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:;3a,£^ "~â„¢v â- " " THE LAKK SffHPff NEW$,JmiDA^lMI^ [Book Reviews By John Philip Morris If any one of the seven faithful who ad my reviews each week is so for- nate as to have an income of $25,000 year, they might just as weUstop ading this one right here and de- ur to the Society page. Such a one could not have any sym- athy or understanding with my view- oint of BLACK OXEN, and must tand arrayed and agreed with the uthor, Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. BLACK OXEN disregards the ex- stence of us hoi polloi. Mrs. Ather- fcon's characters are the sort where even the men's whiskers are gilded and where the women live in that elysium where the woman's three deadly Ms-^money, maids and mean- gesâ€"cease to trouble. And yet BLACK OXEN is not a book of snobs. The characters are innocuous and simple in their thoughts and deeds. Its all in the superciliousness of the telling. Coming again to our muttons, the Eternal Verities, let me say that no great book can be tropical, and a novel built upon the thesis of a popular lad can not endure long enough to be more than a summer cloud upon the sky of literature. A book can be built on an improb- ability and be an interesting and an â€"absorbing hook. Wells earlier works proved that. A book may be built on an impossibility and a great fallacy and be a great book. Dante did it centuries ago. But, to be great or feSSSs^SWifHli'M!*;*ise^» I :â- ' > â- ';••>'â- ;^k •mi^mm^mmir^mmm 9 even good, such a book must ring true and carry conviction and must have something to offer besides the banal drizzle of contemporaneous chatter and the synthetic philosophy that an unlearned author grinds out to fill the gaps between conversations. BLACK OXEN tells us nothing, BLACK OXEN answers none of the thousand frantic problems that are to- ~4ay=eoniconAiniL4is^~BLACK jQXEN has been "raved" over as a wonderful study in character but I for one can- not see it, and Mary Zattiany arid Clavering, I feel, will be forgotten with the turning of the last page. Mrs. Atherton has a high place in the literary world. She has stormed the walls of fame with a long ladder of books. She is a wealthy woman and she doesn't care who knows it. She is far above my criticisms, and even if Cousin Ira has been made a Swedish Knight and even if J. Ogden has given the whole world an absorb- ing interest in our name, she may well say of a John Philip Morrisâ€"what is it?â€"still, what a good tuneeWiUiam Makepeace Thackery would have had "cfisecting Gertrude and how he would has revealed in her peculiar psychol- ogy and her social inhibition. Stuart Chase says that there are one quadrillion, eight hundred trillion words printed each year in the United •tem Tkt %n million or so used up in BLACK OXEN might have been used to draw otlier loads. I may be peculiar but, honestly, I was disap- mAni fcldxfTully disappointed in ^ACK OXEN, those beasts that jWui , Iong years and the longest and blackest to me seemed the eterni- r^fr^r ,lt *®ok--m*-to-read BLACK OVEN that I might tell you< that I had done so. John PHilip Morris. ONLY 44 YEARS AGO In April, 1879, the London Times printed a letter from a reader pro- testing against electric lighting of Albert Hall as a "very ghastly and un- pleasant innovation." From Your Feet AUTOMOBILE PAINTING of the Highest Quality Wersted Motor €o^ Phone Winnetka 165 The comfort that begins in your feet doesn't stop there. First, it makes your step light and elastic, so that your weight is swung easily from one foot to the other. 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