The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-07

Uoan11 stanley Lee after yea
- 3 half OF work on his book o
1nee4cAn twentieth century philo
10y. eve Just published b
uhleday. Page a Co. finds relax
- IN an intimate chat with nj
aere In the current issue OF his lit
xnNp1fne Mount Tom. His infor
- thorns 10 how he feels now tina
NPoss n finixhed. He calls his essay
TAoughte the Morning After =.
The idea that AL work on ~
rnaohod leAvms him, as he puts IL
~ "a roma feeling He declares
- Ae misses the exercise of maklne
&1I1laN he calls nice twirling PROOF
zSnrrookions. "-''Things with eeaulN
n11p." Until ne wrote Crowns, ne
S1 RnnfOsvea he had es a writer very
na1l. select audience. that is-him
"a Al that time. before, so he says
" ~ sssiumped into being an aHthof,
Eska explains tina, he wrote mercy le
rork out more clearly for nimse,i his
bwn ideas. He SAYS hea no
ri nore thought when ! had an idea OF
*cRsr4nr IL TO anybody else than
Is ruuld think at a dinner table DOW
whsu n hit OF beefsteak ~ balanced
t%t,n my fork OF waving II around cor
daily and offering to put II In some
u body else's mouth.
The Birth OF David Gray%on.
s& m recognition OF the widespread
4 frterest aroused by the announcement
I that Ray stanrard Baker IS I@Nid
fsrnyson." the New York Sun has
gone after Mr. Baker 70 get the whole
Is story.
u Th. interviewer asked Mr. Baker
~ his home in Amherst how David
h fSrayson came 70 live He was born,
II apnears in 1905. Mr. Baker
rps at that time IN small
down in Michigan, and his work was
writing articles on many serious sub
sects a work which nc ,essitated wide
travelling and a rather strenuous LITE
I Frequently tired not only physically
z but weary Of the comnlexity and EVIL
of the social and industrial conditions
,~nf which he WIS writing Mr. Baker
4 found refreshment in writing in his
note books little sketches Of country
life with a number Of others he
4 ha6 4ugt taken over The American
q Magazine and 70 meet the demand on
4 him for copy he got oHi his note
& hooks. par together a few NJ his
SEefches there AMI gave Them fffH
tltIe OF Adventures in Coutentment."
% AT that time he felt he says. thar
. che books and articles he was writing
under his Own name were OF far
greater importance than the David
Grayson writings
Mr.. Baker SAYS ot his lonK-kept Sc
cret:
The only person In the Office who
knew at the time Of the identity OF
David Gravson was John Phillips. ard
~ was many months and even years
before some OF my most intimate
inffsce associates found out. The first
book WAS placed with Doubleday.
PAGE a. Co. through n secret contract
with David Grayson and then Walter
VI. Page and entered into second
scontraet confirming the David Gray
son agreement Mfr Page was the
Scniy one ~ my publishers TO know
fer many years hut Of course. II leak
sed out In the Doubleday. Page e. Co.
grrganizafson bit by hit II - strange
Though. how long and how completely
sthe secret wa@ kept. isn't &? Ten
years. this year.
'sThe Conqueror''
II Is Interesting IN note that prac-
n *irsiiy the entire comment of tho
press on the recently published
a.at.fahIngranhx' nf Dr-EsAuard- I.4x-
session Trudeau has taken the form
sgof popular sermons That rather
Il worldly publication. Golfers Weekly
IN an editorial which begins Not al
& WAYS does the conqueror wear shinini
1 Armor" SAYS:
II -invallds. II nil the Victims
u 81 self-pity who idle their wa,
s hronEh this world "a burden To 1
1 and to themselves~~woaid rise to III
u inspiration OF DIR. Edward T.'vinesto,
sss Trudeau the Beloved pANsctan." 1
4 they would eonsecrate their live.
u however mIsshapen and wounded I
IIsaome cause greater than their ow
H. rnomentary romfurt-if they wou1
q hid the BODY mind Its functions an
u refuse tn at II control the spirit
HI then might they he cured of their In
q trinity and count themselves worker
g Of a new miracle.
81 20. Henry--Murderer''
That 10 the startling caption for
4 four line editorial in p recent issue o
Ill Golfers n seems that Il is Profes
1or Pattee Of pennAylvania stat
college who accuses o Henry Tn
professor SAWS he KILLED the America,
ElNhort story. What De Quincy woul,
SscAll Murder rs one OF the fine arts
aefemarks Golfers and concludes
Will sons more executioners like Q
Henry please step lively"
Art and War
How the war will affect iiteratur
@rnd the ar' that is 10 come Is IA
QlrFisHn- IH' u no" ma
&NMecfed the literature which was he
Tore Is an idea not SO generally cur
Y ront. Nothing however. now seem
- II was before, In an added chm n
#Aor 10 \ new edition Of his well
Skm0wn book. '~rh. Gothic Quest
p1Ultshsd by Doubleday. Page e. 90
HAiph Adams Cram reviews mum
N mr. Of things which since the wa
6F0ke out all seem curiously jejune
He says: Somehow II never oc
4 ourfUd 70 any one that art Is by
pEoduct, q thFg that comes into ex
1soaases dur.nf the process OF obtain
Mfng sumething else. and that Il 1
n0vNr 70 be obtained texcept as n,
EeGo0efve arttfce) by direct action
- ~. Cram holds that II liz mo
80 mNoh to hope that one result @
- wxr may be a return to the oil
v9Uw Of art that saw II as a result an,
mot ~ a product"
Soophcn Leacock on o. Henry
Perhaps as whole hearted n tribute
M q. Henry as can he found anywhere
Appears In Stephen Leacock's book
1ast published Essays and Ilterar,
tSsdies." In his essay The Amaz,
- Genius Of 0. Henry the essay!s'
Ays:
IL IL hard indeed to illustrate O
Eenry'e genius by the qpotat!on o
nh