Evening star., 1935-01-13
In the World of Books
By SARAH BOWERMAN

Hollywood. His protests that his
name Is Smith do no good. He Is
thenceforth in for adventures, many
Of them, all illustrating under the
satiric treatment Of Mr.. Macdonell
the extravagances and follies Of mod
ern life. Hugo finds 1t at first diff
cult, then impossible, to follow in
London the teachings Of his three
mentors. He believes everybody tut
terly mad. I haven't met a single
sane person or sane institution or sane
idea" Unable to cope with the fam
boyant sophistication into which he
has been plunged, Hugo makes his
exit in an airplane bound for the
South Seas. He might more easily
and as effectively have taken refuge
in q small town in Scotland.
WINDFALLS. Stories. Poems and
Plays. BY Sean O'Casey. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
CEAN O'CASEY, one Of the writer's
- Of the younger Irish school. is the
auCAlOA Va Jullo dlu tAlC 1ayCONkt
within the Gates" THE Plough and
the Stars" "The Silver Tassie" and
THE Shadow of a Gunman," all plays.
This volume of miscellanies contains
two 0ne-act sketches, written, he says,
when funds were low, to bring in
little money, but no attempt was
made to market them, and SO they
Shiver among the unemployed. The
three short stories in the volume "were
an effort to get rid of some of the
bitterness that swept into me when
the Abbey Theater rejected THE Sill
yer TasSie." These two comments
from his preface show that Sean
O'CaSey has in his A years known
hardships, deprivation and the bitter
ness OF lack of appreciation from his
fellow men. He was laborer OF Dub
lin and q revolutionary, and some
times wishes for the wild Joy and q
savage bitterness that shall never
know again" For he turned from the
active turbulent life to the quieter but
not altogether peaceful life OF thought.
"A girls fair face and charm of man
ner lured me from hanging around
under the Irish tricolor and the red
hammer OF labour and first forced my
feet in the way that led to a fuller
understanding Of literature and art"
Of the verses in this volume, which
are its finest part. those in the first
section, First Fall" show the infiu-
ence Of his Mary, who was gentle.
patient and generous" and listened
In wonderful way to my reading Of
Shelley, Shaw, Milton. and even Scho-
penhauer" The verses in the second
section, Second Fall" were written
In recent years. They all show much
sentiment and nature love. but less
symbolism than Is usual with Irish
poetry. Sean O'Caseys play, The
Shadow Of Gunman," first brought
him fame. Juno and the Paycock. !"
which contains rich dialogue and both
humor and pathos. won for him the
Hawthornden Prize in 1926. 1t was
presented in Washington during the
past week by the Abbey Theatre
Players"
SUFFER- OF CALIFORNIA. BY Ju-
liam Dana. New York: The Press
Of the Pioneers.
H John SUFFER- was one of the
most human fellows who ever
dared to do the things you and I
dream Of doing" John A. Sutter. born
in 1903 in a village in the Grand
Duchy OF Baden. once an officer in the
Swiss Army. first glimpsed New York
City from steamer in 1894, and
shortly after. with several companions,
was at q frontier camp called st,
Louis. He moved farther and farther
westward. adventuring all the way.
He was one OF the rescuers of the
Donner party. some of whom he
brought from their peril in the SHOWS
OF Truckee Lake to safety in his fort,
Suffers Fort. at New Helvetia. the
first stronghold in interior California
In his valley Sutter, owner Of 500
square miles Of land, employer of 500
men. founder Of colony. was a be-
nevolent despot: he was the law and
was acknowledged as such by 80, 600
inhabitants of the Sacramento. Gen.
William T. Sherman said of him at
the time Of his death in Washington.
In 1880: ITO Gen. John A. Sutter,
more than to any single person, are
We indebted for the conquest of Cali
fornia and all her treasures" This
biography Of one of the striking fig
ures In our early history is in the form
OF a series Of dramatic sketches, in
each Of which Sutter Is the heroic
protagonist. 1t is most readable, but
its lack OF orderly arrangement and
chronology limits its usefulness as
history.
A HUGUENOT EXILE IN VIRGINIA.
Or Voyages Of Frenchman Exiled
for his Religion. With a Descrip-
tion of Virginia and Maryland
From The Hague edition of 1887.
With an Introduction and Notes
by Gilbert Chinard. New York:
The Press Of the Pioneers.
THE Frenchman of this memoir was
Durand Of Dauphine. who sought
in his exile a climate similar to that
OF his native province. Driven out Of
France after the revocation of the
Edict Of Nantes, this middle aged
nobleman crossed the acean, and afoot.
on horseback, in q canoe, explored
Tidewater Virginia, often following the
route of John Smith; visited the Gov
ernor and the rich planters, and some
times encountered the Indians. Re-
turning to London, he communicated
with Huguenots who had escaped to
England and Holland and told them
Of the charms Of Virginia and the
plans Of several wealthy landowners
there to provide them with homes.
Not q trained writer, Durand yet
possessed q gift Of conveying pictures
in words. He confined his narrative
to his own experiences and his de-
scriptions to what he actually saw,
and has given q faithful account of
life in one Of the chief English colo
nies at the end of the seventeenth
century. The religious nature which
made it impossible for him to con.
form to another form of religion than
his own for the sake of expediency,
which made him accept exile rather
than pretend to Catholicism in the
France of Louis XIV, is reflected in his
writing. He was q firm believer in
Providence. "In INV fortune will be