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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1923
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SOAP-BUBBLES OF as a peculiarly provincial attitude, a
most courageous attempt to chately
LONDON GOSSIP gild the fig-leaf.
T1 lE NINETEEN HUNDREDS, By This is a book for the initiate,
Horace Wyndhan. Thomas Seltzer, those people who have lived in Lou-
$2.50. don at the beginning of this century,
Reviewed by F. L. Tilden who knew the little clubs and re-
Lured by the similarity between its taurants and the frequenters of them;
title and "The Eighteen Nineties," I they are the ones swho will read this
pounced upon this conipendium of with the greatest feeling of pleasure,
good white paper and printer's ink but for the somewhat overestimated
with an avidity equal to an imaginarv younger generation it is merely a di-
brook trout making way with a to rectory of tiames. Arnold Bennett,
tally ethereal fly. I cannot help think- sar ant Wilie Wilde, Frak llarrs
ing that Thomas Seltzer did the same.f Sir Herbert Tree, Sir Henry Irving
Outside of the fact that very little and Lord Northeliffe are mentioned
transpired during the first blush of familiarly but nothing is said about
the nineteen-hundreds really worth them. A host of others whose clay
recording at great length, the book has passed are reviewed without the
might have had value fro a hi- reader gainitgany enigtenment -
tirtalviwpin, ttugs d nthe e hi are nattes proveth '
torial iewoin, toug I o nt iremaitn at all. Titifs is upon the as-
think that it would have been com- msuption t hlt yous remain cold and
parable to Holbrook Jackson's opus. un igue at the prospet of
If the reader has a penchant for muss- f tie tr-ed atdtemprpetbofathe ex
ing over names of men and a fewtacted anecotetmultiplied by all its
women, names upon names, it will litle brothers, sisters and poorer re-
gratify his appetite, though to most lations. It that appeals or if indefi-
the diet loses its charm long before nite gossip and glorified generalities
the book is finished. are to your taste. by all means get
the book, evet read it.
Mr. Horace Wyndham has intended
his volume to be related to that fan- MR. IAINES CLIMBS
ily of intimae memoirs and riandom
reminiscences with which the liter- A MOUNTAIN
ary stork has blessed the market SKY-LINE INN. by Donald Hamilton
recently in the form of Mirrors, Con- Ralnes. houghton Mifflin to. 112
fessions, Recollections and Portraits, $L.t0,
all with varying charm and appeal. Reviewed by Leo Jay Hershdorfer
The degree of relationship, is in thIs If you are weary of tales of war
case, however, rather dubious and and intrigue, of the problems of life
probably is scanned with little en- and sex tangles and triangles, if you
thusiasti by its new reatives. The are bred with murder and mystery
1 os' starts out in a most promising and hove tired of tragedy and drama, I
rin-ne, tter its kind and is for the recommend to you Donald Hamilton
first chapter. as it shoull be, in- liiane.' "Sky-Line Inn."
formal, candid and, in a rather placid It is a tale which will make you
way amusing. The author remarks forget business worries; it will make
pleasingly enough that the book is you think of the Ruhr as an unknown
aboat no-bodies and persons instead quantity and of the League of Nations
of somebodies and personage: All as a new baseball federation. It will
that of cour. , is granted as being transport you to the High Sierras of
'erfectly good and many an interest- Central California. There you will
ing story has been told of people who meet Theophile Gelas, who, as we are
were, as far as the outside world is told, "is an ex-soldier of the French
concerned, not even topping the lIst army who did most of his fighting-
of mediocre. But this does not con- with pots and kettles, but who won
done the pyramiding of anecdote upon more fame for himself than most men
anecdote, such as the following: 'carve with a sword,"
... .While we were waiting, Theophile is the sort of person with
an apparent stranger walked into the whom one likes to spend a long vaca-
(club) room. Instantly Garvice went .lion. He is of a confiding nature, so
up and shook him warmly by the that it is not long after you know him
hand. that he has unburdened himself to
"'How are you my dear Lord Bug- you, and the story of his life is yours.
gins?'-or Huggins or whatever his You will also want to meet his wife,!
expected guest's name was-he said Celeste, who delights in wrangling
effusively. 'Very good of you indeed with her husband, taking great joy in
to honor us like this.' . reminding him that from the first she
"'Thank you,' returned the other, had been strongly opposed to his pur-
disengaging himself, 'but I'm not chase of Sky-Line Inn,
Lord Buggins.' . . But Theophile is' of that type which
"'Then who on earth are you?' de- is spurred on by failure, so that ere
manded Garvice, looking for the first long we find him engaged in a finan-
time in his life, non-plussed. 'What etienterprise-a prie-fight. The;
ace von doing hereT' mention of fisticuffs brings into the
"'Well, I happen to be a member,' narrative a red-headed hero, Adam
"wasteldrepoens e mmbe Norton, who comes to the aid of the
was the mild response. Frenchman just as the latter's re-
Now this is splendid perhaps as a Sources are about to be sunk in the
specimen of dinner conversation, prac- well of speculation. The account rt
tigularly if you are acquainted with the battle is so well done, so realistic,
one or both of the principals con- that I doubt if Irvin Cobb the versa-
eerned, but when the book is coo-I tile, could have done better.
posed of an endless chain of that cal- Then things start humming. Aunt
bre of anecdote and depends almost iJulia Hawk, seeking a place of refuge
solely on it for its merits, it is some- in order to save Niece Daphne Edge
thing of a losing fight, though the from several insistent but undesirable
fight continues through 2?1 pages- suitors, stumbles upon Theophile's ta-
If the reader's endurance is good, he vern, and then-yes, you have guessed
should win out. lit-Adam, the invulnerable, falls in
Adverse criticism is easier and ad-d love with Daphne, the beautiful. F'ol-
mittedly more fun to write than the lows a simplo tale of love-makng.
favorable sort. unless one is well sat- though the story is not devoid of en-,
urated with the worth of a hook and tertaining complications. Daphne's
wishes to form a laison betwen it suitors will not be thwarted; a rather
and the reader in a missionary spirit: ingenuous girl of the Sierras persists
But I do not think that I am unfair in proclaiming her love and. adoration
in citing the above as a typical speci- fo Adam; Theaphile's inn becomes
men. Distinctly it needs the person- fauous; hs wife becomes more impet-
ality of tremendous type to tell it ous; Aunt Julia's worries increape
successfully to an audience and i;tenfold; and in the end everything is-
takes colorful writing. - prefer to have you read the book
In mentioning Oscar Wilde the fer yourself and find out what does
writer apologizes for reminiscing about happen in the end, for you will enjoy
him by referring to him as "an indi it more if I do not tell you.
vidual about whom the less said (and There are in "Sky-Line Inn" node-
written) the better." This .strikes tge olable evidences that Doal.Hamilton
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