The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
Mr.. Dooley ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

of 'th' impartial an fair minded judge"
who opened court with "Let US proceed
to tn thrile iv tn haynious monsther Cap
Dhry-fuss." On Golf is a second round
of the links, and this time it is merely
golf:
'Tn due time We get to what is called
putin green. There's little hole with
a tin can in it an whin ye're
within fut or two iv this hole We take
small hammer out iv tn bag an We hit
tn ball four or five times till it tumbles
into tn hole Thin We wipe tn cold sweat
firm ye'er brow, write down 80 on little
card, an walk away few feet an do it
all over again."
with him. Compare the putting of
twenty years ago:
81 used to go out in tn avenin' an putt
me mashie like hell-an'-all, till 1 was
knowed firm wan end iv tn county to tn
other as tn champion putter. l putted
two men firm Roscommon in wan day, an
they had to be took home on a dure."
In the new book is here and there
flash of the old, irresponsible, inimitable
quality. Mr.. Bryan (who was in the
Cabinet) figures under "The Power Of
Music, and "whin he utthers so much as
a how-d'ye-do tits as though a mighty
hand had slammed tn STRINGS iv joynt
guitar" Something of the old incisive-
ness, however, is gone. Intelligence at
work, work rather than play, endeavors
to make up for it.,
The casques of men (pun on cask if
you hke) are here. The good blade spares
'em. enjoyed On Past GIories and On
Heroes in History to a limited extent
while noting that the assassination Of
Caesar must be a pons asinorum, as Ho-
gan says, to even the best humorists,
since both Mark Twain and Dooley fall
down on burlesquing it. But l doubt
that I shall enjoy them in 1889, whereas
l am sure l will then enjoy me Cousin
George Dooley at Manila Bay and Nc
Kinley's army appointment of Master
Willie Dooselberry, as much as l do now
and did in 1899; Mr.. Dooley's was
magic within the reach Of the very young.
The once immortalized type of Sanator,
"a sa-age old gintleman who can dance
on a bass dhrum without maxim amy
noise" is to-day extinct. The present
types, however, are even better game;
yet game is not made of them.
One thing that may have handicapped
this anonymous Archey Roadster is the
requirement of considerable length, pre-
sumably for syndicating purposes Mr..
Dooley was always sweetest when he was
short, and the man who exacted 1000
words when he only felt up to 1000 is a
ruffian-if such man has existed. The
best bits in this book are semi-solemn cpl
grams, between which you have to work
across some wide spaces of the perfume
tory. | could make a few exceptions.
such as the tribute to the inventor of
suspenders, which is good of a cheap
kind. Mr.. Dooley has learned that sus
penders are comparatively modern, and
he wonders if Patrick Henry really raised
both hands above his head when gesturing
for liberty or DEATH
But as an epigrammatist it would
trouble us to find his equal. "There's
somethn' tn matther with ivry man, an
if there wasn't he'd be lynched." Whole
books, whole plays (including one of
Shaw's) have been written to make that
point. "In England man is PERSONNEL
to be Innocent till he's proved g:iilty, an'
they take it FIR granted he's guilty. In
this country man is PERSONNEL to be
guilty ontil he's proved guilty, an afther
that he's PERSONNEL to be innocint."
Many leading editorial, either side of
the Atlantic, has failed to put that as
neatly.
Mr.. Hennessy at least is in perfect
form 7 ,,i.l-