Life — December 6, 1917 — page 81: what you’re looking at

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The Latest Books (Continued from page 964) right, $1.25), a volume of sociological diatribes, reads like an old race-about roadster’s doing fourteen miles an hour while sounding like sixty-five—carbon in every cylinder, and each knock known in advance. You think you're going some—if you don’t look at the landmarks. Arnold Bennett comes off well, but only by publishing a volume of selections from an old series (1908-11) of causerics on literary topics written for The New Age under the namie of “ Jacob Tonson.” Shy people some- times come out surprisingly at a masked ball. And while Bennett never suffered much from shyness, his “ The Truth About an Author” showed how slap-dashy entertaining he could be when screened by anonymity. The articles in “ Books and Persons” (Doran, $2.00) prove it anew. They are as impertinently pertinent in spite of the years (of course they have been care- fully chosen—Hugh Walpole and Frank Swinnerton did the choosing) as when they were written. The “cheek” of them, indeed, gains an added fillip by the unmasking of the “ creative artist” who taunted his audience in them with his refreshingly un-critic-like criticisms. But this is a pretty poor showing for the big four. HE past month, on the other hand, has added two good novels to the already creditable American list: Winston Churchill's fictional study of the Lawrence strike, “ The Dwell- ing Place of Light,” and a first novel, called “The Three Black Pennys,” by a new writer, Joseph Hergesheimer. One joins them in a sentence, however, merely because they stand out in a sort of common prominence from the ranks, and be- cause they are both “novels”; for language, also, makes strange bed-fellows. In reality they belong to different species. Mr. Churchill's book is a translation of fact into fiction—a generalization of the particular—for frankly utilitarian and expository purposes. He uses fiction, but can only be said to create it fitfully and as a work of supererogation. But the fact that he does thus create it, and that his expositions are based on an attitude of inquiry so unradical yet so open- minded, place him in the forefront of his school in America. In “The Dwelling Place of Light” (Macmillan, $1.50) he undertakes to humanize for us the I, W. W.-conducted up- heaval at Lawrence in terms of the various involvements in it of the mother, father and two daughters of an old stock, (Continued on page 979) Neateos, Nye) “EXCUSE MY APPEARANCE AND THIS VILE CIGAR, OLD cular, BUT I'M JUST GIVING MY FAMILY A LESSON BY PUTTING ALL MY CHRISTMAS PRESENTS ON AT ONCE.” 800N ENGINE TUANE NICKEL SILVER $2.69 STEALING $18.00 zen MILITARY CASE, HAND- MADE: IN NICKEL SILVER $6.00. INSIG- NIA DESIRED SUPPLIED Mlustrating the “staggered crip” which holds oval cigarettes over-lap- ping as they do the original pack making this shorter (by nearly an inch) than any other thin, single row, cigarette case. Or Trench Cigarettes! They are litle messengers of cheer bringing in the curling smoke visions of home and love—and you. For the full joy of it, the cigar- ette must neither be broken nor crushed, nor soggy and limp with the inevitable dampness. Be sure that fe, your sweet- heart, brother, father has a COKLEVERKASE(s! that will protect his “smokes,” fit snugly into his pocket and make him think of you every time he opens it Your choice of gifts for him is limited You desire to give him something that carries sentiment. He must have some- thing useful. Here then is the com- bination—the ideal gift—a W. & H. Klever Kase. Ask your jeweler, If he cannot obtain one for you, we shall be glad to fill your order on receipt of remittance. Wightman & Hough Co. Providence Rhode Island comicbooks.com