Judge — December 29, 1923 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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And this book is satire because it doesn’t bother with Aunt Polly’s clothes or customs, but gets right down to her ideas of God and Chri s the gap between the pretenses of her faith and the prejudices of her practice. “Well, about this time there was a tribe of people known as the Hebrew “Jews,” said David. “Weren't they, yes, dear—practically,” replied Aunt Polly. That single word “practically” is a good measure of Mr. Stewart's blade. But don’t make the common mistake of supposing that because a book is satire it cannot therefore be amusing. When Aunt Polly organi: a band of Little Christian Scouts, and they fall to fighting at their pageant, you will be highly amused, even if you do think of Penrod. In fact, you will be amused all the way through, because of course you aren’t a bit like Aunt Polly, even if maybe you do live on the best street and go e Sun- day to the right church. Tissenas to be Yale's day. Not only did Yale recently wade through seas of mud to a touchdown on Soldier's Field, but here we are to-day starting off with a review of Donald Stewart's book and following that with praise for Howard Vincent O'Brien's “The ‘Terms of Con- quest” (Little Brown & Co.). Stewart, who cannot have been a great while out of New Haven, puts satire into our slap- stick humor. "And O'Brien, who was graduated a dozen years ago or more, is bringing a keen and a cool head to the novel, writing first in ““Trodden Gold” and now in “The Terms of Conquest,” stories of our present-day life which are solid and thoughtful without forgetting to be good stories, And the new one is better than the first, better for one reason because the characters talk less and do more. The hero is a country boy who, 30 fired by ambition and driven by a strong will and Emersonian self-reliance, goes up to Chicago in the eighties and nineties, and there becomes a sort of captain of industry. His story is really the story of an intense individualist and dreamer. And his tragedy, perhaps, is his failure to understand the new day, when the great combination he plans is forbidden by Jaw, and also when his own children go their individual ways, ways he cannot at all comprehend, but which actually represent the eternal individual marching toward a lonely dream. The great merit of the book, intellectually, lies in’ this effort to find the real drive behind each generation, in its refusal to curse out either at the expense of the other. It is also a good story, and the characters are alive. Mr. O'Brien has arrived in Amer- ican literature. T" J. B. Lipprycorr Co. have re- printed Mrs. Pennell’s “A Guide for the Greed, Whatever merits — the book has as a cookbook—and doubtless it has many—its sentences are so scram- bled, so sweetened with gush and spiced with foreign words, that our sympathy has gone out to the senator who is de- voting ‘his life to accomplishing menus in the English language, and to the plain and practical person who will tell how to cook a mushroom without seventeen pages of inverted sentences supposed to be literary. Also, Mrs. Pennell that the American strawberry shortcake con- sists of spongecake with strawberries in the middle. Anybody who can make an absurd ake like that would be capable of calling a doughnut a cruller, or putting cinnamon on baked apples. a Sepate Extrav- anor Wylie, printed for George H. Doran Company on Mur- ray Hill.” So runs the title of as charm- ingly printed a book as has come from the publishers this season, a book de- signed to look as if it were issued in the Eighteenth Century. It is a subtle book, too. Once we he: an imitation of Lillian Russell's imita- tion of Cissy’s imitation of — Lillian. “Jennifer Lorn” sounds like a burlesque of a burlesque by Thomas Love Peacock of “The Sheik.” Not that Peacock ¢ did write a burlesque of “The Sheik,” but doubtless he would have if he had lived long enough. Everybody else has. Anyhow, Mrs. Wylie’s “sedate extrav- aganza” is thus subtly and merely to have read “The * will by no means qualify you to appreciate it. If you try it and find it dull, don’t be too sure it is her fault. ntE Equity PLayers may not yet ha’ become a second ‘Theater Guild, act- ing American plays, but last year they produced “Roger Bloom by John Howard Lawson, an expressionistic drama of adolescence, which has now been pub- lished by Thomas Seltzer, and this year they have produced “Queen Victoria” by David Carb and the present writer, which has been published by Dutton. It is one thing to go to Europe and get plays which can stand printing, but it is quite another to find them in these United States. We are too near the end of our space to tell you why, so we can only call your comicbooks.com m