Evening star., 1923-01-13
The Library Table
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the United States on q lecture tour,
which will include Washington in the
near future, arouses interest in all
lovers Of Walpole's novels. His first
appeal to American readers was
through 'TFortitude." q long biograph-
ical novel concerned with Peter
Westcott, beginning much In the style
of Thackeray and ending with a thor
oughiy modern note. 1.-THE Duchess
of Wrexe' and "The Green Mirror
are loosely connected through cer-
tain characters common to both; for
Walpole, like Galsworthy, allows US
to continue our acquaintance with
some OF our favorite characters
through several books His Trench
ard family, like GaIsworthy's For
sytes, seem as real as our own rela-
tives.
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Walpole's THE Dark Forest" and
The Secret City" have Russia as
their setting; the first is a war novel
and both are tense with Russian
superstition and psychic intuition. In
THE Dark Forest" the same super
stition is a motive Of the story which
appears in the tragedy OF Andreyev.
now being presented in this coun-
try, He Who Gets Siapped"-namely,
that IL woman who Is beloved by
two men dies. the man who first fol-
lows her into the beyond will be
her lover through eternity.
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In THE Captives," novel OF vari-
outs sorts of fanaticism, WalpoIe
seems hardly at his usual level of
restraint and balance, but .DThe
Young Enchanted" published in 1921,
is again one Of his best. In this
Peter Westcott Of "Fortitude" and
Henry and MilIicent Trenchard of
The Green Mirror are brought to-
gether and we are shown how youth
Is always enchantment.
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London clubs have been famous
since the time of Addison, not only
as social but also as literary and
political centers. From the latter half
OF the seventeenth century to the
early part of the nineteenth, some of
the most distinguished of these clubs
were located in ST. James street. A
recent book, by z. Beresford Chan
cellor, called Memorials of ST. James
Street" gives the history of the street
from It's origin as a country lane and
of all its various clubs. The first club
was Whites. established in 1897: and
this was followed by the Cocoa Tree,
1746; Boobies. 1862: Brooks. 1854,
and Arthur's, 1865. All were original
ly cocoa houses and became clubs
through the initiative Of their
proprietors, who at the proper time
approached groups of their leading
clients with the suggestion that their
houses be made exclusive clubs.
Regular patrons agreed to pay a GER
tain fee. strangers were excluded. and
henceforth the cocoa house (forerun-
ner OF the modern tearoom) was a
club. The story of the St. James
street clubs in Mr.. Chancellor's book
is an interesting one, with its descrip-
tions of the gambling. the dandyism
and the political intrigues that went
on in them. and its account of their
pole, Lord Chesterfield, Pitt. Fox and
Beau Brummell.
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w. L. George has so frequently adj
mitted himself to be the leading CO.
temporary expert on feminine psy-
chology that it would be enlightening
if he could be persuaded to respond
to a questionnaire on the subject
The first question should be, Where
in life do YOU find the women whom
You analyZe in your novels?" Partic-
ularly we should like to ask If he
considers Claire Caldecot in Her I'm
welcome Husband" a real woman
such blend of self-love and unself-
ishness. of daring and conventional
ity, of intelligence and high-strung
nerves, as she Is represented to be
might conceivbaly submit to black
mail in order TO protect the reputa-
ton or the lover who, after many
years of devotion. has deserted her
for younger woman. She might
conceivably take back the rake of a
husband who frankly returns to her
because he sees that the time has
come when he must pay by a prema-
ture and decrepit old age FOR the life
he has led. But never, never. would
such a woman as Claire, fearing and
hating her husband as she does. and
living a life he wishes to conceal.
carelessly allow him for years to be
in possession of a latchkey to her
house and thus able at any moment
of the DAY or night to surprise and
terrtfy her: when it would have been
so easy to change the lock and add
an inner bolt. No. Mr.. .Seor-a docs
not understand the nerves Of the, med
ern woman.
Vitamines have now taken their place
among the hygienic and therapeutic sub
ject about which every up-to-date person
should be able to talk glibly; that is
with tonsils, proteids, radium, bacillus
Bulgaricus, pyschotherapy and Camps
daily dozen. Even the children in the
fourth and fifth grades know about
vitamines, upon which they are sys-
tematically fed by careful mothers: and
the elderly dyspeptic clips from the
newspapers advertisements of yeast and
various vitamine tablets and pasfes
Any one who feels, however, that his
knowledge of vitamines is insufficient or
inaccurate will find the subject thor
Emmett Holt's new book Food. Health
and Growth" In this we learn that
there are three kinds OF vitamines
Vitamine A.. found in butter fat. egg
yolk, hver, kidneys. cod liver oil, and
found in yeast, most meats, grains.
nuts, milk and fruit juices, and vita
mine G, found in most vegetables and
fruits, but not in lines.
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One Of the many evidences Of the
keen interest felt by Americans in
both the far and the near east Is the
magazine Asia, published by the
American Asiatic Association, which
is just celebrating the fifth ami
of its founding. The avowed