Evening star., 1933-02-12

Scure the TACT tnat the Issues are all large,
and that Mr.. Lewis knows they are" Mr. Van
Deren's judgment that Sinclair Lewis will out
last Galsworthy, because Lewis belongs to the
masculine group Of novelist5 and Galsworthy
to the feminine group. Is one of those un-
satisfactory prophecies about what history and
permanent criticism will record-unsatisfactory
because we shall not be here to check up On
the whole, the essay is more of eulogy than
balanced appreciation 1t will be valuable
to collectors because ef its photographed
material
THE PATRIOT KING: THE LIFE OF WILL
LIAM Nv. BY Grace E. Thompson, New York:
E. P. Dutton & Co.
/HLLAM w Is vaguely considered by many
v. people as mere interlude between
George Nv and Queen Victoria. When George
w died IN 1880. william, who had married
some time before, much against his will out
Of respect for the succession, arrived at Windsor
in a small carriage with the Queen and his
two bastard daughters" He Immediately dis
missed the French cooks and engaged English
servants. He made the Duke Of Wellington
think that good times were coming because
he Immediately consulted him. England was
delighted with her new king. OF course. the
picture did not remain so rosy. He was not q
great man, and one wonders at first why Miss
Thompson has called him the Patriot King"
1t Is because. the year after his accession, he
devoted himself to the study Of Bolingbrokes
Patriot King and became to some extent a
disciple of the ideas he found there He found
the sentence: ITO espouse no party, but to
govern like the common father of his people
is SO essential to the character of Patriot
King that he who does otherwise forfeits the
tit'e." He felt sure that conciliation was the
right methcd, but the Wings did not agree with
him
The reign Of william w was short and he
had little time to convert the Wings to his
tolerant and philosophical doctrineS Some
thought he sponsored the doctrines In order
to avoid committing him-elf on the reform
Dill and thus getting beyond his depth. Seven
years after he assumed the crown he died re-
gretting that he could not be at the Duke of
Wellingtcn's Waterloo day dinner. When he
was dying, the young Victoria, his heiress pre-
sumptive, who had for some time been receiv-
ing instructions from her Uncle Leopold in
Brussels about methods of governing England
wrote to that uncle Poor old man! I feel
sorry for him; he was always personally kind
to me and I sh-uld be ungrateful and devoid
OF feeling If I did not remsmber this" In
looking over the photography for The Patriot
King" we notice that memoirs letters and
diaries of the period figure prominently. These
furnish abundant gossip, which is Necessary
for biography of one whose public life gave
so little material
THE BURLINGTON OF BLUP. By H. G. Wells
New York: The Macmillan Co.
THE subtitle announces that this is an account
Ct the adventures, poses, stresses, conflicts
and oil aster IN contemporary brain" 1t Is
another OF the Wells satires. Theodore Blu ping
ton OF Blayport (Blup was its ancient name in
the imagination Of Theodcre) is Mr. Wells
personihcation Of the person who does not face
realities, but lives in fantastic and unsatisfac-
tory world Ct his own creation. There IS also
glorifcation of science as the great reality,
and depreciation of the arts as an escape
mechanism. The oxford type of classical and
literary education is satirized and compared, to
It's disfavor, with economic and scientific educa-
tion Mr.. Burlington, senior was an oxford
man and went in for critical writing until IN
developed weakness of the lungs which
necessitated his retiring to Blayport, where he
devoted his time to writing history Of the
Varangians. Mrs. Burlington, her husbands
superior In intelligence, also followed the mis-
taken path of art, literature and philosophy
and, when her one child no longer hindered her
following her bent was to be found COL
laborating in q work to be called "The
Psychoanalysis Of Philosophy" With such un-
scientific parents, what could be expected Of
Theodore?