Kansas City Journal-Post
rom the Book World
nment and Reviewsf.
apart from the rest of the volume, Carlo,
POET.
Sophisticated
Cityan's
an Italian peasant boy, accidentally
blinded his brother Geronimo with his
Romantics by
airgun when both were small, and ever
afterward devoted his life to this un¬
Schnitzler
Telling
fortunate. When their father’s little farm
Err NovErS -Arnee
FORY TELLER AND HIS
failed and the two were cast out upon
Schnitzler (Simon and Schusterp 82.50.
Prof. Clifford H. Nowlin
the world, Carlo was eyes and staff to
Reviewed br
Geronimo as they journeyed from village
BABETTE DuurSCH.
to village with their guitar, in search of
parents and educaotrs who
bed and bread and wine.
rough experience the magie
OST of the ten stories that make un
passing tourist’s ill natured jest
lling and who have wished
Withis little bock very clearly date.“
2000
rouses in Geronimo the skulking suspi¬
geans of enriching their Story
It is not only because of the style of the
cion that Carlo has been cheating him
y as well as their materinl,
ladies coiffures, nor get the fact that
of the cein bestowed on beth, and in bis
book has appeared.
they drive tothe ball in carrlages rather
utter despair Carlo does actually steal a
-Teller and His Pack,“ br
than motors. Nor is it owing to the lead¬
twenty-frane piece and pretends to his
Nowlin, principal of East
ing themes: the frailty of women, the
brother that he had withheld it earlier
is a treasure mine rich in
headlong passion of men¬themes which
in order to keep Geronimo from drinking
terial. Its theme is the story,
were a commonplace when Cleopatra
it away. The two are soon apprehended,
S psychology, its power of en¬
flourished and a familiar jest to Poti¬
and on the way to the station house
its myriad possibilities in the
phar’s servants. These tales date be¬
Carlo's misery renched its acutest, stage.
character and ideals in chil¬
cause of the viewpoint that is implicit
Geronimo, he imagines, is now thinking.
ock covers storg telling from
in them and that seems somehow as re¬
him a common thief, though the idea of
hood, up through high school
mote as the waltzes of Strauss, the warm¬
ritling the pockets of strangers is scarce¬
even to the time ofthe puli¬
skinned luscious models of Stuck, the
Iy as nasty as the thought that Carlo
and his use of aneedoles.
fabulous gayety of pre-war Vienna.
George 0’Neil, whose new book of
has robbed his blind brother, It will be
an elastic handbook of story
To deseribe the viewpoint in two words
verse," God Beguiled,“ has been published
impossible to explain the theft to the
ned to help the average per¬
would be to call it sophisticated roman¬
recently by Horace Liveright.
magistrate: its actual motivation is too
me proficient in storg telling.
tieism. Sex is the guiding force in iiie
plausible. Just when Carlo’s wretched¬
that Mr. Nowlin is a Kansas
lives of the qutte trivial people with
ness seems as impenetrably black as the
And a prinelpal of one of ouf
whom the story-teiler concerns himself,
of tale telling from the ancient fables,
darkness in which Geronimo walks the
Is. makes his book a bright
but though they commit murder and
Chroughthe maze of modern fables, par¬
blind man drops the guitar, stretches out
eed in Kansas Citg'’s literarg
shoot themselves because one woman is
ables, allegories, mpths, fairg tales,
his arms and kisses Carlo on the mouth.
more faseinating or one man more at¬
household tales, epic stories, biograph¬
That moment sets back the clock for
d experience has guided Nr.
tractive than another, the thing that
ical tales, animal lore and short stories
poor Carlo; the world becomes a place
the preparation of his ex¬
drivesthem lacks the terrible signifi¬
of the modern day.
in which, jail or no zail, blind beggar or
rthwhile book. His persona!
cance that it has for a writer like D. H.
In all of these phazes of tale telling.
no such thing, one can live with courage
classroom story telling has
Lawrence, and one feels that all these
the author traces the origin of each, its
and contentment. His brother is re¬
sive and he has also done
bullets and all this blood are like the
various classification and characteristics.
stored to him, his lifelong sacrifice rec¬
f work as entértainer in story
cigarettes that used to be manufactured
as well as when, why and where such
ompensed, his peace made whole. In
before audiences of youne
for ladies—disguised by a faint flavor of
stories are suitable.
spite of the fact that Geronimo’s thought
achers, newsboys, high school
violets. There is nothing here of ele¬
Speaking of fairy tales, he says,"In
processes are not made as clear as is
iers and prisoners. He is, in
mental furg, of animal urgency.
the geography of enildhood there is no
desirable, the tale is a lovely fabrication,
orn story teller and that he
brighter spot than fairy land. This
deeply moving and full of vigor and ten¬
te the sort of book he has
Not that the stories are lacking in the
realm of lightsome elves and fairies, of
derness. It is the one story in the book¬
tural consequence.
sarlonic qualitg which one has come lo
horrible goblins and trolls, was discov¬
that deals with common folk, and, cu¬
associate with Schnitzler, but his is a
ered during the early life of the race.
riously enough, the author makes them
Elin's first introduction to#the
smiling cynicism, an irony strangely
Instead of it being the most frivilous of
more credible and certainly much more
ory telling wan at his mother's
blunted by urbanity. No final ugliness
fancies, tlie fairy tale is one of the most
touching figures than any of his passion¬
natural field for the earlg de¬
quite cancels the glamour that he cannot
earnest products of the mind of man;
ridden barons, sculptors and barristers.
of a love of storg telling, he
refrain from casting uponthe most
the love of the fairg storg is onc of the
Howener seductive the world in which
much of the material he ab¬
fragile relation between a pair of casual
most significant of the child’s interest.“
those gentlemen so gracefully meve.
ehe has used as a background
lovers, like a mundane halo. One has
It is exactig in such a clear understand¬
#owever rongh and dismal the world of
ol work and to entertain bis
but to contrast these #little novels“ with
ing of children, that the value of thie
blind Geronimo, one is grnteful for the
iters. This accounts in furge
those Stripped tales in which Heming¬
authof’s work is revealed.—L. N. CI.
glimpse into that more honest place.
brthe fluent, lucid method fol¬
way, for example, exhibits the feebleness
is book and his evident under¬
and folly of his intimates, to recognize
f children, their likes and dis¬
the gulf that lies between the world of
Heading the List
Machinations
Schinitzler’s sophisticated romanties and
FICTION.
lin brings out in countless dif¬
the post-war world of Hemingway’s hard¬
Designed to
FALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT,“
ysthe good effect of storg
bolled weaklings. Both writers are deal¬
by Erich Maria Remarque (Little, Brown).
Prolong Life
its power to swar the emo¬
ing with people who are eruel becauss
DODSWORTH,“ by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt.
hildren. How much more ef¬
theg are cowards, people who are the
Brace).
·TIMES SOUARE.“ By Cornell Wool¬
SCARLET SISTER MARY,“ by Julia Peter¬
creatures and the victims of their little
urges, is the dramatie appen!
rich (Horace Liveright). 82.00.
kin (Bobbs, Merrill).
told story compared to those
lusts, people who are relieved from the
Reviewed by
·THE BLACK CAMEL,“ by Earl Derr Biggers
bred makeshifts to good be¬
pressure of economie necessity to no pur¬
(Bobbs, Merrill).
MARGARET CHENEY DAWSON.
pose. But whereas Hemingwag’s char¬
z., scolding, threatening and
„VISTTORS TO HUGO,“ by Allce Grant Ros¬
acters are sick with the knowledge of
*T·HE author of “Children of the Ritz,“
man (Minton, Balch).
is a sort of magie wand, at the
their own frustrated existence and his
DARK HESTER,“ by Anne Douglas Sedg
how being shown in New York movie
of mother or teacher who #.
tales vivid with disgust, Schnitzler’s char¬
wick (Houghton, Mifflin).
bills, has written another einemasque
ings relief swiftly and surelz
NONFICTION.
acters live in an atmosphere perversely
story. It concerns the endless lawdry
•HENRY TIIE EIGHTH,“ by Francis Hackett
retful children. Withthe tell¬
enticing as the taint in gamg meat.
machinations br which Cliff Reillz and
(Horace Liveright).
But if there is something old-fashioned,
absorbing story a mother’s lan
Terrg Londres prolonged life and sought
UTHE ART OF THINKING,“ by Ernest Dim¬
sort of wishing rarpet that
and so slightly unreal, about most of
to escape the boredom thereof. Primarily,
net (Simon & Schuster).
these stories, all of them are skillfullz
ryand Johnny far, far away
FA PREFACE TO MORALS,“ by Walter Lipp¬
of course, they are busy seeking the
and sea. to the world of ro¬
written and are as easy to read as Vien¬
man (Macmillan).
necessarg funds, and the greasy littie rag
d make believe. And what
nese coffee is to drink. Several touch
SALT WATER TAFFY,“ by Corey Ford (Put¬
of romance which covered their meeting
teacher who has tried telling
upon the supernatural, and handle this
nam).
andthe first months of their life together
THE MANSIONS OF PHILOSOPHY,“ by Will
ory well, has not had exachlg
unlikelg motif in a felicitous and thrilling
is soon worn to nothing in the endless
Durant (Simon & Schuster).
ence.
fashion. Schnitzler does masterly work
pursuit. Terry, being eleverer than Cliff,
·THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP,“ by Joan
when he treads the borderline between
(Simon & Schuster).
strikes out for herself after a while but is
Lowell
ense help to storg tellers in
truth and fantasy: the reader is no less
subject to sentimental relapses, during one
the true magie will be Mr.
exhilarated than confused br being made
of which her new 'friend“ fires her bag¬
ook.
to breathe alternate gusts of alr from
What Missouri and
gage into the strect. Then ensues à com¬
s the origin of the story, from
two allen universes.
plicated suceession of intrigues, schemes,
Kansas Authors
days to present time, und
adventures, all-night parties and all-day
The finest piece in the collection Is a
he kinds of stories enjoged be
Are Doing
Slumbers, periods of comparative fidelltv,
storg about a blind beggar and his
f children, includirg mang in¬
sepurations and remeetings, Fortunstelr
each varlety.
brother that, except for its happg con¬
erlal by Frederigk S. Daris entitled: King
forthe anthor’s integrity. Cliff and Terry
#f the Sky.“ is concluded in the September
sthe type of storg best sulttet
elusien, might have come from the pen
do not Palways come back to each other
number of Alr Stortes magazine.
s becasions, whr it is most e.
of Maupassaht, and that stands quffe
che first September number ol Popular con¬
in the end.“ On the contrary. Chff mar¬
d how it should be told. He
taines an interesting article by Calvin John¬
ries a #irl named Virginia, and Terrg.
the basie literature of ehild¬
ston, formerly of Kansas Cily, but now of New
FATHER AND SON.
hnving achieved theatrieal füme und a
its phychology, as well as mang
Vork. He has called it:“High Play.“
rich husband, kieks her exlover neatli ont
achieving the storg teller’s art.
An artistie bit of prose appeared in the
From under 1001.
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9nd #esne of ihe Christian Seience