PAGE TWELVE THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 025 +i +++ +++ Books and Writers . + +*+ +** 7 T * adv line Mr Cabellwo thi the -- ------ _e-cre AM ES BRANCh CABELL By Carl Ju Van Ihcren McBride. $1.00. M For the average reader acquainted er with James Branch Cabell only as the Ir author of "Jurgen" there is need for co something in explanation of him, need he for a book which will analyze and ne clarify his work, and find for him fir his rightful place in modern letters. va It is sheer pedantry to do this with its most writers, but there is much about Ce Mr. Cabell's writing that needs ex- planation. Mr. Van Doren's book, al es: though in some respects it seems a wi bit superficial, is nevertheless an im- ce measuiable help to the reader who, of having read perhaps one or two o1 be Cabell's storieso feels the need o1 oh some support before he plunges into G( another. ar Mr. Cabell's place is peculiar. For fu some fifteen years, he held quietly to th his work of producing for a small but tm very enthusiastic audience, one after m another of exquisite romances. He ts was not generally known: a condition sa which satisfied completely this most id urbane of romancers; for he was do- ia ing exactly what he wanted to do; in he was building for himself and his in privileged small audience "a country ca n which men, fettered as they may ba be by space and time, by good and evil, e dream triurnpbantly beyond them" t) and he cared not at all what the rest of the world thought about them. it Then one day Mr. John Sumner, w whose business it is to read books to with an eye to their effect on the di young, chanced to come across "Jur- e gen." In -it he found several passages le which fitted but poorly into his con-s ception of what is bight: and there h( ensued much litigation, the only re- sult of which was to send Jurgen finally into edition after edition, and to create around Mr. Cabell an of- er fensive legend. People bought Jurgen is and read it behind locked doors. Not " understanding it, they did not bother of to explore further among his other C: works. lii So that now Mr. Cabell is slipping A back into his old place as a writer of t' romances for the few, a weaver of so tales which, when once the key is d found, have exquisite charm. This is s all as it should be. ti Mr. Van Doren's purpose is to ex-, plain and sum up Cabell's work, to bring coherence into what must, to the casual reader, appear chaotic. To this end, he divides his essay into three parts, labeled: Cabell Minor; Cabell Major; and Scholia. The firs-Cabell Minor-deals with the author's earlier work, his short stories, and those longer stories which do not fit so directly into the schemeI which, Mr. Cabell has outlined for himself. The second discusses what Mr. Ca- bell calls his Biography: by which he means those volumes which tell the t yliidiiiil itlliililiglfllH lit i l ilililiii THE OASIS When you are hung sure to stop for a b and a glass of milk The /barb 440 South State ? 1111111 R nII Immimt 111111111111 1111iIIti111111111111111 ventures of Dom Manuel and his.- THE REVIEWER e, in the magical land of Poictesme. It seems odd to review The Review- . Van Doren analyzes this major er; but odd only until one recalls rk with sympathy and care. I Attention MrNathan Magazines that H. L. Mencken has written an1 nk he penetrates most closely into l 1lye ky JLkessay entitled"Critics of Criticism reasons which brought (ahell to of Criticism." However, The Review- ate Poictesme, and Manuel and -___ -_____ _-___ er, a staunch and meaty quarterly rgen, and hr lovely wome--Du e PROCESSIONAL.' By John Howard THE DIAL (publication in Chapel Hill, N. C.-ergo alicent, Dorothy1aDesir h uenev- s The Dial, that most complacently devoted largely to the South and to M ean al h ohes whnhesavs awsn hmsSlte,$.0 heData os opaetySouthern letters,-deserves .a word11 , and all the ,teasw fr sas t A play 'read is always less con- aesthetic of magazines, comes upon lotworo prais. n the universe, at least sar as it .., or two of praise. lC .cerns itsel . with men and woen, vincing and stirring than a play seen; us once more. In this April issue it Ce ids htthe ne on- it is because the art of the actor, the maintains that same serenely lofty, The current number leads off with a i gigabe elemnts romane,'the -art of the director, the art of the! standard which it set for itself no one stimulating essay on "Lincoln: A S t and loveliest saughter of human Istage-designer must all be added to knows how long ago, distributing with Southern View." We of the North e st by whvelicst mankind is deuei, the art of the dramatist before the the same lofty hand its usual pearls subscribe to the legendary view of yelf eagerly taking part in the e- full effect of the play can he realized. I There are several excellent thigs I'ncoln-an almost inhumanly good b etmn eandris t grt i xalthed - j But of one thing I am sure: and that in this issue, chief, perhaps, among and honest and wise and brave man, k The third section of Mr. Van Doren is that even with half-decent produc- them being a short story by Carl a man of one purpose. When one Tay ti csnerne oMr. orenfical~ stion "Processional" must be a really Sandberg, in his very best manner; a stops to think how diligently Lincoln) th Cabell's theory 1 mlife, and with magnificent thing. tender and wise story, with just a has been pumped into us, through the' hrtain of the more technical aspects Mr. Lawson has taken as the site touch of that pathos which he knows Gettysburg Address, through our high 7 his work. His discussion of Ca- I for his drama a small town in West so well how to use. There is a story, school American History, through all v hl's deliciously muddled mythC- Virginia during a coal strike. His too, by Conrad Aiken; not so good, those quaint anecdotes with which we t cgy-in which he crates his own theme is the familiar capital-labor to be sure, as Sandberg's, but a very hvae been acquainted from our earli- o ods and Goddesses when no stano- theme,, intermingled with sub-themes good story. Better than one finds in est days, it is not surprising that we t ds ond ses willitthe n eis dght- of love, lust, mother-love (and even some other magazines. should look- up to him as one whoi d. While his discussion of the man's mother-lust) war, communism, and A little article by Clive Bell pur- stands ocheane t belo Christ ilosophy is summed up in a quota- Ku Klux Klan. These ,themes he ports to show that Freud, excellent Mr. Archibald Rutledge gives us the n from 'Cabell himself: "Indeed, the weaves into an epic fabric that is diagnostician of dreams though he be, thrsdof our Ninlh the ost prosaic of materialists proclaim America incarnate, shouting, swear-- is out of his element when he holds Iwh tob ewing s on , t ing, weatig. Iforth on at. Freud, seerms, says that w "ho loved his story and his joke, but at we are all descended from an in- ing, sweating. who' had,' withal, an abundance of i ne fish, who somehow evolved the His handling of the capital-labor authors are simply ,releasing their go d had,- wh pan abundacet o ea that it was his duty to live on theme is not the one that has simul- pent-up repressions (or whatever they good sense. He paints a sympathetic nd, and eventually succeeded in do- taneously become conventional and are called), pouring forth their the man than is usually met with. g it. So that now his earth-tread- dull in modern literature. It is not I dreams into prose. Clive Bell main- ther arnsevurallyx'met it g brogeny manifest the same illogi- an Upton Sinclair drama, with stupid tains that stories are not of the stuff There are several-excellent critcaltl Li aspiration toward heaven, their ranting and heart-rending exposes of that dreamns are made on, and spouts artic on thesiteref , Suth, tnkruptcy in common-sense may, the wretcher condition of the poor. proof to support his argument. t too ery fair.ti a ras, thon en by material standards have much There is a ranter in the play-a Pole Then, of course, there are the book the whole very fair. At any rate, they e same increditable result." (of whom one of the American char- reviews, those haughty pages in whi t nsomething n astrs ays 'Een hisdiry PleJon Glswrlh an hi il ar als.often found in .our northern period- As Mr. Van Doren so ably proclaims, acyssy: Ee hs itpoe onClwetyadhitl r eas. is this same "illogical aspiration" got a mother, don't it beat all?'); but cilessly exposed as mountebanks. We icals. hich caues ae l a spnlike im whenever the Pole begins to rant he had supposed The White Monkey to be Verse by Henry Bellamann, Robert write romances; an(l it is in their is cut off by his audience, who don't an unco bood tale (as Donn Byrne Hilyer, Clinton Scollard, - Don Setz, vie disasaon tt thir r understand the meaning of the word would have it); but no. It is a tawd- needs no comment. sfin di their satisfathan their read- 'Proletariat', and tell him so. Labor, ry thing. Still. . . . the reviews are And, as the quarterly's name would t into a life of love and adventure in Mr. Lawson's play, is not the always a joy to read, whether ono imply, there are many reviews. cas thismundane world can never dreary collection of stupid idealists agrees with their dicta or not. that- other writers have portrayed. - old forth. M. . They fight, and magnificently, too Lawson's observation of the Ameri- ARMOLTS 0. S 0 The play is expressionistic in form can language is in the main accurate, GRALUAT AND REGITERED Some of the motet important Am-which permits of as great and hetro- we cannot quite swallow such a lineOhirapo ican political histpory ever written geneous a cast as were in "Beggars as 'Them fellers mean you no good' di t l t aproiedbti hery pulsers wite on Horseback," and produces the same . . . . But, we confess, we do Mr. 707 N. University Ave Phone 2526 promised by the publishers in thefantastic effect as did parts of that Lawson an injustice. Just now when Selections from the Correspondence work. A jazz band of miners is we were hunting for a bad quotable Theodore Roosevelt and Henry heard intermittently on the stage! line, with nothing to guide us but a abot Lodge, 1884-1918," to be pub- and off, all through the play. Capital general impression of inaccuracy, we shed by Charles Scribner's Sons on is represented by a 'Man in a Silk were unable to find any that were pril 3rd. For tiuty-four years, the Hat'. The women in the play are ter- not pardonable as the result of educa- wo uen wrote to Each other nab- rible nd elemental-the men also . tion. Some of the lines are perfect: luteIti naturss ha t e letter The total effect of the play is over- "You ain't in that's all you're out", ence. It is natural that their letters whelming; but some of the details for instance. houdd be full of significant revela- are annoyingly unsatisfactory. Even And as for Mr. Nathan, who razzed ion ave af ier defnit Io teacoooepfthnorioeiopeeshswllrbal lv t eg'tY ons and of interesting opinions, allowing a good deal fo-r the ingenuity the play in at least two of his mouth- oosevelt wrote to Lodge in 190&: of the actor, some of the more poeticlpieces, he probably live to regret "I have a very definite philosophy lines of the coal miners sound a little it.' about the Presidency. I think it fishy, a little literary; and while Mr. J. C. I should be a very powerful of ie, an Everyone agrees I think the President shioudb lll! mH l!e~esEE!_Fl~ll vnge~ay s!!lS!i!!!! very strong man who uses withoutlve. Have you thou hesitation every power that the po- sition yields; but because of this ili a 3 Mn VC wmuAN -itin io I (man gives why ANh veyfact I believe that hie shouldinnYw be sharply watched by the peopleBi . held to a strict accountability by M--_--___ . _,I First, he points them, and that he should not keep LEW"L 'i°°m FAMILIES WILL the office too long,." 'im Scranton D. & H. and Pittston WHICH SIX H Doen't delay-Pay your Subscriptionm It 1""M _ _ay. Antracite, per ton $14.95 This protective restri Wnlmlll'nnan un111""""" of two-thirds of all Solvay Coke . . . . . 10.95 effects are permanent m'w o a o sSecond, he says w- enuine No. 3 f LIKE ANN AR] @io Egg and Lump . . . . 950 wi gry or thirsty, beE a L. 5 ESTABLISH TH arbecie sandwich West Virginia and Kentucky CoalD MENT UNDER llCHILDREN TO at hhu Phones 81-F1 and 2207-Office Cornwell Block Then he makes c-~-__ _ __the past. He says: ecue Inn OVERLOOKING' Phone 2948-W oaFAMILYTHEA _ wa :-_= ::=:; --=s COUNTRY ESTA a= - --- --- - . wrr rr .r .... .o . ...... ... .... .rrrr .rr rrr rrr w~a I /d M1 i This and That On the 20th of March Houghton Mifflin Company will publish the fol- owing books: "Obedience," by Mi- hael Sadleir, a novel of English life in the eighteen-sixties; "The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett," select- d and arranged with a preface by Willa Cather; "The Venture," a new book of poems by Jean Kenyon Mac-! kenzie; "New Poems," by John Drik- water; "Reminiscences of a Fiddle Dealer" by David Laurie, and "Lin- oln the Litigant" by William 1-. Townsend in a Limited Edition. They will also issue new and attractive edi- tions of William Bellamy's "A Century of Charades" and of "So You're Going! -o Paris" by Clara E. Laughlin. * * 'I John Muir, who has devoted to the mountainous West the kind of en- thusiasm that John Burroughs ex- pended on the Catskills, was a valiant fighter in behalf of the conservation of natural resources. It was largely due to his influence that the Yosemite Valley and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado became national property. The story, with details hitherto un- published, is told by Dean William ,Frederic Bade, of the Pacific School of Relgion at Berkeley, California, in his new "Life and Letters of John j Muir." (Houghton Mifflin Company.) Mr. and Mrs.' F. Scott Fitzgerald will observe from Capri the reception accorded.Mr. Fitzgerald's new novel, "The Great Gatsby," which Charles Scribner's Sons will publish April 10th Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald spent ithe winter in Rome, and found the Eternal City "uncomfortably cold." Ellis Parker Butler is the greatest Samuel Merwin's "The Moment of living authority on Birthdays. His' Beauty" recently published,,.is a vivid latest book, "Many Happy Returns of, account of life behind the footlights, the Day" recently published by Hough- Mr. Merwin writes that although the ton Mifflin Company, recalls to mind characters are fictitious, the back- his equally delightful "How it Feels to ground derives inevitably from the be Fifty." Butler writes me that he back-stage atmosphere of the Murat is celebrating eight birthdays year- Theatre as it was during the two sum- ly-including that of his boy's dog. mers the author spent there. i- i FOOD-- Home-cooked PASTRY-- Home-made AT I TUTTLE' S LUNCH ROOM 338 Maynard at One Man Says that Ann Arbor Hills will be a delightful place to ght just why this is true? Here are three reasons one N ARBOR HILLS will be a happy community. out, "JUST ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY OWN LAND AREA EQUAL TO THAT ON UNDRED FAMILIES USUALLY CROWD." ction can be broken only by the vote of the owners the land. Fresh air, light, play room and landscape , dependable advantages in this community. s, "THE PEOPLE WHO SELECT PLACES BOR HILLS FOR THEIR HOMES WILL E CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRON- WHICH MRS. AND I WANT OUR DEVELOP." a third point, much more appreciated now than in "MY THREE-QUARTERS OF AN ACRE., THE NEW GOLF COURSE WILL GIVE MY ADVANTAGES OFA CITY HOME AND A TE IN ONE." Of course he was thinking of the t i " i r IrIIIII I IIII IIIIIf III I if I IIIIIIIIIIIIIIILEllunt: zol conveniences, such as water and electricity, which we will provide for his GIVE AMERICANS WHAT THEY WANT Nearly every American wants to own his own home. Further- more he wants it to have beauty,, individuality, reasonable resistance to depreciation and a cost within his means. This demand for beauty combined with economy has developed a distinctively American type of home architecture in the McClure Homes. home. And he was thinking of the healthful out-of-doors life for his 9 li ar ni "famed for fr eshness" Candies wife and children as compared to the cramped way of city living. He is a member of the adjoining golf club, so we suppose he was thinking how he too will step onto the course at his convenience for an inexpensive round. There may be more reasons why you should possess one of these hundred and sixty building plots now> than why you should delay until they increase to double the cost (as such property does). Unless your observation of this development is more than a casual drive over the streets you cannot begin to appreciate the finer things about it. We Wrapped Caramels, 60c Lb. Peanut Brittle, 50c Lb. Molasses Taffy, 50c Variety of Easter Candy, 60c Lb. I invite you to phone us so we may bring contour and plan charts and tell you more of Ann Arbor Hills. I F Crr & C T TremmellI ....... ....... ...... is ;: .. :.;'r , . R a