The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
THE YOUNG VISITER.

"a
II of THE SUNDAY Sun two Sundays in success
sion is aware of the existence of a Mr. HUGH WAL
PoIE-and for that matter, every one likely to be
reading publication of this kind would be aware
u it independently and 1--WE should supposed en-
Enthusiastically
Almost as general must be the knowledge that
MIR. WAIPoLE is now in the United States We be-
leve he was first to arrive of the remarkable in
VISION of British and Continental authors that has
been heralded to take place this fall and winter
All of them are booked to lecture. Mr. WA1Po1E is
at it already. AT least he should be- These lines are
written before the fact, but his maiden appearance
was to have been made on Tuesday in Cleveland
His subject, subjects will be the younger British
authors of recognized importance He may omit to
mention that he is one of Them few, if any, being
more important than himself
We refrain from advising readers whose homes
are in the cities of his itinerary that in our opinion
he will be richly worth hearing Our reason for re-
framing is that if our opinion were not precisely
that, his London letters would not be fortnightly
feature of Books and the Book World. (They
won be London letters for some time to Gomez
To recommend him would be superfuous, not to say
egotistical on part, mildly impairment from
his point of view.
For the same reason Books and the Book World
has refrained from seeking to interview him OIL
topics within its province. The presumption is that
all he has to say in this place about books and the
book world is said in the letters We ourselves know
too well what it is to write and publish labori-
ously lucid and painfully frank view of book or
an author, under signature-and then have
friend spring, eyes, read your article-but what
do you really think of him, or itf''
AT the same time, letting Mr.. WALPoIE's presence
60 unnoted would be dereliction Of our duty as a
reporter. Luckily, an appreciation of him by
JOSEPH HERGEsHEIMER about to be published in
booklet form (Doran), strikes the note we need.
"Mr. WALPoLE,' AYERS the Java headliner, "pos-
sesses almost entirely the qualities which seem to
me the base the absolute foundation, of beauty
without which creative writing is empty. In him
there is splenddly joined the consciousness of both
the inner and outer worlds. ''as whole
(his) novels maintain impressive unity of ex
preston; they the distinguished presentation of
distinguished mind There is great
deal of happiness in Mr.. WAPoLE's pages, but it
isn't founded on surface wulgantes of appetite
= (He) is a part of that great neces-
sty of the longing, really, for perfection for per
feet beauty This too is the only salvation for ease
the animal, when he is replete, tat dies; and man.
successful in the flesh, degenerates. There only
spirit, beauty animates the clay. Roses in the end
are important than cabbages Here HUGH
WALPoLE, cultivating the fine flowers of his imag
ination, setting out his gardens in the waste, is
indispensable =: very few have accom-
plished that
Just what each one Of these HERGEsHE1MER SEN
fences may specifically mean, not quite sure.
Their general meaning is that to read the WALPoLE
novels is to enjoy sheer beauty great enough to
justify its existence to take pure pleasure of
uncommonly elevated kind.
DAISY DID, DAISY DIDN'T