Judge — January 16, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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PAS SI ‘[email protected] THE BRAZILIAN WIL- DERNESS,"’ by Theodore Roosevelt. Although in third-hand form, this n; . tive of adventure is still bully stuff—but not the Bull Moose kind. For a laugh picture opposite page 216 and try to imag: ine Woody Wilson, ex-President, posed for a photograph with a group of naked women. 66N\AY AUTOBIOGRAPHY,” by S. S. McClure, The stirring story of a life that seems to be several lives, so full of energy and activity is it. Whether in or out of a book or magazine, the power be- hind McClure’s is an inspiration to youth and age. 6“ EMINISCENCES. OF TOLSTOY,"’ by Count Ilya Tolstoy. To show the evolution of a great and extraordinary char- ICHAEL FANE has gone out of the life of his creator, Comp- I first became acquainted with the child Michael more than a year ago, when a bar on his bed in his mother’s new London home insisted upon looking at him ling his nurse that the roar of a passing train ton Mackenzie, and out of mine. I saw him grow up until he nough to escape nurse and enter St. James's Preparatory School. I fol- lowed his every move while he was under the spell of religious fervor, which ended in his becoming a Roman Catholic. I watched him shower the blue-eyed Lily with kisses, and was with him when he later learned of her ficklenes The eighteen-year-old Michael then left me to go up to Oxford. Last week, when I met Michael Fane again, I felt that an old friend had come back into my life. He was entering St. Mary's, and as a matter of course I fol- lowed him through his Oxford career, and then—the underworld of London after he had heard by accident that Lily, the girl he had made love to six years before, was walking the streets. I had fondly hoped that the Michael Fane of “Youth's Encounter’’ and of the first part of ‘‘Sinister Street,’’ which brought him back to me, would create a world of was big ¢ his own; but he went out of my life on the last page, bound for Rome and the priesthood. ‘*He is growing upon the last page."’ NG SENTEN acter, Tolstoy’s son throws open not only all the doors of the Tolstoy home, but also the doors of the family cupboard, which strange collection of photographs, nd skeletons. contains garmen| 6@PHE LITTLE HOUSE,’ by Helen S. Woodruff. A re: outhern beauty’s appealing story of a plantation well equipped with a colonel, a big white house, darkies, magnolias and roses, but lacking a South- ern beauty of the fiction variety. Here are love and laughter sprinkled with tears. CALIFORNIA, ROMANTIC AND BEAUTIFUL,” by George Wharton Jam A voluminous volume for the win- ter_visitor to Californ so for the Native Son, whose place is al sun. (Personal, to George W! harton James: ys in the Even sand new adi may become a COMPTON MACKENZIE Gineen Cover, | By ROBERT MOUNTSIER says Compton Mackenzie in an epilogical letter, interest is beginning to fade. entures; he may become a Benedictine monk; he jety preacher. opinions; at the same time I may believe in all of them. CES more of California and her flowers and less of George Wharton James and his flowery apostrophes would make California and this book more desirable. ) 66 A NDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES," illus. trated by Dugald Stewart Walker. The old stand-by with drawings in colors for the child who has an imagination and for the child who is mentally defective because he does not possess the faculty of creating other world: 6 .HE LIFE STORY OF A RUSSIAN EX. ILE,”* by Marie Sukloff. This auto- biography of struggle and adventure is a big slice of life, such as Dostoevsky might have carved and served. It affords further proof that all Russians should be either landed proprietors or revolutionists. and for me his He may have before him a thou I do not identify myself with his He is to me an objective reality; ; he is not myself in a looking-glas But to hold the mirror up to Compton Mackenzie: Montague Compton Mac- kenzie was born in 1882, at West Hartle- pool, a place which he and the Germans have made famous. His father is a well-known English actor, and his mother was Virginia Bateman, a member of the American actor-family of that name. Compton Mackenzie's brother and his sters are connected with the stage, and he himself has not only written for the stage, but has appeared on it here in the United States, in the leading male role of the dramatized version of his popular novel, ‘'Carnival.’* And he is also a horticulturis Michael Fane was none of these; he is Mackenzie's experi- ence and life. I can have no more Michael Fane, except the memory of hii but after I had finished ‘* Sinister Street, I realized that I could have more Compton Mackenzie, and I wanted more. Then I read his first two novels, ‘‘ The Passionate Elopement”’ and ‘*Carnival.’’ The four novels together are a treat. Treat your- self to them