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BOOKS
THOMAS HARDY,
(BY ERNEST RHY8]
There are a few storied regions and places forever connected in our minds with the men and women who wrote about them. Shake apparo's Stralfwd-on-Avon, Walter Spott's Lammermoor, the Brontea worth and the Yorkshire mors, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem, Dickons London, and among the lags cufonias of fantasy Thomas Hardy's Wessex. The gening of the place sens, in these instaures, to work with the goats of the tale
teller who re-enested it in art,
W
England and Isive behind Salisbury
THE CHINA MAIL.
Crowd" one's memory is as vividly Hardy has met his doubts and fearn. | least he was wont to relate in his, filled with the scenes in which | He has maintained as a veteran the American, lectures of a year ago— Gabrica Oak and Balbatoba Ever strong faculty he developed so early the incident of his purchase of "The dene move as if one had gone in his career, the power of looking Talisman," the reading of which through their palpablo experiences, into the nature of things, and into constituted his holiday task. It only
Hardy has not been-tão raidy at the passions sad humoure that adda to dur pleasure that the given-i any time to let us have glimpses into affect us. But be has in "The ture is genuine stuf of the author's his craftsman's workshop, but bei Dyñáste" attained a larger vision of own recollection! did once write a brief essay on life. It is as if he had stood un "dialect in flution which is well Egdon Heath and seen not only the We mest, in the pages of this worth studying, and we know, from map of Europe but the vista of the book, the same people who appear- references there and claswhere; world spread before him: For my-odrán" "Terknya" a sounet bakal what he regards as the perfect in- | self, I find în his work'n progreṇtion stance of wait a póvel should be-- uf ideas which can be traced from Walter Scott's Bride of Lammier- the earliest stories he wrote to bia moar."!
The canon of perfection lagt fyrics. implicit in that rotnance may be applied to his own writing of its best as in The Return of the Native" and "Tose;"
And if one books for a single poem to express him as the old man cloquent, let it be "The Darkling *** Thrish.
Ho pictures himself as standing at a gate, with the earth frost autton and the day dying at his side. And then, st the moment when the wind seems to bettering its death lament, a thrush breaks into deathless soug
which is drawn at the opening of his story, "Under the Greenwood Tree," calls up a long range, saaociations, inherent in thes" rital
"THE DYNASTS.", tradition and the human accom
Tual
It is curious to find the epic note panirent of Wessex life. particular cattage, you may remom struck in Hardy's novels still sus ber, is a small low building with stained when he turne to write That thatched roof, dorter windows dram, as in "The Dynasta." breaking up into the eaves, and a extraordinary book is indeed epic the and dranu in one. Its treatment of single chiurey staging in mids. Through the doorway or this the great Napoleonin tragedy raises window-abutters the fire and candle the whale qucation of Hundly's light sling out as rightfall upon the philosophy of art, and his concep bushes in the garden and the bus oa of man's high destiny, not boughs of the twisted cudling-trees, rily achieved under the burden of The cone is nothing in the may; the disabilities of human nature. yet it is siguificant as Costard's Many readers, many critics, have painted-cloth in the play,
Rccused Hardy of a pessimistic out-
At
At once a voice outburst among
The bleak thing overhead In a full-hearted ovensang “
Of joy limited an nged thrush, fail, gaunt
ampli
In blast-Deruẞled phime, Had chosen thus to hing his Upon the growing gloom:
So
little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
soul
and
Was written on terrestrial things
Afur or nigh wound, That I could think there trembled
through
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mate and uncomprehending father and mother, an obinsely unnoying Auni Ainy, two under-ah, wast polas apart in the appeal that make to the confidence of 'nephew ! the plain, shy sister Mary, the vain and pretty Helens Then, laat but quil as important as any of the others, the dog Hamlet. All these against, the prim prettiness of a cathedral Perbaps its town, Polchester. essence is suggested in this para- graph, describing what Hamlet saw gs he porched on his favourite ledge | and stared out the window ̈'at öld Mise Mulready burdened with parcele climbing Orange Street, at the lamplighter hurrying with his flame from .post to post, at old Grinder's wor-worn cab stumbling across the cobblan paat the high school, the old harso faltering at every step; at the green evening aky slipping into dusk, the silver-pointed stars, the crooked roofs blackening itato shadow, the lights of the town below the bill jumping like gold Seklom, we think, has there been awe ontertained a passion for visiting. jack-in-the-boxes into the shadowy more startling example of the right places renowned in story and logedd air." Though this was 30-old years und the wrong way to do a thing: We tramped the length of the ago, we doubt if the town's aspect fur the Constable edition is suited Doone Valley, we ruwed to the ia greatly altered to-day.
precisely, in its provocative square- island in the middle of Loch Loven, ness, its during, combination of where Mary Stuart was imprisoned, Mr. Walpole understands the intense blue and green, to the wa Itied to buy a copy of "Scenes amall boy, the bitterness of the sparkling nainee of this contents,] From Clerical Life" at Nuneaton, adventure of the Christians presents while the later Tutimni edition is of "John Hallifax. Gentleman," at of which his father deprived him on cumbersome and inviting, print- Tewksbury, Usually We were account of a cniel auslake, the ed un enarse paper so sparsely as to thwarted in our purpose. For at ferv curious code of schoolbay honour make a volume too linge for an of these places were the people even which, decreed that Jeremy decept laut. It is a shame thus to detract aware of their celebrated around. the "are" to run twice around the from the lure of this most piquam; they were not literarily in cathedral at midnight, proving that, collection of essays. It is not, we clined, devoid of any impulse to He understands the dog, as well, usare sure, that the American cannot prouyate the book inde. In the shown in a hundred touches, not-anke as appealing a book as their cities. it
What was diffent. ehly, Hunslet's awakening memories British contemporaries, who may visitor das not bought a copy of of his little master. Mr. Walpole, have been longer on the field; it is "Sartor Resurtua" at Cheyne Walk? REACTIONS OF A READER. it might be said, has two publies supply that they lack sensitiveness--not that we had the alightest
the public of The Duchess of and insight. Some day American nation of reading ours, None of us would have the effront-Wrexe," "The Cathedral" and the publishers will realize that there
other novels: ery to blame Mr. Ingh Walpole for Jeremy"
the public of tray be a fitness of format to clothe and "The Golden the personality of the bigt. not being. Mr. Kenneth Graha.
Scarecrowy." Whoever basked in Yet comparison, odious 39 it the sunshine of these last named may be, looms large when reading books, will delight no less in the IMAGES MADE HÅGNT.
Mr. Walpole's recent Jeremy and later adventures of "Jetery and Hardy has known bow to make
Why cry after the pooly Hamlet." those filing inges as bright in his
and the subtlety of "Dream Days" art as they were in the living reality.
and "The Golden Age" when, to
It is possible to "blunder man Tarn from the part just quoted to
counter-balanes those qualities, we strously over the format of a book sque of his prose pages in which is never overwinught, but goes for the old one landmarks and cut the concrete figure and the visuel
bave the winning simplicity and If you are interested, compare the With that porsansive rhythm ran-realism of Mr. Walpole's own child-Puglish and the American editions lage holdings are described to usinage. After one has read a book ning in one's ears, one cannot but hood memories. Such we kaow of Me. Philip Guedalis's recent book The vignette of Tranter's cottage. like Far From the Maddeningaduire the courage with which them, to be, because one incident at of essays, Masters and Men."
westward eTORS Unvei Phin, we soon strike the outskiriants, as he of that trot of country which Hardy has made lus own. lives at the lotso be built near Dorchester, which can be much more than a leage away from, the cotings where he was born,
Hay hook Bockupton Heath. are saturated with the old tradition of that countryside, and he has known how to make out of its re words the living pageantry of his Wessex stories. The sees to be in the gre muying in the as ingery of his "Old, Furniturə
His happy goodnight air Some blessed Hope, whereof be}
knew And I was unaware.
1 remember, long ago, when ou a look upon life and its issues. We visit to the Last of the Concord see in "The Dynasts" the interplay was called-Frank of the nations and one mighty over- Sanborn--in his New England Weening ambition-Napoleon' He still unry house, that he told nie he, the outspread European stage.
turned to site pages of Thomas times it seems as if the outlook were and confused'; so Hardy' when he wished to call utterly dark the veritable old English charm dat thwarted by cross-purposes and con- corresponded to soge kindred spiritdicting interests that there is no in his on house. There are scenes sure solution, no last recompense. in Hardy's novels that so powerfully no great way out. But when you conjure up the pervading atmes read on, and cone to the fateful phere and eltarteter of his region, reges in the seventh and last act,
With n bundle of such lyrics, that sometimes, in travelling its feeling as you felt at times in the inmemoriai rands, one asks if it has last war, you are rescued in the con- art story like "The Three Strang- not bonowed its real estate from the chesion by the voices of a triumph-ers, novel like "Far From the ant find belief in ar huwan Maddening Crowd" and a majestic omgician's fictive inventory.
destiny.
play, Tho Dynasts," Hardy is A recent critic of Hardy's poetry The word of commage is not want.sure of his succession in the line of
the masters. has remarked on a certain want of ing either in Hardy's lyric poens, colour in his lyric hadrepe, and it is delightfully expressed in his ay be noticed he prefers to call uning of Hope." which makes one his Wessex scenes with as little use this of the art of motory-rhymne of the pictorial adjective and the and bird-song, newly reinforced-
His coloured epithet as he can,
1 sen the hands of the genera -
thets.... Hands being hands growing pater
and palor.
As in & mizor a candle-fanie Shows junges of itself, vach Trailer
As it recedes, tlugh the yo way
Lume
Its shape the same.
I
CARL LAEMMLE Presente
CHOICE OF DETAIL SURE.
choice of significant detail is yet to sure, so true to the thing described, that without naming the painter's tints he makes one see the domin
Ás a
colour-the heath number in the light; the country read, white der a sprinkling of snow. writer of voree, he carries of the matumi company at his prose, which
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THE
ABYSMAL BRUTE
Starring
J
REGINALD DENNY
, with a great supporting cast' including
MABEL JULIENNE SCOTT. CRAUFURD KENT.
HAYDEN STEVENSON, BUDDY MESSINGER and
DAVID TORRANCE
A Hobart Henley Production
UNIVERSAL - JEWEL
"The Pleasure Is All Yours"
Doff the black token,. Don the red schoon, Right and retune Viol-strings broken; Null the words spoken lu speeches of rueing; The night cloud is hucing,
Teiprow shines soon-
Shires soon!
Hamlet.'
WHY DOES A CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
(You
BUT WOULD
YOU CROSS THE 66
know That Old Question of Course),
BEBE DANIELS
ז'
IN :
A GAME CHICKEN"
ROAD TO SEE at the WORLD Theatre next Tuesday
SCREENLAND
·SSNIÆ NOT A WORD!
BEBE DANIELS' 15
THE CHICKEN and
SAE'S -
TUM
RUNNER TOO..
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A dispatch from London to a New York newspaper, mentioning the book-shop recently opened by Francis Birrell, son of Right Hon. Whether Mr. Henry Ford, when Augustine Birrell, and David Gar he purchased the Wayside Inn, net, son of Dr. Edward and Com Sudbury, Mass., with intent to since Gurmelt, himself the author restore its original appearance, was of "Lady Into Fox," refers to "how blithely careering after new work the souls of famous Englishmen to conquer, or whether he sincerely often earn humble livelihood." desired to proserve a famous literary! Parlaps they do, but not at book shrine, we can surmise only. 1 selling, than which few professions either case, the outcome is desimble can be more lofty. Wo ore reuninded that, in our youth,
-M. W.
This woman who lived in the underworld and posed as an artist-could she be clean and honest? Jimmy Nevins, who might be a "Bun" but he had once been a gentleman, wondered, and as he wondered she did more to prove her love for him.
SEE.
NOBODY'S BRIDE"
An Universal dramatic story starring
HERBERT RAWLINSON
in which ENDA MURPHY
and ALICE LAKE are the
heroines.
HERE
On the
"You're a common pritefighter-1 hate you! I never marry you"! night of his greatest victory, she' spite- fully denounced him.
"I may be a prizefighter, but I am just as sgance, clean-cut and fine as any of your society lovers. You said you loved me, and you are going to marty rac" He was a handsome brute, master of men and of women. She was a high- strung, coitive society girl who liew no other phase of life. It's the story of the finest, cleanest, highly dramatic romance you've ever seen. Don't miss it
"WILD PARTY"
GLADYS WALTON.
NEW ROLE IN COMEDY FILM:
A few years ago Gladys Walton, famous Universal screen beauty, way doing aquatic stunts for a motion picture company.
Doing very well at it, too, for her work attracted considerable attention, ang soon' she was given opportuni- ties in more important parts.
She is a wonderful swimmer, and diver and still spends a great, deal of her time in a awunming pool. when she is away from the studio, Fat Universal City, where she is now
under contract,
When she was shown a working seript for "The Wild Party," her latest starting vehicle, she gavo a joyous exclamation.
Hurray! Look what I have to do !', she 'mid.
She pointed to a sequence in the play calling for several swimming and diving stunRs.
TETTE OF SEA NYMPHSSAL CHRISTIES
"SO LONG LETTY ROBERTSON COLS
SUPER-SPECIAM X
An extremely funny romance of two couples who, by mutini agreement, swapped their respective marital partners,
NOBODY'S BRIDE.
COMING TO WORLD THEATRE.
STIKRING STORY OF UNDERWORLD.
women.
are
une man and the events which determine which be will murry, The plot places one woman in the world of crime and the other in the world of high society, while the man is simply a "buin, restored to the full rights of manhood by the encouraging hand of one of the An underworld story, that is more story than thrill comes to the World
"Nobody's Bride,' is said to Herbert Bleche, director of the Theatre on Sunday, aa the Universal have many elements which Walton init, mistook her enthu-attraction, "Nobody's Bride, in unique in atory construction, but the which Herbert Rawlinson, the general outline known in advance Don't worry about that," he star
of its showing indicates that the said. We can easily arrange a
Usually an underworld plot is atory offers real opportunities for double for you in those wense."*
featured by thrills, thrills and more| But Gladys didn't want a double thrills. There are plenty of thrills Shuraclerizations of the “human" -
variety und for a.week preceding the start-in Nobody's Bride, but, the
Opposite Rawlinson two of tha ing of production on the film she general purpose in filming the story screen'e prettiest stresses will be practiced all kinds of swimming and was to keep the thrille submerged seen. Alice Lake a war in her own” diving, unta.
beneath the enthralling interest of right, will be eam na the woman of Fatching two women in love with the underwürk)..
Ainsi,
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ARE THE WORKINGS
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Written on her hand for others to read?
LOOK AT YOUR PALM--
Is your heart line deep and straight 1
If it is, you will love and be loved.
Is your heart line broken? Then like the girl in this romance you will know the sorrows of love and its joya
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