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â- :;S â- :!K' ABOUT BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM neither Novel of the Middle West VEST OF THE WATER TOWER" Anonymous ^viewed by Jennie Betts Harts wick Against the background of a: typical iddle Western village the anonymous thor of "West of the Water Tower" s sketched a group of living charac- rs. The Reverend Adrian Plummer s son, Guy, Charles G. Grewâ€"a lawyer d infidelâ€"and his daughter Beatrice e the four outstanding figures whose ves and hates make up the action of e tale. Gifly Plummer and Beatrice Chew, ellow-graduates of the Junction City igh School, step down from the ommencement platform and begin at nee the fulfillment of their rtiani- est destiny. Socially widely separated, tempera- entally at variance, they, nevertheless, dvance precipitately toward the inevit- kble catastrophe whose consequences are he essential theme of the story. Faced with exposure, Guj' confesses phis predicament to his parents, and his father, lashed by a conscience convicting him of a similar experience of his own youth and impelled by fanatic impluse, calls his flock together and-in-a^gpvver- ful scene depicted with stark dramatic realism, reveals the story of his own trangression, accepts the sin of his son as its just punishment, and resigns his charge. From this point the reader's interest in the rehabilitation of the weak, un- stable Guy and his ultimate reconcili- ation with Beatrice are subordinated to the sympathy aroused by the picture of the self-deposed minister. The temporary collapse of his religious faith and his pathetic, struggle with increasing poverty are vividly portrayed with the sure touch of a master hand. Here and there throughout the book, the reader, spurred by the author's tan- talizing anonymity, finds suggestions of f Willa Cather, SinclaniXejfe s5r is, and at times rather convincingly of John T. Frederick in his recent novel "Druida." Thumb-Nail Literary Essays "BOOKS AND AUTHORS" â- â€¢;?â-  By Robert Lynd This is a series of brief, genial, gos- sipy essays on men of letters by the lit- erary critic of the Ixmdon "Daily News." The spirit in which he writes is apparent from this extract. "The critic has duties as a destroyer, but chiefly iti the same sense as a gold- washer. His aim is the discovery of gold." Discussing writers "more or less an- cient," Mr. Lynd finds that Hugo's work is a "gigantically grotesque pile;" that Moliere "has written the smiling poetry of our sins;" that Keats enriches life "with a sense of loveliness forever van- ishing;" that Lamb "is at once the most restful and the most playful of essay- ists;" that Byron is an "audacious wit;" that the path of Shelley's poems is as "indeterminate as the path of the lark fluttering in the air;" that Plutarch is supreme among biographers ;* that Poe and Witman are "the two great poets of America;" and that Hawthorne "is the first prose myth-maker of America.^! Turning next to writers "more or less modern," Mr. Lynd gives it as his opin- ion that Max Beerbohm's work "has the perfection of a starched shirt-front;" that Arnold Bennett's style is "perky, efficient, deceisive;" that Wells is "one of the few writers who have given mo- mentum to the idea of the world as one place;" that Vachel Lindsay is "essen- tially the poet of a worked-up^audiejicei" that A. M. Tomlinson has "the thrfie great gifts of imagry, style and humor*" that Tchehov's creed was the opposite of a creed of despair;" that Nietzsche will "probably survive as an artist rather than as a teacher;" and that T. S. Eliot, in the role of a critic, is sadly mistaken in rating "Hamlet" as an artistic fail- ure. .••*.;' _____^11 .-.1____R^ Reach Carpenter,.__ Meet Mr. Pinney, Boys! "POOR PINNEY" By Marian Chap- man If the father who figures in "Miss Lulu Bett," Babbit, and Mr. Pinney all met together on one page, the combin- ation would be insufferable. Given them one at a time, we can enjoy the merci- less way in which the spotlight is turned upon their prosaic failings. Pinney is an excellent combination oi the notorious type of traveling salesman, the jocose butcher1, the \ small-town bluf- fer, and Sir Walter Raleigh. He is well drawn from the diamond scarf pin to the moustache cup marked "Season's Greet- ings." The fat and satisfactorily unwell Mrs. Pinney, daughter Addie; and Eddie â€"a somewhat diluted Penrodâ€"make up j&elun forgettable family. HERE'S LATEST VOGUE FOR SUMMER TOURISTS Small town interests, petty rivalries, and redeeming features are nowhere more humorously pictured. Mr. Pinney's "Caw, caw, caw" echoes long after the story is read, in our own more refined expressions of enjoyment. Olga Owens, Copyright 1923, Howard H. Seward Start your Tour •where the ~ ins "V/ w w can start your tour in your own car a X thousand miles from Chicago, on the second day of your vacation, full of pepâ€"your car in prime condition. 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