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New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Jurgen,' a Brilliant Book
James Branch Cabell Spins Yarn Full
OF Quaint Conceits and Gentle Satire

dCRGEN. BY James Branch Cabell. Rob
er' NJ Mcbride Company, New York.
In this tale of the exploits Of Jurgen,
poet, pawnbroker, fighter and lover par
excellence, Mr.. Cabell has created a
NEUROLOGICAL fantasy of rare charm and
beauty. The story is full of Quaint
conceits, marvellous adventures and
great bursts of Rabelaisian laughter
And underneath it's brilliantly nom
sensical episodes there runs a steady
current Of gently ironical philosophy.
Figures of classical and medieval
antiquity are indtferently pressed into
service in the course of the narrative.
Slienus jostles Merlin; Jurgen is
equally at home with mailed knights
ana with sportivc fauns. Classicism
scores the first point when an oblieing
centaur carries the hero on the first
stage of his journey into the unknown
land of fable and fancy Medievlism
COMES to the fore when the traveller
arrives at the court of the father of
Princess Guenevere, the betrothcd
bride of King Arthur. Later Jurgen
becomes the temporary affinity of an
AsiatE goddess. Then he visits a
kingdom ruled over by Achilles and
Helen of Troy, thickly populated
by. satyrs, nymphs, dryads, breads and
other Ntrange creatures.
After living for time in tree with
hamdryad Jurgen complacently de-
cends into hell, where he reckjesslv
concludes his fourth Cor is it his fifth y
marriage with vampire. He finds the
devils in q. rather distraught state, per
picked betR cen the chronic state of
war with heaven and the insistent de-
mands of the damned souls for more
exquisite to-. lures to satisfy their
proud consciou sness of supreme wicked
ness. Finally, after an excursion to
heaven, where he holds a conference
with ST. Peter, and few minor Incl
dents, Jurgen'S dream comes to an end
and he finds himself again a simple
pownbroker.
All the best ualities of the authors
novels, whimsical charm, mild satire.
warmly colored descriptive passages,
appear in this fantasy. Jurgen, with
his many sided cha racter, his exuberant
humor, his intense, love Of life. sug0
gests a creation Of the Renaissance.
MIR. Cabell is not soueamish about
using sex as background for humor-
Gus situations; and here again he
shows the instincts of the Renaissance
masters, Boccaccio and Rabelas. He
treats the subject In spirit of broad
burlesque, equally far removed from
the prudery of mildly lctorianism and
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Jules Massenet
Interesting Autobiography
Of a Man and a Musician

MY RECOLLECTIONS. BY Jules Mas
senet. Published by Small. Maynard & Co
There is always a certain pathos in
the early age at which geniuses begin
their career, and so we are glad to learn
that although Massenet started his
musical studies when only six years
old he was still sufficiently childish to
fitch chocolate from the family cup
board The fault, to be sure, had to be
set down in his daily journal, but Nine
Massenet, it appears, was wise
mother, who pointed moral and for
gave the fault.
AT nine years Of age Massenet en-
tered the examination classes at the
Conservatoire, and before such masters
as Halevy, Ambrose Thomas and
Auber played the finale of Beethoven 5
Sonata, Opus 80. Cham, the celebrated
caricaturist, sketched his portrait
seated upon a high pile of books in
order to reach the keyboard Of the
piano. He passed and was entered as
regular pupil, trudging daily the long
distance between his home and the Con-
servatolre, as even the small amount
required for bus fare must be saved to
help pay for his lessons. NJ. Savard
the director, a kind and charitable man,
came to the rescue and gave little
Jules a transcription to do for full
orchestra of the military band accom-
paniment to Adolphe Adams Mass,
which netted him 300 francs.
His progress was rapid, and having
won the PriX de Rome ne went to
Italy, where he studied assduously not
only his own art of music but that CT
the great painters and architects. Re
turning to Paris, he had some minor
successes, but his fame was not es-
tablished until the creation of his first
great opera. lie Roi de Lahore" which,
after long run i'll Paris, was tranlated
into Italian and produced at the opera
house OF Turin, an honor unprece-
dcnted for new composer He was
now fairly. launched on a successful
career, and, working from fifteen to
opera followed the other, "Herodiade, ;"
Manon" and lie Cid"
y dazzling company Of SINGERS
hclped in the Interpretation OF his
music, Martha Duvivier, Marie He'll
hroun. Lima C&va!;cri, Geraldine Far
var and others equally famous. Il is
q fascinating hook. this autobiograrhv
II the great mnstc-, where VIC nee
t1e creme de Ia creroe Of poets, artists
writers and benux esYri.s Of ths period
: chronicle of fixtures ~ sen na a,,r
cssses, they are told in Z. sirrle. Nm
affected style that brings us near TO
l@sserct ne man rs Vel " the rnu-
sician f. p Il.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
The ENGLISH Bible

A f'yk AbOCT THE ENGLISH BIBLE
~ ~ 'Ts'ah ~. Penninlan Published by
the Macmillan Company New York
DR.. Penniman's historical and liter
ary analysis of the Bible is methodical
IN structure and rich in detail. Be
slowing an impartial amount of atten
ton upon Old and New Testaments
alike he points out the forms and
characteristics of their constituent
books and their relation to each other.
He gives brief description of the
literary background and environment
which exerted potent influence upon
the biblical writer's Of all ages. In
the course of the volume the author
incidentally traces the upbuilding Of
the Jewish state and the development
Of the moral and spiritual ideals which
held the Jews together as race long
after their national independence had
been lost.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Irish Whiimsy
Humorous tories
By c.. A. Birmingham

OUR CASUALTY: BY G: A. Birmingham.
Published by George II. Doran.
"Our Casualty is the title under
which are collected something over
dozen humorous stories by G. 4. Br-
mingham, the author Of that extremely
amusing play OF Irish character, "Gen-
eral John Reagan" The best of these
stories are Irish in their inspiration,
and they are of the same stuff as that
out of which the play was made. In
the anecdotal vein of geptle, solemn,
leg-pulling Mr.. Birmingham excels. He
strikes two or three sparks from this
form that are genuinely amusing, es-
pecally the one with which the Irish
padre put to route the Scotch doctor.
1t concerns an extremely active SOL
dier whom a careless medical report
declared dead, and for whom a rigidly-
constituted literal minded War Office
demands no less than decent burial
But when Mr.. Birmingham strays
out of this narrow field he drops into
the pit of a professionally indulgent
appreciation of Irish foibles. 1t is
then that he presents the Irshman in
his traditional aspect as a wayward,
incomprehensible creature, invincible
in joke, but pretty much of a fool
in everything else. His humor is cor
roded with the bcnignance Of a lover
He comes irrtatingly close to being
patronizihg, and he is only technically
exonerated of the suspicion by the
fact that he is an Irishman himself,
albeit q I.oyalist and an Orangeman
Even less successful are his efforts
to treat humorously several episodes
of the Ulster rebellion and the Irish
nationalist movement. At this dis
tance these do rot seem to be quite
as opera bouffe as Mr.. Birmingham SO
genially presents.
The manner of these stories is deft
Mr.. Birmingham displays to excellent
advantage the gift of humor he has,
but it is narrow vein and it gushes
in thin stream.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

talk" has hardened into a set formula
SINCE the day when Lardner gave the
fashion its first impetus. The formula
is fatally easy to follow, as a host of
his imltators can testify What eludes
Nina Wilcox Putnam, as it does most
OF her fellow pursuers of Lardner. are
his CLEANS of authentic humor. "Be-
lieve You Me" is particularly tedious
piece Of imitation. Miss Marie La
Tour, broadway roof show favorite,
who tells how she did her patriotic bit
on the home front, is Mrs Putnam's
equivalent of the busher. The favored.
eccentric idiom of Broadway is not
even rem otely suggested by the curl
Gus speech in which Mrs. Putnam rem
ders her handy example of its con-
tortions is the way the pat and indis-
pensable "believe me" is twisted into
believe you me-" In speech and cpl
sodes it furnishes an example of it,
erary lady's idea, at fourth or fifth
hand, of how Broadway lives, thinks
and talks.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Kipling' s Popularity

A statistical count of the popularity
Of English writer's has just been taken.
Viewing careers as a whole, the result
shows Rudyard Kipling to be even fur
thcr in the lead than might have been
supposed.
Charles Garvice-who is sort of
British equivalent for Harold Bell
Wright, and circulates his illimitable
succession of novels in cheap editions
does, it is true record a higher grand
total Of sales than does Kipling With
this one exception, though, the author of
"The Years Between who does not ap-
pear in cheap editions in Great Britain
-outstrips not only Wells, Bennett,
Conan Doyle, Galsworthy and other rec
ognized WRITER'S but all the legions of
popular favorites" who do come out in
the cheaper forms.
Of his first four books of poetry alone,
his British publishers announced the
other day, nearly 100000 copies have
been sold to date in the British Isles.
The most popular among these has been
"Barrack Room Ballads" of which near
ly an even 100000 copies have been
bought by the public
In America a grand total of almost
100000 kipling volumes has been sold.
The exact figures up to August /, ac-
cording to Kipling's American publish
ers. Doubleday, Page & Co., are 1862
s2S. OF all the books, prose and verse,
the most popular in this country has
been "The Days Work. The proper
tionate demand for Kipling's verse,
though, during the last few years--and
especially since the appearance last win
ter of "The Years Between"- been
steadily growing
1t is this demand, reinforced by tre
mcndous number of specific requests.
which has convinced Mr.. kipling's pub
fishers that the time has arrived for
collection of all Kipling's verses in a
single volume. A book Of 800 pages.
containing all the old favortes and
many lesser known poems, is to be
brought out next month. 1t will be en-
titled "Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Inclu-
slve Edition, lS85l91S." A special edi
ton. limited to $50 copies, will be issued
autographed personally by MI. Kipling.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Poetry at Large

TRY" BY Henry Newboldt. NJ A.. Litt
Published by Il. p. Dutton & Co. 357
This book contains much useful in
formation. The greater part of the
essays were originally lectures. Ten
have appeared in "The English Re-
view" and one in "The Fortnightly Re-
view" A bit altered for book form,
they deal in an erudite manner with
What Is Poetry?' Poetry and
Rhythm" "Poetry and Personality"
Poetry and Politics." "The Poets and
Their Friends" "Futurism and Form
in Poetry" Poetry and Education" :"
"The Poet and His Audience"
Mr.. Newboldt's definition of poetry is
IAN intuition or set of intuitions
grasped and expressed in words" He
Or intellectual Judgments" Thus he
considers novel poetry, because, al
though written without metre and con-
tanning large amount of prosaic de-
tail and dialogue, "it is at bottom the
expression of an intuition, vast and
complex intuition, amounting to the
vision Of a new world of human life
created by the novelist's imagination"
Concerning the relation Of rhythm to
poetry the writer has unconventional
ideas. He objects to denunciation of
lines because they do not scan or be-
cause they do not conform perfectly to
given mould Since every work of art
is simply the expression of the artists
intuition, he argues, "an absolute or
complete pattern would be useless"
because the intuitions of two different
minds could never be expressed by the
same form" OF rhythm in general he
says "the most significant thing that
we can say is this, that it seems to be
always present where there is life"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Polished Ebony

POLISHED Ebony. by Ociavius Roy
Cohen. Published by Dodd, Mead & co.
The book consists of nine of Mr.
Cohcn's dialect stories Of the Alabama
town negro The stories are enter
tanning and the dialect has con
vincing look, even though Mr.. Cohcn's
Alabama town negro does spell par
lor" in the English fashion and like
wise talks Of "coloured" people.
AS in most dialect stories, the scene
setting, which is done in plain Amer
can except for "labour," "parlour' and
the like, seems little too plain At
times. Once a man has mastered q
dialect it appears to obsess him and
make the necessary gap-hlling tedious
task.
While Florian, Spider, Lawyer Chew
and the other dark characters are en-
crossed in conversation the tales move
smoothly and swiftly. They bump a
bit now and then when the author
horns in.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
18th Century Letters Reveal
Social Life of That Period

FRIENDS: a Series of Eighteenth Cen
tury Letters. Edited by Lewis Brittany
Brentanos, New York.
Mr.. Brittany has collected and edited,
with explanatory notes, all the avail
able letters addressed TO Edward
birmingham by HIS various acquaint-
ances. Edmund Burke and Horace Wal
pole are his most distinguished CORE
spondents, but there are many com
munlcations from lords and ladies who
were doubtless listed in the blue books
of eighteenth century England. Many,
perhaps the majority, Of the letters
were written during the period be-
tween 1880 and 1885, and there are
numerous shuddering references to the
Bolsheviki Of the day, the French Rev
olutionists.
Edward birmingham, as revealed in
these letters. was a type of character
quite familiar in Thackerays novels.
but practically extinct to-day. A gen
tleman in the old-fashioncd English
sense of the term, he was endowed
with a comfortable fortune, amiable
manners and capacity for writing
mediocre verse and plays that invara
ably failed within the first three nights.
1t would be impossible to say that
all the letters included in the collec-
ton are interesting; some Of them are
dull and most of them deal with COM
monplace subjects. But the same OBJ
jectons might be raised in the case Of
two justly famous works, Pepys's
Diary and Boswell's "Lifc of Johnson" :"
Edward Jerningham's friends are not
always witty and interesting, but they
do succeed in giving faithful picture
of the outstanding characteristics Of
English society life in the eighteenth
century its elegant trifng, its super
fetal ccve1ness, its total lack Of deep
feeling and distinguished thought.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
In a London Cab

- y i-l- =. Il-.I,i.s.s. ~ ,..-no.,-
'1fenFi'n Wndohouse. i'uh.ished hv
teprea =. DCran Cofnranv
Mr.. Wodchouee tolls gay, fnnciful
raic OF a modern damsci in drstress.
'eseued tton tha. distross by IA knlgnt
elraht, WHO IL. Whan sg5r'Nng, T. scue
"rItcr for musical comedias. Slrhing
II London cah at the lack of ron'Ancf
the drah futiity OF l;fo yhnra;n
American musical comedies become so
successful that England c,nmora for
them. George Bcvan is electrified by
the appearance at the door OF an cx-
lremely pcrsonablc young woman, OK
'remciv ont of hraoth. Who, jumping
IN beside him, says, "I'm so sorry, but
would you mind hiding me, please ?"
Possessing unvAual presence Of mind,
'he young man swings the lady to
safety and the story to romantic end.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Photography as a Fine Art

THE FINE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Ey Paul l.. Anderson. j B. lippncc'
Company, N"w York. SO net.
Brownie users whose best picture
never turned out" will find much con
solhtion in Mr.. Andcrson's dscussio,
OF the place of photography among the
hne arts, but those who have advanced
beyond the corner drugstore stag
will find it an Illuminating and thought
ful study Of the subject. The author
makes strong but sane plea for the
nrtlstic merits Of the camera, and the
volume is remarkable for it's sound oh
serYations on aesthetics in genera
Every one will enjoy the splendid print
with which the text is illustrated, al,
Mr.. Andcrson's style Is so persunsv
that many readers will be ready {
grant tho developing trays and the hyp
tank place with tho palette and tht
kruhh
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Germany S Problem
Much Interesting Data
in Barker New Edition

MODERN GERMANY; HER POLITICAL
AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS BY J.
Dllis Barker. Il. P. Dutton & Co.. New
York.
This sixth edition of Mr.. Barker's
we'll known work includes seven new
chapters dealing with various political
and economic aspects of the war. Mr.
Barker points out that the chief reason
for Germany's downfall was her reck-
less abandonment Of the wise military
and diplomatic policy laid down by
Bismarck and the elder Moltke. Bis
marck was always careful to isolate
his adversaries before attacking them.
On the other hand, the Kaiser, under
the influence of a clique of swash-
buckling militarists, pursued a policy
which deliberately outraged neutral
opinion and finally raised up an ire
sistible condition Of enemies against
him.
In the same way Moltke's old plan
Tor defensive war against France and
heavy blow against Russia, plan
which eliminated the invasion Of Bel
gium, was summarily cast aside in
1914. AS events turned out, the moral
injury inflicted upon the German cause
by the violation of Belgian neutrality
far outweighed the military advantages
which were gained by this fragrant
breach of international law.
Mr.. Barker discusses the probable
future of Germany and Austria. He
foresees a great curtailment of Ger
man industry as a result of the loss
of the coal and iron deposits in Silesia
and Lorraine He predicts that the
rapid increase in Germany's popula-
tion, which has been SO evident dur
ing the past fifty years, will cease with
this industrial decline and that the
present numerical preponderance of
the Germans over the French will ulti-
mately disappear. Both the original
book and the additional seven chapters
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
DUNSANY THE DRAMATIST
tNeto Revised Edition.
BY Edward Hale R;.,. ).

This new edition of the only h;
ography of this famous Irish n,a,i W.
wright, who has just arrived -
the United States. contains in ad a.
oitlon to other material severa,
important new letters bv Lord
Dunsany. There is also a tahn1a
tion OF the writings of Lord DnM
sany, telling where each of h;s W., WI
rlous articles, plays. poems. etc.
was written.
Illustrated. Crorcn $40. $500 n,t
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

GUN FODDER.
The Diary of Four Years of Va,
BY A. HAMILTON GIBBS
Major, R. A.
With an Introduction hv ph,,.
WIN an Introduction hv ph,;,,
Gibbs


rms is the story of the four year.
OF varied service in the EngIisSs
hhgh1lng ha1hg forces + of the younesr
oIo."er ~. o1 Sosmo Hamilton. nov.
c;st. eins5 and no playwright. and Philin
Nus, Ma; famous war correspondent
MAYOR Gibbs, like his brotbsras T.
possesses the gift of writ;nn 49,
an enlisted man, and as an go IS
his experiences were nnrsmst,, "eel,
varied. His is, therefore ora a'ly ~
the most interesting. most 'T ~ VI
mlnating of the personal nor. r.u-
tlves that have come ont os "a
war. And it is also a pass;o,..e .ae
protest against war and a sfrone H'e
plea for tolerance. kindliness omi
brotherhood in the practice "G nf
peace. u
With trontispiece. 500 n..
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
The Theatre-Advancing
BY Edward Gordon Cra;o

A son of Ellen Terry and sc-
knowledged throughout Europe a
the foremost constructive critic ~
the Theatre, Mr.. Craig has written
a new and stimulating book in
which he gives expression to his
somewhat revolutionary ideas
Mr.. Craig discusses various inno-
vations in lighting. mechanical
effects. stage settings, the use Of
masks, marionettes, open-air day-
light performances, etc.
Croica Sro $500 net
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Author Fails in Attempt
to Novellze Broadway

BELIEVE YOU ME-. BY Nina Wilcox
Putnam. Published by George n. Doran
and Company.
The attempt to set. American types
down in their own revealing "true
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
BLIND TRAILS
BY CLAYTON S. ERNST

Stirring adventures that befell
a Boy Scout in town and in the
backwoods while seeking to solve
mystery. His knowledge of
woodcraft. gained in Scout work.
and his determination and nerve
carry him safely through excit
ing episodes.
Illustrated. $50 not lFor bopv.
Il 70 49,
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

MODERN GERMANY: HER POLITICAL
AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS By j.
Dllis Barker. e. P. Dutton & Co., New
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

"a NEW STUDY OF ENGLISH POE
TRY BY Henry Ncwboldt NJ A. LIT
Published by Il. p. Dutton e Co. 357
pages.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

wan 1rontisp'ece. 500 ne,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
GIVEN
REAL LITTLE lob
Only Has to Locate Elk Gear
of Russia Or Find
Next of Kin.

NEW YORK, March 13.-Bernard
Naumberg, a lawyer, has been named
by Supreme Court Justice Benedict in
Brooklyn as a committee of one to as
certain whether Nicholas Romanoff,
former car Of Russia, is dead or alive
and, II dead, VINO Is next of kin.
Mr.. Naumberg is eagerly looking for
some one who can solve the riddle for
him, for on its solution rests the uues-
ton whether a $l17,450 Judgment,
which Mr.. Naumberg recently obtained
against Mr.. Romanoff OF behalf of the
Marine Transportation Service corpora
ton can be collected.
The corporation in the early part of
the war transported a large quantity
of sugar TO Russia upon the then cars
order, Before collection was made,
Nicholas vas deposed and, according
to generally accepted reports. slain.
Mr.. N%aumberg recently learned that
the czar had 81, 900, 900 on deposit In
the National City bank here. He OBJ
tanned a court Judgment for $117. 450,
but upon presenting It to the hank
was informed that the bank could not
pay out any of the funds unless Mich
were proven dead. He then applied
for appointment of a receiver for the
fund, hoping to obtain satisfaction from
the receiver.
Justice Benedict denied the applica-
ton, however, telling Mr.. Naumberg it
would be necessary first to serve Mich
olas with notice or after proving him
dead. to serve notice upon his mex
Of kin. The next OF kin would be his
wife, II she Is alive; II not. his children
II alive; IL not, Michael Romanoff, his
brother. who at last accounts was alive.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
KING OUTBIDDEN
ON FINEST BULL
Tennessee Men Buy Gypsy
Lad for $40, ooo-to Elk
hibit Him at Show.
KNOXVILLE Tenn. March n IS,

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. March rs. tSpf ,
-ouibidding the King Of England. A.
Il swaut and son. Of cambridge. Sc
cured at a cost of $4,000 Balnabeen's
gypsy Lad King George was the Sec
ond highest bidder at the auction which
was held IN England. This is the high
est priced bull ever bought In England
Tor export to America. states Prof.
a. NJ. Murphy, specialist In animal
h~ushandTy at the University OF Ten
neSsee. The prize bull win be exhibited
al a big show Of reds, whites and
roans' to be held at the University Of
Tennessee farm on Thursday. March
20, az 1880 a. m.
Breeders and admirers Of shorthorns
are making their plans now to attend
this big show. Through the generosity
Of the American Shorthorn Breeders
association 1t has been possible TO ar
range for an attractive list OF prizes
which will he awarded TO the best
animals exhibited In the several classes.
Animals will be placed in the show
by a judge wh0 is thoroughly familiar
with present day shorthorn types and
the breeders-especiaily those who are
Just making a beginning in the breed
ing Of shorthnrns-will be anxious to
avail themselves Of the opportunity af-
iorded for getting Web established in
their minds the type that is most pop
Immediately after the show all
of the animals will be offered for sale
TO the highest bidder, the exhibitors
having decided pon this plan for dis
tTibutlng some good samples of their
herds more widely over the section.