The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-06
DENTAL SURGEON

had admitted her guilt she amused
herself and her companions by adding
more letters, gradually describing the
entire ALLEN" family and its acquaint-
ances. Some of these were published
in the Ladies Home Journal. Now
that in their completeness they have
been issued in book form the whole
country is quoting Miss Don worth's
witticisms, such as Mr.. Spinney says
you can't rise with the lark if you've
been on one the night before" or He
is a Maine man, but a perfeck gentle
man. So is his mother or again,
I'VE are going to live close to my
folks so l can help them when they
need me, and his mother is going TO
live with u.s. NV cup runneth over"
In spite of occasional broad touches
the general quality of Miss Donworth's
work puts her in the same class with
the more subtle school of humorists
like Mr.. Crothers, Robert Grant, Wit
ter Bynner, whose recent lode to Har-
ward contains some of the brightest
touches of fancy of any recent poem,
Ralph Bergengren, in whom Golfers
Weekly Just now announces a combi
nation of Lewis Carroll and Frank
Stockton, and Agnes Repplier, whose
fund OF brilliant wit accumulates
steadily, year by year. Jennie Al
lens" humor in some respects resem-
bles that of Father John B. Tabb. the
prevailing quality in whose delightful
ly funny verses, as in his "Quips and
Quiddits,'' and Child Verse" is one
of subtlety, although he now and then
breaks forth into something broad
and dangerously near being unclericaI
as in his often quoted quip;
"A pious prelate used to- ride
A donkey which, alas
His patience being often tried
He called Eu-iamid-as:-
A name he emphasized or not
AS grew his temper cool or hot
1t comparatively seldom happens
that humorist who if found" as be-
longing to one of these two distinct
schools passes over to the other after
ne has been discovered, although
among writer's of comic verse and
prose William F. Kirk was simpIe
and delicate in his lyrics of The
Norsk Nightingale, while no one can
accuse him of extreme delicacy as he
records the discussions between the
Man>fure Lady and the Barber or re-
produces the compositions of Little
Bobbie.
No conspicuous find of the broad
school of humor has been proclaimed
by any publishing house in the pres
ent year. Probably the most noted
humorist, indeed, of this STAMP whs
has come into prominence in recent
years is Ellis Parker Butler. whose
Pigs Is Pigs" started a chuckIe that
extended from the Atlantic TO the Pa
cific. Another of Mr. Buffers works
representing his style at its best is
his Perkins OF Portland" the story
of the advertising man who perform
ed commercial miracles with his catch
phrases, such as 'Murdocks soap is
pure soap; if you don't believe il, bite
it," and his
Perkins paper porous plaster
Makes all pains and aches fly faster"
Among the broad school humorists
would probably be placed Mr.. Dooley4
CPeter Finley Dunne) who has sue
cessfully worked the same vein for
more than ten years. His two earliest
books, Mr.. Dooley In Peace and in
War" and MIR. Dooley in the Hearts
of His Countrymen" were among the
greatest discoveries evr made by an
American publishing house. They now
count among the classics of American
humor Off which there is the same
kind of continuous demand as for
Mark Twain'S works or for Stockton's
-'Rudder Grange" Another, of course.
is the versatile George AIDE. In
somewhat the same class, though OF
more variable talent, is the prolific
Holman F. Day, who lives in Maine
and writes books of verse about
Maine people with a mission-that
mission being, accordin gto a preface
written for one of his volumes by his
friend, Congressman Charles Little
field. ito sell as many copies as pos
sible." Other excellent hlunorists who
belong with the testers rather than
with the graceful essayists are. of
course. GILLETTE Burgess. of Purple
Cow fame. whose Gage of Youth
and -Viyetter- have however shown
him in more subtle light; Oliver Her