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Miss Moore's shafts are not for Law
renee in his largely neglected land
sole importantly role Of artist. They
are for the group Of vide-eyed, awe
stricken worshipers who pursued the
unfortunate man up and down the
globe and must certainly have con-
tributed no little to his already suf-
flciently marked sense Of personal
strangeneSs. OF these she remarks:
ITO each his role of Beloved,
Doubter, Chronicler, Betrayer. Ser
mons from the Etruscan Mount. An
Agony in the American Garden. A
Last Supper at the Cafe Royal.
"Only definite racial squeamish-
ness concerning the social stigma Of
illegitimacy has so far saved us from
proof of Virgin birth.
ITO concern ones self with any
slur cast upon Christ would be ir-
relevant. There can be few eSthetic
surprises left from a nation that
made Pan acceptable TO its so 900 900
people by turning him into Peter"
And so on, very delightfully."-. OF
Lawrence himself she paraphrases
neatly. Bounded in infinite space and
lord Of a NUTSHELL"
For the rest, The Apple Is Bitten
Again" is neither as good nor as
bad as critics declare. At most It
would seem to hold a promise. An
intelligent mind and a youthful dis
enchantment do not necessarily mean
literary genius. Miss Moore, some
what wearingly, exaltS the role of
artist throughout her 200 pages. Let
her study little more what the
role implies. And then. perhaps, she
may write a book.
THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. By
the editors Of Fortune. Garden
City: Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc.
THIS is book of enthralling posi-
bilities. Are you worried about
the state Of your Id? Does your
horrid subSconscious POKE its embar-
RAISING face out at you and scatter
your compoSure whenever you find it
necessary to cross a street? Do your
muscles twitch? When your wife
gives you a letter to mail, do you
sometimes forget to post it? Then
you are a case. But don't worry.
Half the hospital beds in the United
States are occupied with the same
kind of cases, and by the year 2I39
there will be no sanity left. We will
all be frankly mad by that time. even
the doctors. And think OF the relief.
These and many otner interesting
facts are contained in The Nervou
Breakdown" They Toulo seem TO be
accurate, too, for the work has been
carefully checked and annotated by
leading psychiatriSts. Il represents
CHEEKY little foray into the borders
OF Cloud-CuckoO-Land, in simple Ian
guage, such as even the children NAV
understand and love. II takes I'D the
case Of the phychosis vs. the neurosis,
the more readable aspect Of the theo-
ries of DR.. Freud, and Il tells us the
difference between a psychologist a
psychiatrist, psychotherapist, a psy-
cholanalyst and a psychologists.
which is something certainly that vi
have all been wanting to know. Il
really makes very nice reading.
On the whole, a neat, complete little
guldebook to the sweet pastime OF
deciding what is wrong with your
friends is found here. Any one keep
ing abreast of the Culbertsons and
contract should not be behindhand
with his fixation and phobias. In the
interest of better social intercourse
one can heartily recommend this book
THE SAGA OF OLD TUOLUMNE
BY Edna Bryan Buckbee. New
York: The Press of the Pioneers,
Inc.
FEW counties have hvelier histories
than Tuolumne, Calf. For it is
here that the mother lode was Gre
ated, here that the argonauts came
here that many of the exciting scenes
of the '49 gold rush were played out
And it was here. too. chat Bret Harte
and Mark Twain saw a kind of living
that inspired some of the finest stories
in American literature.
For If the jumping frog hailed from
CalaveraS, and not Tuoiumne, it was
in Tuolumne that Marx Twain heard
the story. And who that knows his
Bret Harte will forget the names OF
Poker Flat, Table Mountain, Jackass
Gulch and Sonora? Miss Buckbee.
in her Saga of Old Tuolumne," writes
of all these places and many others
In great detail she mas told Of the
founding of each Of the settlements
traced its rise and fall, sketched its
personalities and given anecdotes Of
those PALMER days. Her history in.
deed reads like a volume of source
material from which Fret Harte chad
he not drawn from llfe) might have
drawn any number Of his situations
and characters. The reader should be
able to identify the original OF Col
Starbottle for himself in one of her
chapters, although she does not posi-
lively call the fire-eating gentleman
by name.
These references to literary associ-
ations should not lead the reader, to
think that Miss Buckoee has written
romantic or fictionlzed type Of his
tory. That is not the case. She
writes matter f-factly and POUNDS
her narrative on documents of record.
The various mines, The growth OF
mining law, the early towns, the news
papers, the methods OF transportation,
the theaters, the scenery-these are
the lines Of development that she has
followed. She is interesting, although
one cannot help being amused at times
at her innocent assumption, as when
she remarks, AT its peak Columbia
was fiourishing city with 1900 per.
sons residing within the city limits
not counting MexicanS, Chilians, Pc
ruVans or Chinese +"--members
Of those latter nations clearly being,
in her estimation, something less than
| persons"
The attitude, however, speaks Of q
naive enthusiasm, and that Is not q
bad spirit In which to write an ac-
count of any early American move
ment. Miss Buckbee has done the Job
very appropriately, and her book is
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