Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-18

his elbow. as he sat near my desN
md reading the title. "What is that
I never heard the word before.
your education has been neglected.
DOCTOR" said I, smiling at the more
worldly owen. ~ first met shahd!'
raff many years ago in Il chop mousse
in Brooklyn. The chop house was
run by an Englishman in an old Dutch
Colonial mansion standing i'll the rear
of some business buildings ami
reached by narrow alloywaN lt
was called the Abbey. The proprietor
had gathered a fine collection OF old
t,o,onial furniture which delighted his
rustomers. on the tables in his res
taurart one could find London
Punch and Ally Slopcr's lIalf-liolidaN'
and one or two other comic WccNlleS'
In a corner stood a grandfather's cloci
with a. hole in the case made by
Br,tish bullet fred in the battle OF
Long Island. Gilbert Evans, bril-
liant young newspaper man OF NcI*h
birth. took me to the Abbey one day
and introduced me to shandygaf.
who was he. anyway tho clergy
man asked, with some impatcncc.
you should say, what was it,
doctor" said I. "Shandygaf is pota-
ton. One-half is beer or alc-alcoholic
beverages, you sce--and the other half
is ginger ale-nonalcoholiC The re
sulting blend-I think blend is the
rroper tcrm-is sufficiently non.alco-
holic to get by the rigid prohibition
statutes OF Kansas. and it is suti'-
cientIy alcoholic to be most agrceably
refreshing on hot day. | should
like to introduce YOU to it. doctor
How about it,
The clergyman held un his hands
protestingly, but owen was eager to
make the acquaintance of new
tipplc.
"Wenl have some the rfcNt time YOU
come around" 7 said to Owen. "ln
the meantime I want to remark that
this book called 'Shandygaf' is as de-
llghtful as the potation after which
it Is named. IF you wont sip the
drink, doctor, YOU ought TO read the
hook. 1t is a collection OF essays and
sketches by ono Of the most brilliant
Young men now writing III America.
His name is christopher Morley. lie
is graduate of lIaV:rrord College,
where his father was &t ono time pro-
ressor of mathematics. lie spent three
years at oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
He has been a publishers reader. an
associate editor of tho Ladies' HONS
Journal and is now ono Of the editors
Of the EVENING PuBILC l.EuGEH
Within a year he has published three
volumes. One Of them is book OF
verse which is already SO popular that
his publishers are preparing an illus
tratcd edition for the holiday season
The charm of his writing lies in its
wholesomeness. lie is not pessinistic
sleeps soundly at night and digests
his meals with the aid OF a pipe, loves
men. women, children and books and
sort of place to live in. He has writ
ten in this latest book about walking
Don Marquis, smoking, Rupert Brooke
prefaces, Stevenson, the family man
William McFce and a score OF othCl
subjects, letting his wcll.furnisheC
mind play with an idea and view u
from various angles. lie has style
that carries one along easily and I
whimsical point of view that is con
stant surprise. You will appreciate
his criticism of one Of the classics
doctor for he has a hotel in an i'm
aginary city called the Decameron 1nI
after Boccaccio, who was once its
barkeeper.'
"Why didn't think of that eN
claimed the clergyman. They arc
barroom stories and nothing more
"If Morley's book were published 1t
England it would have a wide sale,
went on, for the British seem TO b
fond of the casual essay and have beel
ever since Charles Cotton translate
MCIlalSHe llllO bllS lloh' -h'''SO' '''''
Steele and Lamb and l1aZlitt and Lu
cas- and Chesterton and a score o
others have won fame through tn
popularity of their pleasant and pun
gent comments on life and the wa
II is lived by men and women. w
have some men who have done goo
work of this kind, but their book
do not sell widely. Charles NJ. SKIN
ner produced two or three books tina
reached a limited public, but thousand
have heard of his brother, Otis ski
ner. for one who has read M
Mature in a City Back Yard or wit
Feet to the Earth David Grayso
has IL following and there Is Il seie'
public which buys everything ina
Samuel McChord Crothers writes
Charles Dudley Warmers amlable re
Elections were more popular in Harp
er's Magazine than when put INTO
book and Howells gets ten readers 10
a novel where he finds only one TO
a volume of essays. II. i. Mencke
has some vogue with highly spe
ciaIized class interested in music an
the drama. His latest volume Damn
A Book of Calumny,' Will appeal to
still smaller class because 1t has a
tbs vices of his other volumes con
pressed into small compass II