N SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1924 THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGANDAu.a SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1924 «VRH Magazines Reviewed DOROTHY TYLER . "Me~. . . . ..r.r..- .,."{{{y.{{m{s{. .r ."{r{{n #sass{.t),5t{{{xtm The Dial for January: The fiction 'man. Mr. MDiann considers the latter of the Dial bears out the theory that a acquisition of first-rate importancet the cultured wish to read the down- to Germany. "To any one at least," trodden, and vice versa. "Bad Han," le states, "who is convinced that there by Glenway Wescott, the first part of is no more burning intellectual task which is published in this issue, is for Germany than to realize anew the a case in point. It is a well conceiv- concept of humanity which had be- ed story, so written that the reader's come an empty shell, a mere school interest is maintained by constant phrase-to him this work is a true gift; fluctuations from the level of action, of God." yet maintaining that leveleso well that Book reviews for the issue are writ-, one is particularly conscious afterward ten by Alyse Gregory, Mencken, Fos- of a long-sustained monotone in style ter Damon, Edmund Wilson, Padriac and color. So dispassionate is its Colum, and Marianne Moore. treatment of brawls and death, so un-: The art of this issue will meet with emotional is its sex obsession, that approval. Aside from the frontis- what is usually crimson is here an piece,- a reproduction of Matthias unvarying gray. jGrunewald's "Standing Saint," there 1naye Cavern of Silence," by are three oil and wash drawings by Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno, E. E. Cummings (one a portrait of has the appeal of the mysteriously himself), a bronze by Gaston.Lachaise I - . t 4' r r ; !: is 1r i + t: ' : ! i I E" Books and Writers Conrad's Temper from the American Indian than he The reader will fi will from the bones of Mas d' Azil breadth of view andin And it is by no means the least sig- Mackenzie's- study of nificant thing about Dr. Wilder that in Britain." The book Reviewed in this maga- POPULAR ANTHROPOLOGY MAN'S PREHISTORIC PAST By Harris Hawthorne Wilder The Macmillan Co. ANCIENT MAN IN BRITAIN By Donald A. Mackenzie Frederick A. Stokes Co. Had Professor Wilder succumbed to the recent craze for "Outlines" he . on a book without first- telling its scope. The .first chapter, as I have l intimated, gives a general survey of the time elements involved in the study, and the manner in which they are worked out. This is a field that I often puzzles the educated layinan; how do archeologists know that one race lived before some other, when they inhabited some quite distinet portion of the globe? Dr. Wilder ans- *-r -minh m -,tion with a.thorou h- zine, and all other recent boos, now on sale':at T UNIV2R SITY WA AH RS BOOKSTORE. tic svGs vwu is .. xwerSstiuc gUe6 UIs s IL a LU Lgi probably would have titled his book !ess- that should satisfy even such "The Outline of Pnehistory." But men as Professor Price, who would this. professor of zoology who is able have dinosaurs, trilobites, and coal- to male even comparative anatomy in-measure amphibians all romping teresting has too much individuality about the earth at one time. to fall under the spell of fads, and IThe chapter on "Materials and it must be admitted that he has done Methods" is to some extent an slab- excellently. oration of the one on chronology, and For "Man's Prehistoric Past" is is by all odds the clearest statement more than an outline: it is a simple of the archelogic mode of operations but astonishingly complete elemen- that I know. There is nothing start- tary treatise. From the first chapter ling and new in it, of cdurse; new on "The Chronology of Prehistory' things do not often get into elemen-' to the last, dealing with "Known tary books, since they are very apt Types of Prehistoric Man," the book! to be out of place. The same ap- is neither hasty nor unbalanced-both plied to the chapters on prehistory,I beautiful, the quality of the fairy tale. and three woodcuts by tn in ; One could wish that the author had artist, Eric Gill. not attempted to justify his conception Gilbert Seldes, in "The Theatre," in a way too often followed. "To- sums up American dramatic critics' ward midnight," he writes, "I was reactions, including his own, to the awakened by a loud clap of thunder appearance of Duse on the American and a violent downpour. And on stage. Paul Rosenfeld, in "Musical waking I discovered that I knew this Chronicle," is concerned with the first tale of the secret of the cavern. . . . program of the first season of the -I lighted the light and began to write League of Composers. The early pub- it, to write it to dictation. . ." Ilication in the Dial of Anatole France's Among the critical articles there is "Sou la Rose" is announced editor- Mary M. Colum's essay on Van Vyck ialy. Brooks, who received .the Dial award The Double Dealer, published at this year. Mrs. Colum considers that New Orleans, has as its purpose the Mr. Brooks' significance, to a con- advancement of Southern letters. It siderable degree, is indicated by his starts on its fourth year with the well path-finding toward a national cul- earned approval of critics. ture in America. "The Perfumed Para- The January number is almost en- phrase of Death," by W. C. Blum, is tirely devoted to critical writings an a consideration of the poetry of E. E. poetry. Of the former, the most out- Cummings. Mr. ,Blum has wisely standing are "Ohio and the Seine," chosen to point out for the most part by Lawrence S. Morris, and "The En- those things with which it is difficult ergetics of Poetry," by the German to disagree. "With his typographical dramatist, George Kaiser.I innovations, his extraordinary and in- In "Ohio and the Seine" Mr. Mor genious appeal to the lust of the eye, ris inveighs against the fallacy that he once led the fashion, or one of the "end" of American culture is them," -Mr. Blum states. Not a few, something already established by Eur- however, are -of the- opinion that this opean. experiments, and points out "ingenious appeal to the lust of the that America, like every other nation, eye" is still more an irritation with is faced with the task of creating its Mr. Cummings for not observing the own specialized mode of feeling-- conventions of typography. Harriet: choosing and emphasizing certain Monroe recently printed one of Mr. I values and excluding others. Cummings' poems in her magazine George Kaiser, in "The Energetics without the small personal pronoun of Poetry" glorifies potential man. He "i's," and so on, which he affects-an regards man as -the most intensive effective experiment - Four of Mr. form of energy, that reality which Cummings' poems are published in! renders all things possible, including the January Dial. himself, - and whose destiny is abso- The Dublin and German Letters lute supremacy. - Mr. Kaiser believes are excellent. In -the former John that man today has misinterpreted Eglinton states that it is believed, by his veratility in succumbing to spec- writers who have taken part in Ire- iaization of his po'ers, and that he land's literary rennaissance, that the may well base his knowledge of po- reconstitution of Irish mythology has tential man upon the. poetry in the been the distinctive achievement. of larger sense, since the processes of the movement. 'Mr. Eglinton mentions poetry most convincingly express a new Dublin weekly journal, the I"Mali the Synthesis'" Irish Statesman, edited by "A. M." Robert Graves, the English poet, in Thomas Mann, in his German Letter, "W e i lsO gic of Stony Stratford, and is chiefly concerned with a new no- of Poetry," justifies the mode of as- vel by Jakob Wasserman, "Ulrike- sociative thinking followed by poetry, Woytich," and with the recently pub- and 4contends that poetry and tradi- lished German edition of Walt Whit- (Continued on Page Eight) EGO (Continued from Page Three) Now I do not find fault with the idea of the cartoon, thought it was 'any old gag,' nor with Max for aciknowledgng his respect for the power of Fleet Street, but I do wonder why lie forgot an essay which he. himself wrote some dozen years ago. It is Some Words on Royalty, and is to be found in a volume which he has called, More. He says;- .....Our royal family is a rather absurd institution, no doubt. But then, humanity itself is rather absurd. A State can never be more' than a kindergarten, at best, and he who,-ould fain rule men according to principles of right reason will face no better than did poor dear Plato at Syracuse. Put the dream of the doctrhnaire into practice, and it will soon turn to some such nightmare as modern France or modern America. Indeed, fallacies and anomalies are the bakis of all good government. A Crown, like a Garter, implies no 'damned merit': 'else were it void of its impressive magic for most creatures.' StrRttly, there is no reason why we should worship the House of Hanover more than we worship any other .famiiy. Strictly there was no reason why, the Children of Israel should' have bowed down before braza images, But im n i. ot r 9 algJe spirit of idolatry is strong in hin. And, if you take away his' idol, that energy which would otherwise be spent in :iotowing.will .probably be spent in some less harmless manner. 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Insurance Company of North, America PHILADELPHIA and the IademnityInsurance Company of.IorxbAn:eritca -wris 7 naeractieallyeery farmofinstreceacep £i% l traits which we have come to expect in "Outihnes." Nor are there many! obvious errors; in fact, for the read- er who is not a specialist in anthro- pology to point out a single one would be difficult. On points of theory, ofy course, there is no such infallibility; which cover all of the continents ex- cept Antarctica, where prehistory is unknown. Perhaps the most imposing of them is the one on North and South America, continents which usually are slighted in discussions of ancient man. Writers seem to think that because 11I it, H U 11 NN, RMA r Trade in hour old watch for a new thin, Modern Time Piece 1 ' ,1 L44iN S /... / ' ( . 3 Punctuality is a Virtue Being punctual is easy with a watch that keeps accurate time. Give a good watch rea- sonable care and it keeps perfect time. When we sell a watch it goes out of the store keeping accurate tine. We carry Gruen, Elgin, Illinois, Hamilton and Waltham Watches.a SehiandereM Seyfried jewelers 304 'S. MAIN ST. i r ,. _,_ t Y . .. y w ,. ti .. k t - ;, s w : r , k .. -. - ,__. ,:, Professor Wilder follows Keith rather I the'Aztecs were by no means so an- than Osborn, so that the older style cient as the Cro-Magnards they were of archaeologists will not always far less important and interesting agree. But then, complete agreement a conclusion that is gravely to be Stele from Iniriquia covered with glyphs (after Mio is very apt to mean the death of questioned. The significance of a From Wilder's "Man's Prehistoric Past" theory. - relic does not always depend upon But perhaps it is unfair to pass its age, and it is quite possible that he considers the needs of the genetic the history of man in Br judgment-even favorable judgment- the genetic sociologist will learn more sociologist. Ice Age till the Roman evidence is gleaned fro sciences which are us 1!1#itiI1!#!1!! llll#!!!ltltHttHH til!!!!!Hill 111111111101 111111if#lHlllEHintH#if 111#tff###1##tf!!!CilILK apart, including geolog; philology, ethnology or etc., and the writer ha ti to tell the story of an = a manner which will in circie of readers than is . edby purely technical -.A promising introdu f = the main it is borne o of the book. Of cours stamp of Mr. Macklen interest, which happenE ology, and it readily be that he is trying,. to mi us who prefer the geolc t ly archelogical aspects , and care little for his w . process is simple: N merely demonstrates t a,. 'mythology, philology, THE PROPER TIOLS archeology together on ...and remarkably relial . .1the daily life of ancie -P us the proper brazing and polishinb ma- -ttherswise he gets but ; 3} resentation. - chines, pu the "know how" makes for sucess- ysnain -WWplussThe actual structure Plus the proper brazing and polishing ma- a'sapncointau" hs " ,r andstance the author as l chines have long since paid for themselves, and cardinal princple of e= ing-the ,telling of wha so you only have to pay for the "know how" when = to show and the show - hasnated by a brief stat you brjg your ewels to us for repair. has beenshown. No tain uniformity in or$ a * * early chapters are ba t Pro X VairService a o y and the late on material. Thusthe i S"entitledBritons of-tb Try' .,rI5 a_ the second "Earliest 'I C-ern man!; the third, ' .a 'Red Man' of ,Wales"- sequence. But. when the er, to whom Mr. Macl strcpg appeal,,has . a these chapters he com( a on such subjects as STATE STREET JEWELER Charms," and "Ancient Unless he has a more ti - 302 S. State St. = edge than is to be foun oral readers; he will ha of. trouble tying this i I gether. For, it must b (though it generaliy is ll11t11111fffill lf11f1111111111111f~fiffNifll1111111111111111ill itHi##!1!N!1!tlf1i11#11'#lii lf~ technical reader is a i (Continued -on P * _____L I ~