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\t r On Bennett \and Galsworthy Books Received to January 6 Con (lulled from Preceding Page. nonsense. He is still nt and romantic and completely d. Jao stands for our sanest moments; he is our sanest historian. John Galsworthy presents a very op- - ' posito picture. I can, of course, say nothing here of Galsworthy and I would prefer, also to say nothing of the most\ recent Galsworthy Gals- worthy tho author of Beyond and' Saint's Progress, two books that simply don't seem to belong to tho artist who wrote .4. Man of Property and The Country House. He has written, in my own per- sonal judgment (and all these judgments are personal and in no way at all intended to bo dogmatic), only three satisfactory novels, The Man of Property, The Coun- try House and Fraternity, and the best of these is the first. Although he had al- ready published several stories under\- - an- other name, The Man of Properly was a revelation. It had Are and colour, irony and poetry, drama and passion. It was written with a fine economy of words, a philosophy and an almost savago protest against' the cruelty and blindness of man- kind There were few signs in it of tliat weak sentimcntidity that was afterward to bo Galsworthy's most dangerous enemy. The different members of the Forsyth family \were distinguished one from another with Just Published THE) CRIMSON TIDE The New Novel by Robert W. Chambers The book that has thrilled a nation. An romance of New York. At all booksellers $1.75 net This is an Appleton Book IF YOU CANNOT KEEP A DOG YOU CAN OWN LAD By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE \He who loves a dog will adore the best dog's book of ages.\ Chicago Herald. \Delightfully written ... To read the book is to find a new and dear friend in 'Lad: a Dog'.\ N. Y. Times. $2.00, postage extra. E. P. Dutton & Co., 681 5th Av., N. Y, SELL YOUR PLAY Our constructive cr.ticnl review of your play, an individual written analysis by an experienced play doctor. 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Mrs. Pendyce, the mother, the heroine of the book, is a wonderfully drawn figure, the Squire (a figure copied again and again afterward by Archibald Marshall) is nearly as good. It is hard to say where the first signs of falseness show themselves; at any rate here for the first time the reader might ask himself: \Are the figures moving here of their own free will? Are they not, a very little, pushed by the author into the positions that he wishes them to occupy?\ That, certainly, since then bus been his danger, that he is passionately anxious to state his case and that his characters therefore resolve themselves too often into pawns in the game. We finally refuse to believe that life is so hopelessly an im- - passe as he would have us tliink. He doesn't, give his characters half a chance. Even his birds and his dogs feci unduly the burden of life and seem to be unable ' to riso to-an- kind of real resistance. The Patrician was, I think, his first really false book. The characters in it do not talk like men and women, but like decorated ' puppets arranged by propa- gandists. ' And at the eud'Galsworthy has no prop- aganda he has no solution. He simply does not cee what we are U do about such terrible things as pain and sin and pov- erty. All we can do, he seems to say, is to be tender and merciful and kindly. But the ordinary man and woman sim- ply refuses to believe that life is as had - as tliat. Every one has had grand times once or twice. No one in a Galsworthy novel ever has a grand time; if it looks like a grand time Galsworthy whispers in our ear that we must not be taken in; there is a bad time coming in the next chapter. Once and again of late he has done beautiful things the last section of The Dark Flower, three at least of The Fire Talei, one chapter of The Frcelamls. He is always, in whatever, he does, the artist. There is never scamped work; only rarely careless writing. But of late he has seemed to be shut off from real life as it is lived by real men and women. He has had nothing to do with the rough and tumble. How good for him could he have lived for six months with Mr. Polly or Denry \the Audacious\! The Man of Property remains, and, aftqr all, one book is enough for any man to stand on. Other hooks will perhaps come. Ifouly he could convince- himself that life, in truth, lias for many, many people some extremely jolly hours! nucii \WaU'OLE. Cap and Musical Bells DM; NEWMAN takes a day off. ERNEST is to say he publishes a book of. essays under the title A Jlusical Mot- ley, in which most of the time he makes fun of himself, his brother critics, the musicians and even thc sacred art of music. The best of Mr. Newman's humor is to be found in the business of musical criticism. But these do not con- tain all the joy of the little book. Under the cover of humor there is much honest sense, for Mr. Newman has been long a keen observer of the doings of com- posers and performers, and he has a happy way of putting his long thin finger precisely on the point. The book will be read with much pleasure by music critics and possibly by others. But musician will probably not like it. They do not see anything funny about themselves, and still less do they believe that any one rise can. AV. .7. Hkn'dkuso.w A .MX'SIOAL MOTI.KV. Itv Kiixcst Nkw-man- . The Jolin Ijatio Company. HP\!' X Page company, I'ostnn, an nounces \for publication this month Further Chronicles of Avonlea, 'by Miss h. M. Montgomery. The book is about the people of Prince Edward rsTandl Books and the Book World of The Sun, January 11, 1920. Fiction. MADAME BOV ART. Br GustaveFlad-JMstT- . 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