A dash into the tingling surf puts you on edge. Golden papaya or juicy pineapple and Hawaiian coffee for breakfast. How fresh and clean the air! What to do? Golf in color-splashed Nuuanu Valley? A motor trip mountainward to wind-swept Pali, or around the island? Shopping in Oriental bazaars? A bout with an outrigger canoe? Day-dreaming under a shady hau tree? Or by steamer through island channels to Hawaii's volcanic. National Park; and to Maui or Kauai? These and a hundred others for your choosing. You'll want all the time you can spare, but 4 or 5 weeks and $400 to $500 from the Pacific Coast will do it. You'll enjoy the calm voyage, 5 or 6 days direct to Honolulu from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver or Victoria, B. C. No passports, interpreters or red tape-Hawaii is U. S. soil, a full-fledged Territory. For illustrated, descriptive information ask your nearest railway, steamship or travelagent, or 223 MCCANN BLDG., 451 MONTGOMERY ST., SAN FRANCISCO or 352 FORT ST., HONOLULU, HAWAII, U.S. A. T doses. The Book Table Edited by EDMUND PEARSON Saints and Sinners WO large volumes of the letters of Queen Victoria' furnish entertainment, if taken in moderate Historians may find in them what they like to call side-lights. That much-talked-about but elusive person, the student of human character, should not neglect them. These letters to and from the Queen and the entries in her journal cover the period from 1862 to 1878; the Prince Consort had died but recently, and the Civil War was raging in America. The kindly Prince, almost on his death-bed, had done a wise and statesmanlike act in softening the phraseology of the note to Washington and making possible a settlement of the Trent affair. The sorrow of the Queen at the death of her "beloved Albert" was overwhelming, and many of her references to it must be read with pity. Nevertheless it that she took a woman's adis apparent vantage of the situation, and used her grief-stricken widowhood without scruple to bully every one into doing her will. The text is given of the letter to Mrs. Lincoln at the time of the assassination of the President, and of Mrs. Lincoln's equally simple and noble reply. We learn that the impulse for the Queen's letter came originally from John Bright; we wonder if the real author of the reply may have been John Hay. This was the age of Gladstone and Disraeli; Gladstone's letters are always stiff and correct, while Disraeli's had an occasional gleam of irony and almost waggishness. One extraordinary letter is from Lord Grenville to the Queen, describing the sudden death, while riding, of Bishop Wilberforce (Soapy Sam). Certainly, the demise of a distinguished prelate is a grave topic, but Lord Grenville has so phrased his communication that it is difficult to read the letter and keep a perfectly serious countenance. 2 The great Duke of Wellington comes from the pen of the Hon. John Fortescue with his prestige in no wise diminished. It is an admirable biography, which could well be even longer. Some of the extraordinary events of the campaigns in Spain could be agreeably "The Letters of Queen Victoria. Second Series. Published by authority of H. M. the King. Edited by George Earle Buckle. 2 vols. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. $15. 2 Wellington. By the Hon. John Fortescue. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $3. ) expanded. Simplicity, energy, and iron devotion to duty were his characteristics. The conqueror of the greatest soldier of all time, he was by no manner of means to be compared with his antagonist as a statesman. Neither had a positive aversion to the society of ladies. His punc tiliousness led him into much tiresome detail in civil life; he was an easy prey to autograph hunters, as he answered every letter. There are pathos and great beauty in the story of his later days. There is pathos, too, in the story of Beatrice Cenci, although this book again explodes the legend of her saintliness. The supposed portrait of her is one of the most familiar in the world, and it is not Beatrice at all. That she and the other members of her family had a cause for the murder of her father which would secure sympathy for her to-day, even if it did not justify her act, seems to be undoubted. A nasty wretch per ished when Francesco Cenci died. But, there seems to be no foundation for the traditional charge which she made against him, and it is also apparent that Beatrice herself was a daughter of her time, no better and no worse than others ladies of the Renaissance. This is a de tailed investigation into the manners and customs of a period which we are apt to look at through rosy glasses. Much of its hideousness is revealed by the unspar ing researches of Signor Ricci. This edition of the "Travels of Marco, Polo" is attractive in appearance and fascinating to read. Mr. Komroff has written an Introduction in exactly the right spirit; it seizes one's interest from the opening sentence. One of the en thralling questions which is raised is whether the Church of Rome missed great opportunity to convert China or escaped the danger of itself being Orien talized. Marco Polo viewed a wonderful section of the earth and looked upon marvels and oddities beyond compare. He might have corresponded with Queen Victoria on equal terms in one respect: there was not enough of the sense of 3 Beatrice Cenci. By Corrado Ricci Translated from Italian by Morris Bishop and Henry Longan Stuart. 2 vols. Boni & Liveright, New York. $10. The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian. Revised from Marsden's Translation and Edited with an Introduction by Manuel Komroff. Boni & Liveright, New York. $3.50. In writing to the above advertiscr please mention The Outlook humor in the two of them together adequately to furnish a child of six. With humble apologies to the great Queen and the great Duke, I am going to close these few remarks with a brief reference to one of those extraordinary Americans hight Billy the Kid. Born in New York not so many years ago and christened William-I forget his last pame he transferred his activities to New Mexico, where he died with his boots on and twenty-one notches on the outt of his gun at the early age of wenty-one. Universally lamented-with certain exceptions. The twenty-one hotches stood only for white men; he did ot count Mexicans nor Indians, nor possibly Chinese, Zulus, or Eskimos. He was not a good gun-man, like Wild Bill Hickock, who killed only in self-defense or in line of duty as an officer of he law. He was a bandit, with certain imitations and ideals, and, as Mr. Burns points out with refreshing avoidance of sentimentalism, he was a murderer. Mr. Burns tells the story well, and must have lone no small amount of original reearch. When the guests move out to dinner, Marco Polo will have to walk by himself. The Duke will naturally escort his Graious Sovereign, while Billy the Kid will ive his arm to Beatrice Cenci, and I hink they will find topics for conversaion. All the ladies liked Billy, and he s mourned by them even to this day. "The Saga of Billy the Kid. By Walter Noble Burns. Doubleday, Page & Co., New Tork. $2.50. Fiction E. P. IOTE HOUSE MYSTERY. By Archibald Marshall and Horace A. Vachell. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $2. This novel is now wending its serial way through the pages of the London Graphic" under the title of "Mr. Allen," a fair name for the book, which Mote House Mystery" is not. There is 10 mystery about it. As soon as the tory gets going (after the first hundred ages) we learn that the arch-villain is ttempting to poison his stepdaughter in most insidious manner, and the rest of he book explains how he is frustrated in his attempt and what eventually hapens to him. All this is well enough, but the emient authors seem unable to decide whether they are writing one of those ucculent truffles that keep England's ady novelists from the poorhouse, all bout the dear sweet old bachelor who ollects prints and loves to romp with the iddies, and how he gives up the goldenaired lassie to the young fellow with the hest expansion; or whether they were REST Quaint Quebec invites it Exit, Quebec's gayest Winter! 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In the 18th Century lived many men of power, whose influence is felt today; none more than that of the publicist, scientist, philospher and theologian EMANUEL Emerson wrote: "The most remarkable step in religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg. The truths passing out of his system into general circulation are now met with every day, qualifying the views and creeds of all churches, and of men out of the church." Have you any definite knowledge of Swedenborg? Why not learn something more about the man and his works? Your name and address on a postal writing a detective story. The compromise is like sarsaparilla: interesting, moderately pleasant, and not over-exciting. GANDLE FOLLOWS HIS NOSE. By Heywood Broun. Boni & Liveright, New York. $1.50. An adult writing for adults in the English language is never, we have come to believe, able to deal properly with dragons, wizards, fairies, and princesses unless he was born an Irishman, a Scotchman, or at least a Welshman. Particularly he cannot be an American. An American simply has not got it in his blood. Fancy, humor, and philosophyMr. Broun has them all and blends them richly; but he is not quite the man for dragons. Nor for wizards. Nor for princesses and genies and lamps. So at least it seems to us, but we shall not defend our position if it is challenged, because this is just the kind of book which can neither be critically pulled to pieces nor vindicated by reasonable argument. Either you like it or you don't; and if you do, you probably like it enthusiastically and are as ready to do battle for it with fire in your eye as Bunny Gandle himself was for-but perhaps you had better read it and find out what. THE LANDMARK. By James Lane Allen. The These last stories from the pen of James Lane Allen maintain the distinction of diction and the fineness of perception of moral values characteristic of his writing. They have not the color and vigor of "The Kentucky Cardinal" nor (fortunately, many will say) the super-subtlety of some of his later novels, but they are keenly and yet kindly imbued with knowledge of man and nature. It is said that "The Landmark" is a first draft, not revised or polished, but it is so perfect in form and direct in impact that one is glad that it is as it is. "The Ash Can" and "Miss Locke" are also admirable additions to Allen's literary legacy-the second-named of such a strange conception and psychology that it might have been written by Henry James if it were not so clear and simple in style. WHITE FIRE. By Louis Joseph Vance. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. We prefer Mr. Vance telling about Lone Wolves and Bronze Bags and Brass Bandboxes to Mr. Vance toying with the piquancies of Sex in our Cities. He can spin a good yarn about nothing in particular; but he has no more power of portraying character or interpreting the human scene than his pious and opulent contemporary Mr. Harold Bell Wright has. "White Fire" is a hectic figment about a faithless wife, and a quixotic husband, and a caddish lover, and a noble maid (no, not maids) of low degree who turns into a fine actress and a cultivated companion (for the hus band) almost overnight, though in the beginning her dialect is like unto that of lower Broadway. Yes, New York is the scene or the scenery. A NATURALIST OF SOULS. By Gamaliel Bradford. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston $3.50. Papers on Walter Pater, Jules Lemaître, and Xenophon have been added to the earlier edition (1917) of this work, a general revision of the text has been made, and one of the former papers, "The Novel Two Thousand Years Ago," has been dropped. The recent stir over the feats and the claims of the New Biographers gives a fresh interest to the foreword, which concerns itself with an explanation of what the author calls "psychography." This new art is de fined as "the condensed, essential, artistic presentation of character." It is of course not biography, even in the ultramodern sense, but it is (with the substitution of "scientific" for "artistic") the thing toward which most of the New Biographers are professedly aiming. The author happily steers clear of the Jungfreudian patter about childhood fixations and their world-shaking consequences and treats character in understandable terms. If one reflects on the little that can be definitely known about character, even one's own, and asks impatiently. "What's the use of psychography any way?" the reply comes that it is the most fascinating of studies and that, since individual variation is infinite, the field is inexhaustible. Doubtless as an experiment ancillary to biography it may be welcomed with interest and hopefully watched for its fruits. Of the new "psychographs" in the volume the one which, by its charm of manner and vividity of depiction, best justifies the new art is that on Xenophon. LETTERS AND MEMORIES OF SUSAN AND It is Miss Anna Warner, author of books more completely forgotten than the once-famous "Queechy" and "The Wide, Wide World" of Miss Susan, her elder sister, who chiefly figures in this book by a friend who knew her well. It is rather scrappy, by no means consecutive biography, yet it manages to achieve a good portrait of the two simple, highbred, high-minded, old-fashioned gentlewomen who were that first and foremost, and authoresses (theirs was the day of the "ess" for women who did anything also done by men) very much afterwards. They lived on Constitution In writing to the above advertisers please mention The Outlook Island, close to and now a part of West Point; and nothing could be finer, quainter, and prettier than the relations. of this pair of gentle, pious, and deeply patriotic ladies with their great military neighbor. These were such that when, in her nineties, little old Miss Anna died, the cadets asked to take charge of her funeral, colonels were her pall-bearers, and taps were sounded at her grave. Government and Politics THE UNITED STATES AS A NEIGHBOR. From a Canadian Point of View. By Sir Robert Falconer. The Macmillan Company, New York. These eight addresses, delivered last year in England by the President of the University of Toronto, deserve a wide reading. There are many Americans who are interested in Canada as a market or as a vacation ground, but few who have taken the trouble to acquaint themselves with Canada as a neighboring commonwealth. Here is a book which essays to explain Canada to the Ameri-.cans and America to the Canadians. The task is admirably done. The American reader will take exception here and there to some matter of detail, but he cannot fail to appreciate the judicial spirit which informs the book as a whole. It reviews-briefly, for it is a small bookthe historic relations of the two peoples and forecasts a future of greater economic interdependence and of closer friendship. The Canada of other days, often regarded by British and American diplomats as a wayward child, somewhat prone to disobey Papa John Bull and to make faces across the border at Uncle Sam, has grown up, and with enlarged freedom has taken on a higher sense of Fresponsibilities. The years have brought the two peoples into ever closer relations and have fostered a common type of civilization. "Americans of Anglo-Saxon Forigin and English-speaking Canadians," says the author, "are more alike than any other separate peoples." Securely a part of the British Empire, Canada occupies a place of vantage which enables her to act as interpreter and intermediary between Britain and America. The book is one that makes for understanding and friendship. Essays and Criticism THE NOVELS OF FIELDING. By Aurelien Digeon. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $4.50. We know that the Germans have long dug profitably in the mine of English letters, but we have hardly been aware that modern French scholarship is showLing keen interest in the same enterprise. Last year we got, in translation, a careful study of Jane Austen by a French docteur es lettres who happened to be a woman. Here is a still more careful and The West is a Wonderland -go and you will know Seashore, mountains, mile-deep The Santa Fe takes you through Xcursions to California, Colorado, New Stops Spring Squeaks Thousands of car owners, chauffeurs and garage men have adopted the quick, clean, easy 3-in-One Oil way of stopping automobile spring squeaks. 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PULSIFER, Managing Editor. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31st day of March, 1926. (Signed) J. LYNN EDDY. illuminating study of Fielding, by a scholar to whom, clearly, the task has been a labor of love as well as of techni cal interest. He has a great enthusiasm for Fielding, and a touch of missionary zeal the unction of the explorer who feels that he is rescuing greatness out of the past for the profit of the present M. Digeon has hopes for the English version of his work. He believes that Fielding will bear dwelling on in this generation: "For although one cannot say that he is neglected by English readi ers to-day, he does not seem to enjoy his full share of glory. I should like to think that my little study might persuade a few more of his countrymen to turn again to one of the greatest writers ever produced by their race." This is good medicine. For Fielding has health and stability and power in reserve, and these are the qualities our brilliant young experimentalists so conspicuously lack. Fielding never tears realism to tatters, never lets his voice grow shrill, never loses his faith in the essential lovableness of the absurd creature man. The great writer who many years ago recommended "Tom Jones" for the reading of every boy and girl might speak with even more confidence now. The "young person" is a dead issue. We no longer aspire to keep our offspring from the "facts of life," but we may still believe that they will not permanently mistake a literature of jazz and gin for the real thing-for literature the interpreter and heartener of exist You have only to read a "Tom Jones" to feel how callow and hollow this new stuff is, from Scott Fitzgerald to Ben Hecht and beyond among the mul titudinous company of fourth-raters and fifth-raters who surround them. And to the long-standing lover of Fielding M. Digeon here brings much interesting matter. Of the man Fielding he speaks only in relation to his work as a novelist. The four immortal novels are analyzed in great detail. Three special points are emphasized in the course of the study: Fielding's great skill in construction, gained largely from his experi ence as playwright; his persistent rôle of anti-Richardsonian; and his essential character as moralist-a lover of simple human goodness as opposed to all the conventions and hypocrisies. As might be expected, Richardson by repercussion comes out of it all rather badly. GEORGE CROGHAN AND THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT, 1741-82. By Albert T. Volwiler, The Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland. $ It is a puzzling fact that George: Croghan has fared so ill at the hands of historians of the frontier. Scant mention, In writing to the above advertiser please mention The Outlook |