THE MICHIGAN DAILY S'Ul THE MICHIGAN DAILY SI-I www Books and Writers www 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- 0. H. Lawrence 1* V- C4 If 9 r I, . . 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 - on this side three new books by THIS IS a fair sample of the tech- Michael Arlen thus adding to The nical ability of one of the most ex- Green Hat and These Charming traordinary women poets of today: People, Piracy, The Romantic Lady, LETUE ! and The London Adventure. By 11. D. 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 nIcn Lord Howe. - ctrtrfnm fh i 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 " terran tanthaswmnyreaders, fa be Ila p vc Fl note o s Herr Mann has many readers, i 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." !9, 4A~e Read The Daily "Classified" .Column xI i i , I )) r i ti , ;l 1 a' FIR ST CH UR.CH OF CH RIST' (Scientists) Subject, "The Everlasting Punishment" THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL, by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, recently published by Houghton Mifflin Com-, iD b it 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 Services Sunday, 10:30 A. M. Services Wednesday, 7:30 P. M. 409 S. Division Reading Room, 236 Nickels' Arc # Y ,. ..... if We Supply the Majority of the Fraternities and Sororities With Their Bakery Requirements I i ? ; ! ', i i rs Each Checklnvolves, 7 DssorteBank The RCityBakeryi "There's a Reason"-Quality and. Service FRED HEUSEL, Prop 206 East Huron St. 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 1 { J Vr. tlrN~l~r~ H~ p~r~H.r.d t~lrUfN.urr.r. ............... b"NHt ..fr ..'........ .... 1i TRUNKS FOR TRAVELERS as well as bags and suit cases of every good kind are shown here. We can fit out the dainty maid off for a week end with a smart suit case or bag or can supply regulation military kit bags which can be folded so as to be conveniently carried in a trunk when not in use. All are of dependable quality and at at- tractive prices. 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. -Jno. Panurge. HERE are seven dis- tinct risks involved in every check you draw upon your bank. They are risks as to date, signature, alteration, filing, stop payments, sufficiency of balance and uncollected funds. The depositor hears some risks, too, but they are slight compared to the bank's. The size of the account and the amount of the check have nothing to do with these risks. A loss is as likely to result from a small check as a large one. There, is probably a greater danger from small balances than larger ones. Banks actually lose hundreds of millions of dollars during the course of a year for one or an- other of these reasons. Yet for assuming these risks the bank receives not one penny for its services except the interest it is able to earn on the custom- er's balance. When this is small overhead charges, cost of station- ery and book-keeping, and other expenses, more than wipe out the possible profit. Contrary to public opinion, these risks are not trifling. Each check has potential possibilities for loss. Care on the pai t of the depositor may minimize them, but danger still lingers in every pay- ment. Banks are rendering a distinct public service in permitting checks to be drawn against balances. Without this service the business of the country would be retarded materially. It is a service they are glad to perform gratuitously, but when the number of small checks drawn against small balances be- comes the great proportion o all transactidns, it becomes a serious burden upon the banks. This would be so if only the extra time and expense were involved. Wher it is considered the risks are pro- portionally increased, proportion- ally the burden becomes even greater. 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