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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Jul 1926, p. 28

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28 ·; WILMETTE LIFE July 23, 1926 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS is writing Madame Dost~evsky reveals author. and the possessor of. a keen herself a simple trusting woman who, perceptive power, both P~~s_tcal and , l't' h' ) she cannot intellectual. The .eccentncahes and won b y qua 1 tes w ac 1 . . . . . f th · th · ]'f uite make real to her audtence, ts pecul~anttes o e au or s . 1 e are "DOSTOEVSKY PORTRAYED BY ~apable of closing her eyes to many ~xplamed .as fully as sparse biOgraphHIS WIFE" which her audience sees clearly. Dos- teal matenal altows. toevsky's jealousy, which makes him, One of th.e few .ptace.s .where the hiE. P. DUTTON A: CO. with absolutely no cause repeatedly og-rapher gives hts opm~on as to his ·create scenes in public at places to subject's literary status ts at. the. out .. BY ESTHER COULD which his wife has come solely to . set of the hook, where Melvtlle ts es· look after him,-to carry "the volume timated as "the .most p~werf,~l of alJ When a great man dies his person- from which he was reading. a remedy the great Amencan wnters. True, ality loosened from the controlling for his cough. a spare handkerchief, Melville is compared to Rahelais, Con .. bonds of his body hangs like an in- a pdaid to wrap up his neck and. so rad and Marryat, and Melville's "Redon"-does not endear him to us. And hurn" is thought better than Marry· triguing mist-a mirage seen differ- vet his 'wife seems to accept them ex- at's more widely known "Peter Simently by each person- over the facts actly as she would have the fact of ple," hut Mr. Freeman is consenatin· of his ·lite. This is more than usually his having a cold in the head. in his .praise. true of the Russian, Dostoevsky \Ve hear a great deal of Dostoev From this book we learn that Hcrwhich makes the appearance of the "k\··s passion for roulette which makes ! tl'~n ~{(')ville was a reserved, retiring, book "Dostoevsky Portrayed · by His him gamble away every rent they moody individual. This fact seems to ! \Vife" of particular and special inter- have. or hann't, since it is borrowed. largely explain his lack of fame and est. ·o sav nothing of pawning his wife's r<:cognition . lt is not that he ha~ The hook which for the most part clothes and jewelry. The Diary is never bern apprcci~tted, for there "· a~ is extracts from ~ladame Dostoevsky's chief~\- concerned with "Fcdya took a time when he was foremost among nut his indiffer~ 1 Diary and Reminscences, which were fifteetl thalers and went t\1 the tables I American novelists. I found in 1922. presents the intimate . . Fedya lost his . fi iteen thalers I encc towar.d ~lraist' an.d hi s .cli~d~in . and personal side of the man who has ·111 d came home. A httle later he the apprenatwn of hts genttts srn c.d been portray~d variously as eccentric. ,.,.<·nt to the casino again taking an -~ to. !11al~e _his contemJ~Oraries ancl ht~ mad, depraved or fine. It is a biased r1ther fiiteen thalcrs. But he soon crtttrs tndtffercnt to hnn. He wa s tln· account. written hy the woman who same hark saying that hr had lost I willing to takr 1~art in t~1c literarv I after liis death, when she was only ag-ain and h<'gged me to give him an- ' movements and ltfc of hts day: IH" thirty-five. dc,·ot<·d the remainder of other fifteen thalers. T gave them to l nlarcd him-,<'1f in an intellectual -.,{' her life to establishing his work~ and him." As theY were destined to the , elusion that successfully pre\'ent<·d his memory. same end it ·makes us w~ndcr if it him se lf and his works from hecnmin{Z As clearly as the man of whom she wouldn't han· been better if s'hc had , moH· widely and la-;tingly known . refused. · Likl' 0thcrs. he must now he dug np TIH· !Jo(lk does not of cousl· . .~ n ·L· a ! in Egvptian fa~hion. ancl rrit ir" likt" One of Farnol'a cnn1pll'.tc pict~tn· of tlw man. hut it ' Toltn .Freeman ancl Prof. Ra,·m111 Hl Best N ooels ~ ives mterc stlng sidelights and ma - \\'can:r mu st fare an incliffcn·nl trrial which an ,·one in terestrcl in Do"- world . ·'\Joh,· Dirk." ~Jr . Freeman sa ,· ~ i11 toevs ky \\·otdd ·not like to mi ss. 1 llw portions of the hook devotee\ to ti HERMAN MELVILLE nitic :d ;111ah·sis oi \feh·ilk's nun·l,, · 1 · ·t· 1 1 · ·'j-; lifted abon the re~t of ~feh · ilk\ 01 Bv TEFFERY This. tno t 1c tnt ta Yo umc.· . . . · 1 t · work a<; noblY as the tlvlllg sa1ls ahf·\·t· f 1· 1· 1 ,, . -FARNOL a new sencs o '.IH! ts 1 ·' L'n o 1 ,c .. 1-1 · · · l ··\f 1 1 {' · exp 1 ters. is the biographY ·wt of an Eng- · th_ c· .:r-<_1. a~ns w 1Y · <1).'! A romantic tale of !ish hut an :\lllerica;1 man of letters. : !)trk 1s ~upcnor.- l·unclamentall~·. tT lusty adventure by '[ J' · . 1 ·. 1.; tlw !.!re:lttH'~~ (I! the tlwnw that ~d" ·' r. ·rceman gnTs · J)' ~, .. · 1 "() . · ,. the famous author 'T · 1 .a 'f::.ympat 1 'II 1ct1<.: H ·"\f 01\. 1 lCI\: ;t)O\"(' <11110 ·· "1' \jll't' but not ehu-;1\·c stu<,. ot ·' c \"1 c. c ,·,. T ,_ .. 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