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38 WILMETTE LIFE January 10, 1930 II.!=I-=-~==C==o~m;;;;m~en~t;;;o;;;n~B~o;;;;;ok=s;:;;;a=n=d:;;;;;A=u;;;:;t=h;:;;,;;o=rs====~~~ ~ .JlVARt · LVANSTON Wilmette J700 We Recommend: All Our Yesterdays H. M. Tomlinaon Published by Harper ~ Brothers $2;50 Coroner M tmuel Komroff This month's choice of the Lituary Guild "trans a line of · nobility from the time of the Renaissance splendor, to the present day." · Coward-McMann ..·..... $3.00 Powers, author of "The Art of Florence," "] apan," etc. Venice, Queen of th e Adriatic, was alone among the cities of Medieval and renaissance Europe in being at once powerful, prosperous, and stab le of government. Her culture too was her own; for, cut off by lagoon and marsh from the rest of Italy, and linked by her great maritime trade to Constantinople and the glamorous East, her first inspiration came from purely Byzantine sources. The influ<'tH;e of the I tal ian renaissance was long in reaching her, and even then it was conditioned b~, the unimaginative : v et lavish life to which the wealthy merchants of Venice were accustomed. It is not surprising that Venetian art soon passed from the primitive through the rich period of its greatness to the exaggerated melodramatics of the Baroque. This is the development traced in sympathetic detail in this new book b:v Dr. Powers, distinguished by the uni.tsual blend of scholarship, understanding, and charm that marked his earlier works. The volume is profusely illustrated. Queen Victoria, not unnaturally seems VENICE AND HER ART. By H. H. stories, and we understand each of an idyllically simple and peaceful afthem better when we see it related to a similar story in another mythology. The story of. Demeter, for instance, becomes clearer to us when we read it after the story of the Egyptian Isis. In retelling the stories that have made the deepest impression on the mind of humanity, Mr. Colum has striven to attain a method that recalls the spirit of the civilization out of which they have come. An introduction discusses the characteristics of each mythology and ·what its development has been. In illustrating the book, Mr. Artzybasheff uses designs associated with different civilizations. Mr. Colum was born in Ireland, and as he grew up he absorbed folk-lore and popular song and so became firmly grounded in the traditional native culture of the Irish people. He was one of the founders of the Irish theatre movement and his verse marked a new departure in Irish poetry. For some years past he has made his home in America. fair to harried moderns. But the difficult problem of keeping up large estates on vanishing incomes had already presented itself to the county gentry. In those days as now one of the best ways to avoid selling land, going into trade, or adopting other drastic remedies, was to marry into some family richer and probably newer by some hundreds of years than that of the holders. It is around such a marriage that John Masefield's new and very British novel centers. It may seem at first glance only a frank, obvious, wholesome story; in reality it is considerably more. The effects are calcu·· lated at1d the people studied with an expert placing of details, while the action marches with a surety of purpose commanded by a few living writers. His hawbucks are far more than countrv bumpkins or literary figures and wlll serve to rank this novel, if not with the narrative poems, at least higher than any previou s prose by ~{r. Masefield. NIGHT FALLS ON SIVA'S HILL. Bv Edward Thompson. New York: The Dial Press. This is a novel of the English in India, taking place in 1900. In it one finds for the first time what one has always felt should exist somewhere in literature, a genuine love of the Indian country. Nicky, the heroine, has lived all her life in India, and can· see the landscape without the homesickness, or the preconceptions of mystery or cruelty that color most European vic,yo;; of it. She is a wild Diana who (lelights in its untamed immensity, and through her eves for the fir st time the reader sees the Indian fore st as a scene with a beauty and a genius loci of its own. Mr. Thompson evidently loves India, and writing of a time when Imperialism was at its most confident, he shows here and there the savage indignation against the English ruling clas ses that was so apparent in his "These Men, Thy Friends," hut on the whole "Night Falls on Siva's Hill" is a straightfor" ·ard love-story. It is excellently told, with humor, beauty, and power. PRISONERS OF THE FOREST. By Sir Hugh Clifford. Harpers. A novel, giving an insight into Malay life bv a real authority, a former member of the Malayan Civil Service, naturally proves interesting. This, however, is most valuable for the reflections upon Malay character and methods which show \\'hy the ~f aiay has failed to succeed in the cotnp(' tition of races and has never built up a civilization, remaining often subject to other races, in spite of his gifts a~ a fighter. The ferocity, \"·:hich makes him so ftarcd, is clearlv brought out in the accounts of the battles between the Dutch and the unsubdued Ach~;h nese of Sumatra. The hero, expecting to find. simplicity, beauty and freedom among this uncivilized people, sees instead oppression by the chiefs, sensuality, stupidity, and dissension. "Their moral and mtntal inferiority revealed. itself at every turn-in the ineptitude and inefficiency of their ~vstems, in their lack of selfmastery, -i n their inability to resist sordid temptations, in their compkte want of discipline, in the absence of all the higher, more altruistic qualities whereby men may rule their fellows; above all in their hopeless incontinuity of purpose." A book of this kind is, perhaps, the easiest way to secure some insight into Malay character. Iron Man W . R. Burnett Iron Man is the Book-of-theMonth. The Dial Press .......... $2.50 ORPHEUS: MYTHS OF THE WORLD. Rv Paclriac Colum, author · of "Creatures," "The Road Round T reland," et c. Illustrated hv Boris Artn-hasheff. This is p~imarih· a ~ton' hook-a retelling of stories that once were sacred and still have a deep human significance. It might be described as a treasure house of stories. Mr. Colum gives us the Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek. 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