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x. Book Reviews By John Philip Morris The very first reaction after read- ing Mr. Lytton Strachey's BOOKS AND CHARACTERS is the realization of the wonderful strides that he has made since 1905 and 1906, the date of the earliest essays included and your second is the fact that Mr. Strachey is himself dateless. Those earlier essays lack the subtle- ness and the delicate irony that have come to be the hallmark of the man and are simply articles--interesting perhaps or not according to the amount of interest held for the reader by the subject. Mr. Strachey is perhaps the lone- liest man in the world. And yet that is an ill advised sentence for Mr. Strachey is not in the world, not our world at least. He dwells somewhere in the past and there is nothing in his writings to show his awareness of any event since about 1890. While the rest of us are hanging by our teeth to the edge of an abyss and gazing open mouthed at a red gulf labeled tomorrow, he, comfortably obvious of our reign of terror, pens essay after essay on such faintly known and totally extinguished per- sonages as Mr. Creevey, Henri Beyle or Mme. Du Deffand. Precious-precious used in its most pernicious sense is the only word that describes his writing. It is as hard to bear as the sight of a banquet to a starving man. Another annoying article in BOOKS AND CHARACTERS is Mr. Strachey's habit of lapsing into French "in a friendly fashion." It is a compliment, perhaps, to consider all his readers as bilingual but it is hard on us whose French runs about 7 inches to the vard to laboriously translate some chuckled over epigram and then find the key word not in our vocabulary. Mr. Strachey is a great and a pro- found scholar. His every sentence shows the years he has spent in read- ing and research and the mastery he has of those facts and our language so clearly as to make us realize what ignorant, pallid worms we compara- tively are. BOOKS AND CHARAC- TERS is like a long needed soaking shower to soften the earth so that we worms can wiggle easier upward to- ward the light, the light of knowledge. Just as much ethnological differ- ence as exists between an African negro and a Caucassian after centur- ies of civilization lies between BOOKS AND CHARACTERS and BATOUALA. This book, as you know is by Rene Maran, an African negro and was last year awarded the Prix Goncourt, the literary laurel crown of France. I read it twice. First for what it | was and then again from a purely literary standpoint. Literarily the book shows that Mr. Shoes that Add to Your Vitality Shoes that bind and distort the feet are a source of constant irritation. 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The cruelty, lust and greed that has everywhere impelled the colonizer are shown from the view- point of their victims and we cannot read BATAOULA without feeling ashamed, and it should be read by everyone. 'What centuries separate Mr. Strach- ey and Mr. Bataoula. I can imagine no more vivid contrast than Mr. Strachey at his desk writing passion- lessly and blamelessly of some faint blameless ghost and Bataoula beating on the linghas to summon other sav age senseless living lumps of flesh to savage rites. And of such as these is the kingdom of Books. John Philip Morris. "A critic should have a good mems- pry," says a writer. That's true; he 'dies at Indian Hill, should never forget that he has faults | of his own.--Rnston Transeript, J E. BOHNEN WINS CADDY TOURNEY AT INDIAN HILL ~, | Eston Bobhnen, one of the star cad- | won the cham- | pionship of the caddies in the hard- | tought tournament which closed Mon- | day, August 28. 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