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THE MIDDLE WES
The exhibition o fthe work of Aus-
trian school children held in the West
Gallery of Alumni Memorial Hall the
first of the week was probablythe'
most interesting display that Ann Ar-
bor art patrons have had the oppor-
tunity of viewing in some time. It is
-salmost impossible to believe that the
majority of the paintings and draw-
ings exhibited are the work of chil-
VIN LTE A UR ' dren, most of them are not over fif-
T IN LITERATURE """o"" c'?'n
h teen years old. The collection, only a
part of which Dr. Kollar, who is sup-
ervising the world tour it is making,.
of grey calico floated over the fagged could bring to Ann Arbor, is a rare
snow." And this: tribute to the inspirational genius of,
"The rain beat the drum of the hol- Prof. Cizek,' under whose directiont
low building with many sticks. The the childrenthave worked.
tragic scrops of meaning, the flakesof The manner in which Prof. Cizek
order and bits of melody rose and fell;l
they aroused the ear and were oh- codcshisaschool is as simple as th
teredar eresults are amazing. It was his idea
literated." And far too few with the that children, given, free rein to dol
Procacious-Adjective. Pert, petu-
lant; forward; saucy.
Scansion-Noun. The act of scan-'
this and that ning; distinguishing the metrical feet
of a verse by emphasis, pause or
otherwise. (In "The Tattooed Count-
_ -- ess" the word is used in reference to
a~n Yechten unabridged:-sthe reading of a newspaper, which
Van eclien uabriged: sems affected and unjustified).
WHEN SOME years ago the suc- Strippled-Adjective. Engraved by
cessful American play "Withi-n the means of dots instead of lines.
Lavy" was produced in England, it Several of the reviewers accusedl
was found necessary to translate Carl Van Vechten of coining his' own
many of the slang terms into English ;words. This dill convince them of
for the benefit of the audience. A their error, for to quote the news-
similar instance occurred when "Bab- paper again: "It would be foolish to
bitt" was published in England and a make up words when real ones, just
glossary appended to explain Ameri- as funny are waiting in the dictionary,
tion to general social conditions,
with a consideration of whether or
not the education now offered to youthy
is able to meet youth's real needs.
The eternal question.
Miss Lowell rings the bell again.--
MISS AMY LOWELL, one of Ameri-
ca's best known poets and critics.
whose "John Keats" will be published
'by Houghton Mifflin Company in Jana-.
ary, was recently awarded the Helen
Haire Levinson prize by Poetry, A
Magazine of Verse, edited by Harriet
Monroe. Miss Lowell's prize poem,
"Evelyn Ray," appeared in the Decem-
ber 1923 issue of the magazine.
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THE APPLE OF THE EYE, by Glen-
way Wescott. Lincoln MacVeagh.
The Dial Press.,.$2.50
The Apple of the Eye is the beauti-
ful chronicle of an unsuccessful quest.
Three members of a southern Wiscon-
sin family of farmers give up, after
failure of varying degrees of com-
pleteness, the attempt at redemption
of the spirit through the flesh. This
quest, consciously or unconsciously
undertaken, is the essential matter of
the stories of Bad Han, the virgin
mother Rosalia, and the lonely be-
wildered Dan. So the theme of the
book is simply that old, or at least
rapidly aging, one, Sex and th'e Middle
West. But there the resemblence to
the weary-of-dish-water-eager-for-cul-
ture sort of fiction ends. This yarn is
solid; stuff. Wescott handles his story
with a laudable forthrightness, es-
chewing all the cheap devices by
which many of the story tellers of to-
day are wont to try to make their
stories unusual. The story has a
simple beauty, sometimes resembling
Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine.
Perhaps it is surprising that this
should be the case since the story
comes from one who has been known
heretofore chiefly and almost solely
as an extremist poet of the group
featured by the most esoteric reviews.
Wescott's things heretofore have been
of the over-sophisticated variety, the
sort of thing done by T. S. Eliot, E. E.
Cummings and others of their ilk.
But into the substance of this story
he has allowed no trace of intellec-
tual snobbishness In any manifesta-
tion. He neither writes down to his
rustic characters, nor does he attempt
to make them exaggeratedly idyllic.
He has shown throughout the book
an admirable sense of restraint and
f'elhig for proportion. It is excellent
discipline, for a young artist, to write
a book of this sort. Wescott's course
in this case is like that of George
Moore, who turned from the effete
artiness of Evelyn Innes to write a
plain roast-beef thing like Esther
Waters, "the most English of all nov-
els." But there is this difference: the
style of Esther Waters was what good
style should be, it was indistinguish-
able from content. In Wescott's case,
however, the artiness so rigidly and
rightly barred out from the story it-
self has been allowed to mar the style.
The fault here is really merely a vir-
tue overworked. Wescott, a young
writer sincerely striving to create
literature, has been fearful of falling
into dulness and carelessness to the
extent that his work suffers from the
tion with inevitable adjectives and un-
expected verbs has resulted in many
cases in turning really fine work into
mere fancy writing. It is purely in
the matter of putting words upon his
story that he has failed. He seemsj
in some cases to have been influenced
by the fear that the story's drabness
of subject could only be saved by an
extreme liveliness of style. The re-
sult is that in many passages thestory
is annoyingly jumpy just where it
ought to flow along in a manner that
would make one unmindful of words
and style. There are too many para-
graphs like this:
"The houses on both sides of the
road, brick and clapboard, surrounded
by picket fences and evergrens. A
little sad deer of iron with slant iron
eyes stood among frugal dead grasses.
Near him a woman in billowy skirts
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quiet distinction of this:
"To her simple eye nothing was
degrading, nothing evil; . everything
formed a single difficult pure coil-
morallness and pure. So she spoke'
more plainly and more strongly than;
other men and women, the faultless,
the prosperous, or the strong."
Save for this objection the Apple!
of The Eye is a very beautiful book
indeed. The Apple is good, sweet, andj
well-ripened, but, to chase down the
simile relentlessly, its style is the
glazing of a candied apple when too,
much sugar is used. It is brittle and
hard and cracks away fronj the apple.
Like most books of our day, this
carries an incubus of sex-though not
an incubus of lechery. Wescott's
treatment of sex is, like the rest of
the book, praiseworthy for its goodly
forthrightness. It is, for no very un-
derstandable reason, except its serenel
matter-of-factness, entirely unshock-
ing, handled throughout with an ethi-{
cally antiseptic touch. The apple may1
be candied, but it's nowhere rotten.
The Apple of the Eye marks a great
advance in Glenway Wescot.t's de-
velopment. It is immeasurably super-
ior to the 'sterile febrilities of his
verse. It ought to assure him his
spurs.
(Note Bad Han, the story which
forms the first third of The Apple of
the Eye, was published in Dial for
January 1924..
-Arnold CGingrich.
as they chose, would produce far
better things than under the restric-
tion and guidance of teachers school-
ed along conventional lines. To test{
his idea he devoted his week-ends to
gathering a class of children to whom
he gave the material for the repro-
duction of their ideas. They were told
to do as they chose. Their mistakes I
were not corrected, their ideas were
not forced. They were allowed to
! work out things as best they -could.
The only assistance they were given1
was in media. Prof. Cizek gave them
the materials it was easiest for them1
to use. As Dr. Kollar explained in his
gallery talk Wednesday evening-a
talk emphasized with wide, free ges-
tures and punctuated with appeals to
his audience to help him with his
words-: if Prof Cizek discovered
that a child was impeded by his in-'
ability to haidle a pencil he gave that
child a brush-something' the child{
could use freely.
Probably the most interesting of
the things exhibited were the expres-
sionist paintings and drawings which I
were to be found at the south end of
the gallery. Two dancing figures
which seemed to twist and sparkle as
they were viewed, an amazingly com-
prehensive mural of a city and a char-
coal entitled "Introspection"-a thing
of beautiful light and shade-were the
(Continued on Page Fourteen)
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Now, however, an American book ___ THE EVE OF VENUS (H-oughton ,
has been published in America by an THE EXILE of Ibanex. for giving Mifflin) translated from the original(
American and an Ameri'can news-: free utterance to his opinions about Latin by R. W. Postgate is an anonly-
paper has printed a glossary of deft-' the King of Spain is another step in mous .poem. Mr. Postgate remarks in'
nitions of some of the American the rebellion against Spanish tyranny. his commentary: "It has all the uays-
wor ls. Carl Van Vechten in "The Frank B. Deakin in "Spain Today" tery of the unknown; it comes to u
Taa~ooed Countess" (Knopf) has, ac- (Knopf) claims that Spain is ",as unsigned, and from where we (101no?.
cording to the newspaper, used "funny dreadful a country for its inhabitants know. A poem as strange as it is
words in funny places" and so the in the twentieth century as any Euro-i beautiful, it is neither of the ancienjt1
following definitions are given: paconrwsinteMdlAg." nor of the modern world."
Atrabilious-Adjective. Melanchblic The greatest Spanish prophet of dis- Ne ok-~iyCasfes
or hypochondriac; atrabiliary (per- sent, however, is MgeUn uN eed_____work?-________ail___
tamning to black bile.) land J. E. Crawford Flitch has justI
Contadina-Noun. An Italian peas- completed a translation of a selection-
ant woman. 'from his essays under the title "Es-
Crepitating---Adjective. Having a says and Soliloquies" to be published
crackling sound; crackling, rattling, by Knopf. next Spring. Ibanez is'
Derainat--'lra~nitiv verb To epresented on The Borzoi list with a 1
DeaiaeTast~ eb oreprint of his first novel to appear in R
pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. ' this country, "The Cabin," now in-'
Dolent-Adjective. Sorrowful. eluded in the Borzoi Pocket Books.
Egrimony-Noun. Sorrow. WITH THE publication of "Pre-'
Epithumetic-Adjective. Pertaining jtudices: Fourth Series" by HI. L.1s
to sexual desire; sensual. Meneken, Alfred A. Knopf announcesI
Glaucous-Adjective. Of a sea- that a set of the fond volumes "Pre-HA D W
green color; of a dull green passing jiudices" will be boxed and handsome-
into grayish blue. ; y boundl in time to become Christmas' 6'pI
Moieaio-on Obsequious-; gifts for' "the civilized inority." I N{O/E L
Otiose-Adjective. Being at' leisure' IT M4AY interest somebody to know 0 N 2if t
or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.' that John Galswor~by once called the ____________ ______
Passerine-Adjective. Again, in the long short ;story "the best for all forms
interests of brevity we depart from for fiction." . j I1,AVE 3iOU SUBSCIBEII) YE'T'? ft
Webster. The word in "The Tattoned ' _----- "- ------- ---_ ,
Countess" is used to describe a worn- "WHIAT AILS Our Youth?" by
an. It indicates likeness to a small George A. Coe, of Teacher's College,
perching bird.j Columbia University, has just been
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Peccancy--Noun. The sta~te of he-! published by Charles Scribnler's Sons.
Pinguid-Adjective. Fat; unctuous; study of the habits and attitudes of
greasy. modern young people and their rela-) sm
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Regarding Wescott
Glenway Wescott, whose first novel.
The Apple of The Eye has just been'
published by Lincoln MacVeagh-The
Dial Press was born in Kewaskum,
Wisconsin. His father was a poor
farmer, whose great disappointment,
was young Glenway's dislike and ap-
parent ineptitude for farm work. It
was mostly through the help of his
mother, who had a real regard for
culture, that he was able to realize
his ambition fpr an education.
He first attended a small school at
West End, where the associations
were very distressing to him, and
later continued his schooling at
Waukeshaw until he finished high
school. Then, with the help of rela-
tives, he managed to attend the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin for a year.
After his attendance at Chicago,'
he suffered a breakdown which con-
fined him to his bed for a year. I
Upon his recovery he sojourned, suc-
cessively in Santa Fe, Chicago, Lon-
don, the Berkshires and the Rhine.
The Apple of 'The Eye deserves a
place among the "much travelled
books" of history, such as Conrad's
Almayer's Folly. The story was
begun in Wescott's home town, Ke-
waskium, and the manuscript travelled
with him to Chicago, Santa Fe, the
Berkshires, London, Berne on the
Rhine, New York, Gastein (Austria),
Berlin, Carlsbad, Paris, the Adiron-
dacks and finally, New York, where
the story was finished.
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