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Mr. Lawrence
Discoves a New Land
THE BOY. IN THE BUSH. .By D. It.
Lawrence and X. L. Skinner,- New
York.. Thomas Seltzer. 1924. $2.00.
Those who feel that D. H: Lawrence
is a force to be counted in contem-
porary literature may have been wor-
ried at his apparent intention to sink
himself in the morass of abnarmal
psychology and theories unadorned.
They can rest for the time being: in
The Boy in the Bush he comes back
to the pale of art bringing fresh
strength and power.
From the standpoint of the nove-
list's art his two best books are The
White Peacock, his first, and the al=
most Classic Sons and Lovers. If the
first is less individual and the second
less subtle than his latter novels the3.
are, nevertheless, more synthesized, a
closer wedding of idea with the ex-
pression of experience than Aaron's
Rod or the recent Kangaroo. In the
present work he regains his ability
for welding theorizing to character
and ceases to make talking machines
of his people.
Last year Mr. Lawrence came West
in search of new ground on which to
place his feet. All that came out of
his contract with the United States
was the extraordinary Studies in
Classic American Literature. He went
farther west. What he sought he
turned up in Australia. There he
found a new country, a new people
and a new society. His attempt to
set himself in this fresh baekground
is implicit in Kangaroo. As a novel
this is less successful than as bio-
graphy. But in The Boy in the Bush
he gets his fingers under the edge oi1
what he wants.
The history of Australia presents
the phenomenon of a virgin land dis-
covered and developed within com-
paratively recent times. The situation
is therefore of the old civilization
meeting a new world. It is this fresh
experience that interests Lawrence.
He dramatizes his reaction to it in th(.
figure of a young boy, turning to
manhood.
This is the, overlaying scheme that
colors the first of the book until
young Grant, after a year in the ab-
original bush, loses the extraneous
characteristics of an Englishman and
turns Australian. Early, however,
begins the more universal motif of
struggle between self and envirgn-
ment. Sex necessarily plays an im-
portant part in such a proposition
and especially with a man holding
such views as Mr. Lawrence is notor-
iously known to hold.
Yet, in spite of this, the book
should not bring down upon it thb
objection occasioned by his former
novels. The amorality of the im-
plicit philosophy is not at all unsuited
to the freedom of Australia twenty
years ago. Lawrence writes down,
the story of a new country beinb
forged by men who must necessarily
be inimical to old forms and usages,
who will inevitably seek new free-
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only a novel of the highest quality,
but that it is also a political docu-
ment of the first importance as estab-
this and that lishing a bond of understanding be-
tween France and England which will,
do much to promote better relations
- between the two countries.
DORAN announces for publication -
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Michael Arlen thus adding to The nical ability of one of the most ex-
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j Nor skin nor hide nor fleece
ROBERT FROST makes his debut Shall cover you,
as an impresario of historical docu- Nor curtain of crimson nor fine
ments: Among this month's publica- Shelter of cedar-wood be over you,
tions of Lincoln MacVeagh-The Dial Nor the fir-tree
Press are two interesting items of Nor the pine.
Americana: Memoirs of the Notorious
Stephen Burroughs and the Journal of; Nor sight of whin nor gorse
Nicholas Creswell. Nor river-yew,
Burroughs' memoirs is a startling Nor fragrance of flowering bush,
revelation that Puritan New Eng- Nor wailing of reed-bird to waken
land produced as authentic a scamp you, ,
as Cellini and Cagliostro. This book, Nor of linnet,
Avhich was tremendously popular in Nor of thrush.I
America during the early part of the'
I 19th century, was called to the atten- ( Nor word nor touch nor sight
tion of its present publishers by Mr. Of lover, you
Robert Frost. Mr. Frost subse Shall long through the night but
quently wrote a pretace for the new for this:
edition, thereby making his public The roll of the full tidy to cover you
debut as a writer of prose. Without question,
The Journal of Nicholas Creswell, Without kiss.
which tells of the adventures of a FHogn "Heliodora"
young Englishman in America in[i
1774-76, is from a newly discovered N T E IN
Imanuscript. The book contains many AN INTE~RESTING understanding
manucrit. Te bok ontans anyis the new Dial Detective Library, of
revealing first-hand portraits of such ih new Da jetive brry, o
i Revolutionary figures as Georgewhich out byV Lincoln h acV been brougit
Washin gton, Thomas Jefferson and onhe Dial
LPress. The effort is an endeavor to
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finest work of the old masters, One is Walter de la Mare's 'Memo
Balzac, Dumas, Wilkie Collins, Dicke of a Midget' (Knopf), because of
ens, Gaboriau, including even that rare beauty-it is the most beaut
rare but now forgotten genius, Mon, piece of prose fiction of this centur
sieur Vidocq, of the Paris Bureau of
Surete, and the best of the earlier ACCORDING TO William B Ye
work of Anna Katharine Green, recent winner of The Noble Prize
Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stev- Literature, Thomas Mann, the fam
enson. A unique feature of this German author, was his clo'sest (
series will be the introduction of the testant in the winning of this aw
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sridnces from the note-books 01 famous novelist with his fixed pl
mous detectives. The volumes will in the world, and so in every way
eof a convenient size and format'mtewrd n oi vr a
andsomel rinti anlbormaa ed for such an honor," said Mr. Ye
cdmdey printed and bound, and ' Buddenbrooks" by Thomas Mann
iaced moderately. The first three , eared last Spring and in the com
olumes are edited by Joseph Lewis Spring ans t pub
'ench.= Spring Knopf plans to pub'
"Death in Venice," a volume of sh
er stories.
FANNY BUTCHER'S entertaining!
series of Confessions which run in
The Chicago Tribune has just number-
ed among its confessors Storm Jame-
son. the author of "The Pitiful Wife,"
published by Alfred Knopf. Miss
Jameson confesses that "There muss
be many books that I wish I had
written. I can think now of three.
T1E NEW REPUBLIC descril
the years since 1914 in a letter :
ing the election of Mr. LaFollette,
being "ten difficult years-the wo
period of heresy-hunting, witch-bu
ing, misrepresentation, violence, abi
and intolerance that this country Y
ever passed through."
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Subject, "The Everlasting Punishment"
THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL, by
Anne Douglas Sedgwick, recently
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Dr. Dooltttle's Hobby
"Internationalism is humanity's
only hope, and it must be bred into
our children i It is to be truely sue
cessful," said Hugh Lofting, short
story writer and author of the "Doctor
Doolittle" stories for children, in an
interview after his lecture here last
Tuesday. Internationalism, by the
way, seems to be Mr. Lofting's pet
theme.
"The World War would have been
impossible if we would not have edu-
cated our children in race-hatreds,"I
the author contended. "Yet there is
no folklore in the world that does not
contain some amount of contempt for
at least one other race. It is the duty
of all educators to turn from this
narrow, bigoted nationalism and pre-
judice and teach the children of the
world the essentials of a larger na
tionalism."
"It is fantastic, ridiculous, absurd
that we should have great armies and
navies to destroy each other. Modern
militarism is bound to lead to anni-
hilation," Mr. Lofting believes.
But when he was asked what form
he would have his internationalism
take, Mr. Lofting seemed more or less
at sea and without any more definite
idea on the subject than that he be
lieves there should be established
some form of international board ox
tariffs (powers and duties unexplain-
ed), and that all the military forces
of the world should be disbanded and
replaced by an international police
force.
IWhen the subject was changed and
Mr. Lofting was asked about thd
"silent language" of which he had
spoken in his lecture, the author VUVya ha be" mu,-bet se1er
seemed much surer of his ground.n, has become a best seller in
"Animals must have some sort o. England as well as in America. The s
general opinion of the English news,
language, their actions under different gnrloiino h nls es
sets of circumstances seem to prove papers has been that the book is not r
that," he said. ....I.._._ Y.
"Birds, for instance, are much bet- ties," the creator of "Doctor Doolittle" t
ter forecasters than are humans, and continued, "has also been using, for r
they are also better navigators," he generations, that language which 1 n
believes. "But they are not alone in have called 'silent.' And some day,
there inexplicable abilities for they when the radio is obsolete, we will
seem to be a part'of the heritage of probably have some sort of universal
the American Indian, who has an un- language without sound, for sound is
canny knack of forecasting weather a nuisance anyway."
and of finding his way home under any And fearing that his questions were
circumstances," Mr. Lofting stated. moving into the class with radio the
"And the Indian, with these abili- interviewer left.
present the ad ective storyfrmthe
beginning thus automatically tracing
ts chronological development. There
will be a definite historical value in
he idea as certainly the series whet
omplete-and it is proposed to issue
everal volumes each year-will be
unique and valuable to the general
eader and the student of literature
like. Three volumes will be issued
his fall beginning with Voltaire-what
eader knows that he once wrote a
model detective story?-covering the
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doms and customs.1
The story moves with a sort of epik
sweep including the whole land. It is
the tale of a new land's birth told in
the dramatis personae of a small'
group. I do not wish to imply that
anything like, say Growth and the
Soil, is attempted. The novel does
not vary from the usual vehicle for
Lawrence's peculiar individualistic
philosophy. It is this philosophy that
makes Lawrence an important figure
in present literature. The nature of
the age places the individual more
and more on the defensive which ac-
counts for the emphasis, in the past
two decades, on the individuals rela-
tion to his surroundings. Those
readers who have been interested
observers of Mr. Lawrence's endeav-'
ors to rationalize his own impuises1
through those of his people will dis-
cover that in the present book he
executes a very superior job.
It was W. L. George who pointed
out over six years ago that Lawrence
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made the mistake of making his
characters too individual. This defect
is not remedied in The Boy in the
Bush, but that is too much to ask.
It is a defect inherent in the man's
method, which is to cut deep into the
lives of his people. It may be that
the essentials he sounds seem not
to be universal because they are not
yet commonplace.
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danger still lingers in every pay-
ment.
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