SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1922
THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE
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imagine him chuckling over Thack- and should not be allowed to influence XREISLEIt IS INTER1IEWE D
eray's genial platitudes, while doubt- the thinking of normal, healthy-mind- BY A MAGAZINE ItEPORTER
less before he was far in his 'teens ed people through the press, even in (Continued from Page 3)
he had gone through the entire lot of a free country! in Austria, he made a tour of America
Dickens. If "An American Idyll" is trash, before he was 20 and then, returning
"Once Aboard the Lugger" is not by then the lives of all such glorious to Austria, studied and graduated in
any meana a great novel. I even ques- young people as Carleton and Cornelia medicine, following which he studied
tion if it is a good novel, since it Parker are insignificant; love and art in Paris and in Italy. le is a
violates all those stringent precepts service, ambition, struggle and achieve- pianist of great ability, said by some
which belong to the "moderns"-and ment are meaningless, and a book to be almost as great a pianist as vio-
yet withal, it is primarily interesting, which expresses the finest and best in linist. His war experiences, during
because in it can be found the pure American life today is no contribution the period when he was with the
and unalloyed enthusiasms of the to American literature. Austrian army before he was wounded
young writer. All of his boyish loves ROSE B. PHELPS. read like a novel, and his 20 years of
in literature have found their way triumphs following his mature debut,
into his conscious and pedantic style would make up more than one story
-perhaps we can little understand Note: I ask the readers not to send of captivating interest.
how difficult a matter it was for him in letters defending or favoring me.
to give them up, as he found, sorrow- I have all that I can do to get space
fully, I can imagine, that the public for my antagonists. Several letters, In ommemoration of the centeruary
was no longer interested in Victorian- both pro and con, have had to go into of Gustav Flaubert, famous antlior of
isms. the waste basket for lack of bona fide "Mtadame Bovary," a statue to him has
Those who read novels simply for signatures. G. D. E. been unveiled in the Luxembourg
the narrative element will be more or
less interested in "Once Aboard the
Lugger," though they will be bored by
many parts of it. Others, reading for
new experiences, will find in the book
a refreshing sense of buoyant youth,
difficult to discover in the mass of "
modernistic fiction. 1
'HE (AMPUS PASTIME
To the Editor of the Sunday Magazine:
In "The Michigan Daily Magazine"
for last Sunday, "G. D. E." makes the
statement that "An American Idyll"
"was mostly trash." Now I do not
wish to take G. D. E.'s criticism very
seriously. As usual, it hardly merits
that. Moreover, I am too busily en-
ga ged in the business of study and
elf-support to enter into any lengthy
controversy with him or anyone else.
But a mixture of curiosity and indig-
nation prompts me to ask why G. D.
E. considers "An American Idyll"
trash.
In the first place, this statement
seems to me decidedly irreverent and
unchivalrous and can indicate nothing
but a lack of sympathetic appreciation
on the part of the critic.
Anyone who can read this touching
revelation of a woman's heart, this de-
scription of an ideal life, these pages
from which the brilliant and intensely
human personality of Carleton Parker
shinea forth like a lighted lamp, and
renain unmoved and uninspired, dis-
missing the book with the single com-
ment, "mostly trash," is not normal1
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