Life — July 13, 1911 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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68 -LIFE- - ’ , ested in that, at present, unanswerable Cutting Last Year’s Hay While Wri "Nina “tre the wild waves y yp: saying, politically and ethnologically, on the Sun Shines the other side of the world? "—s tion whose answer is like A New prove, in retrospect, to have been the determining pronouncement of the twen- tieth entury—will find The Obvious to E. M. Forster's New Novel an Old One Variety of Short Story from Arizona—A Harvard Professor Takes a Guess at the Riddle of the Orient Orient” (Appleton, $1.50), by Albert . . ‘ : Bushnell Hart, of Harvard University, HE. publication of “A Room With a — tirely too much to say that he has pro- i : i : i ‘ an excellent balance wheel to the racing View” (Putnam, $1.35), by E. M. duced an independent species, he has ae ae motor of Mr, Collier's cocksureness Forster, following as it docs so closely obtained some interesting results. In 5 = A ‘ ; The books, appearing simultancously, are K upon the success here of this writer's each of his tales an animal plays the . rf sees ; complementary, Mr. Hart humbly observ- “Howard's End,” is the latest example chief role; in some a half domesticated | TE P * Fi ing significant details of administration NS of a deplorable practice which is caleu- creature dumbly rebellin inst the é ‘ Z . and manifestations of race habit = lated to give American readers the no- — yoke, in others a native of the wilder- - - Mr. Collier does not deign to notic tion that most English authors, as soon ness pitting his cunning against’ the : 5 . while the latter, when it comes to swee as they score a popular hit, hasten to strength of the invaders; but in all it iS i, deductions and. bold prophee urn out a batch of more oF less infe- the unexploited yet ever present man- ("8 ; P prophecies S 5 Ps hes stimulatingly in where the Har- rior and hastily written fiction with the — world of the ranch and range that one . H F © yard expert on the science of govern canny idea of striking the iron of appre- sees, as it were, out of the corner of - i y : é ment fears to tread. Japan, China, the ciation while it is hot. The truth is one’s eye. Sometimes, as we all know, —pyitippines, India and other places arc ha he great majority of cases thes the things that we thus glimpse without Pte eee je neg bincen that ih the great maloriy of cates bs age se without dealt with in Mr, Hart's volume, which apparently poor seconds are in reality looking at make the most lasting memo F i A contains the interesting observations of more of less commendable and prophetic ries; so that it would not be strange if, ji s $ an interested traveler, J.B. Kerfoot. firsts, reborn out of due season and with — long after Mr, Pattullo’s readers have the dates carefully erased from their forgotten “Ole Sam,” the chuck wagon CONFIDENTIAL BOOK GUIDE Lirth certificates. In his own country a mule, and“ Molly,” the hallucinated Across § Imerica, by Hiram Bingh writer generally “arrives by the slow nge cow, they would unconsciously owe Following the old! Inca highway across the : : Hak i Andes, with archxological explorations on the process of surmounting his first failures him some of their most definite ideas Site . i and climbing to the top on his past par- of Arizona cattle days. Meanwhile his 5, <1 Rong With by Edward M tial successes. These do not rise up to Stories make good reading. The Cabin. by Stewart Edward W! . damn him, for the excellent reason that count of the building of the author's su er camp in the Sierras and of 4 spirited, 2 pects of life in the mountains. iz Essays on Russian Novelists yon Phelps. Interesting pa sympathetic and scholarly eritig. ‘cadio Hearn i Japan, by Yor he is standing on th quently, he goes abroad, then the process But if, subse- L** week Price Collier's aggressive and self-confident ing up” of the Far E in this column. Readers who are inter st was reviewed is reversed. He arrives, so to speak, on his head And his ir times all but buried uy rected work that is piled on top of ii “A Room With a View,” the story of a English girl's visit to Florence and of the mild complications of her . is really a inger exercise in the technique of al fame is some- ter the resur LY young self-discovery through los five- that elusive, oblique, yet eficetive ap- proach to his theme that Mr, Forster employs so finishedly in“ Howard's End.” A year ago it would have been an interesting, beca a promising, although an unsatisfying, performance | To-day, taken at its face value of a new novel by the author of “ Howard's End,” it is a disappointment that needs to be explained in order not to be bewildering G ORGE PATTULLO, in the nine short stories of “range life in the Southwest,” published in a volume called “The Untamed” (Desmond Fitzgerald, $1.20), has, like Luther Burbank, under- taken to produce fertilization. The parent types which he has selected for his experiment are the cowboy genre sto: nd the zoological hile it would be en- new variety by cross- nature fake; and wi comicbooksicom