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THE CHINA MAIL.
FAME OF MAYFLOWER Africa Tales
AND NEW PLYMOUTH
THEORIES OF DR. FREUD BEAR UPON PURITAN
MISS
CARLISLE'S NOVEL
(By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN). :
New York. "We Begin," this new book is named, and it is wholly American.
For Children
Frank Worthington's Latest Volume.
African animal tales recorded by the author, Frank Worthing- ton, who spent twenty-two years in Africa and heard these stories told many times over around the evening campfire, are contained in "The Little Wise One." In his introduction he explains how these original, simple stories were
PORTRAIT OF GREAT RUSSIAN EMPRESS
FRANCIS GRIBBLE GIVES DIFFERENT PICTURE
POTEMKIN IS DISPLAYED
By HOWARD DEVREE.
Catherine the great is one of portrait as be achieves scarcely
sensibility is very palpably present carried with them by the in another instance.
Negroes who were shipped to the those rulers seemingly doomed to more than a two-dimensional. The Pilgrims are at sea, having West Indies and to the Southern remain a vague impression in marionette. He expresses a hope The founding of Plymouth is so sailed from "Plymouth aftfer & so-States of North America and the minds of most people. She that he has made her appear more encrusted with myth, so much a journ for so many disappointing there; modified to suit lived on after the French Revolu-human and more womanly than she
an-
fifth-rate German favourites for personal relaxation-
part of the generality of every years among the Dutch. A sailor, a other continent, became the tales tion got under way and after the appeared to others and that he has American child's common school surly fellow, has cursed the Pil- that Joel Chandler Harris col- United States had become made manifest her charm: what he education, that it is literally grims for being "chicken-livered, lected in his Uncle Remus nation, yet in many ways she has done is rather to present an thought-stopping to try to think of and the next day dies. Eleazar volumes. The author explains seems as remote as Mohammed essentially sentimental, vain, amor it in any other than two stand thinks it is the judgment of God. also his theory that Aesop's or the Great Cham
ous, lavish, opportunistic woman ardised waya... Save for an oc- But Anne writes: "Yet I could not Fables originated in much the Starting as a kind of Cin-who leaned on a succession of casional tough-minded soul like help but think perhaps the fellow same fashion as the Uncle derella of Samuel Eliot Morison, we are like had been ill all the voyage and Remus stories and points out the princessdom, the composite port- while Potemkin pulled the strings Pavlov's dogs in the matter; ring that perhaps accounted for his frequent similarity between the rait which has come into exist even the strings, by which har the bell of "Puritan" or "Pilgrim" spleen." This was in 1620, eight African stories and the fables of ence in a century and a half since favourites were in turn summoned in the mind, and one of two visions years before the publication of Aesop Buys and girls, however, her death is a blur of Messalina, to her side.
conditioning of the reflexes-either tion of the blood and long before students of folklore and will en has attempted with some degree Gribble to note the limitations he is conjured up, depending upon the Harvey's discourse on the circula- will leave these questions to the Machiavelli and Queen Elizabeth.
The Limitations 14 recent years Katharine Antony Perhaps it would be fairer to Mr. the dully heroic vision of the the birth of the hormone. Does joy these direct, simple tales monument to the founding fathers Anne here ring true in terms of which chronicle the cleverness of success to paychoanalyze the has wittingly or unwittingly set for at Provincetown on Cape Cod, or such an explicitly formulated of the hare, "the little wise one," woman rather than the Empress, himself and what was then left for the vision of a dour, life-denying thought-especially when the ac- who is always the hero.
and Bernard Shaw The
has exploded him to do. First of all, then, he stalwart in whom the milk of counting hinges on a "perhapa" book has the spontaneity and about her legendary figure some of has apparently made little or no ef- Elizabethan amplitude had some- The question of sensibilities, humour that children enjoy, and his less notable fireworks. One fort to paint a realistic background
then and now, to one side, "We while no boy or
might hope for girl should be Guedalia to bring a legend to life, picture of life, times, manners, a Strachey or a for his marionette-no revealing oner of work. Its appeal is the appeal with its richer interest and it the Empress in the midst of the life pansion of Russia Itself. that the Puritans and Separatists, appeal that ought to be strong in aren, these tales can be read by whose many cross-currents make effort to get inside the mind of his ' response; it matters little to him of "Swiss Family Robinson" an importance to American
of the time-a full and flowing time has apparently made little or no Next, he small tradespeople with a tradition 1932, when farmers are actually of independence going back into going back to a primitive barter younger children because of the such a deep-sea mine for the trea-subject, preferring to let objective
absence of dialect and might be sure-seeking historian. Lollard England, had Had little economy and when city folk used in some cases share in the spaciousness of Eliza- wondering how, in the event of duction to Joel Chandler. Harris's What Francis Gribble has done, permitted his narrative to follow
as an intro-
fact and conficting anecdotes speak Keyhole Peering.
for themselves. He has moreover, beth's day, and hence were bound vanished urban resources, they volumes.
The author has ill-however, in "The Comedy of Cath- the chronological succession to be a trifle grim, even in an might scrabble a living from
ustrated the book simply but aderine the Great," is to present a favourites who appear and dis England called "merrie." The bell long-deserted soil.
equately, and his line drawings very limited combination of puppet appear as if moved by subsidiary rings in the anti-Puritan mind,
Pleasing Pictures... have a touch of humour pleasing show and keyhole peering. If one leading-lines without any seeming and, willy-nilly, the blanket blame The picture of John Dexter
to children.
For boys and girls does not care for stiff-jointed ma-effect on goes ouf without any immediate planting corn
with herring for 6 to 10.
Catherine herself. rionettes in a rather meaningless the midst of this procession Cathe marking of extenuating "circum-fertilizer, of the founding fathers digging clams, trapping lobsters,
procession against a acanty back-rine's progress is halted from time venturesome fishing for cod and gathering ber-establishment, out of agony, sweat, ground and seen through a small to time while her manipulator ries, has the freshness that will blood and tears, of Plymouth aperture then Mr. Gribble's reader diverts the attention of his audience
how curdled..
G. K Chesterton, for example, Begin" is a thoroughly fine piece allowed to miss Uncle Remus,and to make real the woman and international relations or of the ex-
invariably makes
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Miss Carlisle, novelist who is always, off on 1 now tack, tries to fine up with real never be lost upon a human race plantation in the wilderness given will be disappointed. However good from the puppets' cessation of free-thinkers like Mr. Morison. It that is, periodically, forced to con- to the Plymouth Company to ex- his intentions may have been, the is quite evident that her research sider the physical bases of life. ploit. The liste of tools, of plate, effect is of a long-drawn-out and movement with anecdotes, or has been complete; indeed, her Begin" completely and the narra- wood trenchers, pot claws, wicks, ism, an effect that Mr. Gribble extraneous matter.
"We of plants and seeds, of skillets, dull attempt at mild sensational turning aside to comment on some book runs so suavely that one pays tive remains a vivid chronicling, in beer, rice, dried apples, herbs for himself would probably be the first-
Jerky Progress. her, the supreme compliment of
All this results in a somewhat terms of the stylized musings of physic and so on, have a fascinato disavow. being hardly aware of the pre- two men and a woman, of the time tion of their own. liminary work Behind it.
Granting him the intention of disconcerting manner by imparting She knows that neither Pilgrim
that elapsed between the sailing of Miss Carlisle's handling of the painting the Empress as "neither so to the chronicle a jerky and die- Puritan were Victorian--that their
the separatists from the northeast relations of the Plymouth settle- coast of England for aaylum ment with the Indians in intelll expression was salty and mascu- line, for there is Governor Brad among the Dutch and the firm gent. ford's history of Plymouth- plantation to prove it, not to men- tion Governor Winthrop's Boston diary, which even
Ror
verges on
pruriency. She knows, too, that "freedom to worship God" was often an unconscious euphemiam for "freedom to make a living." And she has tried to hold the balance true in her stylized nat rative-a narrative that adopts a faintly formal running tone, with no incursion into the "prithees". that were once the bane of this type of fiction.
Modern Consciousness,
But Miss Carlisle's conscious- ness is modern, as "See How They Run" and "Mothers Cry" have shown, and it is possible although, short of the ability to read our ancestors' minds, we have no ade- quate means of knowing that she has had an inartistic benefit of the hindsight of modern psychology in Her building up her narrative. main personages are three John and Eleasar Dexter, two brothers of Scrooby, and Anne, whom both John and Eleazar want whom John marries.
and
The symbolism here is pat: John Is the lover of life, while Eleazar, the older brother, is the man of God whose carnal urges are shunt- ed off into religious channels the stock gure of Freudian romance who is forever confusing desire for Sadie Thompson with the mandate to save her soul. And, as the formula specifies, the man of God capitulates, at the end," to⠀⠀ his baser self-in this case to a desire for a London waif who is found aboard the Mayflower at son and who is brought up by Anne Dexter as one of her own brood. There is, as a measure of poetic justice, a hanging at the close that comes with too even-handed a retri
great as she seemed to Voltaire nor jointed progression. Certainly the no licentious as she seemed to book would be vastly improved for Laveaux,” she remains in such a the reader brought up on the con-
I may rush from a dinner to a Talkie and later on to a dance. But-
NEVER CHANGE FROM Gold Flake
WILLS
As mild as a sun-kissed day indung-as mellow as a rare old port-as sweet as a rich ripe Honey Dew melon-Gold: Flake for any tim
her:
GOLD FLAKE
GOED
cise interpretativa biography of re- cent years if the material had been arranged Tess with an eye on pas- sive chronology and more with an Insight into human motivation and national significance; if it were less a pageant of puppets and more a divining by the spirit-sense of the hidden human and -historical treasure in poorly charted seas.
Assuredly Catherine was a glam- ourous enough person and her times sufficiently Interesting for any blographer. It has been said. that Peter the Great parodled Europe and that Catherine flirted with itor, as Mr. Gribble puts it she looked westward from a window on the Neva. But Catherine herself was a native of Stettin and spent the first fifteen years of her life under German influences. Super- imposed on a semi-Oriental back- ground and transferred to a court where Mr. Gribble is fond of re- peating that anything might hap- pen, her subsequent career requires careful analysis and explanation rather than a sloughing off of the historian st responsibilities. Behind the possibility of incredible things coming to be::
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DEDICATION.
has fown now to the im
penetrable black
Spaces behind the farthest
star
I call and I call, but it will never
come back
Where the sun and birds and My fowers are,
It has plunged to the deepest
chasm of the seas And purple waves gua
it hides Gone, gone It
come ba
here