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New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Partisanship in War Liter
ature

A WRITER in "The New States1
~ man" lays his hand upon what he
regards as the weak spot in much
of the war literature that has been
brought out in England. His sensible re-
marks are equally pertinent on this side
of the water, and are therefore repro
duced here. He writes
I'VE fancy that the reason why most
war books are so unnteresting is that
they are written in the spirit of partisan
ship, not in the spirit of truth. The average
man is more interested in the crimes Of Ger
many than in the truth about Germany. He
is not content with an exposure of German
crimes in Belgium and German ambitions all
the world over. He likcs---to Judge bv some
Of the books that are written-a portrait Of
the German so black as to be an Indictment
not only of Germany, but human nature We
have protested on more than one occasion
about this wild beast theory of the German
character. We object to it because it seems
to us to divest the Germans Of moral re-
sponsbility for their crimes. They are
human beings, capable of good and evil, and
their present condition is not the result Of
something that Tacitus noticed in them
nearly two thousand years ago, but of the
choice OF false ideal in fairly recent times
! ~ is Qulte SSlDlC--lndeed, 1T seems certain
that the truth about the Germans is that
they are grosser and more barbarous than
other Western nations 1t is as false to con-
ceal the truth about their crimes Gas certain
pacifists do) it is to conceal the truth
about their human nature. What we need
above all is a faithful picture of them. The
salvage of the civilization of Europe NAV ul
timately depend on our capacity to see the
truth about Germany-to see the German
neither as worse nor as better than he is.
On our capacity to do this-and also to sec
ourselves nationally as neither better nor
worse than we are-will certainly depend the
success of the League Of Nations after the
war. For the League of Nations can exist
only result of the birth of an interna-
tional mind-that is, of mind which will
attempt TO realize the truth about national
ambitions, the rights of the strong and Other
matters of the kind in regard to which no
nation as yet has the bodness to think, ex-
cept in the spirit Of the partisan. The fact
is, in regard both to social and international
questions, many people are as nervous of
political truth nowadays as our grandfathers
used to be of geological truth. Still, we fancy
the League Of Nations, like the gcologists
viii win. Truth, as they say of horses is ;
good 'staycr.'"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
"Happiness'' and Cohan's Revue
BY Nita Spilhaus

once every year Mr.. Cohan is
selzed with an inspiration to reveal to the
public the funny side of his own profess
sion, and never has he failed to be anus
ing IN this self-elected task His 'Rcvues'
are much wittier and more to the point
than the various other travestics of the
stage that periodically come and go under
the same title. Best of all, he knows how
to be funny without vugarty or danger Of
giving offence, and his versatilty--for he
writes not only the dialogue and lyrics, but
composes the music-gives his concoctions
an original and individual flavor the out
ward manifestation of which is known to
the Broadway elect pep"
In "Thc Times" one read that
"the basic pigments this time are David
Beasco and the Hindu soothsayer from
The Eyes of YOUTH and upon these are
laid bits of Polly With a Past, Tiger
Rose Business Before Pleasure, 'The
King 'Chu Chin Chow "A Tailor-Made
Man and a number of others. The show,
beginning in the Belasco Office with the in
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
The Toubib's Story

TOUBIB told me this.
4 Toubib is soldier-slang for doctor
One day at the Quart en- Rese7-ue.
We were waiting for the Colonel
To make his daily round of the trenches
And come back for lunch.
We sat in the Captains room
At the Bureau Of Regg. 349,
Just back of the third line
A cave log-roofed,
In a red clay-bank.
n smelly kerosene lamp was burning;
The fire in the stove was too hot.
ut was down there
The Toubib lit his pipe
And put his very long, bony forefinger
On a delicatelydrawn map
Tackled on the wall
"In the Champagne"
He said that one morning after an attack
He'd seen something
Something odd-looking-
Caught high on the limb
Of shell-split tree
In the wake of the advance
He threw up stones
Till he dislodged it,
1t fell.
"Figurez-uous, he finished dryly,
&C. etait IN c9ur."
A naked heart.
All that was left of body
Blown to bloody tatters-
A naked heart
Lodged in the branches
After battle!
Great God, thought, what q holy sign!
What victorious symbol
What Song Of France
Beautiful-terrible--t
Often and often
have tried to write the song
Of that lost heart.
! cannot.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

my opinion, many publishers would have
understood calico better than books
There are two things which a publisher
ought to know about novel producers
things which do not, curiously enough,
apply to calico producers and which few
publishers have over graspcd. I have
known publishers 10 go into the bank
ruptcy court and come out again safely
and yet never grasp the significance of
those two things. The first is that it is
intensely stupid to ask novelist to study
the market with a view to obtaining
large circulations. If he does not write
to please himsef-if his own taste does
not naturally coincide with the taste of
the millionaire will never reach the mill
ion by taking thought. The Hall Gaines.
the Miss Corellis and the Mrs. Humphry
Wards are born, not made. 1t may seem
odd, even to a publisher, that they write
as they do write-by sheer glad instinct.
But it is so. The second thing is tina,
when a novelist has made "his name and
his market" by doing one kind of thing
he can't successfully go off at tangent
and do another kind of thing. TO make
the largest possible amount of money out
of an artist the only way is to leave him
alone. When will publishers grasp this?
To make the largest possible amount Of
money out of an initiative hack, the only
way is to leave him alone When will
publishers grasp that an initiative hack
knows by the grace of God forty times
more aboub the public taste than a pub
Usher knows?
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
N ENGLISH writer, signing him

A ENGLISH writer, signing him
~ self "An Old Hand" writes to
"The Saturday Review" in order
to "explain some details of authorship
which are fairly novel; Here is what he
explains:
81. For some time these islands have been
pestered with an issue of we'll over 10000
books year, of which no one can remem-
Der, after any given year is out, ten that he
wants to keep. This means that authorship
is a trade, not a delight; business, not
inspiration. Authorship used to connote q
certain amount of authority. Read now for
authority advertisement
"2. The chance author whose work is
giddy paragon gets applause somewhere.
Similarly there is no book so bad
that it will not receive the punctual praises
of some newspaper
"3 we authors said Dsraei to Queen
Victoria, need boundless leisure' OF course,
but not much for writing as for the sub
sidary aids to publicity. You need not write
book yourself, so long as you sign it; but
you must get rid of old fashioned ideas about
modesty. Live in London among the jour
nalists and fellow authors who can help you
while you help them. Authors said John
son, should keep out of each others way
That is out of date advice.
~. Wadsworth did not like personal talk
Poor man! 1t is lucky for him that he did
not live to the Age of Harmsworth. For
personal twaddle in print is the making of an
author, and the less it has to do with litera-
ture the the public likes it. The
authors gift for digging potatoes, dealing
with tramps, owning Il wife who is owned by
a Pekingese dog-thats the kind of thing
Any connection with the stage is very
fetching.
"5 Keep a book for nine years, said
Horace. What nonsense! He was feeding
meanwhile, as Heine said, at the table OF
Macenss roast turkey with trutfles. phcas
ant puddings with venison sauce ETC., al
gratis. Keep at it; that is the rule for the
best Sellers A book every year. If you
miss q year, it means that you have taker
that unusual leisure to produce super
masterpiece.
&c. In Heine's day poetry had rhyme anc
rhythm and prose had wit. Nowadays writ
ing is very much simpler. Every one write:
prose without knowing it. and poetry il
easier still and always recognized, since each
line begins with capital letter. Rhym,
and rhythm are alike cut of date.
~. 1t is common to be credited with sheel
genius or the finest thing since Lear bu
since SO many people have the Prometheal
touch, real, etcrnizing distinction may no
fall to YOU, in spite of the critics. But yo,
can paper your room with your gloriou
Ercss clippings. I saw book (now dead
advertised rs praised by over 12O importan
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
The Toy Shop of Arras

No more shall any little children come
' To linger lovingly about its store
Of motley joys: the wooden doll that
wore
A Zouave's martial mien; the scarlet drum,
Which ragged peasant urchins yearned to
strum;
The shaggy, jointed, foreign Teddy
bear;
The box that played "NalbrooL; sen
eaten guerre";
The pasteboard bird that hid sugarplum
The shop is wrecked, its shutters fallen in,
The little children faraway have fled.
But still the old toy-maker worn and thin
Gropes tenderly among his mimic dead
And soldiers, tramping through the shell
torn dust,
Buy broken toys that he may earn crust.
Charlotte Becker, in Life
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

- Il
~ precious to the student and here
4 is one which strikes me as pre-
cious beyond ordinary. 1t is letter re
ceived from we'll known publisher by a
correspondent of mine who is a jour
nalist:
81 am awfully sorry chat we cannot take
your novel; which is immensely clever and
which interested my partner more than any
thing he has read in good while. He agrees
with nc, however. that it has not got the
qualities that make for sale. and you know
that this is the great desideratum with the
publisher Now, don't get peevish and send
us nothing else. | know you have q lot Of
talent, and your difficulty is in applying this
talent to really practical problems rather
than to the attractive products Of the
Imagination. Get down to facts. my son, and
study your market. Find out what the peo-
pie like to read and then write story along
those lines. This will bring you success, for
you have a talent for success. Above all
things, don't follow the lead of our head
strong friend who insists upon doing exactly
what you have done in this novcl-namely,
neglectine the practical market and working
out the fanciful dictates of imagination. Re-
member that novel writing is as much of q
business as making calico. If you write the
novels that people want you are going to sell
them in bales When you have made your
name and your market, then you afford
to let your imag nation riot, and then
people will look at you admrngly and say:
4 don't understand this genius at all, but
isn't he great?' Do you see the point? You
must do this AFTER you have won your
market, not before, and you can only win
your market in the first place by writing
what folks want to buy. Sincerely yours"
The writer is American. But the atti-
tude of the average English publisher
could not have been more accurately ex-
pressed than in this letter, sent by one
New Yorker to another. The only thing
that puzzles me is why the man orig
inally chose books instead of calico. He
would have understood calico better. In
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

PRODUCTION of Polly of The Folles, started
somewhere slowly, hesitated here and there
during the first act, struck its proper joyful
stride In the second act, and brought
to Il patriotic conclusion just before mid
night with the new Cohan war song: Their
Hearts Are Over Here
Although lacking in the subtlet:es which
distinguished the other revues, and possess
ing no single scene equal to the famous
courtroom episode of two seasons ago, the
new revue has sufficient dash and clever
ness to attract the Cohan following in huge
droves."
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Mary Garden Goes Into Movies


cess, and found the film "Thals" "only a
shade less impressive than it was wont to
be on the stage of the Manhattan Opera
House"
"The World" was glad to find thai
There arc no close ups to exhibit her
'cuteness, but there many diversified
poses to display her beauty, which is permit
'ed 70 blend with background OF splendor
and luxury, unmarried by any superabundance
of costumery."
The Tribune bestowed praise in this
fashion:
Miss Garden does not need to sing; she
does not even need to speak. In fact. She il
temperamentally suited to screen work. for
there Is never any doubt in the mind Of the
hsho!dsS ~ TO hss emotions"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

hc was Tor some time engaged at the Gaiety
Theatre London. In 1909 he settled in
America and began to write stories for the
New York magazines. He became dramatic
critic of "Vanity Fair" early in 1914, and
mas written monthly review of the current
plays ever since. He is part author of the
following plays: "A Gentleman OF Leisure"
HHaVe Heart ooh Boy." Leave 1t to
Jane THE Riviera Girl "Miss 1917" and
hve others to be produced later in the sea-
son-all except the first in collaboration with
Guy Bolton.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Current War Poetry

1t is immeasurably beyond my little art.
SO for me it must always remain
Just this
The Toubib's story
Of French soldiers heart
Just a heart
Lodged in the branches of a tree
After battle.
Emery Pottle, in The Touchstone.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

defective eyesight,
and took to newspa-
per work and maga-
zine writing instead.
lie published his first
book, a story of Eng
lish school life, en-
titled "Thc Pothunt-
ers,' ut the age of
nineteen. From 1900
to 1909 he conducted
Il daily humorous
column, "By The
Way in The Len
don Globe" and dur
ing these years wrote
n dozen books for
boys, .everal novels,
and contributed reg
ularly to "Punch."
AS a writer of lyrics
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
The Dance
lsadora Duncan's PUPILS

TN CARNEGIE HALL on Friday even
ing, December 28, the pupils of Isa-
dora Duncan gave dance recital which
reused a large audience to the perpetra-
ton of very audible "Bravos!" In "The
Evening Post" appeared this summary of
the occasion:
THE programme included selections from
Gluck's Iphgenia,' with illustrative dances
OF prlestesses, Greek maidens, Amazons
and Bacchantes-many of the dances pleas
ing in themselves and done with charming
erect OF youth and grace by the six Young
women-Anna, Therese, Irma, Liesa, Gretel
ana Erica, who compose the ballet. There
was also suite of waltzes and dances of
Schubert, which included solos, duets and
trios by Anna, Therese, Irma and Liesa.
with group dances between. Several Of the
solos, notably one by Anna and one by
Llesa, were especially deserving of praise
and one trio in particular was delightful.
Best Of all, however, was the dance to
eahne Marche Lorraine really splendid
spectacle, full of fire and grace of A sort
different from but quite able to stand com
parlson with the dance of the Russians in
Prince Igor. The orchestra and ballet
fairly divided the honors in this number. but
the dancing of Licsa and Anna was espe-
cially notable for vigor, lightness and dra-
matte fire."
"The Evening Sun" wrote:
These half-dozen young women from p
somewhat different word-the misfortune s
probably ours that it is different-are at tbe
helght of their power of delight to-day and
to watch them in the freedom and nctu.
resqueness of their choreographic evolutons
is Grecian festival"
"The Herald" called it "an entertain.
ment that at times was deeply impressive
at other times lghtheartedy fascinat.
ing and always artistic and interesting. y
George Barrsre's Little Symphony Orches.
ira furnished the accompaniment. Mr.
Barrere played as flute solo the "Dance
Of the Blessed Spirit" from Gluck's "Or.
pheus." "The Herald" recorded the fact
that "the audience tried hard to persuade
him to repeat it, but the effort Was futile. .
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
r AIRY GARDEN, famed as q

"A EARY GARDEN, famed as an opera
IVs star Of first magnitude, has
entered the movies, under the
chaperonage OF the Goldwyn Pictures
Corporation and playing one of her big
gest successes, "Thais." The film is q
dramatization of Anatolc Frances novel.
It's first New York showing was at the
Strand "The Sun" declared that:
"Throughout Miss Garden showed splcn-
did adaptability to the screen, not only in
good looks but in good acting The produc-
tion is lavishly staged and Miss Garden has
AN excellent supporting cast, including Ham
ilton Revele, Crauford Kent, Lionel Adams
and Alice Chaplin
The Times aad that the new film was
LAUNCHED with every prospect Of sue.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Cohan's 1918 Revue

"The Cohan Revuc, 19lS,' q musical
,ouue IN taUo acts and sirteen
scenes. Boolc by George NJ Conan,
music and lyrics by George NJ Cohum
and l''cin9 Berlin. Produced Ne,D
Years Eue at the New Amsterdam
Theatre.
IS \ GREAT many people in New York, j"
"A declared "The World, must have
shared the belief that the best way to
watch the New Year in was to hear
George NJ Cohan make fun of the Old Year
plays" At any rats the fatterng dimen-
sions Of the first night audience must be
accounted for somehow, and this was the
solution offered by the critic Just quoted
who went On to say.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Ten Thousand Books q Year

newspapers 1t has gone to the limbo of
Tupper and Whffen's 'Aonan Hours
"S. And the author-has he learnt nothing {?
Very probably he has not learnt how to
write but that does not matter. He has
learnt something about the art of publicitv
which, everybody should know, is far more
important And he is not afraid of vugarity.
He is getting on
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
L'Amour par Terre

THE wind the other night blew down the
Il Love
That in the dimmest corner of the park
So subtly used to smile, bending his arc,
And sight of whom did us so deeply move
One day! The other nights wind blew hin,
down!
The marble dust whirls in the morning
Oh, sad to view, o'erblotted by the trees,
There the base, the name of great renown!
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Neverrnoro

D EMEMBRANCE, what wilt thou VITA
IN me? The year
Declined; in the still air the thrush p,ped
clear,
The languid sunshine did incnrious peer
Among the tninned leaves of the forest sere
We were alone, and pensively we strolled,
With strayng looks and fancies, when,
behold
Her turn to let her thrilling gaze enfod,
And ask me in her voice of living gold,
Her fresh young voice, "What was thy hsp-
piest day."
smiled discrcetly for all answer, and
Devotedly l kissed her fair white hand.
All, me! The earliest flowers, how sweet
are they!
And in how exquisite a whisper slips
The earliest "Yes' from we'll ll-beloved lips.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Holocaust

DR1NK ceep, thou god of blood, drink
~ deep,
And gorge thyself on men!
Once more we pay thine awful price
The flower of earth we sacrifice;
With cracking fame of greed and lies
The shameful stencil lifts to the skies
This once
BUT NOT AGAIN!
David Churchill, in Euerybodys
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

From Books ord Persons" by
past epoch Q90S-191D, published by
the George II. Doran Company, Neao
York. 50 net
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

Crltcrl0n Theatre.
EOHN CORBIN, in "Thc Times," said
- Of the play that
at has no struggle Of Wills no crises
or any Of the other things which serious
folk declare to be indispensable. 1t doesn't
even tell story. And, though it has three
scenes, it has no acts, consisting of what
Nh. Manners calls three phases and an epi
logue. But it has a character, and one you
never saw the like of, excepting only Peg"
Louis V. De Foe, in "The World" is
pretty despairing of any chances for the
new plays longevity. He remarks that ga
pitcher may be sent too often to the we'll" +"
and concludes that "Happiness," "despite
gerous signs of being this richly endowed
actresses fatal trip"
Lawrence Reamer, in "The Sum-" wasn't
by any means ready to pronounce the play
d masterpiece. But he was warm in his
praise of the star, writing:
"Miss Taylor's power to charm an audi
ence never failed her in any of the varied
scenes that MIR. Manners had devised In
deed, she was again able to upset all mathc-
matical principles and prove that part may
be madc greater than the whole"
In "The Herald" one read that "Happi.
ness" is zone of the most whimsical Of
comedies, with an opportunity for Miss
Taylor in every line"
J. Alexander Pierce, in The Tribune
declared that Happiness concerns the
heart, and it goes right to the mark"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Reviewing The
Reviewers
XVI
p. G.. WODEHOUSE.
Dramatic Critic for Vanity Far

Dramatic Critic for Vanity Fair"
DELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE was
born in 1881 at Guildford, England,
and was educated at Dulwich College.
lie was originally intended for the navy, he
says but was prevented from entering by
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Streets


ET'S dance the Jig!
- Above all else loved her eyes,
More clear than stars of cloudless skies,
And arch and mischievous and wise.
Let's dance the jis.
So skilfully would she proeesc
To make lovers bare heart bleed,
That it was beautiful indeedl
Let's dance the jig.
But keenler have l relished
The kisses of her mouth so red
Since to my heart she has been dead
Let's dance the jig!
The circumstances, great and small
Words, moments I recall. recall,
It is my treasure among all.
Let's dance the jig.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Paul Verlaine, Child of the
Quarter Latin
The Famous French Lyric Poet Struggled Long
Before Real Recognition Came-He Was the
Ardent Historian of His Own Varying Moods
EXT Tuesday the twenty anniversary Of the death
French lyric poet. He born at Metz March 30
= ON January s. 1895.

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New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
A La Promenade

TE~HE milky sky, the hazy, slender trees,
l. Seem smiling the light costumes we
wcar,-
Our gauzy floating wells that have an air
Of wings, satins auttering in the breeze
And in the marble bowl the ripples CLEAN,
And through the lindens Of the avenue
The sfted golden sun comes to US blue
And dying, like the sunshine of dream.
Exquisite triaers and deceivers rare
Tender of heart but little tied by vows,
Deliciously We daily meath the boughs,
And playfully the lovers plague the fair
Receiving, should they overstep a point,
buffet from a hand absurdly small,
At which upon gallant knee they fall
To kiss the little fingers littlest joint.
And this is shocking liberty,
frigid glance rewards the daring swain,-
! Not quite o'erbalancing with its disdain
The red mouths reassuring clemency.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

Oh. sad to view the empty pedestal.
And melancholy fancies come and 90
Across my dream, whereon day of woe
Foreshadowed isl know what will befalu
Oh, sad!-And you are saddened also. Sweet
Are not you, by this scene? although your
eye
Pursues the gold and purple butterfly
lha1 nutters Ger the wreck strewn at our
feet.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Clair de Lune

NIdIE QC IUlIG
XOUR soul is as moonlit landscape fair,
L Peopled with maskers delicate and
dim,
That play on lutes and dance and have an air
OF being sad in their fantastic trim.
The while they celebrate in minor strain
Triumphant love, effective enterprise,
They have air Of knowing all is vain,
And through the quiet moonlight their
songs rise.
The melancholy moonlight, sweet and lone,
That makes to dream the birds upon the
tree,
And in their polished basins of white stone
The fountains tall to sob with ecstasy
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
"Happiness"

"Happiness," comedy IN three
"phoses" and an epilogue, By J. Hart
ley Manners, qvith Lourette Taylor as
star, produced NeaO Years Eue at the
Criterion Theatre.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Arnold Bennett on Writin&
to Please
In Which the English Writer Wonders Why Some
Publishers Didn't Choose Calico as a Profession
Instead of Books
BY Arnold Bennett

A UTHENTIC documents are always m,
~ precious to the student and here u'
7 is one which strikes me as pre- T}