The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-03-16
BY ALICE LINDSEY WEBB.
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81 denied myself everything but
books, that my girls could be fitted
to fill the position | was. determined
they SHOULD have" said Glamorgan, in
Emile Loring's The Trail of Con-
flict."
Robert Swasey's first novel, ken
dalls Sister" Litlle, Brown; $1.9O)
is the story of beautiful, high-mind-
ed young war widow and handsome,
coarse grained young Irish millionaire
whose love is unwelcome to her. He
forces his attentions upon her. and
when he is rebuffed, takes his re-
venge by spelling her attempt to save
two fallen girls in her settlement
work, and running her brothers bust
ness career. Her friend Susan, very
clever person, and Hubert Rothwell,
the charming Englishman who pro
poses on the last page, add many in
teresting chapters to the tale. Swa-
sey's special ability seems to lie in
the making of definite, clear-cut per-
sonalties of the characters in his
story. They are real. The book is GER
tainly most promising beginning for
a young novelist.
If you want novel to browse
through, and are fond of books and
curious about their authors, you could
not do better than get Grant Overton s.
.fWhen Winter Comes to Main Street"
(Doran) When winter comes to Main
street or elsewhere, folk want amuse-
ment indoors-new books and folks,
do they not? So he discusses, in a
charmingly intimate manner, some
1875 of the present day writer's and
their most recent publications, par
ticularly those that appeared last
autumn or are now in press. There
are engaging portraits of Hugh Wal
pole, Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett,
Irwin S. Cobb, Frank Swinnerton,
Stewart Edward Waite, Mary Roberts
Rinehart, Stephen McKenna, and w
Somerset Vaughan. The large, clean
cut type on the soft buff paper on
which it is printed makes the book
especially easy for tired eyes under
artificial light. Would that more pub
fishers realized that. By the way, Mr.
Overton has way of seeming to in
troduce his readers personally tC
folks he knows well and likes, taking
you into the CHARMED circle where yor
.ho ,,Io M civ and Z a K s
of their chat, learn their tastes, theil
personal attraction. This makes 1t {
book easy to pick up and hard to lay
down unfinished.
We have had books of travel to tel
us what visiting wits and notable'
think of America; we have had his
/ tories to tell us what we have been
biographies to tell us why we ar
what We are. And once in blue moo
we get a serious attempt at telling u
what we ought to be as nation. ID
Durant Drake of the philosophy de
partment of Vassar formerly at Har
ward and Columbia) has given us a
excellent volume of this sort, entitle
America Faces the Future" (Mac
milan, $3.50. We have been proud c
America, proud of our land and it
resources, it's growth and achieve
ments, its ideals. Ideals? Are they
thing of the past? Going out OF fast
ion, Dr. Drake discusses five pacifi
points to which our idealism Ia
chung; Liberty, Equality, Democrat
Efficiency and Patriotism He anal!
yes political and civil liberty, toucl
ing upon our moral obligation in II
Philippines; discusses constitution
guarantees with the blocking
needed legislation and the protectiC
of "privilege") He points out no
too many of us have come to tolera
the wrong kind of individualism al
to frown upon the right kind" On Il
question of free speech he says: 1T
imperious reason why freedom
speech is desirable is not the hardsh
brought upon those who differ frc
the dominant views, but the need
the ideas that everyone has to CO
tribute" Summing up his chapt
on law and order, he has tails CHEF