Evening star., 1933-10-15


get to France" But he was sent to Quantico
to train regiment Of raw Marines for the 'front.'
and was at first not permitted to go himself,
because OF his expression of opinions unpopular
at Marine headquarters How he got to France
In the end is one of his many interesting stories
involving politics and inside official gossip Gen.
Butler seems to have enjoyed his follies as we'll
as his honors and in connection with his being
passed over for the appointment of commandant
OF the Marine Corps, says: Il refused to be
crushed like that. Right then with almost half
my life before me, made up my mind to retire
from the Marine COrps"
THE ANATOMY OF CRITICISM. Tria.
logue. BY Henry Hazlitt New York: Simon
& Schuster
CLDER, professor of English literature, aged
l. so; Young. book reviewer for the Daily
Press aged rs; Middleton, editor Of the Hour.
Glass, monthly philosophical and literary
journal, aged IS, and Arthur, a popular novelist.
aged 80, are made by Mr.. Hazlitt to discuss ths
PRINCIPLES OF criticism. Only in the appendices
does he lapse into his own personality for
some comments on Literature and the Glass
War" and "Marxism or Tolstoyism?" In view
OF some present tendencies in criticism soma
OF these comments are opportune. recent
Interpretation of American literature by Gran.
vile HICKS assistant professor of English ut
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute The Great
Marx1sm to all American writer's since the Civil
war that 1t becomes tiresome as the Freu-
dian interpretations. Perhaps we need a Red
Cross or Roerich flag to protect our literature
from political and economic propaganda Mr.
Hazlitt says: THE greatest danger in short of
so-called MARKHAM criticism in literature is that
the critics who make fetish or a cult of it
Will In time become infinitely boring All
this is not to say that the question of class
pias Is not important in literature science or
art. 1t is simply to subordinate it to its proper
place" The critical tone of the book is ex.
tremely liberal and the dialogue form makes
1t possible to represent differing views with
fairness to all. Thoughtful Judgment are
cleverly expressed Mr.. Hazlitt, literary editor
OF the Nation, has just succeeded H 1.
Mencken as editor of the American Mercury
TWO BLACK SHEEP BY Warwick Deepine.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf
THAT black sheep, like birds of a feather
flock together and that black sheep may
often be only gray are the elements In this
the most recent Of Mr.. Deepings emotional
novels. 1t cannot be said to equal either In
universally of theme or vividness of atmosphere
his best novels, "Sorren and Son." "Old Pybus"
and "Doomsday," but it presents an unhack.
neyed situation and its characters are appeal.
ingly human in their failure to meet it and
their later recompense. Elsie Summerhays
has conscience, but Is never quite sure
either Of herself or of life. She is doomed to
be exploited So naturally, she is exploited by
her arst employer, when she is obliged after her
fathers death to take place as governess.
When Mrs Pym, after treating her with the
most callous inconsderateness, fails to pay her
wages over long period, Elsie steals her wages
in order to return to England to her diving
mother. Whether her act is morally justified
would be subject for an old-fashioned debate
in ethics. Legally she is criminal and English
law sends her to prison, since she has no inn
portant relatives or friends to intervene Hal
Vane is another black sheep. He has spent
Is years in prison, because he came back
from the trenches and shot his wife's lover
At the end of Elsie's one year, he becomes her
friend and savior and the two black sheep find
happiness and begin life again in a romantic
villa on the Riviera