Evening star., 1932-05-08
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Illustrated by Paul Brown. New York:
Charles Scribners Sons.
CTORIES of children and animals fall fiat,
- as rule. Impossible child prodigies or sim
pering cherubim emerge from them on the one
hard. mo such animile!" on the other.
An author. it seems to me. choosing either
of these subjects. must strip stark naked to
the heart and bone of himself. Must slough
his own years getting back to where only
young things live To where dumb things
MAKE such amazing terms with life with food
and safety
Yet hardly one writer does this Instead, he
packs his working kit with the lumber of his
own age-notions, prejudices. ignorance. Bit
ten by the bug of child psychology" animal
psychology" he confidently takes ON the role
of interpreter" stuffing his boys and girls,
or dogs and cats with himself A self destitute,
besides, of the gift OF the poet the art Of the
genius, to transmIte self into the body and
spirit of his material. -
Here is plain exception to the general failure.
So like to tell you about it. The life story Of
the sorrel stallion. A life made up of equine
outlook and activities from colthood to old age.
These. taken across, very simply and in a fine
sympathy by David Grew
The first grief came with being weaned. What
mean trick for a mother to playl Yet she
taught the little sorrel to bite off and chew the
new grass Pretty good. that, too. Playtime
with the other colts was great fun. The races,
the showing off to one another, the rough-and-
tumble roll, the painting rest time. One day.
freedom and the call of distances. The next
capture and the impressment of hard and hate-
ful work
So, out in the range lands of Idaho the sorrel
stallion lived his vicissitous life in true horse
fashion. The ups and downs Of this career
wi free nf he
capture and drudgery. great forest fire and
its terrors. And all the time the sorTel is
growing a bit older. Less daring in the flights.
Easier submission to man. very intimate
story to the horse lover and beautiful one.
Net for once does David Grew try to make q
man out of the sorrel. He remains the sorrel
stallion. Here lies the genuine art of the story.
VENETIAN LOVER; The Romance of Gior-
gione. A. De Nora. Translated by Whitaker
Chambers. New York: Ray Long and Rich-
ard r. Smith.
\/ENICE, the background. Six centuries ago,
or thereabout the time. Giorgione great
painter, the hero. Definite promises seem to
lie in this blend. unique and splendid city
to explore in far as the adventures Of the
hero permit. The purple glamour of distance
believing. And. surely, one of the most be-
deViled heroes that ever wrought havoc in the
hearts of women, mystification to the mind
of readers
In these times we are reluctant toward magis
Clans sorcerers, Death" embodied and waIk-
ing about. Those days were less captious And
Giorgione. great genius though he was, be-
ieVed and periodically comported himself
crafty. under spells and seizures "Unbal-
anced' we call him or other such name OF
modern examination and diagnosis
However, it does not do to spoil the story
for the pleasure OF being modern. This is not
modern instance. And yet-if 1t were-the
mood in which the loves and torments and
frenzies of this great artist is carried out
savors not little of our current indiscretiorl
In letters. our modern excesses of imaginatiou
Yet. the fact that this is Giorgione haloed
with genius winged out of that long past.
causes us to be lenient toward an author who
may not have held himself to a suffcientlH
strict accounting with the period and the tens
permanent under his hand. most romantical
high adventure of Giorgione and lovely ladies,
IN the main hapless ladies' rather than an adj
venture In Renaissance Venice and its MASTER
painter.