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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1923 POOR 1 g) 006 " RRL? SOB Sr . | 3 ! ICE (20) THE AGILE MR. FRANKAU THE WOMAN OF THE HORIZON. By Gilbert Frankau. The Century Company. Versatile is too tame an epithet to apply to the agile Mr. Frankau. He is more like the Frenchman's flea-- when you put your finger on him he is not there. It is difficult to see in this novel the author of the broadly conceived and maturely developed "Love Story of Allette Brunton" or the earlier maker of most fantastic melodrama. Yet if this was, as he tells us, his "first novel" it must have heen done some time ago, and a cer- tain more or less logical progress be- comes discernible in his succession of novels, taking this as a starting point. It is, patently, a young man's dream of high romance, culminating 3s it does in sheer mysticism and moonshine. And it is greatly interest- ing, for Mr. Frankau is entertaining in all his incarnations. The poet-hero of this, one Francis Gordon, is shown as a sorrowing -young widower in its opening chapter, as his wife of but a year is lying dead in the house. He absentmindedly turns up a copy of his own book en- titled "The Nut Errant--A Novel in Verse" dedicated to "M. H.," and we learn that M. H. had been his mistress before his marriage. Clearly a young poet of parts, and not lacking experi- ence. He promptly sets out upon a voyage of consolation, in which he lives up to the title of his first book. It takes him to India, and then the blessed old Taj Mahal takes a hand in his education. It becomes to him the "spirit of woman," of the woman whom he sees in a vision and calls the "Woman of the Horizon." The rest of the book is more or less a search for this ideal female. It car- ries him into some queer places and through an abundance of bizarre hap- penings. Eventually, of course, he meets her. She is, appropriately, named Beatrice, and, emulating the proper attitude of a poet toward a half divine Beatrice, he puts her on a pedestal and--Ieaves her there. But she gives him the de- sired Vision, so he can now retire into the silences and produce a real masterpiece. "You have given me," he explains, "what money cannot buy --that God whom you found for your- self. Last night I spvke with Him; and He showed me all my life . . . . His purpose is work for the common good." So he decides to write, here- after, not "to shock people" but to help them. A salutary conclusion, which might be helpfully applied to 9heodore-ehlin LANDSEAPE "ARCHITECT Foe vik Y groonas &6 Rore 5 Terenmol ~gardery: 172 IMYARTLE-ST FHONE 1252 Winnetka. JIL. |THE HIDDEN ROAD. the education of a good many young writers who have not yet passed be- yond the shocking stage. WELL FINISHED STORY By Elsie Singmaster. Houghton Mifflin Com- pany. The prediction of Prof. William Lyon Phelps that "Elsie Singmaster will stand high in contemporary fic- tion" is in a fair way to be justified. She gains power and breadth; this is a better finished and more subtly conceived story than any of its prede- cessors, which is no small compli- ment. It might be called the quest of a young woman for the ideal male --whom she does not find; a search for happiness, in the belief that. to love and be loved is the chief and aim of disillusionment, ending in uncer- tainty, though poor Phebe is not left entirely without hope. "Perhaps you can - have content- ment with love," another woman, Ger- trude, tells Phebe, "but I know you can have it without. - Contentment is what you want. . I'm fed up on this talk about beauty, but that's sound logic. And keep your head up." That seems to be the "moral" of the quest, in so far as it attains any finality. But it leaves Phebe only "a little over twenty-seven years old," and there was still a possi- bility in the background. The move- ment of the tale carries Phebe from her sixteenth year to this ultimate point of disillusionment. She lives with her uncle's family, in a Penn- sylvania German environment, to which she partly belongs, although her father had been a wandering Englishman. Much of the best of the book is given to the delineation of the life of that community, and of the family. Many of the accounts of these slightly alien, isolated peo- ple have touched them rather grossly, but Elsie Singmaster prefers to em- phasize their lovable, altogether fine qualities, though she never exagger- ates. Zane Grey, author of "Wanderer of the Wasteland" (Harper's), has bought 120 acres in addition to land already owned by him in the vicinity of Payson, Ariz. The tract is located four miles from his hunting lodge. 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