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...MARCO MILLIONS-Eugene Neill-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Merchant Polo, mediaeval babbitt; published before produced...
WHEN, some three or four years ago, Donn Byrne wrote "Messer Marco Polo", people said in effect "He has written his masterpiece; he will never be able to surpass this in delicacy or in colorfulness." Last year when "Hangman's House," appeared as a best seller in the stalls people were a bit surprised. Here was a book that not only rivaled "Messer Marco Polo" on its own ground, so to speak, but had something else beside--a haunting something, intangible but with a sweet tang to it, like the smell of lavender or the earth after a rain...
...first non-love-story Donn Byrne has written, the attempt of a prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers to the earlier Byrne manner. People who remember and relish how Messer Marco Polo was drawn to the Old Man of the Mountains by white magic, for example, will have difficulty distinguishing between florid fantasy and sincere interpretation when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling, pad-padding, loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing...
...natural thing, that the West has always had an interest in the East, ranging from the practical ideas of traders to the romantic notions of poets. For most of us, however, the East is thought of as a new discovery; a discovery that begins with the thrilling adventures of Marco Polo. Few realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely Mongolian types...
...acres of dust traversed by caravans of jolting carts and finally by camels into the great northern desert compose the panorama, which finally reaches its climax at the beginning of the snow-less Mongolian winter when the expedition sights the walls of ancient Kharakhoto, the Black City of Marco Polo, deserted for centuries to the shifting sands of the desert, a romantic paradise for the adventuring archaeologist...