THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY., JANUARY 28, 1923 SUNDAY, JANUARY'28, 1923, THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SIB }, _____..-r-------_.-. 1, No ' \ ' __M II -.. # Ckanliness is Next.to Godliness Not all people can be religious, but all of 'em can be clean. The way is simple. Call the Trojan Laundry. N THE SECRET GLORY, by Arthur most important factois in its completei Nachei. Alfred Knopf. success. Machen has written and Reviwedby BronSbanrin studied, for many years-never until, Reviewed by Baron Shandrin lately receiving his deserved notice. In reviewing The Secret Glory by James Branch Cabell says that the Arthur Machen, one of the writers of obscurity in which Machen was allow- England's most beautiful prose, I am ied to remain is the kind of crime that should be denounced from the house-; tempted to copy the whole of the tops. But during these years he has author's pireface. But since I can see developed a style which is not only no hope of finishing the review without worthy of much praise but insures several other excerpts I will simply him much favor among those who * - ~have -learned to appreciate adlv recommend that everyone read it for the learny of thepEnciat and love the beauty of the English language4 himself as, when I have finished, I will as sung by the poets. commend the reading of the wholej book to all of you. boo toallof ou.DRIDA, by ,Jhn T. Frederick. Knopf. This book might easily be placed at the side of Marcel Proust's, "Swann's Reviewed by F. L. T. Filden. Way" and James Joyce's "Portrait of Mr. John T rcaer:;t, gave himself the Artist as a Young Man", in an excellent opportunity to overcapitalize attempt to show the psychological upon the Epots of dried soup spilled path some of our modern novelists aredown e font of Oscar orsfal'vest taking. This influence seems to givean seard i.LdeDum conception to the pet theory that;addrgre i.LueDun books such as these are autobiograph- This story is a biographical one and ica!. This I imagine its more or less therefore strongly dependiant upon true but not to the extrent which most fnnesse of characterization. For this of us believe. Proust's work may be a necessary conconurittant is adept more autobiographical than I suspect, psycho-analysis, at the mention of but I believe that Machen's book is which my cold gorge rises. We have much more from his fancy than from been surfeitel, with this till we shy his memory. at its nan:e as a reviewer would shy The book has only a negligible plot, at an ooze-bound book of poems; but but it has a character-a common the cerebral dissection is, in this case, trait in all three of these books. Am- an excellent and skillful bit of mani- brose. Meyrick, the boy, found that he Ipulation. gained more pleasure from intellec- Druida is the only daughter of Oscar tual than physical exercisa and hay- jHorsfall and his wife who live on a ing exercised his intellect found that small, ill-kept farm in the northern I his thoughts and ideas did not run middle-west. Oscar Horsfall is drunk- t-', h cf tne masters in-. his en nd worthless, but the- girl, whose schooL Because of these differences, paternity remains more or less. mys- be had become a despised enigma to terious, patently from her native en- most of them. The book takes him dowments, is not Oscar's daughter. through several years of this life and She early shows signs of surprizing finaly to London with the maid-of-all- attractiveness. notwithstanding t h e I work. This is what the author says wearing grinds of being a combination about him: "It is emphatically a his- of hired-man, slaver and valet t o tory of an unfortunate fellow who ran i Oscar in his more vinous moods. Her hs head aa"nstrstone walls from the father left her a sole legacy of a small beginning to the'end. He could think booishelf which contained lKeats, nothing and do nothing after thecom- Matthew Arnold and some others from non fashion of the world; even whenj whom she has her first nibble of lit- he went wrong; he did se in a highly rature and finds it good. When she unusual and eccentric- manner." And finishes the -eight grade. Horfall is in defense; "In every age, there are persuaded to let her enter the state people great and small for whom the iorntal school, chiefly through the in- time are out of joint, for when every- teres of Professor Willoughby of that thing is, somehow- wrong and askew. institution. w.o is. Attracted to the Consider Hamlet; an amiable man and girl when lecturing near the Horsfall an intelligent man. But what a mess farm and Dr. Thompson, who attended he made of it!" Mr, Horsfall at the time of Druida'sf But in this book what has seemed birth, gives the necessary financial aid of as much importance as Meyrick are The charm of the girl had always Several theories of life and lettersI awakened a response in him._ which he hangs on convenient hook.'.a Although Druida was possessed of He says that he was somewhat dis- an extraordinary appeal to men, of turbed by a "Life" of an eminent old which she was unconscious, this idenj schoolmaster, which Wxas puiblished tial charm is' the ruin of her two one year and that someofhthe old benefactors. Theshrivelled a n man's ideas causedl hime much irrita-'wrdwoaoftecuryisrc tion. "In a word the''Life' of this tively recognize her dangerous pro- excellent man got my back up." And clivities, Dr. Thompson, through his it is upon this "Life" and the old Eng- misinterpreted efforts to help her, is lish school system that it stands for, driven from his home and he steadily that he covertly developes. . deteriorates from the night that he As a haven for Meyrick, to which he is seen in Riverton with Druida by two can return for peace, Machen has town gossips. Willoughby's career is given us the spirit of the old Celtic cut short: he is expelled from his church. These passages shed a dim position at the normal school by the haze over the whole book, so mystic efforts of th jealous Riverton school- is the subject, and so beautifully writ- teachers. This is not direct jealousy,f ten. He says of his researches in a tangible emotion which is the out- connection with the Celtic cliurh and 'come of a sort of Shavian competi- the Grail Legend," . . . . it was a tion, but it is something to which voyage on perilous seas, a journey to the women are insensible. Druida is faery lands forlorn . . . " too attractive, too magnetic to men;I Other theories expounded and hung, she spoke of something young and each on their convenient hookk arej laughing, something which had been sfh as Re.lkm vs. Romanticism, driven from their natures for genera- Progress and even Prohibition. This tions by the little meanneses of a latter is in Connection with the dis- small isolated town, by the narrow cussion of the Grail; and he ex- religious suppressions of their stilt- presses one thought. which has been ed lives. A fear subty stirred them so clearly proven, in such a unique' and. without understanding it, they manner that I cannot refrain from hated her. copying it for you, just in passing; "If In my opinion, Mr. Frederick has the clear wells and fountains of the done admirably with the subordinate' magic wood ?be buried out of sight, the characters and the setting. 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