New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Books
By Haywood Broun

"A past the fence, but Tom SswyuA
4 = trick still holds good. Even ts-das
II Is possible to get hard work done n
making people. think Of It as . privilege. b
looking over the autumn catalogue Of Nel.
fat. Yard 4 Co., We came across . series q
books for young persons in whieh We vus
struck by the titles, "whsn Mother Lets Us
Helm and "when Mother Lets Us Coeks
We trust that the series will be extentsd
along these lines. II so, we intend to ~
as birthday gifts for H. the third. "wAsa
Father Lets Ne Stoke the Furnace" "whsa
Father Lets Ne Shine His Shoes" sal
when Father Lets Ne Lend Him Money!
Amy Lowell has compiled "Bookshelf
Of Modern Poets" for Doubleday. Page 3
Co.. which is to make its appearance tAs
week. The list includes three books Of II.
terprctiye criticism as we'll IS the postry
which Miss Lowell considers the best pre-
duced by the modern movement. The verse
selected 10 BY no means entirely in he
most advanced idiom. ss may be seen b
the following list Of fifty-four volumsn
"Charnel Rose" BY Conrad Aikea;
"Images," by Richard Arlington; Nor.
chants from Cathsy," BY william Rsss
Benet; "Minna and Myself" by Marvel
Bodenheim; "Old Christmas and Other
Kentucky Tales in Verse;" by William ~
pinwall Bradley; "Poems," by Rupert
Brooke; "Grenstone POEMS" "Ths New
World" "Songs Of the Beloved Stranger"
by witter Bynner; "The Mountain singss,'
bv Seosamh MacCathmhaoil Joseph Camp.
belD; Afternoons In April" by Grace
Hazard Conkling; "Sea Garden" BY III. D.;
"The Listeners," Peacock Pie" by Walter
De Ia Mare; "Poems," by John Drinkwatsr;
"Irradistions," "Goblins and Pagodas," The
Tree Of Life" by John Gould Fletcher;
North Of Boston," Mountain Interval By
Robert Frost; COLLECTED POEMS" by vii.
fred Wilson Gibson; "Poems," BY Rslpa
Hodeson; "Amores," by d. II. Lawrence;
"The Congo" 1.-THE Chinese Nightingale"
by Vachel Lindsay; "Sword Blades ana
Poppy Seed" "Men. Women and Ghosts,"
"Can Grande's Castle" by Amy Lowell;
"The Everlasting Mercy" "Salt Water Bal
lads" "The Story Of a Roundhouss," BY
John Masefeld; "Spoon River Anthology"
"The Great Valley" by Edgar Lee Masters;
"The New Poetry" compiled by Harriet
Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson; lit
tie Gray Songs from St. Joseph's," By
Grace Fallow Norton; "war and Laughter"
By James Oppenheim; "Children Of the
Night" 1.-THE Town Down the River,""rhs
Man Against the Sky" by Edwin Arlington
Robinson; "Chicago POEMS" "Cornhuskers"
BY Carl Sandburg; Counter Attack" By
Seigfried Sassonn; "The Sad Years." by
Dora Siegerson; "Reincarnstions," BY
James Stephens; Love POEMS" Rivers to
the Sea-" by Sara Teasdale; Growing
Pains" by Jean Starr Untermeyer; "Chsl.
lenge," "These Times" by Louis Inter
meyer; Lanterns in Gethsemane,' by vii.
lard Wattles; "Tne Old Road to Paradise
BY Margaret widdemer; "The New Era "A
American Poetry" by Louis Untermeysr;
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry"
by Amy Lowell; "The Advance OF English
Poetry in the Twentieth Century" by Pro
fessor William Lyon Phelps.
Job Huss, in 1.-THE Undying Fire" Of n.
G. Wells, began to consider the horrors
Of insect life during a walk in the country
and came back doubling whether there Was
any such thing as q plan In tire world.
He could, for instance, see nothing but ir.
difference and carelessness in the scheme
whereby certain wasps "lay their eggs IN
tho living bodies Of victims which the young
will gnaw to death slowly day by day as
they develop" Curiously enough. it Is this
same phenomenon which inspires Henri
Fabre, in his book, "The Mason-Wasps. to
testify TO his belief In the existence Of
what he calls "an Intelligence" In the
world.
The thing which moved Job Huss to hof.
ror filled Fabre with admiration, 50 far
seeing did he find the wssps. First OF oil.
the caterpillar is partly psralyzed By the
sting Of the wasp, which selects the prope;
point Of attack with the unerring seeursc!
of q surgeon. The worms are then crowded
into the cell where the young wasp Is 70
hatch. Though partially pafalyzed' me
caterpillar might easily destroy the egg
but for an ingenious arrangement whereby
It Is hung from the ceiling By sign'
thread. "The lettering cord does not serve
as . scabbard, as q refuge into which th'
larva can retire; It 10 rather an anehor
chain, which gives It q purchase on the
ceiling and enables It to protect ITSELF oy
shrinking to a safe distance from the hea'
Of victuals. When things are quiet the
larva lengthens out and returns 10 !"
grub"
From this amazing ingenuity Of the vsso'
which provides safety and fresh food for
It's young, Fabre finds encouragement %
believe in an orderly and premeditsted uni
verse.
"Can the insect have acquired Its ski''
gradually, from generation to generation.
by a long series Of casual experiments OF
blind gropingsi Can such order be born o'
chaos; such foresight Of hazard; such WIS.,
dom Of stupidity? Is the world subject
the fatalities Of evolution, from the nr"
albuminous atom which eoagulsted inse .