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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

Peau had sent for all the officers of
the regiment. | run to his tent. I
find before the door my comrades
all agitated and distressed The
colonel advances into our midst and
reads a circular letter from Marshal
Bazaine, directing all the heads of
units to send their flags to the ar
scnal, where they are to be burned.
'Messieurs,' the colonel contin-
ued, I have answered that the LIST
Regiment Of Grenaders of the
Guard confides to nobody else the
mission of destroying it's fagv
cat the same time he orders the
assembly called. The grenadiers
surround US, pressing upon US from
all sides. Sub-Lieutenant Standard
Bearer Rueff comes from the ,en-
unfolds the flag and hands it to the
colonel.
"He grasps it. For the last time
he presents 1T to the grenadiers, who
salute it without cry, without a
word. Then, with the aid of a sap
per's knife, he cuts the flag into lit
tie pieces and distributes them.
II am sending you, my dear
Aline, through safe channel.
the portion which came to me.
These few inches of a glorious fabric
which no enemy has ever touched
will be moro secure in your hands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
The Cedar
By Maurice Hewlett

IN Vc17,ditch Bottom stands tree.
L Lord of an open place
The like of Uhich you might not see
The length of Cranborne Chace.
Der hazel brake and sopling oaks
He lifts his lofty head,
Like some old sea-bird on the rocks
With lonely acimgs outspreod.
HIS floating cans do call hush
Over the quiet hoUow-
1t IS as # the gorse and brush
Heard him, but durst not foUow:
As If they guessed 1Uhere he began
To open IN the sun,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

They made some kindling out of
a couple of boxes. But soon it was
necessary to make more.
BAH" said the captain, getting
up. Tonight we might as we'll
burn Mile. Ragonet."
And he added, speaking to him
self:
Tomorrow stretcher or a coffin
will serve us better than STOOL"
He upset the prie-dieu and with
a kick broke off the tablet at which
the plous demoiselle had knelt in
meditation. Then they saw in the
box which formerly served as book
case an envelope bearing a stamp
with the effigy of Napoleon III on
it. Slipping from between the leaves
of a Book of Hours, it had fallen
into a crack between the bottom and
the side of the box and had re-
manned there unnoticed.
The cadet picked it up and drew
from it the fragment of letter and
a small piece of blue silk.
"Ah!" he said, ironically, 1--WE are
on the track of a secret"
He unfolded the paper and read
aloud these lines, tvaced in a large.
masculine hand:
This morning, October 81, they
came to me to tell me that Colonel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

general. AS for the three "Hochs"
which were added, they doubtless
expressed the gratitude of pillagers
and vandals to the chief of their
band. However that was, these bar
barrie words, written on the prize
dieu, gave it grotesque and irri-
tating air. They made one think of
a German freebooter overawing a
nun.
One winter evening, in the dugout,
five officers were grouped about an
improvised tablc-a board on four
stakes. The captain sat on the prize
dieu, on which they had piled some
squares of tent canvas. Three lieu
tenants and a cadet sat on cartridge
cases.
They were playing poker, putting
into the game the mechanical inter-
est and frozen excitement Of men
who see death approaching, and who
strive to escape it's implacable
fascination. Early the next morn
ing they were to attack some formi-
dable enemy positions, which were
to be taken at any cost.
The customary phrases of the card
table were exchanged, yet without
any gayety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Meynell
Takes a Whack
At VerS Libre

they would acknowledge, but not "a
much. Accordingly, Paul Clauders
verses are generally written approx;-
mately in so much rule of metre and
rhyme as English requires of English
poets.
6GTF F, then, it is the French whom
Il our rebels are following, their
following is corrupt and quite IN
necessary. If it is Walt Whitman.
may quote Rossetti's words: I've read
Leaves of Grass Of course. to cal,
1t poetry, in any sense, would he O
mere abuse of language. Poetry
without form is, what shlll ! say,
proportion seems to ME the most in
allenable quality of a poem. From tho
chaos of incident and reflection ar;s.
the rounded words of poetry. and %
singing on their way Fine. Cher.
seem to be two kinds of bad form in
prose-one that swings into blan.
verse unintentionally, missing therehv
that right rhythm of prose whereof
Samuel johnson was a master. ana
the other that lounges under the nam.
OF poetry and thus, after different
fashion, also denies the periods of
right prose.
NJ. Jourdain was delighted to hear
that he had been talking prose everv
night about his nightcap. but thar
dear man, though he did not think
he had been talking prose, never
thought he had been talking poetry!
That is the difference between NJ.
Jourdain and Walt Whitman.
"Albeit the date of that writer is 50
lar past, it is to be presumed that the
vers libre now very popular in America
is of his suggestion. Surely it is of
the false wildness that comes after
and not before order; it has no inno-
cence, it has no ignorance Will the
new poets of America SO forsake their
past and ours? They cannot. The
poetry of our language is our nature.
cur history and our difference. What
q olA6 uldi man. SdlO french OBJ
server of Browning. His middle is not
IN the centre If we may take Brown
ing as just an English poet, this
Frenchman discovered a racial fact.
The middle of an English poet is not in
the centre; it is one focus of an
eclipse, like the sun. The national
imagination takes long absences and
adventures and unequal velocities. 1t
was once thought that carths orbit
must be circular because the circle is
perfect And this is the kind of per-
lection that the French mind long
cherished.
"lnfiexion, not infraction, this is pure
ly English. And yet even for infrac-
ton, under the dispensation of great
emotion, there might be most rare
cause. But in vers .ibrc, as | see i.
now written in America, there is not
even infraction. Where there is no
law there is no breaking of the law.
Did | say but now that this move
ment' was a revolt? 1t is not a revolt
ton, it is not a revolt, it is not move
ment, it is not even protest. In rela-
ton to poetry, the heavenly art that Is
the vie complementaire' of men on
earth, it is nothing. Nay, how difficult
| find it to be negative enough.-it has
no relation thereto"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

lie and The kindred of his clan
Signing on Lebanon.
A great house stood hereubouts,
The Warden of the Walk,
Where noaV of all its ans and outs
Remai'1s grassy balh.
A bout him once q velvet ld1yn
Shoa0'd mony a good tree groaving
But he acas first to hail the do1Un
And last to see day going.
No'0 all the pleasantness and peace
Are ended like story;
the aooodland creeps about his Knees
But cannot hide his glory.
From Land and Water.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

"There's the buck"
III pass
Il open for hundred sous"
"I'm going to see you"
In moments Of intermission, when
the cards were being dealt or the
chips stacked up, an exclamation cs-
capes involuntarily, showing the pre-
occupation of all of them.
of only the artillery preparation
isn't bunglcd, as it was the last
timc!"
Or perhaps hope is expressed,
more or less furtively:
"Well, we'll get through this, too"
Then they set to playing again
noisily, as if to stihe the voice or
experience, which cried out within
them:
"No! Not all of us. 1t is impos-
slblc. Tomorrow at this hour two
or three of US, perhaps four, perhaps
all five, will be dead or prisoners.
blind or mutilated."
1t happened that the stock of fire
wood gave out. The furious blaze
in the stove sank low. The cold of
the night penetrated insidiously into
the underground chamber. They
looked at one another with inquict
ude. 1t would be too much if physi-
cal discomfort were added to the
torments Of tho spirit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

4 y clusively proved by the
May issue, in which ap-
pears an arresting and stimulating
article on Shakespeare and Dante bv
John Jay Chapman. "Sketch es-
tlmates-and comparison" he
calls it; and the thesis is opened with
the question: "ls it not strange
that the two greatest poets of hu-
mainly should have next to moth
ing in common" They are not
merely dissimilar, the writer finds;
they belong to wholly opposite
types. 1t is even hard to believe.
runs the argument, that they both
belong to the same human race. Yet
they are both part of the worlds
rich heritage. The writer goes on
to say:
"1f an inhabtant of Mars should ask
US for sample poet we should have
to present him with both of them. be-
cause either one alone would so mis-
represent the possibilities of the race.
And when the Marian saw them he
would probably reply: These two men
may be poets, but they cannot be in
habltants of the same planet
~ confess that I feel about them
somewhat as the Marian might. Each
OF them seems, in his nature and art.
to exclude the other from the species
There is a flash of sunlight in
Shakespeare's very name, and a groan
IN Dante's. How can each have been
the very greatest? Shakespeare has
no opinions except as they flow out of
the moment; he has no fixed method.
no aim, except to pass the time. His
thought uncoils as the rose bursts or
as the dragon-fy leaves his chrysalis,
He expands, expands, CLOVIS, roams.
scars, and has no bad words for any
one. 1t is almost a vice in him that
he never can bring himself to condemn
any one. He praises the mistress who
betrays him. He constitutionally must
have it that everything is right. There
is no venom in his nature. His is the
hsppiest disposition that ever left
record in print.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
POSITIVELY, that prie-dieu
Of yellow wood had a certain
resemblance to those devout
old women whom one &c

old women whom one sees
hurrying through the streets of
little towns at the chilly hour of
early mass. You could easily inn
agine that it's owner, Mile. Aline
Ragonet, whose name it bore,
burned into the wood by the
clumsy hand of some sacristan, was,
like it, angular, humble and rigid.
In this dugout in the first line
trenches, where it was used as a
stool, they had come to identify the
personal belonging with the person.
1t was customary to say: "Pass me
Mile. Ragonet, that may sit by the
stove"
Nobody knew whence it came or
what train of adventures had
brought it from the pcacefulness or
some village church to the wild up
roar and horror of the fighting line.
1t was incontestable that it had been
prisoner Of war, for it bore the
evidences of that time of trial. The
box adjusted to its upper part to
receive prayerbooks had been
brutally forced open. The first of
the crossbars Of the headpiece dis
played this inscription, in heavy
Gothic characters: "Onkcl lcbc
Hoch 3 Nal Hochm
Evidently, the surname "OnkeI"
designated soma massive Teuton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Joyce Kilner's
Craze
II A LETTER from Amer
~ ica," writes Horatio
S. Krans to "The Co.


urged me to verify report thai
the body of Columbia man, sale
to have been killed in action, wa:
buried in Fere-en- Tardenois." Mr.
krans, accompanied by another
Columbia man, Captain Osterhout
made the trip to this war-scarred
district; and, pursuing his account
we read:
"The cemetery at Fere lay to the
north of the highway. From it one
saw, a little to the west, pine wood
and to the south and east, rolling
meadows and rounded uplands-a ter
rain that had been desperately embat-
tied. Immediately across the road was
small dump in which were jumblcd
Unfortunately rusty rifles, bayonets,
helpets, timed beef cans, rotting uni
forms, etc.
I'VE entered the cemetery through
little rustic gate and commenced a
systematic examination of the 700
crosses, one Of which stood at the head
of each grave. On each cross was
tackled little rectangular copper plate
ho NO 70 -,
the name and such other data as were
necessary to identify the soldier who
rested below. Fastened to almost all
the crosses were also the identification
tags which our men were supposed to
wear about their necks or on their
persons. Our search, however, proved
fruitless. The man we sought had not
found his resting place there, it
seemed.
eve had not found the man we
sought, but we came upon the grave of
another Columbia man whom both
Captain Osterhout and l had known
personally and who had given his life
in this war which he had entered in
the spirit of crusader. We knew he
had met his death, but We did not
know his burial place. 1t is Joyce
Kilmer to whom I refer and it was
with a shock that I came upon the
plate upon his cross. The plate read :
Joyce Kilmer
Pvt. CT.
1857
hid. Co., 167th Inf.
Upon the grave rested a bouquet of
flowers, now withered, which doubtless
some friend and comrade, had placed
there"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
LICE MEYNELL, the Eng
fish essayist, whose follow
ing is possibly not large,

O0C dSoQ1COly C1lClCC, speaks
her mind regarding the vers IL
brists in G. K. Chesterton's paper,
THE New Witness" Her English
has always about it an esoteric
quality which many doubtless find
difficult to pursue with ease, but
the pursuit is generally worth ones
while. The present essay is not in
the writer's most exalted style-the
style, for example, which we en-
counter in her exquisite essay on
THE Rhythm of Life" But it is
vigorous, and, if occasionally in
volved, fundamentally to the point.
English poetry, she declares, has
been "exquisitely fortunate in the
voluntary obedience it demands Of
English poets" And, reading on:
These have had the singular felicity
OF writing under metrical laws that
must not be infringed but may be in
Elected, laws that have come. STRENGTH
encd to bear a right strain without
breaking from the long ancestry of our
incompatible poetry.
"Whom do writers in English mimic
when they write the vers lbre? Whit
man of three-quarters of a century
ago or the French of to-day? For the
French there is much to be said. The
wonder is that not only their 'classicap
(the wonder is not great in their case)
but their romantic poets kept the
laws of verse to the letter. 1t is worth
while to run through them here, be-
cause 1t is frequent thing to find
French verse misquoted by English
pens in manner that shows some CON
fusion: there is no blank verse; the
>N'S NAASo " ZIG <A4cNduQTlHeS must be
IN couplets of alternate rhymes. two
masculine (monosyllabic) and two
feminine (quasi dissyllabic e-mute
rhymes); the casura must ALWAYS fall
IN the perfect middle; plural and sim
gular words otherwise perfectly
1hymlng must not rhyme. e-mutes
must be valued before a consonant but
not before a vowel The same rules
Except, of course, that of the casura)
bind verses that are not the normal
AleXandrines. 1t has been rather alb
surdly said that these laws are so
severe that to keep them implies a
poet. But it is true that to keep them
IN such inspiration, such flight, such
impulse, such divine wit, such an i'm
plcation of freedom, as Victor Hugo
achieves, does imply great poet.
Merely to keep them is different but
not at all important. A certain group
OF new men have resolved not to keen
them. They believe themselves to
have the flight and the wit and the
rest, but not to be able or willing to
have them on such terms Some order
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
.o 'HESE two great artists, one hea=

." 'HESE two great artists, one bea-
tlhc, the other sinister will com
pete with each other as thew float
forever like ships down the stream of
Tune. 1t education and academic fos-
tering count for mach in the world.
one would prophesy that neither of
these poets will.cver be forgotten. for
oosh OF them are already classics. One
OF them stands for the Middle Ages
and the other for the Renaissance. one
Tor unity, the other for divcrsitv
Looking at them thus closely and
labelling them as We do in the AGA
demic jargon of which of
them, shall we say, is likely to keen
the longest hold on the worlds IN
terest?
"A speculation of this sort is doubt
less little futile, but it can do no
very great harm.
You have, in Dante, Christianity at
It's worst; in Shakespeare, a sort of
modern paganism at it's best. sus-
pect that Shakespeare is the rarer nat
urc of the two; because happiness is
the rarest element in poetry. Almost
all poets are gloomy. It's easier to be
sad than merry, in verse | believe
that Shakespeare unquenchablc low
BUSINESS is greater force than Dante's
religious fervor and that the people of
the Renaissance were, on the whole.
less abnormal than the medieval peo-
pie. Dante will remain as fountain
of passionate enjoyment for the intel
lectuals of the future world but
Shakespeare will hold the peoples
heart because he is joyous.
"How it will be thousand wears
hence is another question. Historically
speaking. and to Judge by what has oc.
Cured before, it is only RELIGIOUS
things which survive AS a subject
OF archaeological research religion beats
out everything. SO, all in all, | should
be rather inclined to bet on Dante"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Barnard's Lincoln

THHAT much-discussed object
of contemporary American
art, Barnard's statue of
Lincoln, has found a home
at last. 1t was the other day SOL
emily dedicated in Manchester, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

latlons, desires are a part of his in
strumcnt, and the music takes care If
itself. With Dante something like the
same result has been accomplished by
conscious metaphysical training. a
n1eiong slavery to method and a genius
for work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

Translated by William l.. Mcpherson
(CopW1ght, 1919, Nev York Tribune Inc. }

1d"""" '* @ the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

OF all is vanity in "Vanity
II Fair" This fact is con-
Y clusively proved by the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

Upon the grave rested bouquet of
flowers, now withered, which doubtless
some friend and comrade, had placed
there"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-31
CITY CLUB ADMITS
SO NEW MEMBERS

Eishty-nine more persons have
been formally admitted to member
ship in the recently organized City
Club, according to announcement by
the board of governors. Seventy
eight are active resident members,
eight are nonresident members, and
three are clergymen. The clergy
men are the Rev. Albert p. Setback,
the Rev. Walter A. Morgan, and the
Rev. +. Paul LanghOTne.
The eighty-nine new members are:
.. G. Aronberg, Webster BallingeT,
G. c. Bensinger, Don S. Birney, L. c.
Boyle, Fenton Bradford, Morgan 3.
Callahan, Charles a. Carry. Henry
G. i. Castens, Charles T. Carter. &.
". Chiswell, L. Frank Clark, Ber-
tram Conn, Henry c. Cole. J. L. Con-
over. G. c. Dismukes, J. Z. Douglas,
Cecil J. Dowd, Orrin L. Dreit8ter, Il.
c. Dyer, James A. Emery, r. T. Erwin,
J.. II. Fishback, n. Leroy Coz, Carl
J. +. Graf, W. X. Cray, Charles r.
Green. W, W. Griest, John l. Haas,
DR. Francis r. Hagner. Joseph A.
Herbert, jr., George A. Herman. Law
ton q. Hartman, w. II. Hessick, DR..
p. L. Hodges, Fred W. Hyde, w. F.
Jones, marlln Il altman, hliCOn A.
Kaufman, Robert NJ. Kersey. Louis II.
King, Dr. W. E. Krechtling, the Rev.
+. Paul Langhorne, NJ. T. Laws.
Charles 3. Lindsay, jr., Thomas w.
Lockwood, DR.. L. S. Lothrop, Leonard
J. Mather, Theodore Michael, o. H.
MohF, Barry Mohun. the Rev. Walter
A. Morgan, Z. w. Mcintyre, Fred Nc
Kee, Hal G.. Nelson. +. =. Ochsen-
reiter, George W. Ofutt, W. s. Ohm
stead, II. S. Omohundro, L. q. otter
mayer, c. J. Owens, Claude w. Owen,
Norman D. Parker, Stanton G. Peeile,
Glen Mark Riley, Hugh S. Roberts,
Harry L. Rust, jr., i. r. Sale, John y.
Sanner, the Rev. Albert p. Schaeh,
Herbert r. c. Shaw, d. c. Shei.,
I. n. Sheppard, L. Dudley Shreve.
I. T. Shull, George l. Skirm,
George o. Smith, Leonard P. Steuart.
John w. Thompson, J. F.. Townsend,
S. Z. Underhill, Charles w. Warden,
Herbert J. Watt, CA. II. Wells,
James R. Wheeler, B. j. Whitford,
DR.. Tom A. Williams, Z. L. William
son, Waddy B. Wood.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-31
ANNOUNCE CHANGE
IN PRNTERY STAFF

Appointments, separations, promo
tons. etc, in the Government Print
ing Office for week ended Wednesday
have been announced as follows:
Appointments-Harry P. Barrang,
David r. Weaver, Eugene C. Heis}ey,
emergency linotype operators; Charles
C. Morrison, probationary linotype
operator; Robert L. Dorsey, skilled la
borer. reinstated; John Z. Jones.
skilled laborer: Melvin !. Jones, un-
skilled laborer, reinstated: Eugene L.
CSass, emergency compositor: William
7. Hatch. probationary compositor;
Compositor; Peter s. Matson, prOba-
tionary pressman; Charles A. Potter,
emergency boOkbinder, reinstated.
parations-Patrick F. Mccormack,
temporary plasteFer:, James NJ. Nolan,
emergency plasterer; Joseph 3, Dess.
emergency patternmaker: Archie
clever. skilled Iaborer, resigned; John
D. AmbrosiO, helper, resigned.
Promotions, etc.-Albert +. Cogs-
well. compositor 60 cents per hour TO
rnaller-up G5 cents per hour: Mrs. Fay
Z. Ketland, skilled laborer $3.50 per
day to clerk 5000 per annum: Miss
Florence II. Whyte. Miss Bolivia Z.
Phillips, Miss Ella II. Schwarz, help
crs 40 cents per hour to folders 40
cents per hour; Mrs. Ellen T. Doyle.
Mrs Kate c. SwarEman, Miss Eliza
beth A. Towse, Mrs. Amanda Y. White
helpers 50 cents per hour to skilled
laborers So cents per hour; Hiss Lotus
L. Mitchell. emergency cataloguer 5000
70 probationary cataloguer 5000;
James ]. Humphrey. Bernard &. Thorn
as, Norm Loma&, emergenc elevator
conductors 35 cents per hour to proba-
tionary elevator conductors 50 cents
per hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-31
KANSAS WOMAN CHRISTENS
LOAN SHIP AT Hog ISLAND

The "Labette," a ship launched At
Hog Island yesterday, vas christened
by Miss Alice Gillette, Of Parson, Kan.
Miss Gillette, a member Of the
brotherhood OF Railway Clerks. is the
second woman member OF organized
labor to christen a vessel launched at
Hog Island.
The "Labette" was named after La
bette county, Kansas. in which the
town OF Parson is located. This town
went over the top" five times in Lib
ertv loan drives. Miss Gillette was
chosen BY popular vote Of the citizens
Of Parson, to christen the vessel.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-31
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