Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
IDA GILBERT MYERS.
WINGED SANDALS. BY Lucien Pris
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.

IDA GILBERT MYERS.
WINGED SANDALS. BY Lucien Price.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
r WAS late in starting out For.
you see, my footgear was wrong.
Nobody could go hob-nailing after
Il one shod as this man was. AS a
matter Of fact, had to wait for
wings, of sorts, to sprout from my heels.
Once ready and started, however, my
pursuit of this modern Mercury was
swift and secure. over to France for
its cathedrals, into Germany for music,
to Italy for painting and into Greece
for its sculpture. That was the course,
these were the goals sought.
This might be called a travel book.
Such 1t is, but travel book so differ
erent from the average OF this tribe
as to be counted clear alien. In effect,
the terrain traversed lifts above the
solid earth into the clear atmosphere
of want to say "culture"-but that
word has in a measure lost its char
acter through bad treatment. Still in
its virgin sense this Is the only term
that applies to the effect of this adj
venture of the spirit. Out Of the actu-
alities of architecture, music, painting
and sculpture there rises here the eS-
sence of art in its pure beauty, in its
call to that deep sense OF striving after
the far and high things, In its call upon
implications that cannot be explained,
upon signihcances that cannot be set
down.
Yet here are Just two men going
about, talking together-as modern
these men and as current, so to speak,
as button up your oyercoat' or any
other emanation of the moment. But
they are not that, except for the on
hours of getting here or going there.
Once arrived, they step into great move
ments, into grand common impulses
that, created century by century the
cathedrals of France in the Middle
Ages-Notre Dame, Charities, Amiens.
Human life built into aspiration and
dream and vision. Beethoven and Wag-
ner embody the music OF Germany.
Here, too, the end comes by way OF in
dividual human reach and loss and
reach and gain, till. triumphant, these
two succeed, surprisingly so far, in
bringing to earth the music OF the
spheres by way Of symphony and song
In Italy and in Greece it is the same
BY painting and acknowledgements
spread upon receiving surface, block
of marble chiSel-hewn-therer rises, ever
new, u WOTlu Al6 OCdhbyy bAtC
enlargement of mans out-reaching
under the urge of an inner drive toward
the unattainable.
Such, in a very unsatisfying rough,
is the travel book-the Mercury flight
of holiday for these two companions
and friends, this pair so quietly humor-
Gus, so keenly observant in their pas
sage from one of these great themes
to another one. II you are OF the In
uuisitive kidney, you will gather from
the book a host Of facts. authentic
and comprehensive. on both art and
the life surrounding it. If. however.
you have in addition wings to your
mind as well as to your footwear. you
will have joy immeasurably greater
from this holiday of a couple of bust
ness men. going out from Boston into
the ever-new world of art.
JOSHUA's VISION. BY William j..
Locke. author of THE Beloved Vag-
abond," etc. New York: Dodd, Mead
& Co.
JOSHUA FENDICK is just another
~ william j. Locke man to win the
heart and revive confidence in sub
stantially decent and friendly world.
Joshua steps out as hero of modern
tale when he is close to middle age, II
not already arrived at that critical
point. The inside of this man is in
corrigibly young. So. having won dis
tinct success in business. Joshua de-
termines to try out some Of the dreams
of his youth. He likes art, likes 1t so
much as to suspect himself OF real tai
ent in one or another of its expressions.
81 &I,a fv-tay,IeI1ivH IF q crI1lY7fnF-
a fine woman, by the way, who serves
more than one sturdy turn in the case
of this budding artist-Joshua becomes
a modern Pygmalion, digging out and
setting up in his own inner shrine the
beauteous figure of Galatea. Sounds
classic-doesn't It'll 1t isn't. Rather, as
modern as tomorrow. For this Is. in
effect. the now familiar scenario Of the
old man in love with the girl In her
teens. Except-that Joshua is never
ridiculous. Locke looks out against any
such contretemps in his art. The model
is lovely. The model is unawakened. a
genuine GaIatea But Joshua keeps his
secret, never letting it glaze his eyes as
he looks at the girl. never letting his
feet jiggle and twitch under the delu-
sion that he is Bacchus. or some other
godlike youth. No, Joshua becomes the
girls friend-trusty, genuine, overlook
ing. providing chances for progress
with never hint of love. Joshua would
do that, Just as any other of the Locke
men would. A practiced story teller,
this author spins an absorbing modern
tale and with 1t holds fast to the kindly
spirit, to the understanding heart. to
the genuine humor of the laughing sort
to the true knowledge of men and affairs
that possess this writer. And Locke
keeps his romances as clean as sun
dried line of linen still Tapping In the
wind, sweet smelling like clean clothes,
loved Vagabond," and both Of these
must be pretty much the whole of Will
liam j. Locke himself. Let's hope.
DARK STAR. BY Lorna Moon. IN
dianapolis: The Bobbs-M Merrill Co.
THIS is the story of Nancy, who was
= born under dark star. There are
two sins in life. just two, that cannot
be expiated. One of these is failure on
the part of child to have gathered
up father in its transit from nowhere
to somewhere. In our cooler moments,
to be sure, we recognize that the sin
of the child-if it be SINS wholly
Of the vicarious order But that fact
in no sense softens the punishment of
the world upon its illegitimates. Now,
Nancy had no father. Some said 1t
was Willie Weams, the horse tender.
And some opined. grudgingly, that it
might have bee nthe laird of Fassenfern
himself. As for the parties Of the first
and second parts, they said nothing, at
all, gradually fading out of the scene,
with Nancy alone left to fight the battle
of her parentage. And 1t was battle,
for, with all her SOUL Nancy refused to
be sired by the horse tender.
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