling cult of local color and ro-
|mance writer's gives a more compre-
|hensive discussion of "emergent
TYPES, and closes with a series or shor'
ESSAYS, each devoted to those VINO
have made small towns a matter OF
literary infamy Masters, whose
Spoon River" epitapfis' spread theil
influence over from poetry into prose;
Sherwood Anderson and ais wines
burg, Ohio; E. w. Howe, and o.
course Sinclair Lewis, Zoula Gale ant
Floyd Dell. The book is so we'll kni
together that it is difficult to pick L
up and dip in here and there. You ge
hold Of a good book and then read an'
read
Lady Cynthia Asquith has writer
book on THE Child at Home
(Scribner's) in which she gives mucl
sound advice on child training, but u
humorous and playful manner, VIII
anecdotal illustrations. Lady Cynthi'
Is a daughter of Lord Weymss, ant
Is married to a son of the former Brit
ish premier.
! told you some time since abou
Tristram Tupper's exciting story Q
The House of Five Swords" (Doran
You may be interested to know hoy
this young southerner came to be
writing man. He says:
81 was born In Carolina county Viz
ginia. | couldn't seem to stay in an
school-being fired out of eight, an
finally out of the Pennsylvania NIL
tary school. Then | decided to ru
away from home. l got as far as Mas
saenusetts, where for ten weeks on