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WIL~ETTE LIFE . July 20, 1928 Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS "Confessions of a Rum-Runner," is one of those books which might so I easily be faked that one reads the first half with one foot out ready to jump so to speak. But this one convinces especially by such passages as these, "Go to the hQuses of any prominent politicians or senators in Washington, except the White House and Mr. Taft's, and in eight out of ten of them you will be pressed to drink whiskey, gin, or champagne wit.h an insistence to be found in no European country." This is taking it from one who should know. Susan Glaspell has written a new novel which the New York Times calls "a small-scale masterpiece." It is the story of an idealist, a.nd as she took one for the subject of one of her earliest bqoks as well as having married one, the reviewer points out that she should know her subject. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'his own picture of .Jesus. wished ~o add to it and also havmg hts own ptcture, wouid be capable of taking ?r r.ejectI ing. For after all each ?~e s ptct.ure of]esus~b~clym . ~ili~~~ilitn~ fWNrAIN SQVAR[. · LVANSTON Telephone and mail orders .filled: Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Rogers Park 1122 Wilmette 3700 I BOOKS Bitter Heritage Margaret Pedler Can a girl triumph over the tremendous handicap of heredity, th~t b~i_ngs social stigma? Deserted by all save her beauty and her courage, can she win happiness? Doubleday, Doran ....... $z.oo PRETIY BAD "THE TORCHES FLARE" By Stark Young Charles Scribner's Sons The worst books are those that border on being good. Just slightly touch that border, that is, as does Stark Young's "The Torches Flare." If Stark Y pung did not know so much about the theater he wouldn't be able to make his characters discuss the theater even as intelligently as they do. If he did not · know as much as he does about art, their· a~t discussions would be as silty as yon expect them to be. If he did not know as much as he does about how other War Among the Ladies · Eleanor Scott A shocking picture of a set oi English school mistruses haunted by the spectre of poverty-a damning indictment of a system. Little, Brown ~ Co. . ... $2.50 people write· good books he would have gone ahead and made his as bad and yet refreshing, becau se it would have been his own, as he should have done. For out and out had books may be at least refreshing if the y are the author's own. It is these vague book.~ when the author himself hadn't an idea what it was all about that are so depressing. Depressing is what they really are. like walking along a wet road deep in mud. Mr. Young has an idea that to write a novel of young Bohemian New York, one must /have! discussions. So he has had discus sions. People are deep in discussions everywhere, at sneakeasies. at teas, ·even on street c~rners . Then he hasn't had much idea what to do with these discussions ~o he has given the characters a meal and let them plunge i~to another discussion. The characters themselves, even the smallest of them each has to be. introduced with an elaborate sketching of past historv. This is to bring in human interest, b\lt when many of them appear onlv to disappear by the next page it is rather tedious, like having to he .i ntroduced to everyone one met on State street. Well. after all, ,\·e haven't said much about the book and Lena and her startling success on Broadway. But we have said enough to indicate that we think Mr. Young would do well to think twice before he leave s his essav 3 on the drama again to try his hand at fiction. . 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Yet I would recommend it to anyone who having He is as Mr. Ludwig says, "A man concerning whom practically nothing is known until he reached tpe age of thirty, least of all his personal appearance, the mirror of the · soul, whilst of the two years, more or less, which preceded his early death. ~ve have onlv conflicting stories." Wtth so little fact to go upon and so many versions of that fact we. hav e naturally each built up a ptcture or an ideal againc:+ which all ne.w 01~es must be tested. ....f Mr. Lucl\ng \n :;;h~d to make his own version and ptcture and put it into words we can only he grateful to him if it helps. ours, and we are quite at liberty to tgnore it if it hinders our own. Mr. Ludwig's picture, it self, is simpie and unpretentious. He dwell s on the aspect of J esu~, the son of man, the man of the people, the carpenter. He has written a readabl.e ~ccount, not hi.ghly spiritual, but with an apparent attempt to be honest. His greatest mistake seems to be in not knowing what it was he wanted to do or had done. In his intraduction appear the scornful wor?s, "The mishma3h which is called. a ht ~ torical novel would have been m thts case immoral as welt. One who ,\-·ould venture to ascribe to Jesus imaginary savings and doings, should be a 'perso;1 at least equal to Jesus in intuitive p0\1\·er." Then he ~oe~ 911 to say, the onlv things in· which he has him self "given free rein to imagination" are "outlooks and methods of expression, the bridg:~s "of thougl. t whereby the words and deeds are interconnected." But what could be more personal than those? T o use one's imagination to suggest the thought 5 ancl motives leading up to dee ds and then to quibble at using it for deeds seems rather arbitrary. It would have been better for · our acceptai1ce of Mr. Ludwig if he had not opened thi question at all. 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