"Tue, Tare or Sr. Dosmic (1370- heath." "By "Bede "Jarrett, Barns Oates and Washourne. 6
Father Bede Jarrett, the present head of the Dominican Order in England, has done well to produce this popular and interesting biorgraphy of his Patriarch. For hundred persons who believe themselves to be familiar with the personality of St. Francis, not one could give a coherent account of the character and life of St. Domi yet the services which his order have rendered to religion and to learning are at least as conspicuous 'a8 those to which the Friars Minor can lay claim, Dominic had not, it is true, the special charm of Francis. He was neither mystic nor poet. Yet the description given by an early biographer, drawn from memories hhis associates, suggests somethin: better than the grim dogmatist of Protestant tradition. "He began to appear among his brother Canons as a bright ray of sunshine, in hum-Dleness of heart the least, in holiness the first shedding around him the fragrance of quickening life, like the sweet scent of pinewoods in the heat of-a summer's day."
This aspect of a saint whose aus-towards others was exceeded Taised by Miss "Alice Law in her brief, lucid, and, on the whole, tem-
MEN ARE STUPID—berately. argued. book, Waxoenine Stan." Clemence By Dane. (Heinemann.
The fact that men are stupid would be taken a little more lightly by all of us if the clever ones who sist on it would only admit that, occasionally, women are stupid tox, Miss Clemence Dane's Damaris, Page is stupid enough, but her author insists on treating her tend ly as a wronged, misunderstood, frustrated creature, while Greydon Hi She has Branwell Bronte"
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evidence with care, and if not exactly added to it, she has at rate added to its coherence, Her book, therefore, is deserving of serious consideration, For our part, howe we remain without the lightest doubt that "Wuthering Height Bronte. pects herself s" was written by Emily, doubt it is in some masculine, but then Emily, was in cious indignation. tempted, as we rea Stars, to echo our grandmother's favourite comment the modern is a successful Damaris Page his leading lady and Tave with him; though they write a play together, and Damaris insinuates her 0 wu character and point of view into the heroine, Hart never regards her as' anything but an. extremely competent actress. on its appearance it was very gen= rally taken to be the work of a Reviewers "are not safe in ing from the work to the sex its author, and we may call to mind. the "assumption of one tinguished critic of Tennyson's "In Memoriam' that it proceeded from "the fall heart of the widow of a military man." "That Emily. could pot have written "Wuthering Heights" needs a great deal more demonstration thun hus yet. been offered us. She was the most powerful and original woman genius our poetry has had, and not easily Seven years later—Hart has been in [can Wwe set limits to the capacity of Ame 1—he hears from a third per-that genius in prose fiction. son how Damar has loved him, true that "Wathering Heights" im and how his failure to recognize it parts deals with material which earn hax altered her beyond words, and, hardly have come within. Emily's mentally, turned the play' from experience, but with which Branwell tragedy to irenic farce. Prefixed "o was more or less familiar. Tf that story is "The Lover," which is proves anything, however, 1 is only the story of the play Hart wrote for that Emily was willing. to. wtlize, Damaris. with something of the ruthlessne Neither in conception nor treat-of the artist, the troubles of a black ment can this book ko with Miss sheep brother. It does not. at all Dane's earlier work. All her faults, prove that Branwell had the ability especially her persistent. illusion to Write that great masterpiece, that masculinity consists of nothing He was clever, certainly; he. ims but trousers and thickheadedness, pressed people; the taverns have Iways had in them men clever in little of her interpretati fare exaggerated here; and there is intuition anwell's way, quick enough of in the portrait of Damaris in the wit, When it was livened up. with liquor, to strike the uncritical. og one story or of Hester Peile in the other. men of genius. That he had the the Lover" is, however, cer-sustained" imaginative "power tainly the better of' the two, though Miss Dane is a little too write "Wuthering Heights" there is not a shred of evidence. Nor is the solemn for the fantasy which plays around understanding of passion displayed the figures of the real by the book at all helpful to. the husband and the mirror husband. case for Branwell. As was pointed out some 20" years ago.
Maeterlinck, the book shows a pro-
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