THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, FEB. 21, SUNDAY, FEB. 21, IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS DUMOND History Of Thirty-Six Years Is Pungent And Pointed ROOSEVELT TO ROOSEVELT. By Dwight Lwell Dumond. Henry Holt & Co. New York $3.50. By JOHN C. KAVANAGH BOWEN Resurrects Love Story Of Tchaikowsky From Letters BELOVED FRIEND, by Cat;harine Drinker Bowen. Random House. $2.75. Ann Arbor Man's First Novel Features Standardized Humor A survey of recent history is infal- By libly calculated to arouse the interest The str of mature students. Add to this the ich Tha pungently phrased liberal philosophy composer, of Reesevclt To Roosevelt, and we unfolded f have a formula for the widespread tryiB success of the book. The consistency tirety i B and pugnacity of the author's view- CATHARINE DRINKER BOWEN selectiono point, well supported by an amazing Club. The array of facts, is a stimulation which author of "Belved Friends." aikowsky cannot be overlooked by students in search of well-grounded truth. If he tling picture in his chapter on post-ng been does not believe this to be the truth, war reaction. Uniquely combining Catharine it is a challenge to him to find it, and economic and religious fundamental- entire sto to satisfy his need for it. ism, he shows the subservience of pondencei A reflection for the moment will politics in the Middle West to these deda's fa indicate the purely technical problem pressures. He combines them for the von Meck of dividing the events of the last reason of their locale, their clinginge reaon f teirloclether cingng ntranslated thirty-six years into some arrange- to ancient formulae, and the viru- ment to give them all meaning. A lence of their insistence upon their Thaiko repetition of either chronology or the predominance. His accumulation Petersburg exposition and influence of philoso- of facts, especially his material on the point phies must appear. The author has the teacher's oaths, is a tribute to friend infli ably chosen between the two, so that his labor and intelligent interpreta- Rubinstein a maximum amount of intelligibility tion. School. H results. Following the events in the In his estimate of the political phi- who learns administrations of Roosevelt, Taft and losophy of Woodrow Wilson, the au- of bread. Wilson, the social influences which Thor throws into direct relief his own Peter T determined them are interspersed in belief in the capacity of the people within, da interesting essay chapters. The same to determine after sufficient study urge to cr method is followed in outlining the what is best for them. "It is impos- daring ste remainder of the period. sible to determine just where politics private inc "Outlining" is a word chosen ad- ends and statemanship begins," he somehow a visedly, for although the meaning of says, and leaves it for us to deter- given thel the events and the philosophies which mine whether we shall accept a theory sical theor brought them about is remarkably of paternal benevolence, of conceal- vatory. Ni clear, the reasoning by which the ment of issues, or the more honest of the Co author arrived at many of his con- discussion of issues which represents dejda von clusions is of necessity left to de- Wilson. Or would Wilson be at a passionatel velopment in lecture form. For this disadvantage? Must politics really be kowsky ar reason the lay reader will find the played even by those whose heart and young ma extensive bibliography invaluable, policiestare statesmanlike? It is an dejda with and the arresting quality of many of . immediate his statements guarantees its use. whose future is tending toward public what ecsta As abacgroud t intllient is-life. As a background to intelligent dis- In spite of the author's free use of me, and y cussion of the current problem of epithets for the shams employed in easier and Roosevelts'soSupremehCmurtmproposal, Roosevelt's Supreme Court proposal, our recent political history, it remains Life for 'the chapter on "Law Administration to his everlasting credit that he gave a crisis; he and the Courts" is in present need. a fair view to those who objected as badly as Parts of his argument are almost pro- to Roosevelt with a "rugged indivi- widow, wh phetic in their applicability to the dualism of an earlier day; a philos- come to a problem. An important thesis in this ophy which denied that the govern- now only i regard is the decadence into which ment could spend the nation into a program the Congress has drifted in the last prosperity; which saw government nature, nee thirty years. It is interesting to note budgets unbalanced, government Wy as he ne servience to the executive, but that debts accumulating, and wondered and the sp as incetotheexSh tivermanAti-trtwhether it must be paid with a cap- essary for t aw, Conresshastherman Ant dut oital levy, repudiation, or worse. One letters gr muw, ongr eshas thonthe dutyeme can no more charge this group with from mere much of its legislation to the Supreme insincerity than one can pin the friendly co Court. The Court, by interpretation badge f demagoguery on their crit- love and a of what was called "reasonable re-ad fd guy their daily straint of trade," was forced to crys- Readers will agree, will be con-i tallize a legislative policy which had vinced, or will resist Prof. Dumond's Gossip c too much political dynamite for Con- bock but they cannot escape being ofstrange gress to handle. Much of our resist- challenged, and better prepared from servatory.n ance to the exercise of the right of its reading: to pass judgment on the et ofa judicial review comes under this headsecret of only to find now that it is not strictly ofmarry ino judicial review, and that the blame . 'His choice fies with an uncourageous Congress. IOR1THCOMING BOOKS ko, prove One of the few unanswered dilem- BALLET SHOES, by Noel Streat- She was a mas into which the author throws us field. Random House. grew so re is the conflict between the spoils sys- A WORLD WITHIN A SCHOOL, him thath tem and pressure politics. He says, i by Lucy Kinloch. Random House. Nadejda, t ... the purging of political parties TOLD WITH A DRUM, by Edward been a blow is oftentimes an indispensable prelim- Harris Heth. Houghton, MifflIn astrous en ainry step to legitimate reform; but and Co. the money when party discipline weakens, pres- ROMANTIC ADVENTURE, auto- the contine sure politics flourish." We had hoped biography of Elinor Glyn. Mac- l'ealth. S that the clear thought evident inillan. divorce.A throughout the work would find an - answer to this problem. Indirectly it was given by his exposition of the - SPECIAL - unbelievable evils which resulted from pressure politics. But at other points New U. of M. Carillon S his remarks are equally derogatory 15 Sheets, 12 Envelopes, cellophane w of the effects of the spoils system. STUDENTS SUPPLYS Concerning the evils of pressure 1111 South University Avenue F politics, the author presents a star- LILLIAN F. WASSEL ange romance of Peter Ily- kowsky, the great Russian and Nadejda von Meek is or the first time in its en- eWoved Friend, the February of the Book of the Month relationship between Tcha-. and Madame von Meek had a subject of conjecture but Drinker Bowen reveals the ry obtained from corres- in the possession of Na- vorite grandson, Vladimir , whose widow, Barbara,! it into English. wsky, graduating from the School of Law, was idle to of frivolity until a musical uenced him to enter Anton 's newly opened Music le was like a man starving' for the first time the name Counterpoint was bread. chaikowsky was torn from y and night, by a desperate eate music of his own, a p for a young man with no ome. He kept himself alive and after four years was post of professor of mu- 'y at the Moscow Conser- cholas Rubinstein, director nservatory, persuaded Na- Meek, a wealthy widow, ly musical, to give Tchai- musical commission. The n's music acted upon Na- n tremendous force. She .y wrote him "to tell into sies your composition sentf our music makes my life pleasanter to live." Tchaikowsky had reached needed emotional support he needed money. And the ose active personal life had standstill and who lived n the lives of her children, totally inadequate to her ded Tchaikowsky as great- eded her. Physical presence oken word was never nec- this strange alliance. The %dually changed in tone musical criticism and mments to expressions of advice on every phase of lives. irculatea around Moscow happenings at the Con- Tchaikowsky, who lived t fear of exposition of his homosexuality, decided to order to stop the rumors. of a wife, Antonina Miliu- d a most unfortunate one. nymphomaniac and soon pulsive and abhorrent to he almost lost his mind. o whom the marriage had w, was delighted at its dis- 4 and gave Tchaikowsky to leave Russia and tour ent while he regained his he later also financed his After several years An- W. H. MACK tonina had two children whom Tchaikowsky did not claim, and final- ly died in an asylum. On his return to Russia, Nadejda and Tchaikowsky resumed their friendship, exchanging numerous photographs, passing by appointed places so that one could see the other without being seen. Tchaikowsky was a frequent guest in all of Nadejda's many country houses, but they never encountered each other. Abruptly Nadejda envied her ro- mantic relations with Tchaikowsky' with a short note telling him she could no longer give him money and asking him to always remember her kindly. Despite his pleas, she never again acknowledged him any way. Four years later he died of cholera. But he had gained what he sought, perfection of his musical talent. MR. BIRDSALL BREEZES THROUGH, a novel by W. H. Mack. Hillman, Curl, Inc., New York. 288 pages. $2.00. By JOSEPH GIES When an Ann Arbor citizen of solid respectability suddenly tosses aside his conventional conservatism to in- dulge in as frantic a bit of hilarity of W. H. Mack does in his first novel, Mr. Birdsall Brezzes Through, about to blossom in the book stores and lending libraries, it assumes the pro- portions of news. Customarily a review of a first book consists of saying that the author has made a fine beginning, shows great promise, and in spite of a slightly ap- parent unfamiliarity with the tools of his craft common to nearly all be- ginning writers, the book was most enjoyable and we may safely antici- pate better things from the same source in the future. Mr. Mack, however, is not really a beginning writer, for although this is his'first "sustained work" as critics! say, he has been dabbling in literary activities for some time now, having begun as a Daily staff man in the! days, not too far back, when he was plugging his studies on this campus. TYPEWRITING MIMEOGRAPHING Promptly and neatly done by experi- nced operators at moderate prices. e .n . MORRIL ices 314 South State Street His first offering to the novel read- ing public shows a deftness of wit and ease of style not often found in writers of humorous fiction who al- ready have a dozen volumes to their credit or discredit. Mr. Freddie Birdsall, the unortho- dox hero of the piece, is a. fat little guy with a gaily unabashed outlook on life whose adventures with his sis- ter's family lead to such complica- tions as matrimonial bureaus, police stations and other conventionali sources of humor. Amateur detec- tives, society women, taxi drivers and the children of the rich come in for generous shares in the general bur- lesque. The style of the yarn belongs to the p:pular P. G. Wodehouse category, featuring a swingy and carefree abandon with accent on situation and dialogue rather than plot or sequence. The dialogue is Mr. Mack's particular achievement; much of it is in a man- ner that might fill in for Wodehouse himself. In one or two spots the author leans a little too far out in his ef- forts, resulting in humor slightly ar- tificial in character and inclined to be trying on the average reader, while Mr. Birdsall himself also offends in places by a tendency to be more lo- quacious than witty, SERVICE ...._ . And now we must remove from our old home Where in your service we have aged with dignity, And seen so many of you come and go these 39 odd years. The friendships past and present we hold dear, Delighting in our work that is for common good of men. But now when May comes round again this year, We leave our home beloved of us and of our friends, And setting face to future seek anew a housing for our work. For service must go on if men would live in happiness, And we whose life is dedicated to service may not forget to serve. 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