The Spokane woman. [volume], October 14, 1926, Page 3, Image 3

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Thursday, October 14, 1926
Scribner’s Publish “The Silver Spoon”’; Book for Boys and Girls from Century
The freedom of the younger genera
tion is having a marked effect on the
.book world, in the success of novel
ists at a much earlier age than under
former conditions. Sylvia Thompson,
whose “Hounds of Spring” is among
the outstanding books of the year, has
published three novels of more than
average quality, and she is in her
twenty-fourth year. The list of very
young authors is long, and not lacking
in meaning as we think of the literary
trend of today.
Doran’s new book list will include
“The Virgin of Yesterday,” by Dorothy
Speare, author of “Dancers in the
Dark” and “The Girl Who Cast Out
Fear.” People who have read her
strikingly original and finished work
will be glad to know of her success in
the musical world. On September 14
Miss Speare made her debut in grand
opera at Asti, Italy, singing the star
part in “Lucia de Lammermoor.” A
gala performance is planned in her
honor at Milan, since her reception
was so enthusiastic as to leave no
doubt as to her place in the musical
circles of Italy.
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THE SILVER SPOON
By John Galsworthy.
. (Scribner’s, $2.00.)
The Forsytes are back again! One
sometimes wishes, rebelliously, that
Galdsworthy would get acquainted
with another family—we seem to know
all the gossip about this one, and my
dear, they are so mid-Victorian! They
seem to have drawn some new people
into their group, in The Silver Spoon;
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THE SPOKANE WOMAN
Marjorie Ferrar, that young person
who announced a creed far more “ad
vanced” than she was prepared to live
up to—"an upstanding young person
with a good blue eye and popular
hair.”
Somebody wrote a letter saying that
Marjorie “hadn’t a moral about her,”
and was promptly sued for libel. The
trial is the story, and the story has a
moral. The issues are clean-cut, the
style Galsworthy's brilliant best, but
many of his oldest admirers are find
ing something lacking, a great art
wasted on a thing not quite worth
doing.
Ellis Parker Butler, in this month’s
Book Chat, discovers an ambition as
is an ambition. He wants somebody
to come along and say, “Here, Butler!
Take this SIO,OOO and write a novel.”
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he will get 20 per cent royalties, and
the sales will be two million copies.
Which bears out the present writer's
contention that if one is going to wish
at all, it is just as cheap to wish a
nice gorgeous BIG wish.
“DOROTHEA’'S DOUBLE"
By Margaret Johnson.
(The Century C 0.,, SI.T.’»:)
A very clean, fine story of regular
boys and girls, Margaret Johnson's
new book will find an eager audience.
In the rather dreary flood of books
for girls this one contrasts by reason
of vigorous life, a real plot, and a mys
tery sustained through entirely logical
and reasonable action.
The Shingle Cove club was justi
fiably excited when Lord Onderdonk
and his granddaughter, Gwendolyn
Donnydale, came to Topeliff. Indigna
tion meetings inevitably followed
when the bold young huccaneers were
ordered off the beach by the cantank
erous new owner., There was a war,
but the mystery bhroke up all that non
sense, for of course the club had to
solve the problem, and it is very dif
ficult, as we all know, to keep one's
mind on an old grudge in the presence
of new business! The girls will love
this story, and if the book is missing
at any time one of the boys probably
has it,
Signing off Lucy M. C. ROBINSON
It ain’'t no use to grumble and com
plain,
It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and
sends rain,
Why, rain’'s my choice.
—James Whitcomb Riley.
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