box 35/11
14. Littie Novels
Kansas City Journa
14
Comment and Reviewsfrom the Book Won
apart from the rest of the voll
POET.
Sophisticated.
an Italian peasant boy, a
Kansas Cityan's
blinded his brother Geronime
Romantics by.
Splendid Book
airgun when both were small
afterward devoted his life t
Schnitzier
on Story Telling
fortunate. When their father
LITTLE NOVELS.Ba -Arther
·THE STORY TELLER AND HIS
failed and the two were cast
Schnitzler (Simon and Schust 82.50.
the world, Carlo was eyes am
PACK.“ By Prof. Clifford H. Nowlin
Reviewed br
Geronimo as they journeyed ##
(Bradley).
BABETTE DEUTSCH.
to village with their guitar, in
DOR those parents and educaotrs who
bed and bread and wine.
IOST of the ten stories that make un
T know through experience the magie
passing tourist’s ill na
A
Witbis littie book very cieariy tdate.“
of story telling and who have wished
32
rouses in Geronimo the skulh
It is not only because of the style of the
longfor a means of enriching their Story
cion that Carlo has been ch#
ladies' coiffures, nor yet the fact that
telling abllitg as well as their material,
of the coin bestowed on both,
they drive to the ball in carrlages rather
the perfect book has appeared.
utter despair Carlo does actuc
than motors. Nor is it owing to the lead¬
The Story-Teller and His P’ack.“ pr
twenty-franc piece and prete
ing themes: the frailty of women, the
Elifford H. Nowlin, principal of East
brother that he had withhel
beadlong passion of men¬themes which
high school, is a treasure mine #ch in
in order to keep Geronimo fro
were a commonplace when Cleopatra
precions material. Its theme is the story,
it away. The two are soon a
flourished and a familiar jest to Poti¬
its origin, its psychology, its power of en¬
and on the way to the sta
phar’s servants. These tales date be¬
#terteinment, its myriad possibilities in the
Carlo's misery reached its ac
cause of the viewpoint that is implieit
ballding of character and ideals in chil¬
Geronimo, he imagines, is no
in them and that seems somehow as re¬
dren. The book covers storg telling from
him a common thief, though
mote as the waltzes of Strauss, the warm¬
early childhood, up through high school
rifling the pockets of strangen
skinned luscions models of Stuck, the
and college, even to the time of the pub¬
Ig as nastg as the thought
fabnlons gayety of pre-war Vienna.
lic speaker and his use of aneedoles,
George 0’Neil, whose new book of
has robbed his blind brother.
To describe the viewpoint in two words
Truly', it is an elastie hardbook of story
verse," God Beguiled,“ has been published
impossible to explain the th
would be to call it sophisticated roman¬
telling, designed to help the average per¬
recentlg by Horace Liveright.
magistrate: its actual moti#
ticism. Sex is the guiding force in ihe
son to become proficient in storg telling
plausible. Just when Carlo's
lives of the qutte trivial people with
The fact that Mr. Nowlin is a Kansas
ness seems as impenetrably b
whom the story-teller concerns himself,
City man and a prineipal of one of ouf
of tale telling from the ancient fables,
darkness in which Geronimo
but though they commit murder and
high schools, makes his book a bright
Through the maze of modern fables, par¬
blind man drops the guitar, s
shoot themselves because one woman is
feather indeed in Kansas Citg’s #iterary
ables, allegories, myths, fairy, tales,
his arms and kisses Carlo on
more faseinating or one man more at¬
cap.
household tales, epie stories, biograph¬
That roment sets back th#
tractive than another, the thing that
First hand experience has guided Mr.
### tales, animal lor and short stories
poor Carlo; the world becon
drives them lacks the terrible signifi¬
Nowlin inthe preparatior of his ex¬
###the modern day.
in which, jail or no jail, blin
cance that it has for a writer like D. H.
tremely worthwhile book. His personal
In all or these phazes of tale telling.
no such thing, one can live
Lawrence, and one feels thaf all these
practice in classroom story telling has
the author traces the origin of each, its
and contentment. His bro#
bullets and all this blood are like the
#been extensive and he has also done
various classification and characteristics.
stored to him, his lifelong s#
cigarettes that used to be manufactured
great deal of work as entertainer in storz
as well as when, rhy and where such
ompensed, his peace made
for ladies—disguised by a faint flavor of
programs befor audiences of vonns
stories are suitable.
spite of the fact that Geronin
violets. There is nothing here of ele¬
mothers, teachers, newsboys, high school
Speaking of fairy tales, he says, "In
processes are not made as
mental fury, of animal urgency.
pupils, soldiers and prisoners. He is, in
the geography of childhood there is no
desirable, the tale is a lovely
truth, a born story teller and that he
brighter spot than fairy land. This
deeply moving and full of vig
Not that the stories are lacking in the
should write the sort of book he has
realm of lightsome elves and fairies, of
derness. It is the one story
sardonic quality which one has come 1o
seems a natural consequence
horrible goblins and trolls, was discov¬
that deals with common fo#
associate with Schnitzler; but his is a
ered during the early life of the race.
riously enough, the author
Mr. Nowlin'’s first introduction tothe
smiling cynicism, an irong strangely
Instead of it being the most frivilous of
more credible and certainly
blunted ! urbanity. No final ugliness
magic of story telling was at bis mother's
fancies, tlie fairy tale is one of the most
touching figures than any of
quite cancels the glamour that be cannot
knee—the natural field for the earlg de¬
earnest products of the mind of man;
riduen barons, sculptors and
refrain from casting uponthe most
velopment of a love of storg telling, he
the love of the fairg storg is onc of 1b:
Howeuer seductive the wor
fragile relation between a pwir of casual
says—and much of the material he ab¬
most significant of the child’s interest.“
those gentlemen so grace
lovers, like a mundane halo. One has
sorbed there he has used as a background
1t is exactlg in such a clear understand¬
however rough and dismal #
but to contrast these #little novels“ with
in his school work and to entertain bis
ing of children, that the value of this
blind Geronimo, one is gru##
those Stripped tales in 7hich Heming¬
four dauchters. Thig seconnte in furge
auchof’s work is revealed.—L, #I. C7.
glimpse into that more hone
wr, for example, exhibits the Teebleness
mensure forthe fluent, lueid method fol¬
and folly of his intimates, to recognize
lowed in his book and his evident under¬
the gulf that lies between the world of
standing of children, their likes and dis¬
Heading the I
Machinations
Selmitzler’s sophisticated romarties and
likes.
FICTION.
the post-war world of Hemingway’s hard¬
Mr. Nowlin brings out in countless dif¬
FALL. QUIFT ON THE WEST
Designed to
boiled wenklings. Both writers are deal¬
by Erich Maria Remarque (Littig
ferent ways the good effect of storg
ing with people who are eruel because
Prolong Life
·DODSWORTH, by Sinclair Le
telling and its power to swar the emo¬
theg are cowards, people who are the
Brace).
tions of children. How much more ef¬
·TIMES SAUARE.“ By Cornell Wool¬
·SCARLET SISTER MARY,
creatures and the victims of their littie
fective, he urges, is the dramatie appen!
rich (Horace Liveright). 82.00.
kin (Bobbs, Merrill).
lusts, people who are relieved from the
of a well told story compared to those
THIE BLACK CAMEL,“ by Ear
Reviewed by
pressure of economic necessity to no pur¬
time honored makeshifts to good be.
(Bobbs, Merriil).
pose. But whereas Hemingwar’s char¬
MARGARET CHENEY DAWSON.
havior, viz., scolding, threatening and
·VISTTORS TO HUGO,“ by All
acters are sick with the knowledge of
man (Minton, Balen)
punishing.
•PPHE author of“Children of the Ritz,“
their own frustrated existence and his
·DARK HESTER,“ by Anne
A story is a sort of magie wand, atthe
1 now being shown in New York movie
tales vivid with disgust, Schnitzler’s char¬
wick (Houghton, Mifflin).
command of mother or teacher who #.
bills, has written another einemasque
NOKFICTION.
acters live in an atmosphere perversely
its use, brings relief swiftlg and surelz
It concerns the endless tawdry
StOrF.
VHENRY TIIE EIGHTH,“ by E
enticing as the taint in gamy ment.
#to tired, fretful children. With the tell¬
machinations be which Cliff Reill, and
(Horace Liveright).
Butif there is something old-fashioned,
ing of an absorbing story a mether’s lan
uTHE ART OF THINKING,“ b
Perrg Londres prolonged life and songht
and so slightly unreal, about most of
becomes a sort of wishing rarpet that
net (Simon & Schuster).
to escape the boredom thereof. Primarily,
there stories, all of them are skillfullz
wafts Mary and Johung für, für away
UA PREFACE TO MORALS,“ b
of course, they are busy secking the
written and are as casy to read as Vien¬
man (Macmillan).
over land and sea, to the world of ro¬
necessarg funds, and the greasg nitle rag
nese coffee is to drink. Several touch
SALT WATER TAFFY,“ by Co
mance and make believe, And whet
st romanee ehich covered their mecling
upon the supernatural, and handle this
nam)
mother or teacher who has tried telling
und the first months of their Hife together
+THE MANSIONS or PHLLosc
unlikelg motif in a felicitous and thrilling
a good story well, has not hnd eracllg
is soon worn to nothing in the endless
Durant (Simon & Schuster).
fashion. Schnitzler does masterly work
this experience.
CTHE CRADLE OF THE DEE
pursuit. Terrg, being cieverer than Cliff,
when he treads the borderline beiween
Lowell (Simon & Schuster).
strikes ouf for herself aftera While bul is
truth and fantasy: the render 18 no less
Of immense help to storg tellers in
subiiect to sentimental relapses, during one
echilarated than confused br beinz mede
achleving the true magie will be Mr.
of which her new Pfriend“ fires her bag¬
to breathe alternate gusts of nir from
Nowlin's book.
What Missouri
gaße into the street. Then ensues a com¬
He traces the origin of the story, Trom
pliested surgession of intrigues, schemes, Ivo ullen untverses.
Kansas Authd
Ds vurliest dngs so pranest tine und
14. Littie Novels
Kansas City Journa
14
Comment and Reviewsfrom the Book Won
apart from the rest of the voll
POET.
Sophisticated.
an Italian peasant boy, a
Kansas Cityan's
blinded his brother Geronime
Romantics by.
Splendid Book
airgun when both were small
afterward devoted his life t
Schnitzier
on Story Telling
fortunate. When their father
LITTLE NOVELS.Ba -Arther
·THE STORY TELLER AND HIS
failed and the two were cast
Schnitzler (Simon and Schust 82.50.
the world, Carlo was eyes am
PACK.“ By Prof. Clifford H. Nowlin
Reviewed br
Geronimo as they journeyed ##
(Bradley).
BABETTE DEUTSCH.
to village with their guitar, in
DOR those parents and educaotrs who
bed and bread and wine.
IOST of the ten stories that make un
T know through experience the magie
passing tourist’s ill na
A
Witbis littie book very cieariy tdate.“
of story telling and who have wished
32
rouses in Geronimo the skulh
It is not only because of the style of the
longfor a means of enriching their Story
cion that Carlo has been ch#
ladies' coiffures, nor yet the fact that
telling abllitg as well as their material,
of the coin bestowed on both,
they drive to the ball in carrlages rather
the perfect book has appeared.
utter despair Carlo does actuc
than motors. Nor is it owing to the lead¬
The Story-Teller and His P’ack.“ pr
twenty-franc piece and prete
ing themes: the frailty of women, the
Elifford H. Nowlin, principal of East
brother that he had withhel
beadlong passion of men¬themes which
high school, is a treasure mine #ch in
in order to keep Geronimo fro
were a commonplace when Cleopatra
precions material. Its theme is the story,
it away. The two are soon a
flourished and a familiar jest to Poti¬
its origin, its psychology, its power of en¬
and on the way to the sta
phar’s servants. These tales date be¬
#terteinment, its myriad possibilities in the
Carlo's misery reached its ac
cause of the viewpoint that is implieit
ballding of character and ideals in chil¬
Geronimo, he imagines, is no
in them and that seems somehow as re¬
dren. The book covers storg telling from
him a common thief, though
mote as the waltzes of Strauss, the warm¬
early childhood, up through high school
rifling the pockets of strangen
skinned luscions models of Stuck, the
and college, even to the time of the pub¬
Ig as nastg as the thought
fabnlons gayety of pre-war Vienna.
lic speaker and his use of aneedoles,
George 0’Neil, whose new book of
has robbed his blind brother.
To describe the viewpoint in two words
Truly', it is an elastie hardbook of story
verse," God Beguiled,“ has been published
impossible to explain the th
would be to call it sophisticated roman¬
telling, designed to help the average per¬
recentlg by Horace Liveright.
magistrate: its actual moti#
ticism. Sex is the guiding force in ihe
son to become proficient in storg telling
plausible. Just when Carlo's
lives of the qutte trivial people with
The fact that Mr. Nowlin is a Kansas
ness seems as impenetrably b
whom the story-teller concerns himself,
City man and a prineipal of one of ouf
of tale telling from the ancient fables,
darkness in which Geronimo
but though they commit murder and
high schools, makes his book a bright
Through the maze of modern fables, par¬
blind man drops the guitar, s
shoot themselves because one woman is
feather indeed in Kansas Citg’s #iterary
ables, allegories, myths, fairy, tales,
his arms and kisses Carlo on
more faseinating or one man more at¬
cap.
household tales, epie stories, biograph¬
That roment sets back th#
tractive than another, the thing that
First hand experience has guided Mr.
### tales, animal lor and short stories
poor Carlo; the world becon
drives them lacks the terrible signifi¬
Nowlin inthe preparatior of his ex¬
###the modern day.
in which, jail or no jail, blin
cance that it has for a writer like D. H.
tremely worthwhile book. His personal
In all or these phazes of tale telling.
no such thing, one can live
Lawrence, and one feels thaf all these
practice in classroom story telling has
the author traces the origin of each, its
and contentment. His bro#
bullets and all this blood are like the
#been extensive and he has also done
various classification and characteristics.
stored to him, his lifelong s#
cigarettes that used to be manufactured
great deal of work as entertainer in storz
as well as when, rhy and where such
ompensed, his peace made
for ladies—disguised by a faint flavor of
programs befor audiences of vonns
stories are suitable.
spite of the fact that Geronin
violets. There is nothing here of ele¬
mothers, teachers, newsboys, high school
Speaking of fairy tales, he says, "In
processes are not made as
mental fury, of animal urgency.
pupils, soldiers and prisoners. He is, in
the geography of childhood there is no
desirable, the tale is a lovely
truth, a born story teller and that he
brighter spot than fairy land. This
deeply moving and full of vig
Not that the stories are lacking in the
should write the sort of book he has
realm of lightsome elves and fairies, of
derness. It is the one story
sardonic quality which one has come 1o
seems a natural consequence
horrible goblins and trolls, was discov¬
that deals with common fo#
associate with Schnitzler; but his is a
ered during the early life of the race.
riously enough, the author
Mr. Nowlin'’s first introduction tothe
smiling cynicism, an irong strangely
Instead of it being the most frivilous of
more credible and certainly
blunted ! urbanity. No final ugliness
magic of story telling was at bis mother's
fancies, tlie fairy tale is one of the most
touching figures than any of
quite cancels the glamour that be cannot
knee—the natural field for the earlg de¬
earnest products of the mind of man;
riduen barons, sculptors and
refrain from casting uponthe most
velopment of a love of storg telling, he
the love of the fairg storg is onc of 1b:
Howeuer seductive the wor
fragile relation between a pwir of casual
says—and much of the material he ab¬
most significant of the child’s interest.“
those gentlemen so grace
lovers, like a mundane halo. One has
sorbed there he has used as a background
1t is exactlg in such a clear understand¬
however rough and dismal #
but to contrast these #little novels“ with
in his school work and to entertain bis
ing of children, that the value of this
blind Geronimo, one is gru##
those Stripped tales in 7hich Heming¬
four dauchters. Thig seconnte in furge
auchof’s work is revealed.—L, #I. C7.
glimpse into that more hone
wr, for example, exhibits the Teebleness
mensure forthe fluent, lueid method fol¬
and folly of his intimates, to recognize
lowed in his book and his evident under¬
the gulf that lies between the world of
standing of children, their likes and dis¬
Heading the I
Machinations
Selmitzler’s sophisticated romarties and
likes.
FICTION.
the post-war world of Hemingway’s hard¬
Mr. Nowlin brings out in countless dif¬
FALL. QUIFT ON THE WEST
Designed to
boiled wenklings. Both writers are deal¬
by Erich Maria Remarque (Littig
ferent ways the good effect of storg
ing with people who are eruel because
Prolong Life
·DODSWORTH, by Sinclair Le
telling and its power to swar the emo¬
theg are cowards, people who are the
Brace).
tions of children. How much more ef¬
·TIMES SAUARE.“ By Cornell Wool¬
·SCARLET SISTER MARY,
creatures and the victims of their littie
fective, he urges, is the dramatie appen!
rich (Horace Liveright). 82.00.
kin (Bobbs, Merrill).
lusts, people who are relieved from the
of a well told story compared to those
THIE BLACK CAMEL,“ by Ear
Reviewed by
pressure of economic necessity to no pur¬
time honored makeshifts to good be.
(Bobbs, Merriil).
pose. But whereas Hemingwar’s char¬
MARGARET CHENEY DAWSON.
havior, viz., scolding, threatening and
·VISTTORS TO HUGO,“ by All
acters are sick with the knowledge of
man (Minton, Balen)
punishing.
•PPHE author of“Children of the Ritz,“
their own frustrated existence and his
·DARK HESTER,“ by Anne
A story is a sort of magie wand, atthe
1 now being shown in New York movie
tales vivid with disgust, Schnitzler’s char¬
wick (Houghton, Mifflin).
command of mother or teacher who #.
bills, has written another einemasque
NOKFICTION.
acters live in an atmosphere perversely
its use, brings relief swiftlg and surelz
It concerns the endless tawdry
StOrF.
VHENRY TIIE EIGHTH,“ by E
enticing as the taint in gamy ment.
#to tired, fretful children. With the tell¬
machinations be which Cliff Reill, and
(Horace Liveright).
Butif there is something old-fashioned,
ing of an absorbing story a mether’s lan
uTHE ART OF THINKING,“ b
Perrg Londres prolonged life and songht
and so slightly unreal, about most of
becomes a sort of wishing rarpet that
net (Simon & Schuster).
to escape the boredom thereof. Primarily,
there stories, all of them are skillfullz
wafts Mary and Johung für, für away
UA PREFACE TO MORALS,“ b
of course, they are busy secking the
written and are as casy to read as Vien¬
man (Macmillan).
over land and sea, to the world of ro¬
necessarg funds, and the greasg nitle rag
nese coffee is to drink. Several touch
SALT WATER TAFFY,“ by Co
mance and make believe, And whet
st romanee ehich covered their mecling
upon the supernatural, and handle this
nam)
mother or teacher who has tried telling
und the first months of their Hife together
+THE MANSIONS or PHLLosc
unlikelg motif in a felicitous and thrilling
a good story well, has not hnd eracllg
is soon worn to nothing in the endless
Durant (Simon & Schuster).
fashion. Schnitzler does masterly work
this experience.
CTHE CRADLE OF THE DEE
pursuit. Terrg, being cieverer than Cliff,
when he treads the borderline beiween
Lowell (Simon & Schuster).
strikes ouf for herself aftera While bul is
truth and fantasy: the render 18 no less
Of immense help to storg tellers in
subiiect to sentimental relapses, during one
echilarated than confused br beinz mede
achleving the true magie will be Mr.
of which her new Pfriend“ fires her bag¬
to breathe alternate gusts of nir from
Nowlin's book.
What Missouri
gaße into the street. Then ensues a com¬
He traces the origin of the story, Trom
pliested surgession of intrigues, schemes, Ivo ullen untverses.
Kansas Authd
Ds vurliest dngs so pranest tine und