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We WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1925 11 PROSE WITH MUSIC IN IT "SEA HORSES" By Francis Brett Young Alfred A. Knopf In "Sea Horses" Francis Brett Young has written an interesting novel of the tropics and the sea. Written in beautiful prose, and printed in graceful type on excellent paper it makes an harmonious aesthetic experi- ence. The story it not extraordinary, nor is the character portrayal, though it is good, but the chief beauty lies in the descriptions of nature in its un- usual moments. "Twelve hours before with muted engines she had stolen through the sand like a ship in a dream; but from the Gulf of Suez she fled before the north wind like a thing possessed by the barren horror of Sinai whose mountains encompassed her in their lunar desolation. On the second evening as they made The Brothers, the wind fell dead like a bird caught in the fume of some poisonous crater. Westward a young moon sank helplessly upon the molten summits of the hills that sheltered Thebes." The description of Panda, a harbor town in Portuguese Fast Africa, re- minds one in its vivid brutality of Paul Gauguin's pictures of the tropics. We first meet Captain George Glan- vil as the ship is nearing Naples from which, its cargo discharged, it is to go on to Liverpool, allowing its crew to escape for a Christmas at home. But on arrival in port it is found that an Italian firm has chartered the boat for a trip to Portuguese East Africa. The disappointment, coupled with the feeling that the owners have acted a little unfeelingly in the matter, creates a strained mental atmosphere as the Vega turns, and in silent acquiescence, noses her way back toward the east. There is on board another cause for unusual tension--the presence of two passengers, an English woman and her child, who, at the request of the Italian firm are being taken to Panda to join the woman's Italian husband whom she has not seen for seven years. At the end of the long vovage the inevitable awaits them. The husband, degraded by financial ruin and the in. fluence of the tropics has sunk to the level of the worst of the natives. There remains the rescue and the end- ing of the love story, the solution of which is strangely unconvincing. AN INDIGESTIBLE TALE -- "THE QUEEN OF COOKS-- AND SOME KINGS." Recorded by Mary Lawton, Boni & Liveright . Rosa Lewis' story must be far more interesting when it is told by her own lips than when committed to cold paper. Else why should "several im- portant editors" have been after it for years, or journalists hung about it like hungry dogs around a bone, or why should the American girl, Mary Law- ton who finally brought down the prize have dangled about in London for months waiting for the capricious Rosa to unloose her tongue? At last, at any rate, it was unioosed, and what a strange hodge podge of information and opinion she let forth. The really interesting part of Rosa's story is the part she pays least at- tention to--the fact that, starting as a scullery maid, she became through her own efforts and initiative an ed- ucated and charming woman, the greatest cook in England, raising cook- ery to a new plane among the arts. The friendship of many great people of England, Europe and America was hers, both when she went out to cook for them at their great dinners and later when she owned and ran the Cavendish Hotel. But Rosa is strangely inarticulate in portraying character and inordinately bashful about disclosing names. So we read how she went to cook for W-- in Scotland, or was engaged to cook a lunch for Lord G-- at B--, or that "the Princess Y-- has just died and nobody cares a damn." Her style is more remarkable for its jumpiness of thought and redundancy of phrasing than anything else. "I think the Prince of Wales had a great deal of pleasure in America. He had a happy time there, and I think that is the reason. I think America saw the worst of us before the War. Except just in the West End of London" etc., etc. On the whole we wonder why there has been so much excitement over Rosa's story. Undoubtedly an inter- esting character herself, if she were speaking a look, a gesture, an inflec- tion would help us to bridge the aston- ishing gaps of thought and study a continuous Rosa behind it all. But on the printed page, without these helps she simply does not "get across." 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