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New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Zangwill Goes to Land
In Jimmy the Carrie"

JIMMY THE CARRIER" Ry Israel
Zangwill Published by the Macmillan
Ccfnpan-
Israel Zangwill breaks silence of
several years with story OF English
rural life in the early Victorian period.
1t is not easy in these days of strain
and stress to get into the atmosphere
of the simple folk of Frog Farm and
to follow their uneventful lives
through six hundred and seven pages
"A bland novel to be read in bed with
the sore throat" is the authors own
description of his book. and such CON
ditions call naturally for calm and
soothing quality unlikely to produce
temperature.
There is plenty of dry humor and
quaint character study, but it is hard
to down an impression of its being
made to order and strictly according
to schedule. We know nothing of the
manners and customs of bucolic Essex.
and its habits ma be more romantic
than those of our own people An old
farmer and his wife who habitually
address each other as dear heart and
sweetheart" are certainly sentiment
ally satisfying. but we fear too good
J to be true. F. B. B.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Second Wind In iction
Taste in Reprint Literature Sometimes
Upsets Precedents of Original Sale

every other business. Frequently
a book whose success at full price
has been slight achieves an extraor-
dinary popularity al a lower
price. Edgar Burroughs Rice's Tar
zan" stories went into several riiiion
copies in the cheaper edition, though
their sale was very small at regular
price. and have netted the auxiliary
publishers fortune. Grace S. Rich
mond is another author. whose Red
Pepper Burns" stories have had an i'm
mense sale in cheaper edition. though
her success with them at regulfr sale
was slight. The reverse side Of this
speculation lies in this firms expert
ences with the novels OF Wells and
admitted that he took a chance at re-
printing Weiss "Passionate Friends"
and Benefits Price Of Lore" count
ing heavily on the drawing power OF
the titles. He was unable to dispose OF
the small edition he had pri.ted.
The people who want Wells and
Bennett and Gaisworthy are willing
to buy them at full price. Those who
do not want them are not willing to
take them even az half price. One
publisher who veNturously acquired
the plates of the De Morgan novels
was left with a very bad loss on his
hands.
Nevertheless. the popular middle
class English authors rea-h as huge
sales here as some Of The most success-
full Of our own. Marie Ccrelli. Hs"
Caine, Gilbert Parker. Conan Doy.-,
Ethel NJ. Dell and Bertha Kuck are end
lessiy roaular.
Mr. Burt was keen to point out the:
his list contained 10 work Of Ehror
CyT's or Reginald Wright KautTman's.
or Upton Sincla.rs These were boos =
of doubtful pGrity-and the great ma
jority OF popular book buyers, he be-
lieved, are aggressive n the matter ce
purity. Larro as the sale of these
doubtful books has been he feels Il
would be poor business policy for his
house to be identified with any bu.
Wholesome" reading. There is con-
spicuous absence in this list OF ans
OF those foreign authors whose stand
ards are 4 trihe wider than ours.
R D.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Belgian Reciprocity

Henry de Man, leader of the Belgian
Labor party and althor of "The Re-
making Of Mind" published last Friday
by the Scribners, is now in this coun-
try to investigate comparative methods
in European and American industry
for the Belgian Ministry of Industry
and Labor. "The Remaking of a
Mind" is q brilliant Interpretation Of
the new socialism, nationalism, patriot
ism, capitalism and other issues now
before the world in the light of the
development of M. de Mans personal
views on these problems under pressure
of his war experiences. Of his two
visits to this country NJ. de Man says:
"Thus | fell in love with America at
first sight. 1t has ripened into the
resolve that, unless the outcome of the
war should make my two little children
citizens Of the United States of the
World would give them chance of
becoming citizens of the United States
of America
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
By Heywood Broun


Probably Leonard Merr,ck did not
foresee the actors strike when he wrote
his theatrical novels, particularly "The
Position of Peggy Harper" and "The
Actor Manager" (Dutton), and yet
there is much in these books that is
pertinent to the situation in America
to-day. Merrick was himself an actor,
but after he had starved enough he
began to write, and left the stage. His
experience has had profound effect
on his work, for he writes chiefly about
worthy, unsuccessful actors and un-
worthy, successful actors. Undoubted-
ly, his own mishaps in the theatre
have warped his point of view to a GER
tain extent, for it is hardly true in
England, any more than in America,
that talent is universally scorned.
However, he has fairly starved himself
out of one particular sentimental atti-
tude much favored by men who write
about the theatre. He knows that it S
not a good thing for genius or high
talent to be put on short rations. He
knows that poverty is q deadening in.
f1uence rather than a spur to the artist.
This seems simple enough truth to
be within the reach Of everybody, but
a little examination of the literature
about the stage and, indeed, much of
the discussion about the actors strike
to-day will prove that it is not so. Not
few persons, among them some Of our
we'll known players, seem to be shocked
to the very depths of their sentiment
talitics by the actors strike, because a
strike is q distinctly practical weapon
Almost everybody comedies the right
Of brlcklayer or stagcnand to
strike for better working conditions or
for the privilege of collective bargain
ing, but some are not willing to find
any artist showing a similar interest in
his material wellbeing. He should
wait they think, for the ravens.
We are all very sorry for the genius
in any field of art who starves in a
L, garret, and yet it is a sweet sorrow.
We would prefer to go on sympathizing
with him for years and years, even up
to the day of his death, rather than to
hear that he had driven a good bar
| gain with a picture seller or a pub
! Usher which had enabled him to put in
s.c ii ne d b - rDas. met six days
a week. When he moves to the larger
apartment on the second floor and hires
a cook we generally lose interest in
him. We shake our heads rather
cynically and say that he has become
commercialized. Many man marched
behind Dick Steele's hearse who would
not have given penny to see him out
of the debtors prison. We love the
dear, shi t ess. n pygo- lucky, improv-
ident fellows until they ask whether
the third figure in the royalty state
| Sh NJ ho nj Oafo Of =
two. 1t comes, then, as something Of a
shock that man of genius has actu-
ally had time to learn to add.
Merrick points out in "The Position
of Peggy Harper" that, while genius
may persist in spite of all obstacles, it
is possible to starve out talent. He
objects, by inference. to the helter-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Daisy Did and Daisy Didn't
Controversy As To Authorship of
The Young Visiters" Still Raging

We present here the varying reac-
lions of three men on Daisy Ashford's
1rhe Young visiters" (Doran). 1t will
-he observed that the controversy is
,.;ll ragi~g as to whether Daisy did or
Daisy didn't:
4 perusAl Of "The Young Visiters"
Ass led me to the conclusion that it
~,s not written by nine -year-old
shild. and / should like to place some
of nv reasons before your readers for
discussion.
The remark about the portrait in
Bernard's house being the sinister
San of Queen Victoria" must have re-
called to many readers a passage of
Marx Twain's "Huckleberry Finn"--
Tom Sawyer, boasting to Huck about
his coat of arms with bar sinister
Roth sinister remarks appear premedi-
tated.
The "mystearious and Superior" air
~ Edward Procurio, the Groom of the
Chambers of the Crystal Palace, Is too
GOOD touch Of Characterization to
come from a nine-year-old. The Earl
al Clincham (note the name), who
takes money to introduce social
climbers into high life" is another bit
of satire.
There are enough incidents of ada
cent sleeping apartments occupied by
persons of opposite sex to suggest the
old bedroom farce. Mr.. Sal.eena's
arrangement resembled Long Island
house party
There is a matter of punctuation
which is somewhat puzziing. The fac
sime of the manuscript shows the
subtitle with an apostrophe before the
"s"-Mr. Saitsena's plan-but nowhere
in the tex. is there one where there
should be- In the preface J. N. Bar
rie states that Tie printed book follows
the spelling OF the manuscript. Does
a child OF nine, who knows the use of
the apostrophe, employ it only once
and omit it thereafter?
These phrases picked ct random do
not seem to be the results of the child
ish mind at work: Sour grapes and
ashes" "twittering of the birds and
the smell of the cows" court life as
a professhon.' "intelligent conversa-
ton Of the prime minister" "piffle be-
fore the wind
Perhaps we may have clew to the
author in Mr.. Salteenas remark: Il
an very fond of Trash air ard royal
ties" EDW ARD COTLE.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
by Harold Bell Wright.
About a Column
Fifty Books

1t is astonishing to discover another
soul in the wilderness who likes "Zu-
leika." You must remember that the
late Rupert Brooke disapproved OF it,
and that Mrs. Ward said it was trivial.
Apparently you and I are writhing in
the glue of bad taste. Herewith are
appended fifty books which should shed
light on any Californian homestead.
DR.. Coggeshall can give you the $50
cial Revolution" perhaps. He has the
only copy about town, SO far as I
know.
"Annals and History" Tacitus, Ok
ford Edition; Rabelais, Urquhart's
translation; "Numa Roumestan" A.
Daudet; "History of Our Own Times"
Justin Mccarthy; paris and Her So
cial Revolution" Alvin Sanborn; "The
Influence of Wealth in Imperial Rome"
Davis; "The New Arabian Nights" R..
L. Stevenson; "Bab Ballads" w. S.
Gilbert; Men and Women R. Brown
ing; dramatic Opinions and Essays"
G. B. Shaw; "The Defence Of Gueni-
we're and Other Poems," W. Morris;
"Eugenie Grandet," H. Balzac; THE
Duchess of Malfi," Webster; "Evelina," i"
F. Burney; History of rance"
Guizot; Poems and Elegies," DR..
Donne; "The Brothers Karamazov,
Dostoievsky; "The Three Musketeers, "
Alexander Dumas; VANITY Fair"
Thackeray; BLEAK House." c. Dick
ems; THE Chippendales," Robert
Grant; "Whilomville Stores," Stephen
Crane; "The Lcatherwood God" W. D.
Howells; "Van Cleve and His Friends" !"
NJ. S. Watts; Don Quixote de la Man
cha," Cervantes; "Morte d'Arthur," Sir
T. Mallory; Faust" translated, Bay
ard Taylor), Goethe; Thus Zarathun-
ira Spake" TRANSLATED, Morgan
Nietzsche; "The Queens QUAR-" (if ira,
is the way one spells it), M. Hewlett;
vi. on (trans.ated), J. Payne; "Ihe
Diary of S. Pepys, Gent; "A Shor,
History of the English People," Green;
"The Inferno OF Dante" (translated
Cary); "L'Homme qui Rit," V. Hugo
"Heimat,". Sudermann; "Histories OF
Herodotus," Oxford Edition; "The
Warden" "Barchester T.w rs. and Iii;
Last Chronicle of Barset,' Trollope;
Life on the Mississippi" "Thc Gildec
Age" and "Huckleberry Finn" MARI
Twain; "Men of Iron," Howard Pyle
plain Tales from the Hills,' Rudyarc
Kipling; Imaginary Portraits" Wal
ter Pater; "Lucretius," Oxford Edi
ton; THE Republic" Plato, Oxfore
Edition; "The Arabian Nights" (trans
lated, Lane); "Zuleika Dobson, NJ. B.
and "The Scarlet Letter." N. Haw
thorne. THOMAS BEER.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Russian Art

"The Russian School of Painting"
b. Alexandra Bcnois, brought out in
just been published in England by T.
Werner Laurie, Ltd, and London re-
views note that it is the only book on
the subject published in English.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

That little pitchers have, indeed, big
ears (and sharp cyes) will no doubt
be your first reelection when you start
in on "The Young Visiters." Your
next, if you are at all reflective, will
no doubt be: what lot of junk the
child must have read--and studied"
Studied, certainly, for Daisy. as Sir
James Barrie and others have re-
marked, has a marvellous technique.
So much for what Daisy saw and
captured, for the happily distorted
imaging Of actual life and the uncon-
scious literary parody which so far
surpasses Max Becrbohm But we are
even more interested in what Daisy
missed. How can it be that this little
pitcher. so filled with Victorian
hctlon,, failed to wot of chaperons, con-
ventions, proprieties and, above all,
compromising situations. A child of
to-day might read and read and get no
mixing of such embarrassments. But
young as Daisy is to-day her reading
smacks of a vintage which pressed
these grapes to the dregs. At any rate,
this little pitcher stayed unspoiled;
the conventions ran in one ear and out
the other. So she has given us a kind
were, the leopard and kid lie down
together, with a little child to lead
them.
KEITH PRESTON.
AS for THE Young Visiters" (spell
~ wrong; some printers won't), by
Dairy Ashford, preface by j. NJ. Bar
rie, its humor is the Choicest. | purred
with delight over it. This humor can't
be unconscious-that's impossible Mark
that line-"preface by J. NJ. Barrie"
! wouldn't 60 to the stake for it, but
III bet you a new hat, I'll bet you two
new hats to one, that Barrie wrote
every word of "The Young Visiters."
I'm told it's selling in England at the
rare Of thousand copies a day. Good
old Barriei Age cannot wither nor
custom stale G. LEWIS HIND.
On the other hand, there is the tes-
timony of George Doran, the publisher.
that as far as he has been able to as
certain there is no question that the
book was written by q nine-year-o!d
child. James M. Barrie has denied
any implication in the authorship.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Go S S ip
Balm for B0oklovers

Here's hopeful item for booklovers
who have been kicking at the discrep-
ancy between the cost and the
mechanical quality of present day
books. Mcssrs. Houghton- Mifflin Com
pany, who make their own books at
their Riverside, Press in Cambridge,
Mass, have returned to pre-war
basis with regular margins and the
various incidentals that constitute the
difference between a we'll made and a
poorly made book. We hope the idea
will spread.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Fifty More Books

What sort of mess is this list by
Ruth Hale? Here, to quote Mencken.
is the "mingling of virtuous conformi-
ty and easy certainty" An avoidance
Of sexual truth in literature quite typ
ical of our middle class.
Not a mention of Lawrence's "Sons
and Lovers" as fine an English novel
as ever written, or Cannan's "Mendel"
or Georges Bed Of Roses" !and why
Roses"?) and her philosophy. De-
leted. Freud's analysis Of human man.
kind has put the worlds philosophy SO
far in the shade we can't see the dust
II we are going to have lists let's
have lists and not the rubbish that
went out with chair backs and wax
flowers. ]. E.. STIRLING.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
New Novel by Aumonier

Century" will shortly publish The
Querrils," novel by Stacy Aumonier,
whose collection of short stories The
Friends" recently won him an enthus-
astic following.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

HIGHEST PRICES AND CASH DOWN
paid for books. We specially want the
llTH EDITION ENCYCLOPAEDIA
BRITANNICA.
THOMS & ERON, INC,
so John ST.. N. Y Phone 4s25-482s John
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

IS A LL-OUT-OF-PRiNT-nOOKS"
WRITE ME-. can get you any book svse
published on any subject The most expsr!
book finder extant When IN England csIl and
sse my sec. QUO rare books BAKER 8 GREAT
ROOK SHOP John Bright St Rirmtnghs n
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
The Voice of the West

It's rather against my principles to
express my opinion publicly, but a
review of new book in Mr.. Broun's
column has rather gotten under my
skin.
Mr.. Broun's first comments on Will
lam Patterson Whites Owner of the
Lazy D" are on the cowboys English
and his grammar. Mr.. Broun apparent
ly and obviously has never met a cow
boy Of the real sort. He seems to
think that cowboys should speak per-
feet English, preferably with Bos-
t"nese accent.
Some weeks ago one of your readers
roasted Mr.. Broun as reviewer SIM
ply because he had formerly been a
sport writer. This criticism | had
considered rather uncalled for.
But if Mr.. Broun in his experience
of athletics has never met any but
college graduates and in his sojourn
in or near New York has never heard
anything but grammatical construc-
tions, his daily life must be singu-
lprly guarded and his tender ears and
sensitive eyes covered to ell but the
highest forms of the English language
spoken and written.
l feel particularly sorry for Mr..
Broun's lack of experience. 1t is a re-
who, 1 presume, lives in New York
doesn't know that there are as many
dialects in that comparatively small
spot as there are countries in the
world.
By that same token, Mr.. Broun is
slngularly ignorant and untravelled if
he does not know that every state of
the Union has its own peculiarities of
speech. Moreover, he is completely un-
fit to judge stories of any . variety
beyond the typical high life tales
which, though they pass as true ex-
amples of cultivated life, are often
as not forced and ridiculous.
l speak as a Westerner and one who
knows the West and the East, and
say that Mr.. Whites story is care
fully studied and we'll written example
of the average West of the '8Os.
I would suggest that Mr.. Brouu
spend his vacation in travel and &C.
custom his eyes to see fine souls be-
meath the various rough exteriors and
his ears tc hear the fine outstanding
Western code which, ungrammatically
expressed, nevertheless is lived up tc
far more strictly chan some of the
beautifully spoken sentllnt nts Of tbs
average Eastern modem story. Let Mr.
Broun give at least
FAIR PLAY.
We would like nothing better thar
an opportunity 20 learn how the cow
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
The Old "Paperbacks" Return

A. A. w, in "The Boston Transcript"
has been making an investigation into
the rumored- increase in the sale of
cheap editions of old .favorites and finds
there is growing demand for them.
mick Carter" he writes, "has come
into his own again. The king of the
'paperbacks' has made record break
mount steadily until the entire supply
of Nick Carter books was exhausted.
His return to fame was unexpected. 1t
was not the result Of an advertising
campaign, for the publishers of the
paperbound books do not advertise.
They depend for the SAFE of their
books on the lists printed in the back
pages Of the vo4ume'
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
FAIR PLAY.

We would like nothing better than
an opportunity 20 learn how the cow
boys talk, and we are merely waiting
to ascertain whether the dialect is
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

Publishers admit that the demand
for the v.uuine novei--in the sense Of
the purely sensational books dead,
but that the sale Of joke books, dream
books, fortune telling manuals and
letter writers have large sale.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

Publishers of the paperback book.
say that the demand for the 10 ane
lb cent book has been tremendous, ant
that stories of American life-writter
by such writer's as Bertha NJ. Clay
and detective stories are most in de-
mand.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-27

are commonplace II is true, even Of speech One Of
the most satisfactory bits progress made in this
respect recently indeed refers 70 aviation 10 the
simplifying OF the terminoogy "AerOplanes for
some time have been shortened 'airplanes
thanks the official action taken by the government
during the Many people still cling TO the high
sounding Latin compound. though hardly one in
thousand pronounces an its four syliaoes The gen
eraI pubic been glad adopt simple, two
syllabed English form.
The big race across the Atlantic has brought
still more counnnendab1e reform OF this When
there first produced a machine capable OF navi-
eating both and water. it called by the
wheimins name. "hydroaeroplsne." hybrid word
made uD Of Greek and Latin and containing six
syImbes when properly pronounced. Instead of that
korrfc monstrosity We have the short.
size term, 'seaplane." That is easy to say sea
gun meaning just self-evident-
There remains the word "hydroplane" water
plane" which though altogether satisfactory is
well enough understood and serves a valuable pur-
pose in characterising the boat that merely skins
over the surface OF the rather than the boat
that also flies
A good deal more simplifying and Angifying
necessary before aviation becomes a really popular
sport understood and participated in by the general
public. Too many Of the still Greek. Latin
housed in an "aerodrome." or even a. "airdrome p"
And what does 'fuseage" to the plain citizen
who aspires to be a planning citizen?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-27
THE REPRESENTATIVES. La
MENT.
THE
Strickland Gillian.

Strickland Gillian.
You smell to me, you darned old
sinking eve,
Exactly as these other woolies do.
can't detect the slightest little diff
Between you and others-sniff for
sniff
You sheep are all the same. But
some fool lamb
Whose judgment in my world amt
worth a damn.
Can tell you in the dark from all
the others
In this big gang of freshly-barbered
mothers,
1t isn't that / care about your smell
or that it would advantage me 10 tell
One sheep from all the rest in this
big herd.
But. man 20 sheep. / give my honest
word
1t gravels me To know that in one
way,
In what they've labeled this en-
lightened day"
Your silly lamb. as anyone can see,
Is that much more intelligent than
me-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-27
The Horoscope
WEDNESDAY. MAY 2s.

The auguries for this day. based
on the science Of the stars are of a
contradictory nature. The strongest
OF the benches are welding a beneh-
cial sway and the strongest of the
malefics are as equally powerful in
their adverse influence Under such
circumstances with conservative at
titude. good judgment and trained
business acumen. the balance may be
turned in favor OF success in business
and pleasure and qualification in 9TH
or affairs. To offset adverse influ-
ences the health should be- safe
guarded possibilities of accident
should be avoided. and the tendency
To All impetuous and erratic conduct
suppressed. The mind Will be quick
ened and sagaciOus. and on the whole
the trend Of affairs should be devel
oped 10 advantage
Those whose birthday it is. with
the exercise of good judgment
should have a prosperous and happy
year. A child born on this day will
be celver. industrious. generous. pop
ular and affectionate. also successful
despite tendency 10 be impulsive
and erratic.