New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-16
CURRENT TALK ABOUT
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Mr. Shaws Adjective magists, English and American
Junipero Sierra, the Founder OF the California
Mssons-An Involuntary Hoax.

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Missions-An Il
The use OF the adjective bloody by
the cockney flower girl in Mr. SHAW
"Pygmalion" has probably done more
to advertise the play in England than
all it's cleverness. Concerning the
origin of its present day significance in
the speech of the English proletar'at,
the oxford Dictionary" has this to
say:
In general colloquial use from the Re
storation TO 1850, now constantly III we
of the lowest classes, put pS
respectable people considered a "horrlu
word" on a par with obscene or pto.
fame language, and usually printed by
the newspapers Din police reports, etc
BY" The origin is not quite certain.
but there is good reason TO think tnal
IL was al first a reference 10 the haDits OF
the "bloods' or aristocratic rowdies OF
the end of the seventeenth and begin
ming OF the eighteenth century.
"The Song Of Songs"
Edward Sheldon has completed his
stage version of Sudermann's Song OF
Songs" and is now in Europe to con-
fer with Charles Frohman, who Will
produce She play this fall. A transla-
ton Of the novel was published five
years ago by 3. w. Huebsch
The Imagists.
THE Anthology OF Imagists," includ-
ing verses by Ezra Pound, Ford MADDOX
Hueffer, Richard Abingdon, Amy Lo-
well. +. s. Flint, w. G. Williams. James
Joyce and Allen Upward. first pub
lished in The Glebe," is to be brought
out in book form by Albert and Charles
Boni. of this city. The Imagsts are a
group of English poets more or less re-
lated to the Italian Futurists. II has
been said that 1.-THE best reason for
their name is that they purpose to de-
stroy all previous poetry and to recre-
ate II in their own image Not all
Imagists are English; in fact, their
leader is an American, Ezra Pound.
Another American member of the
group is Amy Loweh, whose Dome OF
Many-Colored Glass" was published by
the Houghton Miffiin Company.
A New GerouId Story,
Katharine Fullerton Gorould, whose
volume. vain Oblations," has recently
been published, contributes to the June
"Scribner" a story, The Dominant
Strain" which has a new setting TOR
her-modern New York-the characters
being a very rich man and his unsym-
pathetic son. Anne II. Wharton, who
wrote the life OF Martha Washington
for the series on Women of Colonial
and Revolutionary Times" will con-
tribute 10 the same issue "A Patriotic
Pilgrimage" TO the ancestral homes OF
George Washington and Ben Franklin
in England. The Washington house,
Sulgrave Manor, has been made pub
lie museum.
Fray Junipero Sierra.
Fray Junipero Sierra. the pioneer
missionary who led an expedition from
Mexico to California and founded and
maintained the missions whose pictu-
rescue buildings still dot the king
highway from San Diego to San Fran
cisco. has found an appreciative bi-
ographer in 4. II. Fitch. The work OF
this priest, who gave a new province TO
Spain. will always remain an important
chapter in the early history OF the Pa
cific Coast. The book is published by
a. c. McClurg & Co.
City Planning.
Frank Rooster. the author OF CITY
Planning and Maintenance" (McBride,
Mast & Coz. says that the real kernel
OF city planning is the division OF the
city into zones. These zones should
he classified according to their uses
The district units are to the whole city
what the separate buildings are TO Its
civic centre. The whole purpose is 70
increase the health, comfort and con-
venience of the public, and in order Il
accomplish this it is absolutely essen
tiaI to give each citizen the greatest
possible value in housing and business
proportionate TO his in
come. the only difference being in quail
ity. Thus a mechanic in renting six
room house for his family should not
have to~pay for IL a greater proportion
of his income than the higher salaried
manager pays for six-room apart
ment, the difference in actual cost be-
ing represented by quality.
The Old Librarians Almanack."
Edmund Lester Pearson, whose Sc
cret Book has just been published by
the Macmillans, began his literary ca
reer with THE Old Librarians Al
manack." purporting to have been com
piled by one Jareb Bean, in 1913. Nr
Pearson published his clever venture
into the eighteenth century in good
faith. with no intention Of perpetrdting
a literary hoax, but 10 his surprise
and amusement the early reviewers
took il seriously as a real find from
the past. Il wrote TO put them wise,
he says, but all the other papers anc
reviews fell into the trap before W.
could do anything. IL was funny e