Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-21
PHILADELPHIA STARTS
NEW VERSE MAGAZINE
First Issue of Contemporary
Verse Shows Able Editing.
Other Book Notes


ard s. Graham, Jr.. Devereaux c.
Josephus and Samuel Mccoy, have not
only put out a handsome little booklet
in their first issue, but have induced a
really distinguished roster of poets to
contribute. Among writer's represented
are Joyce Kilmer, Hermann Hagedorn
Walter $. Hinchman, Edward j. OBrien
Phoebe HOFFMAN, Max Eastman, Mary
Stuart Tyson Marianne Moore, James b.
Richardson, William Rose Benet and
Amory Hare Cook.
Contemporary Verse is published by
the editors at 209 Chestnut avenue, Chest
nut Hill, and sells for 10 cents copy.
George M. Trevelyan, author of THE
Life Of John Bright" who is at present
doing Red Cross work In Italy. has
recently been decorated by the italian
Government for bravery under fire.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, TO be known in
the future as the author OF "The Story
of Pioneer" as well as for her work
for equal suffrage, is now out Of danger
from her severe attack of pneumonia.
She is recuperating at Moylan, Pa, which
she reached luckily just in time to be i'll
In her own home.
H. G. Wells, the writer, In a recent ar
ticle reviewed some of the lucky hits and
the mistakes II. @. Wells. the prophet,
had made In his earlier books. In AN
ticlpations" some of his prophecies read
like reports of war correspondents at the
front; as, for instance, when he says that
balloons will hang above the firing line,
incessantly ascending and Withdrawing,
determining the distribution of the an
tagonists forces' and FOR eight miles
on either side of the firing lines-whose
fire will probably never altogether die
away while the war lasts-men will live
aV.I II 4
of unanticipated death" But on the
other hand, he wrote, "I must confess
that my imagination, in spite even of
squirting, refuses to see any sort of sub
marine doing anything but suffocate its
crew and founder at sea-"
With the ever-increasing literary vogue
of the trilogy and the three-voume novel
1t was perhaps not entirely out OF order
when an interviewer the other day asked
Ellen Glasgow If there was to be a third
volume to complete the set of which
Virginia" and her new book, Life and
Gabriella,' make the logical first two
After the interviewer had passed the
various signposts along the line of Miss
Glasgow's literary development she (the
interviewer) asked If Miss Glasgow could
say just what prompted her to do two
such books as Virginia" and Life and
Gabriela."
Before writing Virginia." she said,
81 became very much interested in the
relations of individuals to the facts of
their lives. 1 planned to do three fem
mime biographies, showing different ex-
amples of such reactions. The first was
Virginia. whose education, like that of
every well-bred Southern woman of her
day. was designed to use the words of
the books she studied to paralyze her
faculties, so that all danger
of mental unsettling' should be over for
ever. Virginia was the passive and help
less victim of the ideal of feminine self
sacrifice. The circumstances of her life
first moulded and then dominated her
Gabriella is the product of the same
school. but instead of being used by cir
she uses them to create her
own destiny. The two books are exact
converses. Where Virginia Is passive,
is active.
II believe" she continued, "thut n
person gets out of life just what he puts
into it-or, rather, he puts in more than
he gets out, 1 suppose, for he Is always
for something unattainable; al
ways cropping vaguely with his spirit to
find the hidden things. Gabrielle, as you
IN something or1die.'"
What about the third Individual in
the trilogy?"
THAT book may never be written" she
smiling. "If 1t should be. how
ever, it will deal with a woman who
faces her world with the weapons of in
direct influence of subtlety."
Many anecdotes of Mark Twain's life |
as Mississippi River pilot will appear
in the February instalment OF Albert |
Bigelow Paines Boys Life of Mark !
Twain" which is running as a serial In |
st. Nicholas. One of them is a story |
A-l-u
pilot. Boys" the great humorist Is re- |
ported to have said, II had great pres |
ence of mind once 1t was at a fire. An |
Did man leaned out of four-story build |
ing. calling for help. Everybody In the |
crowd below looked up, but nobody did |
anything. The. ladders weren't long |
enough. Nobody had any presence OF |
but me- came to the
escue. yelled for a rope. When it came |
| threw the old man the end OF it, He |
taught 1t. and l told him to tie 1t around |
mis- waist. He did SO. and I pulled him
Town.
Mr.. Norman Angel, whose last book, |
The Worlds Highway" deals most |
and suggestively with the
problem which America is now facing in |
Ter negotiations with the Teutonis pow
RS over the sinking of passenger vessels.
las just left for Central and South Amer
ca, IN oruer 10 recover from the aIter-
nath of grip.
Mr.. Angel. who has written good deal
IN Latin-American revolutions and the
haracter OF Latin-American government.
will be able to compare conditions as
hey exist in those States now and when
le last visited them nearly 20 years ago..
Miss Winifred Holt, who Is doing mar
,elous work among the blind soldiers In
France, Will open in Paris next month.
n a beautiful old palace in the Square
a lighthouse similar TO the
Jew York institution, with it's motto
Light Through Work" Miss Holt went
o France thoroughly equipped for her
work. She has studied not only the linn
but also the possibilities OF the
lind. One OF the most inspiring records
Il achievement is her Life of Henry
Tawcett, published about year ago by