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Ww WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925 Fiction, Biography, Travel, or His- tory? For lists write to ESTHER Are You Interested in books of | GOULD c/o your local paper. WHY WARS? "THE POLYGLOTS" By William Gerhardi Duffield Co. We have become used in some mild .degree to the picture of individuals demoralized by the war and after-the- war psychology, but we can never be- come used, let us hope, to the picture of a world so utterly depraved as that given us by Mr. Gerhardi's exquisitely satirical pen, in his second novel "The Polyglots." Mr. Gerhardi is no upholder of war and he has chosen an effective method of saving so. We can stand, by shed- ding a few wholesome tears, the thought of the flower of a nation's youth going forth to suffer and die for righteousness, but it is hard to stand the thought of a nation supporting a myriad of men who had not fought in the war, after that war is over in what Mr. Gerhardi calls "one of the really comic side-shows of after-armistice «confabulation." "It was the poor old sentimental military mind confronted with the task of saving civilization forced to draw upon the intellect, and finding that in truth it had not such re- serves to draw upon. 7% The spectacle consisted of a number of de- partments whose heads amused them- selves by passing buff slips one to an- other, the point of which lay in the art of relegating the solution of the question specified to the resources of another department. It was a kind of game of chess in which ability and wit counted for, quite a great deal. The department which could not pass on the buff slip to another and in the last resort was forced to take action itself was deemed to have lost the game." In drawing his characters, those creatures who seem to have lost all pre-war ideas of morality, Mr. Ger- hardi has a facility which amounts to genius. We can see silly selfish dom- ineering Aunt Teresa, suffering a "crise de nerf" on every important oc- casion, empty headed pretty Sylvia, betraying and deserting her husband, Uncle Emmanuel offering platitudin- ous couafort since he has no human --. feelings t0-eXpend, Uncle Lucy hang- ing himself in the dark room in Aunt Teresa's knickers and camisole. It is difficult to reconcile the deep sense of feeling that the author shows for the delicate child, Natasha, and his pain at her death with his extreme sense of the irony and futility of all things. Perhaps the explanation is in this ambiguous line: "'In this lies the hilarity, futility, the insurmountable greatness of life." I felt jolly, having gained my balance with one coup. And suddenly 'F thought of Uncle Lucy's death; and I realized it was in line with the general hilarity of things!" And perhaps that is explained by this statement of the author's per- sisting irony: "But if we can hate ourselves and laugh at ourselves-- whence this sense of humor in us? What is that in us which laughs that © will not stand solemnities, that will not be impressed by life? What portent is that safety-valve, that constant rise from certain fact into uncertain sub- limation? Is that not the real God from which we cannot tire?" CONCERNING THE JEWISH PROBLEM "NOW AND FOREVER" By Samuel Roth with a Preface by Israel Zangwill Robert M. McBride At the end of his book, "Now and Forever," Mr. Roth states frankly that "Books like this are and can be of no possible use." If he had stated this at the beginning rather than at the end it is possible that we would not have followed him through the some- times torturous windings of 155 pages. It is more probable that our curiosity being aroused and knowing that the author did not mean what he said we would have gone on and read it just the same. It is possible, further, that had we been told at the beginning instead of the end that we were about to listen to a conversation which did not take place we would have stopped listening, on the other hand our curiosity would probably have led us to listen to see what would have been said if it had taken place. For that is the situation in this book. Mr. Roth and Mr. Israel Zangwill dis- course at length on the problems of the Jews, both "now and forever," as, Mr. Roth assures us, they would have talked, if they had talked. It is impossible to state in a few words the various intricacies in point of view of these two widely differing exponents of the Jewish probelm, for Mr. Zangwill is not only represented imaginarily but actually in a long and lucid preface, but it may simply be said that the discussion, sometimes rambling, sometimes brilliantly con- cise, is interesting and important as two points of view. There is no lack of discussion of the Jewish problem on the part of the Gentiles, Mr. Chester- ton and Mr. Belloc, Mr. Ford and his followers being only a few of those enjoying the pursuit, therefore if the problem is interesting to you it seems an excellent thing to hear two Jewish points of view, though they may at times seem more fanatical than pos- sible. 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