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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923 f 9 Book Reviews By John Philip Morris If any one of the seven faithful who read my reviews each week is so for- tunate as to have an income of $25,000 a year, they might just as well stop reading this one right here and de- tour to the Society page. Such a one could not have any sym- pathy or understanding with my view- point of BLACK OXEN, and must stand arrayed and agreed with the author, Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. BLACK OXEN disregards the ex- istence of us hoi polloi. Mrs. Ather- ton's characters are the sort where even the men's whiskers are gilded and where the women live in that elysium. where the woman's three deadly Ms--money, maids and mean- ges--cease to trouble. And yet BLACK OXEN is not a book of snobs. The characters are innocuous and simple in their thoughts and deeds. Its all in the supercilliousness of the telling. Coming again to our muttons, the Eternal Verities, let me say that no great book can be tropical, and a novel built upon the thesis of a popular lad can not endure long enough to be more than a summer cloud upon the sky of literature. A book can be built on an improb- ability and be an interesting and an absorbing book. Wells earlier works proved that. A book may be built on an impossibility and a great fallacy and be a great book. Dante did it centuries ago. But, to be great or even good, such a book must ring true and carry conviction and must have something to offer besides the banal drizzle of contemporaneous chatter and the synthetic philosophy that an unlearned author grinds out to fill the gaps between conversations. BLACK OXEN tells us nothing, BLACK OXEN answers none of the thousand frantic problems that are to- day confronting us. BLACK OXEN has been "raved" over as a wonderful study in character but I for one can- not see it, and Mary Zattiany and Clavering, I feel, will be forgotten with the turning of the last page. Mrs. Atherton has a high place in the literary world. She has stormed the walls of fame with a long ladder of books. She is a wealthy woman and she doesn't care who knows it. She is far above my criticisms, and even if Cousin Ira has been made a Swedish Knight and even if J. Ogden has given the whole world an absorb- ing interest in our name, she may well say of a John Philip Morris--what is it ?--still, what a good time William Makepeace Thackery would have had disecting Gertrude and how he would has revealed in her peculiar psychol- AUTOMOBILE | PAINTING of the Highest Quality" Wersted Motor Co. Phone Winnetka 165 | | | ogy and her social inhibition. Stuart Chase says that there are one quadrillion, eight hundred trillion words printed each year in the United States. 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