THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNbAY, MAY 26, 1935 _IN_ THE WORLD OF BOOKS Shadow-Like Adeline Of Jalna Dominates New La Roche Book WfILTEP Essay flnnual Revives The Familiar Essay.. a diverse heads as Education and Phil- Author Finds A New Bernard Shaw In Coming Festival Play YOUNG RENNY: Jalna-1906 She is too vivid and honest a creation By Mazo de la Roche; Little, Brown. to be an afterthought, anyway. Mazo de la Roche began her 'Jalna, Penny is a youngster, just kicked saga too late. Jalna, first of the series Mary armiitahe pchrime;: M i a of four, was laid in the years 1924-25, girl in love with Maurice, her neigh- which does not leave a very long pe- gir; Aelewis a;rceherunesgh- riod over which to spread the doings bor; Adeline is 80;. the uncles are of ucha lsty, turbulent family as just done with squandering their for- of t such a lusty, u nstunes and are more or less perma- the Whiteoaks. nently saddled upon Jalna. Into Miss de la Roche has remedied the Jalna stalks, of all things, sex. matter by a nimble feat of prestidigi- Two engagements are interfered tation. The fifth book has been set with thereby. Maurice has been in- in the year 1906, thereby proving discreet with a village girl. Renny the saw that the last shall be first, hagenidsre ih.thensam and so on. It is a good plan, too- has been indiscreet with the same through all the Jalna books there has have s "aunt." two loveairs marched the almost tangible shadow not withtct on two love affairs, of old Adeline. Now one may know not without the assistance of ones old Adeline in the flesh. slithery Malahide Court, who comes She dominates the new book, al- from London to visit. hdom ite istYe ngeby:kJal- There is much more. Miss de la though its title is Young Reny: Jal- Roche tells it all with her customary na-1906. Her palpable embodiment skill, making even such strained sit- is so recent that one might suspectusVmkn n suongrine Miss de la Roche of trying to follow uations s Renny's long ride on the the vogue, which lately has inclined lt seem likely. strongly toward salty old ladies whob speak their mind. But actually Ade- ostly About Books line was created some years ago, and And Their Authors Harold L. Ickes, President Roose- .O" 1 E Lelt's secretary of interior, is pt'e- paring a book on the government's expensive public works program. It is to be called Works For The Public Characterization M o s t and will be published in June by Mac- Charateriztionmillan. Valuable Asset Of VA recent biography of another Revived Novel United States president has been is- sued by Harper's. It is Holmes Alex- THE PASCARELLA FAMILY: By ander's The Ameicai Taleyrand, Franz Werfel, Viking $2.50. an account of the career and times of Martin Van Buren By JOHN SELBY In 1932 a novel by Franz Werfel In the near future the Viking Press called The Pascarella Family was pub- will republish Franz Werfel's The lished in America. Werfel is of course Pascarella Family, which appeared the author of The Forty Days of Musa before the best selling Forty Days of Dagh, Verdi, and a number of such Musa Dagh, but attracted little at- novels. tention from the public. The-Pascareka Family was anothery pub- This month's selection of the Book- lishers by receiving the most respect- Of-The-Month Club is Walter Millis' ful critical attention looking like good Road To War, a history of the years sellers; and then dying on their hands before the United States entered the Its republication today is a resurrec- World War (1914-1917). The psycho- titn hinged upon the popularity of logical dilemma in which the coun- Fonry ays. Perhaps it will be a suc- try was thrown receives the greatest cefulrDas.rera iwibas stress from author Millis. Road To cessful resurrection. War is published by Houghton Mifflin. The novel is formed around a standard, almost a classic plot. We About the middle of July, the Vik- see Don Domenico Pascarella, a do- ing Press will publish The ircus of mnestic tyrant, suffering from a perse- Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney. The cution mania, and his six children, author is anCArizona newspaper man three boys and three girls. We see who conceived this, his first book, him ruling them as if they were in- while on vacaition in the Far East. fants, although the youngest is in the teens, and the eldest in her late twenties. Nobody dares interfere Local Best Sellers within the family, and few care to take the risk on the outside. FICTION Into the situation creeps life, the OF TIME AND THE RIVER. By first token of which is an English- Thomas Wolfe. Farrar Rinehart. man named Arthur Campbell, who $3. first sees the father in his place of RIDING TIE MUSTANG TRAIL. business, and secondly sees the By Forrester Blake. Scribners. daughter Grazia at the San Carlo - $2.50. the Pascarella's are Neapolitan. Little GREEN LIGHT. By Lloyd Doug- by little, Domenico's little despotism las. Houghton Mifflin. $2.50. is sapped, but never quite dissolved, YOUNG RENNY: JALNA-1906. By to be sure. At the end of the Mazo de la Roche. Little Brown, novel, however, death and business $2.50. and love have stripped the tyrant of TIME OUT OF MIND. By Rachel most of his power. Field. Macmillan. $2.50. That is all the plot. But the value PYLON. By William Faulkner. of Werfel's novel is in its character- Smith & Haas. $2.50. ization. His portrait of Domenico, NON-FICTION castigating his children for the evils, CATHERINE-THE PORTRAIT OF which false pride, a false sense of AN EMPRESS. By Gina Kaus. his own importance, and a persecu- Viking. $3.50. tion complex bring upon him, is su- THE PEOPLE'S KING. By John perb. The six children and Arthur Buchan. Houghton, Mifflin. Campbell, Grazia's lover, are almost $2.75. equally well drawn. And the life of GERALD (A Portrait). By Daphne the Pascarella prisoners is marvel- du Maurier. Doubleday Doran. ously contrasted with the normal $3.00. Neapolitan existence. 1935 ESSAY ANNUAL. Edit Prof. Erich A. Walter of the Er Department. Scribners $1. BY DOROTHY GIES Off and on for some time c have been bewailing the disap] ance of the familiar essay, "th lady" of the literary concourse. fessor Walter's 1935 Essay Annu only disproves her passing, but spirited evidence of a gayer reju tion. Possibly the editor's broad d tion of an essay is responsible fo investment of this dignified dras room type with a quite new anim and sparkle. "The Essay Annua cepts as an essay," it is stated i preface, "any piece of non-fict prose which definitely reflects personality of its author, and v can be read at a sitting of two I or less." Thus the volume is ma include not only the more cor tional and conservative mag pieces, but articles from syndi columns in newspapers, and from rent books. The keynote of 'the anthology readableness that lifts it out an yond the sphere of stuffy class essay collections. The Annu completely delightful from the v THE "OUR LITTLE GIRL" Starring Shirley Temple, featu Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, and I Talbot. Directed by John Robert If you haven't fallen for the ch of Shirley Temple yet, you wi. seeing "Our Little Girl." Ath not her most glamorous pictui gives her every opportunity to play her talents at their best, doesn't have a lot of unnecessary lyhoo. This time she is the daught4 a very busy doctor whose wife not learned what it means to be vied to a physician. Bored and: ly, she becomes interested in a Tel ls How To Make Almost Everyth PRACTICAL EVERYDAY CHE TRY. By H. Bennett. Che Publishing Company. $2. Practical Everyday Chenst just what its title describes. N textbook of complicated che equations, analysis procedures such, but a collection of everyda mulas, covering everything fron sinthe to zinc sulphate. With this book and five d worth of chemicals one should be to set himself up as the man turer of almost anything. Son the things it tells how to mak really intriguing: non-inflamr airplane dope is one, and it even tains a formula for a special note glue. There are pages de to compounds for such useful t as shaving lotions, aspirin ta tooth paste and liquors. The jacket blurb carries a s ment of one famous chemist, wh the book "tells how to make e thing except love and little apples," and perhaps that is as a descriptive phrase as any. Eye Glass Frames Repaired. Lenses Ground. HALLER'S Jewelr State Street at Liberty I !! S osophy, The Arts, Social Trends, and. The Press, with the editor leniently By STARK YOUNG in w" ~ ~~~~giving an edge to the group classedBySAKYUGi under Humor. The writers represent- Distinguished New Yoi1 Dramatic Critic, ni ::+a.hrv;;hs.; uner umo. Te wrter reresnt- Author or "So Red the Rose" and T ed include Wiliam Saroyan, Alexan- Former Hopwood Dramatic Judge) m der Woolcott, Theodore Dreiser, and Bernard Shaw's latest play, "The Howard Mumford Jones. Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles"M At the same time the volume serves just given its world premiere in New qi as an excellent thermometer of po- York by the Theater Guild with Nazi- w litical and social temperatures. Such mova, Romney Brent, McKay Morris to thoughtful and meaty discussions as and Lionel Pape in the leading roles, Newton D. Baker's Decay of Self-Re- I is still in his delicious vein. It is a liance, Ludwig Lewisohn's The New good, tricky, non-snobbish fantasy, s Meaning of Revolution, and James and a welcome change from the Times N Rowland Angell's The University in a Square state of mind. * Time of Change strike home at cur- A clergyman of the English church o1 rent issues with peculiarly vital aim. vist su pians ofsthen Btihe c- In a lighter vein is the smooth and pire as pirates visit when their car- devatatng mrse byWestbrook goes bore them. Here is the famous devastating morsel byestdrook Shavian life-force beginning to act. u Pegler, i which he takes the Mdivani All is now a theme so sexily-sexless boys for a ride, .that Shavianly it is doubly dear. Nowhere save on this side of the h Atlnti culdorgintesuc vgorus The. story of "The Simpleton of Atlantic could originate such vigorous the Unexpected Isles" will no doubt h and lively comments as Christopher be sure to appear later in published a Morley's Old Loopy, a love letter to form. At present we may say that, a Chicago, or Paul Gallico's The Mir- in stage form, it is much less boring, a Gcale Men of Sport. This inimitible I much more, entertaining than "The HOWARD M. JONES and thoroughly American spirit ton- Apple Cart." The story cannot be (who contributed to the Essay Annual) ing the whole volume seems the best told in brief. It involves a simple, indication that The Essay Annual saintly man in the midst of exotic point of tactful and happy selection, series may gain permanent rank with oriental delusions and sexual comph- and skillful arrangement of material. such yearly anthologies as O'Brien's cations. In the end arrives an angel, The essays are grouped under such Short Stories and Mantle's Best Plays, full of pregnant Shavian ribs and jokes. -'I ComingBooks A great virtue, due partly to the author, partly to the brilliant cast, ^ -9 .IIIappears among the Guild company ( (, iTHE FRUIT-STONERS. Algernon aogteGidcmay R E E N Blackwood. Dutton. A nThe actors really seem to enjoy their _ _ _ _DB a R l V parts. This is quite right. The best HEDWIG. By Vance Randolph. Van- portions of Shaw's play defy serious guard Pressapproach: The play demands spirit, bachelor. The doctor finds his sec- LOBO LAW. By Will Ermine. happiness and zest. This is the first retary sympathetic. Shirley gets Morrow. play I have seen the Theater Guild wind of the rift, and before the di- AN EASTERN ODYSSEY. By produce in a long time in which there vorce takes place, saves the day in Georges Le Fevre. Little. Brown. was not a certain joylessness that her own inimitable manner. PLAYTHING OF TIME. By Arnold derived not from the producer's being The best shots are practically any Zweig. Viking Press. careful, but from their being pedes- of those in which Shirley appears. WAR AND THE PRIVATE INVES- trian. She is swell on a teeter-totter with TOR. By Eugene Stanley. Double- One of the purest, wittiest and most her Scotty, and equally enticing mak- day, Doran. lovely performances I have even seen ing a sandwich: which only a hip- papotamus could put in his mouth. The action is slow, and the adult sequences seem somewhat trying; but they are fortunately 'subordinated to such delights as playing with dolls and teasing the laundress. If you aren't captivated this time, you'd better see a psychiatrist)o E ey ie -C.B.C. John Addington Symonds' RnaFA INis- sance In Italy has been added to theFON.PS growing, list of Modern LibraryFONI E Giants. It is complete in two vol-Of All the Leadh umes. 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