FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1927 THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE T; - - BOOKS OF THE DAY The Nagnilfcent Idler, by Cameron varied, the political "drum taps," and1 Rogers (Doubleday, Page & Comp- finally, "sands at seventy." any, $2.50.) Whitman's life, as "has been men- "Afoot and light-hearted I take to tioned, was a carefree one and he had the open road, I experiences which to relate in an or- healthy, free, the world before me, dinary manner would render them The long brown path before 'me lead- vulgar. Here perhaps Rogers rises to the call as nobly as any man could. No more sweetly, and no more beau-. Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I tifully can one imagine these iici- myself ,am good fortune, dents to be told * * * one must Henceforth I whimper no more, post- be impressed by Walt's doctrine ofl ° pone°°1nomore, need nothing, ,the beauty of the physical being. Bone withnoor, CdOm tng, Jb As far as that indefinite thing called# style goes, Rogers is pleasant and raries, querulous criticisms, agreeable, but after all his charac- Strong and content I travel the open terizations are his forte. Louisa, the road." mother of the poet, is breathing, andl Perhaps those lines from the com- worrying and living again in thel mencement of "The Open Road" best pages that deal with her. And sol express Walt Whitman's doctrine to are all of the characters * * * or- live simply for the joy that one finds ganic things * * * not merely in life. There being nothing beyond, paper and ink. the present is the thing. It is a The book has one effect. It stands inomentary life, and for that reason as a beacon afar, dim yet flickering carefree * * * and yet, despite with flashes of brilliance, beckoning the critics of such a state of mind, like Walt would-"Come, I have found it seems splendid to me at times. the way Follow Me!" To catch that spirit, however, and W. K. L. to enclose it within the dull covers of a book is a difficult task, and per- With the publication on August 5th, haps Cameron Rogers did not wholly ! of "A Prince of Outlaws" by Count succeed in his "The Magnificent Alexis K. Tolstoy, Alfred A. Knopf Idler'; and yet he did succeed suffic- has made available in English the iently to arouse in the reader an famous historical romance known is admiration for Walt and a desire Russian as "Prince Serebryany." It o atno moreabout Americs is regarded by many critics as the poet." greatest purely historical novel Rus- Rogers, who by the way is the son siaxhas produced. Alexis Tolstoy, a second cousin of f the man who wrote "The Rosary,' Leo Tolstoy, was an uncle of the last takes his reader far back into the Imperial Russian Ambassador in histories of the. Whitman and Van Washington, George Bakhmetev. He Velsor families, (for Walt's mother's was born in 1817 in St. Petersburg naiden name was Van Velsor), and (now Leningrad) of noble family, and lightly travels over the men and received a very careful education. He women whose children were later to was proud in later life of having sat bring forth the man that Walt was. = as a boy on the knee of Goethe. Then the author swings into the Tolstoy's name is known to Ameri- story of Walt himself, as an orchestra cans through the production by the picking up the dominating theme of Moscow Art Theatre of his drama a symphony. "Tsar Feodor," in the title role of First, we have youth upon Long which Musqvin and Katchalov alter- Island, and seratim the journalistic rated. His drama "Boris Godunoff," experiences, which were many and about a great historical character I 1 made, familiar by Chaliapin, was the basis for the opera of the same name. These dramas are part of the trilogy which made Tolstoy famous in Eu- rope: "The Death of Ivan the Ter- rible," "Tsar Feodor," and "Boris Godunoff." Although Alexis was a blood rela- tion of the more celebrated Leo, the two Tolstoys were quite unsympathe- tic. Alexis had no social philosophy' to propound; no religion to preach, no axes to grind. He kept free tromj court intrigues, and wrote for the joy of pure art. He repeatedly refused the offer to be the aide-de-camp of the Tsar Alexander II, whose play-1 mate and lifelong friend he was, and preferred the humble post of Court Huntsman, which gave him freedom for hunting, a sport he loved, as well as freedom to write. "A Prince of Outlaws' is of the same interesting period in Russian history as his dramas. The scene= laid in the days of Ivan the Terrible, pictures the conflict between the cor- rupt Oprichnina, who were Ivan's un- official police, and the landed gentry,. the boyars, who were obliged to turn outlaws in self-protection. 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