Evening star., 1926-05-16

An Americans Adventures Among the R@-Animas of the
Land and Sea-New Fiction-Second Novel of
WASHINGTON WrterCobbs Short Stories

| by the flaming spirit Of the young
enthusiast of helpfulness. AS q pir
ture 1t translates the common life o
Japan into vivid reality. The who.
IS z. convincing model Of the metho.
of realism as ii is understood and pra
tlced on this side of the world y,
these qualities u? conception ana pur
pose and fultilment the romano
makes tremendous impression
| new vision Of a strange country. This
vision by it's intimate completeness
viii have the effect of enlarging th'
SympathieS. OF deepening the under.
standing. OF promoting the friendship
or other peoples reading this boob
with the nation which it sets out So
strongly and effectively.
!: X
THE SCRRY FAMILY. Bv Helen r
Hun, author Of "I.abyi1nth ct,
New York; The Macmillan co.
RATHER. mother. children-love ~
around-that the family. isn't
II? Well. hardly. So long as this
combination was assumed to he The
family IT aroused no uncommon inter
est in the novelist or the artist. Then
ii was discovered that the family j.
~ effect, mold into which are cast
all the possibilities and passions that
serve for the greatest of dramas Into
this mold 1t is found. are thrown
love and hate, friendship and enmitv.
cooperation and rivalry. ambition and
illustration, secret aims and plans-the
whole gamut of human emotions, good
and bad together. struggle here. This
is relatively a new discovery. Time
out of mind it has been accepted ( haf
all children love their parents. tho
mothers are never jealous Of their
daughters. that between father and
son the antagonisms of all other male
creatures are not possible. Always
has there been a close unconscioue
conspiracy to maintain this fiction u'
The family. Only now is it being re
luCtantly recognized that many times
home is place for the children 10 get
away from. And if within the home
the sheltering Of grandmother or
grandfather is a burden and not a
glory, this too - hidden in pious
hypocrisy.
Thousands of novels. purporting ~
he family chronicles. have come into
the open with this franker a.
knowledSme of some Of The Tea litie>
OF family life. The Surry Familt
is new one in the growing swarm uf
novels upon this theme. An average
American family. an ambitious Wifi"
an easvgoing husband. son. the
mothers pride; a girl. not differeut
from other nice American girls. Ths
story itself grows upon the famiiIat,
friction and pickering. upon the maks
shifts 10 secure an appearance
prosperity. upon the schooling an .
settling of the boy and girl. A III
Of Clean-cut work lifts from the ma So
Of family life everywhere a distinc'
and pla uslble and coherent portra Va /
of he inner substance of this institu-
ton Not a thrilling theme. hut one
whose in-seeing treatment here eliCttS
praise for the Workma nship II 1t does
not rouse enthusiasm FOR the story
| itself.
SAMUEL KELLY. Az Eighteenth
Century Seaman. BY SaInuei
Kelly. Edited by CrOsbie Carstin.
/ Illustrated. New York: F'rederich
/ A. Stokes Co
| GAMUEL KELLY wrote his own
~ story as he went along. Eumor
/ says that for 100 years or there
about. the ancient log books had lain
in an old bureau in 81. Ives. From
/ this hiding place they We're rescued
! by "Penzauce bookseller" who
( called them Intensely interesting #
! YOU cut out the psalm singing. How
! ever. as one reads the plain tale se'
! down hv Samuel Kelly himself il had
not been. al! psalm singing Indeed
| at the beginning Kelly declares tha
| his days have been few and evil
a statement that he goes on TO elah-
crate in convincing detail. But those
were provocative days for seameu
| those eighteenth century days when
! privateering was a licensed business
4 81, sill iHan a
| turned itself into plain piTateinE.
! Though this lapse from law and ordel
never did overtake Samuel Kelly.
| seaman. Instead. in packet and
/ transport service he sailed for The
! Atlantic Coast and then back To Eng
land again.
! Rising in grade as seaman. he
/ again came To the New World and,
in the way Of sea trade. sailed l."
/ many a port on both sides of the A.
| lantiC. Not Il strange story Of sea
! faring. this one told by Samuel kell.
! It's delight lies in the way of its tel.
! ing-whiCh TO be sure. is the case
with every story ever told. And, be
| sides. a good deal of its interest restS
| in the period covered by this record.
I a period when the British We're oCcrs
pying Manhattan Island, and leavin,S
| il, when George Washington was Is
| a training that ultimately made hirx
| one Of the great figures Of history,
| when Benjamin Franklin was seas
| tering his genial wisdom along this
streets of his own city, when manS
most important things were in th,+
making and doing. A graphic pic
ture of long gone time. this Samue>
Kelly has made in the fashion of his
| day. a fashion that is delightful 1r
| its points of view and in it's ways o.
speech.