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The sun., 1918-11-17
By BENJAMIN DE cASSERES.

A IL books of criticism are created in
n one of three psycho-ph physical states
between yawns, during yawns or during
hangover.
The first gives us pot boilers, the sec
ond academic prose, the third Literature.
Further, once upon time a young
noodle went to Martin Luther and asked
him how he was to reconcile the mercy Of
God with the theory of predestinatiOn, and
that first and last of German rebels told
the young noodle TO go out and get drunk.
Along came, later on, one George Cor
don (aIias Lord Byron and believing he
had something to say to the world, took
off his vest, ordered a ease of burgundy
and wrote Don Juan, which slit English
middle class compiaceney clean across its
equilibrium.
Flies into our mind also Gilbert X.
Chesterton himself, who spins off liter
aturc while rolling around in taxis be-
tween Gargantuan luncheons.
The above potpOurri tapped into my
brain-left lobe-after finishing Van
Wyck Brooks's latest book, Letters and
Leadership. Each thing is born of its
opposite. If Germany had not stuck her
snout into Belgium we should never have
discovered the sublimity of France. If
Billy Sunday mad not come into New York
We should never have thought of laying
in our cellar 10000 bottles Of booze
'gainst the thirst that is to come.
SO all those classic things and epigrams
come into our head after being dosed for
two hours by the fiat, unimaginative Ok
ford style of Mr.. Brooks. He has got a
big thing TO say and doesn't say it. His
reasoning is full of semicolons. There
isn't an exclamation point in the book.
lie is the daintiest literary surgeon of
which we have any knowledge, always ex-
cepting the Beau Brummel of dissectors-
Paul Elmer More.
What's the matter with literary Amer
lea! is Mr. Brooks's theme Well, one
trouble with America is the style of Mr..
Brooks He is a victim of the malady he
Is describing. He knows so much that
knowledge has banketed all inspiration
There is the frost of reason on his wings.
He wishes to organize the "higher life"
Of America. He 'analyzes" the conditions
which hamper the free Towering of the
American spirit. He points out" this
and points OUT that, and whacks Henry
p Ford, George AIDE, Jack London, Will
lam Gillette and Thoreau. Endless pro-
fessors are quoted, when there is more in
telligence and creative stuff in the aver
age Broadway bartender than in all the
BONES of stupidity in our universities.
His dream of conscious organization,
Inc, of the "higher mind of America, is
purely Teutonic. Nowhere is the Latin
Spirit trumpeted in this book-that spirit
which is the glory of the world. We are
endessly reminded of Goethe (who was a
good deal of borc), but of the devil may
care Imagination of pure Latinity there
is nothing. What America needs is a
Rabelais, not Goethe.
The big note in the book is his insist
ence that we have no culture because we
do not want to see our experiences trans
lated into art. We want to be amused
We want TO forget. We Americans dare
not face the terrors of just living-that
The sun., 1918-11-17

"humor is what makes a man laugh, not
what Prof. HOratio Algernon Simp has
figured it out to be by the eighty-seven
rules" writes Ellis Parker Butler, author
of PhilO Gubb, to his publishers, Hough-
ton Mifflin Company. Always the prag-
matist, Ellis.
The sun., 1918-11-17
An Unusual Fairy and
Other Important Matters

G. ANITA CLAUS'S back will be quite
~ broken this Christmas if he attempts
to carry all the nice books that have been
prepared for the children. Our advice, if
it is not presumptuous to offer it, is to
consider The Shining Ship and other
Verses for Children, by Isabel Mackay, and
The Little WHfuI Princess, by David Cory,
when it comes to making selections, and
on no account to leave out The Fairy Who
Believed in Human Beings, a most IRE
sistible story written and illustrated by
Gertrude Alice Kay.
In this happy inversion of the usual
idea the author has played upon human
inclination toward diversions of all sorts,
rs for instance in Ingersolrs epigram,
IAN honest God is the nOblest work of
man." Often these diversions are val
liable aids to reflection The humility of
the mood in which we exclaim, "Can God
forgive us for being what we are7" is
met not only by shocked surprise, but with
an Illuminating theological reflection, when
one suddenly asks, Can we forgive God7'
But to return to the book in hand, if
you happen TO be One-of those solemn and
unfortunate persons who deny the exist
ence of fairies you will sympathize with
the Altogether Mean Fairy who was all
for killing little Gundy, the baby fairy
who was found on a dump and not only
made Trash Man remarks constantly but
actually believed in Human Beings. If YOU
are the other sort, which for very modesty
we must refrain from describing, you will
love Gundy and wish him nothing but
good. 1t is safe TO say that no one has
ever written of fairies with a clearer vision
and DETER touch than Miss Kay. She
knows their secret and innermOst ways
and her illustrations are absolute proof
that she has lived among them.
The Shining Ship and Other Verses for
Children is charming collection of
rhymes by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay,
which have appeared in large part in st.
Nicholas and the Youths Companion.
There are illustrations in color by Thelma
Cudlipp and some sketches in black and
white, all delightfully."- DONE From the
verses we can quote nothing more enticing
than these lines, which concern 4 Very
Exceptional Eskimo:
"When he goes to bed it is not enough
To hide his nose in bear skin muff,
But his ears he wraps, if IT'D very cold,
In feather bed, and have been told
That he toasts his head-for it really
seems,
If he didn't the cold might freeze has
dre0nSw
The Little WHfui Princess is Sunday
school story in disguise. David Cory has
selected a monkey, very wise and intelli-
gent and extremely moral, as his medium
and the little wilful Princess as victim.
The plot develops along the most approved
lines and will interest children. Elizabeth
Jones has illustrated it in black and white.
THE FAIRY WHO BELIEVED IN HUMAN
BEINGS. BY GERTRUDE ALICE KAY.
Moffat, Yard & Co. $3.50.
THE SHINING SHIP AND OTHER
VERSES FOR CHILDREN. BY ISABEL
MACKAY. George H. Doran & Co. $3.50.
THE LITTLE wILFUL PRINCESS. BY
n.r,r Hoa- AEoRok Vail ~
The sun., 1918-11-17
Fighting
Germany's Spies
By E. FRENCH STROTHER

The inside story Of many Of Cermany's plots to
destroy our property, njure our citizens and make
trouble between our Allies and US.
Secret codes and the keys to them are given.
German methods Of securing information. getting
passports for soldiers and many ether Of her dia-
beliesl Vaccinations are laid here. Mr.. Stroller.
who is the Managing Editor Of The Worlds
Work. was given exceptional opportunities to verify
the accuracy Of his statements. His revelations are
authentic and thrilling. Many pictures Of codes.
kilograms, forged papers, and portraits Of Cermanys
spies. Net. $50.
Doubleday, Page & Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
How VIII 1t Seem?

" OW will it seem when Peace comes
back once more,
After these desperate days of shatter-
ing pain?
How will it be with all of us again.
When hushed forever is the thunder cf
War?
There still are primroscs by manv
shore;
And still there bloom, in MANY = ,ove,v
lane,
hawthorn and lilacs; and the roses
stain
Is red against full many garden door,
Oh days to he. On, honeyed nights of
sleep,
When the white moon shall mount the
quiet sky!
Shall we be wholly happy when buds
creep,
Remembering those who dared to bleed
and die?
Gan we be glad again? Or shall ",
weep
For those who told this sad, glad world
goodby?
--Charles Hanson Townc, in Harper's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

Soft vague impression, as soft as
that made by a man of flesh and girth
upon a very yielding armchair. ANY
way, the impression is Paradisal-a
romantic sense of how comfortable,
heroic, grand, powerful, tender, true
hearted, virile, simple, clean-livng, radi-
ant, happy, stern, practical, unset
hsh, devoted, dashing, delicious, and well
or the British Empire is. How unmar-
nerly, how churish it is, we cxclaim. to
interrupt these p@ans of self-glorifca-
ton by the harsh reflection that every
SILVER 5, lining has cloud.-Tae London
Nation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
These CaricafureS of
famous COnfen7DO=
rary figures in. the
world of music.
drawn by Tien SfOrk,
appeared i'm 1.-THE In
fernafi0nal Studio"
A Night
Raid

('T'he Bells up to date)
EAR the mutter of the guns!-
Distant guns.
All the city sleeping silent in the
radiance Of the moon
Stirs and wakes.
Ger a sky as light as noon
Come the Huns
Come the bringing, lightning fling
ing Huns.
And it shudders and it shakes
AS the never-sleeping guns
Answer soon.
Hear the rumble and the grumble of
the never-sleeping guns.
AS they fly in wild procession
You can trace their mad pro-
BY the mutter or the shouting of the
guns.
Hank! the music of the Huns
Fateful Huns
Their metallic droning, in the clamor. of
the guns
Hear the deep reverberations
And the deafening detonations,
All the grave expostulations
Of the guns
The heavens are all attaining with the
cver-bursting shells,
With the frenzied pyromana of the mad
ly-tossing shells,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute cndeavor
Now, now to sit or never
BY the side of the pae-faced Huns.
On, the guns, guns, guns
What growl Of menace runs
Through their tone
Yet the ear it fully knows
BY the changing, and the banging,
How the danger GIBBS and flows.
Yet the ear distinctly tolls
BY the whizzing Of the shells
How the danger sinks and swells,
In the anger of the guns.
BY the sinking or the swelling of the
guns
OF the guns
1t knows the very moment of the fleeing
of the Huns,
BY the sobbing and the grooming
And the throbbing and the
moaning,
And the shril staccato shrieking of the
Eung-~-
BY the sinking and the silence OF the
guns.
Joan Cowdray, in The Living Church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Away With Trash!

FRE IS a significant paragraph
from Frederic Harrison's
"Obiter scripta," in "Thc
Fortnightly Review"
"A friend asks mc-what can | read IN
these sore times? Well! nothing new. un
loss what deals with the war or standard
literature of the old immortas. | read pa
tiently the press of all shades, except the
vi!est pacifsm. Then | read such books on
tho situation MS have just nptcd. For rest
and relief of mind I turn ITO the great
classics. have just finished Jcbb's seven
tragedies of sophoces. ! can read Virgil.
Horace, Juvennl. l read Rabcluis, Fab
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

Gods Glorious
Day
Written IN the Trenches

Written IN the Trenches
ME- darkness clutches at the land.
Darkness pricked out with
tongues Of fire,
Not such as wonderfully did stand
upon the Twelve at their desire;
a broken silence full of fear.
But, see, Gods blessed dawn is near.
The trench is filled with muffied men.
Inc dew drips from the bayonet,
Now empty is each soldiers den.
With triple care the watch is set.
The wind of dawn is in the sky,
When will the darkness fade and die.
IN front the ragged broken posts
Creep from the dimness into sight
They seem like strange, unnetn,a,
ghosts,
lhat grow in strength as grows the LIGHT.
The latest flare trails through the sky.
Mans light grows dim, Gods light is
nigh.
ne haNeu earth, the secret wood
The tangled growth of last years seed.
Are dlmly llmned, understood.
AS dawn relieves the soldiers need
Ihe darkness melts in chilly gray.
All waking things expect the day.
The heavenly east is Aecked with gold
rore-oiferlng of our lord the Sun:
The tree-crowned hills in faerie mould
clean, while beneath the white mists
run,
Nods glorious day is come, that man
May work such havoc as he can.
C. R. c.. in The Spectator
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Briefs From Billville

The members of the literary club having
enlisted for the war, there's more to eat
around these diggins now
There's but one way to make a Georgia
farmer believe that you mean business-and
that's to get back to the soil' with a hoe
in your hand.
The objection to whale steak is, in the
first place, that we're not where we can
catch whales, and even if we should hook
one, we're too poor to hire help to land it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Morsels From English Magasimes

laux, Molierc. Shakespeare, Milton: for ro-
nance Jane Austen, Scott. How boy or girl
IN these cruel days can soak themselves in
'shockers,' short stories, smart up to date
tales OF women with a past and men with
no future, | cannot understand. Yet such
pour out daily with saugrenu pictures that
could hardly amuse an GRAND boy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
The Sugarless

WELL says the editor Of "The Triton
Gazette,' eve can get along without sugar
again. For the best twenty years of our
life we did without, and never knew the
difference. Lots of unnecessary things are
considered essentials nowadays"
And, taking that for starter, nearby
poet adds:
"And now no more a Teller sees
The man-who fingered late;
Who said: 1.-TWO Jumps of sugar, pleased
Don't even take it 'straight'.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
American HumOriStS

GEORGIA they have Crib
ing working days there column he
Exchange editors
editorial
let the office of
constitution by contribution
"Ao IS Mr. Stanton? The most modest Atlanta
otter
shed Songs of the Sl
and. Little Folks
1851 of
from hc the editorial
his literary of Journalists can
measured only by millions Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
The Service-Way

We call to the Fields IN the day Of need,
When the meadows green is spread:
ION. friendly Fields, there's d world t.
feed,-
Will you answer its prayer for bread ?"
And the Fields, they say;
'Tis the service way:
Toll as you pray!'
II.
On. Fields, be fruitful, and freely give
or your golden harvest store.
1t is that q dying world may live
When Hunger cries no more!
And the Fields still say:
Tis the service way:-
Toll as you pray!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
The Northumberland

YOU see them on the bookstalls in
their gay coverings; you buy them
and read them. Pointed visions and
person'ilcatIons do not result, because
the atmosphere distilled from them is
TOO luiling and ncbulous for aurht but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

.NIHAR you gwine, honey,
w Wild lip sword an gun?
You amt gwinc ter leave us
Playtimc amt done!
Stay dar, whar de roses
Is smilin' at dc Sun;
Swecter n all de swcetes'
Playtimc amt done.
Lots o. lip chilluns,
But you's de onlies' one,
Don't you grow up, honey
Playtime amt done!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

the parson preached on "Hell Fire" and
after rcd-hot sermon a shivering brother
raised the hymn: III Want to Go There"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Word From Br'er Williams

Dc worl' is like railroad engine, an
sometimes jumps de track; but Providence
amt gwine ter let it stay in de ditch too
long.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
The Luckless One

Az A~uSAACoo OAiC
'GatoSbn dc river bank,
Sho' is de winner;
He dc fines fisherman
Catfish fer dinner.
OATS de cat wuz meant fer me,
But Mister Gator spot him;
Bigges' cat you ever see
Wish | could a got him!
SO we miss dc honcycomb--
Sandman an sinner;
Time ter hit de road fer home
An buy fish fer dinner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

is friend that won't set fire to his wings.
AS cold as they say this old world is we
don't find EN- willing to swap it for the
fireworks.
Some of the all-knowing ones have actu-
ally quit running the war and have gone to
work to make living till the war ends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Word From Br'er Williams

Oars land huff ter feed de worl', but
don't miss de fact dat it needs coaxin'. After
you git in a good workin' humor. YOU oot
ter make dc land feel good Hits de only
way ter have happy time all 'roun'.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Climate Looked Good

A correspondent of "Thc Blytheville Cou-
- says that during the recent cold spell
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Nuggets by the Wayside

De worl' owes all livin', but some don't
want ter hustle like bill collector
Some folks dat give instructions bout
how de worp orter. run can't manage them
selves two minutes.
After you gifts ter de hilltop you won't
be maxim good eff you fergits dc raisin what
raised you ter it.
When yo' done yo' duty by AKIN de
Lawd fer yo' daily bread, He wants ter sec
you hittin' hard ticks ter git it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Briefs From Billyillc

We've had billiards. TO burn but no fire
to burn 'cm.
1t amt lonesome in the wilderness when
you start sawmil to keep you company
The proftccr flies high, because the devil
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-30

urday on business.
William Macdonald is confined to
the house by illness,
Oliver Lawrence has been confined
to the house by illness.
Clark Congdon and little son are
quite i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. Rh6da Niles is spending some
time with Mrs. Henry Beagle.
Mrs. Arthur Durham has been on
the sick list during the past week.
Mrs, Fernando Bartlett spent Sun.
day with relatives in Williamstown,
Mass.
Miss Margaret Hyde has been spend
ing few days with Mr.. and Mrs. +.
T. Rice.
Mr. and Mrs Norman Bottum of
Wiliamstown, Mass, were in town
sunday.
Mrs. Fred Sickle was weekend
gnest of Miss Alice Young of
ShailSPuryroD 1oH mdf
Dewey Brohson VINO has been IN
with pneumonia Is reported better at
this writing.
John Minlhgton OF the Quartermas.
ter Dept. Camp Upton is home ON u
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-30

snort turlOugh.
Miss Lorena Tester, who is attend
Ing school in Pittsheld, Mass, is at
her home here.
Mr. and Mrs II. w. Burgess OF Ben
nngton visited at the home OF David
Gamsha Sunday.
Mrs. w. n. Gilbert Of Bennington
visited at the home of George Cool
edge on sunday.
Cyrus p. and George V. Hard visit
ed their parents, Mr. and Mrs. VIII
liam Hard Sunday.
Fred Bates. who has employment
with the c. r. Bradley Corpn, Put.
ney VT. Is in town.
Mrs. T.. ]. Harrington was called to
Arlington last week on account Of the
illness OF her mother.
Charles Harrington. who has had
employment as station agent at Fer
risburg is at his home here.
George Coolidge and w. N. Gilbert
and son, Howard of Bennington were
at the Kelly Stand Sunday.
Mrs. Hugh Cone was called TO Troy
Wednesday by the illness and death
of her son Freeman Harrington.
Mrs. George Bailey was taken tC
the Troy hospital Thursday evening
where she will undergo an operation
Mrs. Lucy Wood has returned from
bennington. after spending fow days
at the home OF her son, Harold Wood
MIR and Mrs. Il. j. Beagle and fam
lily we're Sunday guests OF Mr. and
Mrs. Frank McDaniels OF Sunderland
Edward Harris of pitlsford. VI, 1,
spending few days at the home o
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Horac,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-30
Harris. nalF sIwNNMEImEI

The funeral of Freeman Harrington
who died Thursday with pneumonia,
was held at the home OF his mother
Mrs. Hugh Cone. Saturday afternoon
Miss Ruby Spencer and mother OF
Philadelphia, who have been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs, Lyman Barber returned
to their home Sunday evening.
The annual meeting of the South
SALISBURY Branch of the American
Red Cross. which is due to be held or
October Goth, has been postponed or
account OF the influenza epidemic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-30
Wednesday, October so. 1918.



|. Col. Roosevelt in his speech in Car
negie HAN, New York. Monday night,
poured some hot shot into President
Wilson's attitude on the war and
politics. The presidents recent ap-
peal to the voters in which he ear
nestly begs them to return Demo
cratic majority to both the Senate
and the House Of Representatives"
and in which he says, the return of
Congress would certainly be interpret
ed as a reputation of my leadership"
has stirred up hornets nest The
colonel voiced Monday evening what
many think
The following gems from his speech
contain much food for thought:
4 q ask all patriotic Americans to
consider just what is meant when the
President says that in the present
Congress the leaders Of the minority
although unquestionably pro.war have
been anti-administration These lead
ers Supported the Administration when
4 a declaration of war was needed.
l They supported II when there was a
4 demand for the draft They support
ed ii when we sent the army over.
seas They supported every demand
for money, whether by taxation or by
loans They supported it or gave it
initiative and guidance on every IS
sue where 1t stood for vigorous prose
cution OF the war; and they supported
II on these issues when half the lead
ers of President Wilson'S own party
opposed him when he had committed
himself to war measures-and yet
President Wilson now makes parts
an appeal in favor OF the Democrats
who opposed the war measures and
against the Republicans who support
J ed them"
President Wilson says that Repub
leans are not good enough TO serve
the Republic in Congress at this time
But they are good enough to die FOL
the Republic in the army and navy
They are good enough to pay tn,
taxes and subscribe to the Loan, w,
have sent our sons and our brother
to spill their blood like water over
seas under the flag we have gyeI
our strength ana our money withou
stint to serve the country at HON,
: to float the Loans. 10 back up the wa
activities of every kind, and how W,
are told that the blood of our sons
; and the money saved at the expense
of our wives and little children, d.
!. not entile us TO any word in sayini
how the war Is to be waged o
what are the terms Of which peace
10 be made. or what shall be our pol
cies after the warl
MIR. Henry Ford has announce
that he does not believe in patriC
y tism; that he thinks the flag is silly
\ and does not believe in it, and tina
\ when this war Is over he will pull h
4 flag down ana never hoist II agin. I n
d son of this multi-milionaire stays q
\ home while hundreds of thousands G
\ men OF small means leave their wive
X and children and go Z" var But NJ
n Wilson is supporting Ford for tn
Il Senate On the Otho md, Senate
81 Weeks does believe in triotism. II
" does believe in the His onl
4 son is fighting over th
= moment facing death siie sid
II With his comrades from et nix
R life But Mr. Wilson is
n Weeks
Small wonder that he cloa
4 room of the House The bitter Jest ci
n culatcs: Here's to our Car last
q war first toward long may }
N waveP.'"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-30
SOUTH sHAFTseURY

Fred Eddy was In Arlington friday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Skoczny have
sick the past week
Mrs. Lucy Wood has moved to
North bennington.
Dewey Cole was In Bennington sat.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-30

Germany Is Jming TO her knees,
slowly but surely. This is being
brought about in several ways-de-
sertlon by her allies; Internal dissat-
isfactlon; scarcity of war supplies;
and more than all the other reasons
together. the tremendous hammerng
being given the German army on th
battle fields of France and Belgim
The enemy army is not a heater
army yet. 1t has met with serious
reverses and has suffered heavily
But it is still capable of terrific de-
fense, as the 10000 casualties to the
British in the last two weeks OF fight.
ing can testify. But the handwriting
Is on tho wall; and It seems likely
that few months, possibly only a
few days. will see the terms Of peace
fulhled-Germany's unconditional
surrender.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-30

.. President Wilson has
called UPON the country TO elect
a Democratic Congress mot be-
cause the Democrats are win
ming the war, but because.
having turned the tide by virtue
of Republican aid they now
want to keep the fruits OF vic
tory within the party