Life — December 6, 1917 — page 83: what you’re looking at

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The Latest Books (Continued from page 977) run-to-seed, American family, and of their respective and severally futile reachings out toward the “light” of a new social solution. Of course the result is a com- promise. It is explanatory at the expense of the fiction, and fictional subserviently to the explanation. The characters man- age to be themselves, but are hampered by having also to be protagonists. Yet these facts are not cited as indictments, but as explanations of the allowances to be made in reading. Mr. Churchill has never done better work within the limita- tions of his chosen method. “PTHE THREE BLACK PENNYS” (Knopf, $1.30) is entitled to no al- lowances. It is creative or nothing. The tale is cast in a sort of “ Milestones” form; three members of the Penny family —one a local iron master in colonial Pennsylvania, one a wealthy Philadel- phian in the early nineteenth century, and one a musical dilettante in the pres- ent day, successively holding the centre of the stage. Perhaps forming the stage would come nearer to expressing the fact, since the real hero of the story is a re- bellious urge and restless individualism, supposed to derive from a Welsh strain and given to appearing from time to time in the family type known as a “ black and which, in these three in- carnations, as in three acts of a dra.ua, completes its cycle. The fact that this story is also told largely in terms of American industry is incidental, The development of the pioneer iron work- ings into the modern steel trust forms a colorful and interesting background to the fiction. But the latter is alive and complete in itself; independent of its de- tails; a true particularization of the gen- eral. ROM 1842 to 1867 there was pub- lished, under the patronage of the Common Council of the City of New York and under the very able editorship of David Thomas Valentine, a year-book containing articles upon various phases of city history, illustrated by maps, wood- cuts and prints in color. 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Waterman Co., 191 Broadway, New York 24 School St., Boston 115 & Chicago ‘San Francisco 179 St. James St., Montreal Kingsway, London Avenida de Moyo. 1364, Buenos Aires 6 Rue Monsigny, Paris TE permanent value of some of the articles included, the wide range of the illustra- tions, the fine color reproductions of rare prints from private collections—all call for mention. Old David Thomas (who died in 1869, by the way) doesn’t need to turn over in his grave. by collectors, and reference to which is constantly made by historians, are known as “ Valentine's Manual.” Last year their publication was resumed under the edi- torship of Henry Collins Brown. And now the second volume of the new series, “Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1917-18" (Old Colony Press, $5.00), has appeared, and gives a promise of stable continuity to a publication of ster- ling interest and value. Too much praise can hardly be given to the new editor. The variety and quality of the text, the J.B. Kerfoot. 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