New York-Brentano's. Denver-Kendrick Bellamy Co. Fiction "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," by Thornton Wilder. Albert & Charles Boni. Those who have not yet read this beautiful and moving study of the working of God's providence, of love, the bridge which joins the living and the dead, have a delight in store. We find it even better on second reading. Reviewed January 4. "Wintersmoon," by Hugh Walpole. Doubleday, Doran & Co. You will enjoy this social comedy in Walpole's best vein. Some old names appear, and there is at least one very engaging character. Reviewed March 7. "The Greene Murder Case," by S. S. Van Dine. Charles Scribner's Sons. That odious society detective, Vance, is at work again, this time on a case too complicated and incredible for our taste. But Van Dine enthusiasts are devouring it and smacking their lips. "Debonair," by G. B. Stern. A. A. Knopf. To be reviewed later. "Crusade," by Donn Byrne. Little, Brown & Co. Irish fighting and love-making in a picturesque setting of the Holy Land where Templars, warring Christian sects, and noble Saracens converge make this poetic romance fine light reading. Reviewed March 28. Non-Fiction To "Skyward," by Commander Richard E. Byrd. G. P. Putnam's Sons. This stirring narrative of courage, perseverance, and skill intelligently directed to the attainment of great ends is a fine companion book to Lindbergh's "We." Almost every one will enjoy it. those who are depressed about the fate of the Nordic these books should be heartening. Their authors represent what we like to think of as ideal American youth. "Disraeli," by André Maurois, translated by Hamish Miles. D. Appleton & Co. This strangely romantic figure is touched vividly into life by Maurois's hand. You will find this excellent reading. Reviewed February 22. "Strange Interlude," by Eugene O'Neill. Boni & Liveright. This, "the first successful attempt of drama to use the double voice," to carry on at once objective action and comment and subjective thought made audible, is a theft by the dramatist of some of the novelist's best thunder. The play is as good to read as to see; perhaps better for students of modern drama. Reviewed by Francis R. Bellamy in "Lights Down," February 22. "Trader Horn," by Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis. Simon & Schuster. The romantic story of an ancient adventurer, full of poetry, guileless wisdom, action, and more or less reliable information. Reviewed November 16. "Mother India," by Katherine Mayo. Harcourt, Brace & Co. The reading of this report of some aspects of Indian society should be followed by fair-minded readers with that of some of the Indian replies to it. Reviewed June 22. Poets' Novels "Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard," by Elinor Wylie. A. A. Knopf. "Home to Harlem," by Claude McKay. Harper Boni & In "Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard" Elinor Wylie has chosen a subject particularly sympathetic to her turn of mind and to her talents as a prose writer. It is a sad and very moving book. Its leading character is treated with feeling and insight, and all its characters with understanding. Elinor Wylie says that she wept in writing it. Much of it will move the reader, too, to tears. And the prose will delight those who become as exalted by the precise and delicate order of words in sentences and paragraphs as others are by a perfect performance of a Mozart opera. The story is of the simplest. Mr. Hazard, a minor poet, who has been self-exiled for years, fighting with Byron at Missolonghi, wandering, perhaps with the Shelleys, on Italian coasts, returns to England in the middle years of the nineteenth century, to recapture some flavor of his lost youth. There, in a few summer months, he suffers the pains of a sentimental love for the urbane and elegant Clara and her enchanting daughters. He is kind, melancholy, full of generous gesture and romantic dream, not at all the ruthless Don Juan cast off by a scandalized society whom Clara has been led to expect. He is iridescent mist; and Mr. Hodge, worthy, rightthinking tutor of Clara's sons, comes home and dispels the mist. What a pity! it was so charming, it softened the lines so! But more than a sweet pity for the mist. It was, and now is not. Elinor Wylie has the gift for touching into life such delicate emphemeræ as Mr. Hazard. She endows them with a terrible capacity for suffering. They lend themselves, how easily, to mockery. Their quivering sensibilities are the scorn and butt of hardier souls. When the Hodges of the world are touched by them at all, it is by their physical weakness. "For God's sake, let me pack those heavy books for you," says Hodge -not in those words-when the mist must vanish before his sun of every-day. LET YOUR GIFT TO FOREIGN MISSIONS PAY YOU A LIFE INCOME You can make a generous gift to foreign missions and have a needed income for yourself and others from the money you give by the Annuity Gift Plan This plan relieves you of uncertainty and worry caused by changing values of invested funds and assures you a fixed income of 4% % to 9% per year for the rest of your life A reserve fund of over $1,500,000 guarantees the prompt payment of annuities to you. Protect yourself against loss through unwise investments and at the same time help send the gospel to all the world. For full information write Ernest F. Hall, Secretary, Dept. of Annuities BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. 156 Fifth Avenue, New York But no one lifts the load from the fainting soul. The stricken deer must go weep. Mr. Hazard's signet ring bears the device of a flying stag; on its back crouches a lion, its teeth embedded in the stag's shoulder. Elinor Wylie's characterizations are sure, if purely verbal. Clara in the chair shaped like a fluted sea-shell, the girls floating in their blue muslins, Mr. Hodge's stalwart shoulders, the Leigh Hunts, less well done than in "Bleak House," but still vivid-all these make a pageant, lovely but insubstantial. Elinor Wylie's prose takes, physically, directly from Hooker, Burton, et cetera. Spiritually, it bears no resemblance to their work. They were, primarily, thinkers; stylists because they used the perfect medium for the expression of their thoughts. Elinor Wylie deals exclusively in feelings. Her work makes no demands on the intellect, tickles it not at all. Her appeal is to the æsthetic senses, to the tenderest of smiles, the most ready of tears. Elinor Wylie's poetry is fine, her prose charming. Because it is spring, and that flower is still precious and no weed, it is possible to compare her work to the dandelion. Her poetry is that sturdy blossom in its yellow bloom, a blessed spot on a bare lawn, brilliant, springing with life, pungent; her prose, the dandelion in seed, gossamer feathers that delight the eye and vanish on a breath. But supporting both is the strong, pliant stem of her thought; through both runs the lifegiving sap, the bitter juice of her irony and her compassion. "Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard" is Elinor Wylie's best novel. In it she takes her shortest step away from lyric poetry. "Home to Harlem," by Claude McKay, is thick with color and heavy odors. As a picture of the Harlem cabaret Negro, it may be accurate. This reviewer has no means of knowing. As a poet's novel, it is typical enough to have served as a text. Story it has none. Jake, the central figure, as longshoreman or dining-car waiter, moves with one brown wench after another through a succession of days and nights of drinking, crap shooting, dancing to saxophone blues-events various but not variedand that is all. He and his fellows, with the exception of Ray, West Indian, marooned on the island of his superior education and more delicate feelings, have the quality of a Covarubbias drawing, and for all that they are always sweating in the midst of life, never come alive at all. But setting riots through the book. The poet's fluent prose weaves local color and local smells, local food and drink, into a pattern as marked as a blues tune, and as monotonous. WHEN the rapids swirl and leap about you; when the swift current carries you on at express train speed, then you'll be most grateful for the perfect balance of your "Old Town Canoe." "Old Towns" are patterned after actual Indian models. Famous for their steadiness and durability. Light in weight too. 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His mother had died at his birth and his father, embittered by frustration, in Clarion's early boyhood. Clarion wants "that hard unbroken ecstasy which does not exist for any man." His father, with the same desires, had taken refuge in another creature, Clarion's mother, whose death left him face to face with bleakness. Clarion seeks the same refuge, but all too blindly, and loses it through his inability to meet anything actual in life. As a boy, he falls in love with Clover Halliday, a high-hearted girl as impatient as he of social restraints, but with a petulant lack of understanding which contributes to the tragedy toward which the story is obviously pointed. Clarion's passion inevitably kills the thing he loves. He waits to declare and at once to consummate his love in one brief hour before Clover's marriage to another man. Then he gives her up, impetuously, because he has lost the family fortune in a mining venture, engineered, it turns out, by a man whom he has once befriended. Clover does not wait the necessary minute for him to change his mind. She marries, bears Clarion's child, and dies without seeing him. Clarion goes away with an octaroon whom he believes to be a Creole, returns presently to find himself ostracized for this breach of good manners, and kills himself in a burning building. The story is further complicated by the incidental appearances of a third woman, a stagy day-dreamer, who imagines herself to be in love with Clarion, collapses at every point where her dreams touch disillusioning reality, and takes to drink. And there is a brief interpolated meloLa drama of the ruined and embittered poet whose fraudulent mining scheme hastens Clarion's downfall. pable This is all, of course, pure allegory. It is written with passionate sincerity, in a fine prose. But its characters have the quality of figures in an allegory. With the best will in the world and some understanding of Clarion's defects and his compensatory qualities, it is not possible to be moved by his tragedy. As a human being, his claim to interest would be as a psychological study; there, he could be analyzed on the simplest Freudian basis. As a figure in an allegory he symbolizes the revolter against social usage, the man who cannot be satisfied with the outward aspect of things and people, the tragic seeker after spiritual values in a material world-above all, as the man so dazzled by that bright heat which is life as to be blind to that smoky but intermittently flickering hearth-fire which is California, the American Riviera Don't you hear the West a-calling? Calling you who have been there before and you who have yet to sense its bewitching charm. The Union Pacific West calls you to a vacation that will live forever in your memory, to the most stupendous, wonderful and beautiful things to see on earth! 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The characters which remain static, the people who are caught in a flash and set down as they were at one given moment, are admirable: General Sherman, retired and entertaining visiting celebrities; Mme. Drouet, leader of society; Lil, intellectual prostitute; the colonel, full of anecdote and juleps. And "That Bright Heat" is splendid in its recreation of a lost American scene. It presents a brilliant picture of St. Louis in the eighties, that time and place where empire builders, aristocrats, and social climbers mingled in a society which was the paradise of the sturdy pioneer or the glib opportunist, but the intellectual æsthete's hell. In its physical aspect that scene has indeed vanished. Spiritually, America has not changed so very much. These three novels are unmistakably the work of poets. E. M. Forster, in a recent book on the novel, described it in substance as a sort of cockpit into which plot and characters are thrown by the author to fight out the question as to which shall rule. The poet become novelist concerns himself chiefly with the construction and embellishment of the cockpit. The poet's heart is in words. And there, too, is his treasure. Words, in his hands, have infinite power. They can beat upon the sandy stretch of an arid life and sweep it into a sea of emotion. They can drop on the stone of a hard heart and wear it away. They can fall on the good ground of latent talent and cause it to spring open into bloom. But they are also the poet-novelist's danger. Ask the reader of a poet's novel what he is reading, and too often he can answer with Hamlet, "Words, words, words." 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