THE AlIC(HIGCAN DA1ILY sU WORLD OF Ex Libr*S I History Of PolitiCs And Ethics' B)JOSEPHGIES Compiled By Professor Joad GUIDE TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF the time the Reformation had run its The literary controversy discussed MORALS AND POLITICS, C.E.M. course, the subjects of ethics and in this column two weeks ago has re- Joad, Random House, New York, politics had come to be irreconcil- $2.50. ably separate. Consequently, Profes-I cci veci an important addition in the I I sor Joad divides the next section of form of a communication from Mr. By ELLIOTT MARANISS his book into two parts Bernard DeVoto, editor of the Satur- Professor Joad has attempted one H day Review of Literature. The whole of the most difficull: feats of modern which relate to the nature and source1 thing started, it will be recalled, with a passage from Professor Allan Ne-- scholarship. His book represents an of moral obligation, which historical- vns' new book, The Gateway to His.. effort to describe and relate one to ly have been discussed without any tory, in which a certain anonymous the other the various systems of reference to the principles that un- biographer of John Reed was accused thought which have molded men's be- tion which we call society. of intentionally omitting letters show- liefs and actions through the ages- Early Writers Isolate Politics ing Reed's disillusionment with the beginning wtih Plato and Socrates, ps Rus; ian Revolution because their in- an ocuigwthtepwrpi Similarly, during the period of 300 Russan evoutin bcaue teiri~iand concluding with the power phi- years between the end of the Renais- clusion in his biography would hurt losophy of contemporary Europe. the portrait he had drawn of Reed Isance and the 19th century, a num- as a revolutionary. Mr. Granville products ofhan thinys than ber of writers were reating of poli- Hicks, the only biographer of Johnpcsf huathkg at classify the facts of physical nature. tics in more or less complete isola- r x'ct4t, frn n+hi-I~e1nL~ __3 T-Ii The present novel is the story of an conventional type. so Mr. Foster k I Xactress, and most of it in outline, is avoids the consequences sf having !pretty familiar stuff. Anne is a little an unromantic hero. The. whole Romantic Novel Of Stage girl at the t,:ginning of the book thing vy nicely executed whose father is an old trouper who InsotTo emm rAtM- Life Demonstrates is always talking about the famous night possesses all the merits of the H is S k i ll old Breath of Broadway act in which other romantic novels as a source of he and Anne's mother, now dead, TO REMEMBER AT MIDNIGHT, by used to lay them in the aisles in Michael Foster. William Morrow Shreveport. Ill. and similar places. & Co., New York. $2.50. After an interlude of down-to-earth Iroutine on his second wife's farm, By JOSEPH GIES William Henry takes his daughter p.: r 1 : . It is about a year and half since the publication of American Dream placed Michael Foster in the first rank of romantic novelists. In the interval he seems to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. This is not a derogation of his work, how- ever, for there is little he could havt added or subtracted; in his own field he has gained supremacy. His own field is not asually thought' of as a restricted one. The romantic novel, whatever its deficiencies as an art form, offers scope for such mam- moth productions as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, whose ex- cessive popularity is proof of the public's enduring taste for this sort of thing. Foster's work, however, is not quite like the two tomes named above; its escapism is much more subtle. Instead of simply yanking Reed, flatiy denie~ any such circum~ Yet if there is to be a summary there stance or knowledge of the alleged must-be some system of classifica- letters,Pr and demanded aneapology tion. Professor oad realizes that a from Professor Nevins. Nevins injpatrmutbate tdvnift reply said the information came from Iptenyyuting atrmtnen he it Mr. DeVoto, and offered to include is only by putting a strain on the na- a footnote in his second edition stat- terial that it can be woven into the ing that the biographer in question a n The material which falls quesionwithin the compass of the book is was not Mr. Hicks. The correspon- familiar; what is interesting is the dence between the two men on the masterly organization of the material, csubject was sent to me by Mr, Hicks the clear, undogmatic presiltation of in reply to a letter I had written himn it, and above all, the author's own asking about the matter. I gtn vanint , neouivneal11 ov iinh uton Irom ethics-Hobbes and Locke and Rousseau in the 17th and 18th centuries, Hegel and Herbert Spen- cer in the 19th century. In the 20th century, Professor Joad feels, the streams have come to- gether again. Their confluence is, in fact, one of the most distinctive fea- tures of the thought of our time. That, ethics and politics are by their veryI and goes back to vaudeville. The life of the two knocking around the kero- sene circuit is perhaps the most in- teresting part of the book, and in it Mr. Foster's peculiar skill at disguis- ing romantic situations and occur- ences as realistic ones is shown to best advantage. Finally Anne gets to go to New York and presently be- comes a big . star on the stage. Some of Mr. Foster's devices are worth noticing. For instance he in- troduces an elegant and polished old gentleman, lifted bodily out of the Victorian tradition, and removes the harshness of impossible unreality by remarking (in Anne's mind)that the old chap is an extraordinary sort of person, at that. Again, his hero, he is at pains to point out, is an ex- ceedingly ugly-faced young man, al- though endowed with genius and personality; thus he profits from the novelty of breaking with tradition, although the picture he presents is a perfectly common one. Then the girl Anne doesn't marry this young man; she falls in love with a more H. W. CLARK English Boot and Shoe Maker Our new repair department, the best in the city. Prices are right. 438 South State and Factory on South Forest Avenue, nature inextricably interwoven must the reader off to Leghorn in 1797 or be conceded. Charleston in 1861, Mr. Foster grace- Professor Joad's view oa this closing fully transports him back to some of the schism is extremely interest- nostalgic segment of the past not ing. He is willing to admit that the quite disconnected from the present, pursuit of either politics or ethics in and ultimately leading up to it. The isolation is apt to be unprofitable, element of realism is far stronger in or to yield results which are incap-' Mr. Poster's work than in that of able of fruitful application, but at Mr. Allen, Miss Mitchell, Mr. Cabell, the same time he wonders whether Mr. Young, etc. ad nauseam; Mr. Fos- contemporary thought in returning to ter's people are, in fact, real enough, the Greek standpoint has not shown for the most part; the only thing a tendency to adopt its perversion that makes him a romanticist is that rather than its truth. That the good they lead rather adventurous lives. life for man cannot be realized apart from society is no doubt true, but that the good life for man can be I realized only as a part of the good of society is, Professor Joad insists, a / Ccen t on S palpable falsehood, leading to those monstrosities of modern thinking which treat the individual only as a We are prepared to meet means to the well-being of the state. Influenced By Old Distinction I all tha t is choice in modern The point to be made is that, how- drama and criticism, inclu ever much he may insist that the fu- English editions. sion of politics and ethics is a. con- temporary necessity, Professor Joad's own thinking is marked by the old distinction between the two. He T has surveyed the entire field of poli- tics, he has seen the old landmarks 0$outh State 2n go by, and because the path before us seems treacherous and uncertain, Lecture tonight: Kimon Friar he has come to distrust all roads, even of T S. Eliot". 8 o'clock, 25 the journey of politics in itself. He has become obsessed with the old - --- aphorism of Lord Action's that "all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The fact that has completely escaped Professor Joad-the fact which Max Lerner in- sists is the realistic method of. ap- I .ction your holiday demands with and classical poetry, prose, ding first editions and new K R O M II d Floor Phone 5930 on "The Poetry and Influence c cents. i -- , ,, *11111 . the only known biographer of Reed to bluff his way out of an embar-. preaching the subject-is that pow- and therefore the only person he rassing position. er is what you make it. NEW STYLES FIRST AT WILD'S i. IF YOU WANT TO BE REAL COMFORT TO HIM Give Him This f CONTEMPO .'£ Contempo's "Fireside Com- - panions" are something to F come home to. There's every- thing a man wants for perfect ' ° i" i=relaxation. 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