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The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

Miami Metropolis suggests that un-
derpaid school teachers. all go on a
strike. We think this policy would
please a large majority of the school
boys and schoolgirls.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

A lot of cheap skates are going
around the country claiming to be
government agents and interfering
with the people. If one of them comes
your way, make him show his autho-
rity. Real government agents are
generally quiet gentlemen and rather
averse to making a display of them
selves,
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

Today, humanity is a suppressed
riot.-Life
In Berlin, Petrograd, Washington
and Chicago, it isn't so much sup
pressed as it should be.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

We learn from a Canadian paper
that Henry Ford once planned to
have the Bible rewritten. Henry is
the most refreshing person in Amer
lean history.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

almost as good as giving it to them.
We have no desire TO see it brought
hack TO become the prey Of American
prOfiteers.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

The Star favored giving the French
all American property in France. 1t
has been decided to let the French
have it at one-ffth its cost, which is
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

Freddie the ex-clown prince, is go.
ing in the movies. We don't think he
will need any makeup when he is
cast for the part of the villain.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

Among the terrors of peace is the
fact that it will take the movie houses
some time to work off all their old
pictures of the war.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

Wonder why President Wilson was
so stubborn about Fiume and so plant
about Shantung.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

A golfosheki knocks balls and a
bolsheyeki knocks everything else. Up.
S.--This is an attempt to improve one
of Herb Felkel's worst bromides.)
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

Tammany leaders are sore on VIM.
Randolph Hearst and smash some of
his schemes. This makes US inclined
to forgive Tammany much.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

Sadly says the Tampa Tribune:
''The horrible part of it all now is
that when we think we see a snake,
we do"
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

First of the month has arrived on
Friday.
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01

The Village Dad is getting his Daily
Bawling-Out, and the Breeze is Some
thing Fierce. Ever since he Got the
Office, it has Just been one Dod-
Gasted Kick after Another, until the
Village Dad is Numb and Life is a
Burden. Why do Men let Folks elect
them to the Village Board; anyhow?
The Ocala evening star., 1919-08-01
MEMBER Associated PRESS

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled for the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to it or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein. All rights Of republication of
special dispatches herein are also re-
served
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
Famous Alfenist Dies

DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton, famous
insanity expert and author of "Recol-
lections of an Alienist" George H
Doran Company, died on November
"a in his seven tysecond year Dr.
Hamilton was grandson Of Alexander
Hamilton. Standing at the head of his
own profession, he had come into close
contact with many prominent men both
here and abroad, and had been person
ally associated, either as expert witness
or adviser, with many of the famous
insanity trials of recent years.
In "Recollections of an Alienist''
DR.. Hamilton relates his expert
ences through long life of inter-
est, not lacking in excitement, in con-
nection with his study of the diseases
of the mind. His experiences were not
by any means confined to the court
room and we're sometimes attended
with great danger, but were always re-
plete with interest.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
An Anonymous Lover
Lack Of Interest in
Professor S Love Life

THE PROFESSORS LOVE LIFE. Author
anonymous Published by tho Macnil-
Ian Company, New York.
There are all sorts of reasons why
love letters should never come to light
First of all, both parties are seldom
Wiling; often, too, as in the Brown
lngs' correspondence, they are full of
a secret code, uninteligible to the pub
lie, but nearly always they are so per
sonal and SO eXtravagant in their ma
ture that the average reader feels like
an cavesdropper. However. be that as
1t may, love is notorious for making
wise men of fools and fools of wise
men, so to read the effusions of any
individual in love is to take a delicious
risk After all. publication of love
letters is not such an impractical ven
ture
"The Professors Love Life" is a col
lection of letters, complied anonymous
ly and written by an anonymous pro-
lessor to his tiancee, during a fatal ILL
ness, which finally terminated in death.
1t is a veritable Liebestod, for from
the beginning it is evident his love
ters show remarkable devotion and
courage and they are often touching,
but for the most part unintere4ting.
When erotic literature is poetic and
imaginative, as for instance the SON.
nets of Dante Gabriel Rossett. it is
worth reading. Then too, anything
from the pen Of famous man has a
certain biographical value. For what
other reason would one wade through
Keats's effusions to Fannie Brawn
But aside from the pathetic situation
in these letters, they have very little
appeal. The love motif is omnipres-
ent; the only variation is an occasi sional
comparison Of a song of Schubert's or
an angel of Antonios to the superior
grace of the adored one.
The style, Shakespearean in its
more frivolous moments, most often
strs up memories of the Greek classics.
There are few modern revisions such
"rosy-hngered" dawn. The diction is
at times formal and academic, more in
the manner of q high school English
teacher than a lover. However, the
author has an excellent ear His word
combinations are so musical and his
sentences so we'll balanced that his
prose often resembles blank verse.
" R.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
The Anatomy Of Society
Gilbert Cannan Knows Just What He Wants,
But Not Just How to Bring 1t About

THE ANATOMY OF SOCIETY. BY Gilbert
tannan. H. 2. Dutton & Co.
When Wells desires to preach on
eoucation, or marriage, or government,
or morality, he puts his ideas into
the mouths of alleged characters, uses
inverted commas, invents thin plot
to serve as thread, and calls the con-
coction fiction-which it may be in
more senses than one, but hardly arts
TIC fiction. Gilbert Cannan deserves
our gratitude for not trying to SER
mon'ze, preach, inspire revolt against
powers that be by using fictitious fc-
ton as vehicle. He is self respect
liver lecture he delivers it as a lee
'ure, without disguise or pretence.
:, ne has Just produced what the pub
nshers call penetrating survey" of
our civilization. He calls it "The An
atomy of Society,"" and in it he dis
cusses nationalism. internationalism
the social contract, capitalism, mar
rage, education, democracy, the Rus
sian and German revolutions, the Ver-
saliles peace treaty, the labor problem,
etc. He is eloquent, passionate, We
hement, fervent. He is "red" and bit
ter He chastises, RACES, rails, con-
demns without fear or mercy. He de-
clares himself radical democrat. a
disciple of Lenine and the Bolshevik
school of socialism, and predicts, seer
like, the collapse of the modern state
and economic system unless-unless-
but here's the rub Unless what
When he comes to remedies, to ways of
saving humanity, ushering in a new or
der full of the beauty, the JOY and the
nobility he so loves and desires, he is
extremely vague-as are, alas, most of
the Red" insurgents.
All one is sble to gather is that Mr..
Cannan is opposed to the capitalistic
system, to restrictions on divorce, to
institutionalism in Church and State, to
any limitation on the rule of the peo-
pie, of every form of "patriarchalism !"
feudalism, tyranny and exploitation. He
evidently believes in q kind of guild
socialism plus state or communal cor
troll of, and responsibility for children.
He pins his faith in the glorious future
to new educational system. He
writes:
Reclaim the school, and the rest fol-
lows. Every village, every parish,
should have school in which it can
take pride as the institution through
which the community acknowledges its
responsibility for the children, who,
after the first few years, need more
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
An Alfalfa Philosopher
Middle Western Views Of Life Expressed
In Collected Aphorisms of E. w. Howe

learning being shown its place in the
relative scheme of things:
Every great charitable institution
Is founded on the surplus earnings of
active men who did good while earning
their money, and, having learned phil
ianthropy, closed their lives with a
burst of 1T. The men of great learn
ing did not build the institutions in
which they teach, although nearly all
OF them unjustly criticize the man
who did"
On wealth Mr.. Howe grows most
lyrical, just as he is most infurlated
by any taint of intelectualism.
The huge number of things on which
Howe is ignorant is only equaled by
the tinality with which he disposes Of
them as things not worth knowing. He
fears and distrusts all artists-'I ad-
mlre the clever writer's. and am en-
tertained by them. But | deny that
they are Il moral force, they are mere
entertainers. as arc strolling players,
circus performers and musicians. :"
OF course, in some parts of the coun-
try we are sophisticated enough to
smile at such naivete as this: at is a
misfortune to be born in big city,
and absorb its artificial and vicious
Ideas; big town is a disagree cable
necessity like capital punishment. Most
vicious notions originate in the big
towns; the mean men in the country
learned their viciousness from news
papers, magazines, circulars and let
ters sent from the city,
But in the main this book with its
hard-bltten matcrialism, it's intense
mlddle-Class narroWncss, its estimate
Of human values in terms of dollars. its
ignorance and naIvete is amazingly
TYPICAL 1t is reflected in all our insti
tutlons and in our social forms. The
aridity the Kansas mind is also the
| aridity of our American culture. This
book is eloquent of the tone deafness
and color blindness and fiat footedness
with which Purtanism has endowed us.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20

th than an, their parents can possibly give
Free the parents, and they will be
able to achieve a greater realization of
their lives. BY making marriage dis
soluble at the will of the parties or
either of them JOY in that relation will
be preserved. BY socializing industry
poverty will be abolished. BY freeing
the human spirit and obeying the voice
OF the individual conscience all that
is vicious and vile in our civilization
Will be eradicated.
HOW are we to accomplish all these
things? Who is to transform the school,
the Church, the State, the factory, the
bank? Humanity" apparently. But
we never meet humanity. 1t is pure
abstraction. We meet men and women,
and they somehow do not strike one
as ripe for Utopia, educational or So
clal. In denouncing England, America
France, Italy and all other capitalistic
and materialist states Mr.. Cannan in
diets the average Briton, the average
indicts the very humanity that is to
redeem our accursed civilization!
The big five in the league of ma
tions," we are told, "are simply hold
ing up the rest of the world, particu-
larly the East, to force it to accept un-
mitigated ndustrialism. The
big five are against. the rest of the
world is for, humanity" The Russians,
especially, are struggling to restore
validity to the trinity Of spirit, mind
and heart, and the grossly materialistic
big five are determined to crush them
in order to save property, slavery and
monopoly!
In another chapter, however, we are
told that "it is in Great Britain, the
only begetter of industrialism, that bat
tie is joined, and it is in Great Britain
that the battle will be won." Not, after
all, in holy Bolshevist Russia. How
strange. One Of the "unmitigated"
big five will save civilization!
Well, Mr.. Cannan is passionate pill
grim in the realm of sociology and
economies. He is terribly grim, earnest
and confused But he has many splen-
did passages in which he pleads for
happier. saner, lovelier world and in
which he arouses our sympathy and
even admiration. He has faith and en-
thusiasm. He believes in the high
mission of art--the ultimate redeemer
of life--and in the purity and dignity
Of human nature. These qualities are
fine in a novelist and artist Fruitful
suggestion in politics, economies, ap-
piled ethics must come, we fear, from
other minds and pens.
VICTOR S. YARROS.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
DramatiZed Novel by Bennett

Arnold Bennett's dramatization of
his novel. "Sacred and Profane Love-
will be produced next month at the
Aldwich Theater, London. 1t will be
published in book form by the George
H. Doran Company. The London cast
will be managed by Captain Basil
Deane, assisted by Viola Tree, formerly
a member Of the company Of her
father, the late Sir Herbert Tree.
ducc the piece and act in it, is one Of
the many actors Of ability who joined
up to fight he Germans, and during the
war he was responsible for more the
aters and more touring comranics than
all Londons theatrical magnates put
together. Captain Deane looked after
the dozens and scores of camp the
atcrs and companies which amused the
troops.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
Basil King Returns to Cambridge

Basil King, whose last book, Going
West" was published this autumn, has
just returned from the Pacific Coast.
where he has been giving his personal
attention to the motion picture produc-
tion of several of his novels. He ex-
poets to spend the winter in Cambridge,
Forthcoming novel which the Harpers
will publish next spring. The theme Of
this novel is very remote from "Going
West" which resembles abraham 5
Bosom" both stories dealing with the
continuance of life and personality
after death.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
Mr.. DOYLE and Spiritualism

In his new book, "The Vital Mes
sage George H. Doran Company, 81,
Arthur Conan Doyle carries on his ar.
gument to prove the truth Of Spiritual
ism from the point at which he left il
in his earlier book, "The New Revela
ton In his own words: ain The
New Revelation the first dawn of the
coming change has been described In
The Vital Message the sun has risen
higher, and one sees more clearly and
broadly what our new relations to the
unseen may be-" In his own mind. the
message from the unseen has gained
in power and clarity. Spiritualism has
come to mean to him "the system which
promises to be, not new religion-it
is far TOO big for that-but part Of the
common heritage of knowledge shared
by the whole human race. 1t will end
by being rather the proof and basis
of all religions than religion in itself
We have already too many religions
and too few proofs"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
Why l Decided
To Be a Writer
BY Ring Lardner

Man would be perfectly happy II
they'd lot him live in u good hotel.
where you can have your suit pressed
overnight and get your shirt back the
day you send II out. But the opposing
sex sooner or later insists a house,
so they can have q lot OF windows to
curtain.
Back in 1914 the person who had
married mo was acting kind OF fidgety
and nervous, and her friends, who
thought she ought TO he the hnppiest
girl In the world. asked her why and
she finally confessed that she was going
crazy for lack Of places to hang cur
tains. So with no money whatever, we
bought a lot and built a house full Of
windows.
My illgotten salary wouldn't pay for
tho curtains. let alone the house and
lot. SO wrote short story and sent
1t to an editor, and the sslcker took it.
and from that time on l made SO much
money that am now in debt.
The contractor that built my house
was an awful washout, we English
say, and tho only way 1 could get any
wherc near even was to write few
insulting stories about him. These are
collected in the beautiful little volume
called Gown Your Own Home" which
Bobbs-Merrill is or are publishing.
The genial editor of this paper wants
to know whether 1 bumped into any
obstacles In the so-called writing game
Why, yes; 1 was trying to misspelf
words as ! thought my characters
would misspell them. and the doggone
proofreaders on the magazines kept
correcting them. AS a matter of fact,
proOfreaders, can spell well AS you
can, and IL wanted to spell words
right I could do without batting an
cyelash
My other accomplishments are play
ing Those Endearing Young Charms"
on saxoph0ne and counting to ten
in French.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
The Bridge of Time; !;
F fascinating Tale Based
On Mans Reincarnation
THE BRIDGE OF TIME BY William
Henry Warner. Scott 6 Seltzer New


Henry warner scott 8 setter. 'sH IN Nsm w
York.
The wide gulf between ancient
Egypt and modern New York is
spanned in this story of an Egyptian
prince of the age Of the Pharaohs who
experiences reincarnaton in the
twentieth century. Rames, the prince,
heartbroken at the loss of his sweet
heart. who has been kidnapped by
desert tribesmen, is persuaded by the
high priest at the famous temple Of
Thebes, the wonder city Of old Egypt,
to drink a magic potion which causes
through the intervening ages and to
wake in modern Egypt.
Rames has access to a treasure which
the priest revealed to him, and this
store Of gold and Jewels enables him
to overcome the handicaps which CON
front him as he is compelled to take
up life in country whose language
and customs are utterly strange to
him. The author cleverly describes
Rames's Impressions as he travels
over Europe and America; his aston
ishment at the miracles Of science, his
bewildered interest in the new politi-
cal and social order which has come
into being. The romantic interest of
the story is revived when the prince
finds the body and spirit of his old
Egyptian sweetheart in an American
girl. This love affair, prolonged
through so many centuries, is finally
terminated in an original and salts
factory manner.
Aside from the novelty of the plot
the story holds the readers interest
throughout by its skillful interplay of
incident and emotion. There is touch
of Monte Cristo's fascination about
achieves rich descriptive effects
worthy Of Flauberts "Salammbo" in
his account of the splendors of ancient
Egypt.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
Among Those Present

AMERICAS PART IN THE WORLD
WAR. BY Richard J. Beamish and
francis "A March. Published by the
John c. Winston Company Philadel-
phia.
A handsomely illustrated volume.
which gives an elaborate chronicle of
Americas military and civilian achieve
ments in the World War The work is
provided with a brief introduction by
General Pershing.
Fiction
TALES OF PALM BEACH AND FLOR
IDA. BY Elisa beth Il. Thomas
A collection Of short stories.
FRED WINSTEAD. a COLLEGE MAN.
BY Major S Wood McClavo. Published
by the Roxbury Publishing Company,
Boston.
The story of a young American who
leads a wild life and reforms.
Juvenile
TIE POOL OF STARS. BY cornesa
Meigs Publishsd by the Macmillan
story about mysterious ruined
house which will make exciting read
ing for young people.
LIBERTY, THE GIANT KILLER. BY
Rebccca Salisbury and William II. Alien.
published by the Institute for Public
Service. New York.
Tales about the war, pointing various
morals, for young people.
EVERY CHILD'S MOTHER GOOSE. BY
Carolyn Wells. Published by the Mac
milan Company, New York.
This nesv edition of Carolyn Wells's
book is provided with musical set
tings for the rhymes, written by Sid
ney Homer The pictures by Edith r.
Wilson are retained
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
Broadway and Harper Books

1t is rare theatrical season when
Harvey O'Higgins, author of "From
the Life" does not have a play on
Broadway The fall list Of Harper &
Bros, who publish From the Life"
includes two other names to conjure
with in the New York theatrical world
Frank Bacon. actor and author of
"Lightnin'," which is shortly to be
issued in novel form, and David Bel
asco, who has given his stage wisdom
and "reminiscences in "Thc Thcater
Through It's Stage Door
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
hos a Peasant

cannot tell you how much | enjoy
your reactions to the drama in this
city. | dislike the convcntionalized
comment of the sophisticated review
ers and find so much greater pleasure
when anything really fine or startling
comes to town, in watching your rude
stare of simple, peasant wonder.
But really wrote to ask you if when
Arliss played the Molnar play ten
years ago, "The Theater Magazine" re-
view was headed "Mr Hornblow Goes
to The Devil'"? BRUCE DELMER.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
c. o S S .ip
Poet, Short-Story Writer and Farmer

Poet. Short-Story Writer and Farmer
Albert Frederick Wilson, author of
"The Township Line volume Of un-
usual verse which has just been pub
lished by Harper & Bros is an old
newspaper man, and for eight years has
been teaching at the School Of Journal
ism of New York University. Curiously
enough. his subject is the short story.
MIR. Wilson is now spending a six
months leave Of absence farming at
his country place in New Canaan,
Conn.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
Collectors Luck

COLLECTORS LUCK. by Alice Van
Leer Carrick The Atlantic Monthly
Press, Boston.
The author relates her experiences
in browsing around out of the-way v
shops and picking up old household
furniture, knickknacks and ornaments
of all kinds. Provided with numerous
illustrations, the book should appeal
to any indefatigable collector Of IAN
tiques."
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
About a Column
The Work of Villa sibert Gather

There is a professor common to
Harvard and Radcliffe who inspires in
one the same desire to answer back or
chime in that your book columns do
week or so ago you treated very gra-
cIously a letter Of mine criticizing
Your verdict on "The Moon and Six
pence" and urging YOU to consider
Villa Sibert Gather I half expected to
be withered for this unsolicited crit
cism and suggestion, and, believe me, l
have no intention of prcsuming on your
tolerance in perpetrating this second,
and trust, last otfense.
You are writing of Miss Gathers "My
Antonio" with enthusiasm, but see no
reason why there should be lines of
comparison drawn between Miss Gather
and May Sinclair or Somerset Vaughan.
Certainly no writer, living or dead, can
dispute Miss Sinclair's laurels. resting,
think, on THE Divine Fire" The
Combined Maze" "The Tree Of HEAVIER" !"
Of your correspondents prefers The
Three Sisters" to MARY Oliver.' How
ever, the former book, it seems to me,
with all its relentless perfection of
analysis and its startling bits of real
ism, is something dead on the point
OF dlssecting needle and misses en-
tirely the living, breathing beauty of
Mary Olivier"-a beauty which inheres
in all living, even in its tragic aspects.
But, if Gilbert Cannan's remark that
hree-quarters of q novel are the ob-
sorption of a social system is true, Nay
it not be that Villa Sibert Gather is a
converse of May Sinclair, refectng,
as she does. a cruder, but more 70
bust less sutFocating and torturng
social system than that which for rs
the background Of "Mary Olivier?'
Again Miss Gather does discuss the
soul Of an artist in "Tho Song Of the
Lark" Magnificent as is the sweep
of My Antonia,' it does not seem to
NE quite as novel or quite as good as
The Song of the Lark or 80 Pioneersi"
Because she is so tine-and the fine
thing is SO rare-and an American, and
woman, | am almost passionately de-
sirous that you should put Villa Sibert
Gather, completely, before your public
LORNA r. F. BIRTWELL.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
"Hic," Said the intoxicated Man

"Hic." Said the Intoxicated Man
"Aheml'
What an unnatural sound" she
said
"Humph!"
81 never heard any one say that be-
fore
"ugh!'
"Gracious, Did you ever hear any
one speak like that?'
"Oh, no." ! said, "but I've seen these
things SO many times in books I
thought I'd try them out"
ALFRESCO.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-20
Readings in Literature

READINGS IN LITERATURE lBook Two).
BY Franklin I3. Dyer and Mary J. Brady
Published by Charles r. Merrill Com
pany. New York and Chicago.
This reader for the use of eighth
grade pupils includes simple examples
of the following types Of literary ex-
preston: Poetry, essays, biography,
oratory, prose fiction, drama and Scrip
turc.