Evening star., 1934-05-19
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH C. BOWERMAN.
DESIGNED FOR READING. An An
thology Drawn from the Saturday
Review of Literature. l924-l934.
New York: The Macmillan Co.

DESIGNED FOR READING. An An
thology Drawn from the Saturday
Review of Literature. 1924-1934.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
The 10 years covered by the selec-
tions in this varied anthology are the
period since the founding of the Sat-
urday Review of Literature, under the
editorship of Henry Seidel Candy.
With the exception of about 100 pages
Of poetry, the selections are OF the
form and content OF essays, and 1t Is
doubtful If another such representative
collection of artistic and critical mod
ern American essays could be COM
piled The essay, with its distinguished
past In English eighteenth and nine
teenth century literature and In the
New England Transcendentalist period
of American literature, is literary
type too much neglected today. This
volume will be welcomed by essay
lovers, even those who have read some
OF the articles as they appeared. In
the preliminary section, Henry Seidel
Candy, Christopher Morley, William
Rose Benet. Amy Loveman and May
Lamberton Becker contribute five
chapters on the art Of writing.
The succeeding essays are classified
az critical and expository, biographical,
editorial, reviews, canalytical," ZAP
preciative," adverse" "impressionis-
tic" informative" "philosophicaPD
imaginative writing, humor and satire,
and letters to the editor. DR.. Candy
has written about a fourth of the es-
says, the high lights of the collection.
Some of his best are War or Pes = i,
Literature" "A Hook for Leviathan, u
"Platitudes," Patterns" "Proletariat
Literature" Farewell to Youth"
"Deepness Of Earth" and "Whan that
Aprille-." Christopher Morley writes
Of Touch Wood" Grub Street Run
ners," Mandarin and Mathematics, u
and contributes a number of poems.
Other essayists are Edith Wharton,
George Santayana, Joseph Wood
Krutch, H. M. Tomlinson. Walter
ippmann. Maurice Hindus. r. G
Tugwell, Padraic Colum. Bernard de
Voto, Stephen Vincent Renet. Leonard
Bacon. John Buchan and j. B. S.
Haldane. Contributors of verse include
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Sara Teas
dale. Lizette Woodwork Reese, Edna
st. Vincent Millay, Louis Untermyer
Padraic Colum, Lord Dunsany, Walter
de la Mare, Edith Sitwell, Stephen
Vincent Benet, T. S. Eliot, and Osbert
Sitwell.
THE CHRONICLE OF CAROLINE
QUELLEN, CENTENARIAN. BY
Seton Peacey. New York: Har-
riSon Smith & Robert Haas.
Caroline Quellen is more than q
rival of Hugh Walpoles Judith Paris,
for Judith died ON her Tooth birthday
and Caroline lived a few years be-
yond hers, dying on the same day
as Queen Victoria. Her century
covered much the same period as
Judith Paris and, like Hugh Walpole
Seton Peacey has woven into his novel
much of the history, political and
social, OF the period he has chosen
from the last years OF the 179Os to
1901. Caroline Dom was born at
Dayborne, near Cheltenham, which
was already replacing Bath in the
favor of the fashionable freQuenters
: Of health resorts. Her childhood was
ordinary enough, passed at her father s
home. PriOr's Pond House, nor did
she give evidence of being a remarka-
BILE child. The circumstances which
made her life unusual came with her
fathers death, when she was already
married to Frederick Quellen, the only
man she ever loved, and was the COM
placent mother of three children. Her
fathers only heir, she decided to take
over the management of his business
affairs. though friends of the family
did not fail to tell her that it was
an unnatural thing to do and that
she ought to stay at home and 'look
after" her husband and children. She
retorted that she preferred to look
after her children's fortune. So well
did she do this that, having added
railroads and breweries to her father.
original bank and land holdings, she
died wealthy woman. The leisurely
narrative of the events Of Caroline.
life. in which she was keenly aware
OF all that went on among her owr
family and friends and in the empire
makes novel of type which i,
satisfactory to large number of read.
ers who like a broader spread In theil
fiction than is offered by the restricted
doings of petty people. Caroline wa:
parsonage and what she thought is
worth noting, whether it was about
business, the anti-Victorian behavior
OF her daughter Mary. or the Boel
War.
A HOUSE ON A STREET. BY Dale
Curran. New York: Covici-
: Friede.
A new writer in fiction handle.
what is now becoming an old sub.
. tect, the effect of the economic de.
preston in turning the current of 6
young persons life. Peter Twinins
considered that he was rising" IL
Wall Street, but, with many who hac
risen farther than he had, he foune
himself out Of job in 1893. Aftel
fruitleSs searching for somethins
worthy OF his abilities and Of Isabel
daughter of a one-time millionaire
to whom he was engaged, he sic
from his established level and took 9
job as caretaker in a small house Of
studio apartments in Greenwich Viii
lage. He became part of new world
> whose chief deniZenS were Levinsky
real estate agent for the apartments
Graham, drunken former caretaker
the BentonS, the Scarlottis, the jap
: anese revolutionary Tachibana, Sam.
: my Scott, Bullitt, modernistic artist
and Eleanor Sheridan of indefinite
occupation. Isabel Apperton dropped
out Of the milieu, because, as he said
they were not getting anywhere.
Becoming absorbed in his tenants ano
their problems and in his never very
successful conflicts with Levinsky
Peter adapted himself surprisingly tC
his new surroundings and soon found
that he harmonized better with his
miscellaneous tenants than he had
with the Apperton circle. 1T was as
though. sinking. drowning, through
. murky water, he had discovered al
the bottom that he could stand and
walk" He had found a new level
Mr.. Curran writes simply, directly
and seriously, with obvious realization
that in shaping his story he is deal
! ing with a difficult problem.
THE BIG BAD WOLF AND LITTLE