s SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1927 THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THI ^ N A 'o. BOOKS OF THE DAY PECUADILLOS "The Son of the Grand Eunuch"-by Charles Pettit (Boni & Liverlight,l $3.00.) "It's philosophy is also Chinese- very Chinese indeed!" explains Charles Petitt in the preface toI "The Son of the Grand Eunuch"-a1 wholly unnecessary explanation after the description in the first chapter of the exercises incident upon the going to sleep of His Majesty the Holy Man, Son of Heaven. Follow- ing this detailed account of Chines philosophy translated into act on is another description of the most sump- tuous feast in the land with jelly composed of ten-year-old eggs aged in the royal dung heap. Without a doubt, the book is Chinese. And having solved this problem, and established his case, Mr. Pettit proceeds to enjoy himself immensely throughout 254 pages of entertaining what-not. He, reminds one of Law- rence Sterne in his deliberate de- light in the under side of humor, and he interjects frequently the contem- plations "unbilical of the buddas,"' "Such a stench!" and like phrases varying from the mildly subtle to the doubtlessly frank. But he is through- out exceedingly charming as though he were openly painting little red and green figurines in ridiculous po- sitions and then chuckling to imagine' how the Boston censors would gasp, and how other less rigid individuals would chuckle along with him. ' There is more than once a hint that. all that is Chinese may not be re- stricted to the Chinese, too. For in- stance at the feast, Li Pi Siao, the Grand Eunuch, 'with truly epicurean restraint . .inhaled its odor while admiring the dusky hue of this rare delicacy. From time to time he smacked his tongue against his palate, in the manner affected by the pale-! face Barbarians when sampling a vin- tage of wine." There is also a def- inite "dig" at modern conventionali- ties in the filial sorrow of the son upon the death of his brother. Very touching, yes? . Mr. Pettit has shown himself an artistic rogue. He has written a "bit of history" which one may doubt. It1 is the sort of thing in literature that a goldsmith or a vase maker would create in his art. Exquisite but not compelling as would be the paintings of Velasquez, the symphony of Han- del. His characters are artistic little figures, albeit the women are help- less little creatures-still they are beautiful. There is something poetic in the literary names which he gives to the eighty and one concubines, Miss Smile-of-a- Rose-at-the - Dawning - of Spring and all the rest. Then there is Violet Town, the pecadillos of the Khonghouses, and the delicate de- scriptions, frail as translucent china- ware, of the pigs in the poisonous marshes. It is a Dresden china group of figurines. There is something aggravating to a woman in the dolorous sob of the author upon the freeing of women in 1912. It is hardly fair, but from his viewpoint with the example of the tottering (tottering because her feet were broken at an early age as befits a lady of taste), Chti, in her gentle unmoral state, before him, the sub is understood. So let us not imagine that Mr. Pettit, after the manner of Anatole France or Voltaire has deliberately set about to picture history and hu- man foibles without a delightful sugar coating. He has given to his reader, a print, done in soft colors and fine lines emphasized by the most delicate of shadings-Shall we say Chinese Philosophy? Yes, Chinese, indeed! -M. L. W... FORD IN "SPIRIT OF AND LATER F (By Associ DETROIT, Aug, 12.-Henry. Ford sat at the controls of one of his own, airplanes Thursday and for a few minutes piloted a notable party, in-I cluding Col Charles A. Lindbergh, above Ford airport. It was Mr. Ford's first exepriencel at the "stick" and was made possible' by the dual control of the big Ford tri-motored planes. One of the ques- tions unanswered today was "Whatit would have happened if Mr. Ford had I 'frozen' to the controls?" "Freezing" to the controls, accord- ing to local fliers, is not an uncom- mon occurance in the case of a per- son handling the "stick" for he first time, and a severe physical "jolt" sometimes is necessary to break the embryo pilot's hold. Enjoys His First Ride Harry Brooks, chief pilot of thel Ford organization, who had charge of the big Ford plane and sat oppo- site the motor manufacturer while the latter occupied a control seat, did not discuss the possibilities of the situa- tion. The flight in the big Ford plane followed by a few minutes a ride' in the "Spirit of St. Louis" with Col.{ Lindbergh, which was the first flight' Mr. Ford ever had made. Col. Lindbergh and the automobile manufacturer were inspecting va- rious .planes houses in the hangars at the airport. Suddenly the young colonel said: "Mr. Ford, I've never had a pas- senger in the 'Spirit of St. Louis.' I'd like for you to be the first passenger." "All right, let me know the next j S ST. LOUIS" LIES OWN IACHINE citdPress) uba bu b time you are here," Ford replied. "All Right, I'll Go" "Well, what about this time, right now?" "All right. I'll go with you." Later Mr. Ford said: "I took a flight because Col. Lind- berg asked me to as a personal fav- or. I couldn't help it." Col. Lindbergh's plane was in readiness at Ford Airport today for the trip to Grand Rapids, he next point on the flying colonel's air tour. Lindbergh spent the night with Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier, commander of Selfridge Field, and flew to the Ford hangars during the morning in a Selfridge pursuit plane. Col. Lindbergh took off at 11:20 this morning for Grand Rapids. 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