Evening star., 1936-08-15
OTHER VOLUMES TO FOLLOW
First Study Of Literary Pattern Of America Promises MucNew
Volume of Verse by Masters--Emmene Pankhursts Bog-
raphy Written by Daughter-Other Reviews.

III lSSI, ana esOS ScSm very muCn
like egos, in all seasons. But a good
book about farming. fishing, hunt
ing. fiying-well. God keep our souls,
indeed! 1t Is, after all. His business.
But the earth He did give us. A
return to Eden seems q st-rate idea.
The author. who makes this coura-
geous leap is a sufficiently well-known
one. He gives us here the journal
OF his extra-suCtOrial occupations for
one year-March. 1884, to March,
1888. They included working on his
farm and his neighbors'. making the
acquaintance Of animals wild and
tame, catching his first salmon, learn
ing to fly, fox hunting, pheasant
shooting and so on-in English terms,
the things that o countryman (honest.
not synthetic) naturally does, any
where. according to the terms of his
day and his terrain.
Such books. of course, have a ten
dency to become delightful" which
is in plain words to become the con-
sciously dramatized output OF the con-
scious gentleman author farmer
sportsman, and Something. 1t Is
perhaps impossible in days when pub
fishing is a paying business, that any
one writing should fail to keep one
eve on publication. 1t was possible
in Hesiods day. Thoreau likewise
| found 1t possible. But present royal
ties are too good. 'Delightfulness"
creeps In. like bilgewater In The wine.
Publishers pay for it.
So it is too much to ask Mr. White,
who has dealt with the trade for some
time, that he should produce q work
as pure in effect as he declares It to
| be in purpose. That 1t was only a
coincidence that he kept his journal
so wttily and so faithfully. one can
/ hardly believe. But fairness demands
| mention of the fact that he Is as
little delightful" as practicing
scribe can accomplish. And that.
| shorn of these occasional patches, his
work has the true elements-the
bones" indeed, of what he intends.
AS it stands 1t is wholesome reading,
and if you can support the optimism.
perhaps a heartening sign OF some
what better times
BRONCHO APACHE BY Paul I.
Wellman. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
Asst year the author of this book
wrote a res sonably good account
of the rounding up OF the last Of the
/ de- Ia
parently out of the researches made
for the preceding work, he produces
a flctitionized narrative of the life
OF one of these ssvages. His hero is
taken to the prison train which car.
! ried GerOnimo'S band TO Florida, but
escapes and makes his solitary way
back to the desert. where he once
more engages in war with the troops.
The book is q curious mixture OF
writing. Mr.. Wellman writes a clear
| plain style, which would seem to COM
mend his work as juvenile; unfor-
| tunately for that purpose. however, he
| includes in it episodes of brutality
which one would scarcely want a child
TO read.
He has obviously a good knowledge
OF the history OF his period and the
customs of the Indians. but with this
ne mixes a sentimental love story
which is utterly out OF drawing
However, books about the gentle red
man have always been popular. since
Cooper leant his mastery realism TO
the job OF depicting their virtues.
More particularly, in recent times
there has been a welter of sentimental
novels on the subject. No doubt
"Broncho Apache" will find It's public.
1t is good adventure tale.
VENUS OVER LANNERY. BY Mar
tin Armstrong. New York: Har-
court, Brace 81 Co.
THIS is q mild little novel which
will hardly keep the reader
| awake. 1t tells, with perfect taste
and fidelity to probability, the ad-
Justments which group OF young
men and women had to make before
they were happy in their various
marriages. 1t is 285 pages long.
FORTY YEARS OF PSYCHIC RE-
SEARCH. BY Hamlin Garland
New York: The Macmillan Co.
CUMMING up the results of a life
time Of study of psychic phe-
nomena. Mr. Garland pleads for the
reception by the reader of his findings.
many OF which, he frankly confesses,
hi uifh fak
into account the aspects which be-
liefs have given them. The human Or
ganiSm. he argues. should be studied
in all its manifestations like any other
form OF organized matter. The study
should be undertaken not as the basis
for a new religion. but as an extension
Of biological truth.
In this book Mr.. Garland brings to-
gether In chronological order the out
standing experiments he has con-
Quoted as an investigator OF spirit
ualistic phenomena, handling the ma
terial as q plain narrative of fact. 1t
is much the same sort Of psychic log
book as his Roadside Meetings" and
My Friendly Contemporaries" were
literary losbooks.
He presents the phenomena as
things he has seen felt and weighed,
divorcing them, in so far as he is able,
from religious prejudice or other bias.
They are the reports of one who has
observed keenly and intelligently. He
does not theorize, and he invites the
reader repeatedly to draw his own
conclusions from the facts as he has
found them.
For those who wish clear. dispas-
sionate account of some of the most
important psychic Developments in
this country in recent decades, this
volume should be ensrossing read
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