SNAP SHOTS
Middleton, George
Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton THE GARDEN W1TUOVT WALLS (Holt and Company, New York) is an ambitious novel which proves of interest among the more or less transient books of the...
...and he loses them all...
...Henry Holt and Company's Home University Library is steadily progressing toward the hundred mark...
...The idea of the story shows how life may be founded upon a lie and be lived successfully as far as externals are concerned...
...The Larger Aspects of Socialism has two equally important sides...
...The study of these Roman writers is profitable to the modern farmer, however practicable and scientific he may be," says the editor...
...The Devil's Garden is bound to have a wide audience and can be heartily recommended to those who can stand a "slice out of life" that is not entirely delectable but which is veracious and thought-producing...
...Three women hover and twine over his destiny...
...The book is a study of a strong willed man whose strength is gradually dissipated by the irony of life and the pangs of conscience...
...Maxwell's style is vivid, his dialogue forceful and biting, his sense for situation as dramatic as his capacity to depict character is vital...
...Walling will be remembered as the author ot Socialism As It Is, in which the economic and politt-cal phases of Socialism are approached from the inductive standpoint...
...Literary Notes AN UNUSUAL and an Interesting publication is Roman Farm Management, the treatises of Cato and Varro done into English with notes of modern instances by a Virginia farmer...
...Indeed there is much in its many pages of a distinctly high order of workmanship which bids promise of complete fulfillment in the future...
...This character study is the essential virtue of the book though the incidents through which the author devises the expression of that character are absorbing and dramatic...
...The Devil's Garden (Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis) bids fair to be one of the best sellers...
...Our main character who murders the betrayer of his wife is himself caught in a fatal passion for a young girl...
...To betray the details would be unfair to the reader as it contains a distinct surprise...
...Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton THE GARDEN W1TUOVT WALLS (Holt and Company, New York) is an ambitious novel which proves of interest among the more or less transient books of the moment...
...Also that life is a circle which repeats itself in strange ways...
...Jan* E. Harrison...
...The novel takes the hero from early youth to maturity and describes with intimate detail each experience as physically lived and mentally dissected...
...It is this conflict which forms the background of his relations with women—for the book is almost entirely the record of a man's emotional experiences...
...WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING'S new book, The Larger Aspects of Socialism (Macmillan), has the absolute novelty among socialist writings of being based wholly upon the social conditions, the knowledge and the thinking of 1013, and in no part on the conditions, the data or the ideas of 1S50...
...The early pages are thoroughly delightful: rare pictures of youth reaching towards the mysteries of life...
...It is not always a concurrent fact that the worth-while novel achieves popularity...
...the discriminating reader is always suspicious of tha well-advertised literary commodity...
...The other three volumes of this group are Plant Life by Professor J. B. Farmer of the Imperial College of Science, A History of Freedom of Thought by Professor J. B. Bury of Cambridge University, and Ancient Art and Ritual by Dr...
...MESSRS...
...The scene, for example, in which he finds out that he owes his success to his wife's sacrifice of herself, is one of the most bitterly brutal in recent fiction...
...It is not, however, overwrought with psychological analysis...
...At nearly every opportunity which is offered him, he fails to take life, mainly because he thinks in terms of the future and through anticipations of consequences loses the moment which is his...
...The latter part of the story is more feverish—because life is—and it is crammed with emotional complexities...
...The hpro is a man who has a Puritan conscience combined with Pagan impulses...
...THE FIRST Loubat Prize of $1,000 for the best work printed and published in the English language upon the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology, or numismatics of North America during the quinquennial period ending July 1, 1913, was awarded to George Louis Beer for his series of works on the British Colonial system...
...To the many who found that book one of the most comprehensive treatments of its kind, the new work, in which the cultural and philosophical aspects of Socialism are approached from the deductive standpoint, will be valuable supplement tary reading...
...The editor, who prefers to remain in anonymity, has put together a book which the general reader can peruse with a great deal of enjoyment and one from which the farmer of today will obtain much of positive value...
...They have issued numbers 68-72, comprising the eighth group, and ranging in subject all the way from Germany of Today by Charles Tower to Disease and Its Causes by Professor W. T. Councilman of Harvard...
...One would hardly expect a work on this subject to be amusing and yet it is frequently so, particularly in the parallels which are drawn between the agricultural methods in the days of ancient Rome and those of the present...
...on the other it reviews Socialism's most far reaching consequences—its effects on philosophy, science, religion, morality, education and the relatiou of man to woman...
...but important and fascinating as are the illuminations of modern science upon practical agriculture the intelligent farmer with imagination will find something quite as important to his welfare in the body of Roman husbandry which has come down to us, namely: a background for his daily routine, an appreciation that two thousand years ago men were studying the same problems and solving them by Intelligent reasoning...
...On the one hand it examines the underlying foundation upon which Socialism rests, Its roots in philosophy, science, history, sociology and morality...
...He will not find in them anything about bacteria and the nodular hypothesis in respect of legumes nor anything about plant metabolism nor even anything about the effects of creatinine on growth and absorption...
...Dawson has much felicity of expression and this, coupled with a keen capacity to externalize character, places his book upon a plane of no mean attainment...
...Though the book is somewhat over-elaborated and could stand compression, it contains many absorbing passages and an idea...
...Yet his presentation lies entirely in the direction in which Socialism has been moving and will be welcomed by the majority of socialists as well as a considerable part of the general public...
...These scenes are idyllic and poetic to a degree...
...The pages are printed in two colors—the text in black and the heads and initial letters In red-—while the binding is of a vellum-like material appropriate to the contents...
...The author not only Interprets the Intellectual evolution of the socialist movement but summarizes the present transition and outlines the next stage in socialist thought Mr...
...These are published in four volumes, entitled respectively: British Colonial Policy, no'i-1765, Origin of the British Colonial System, 157X-1G60, and The Old Colonial System, Part I, in two volumes...
...But this latest novel by W. B. Maxwell deserves all that may come to it...
...Gifted with a remarkable sense of character, the hero of his latest story stands out as a truly unusual portrayal...
...Walling claims that the newest and most modern philosophy, though it does not go by the name of Socialism, is a product mainly of the antagonism to class rule and could not have been produced by anything else, that it was foreshadowed by Marx and Engels and that it leads to socialist conclusions at every point, providing the basic principle* upon which the new civilization is being erected...
...each distinct types...
...The makeup of the volume is especially attractive...
...It is sufficient to say that it will pay reading with care...
...Maxwell, before this, baa demonstrated that he is one of the best of the younger group of English novelists, and there seems no limit upon his possibilities...
Vol. 6 • February 1914 • No. 6
