davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
QUICKLY SENTENCED TO DIE.
Four Bandits Condemned for Muir.
der Within Day OF Confession,

GARY. Ind. July S.-within twenty
four hours of their confession four ban
dts were sentenced TO be electrocuted
and two TO life Imprisonment in the
Crown Point Circuit Court to-day for
the murder of Herman Vecker, Tolles-
ton bank cashier. killed In the bank
holdup June "a.
Al Bachelor. Chicago Tom Bachelor.
Valparaiso. Ind. Harry Parker, Chi.
cago, and Dan TrkulJa. Gary, leader of
tho gang. were those sentenced to be
electrocuted. Lee Spiers and Danjan
Bielick Of Gary, Ind, were the two SEN
fenced to life imprisonment. Nick
Trkulja, also held in connection with the
robbery and murder, will stand trial
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
WAR FOOD TO BE SOLD CHEAP.
Canned Vegetables at Cost. Meats
20 Fer Cent. Less.

WASHINGTON. July s.---An Official an
nouncement to-day from the office OF
tho director Of sales at the War De-
partment said surplus stocks OF canned
vegetables would be sold In carload lots
to municipalities at cost and stocks OF
canned meats at 20 per cent. below
cost. provided they were rssold TO the
public at the prices for which they were
purchased.
Under certain conditions sales will
be permitted on ten days credit.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
hoy Steal. Ride. Killed by Motor,

Terry Brady, 8. OF 24s East Forty
sixth street was killed by an automobile
driven by William Bray of 249 East
Sixty-second street yesterday afternoon
at Second avenue and Forty-seyenth
street. The boy had caught a ride on
motor truck and when ordered TO get
Off jumped directly in front Of the au-
tomobile. All four wheels passed over
his body. No arrest was made.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
Missouri Ratine. Suffrage.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. July 3.--The
Missouri Legislature ratified to-day the
Federal suffrage amendment whom the
Senate concurred in the action OF the
House yesterday and adopted the reso-
luton by rs to 8. Gov. Gardner at once
signed Il.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
MOVING TO EXTRADITE THAw
New York Application to he Heard
I'm Harrisburg July o.

HARNssuRG, Pa, July 3.-Attorney-
Den. Schaffer to-day fixed Wednesday,
July 8. az the date for a public hear
ing at his Office OF the application for
the exradltion of Harry Thaw to New
York, where he is SSanted for trial on
a criminal charge.
The ground upon which the request
is based Is that Thaw's mental condi-
t!cn is such that he should stand trial.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
New Orleans to Have Test Case.

NEW ORLEANS, July 3.--A Federal in
dictment charging unlawful manufnc-
ture and sale Of beer containing more
than one-half of one per cent. alcohol. :"
was returned to-day against Edward c.
schliedery president OF the American
brewing Company. Tho bill will form
the basis OF test case n
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
BeIsians Honor Henry Ciews.

Henry Clews. the broker. was not!-
ned from tho Belgian Legation at
Washington yesterday that he has been
made an officer In the Order of Leopold
H. by King Albert In recognition Of his
devotion 10 the cause OF Belgium. Tho
insignia and brevet will be awarded
within a few weeks.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
Nod Crew Going to ClnxeIana.

CLEVELAND, July S.--The crew of the
NC-4. transatlantic fiier, will be the
guests OF the Cleveland Aviation Club
July IA. according TO telegram re-
ceived from New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04

demanded. so az 10 avoid trouble.
Although the trial had taken up sew
eral days, the jury was out but a short
while when II returned with Its verdict.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-04
Jersey Trials sche duisd.

New Jersey Is all but ATS per cent
dry. according TO United States Attorney
Lynch. whose agents have been invests
eating conditions in all OF the twenty
one counties OF the State. The Federal
Grand Jury will convene at Newark
July Is TO consider charges against
dealers suspected OF disposlng OF wines
and hard liquor. A number OF criminal
trials are scheduled.
Mr.. Lynch said yesterday he may
move the trials of some OF the dealers
without waiting for the formality OF an
indis4uan>. - said he has authority
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
THE DREAM

Ouer hnoacn fields with an old friend
IN dream
/ acalhed, but came sudden to q
strange stream.
It's dark uaters 1cere BURSTING ont
most bright
From q great mountain's heart into
the light.
They ran q short course undey the
san, then back
Into q pit the5 plunged, once more
os blach,
A at THEN. birth; and I stood think
ing there
Ho'o 'ohite, had the day shone on
them, they 'oere,
Hearing and coiling. So by the roar
and hiss
And By the mighty motion Of the
| acos bemused, that I foroot mn
friend
And neither soio nor sought him till
the end,
When amohe from mnteys unto men
Saying: Il shall be here soae dav
pgoi,A"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

eAaggeration, true description. IRONY.
sarcasm. and lastly, contrasts so slipht
that only keen mind perceives them
IN ourselves there is the same prog
ress more or less. AS children we
delight at buifoonery, the rough and
tumble of Punch and judy. the clown
III pahtomlme or circus. From this it
Is only step to the crudities-and
the most appreciated foolng-of Char
lie Chaplin. Mark Twain is milo
stone left behind when we appreciate
.. Henry. Crane and Gilbert. OF the
grades of wit there are survivals-
obscenity in the jokes of the unedu.
Gated; indecency in clubroom stories.
eNaggeIatlon in the cartoon and the
Yankee machine made Joke And this
is notable: the oldest and crudcst
lests arc the most popular. because
'he crowd-mind in this perception is
lniantilc. as demonstrated by the vast
sale of the alleged Comic Cuts M
pers and the colored supplements of
the Yankee press. London Punch
wisely refused Gilbert's MS; his wit
might have ruined its circulation.
But as with music, so with humor.
neither its possession nor the lack of
1T is guide TO mental ability in other
directions. Poe, Emerson, Macaulay.
lola, Maupassant, Napoleon, Gladstone
and BrIght-not a smile comes from
all they wrote or uttered. Few minds
develop equally all round, great OK.
ce'lcnce in one direction often leaving
barrcnness in others; and while the
most brilliant flowers find their nour-
lshment IN cxcremcnt. SO the most
brilliant wit has its origin in obsccn-
lty"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Reproduced from 'The Lotus NaqaSi,e."

Rembrandt, the exact image of life,
nc sald' who charms the intelligent,
but stuns and massacres the imbeciles.
HIS bent was to copy exactly what he
saw, and his work had none of the
artificial arrangements and embellish
ments that even innovators like Rous-
seau and Corot felt called upon to in
woke. In this, as in all his PRACTICES
says Mr. Bryson Burroughs, he seems
merely to have abandoned himself to
his preferences with no idea of estab-
fishing a new estheticism until the idea
was suggested by theorizing friends
1t is probable that his realism was part
of an inevitable artistic DEVELOPMENT.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Ouer the edge of his mug's round
rim,
And-os if 1t acere Christian-he
Says, "Did zee hear
A faint little tap-top-topping, my
dedr?"
1t is a simple matter to test the
experiments of other writer's by these
achieved masteries. Mr.. Locke Ellis
has one poem, beautiful lyric, eco,
nor acquaint the rose, nor Beauty's
household, with that grief of thine"
which stands by its own loveliness;
Mr. John Frcemans deep sincerity
glows in an unusual confession, "ln
Those Ola Days" Mr.. w. J. Turner's
CLERKS on Holiday" has queer novel
istic originality which distracts the
mind from the beauty Of its workman
ship until it has been read several
times. But much of the rest of the
verse in the collection is derivativc
and some of it much duller than its
bright origin deserves. Mr. Robin
Flowers extracts from an "Antholoeia
Hibernica" suggest sometimes that he
has forged antiquities, sometimes that
the original must have been very good.
and Mrs. Manning Saunders, sensi-
tive and intelligent disciple, would
never have written
O wandering areary flame,
Parched Is the worM for thee,
Que11ch thy hot light, come drink
OF the deep dark sea;
All quiet, sightless, deaf
These aUaters be,
if her mind had not been drcnched
with motley" and "The Listeners"
lnsomuch as an initiative cnthusiasm
in these careful workers fills the place
that in such poets as Miss Postpate
and Miss Bagnold is taken by sclf-ex-
position, the gain is on the right side
but how far the device falls short of
producing style and "a man Is evident
when We turn from the pleasant verse
(none Of the Twelve Poets writes bad
wa -o& many Of them I'd those poems Of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

for it followed as a reaction to the
courtly ideality of the eighteenth CEN
tury, and when interest was returning
to the more or less natural classic art.
"Courbet came of a peasant family
at Ornans, Franche- Comt6, and his only
gift was for painting. In temperament
he remained always needless and i'm
pulslve as schoolboy, though in his
later years he became involved in polit-
lcal enterprises, and died in exile
The artist. revealed through his pict-
ures, is an energetic. exuberant per
son of enormous appetites, filled with
the JOY of life and the love of his work.
His genius lay in his susceptibility to
this power and fecundity of nature,
and his marvellous ability to express
these in his art"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

preston of the chosen subject.
Whistler, Homer and Eakins, then
of the foremost American painters,
were, the writer tells us, Courbet's
followers; and, he adds, it is fitting
that the hundredth anniversary of
the great painters birth Che was
born June 10, 1919 should be
commemorated in this country
Pursuing the account further we
find that
"as student, Courbet felt himself
drawn to the great realists of the past
--Holbein, Correggio, Velasquez, the
little Dutch Masters, and above all
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

spite of the first strain of adjusting
the ear to the syncopated prosody,
Skill and character are evident. De-
tailed appreciation of much of the un-
suspected legacy of verse which was
discovered after Edward Thomas's
death in battle last year has already
appeared in these pages.
In support of the assertion that,
coming to his verse, the critic may
drop the effort TO find virtue which
has accompanied his reading of the
new poets in these four volumes. it is
enough to close by quoting the poem
which chance opening of the book
shows on a left-hand page 1t is not
the best poem in the book, but nobody
wrote like that before Thomas, and it
will be difficult to initiate:
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08


The Sydney Bulletin" who
calls Mark Twain ga milestone left
behind,' and shows the progress Of
Comus from the crudities of the past
to the subtleties of the present. He
goes on to say:
CAS- dramatic ideas evolved from the
perception of wide, regular contrasts.
like black and white, evil and good
and are graded by higher perception
TO shades of color and character. 50
crude humor, or the perception of
irregular contrasts, was born of OBJ
scenity and buifoonery. An IRREGULAR
contrast is illustrated by fat man
chasing his blown-of hat The irregu-
lar Is the unusual pace of the fat man;
seeing n child chase hat we are less
amused, for running is natural to a
child.
"Critcally examined, every Joke is
based on irregular contrasts, thouph
with increasing delicacy lin the humor
the contrast is harder to perceive. Our
developing taste is restrained to the
less and less extravagant, what once
greatly delighted us seeming crude.
even noxious. This evolution is notable
in peoples. Many aboriginals, including
our own, find mcrriment in obscenitv.
the yokcl in broad jests; the educated
in Irregular ideas. In literature the
line Of advance is plain. The Jokes of
Rabelnis that convulscd a continent
would now be relegatcd to the sewer.
.kkAtA AebsssaitX, -thsa hgtgQoneSy. ppns.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

L "A Eagle in The New
Witness" Somebody
starts a periodical devoted TO the
creative arts" And, he says he is
bound to add, "almost every year
some such periodical cies" Thus
1t may be argued that the field never
is really crowded The writer goes
on to say:
The newest TO be devised is The
OWL of which the first number short
ly VIII be issued through Mr. seeker
at, think, ten and sixpence. The
editors are William Nicholson, Robert
Graves and ". j Turner Being
realists, they do not definitely promise
that their paper shall come out at
stated intervals. They merely pro-
pose to issue it quarterly or whenever
they have sufficient material for
number; and, as they have given hem
selves this license. we probably shall
find them issuing numbers with clock
Ike regularity on quarter days.
Among the artists there viii be
pictures plain and colored are W.
Nicholson. James Pryde. and Signorins
Bianco, an Italian girl Of twelve. whose
genius for draughtsmanship viii be
revealed next week by an exhibition
at the Leicester Galleries.
The literary contents Will include
one of the finest examples OF Max
Beerbohm's prose art, and poems ny
Thomas Hardy. John Masefeld. 'oha
Galsworthy, W. ]. Turner. Siegfrlea
Sassoon. Robert Nichols, ". H. Dawes
and others
The paper will be a manageape
shape cForm,' the last of its kind. wss
heavily handicapped by its immense
acreage) and we'll printed. The ed'-
tors have had the ingenious and ST.
tractive idea of getting an edition 90
luxe of fifty copies signed by tue
whole of the contributors. with MI
Hardy at the top. These will be sou
at two guineas apiece. and shouio
crafty their purchasers as the pur
chasers Of Mexican Eagles have recen"
II been gratihsd." ....u.,...uuata
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

IL WAS Meredith's propensity to
show off" that most nettles his
British critic, who complains:
Meredith. on the other hand. was
led into obscurity by his desire to
impress; he was only intermittentlv
sincere he liked TO Show Off he over
loaded his work with superauous dec
Grafton which was often not even good
decoration. His obscurites were like
the abracadabras of the medicine man
-Jargon primarily intended TO impress
the unlnitiated. I remember man
telling me that he had spent a dav
with Meredith and that the novelist
Defore lunch had said to him, Would
you like to lave your hands y Well. 4
man might say that facetiouslv: anv-
BODY might. But of Meredith it was
characteristic. His cheap jewelry was
sometimes very glittering and it was
mixed up with genuine gems. He had
genius, intellect and IMAGINATION bnt
he did not trust it, He was not so
much afraid to be hmself; he posi-
lively disliked to be himself he wanted
10 be something more brilliant and
mysterious, so he expended enormous
energy in fabrication instead of beinq
content with creation. He who whom
ne was natural was great USUALLY re-
fused to be. The ordinary word
passed through his mind and, either
before or after il reached paper. he
deleted 1t and substituted the unusual
as rule gaining literally nothing by
the change"
Mr.. Squire follows up his frank
criticism of Meredith with a plea
for natural writing" After ALL
I'VE can at least be true to our
selves and
we must be. when writing, as natu.
ral and as simple as our natures given
tull play, will allow us to be. must
not be misunderstood to saw that we
should write precisely as we speak
1t is not good thing even to speak
exactly a S we speak. The NJ. p who
NHansard and the newspapers put his
orations a little straight) saws .Mr
Speaker, | rise to say, | mean 7 get
up to announce that-er-if this bill.
TINS measure gets through, passes s-er
it is impossible to say what will
happen, Sir, the country is well on
the way to the road to ruin is, in
manner speaking naturally; but that
Is not the style one commends. The
ordinary reviewer, if he wrote his
criticisms precisely as he talks, would
come outwitApAsaayeR Nksi
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Who Are the New
British Poets?

A writer in "The Westmin-
xkr- Gazette" thus collects, in
an appreciative and critical
article. some of the better
known contemporary British
poets whose work is moulding
what may be ra.her vaguely
called fi1e modern school of
British verse.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
The Realism Of C0urbet|

wv Water" J. c. Squire OBJ
serves that one of his
correspondents has taken
objection to his estimate of George
Meredith, an estimate that "had its
roots in feeling that in his Mere
dith's) life and in his writings he
was SO artificial that one could not
discover the real man."
Mr.. Squire complained of the
; tortuosities and insincerities of Mer-
edith's writing He found that many
of his readers had found in Mere
dith these same Objectionable quail
tiles, though Mr.. Squire concludes
"they never had the courage to say
So"
eff you object to Meredith's Ian
guage, how can you tolerate that
Of Henry James?' one CORE
spondent asks. "Why should not a
man write as he likes if he has
something to say"
In answering his correspondent
Mr.. Squire goes on to say:
well, l am prepared to face the first
question directly. / don't worship any
writer for his faults, and don't think
that James, especially the later James.
wrote the sort of English that should
like to see repeated. His sentences
twisted and sprawled, his metaphors
clustered and clung, until it was often
necessary to read his sentences several
times over to make certain of his
meaning. Yet his obscurity and dis
from those of Meredith. James did not.
as a rule, use far-fetched words, or
drag in metaphors for their own sakes,
or elongate sentences in order to pro-
duce the effect of freworl1 display
He was far more likely to use slang
words and to tangle his sentences with
as they say so to speak and at least
in so far as which are ordinary of the
oh ~
fruit of his passion for precision. his
complexlty was the child of his desire
for simplicity He wanted to state
everything accurately; he therefore
introduced sub clause after sub-clause
for the sake of making what he thought
necessary reservations, and metaphor
after metaphor sprang to his pen to
convey just the shade of meaning that
he wanted to express. In his later
years it was his habit to dictate a
typescrlpt, to dictate second from the
hrst, and to dictate third from the
second. In each round or lap new quail
hcatlons and amplifications were, usu-
ally clumsly, crowded in. until there
was final draft overfull of detail and
very difficult to read But though his
passion for precision might irritate
some readers Oh. G.. Wells compared
ms efforts to those of a hppopotamus
picking up pea) who felt that such
degree of Intellectual power ought not
to be expended upon trihes. even they
had to respect that power and the sim
cerlty with which he used it: the hip
popotamus is a big creature and this
one was admirably painstaking. The
one thing nobody ever suggested about
James was that he was insncere or
pretentious"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Edward Thomas with which the col
lection begins, and to the volume of
Last Poems" which is published uni
formly with it, thereby sdding one
final book to the muddle of small over
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

tapping volumes in which this the
most remarkable of English poets dis
covered since the war has been intro
duced to the public.
Here, at once. and in every poem, in
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

characteristic of the mind that wrote
it and of no other. Byron just failed
to spoil his most famous stanza by
pausing to inquire if aught inanimate
e'er grieves, because, to the ear, the
whole line in itself is musical and love-
1y, but still more because the swift,
critical aside is true to the temper
which was, later, to rise to genius
in the versifcation of "Don Juan"
Technical skill plus a recognizable
individuality are both desirable in the
poet if he is to meet his inspiration
fairly, but if one must be lacking it
had better be the skill He may ac-
quire that, or may follow last years
fashion and write what he calls vers
libre, a thing not really posi- Bile to do
we'll in English.
1t is a consciousness of failure in
the other unlearnable quality that has
always driven focks of canary poets
whistling, often quite beautifully.
after the authentic songbird Once
his note has been recognized. it is
the momentary capture of his own soul
which now and again wrings from
examples of genuine song as survive
in literature when the dust of imi-
tative rhyming has fallen away from
the singers names. To this uncon-
scious admission of a lack in them
selves we also may possibly owe the
personality which is so salient a quail
i'y in most Of the verse turned out by
the clever young people during the
present revival of poetry.
You tell me-" says Miss Margaret
Postgate at the outset of her little
collection called firmly margaret
Postgate's Poems:
You tell me
The Ljuing Poet of TODAY
hnoars better than to touch the SEN
timentol subjects
That people thought they liked in
Nineteen Thirteen.
He cart abide the stars
and as for spring, 1t makes hin,
sick, and birds are si2nDly
nasty, and loue--Good Lord,
tin opener, and a wet macintosh as
the things the gentleman she addresses
considers poetic, she concludes:
Well, I don't like them. and 7 uon'ti
do like
Roses and Iovers in lanes and honeu
suckle and green moods,
And al the things you find unn,en-
tionnble.
aaU make three hundred and sirtv-
fre poems about the moon.
That is only bluff, and the person
bluFed is Miss Postgate, who writes
about the moon and the rest as chat
teringly as though she had naver re-
voted:
There should be hedges streared Nth
usild roses,
The Dhite sweet roses that shine like
little stars
In the west hearers when the moon
1calks slor0
Along the conmnon-side-ond deu-
deep fields
Where bare feet make no sound that
tread at night.
"hen she asserts herself, as in
Wishing" she is driven back into that
1913 fashion at which she girds. and
refusing the pains Of the versemaker.
lets her temper snap:
ao1sh you 10ouldn't say such uner-
pected things, and nerer Inoa0
youVe sad them.
1 1Dtsh you UouLdn't hare so mann,
nnanterestlng plans, and be as
b1sy as a baby wlth them.
I w'sh you wouldn't 10 on holidoa,s
noith deodly people, and be quite
mtotlcally hnppy there.
nash you'd nlwoys be alo1,e.
! u0ish>-Domn' suppose I uy;sh
you Lon1cd me.
This same personal insistence--as Of
tao photographed novel-maYs the
EFFORT of Miss Enid Bagnold to take
hef place as poet. "The Sailing
ships" which war frat nr;r+.J - u,r-l