New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
Blu Arthur Gleason

pretty much everything in their shop GATOR
and contributor, and proofreader and ONCE
boy because their papers are often Ohe-m"l'
concerns man believes something hard'
and. being Irish. he has the knack OF state
ment, so he publishes paper. One OF tnem
told US he had a weekly circulation OF lO'VOV'
Another had 5000 These weeklies have It-
erary quality. One Of them, New ireland
is stuffed full Of good things by A. En James
Stephens. Katharine lyman, and the rest
Of that gifted group. There IS something
pathetic about the editors am speaking OF;
I met several Of them. don't mean pitiaole'
because you don't pity men who are better
than you are. But there seemed something
hopeless about the success OF their EFFORTS
within any span Of time that would concern
them at all | suppose 1t is just an extern
sion Of the feeling that we have about any
clean. unrewarded effort in this present
world Of ours. where men Of the sort Of these
Irish editors. with fine hopes about humanity
in their heart, go lean and tired to their
graves. Some Of them are already in prison.
and more Of them will be before the lrsh
question is we'll settled.
Coming back TO England, one has 20 have
1.-THE Nation" "The Nation" is very much
ike our own "New Republic" But what IS
discovery in "The New Republic becomes
formula in "The Nation" "The New Re
public" is cocksure. omnIscient, and Im-not-
arguing with you-Im -telling-yOu, because
its background is scanty, and It has the
freshness Of virgin mind "The Nation IS
all background, and so is little weary. IL
has the slightly fatigued mind Of one VINO
has lived lifetime with the noble asplra-
tions Of our better class radicals and needs
change. but won't take it. | have read
"The Nation" since 1908, and | never felt
this ennui so much as during these war
months Like many other radicals 1t was
caught between the Zeppelins and the SUD
marines without programme. 1t mad noun
ing to say, and said it. Latterly It mas nad
rebirth Bertrand Russell published a
fascinating book a few months ago, called
"Prncipes Of Social Reconstruction"
have been watching that book seep out
through me pores of "The Nation ever
since. "The Nation" makes me tired, be
cause its sincerity is stale. But for all that
it is one Of the best weeklies in England,
and it comes closer to interpreting the vital
thought of England, the currents of tendency
than any paper known to me. Only wish
II were not so langud in telling about vital
thought 1t is, of course, we'll written;
quality il shares with forty other papers
That gift of a good working style IS rather
widespread. II comes of having a literary
tradition and we'll read university crowd.
There must be two or three hundred men IN
England with a clear and satisfactory teen
niuue Who in our country writes we'll
outside OF Edith Wharton and Howells and
Walter Lippmann and few more of the
younger men?
Speaking of THE New Republic"
Speaking of 1.-The New Republic" Leo
Maxse. of "The National Review" and Mas
sngham. Of THE Nation" unite IN quoting
from il. Men like Lord Miner "see" 1t.
Professor Graham Wsllas said to me: oval
ter Lippmann has 4 mind with an edge. lie
NAV we'll develop into a great democratic
leader"
was taught at Yale to regard The Attn
enaum" as the authoritative paper Of the
English language in literary criticism. and,
having built that into my formative years,
can no more shake the belief than | can free
myself of the idea that we are the home OF
the free and the brave. But | shall have to
let it 90 at that, because often escape from
It in it's later sociological days to the clever
and breezy opening paragraphs of The Sat
urdav Review" They state the news of the
week in one hundred word summaries, which
are equally charming on the death OF
Greek professor and the rotten radlcallsm
Of modern thought. | like The Saturday
Review" The National Review" and THE
Morning Post" for an impotent hate which
they have in common. love to watch wha,
psycho-analysts term a complex uncoil It
self periodically and writhe around in the
public eve They each have a nest of com
plexes. and all have the same completes
Thev hate Germans. labor. radcalsm and
tho irish with fine fresh enthusiasm. which
results in lively writing. In this bad modern
world they have lost their public and they
see their future traied out behind them like
foamy wake But they go INTO dissolution
with a zest. The war has partly spoiled
their pleasure. because German misdeeds
gave them a legitimate and a popular object