Evening star., 1925-11-28
THE LIBRARY TABLE
By the BoOkLOUer.


readers of his novels IF Winter
Comes and This Freedom has
reached an acute stage i'm his latest !
novel, One Increasing Purpose" In
spite OF the complimentary remarks
of William Lyon Phelps about this
novel II seems to at least one reader
fun of sound and fury, signtfying |
nothing" The eccentricities Of Mr. |
Hutchinsons style are not. like /
those Of George Meredith and Henry |
James, caused by ellipsis and ex
treme condensation. His fault is. on
the contrary. a superhuity Of words
or sometimes no thought .at all.
What. for example. are all these
words about? "He suddenly was
made aware that his mind. working
without volition of his own. had
merged from it's rapt contemplation
of that peace to an Interrogation:
What peace? He dwelt upon IL.
What peace? What was this peace
was here? Or what this perfect
tranquility? What peace was this?
Surely some key TO it, some thought
approac ching it. had on this very day
been In his mind. What? He
searched his mind. How had the
iumults OF this day first found him?
How was he occupied when first
they broke upon him? There had
been. surely. some huge signifcs nee
had happened to him when first they
came? All. He felt his spirit leap
within him i'm bound Of sudden recoa
milton. *. .. W. Kindness. Kingdom
Of Heaven kindness-spirit OF the
Kingdom of Heaven"
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,ip,ag Mr uit al
ways rather heavy. becomes so forced
! md labored as to he painful His
description of the attitude Of Swiss
Iule. nurse and attendant OF old
"Gand.' toward his patient Is All eX-
ample. He Jule) scarcely even
spoke: the action of his eyes WAS
the detached. indifferent dealers ac-
ton: There's the exhibit; why ask
me-? julie always called him
Patient: never the patient or my
, patient A fly circled and
settled on his exhibits forehead He
! f1icked it away tsalesman carelessly
busting a specimen which no one has
! the purse to buyD then he
! neslieently, wiped the face the fiy
! threatened salesman nezligently
busting specimen TO pass the time)
Swiss julie half stopped As
| he came TO the bed. negligentIy
pa tents lips salesman wiping a spot
of damp from his specimen"
and so on.
AS for the plot of this new Hutch
,, inson novel. IL is the usual hodge
| podae of sensa tionalism and senti-
mentalism. There is marital inf
delitv. blackmail. smallpox, suicide
| tbut no murder. for which we are
! thankful. with a heavy dash of
incoherent religion at the end
| In The Senate and the League of
Nations Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
makes what is almost death.bed af.
flrmation that he was sincerely in ia
;vor of the League Of Nations with
the reservations which he consistently
! supported in the Senate. He does not
definitely defend himself against the
often-repeated charge of Wilsonian
Democrats that he plotted the defeat
of United States participa t1on in the
league by reservations which he never
| expected TO be adopted. but his whole
book is really such a defense. and to
many readers ii seems that he makes
good his case. The book Is full Of
very Interesting new information and
anecdotes csncering the relations of
denta-fsxp great FLASHING PERSONAL
ties. The Story OF the first meeting
of Mr. Wilson and Mr., Lodge Is one
of the BEST. The meeting occurred
soon Sfter Mr. Wilson came TO the
White House. Mr.. Lodge reminded the
President of a. Harvard alumni din
ner at which. they had been table
companions: The President replied
, hat he was not likely to forget the
him a manuscript. MIR. Lodge. not
recal Hing this. circumstance, looked
over his records and found thar in
1879 he; had accepted from Mr.. vii.
son. then only 23 years old. paper
for the International Review entitled.
Cabinet Government in the United
States - Hkrs
Indiscreet gossip about royalty is
/ furnished to the public. with the
hearty disapproval of the British
the Memoirs" of Sir Almeric Fitzroy.
The memoirs are based on diaries
kept for over a quarter of a century,
a period during which Sir Almeric
was clerk and registrar of the privy
council. under Queen Victoria. Ed
ward VII and George ". Sir Almeric
retired last wear. without the Gus
tomary honors from the crown. The
memoirs show that the British SOW
ereisn stili possesses more power
than is popularity supposed. Spicy
| anecdotes eniiven the pages. One is
about Queen Victoria's uneasiness
over the appointment of F'itzroy. be-
cause OF his being a finesl descendant
OF Charles II and his mistress, the
Duchess OF Cleveland. Queen Vic
toria always particularly abhorred
Charles III on account of his dissolute
character, and thought she detected
I in Fitzroy's appearance a strong re-
semblance TO his royal ancestor. She
was treasured by Lord George Hamil-
ton, cabinet minister. who told her
that -Fitzroy was "a most respectable
gentleman"
Laurence Sterne. sardonic humorist
md novelist of the eighteenth century.
Is presented to US In a careful, docu-
mented biography, The Life and
| Times of Laurence Sterne, by VIII
bur L. Cross. An interesting story Is
made of the hard early life OF Sterne,
his struggles with disease. his uni
| versity years, his entrance into the
Church Of England and his subse.
auent career as clergyman. politician.
man OF the world and writer. The
background of Sterne's life is as inter
! esting as its personal events. He
lived in the time of the Pretender,
| when the Jacobites were still sup.
! porting the lost cause Of the House Of
Stuart Sterne dabbled in politics and
his circle included many OF the most
prominent personaEes in political life
as we'll as in. literature. He Travelled
much and knew many distinguished
Frenchmen. Diderot. d'Alembert,
Button. Pitt, Goldsmith. DIR. johnson
and Garrick were among his friends.