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New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Stendhal's Confessions
4 Slipshod Translation Of His
Romantic Autobiography

TIE RED AND THE BLACK. BY stendhal
u e i2nc nsq 3D. .r 81 by 495afs Dueo E
1t was perhaps worth while to trans
late Stendhals greatest work into Eng
lish. We recall that Tainc esteemed
him very highly, and that Zola reck-
oned him the founder of the realistic
school Of novelists. Beyond question
he was a man of exceptional ability;
almost as great writer as black
guard; and he eXerted much influence
upon contemporary and succeeding 1ic-
tlon writer's. Even the romantcists,
whom he detcsted, were much indebted
to him. 1t does sometimes happen
that comparatively minor writer ex-
ercises an influence far beyond his own
deserts. We have seen one or two
notable instances of it in American
letters. But we must realize that there
were far greater literary figures than
he among his contemporaries and
among his successors.
The present work is on the whole his
best, and it is of especial interest
because it is his own psychological
study of himself, and to an extent the
story of his own career. Whether the
Stcndhal of real life or the Julien of
the book was the greater cad and
oidChSudTu we slalI not assume 10 say.
Arcades ambo. We are not sure that
fiction contains a more contemplate
specimen. AS for the psychological
analysis, it is done with extraordinary
detail and skill, but to an extent that
often becomes tedious and causes us to
wonder if it was really worth while
1t seems necessary to add that the
translation is not we'll done. 1t is
often slipshod, and in places does
hopeless violence to English grammar
AS for the proofreadcr, he must surely
have been related to the good Homer
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

older than Shakespeare, and all his
wizardry was ended before the young
fellow from Stratford had achieved
anything notable. The highest aim
of Shakespeare during Marlowe's life
time was to poctize, as exactly as was
humanity possible, in Marlowe's man
ncr. 1t was by observing Marlowe
that Shakespeare finally learned how
to write; and Milton formed himself"
OH the same model Marlowe himself
had no instructors, and no need of
any.
Anent Villon:
A many other notable poets have
been deplorablc citizens; hundreds
spiritual ruin through drunkenness
and dobauchcry: yet over these
others, even over Marlowe if you be
particularly obtusc, it is possible to
pull long face, i'll at any event the
classroom, and to assume that their
verses would have been infinitely bet
ter if only the misguided writers
thereof had lived trifie more decor
ously. But with Villon no such
genteel evasion is permis ible.
Villon even when he jeers does but
transmit to US the woe of an astound-
ed and very dirty child that life
should be so "horrid." He does not
reason about it: here If anywhere
was a great poet delivered from
thought, from the base holiness of
intellect" and Villon reasons about
nothing; but his grief is peculiarly
acute, and in the outcome contagious.
Pity and terror: this-dsre
one repeat was what Aristotle de-
manded in great poetry; and this it
is that Villon gives, full measure.
In an equally fairminded vein let
us not blame James Branch Cabell if
maybe he is "poseur," let US not
question his very possible sincerity
even though his frequently involved and
artificial" style rutfle our feathers
let us be quite sure of our omniscience
before We venture that this "Beyono
Life" is not one of the noteworthy anc
thoughtful books of these years. 1t is
popular, these days, to deny qualitie;
in Mr. Cabell's work-and SO to "be II
line we will admit that we do no.
altogether like all of his stuff" either
But undeniably, something within u.
bothers US to react, all in all, favor
ably toward the book. L. c. w.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
FrancO-American Manners
With Reflections Upon the Vicis-
Vicissitudes of Youth

CESAR NAPOLEON GAIIIARD A LA CON
QUITE DE EAMERfQuE. Far Jean Farmer
IL mo. 800 pages. Payet & Cio, Paris
This work of NJ. Farmer is note
worthy under several heads. First
and above all, as study of manners
it is exquisite. In the beginning we
are treated to an intimate picture of
provincial French life, which we must
always remember as noteworthy for
its penetrating detail, it's humor, and
the sympathetic charm which pervades
the whole. The differentiation of the
characters, each one of whom lives his
own definite life, is perfect. We not
only know, but understand each in his
turn. AS the author is himself French
we may not term this remarkable. But
when he transports his hero to the
United States and repeats his French
clairvoyance in an American setting,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
A s'Poseur'' Speaks
On Pretty Nearly Every Topic
Under The Sun

BEYoND SD LIE nli. By james nfaueh Csbe Emo
Yhis book, wherein move "al au-
thors at their best" witch women,
"the economist" "the reactionary."
the arbiters," mountebanks, realists,
Robert w. Chambers, Henry Sydnor
Harrison, Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter.
"the Rev. Harold Bell Wright" and
other contemporaries, is II veritable
potpourrl of things and folks ancient
and things and folks modern, of
clever individual sayings and clever
ndividual truths and half-truths. out
OF al OF winch energies a rather dis
turbngly logical thesis favorng
Wtch-Women and poets, women and
tnolVlduallSts, "tlmcless" comedy
writer's "timeless" tragedy writer's.
Marlowc, Villon, Dickens, many others
"realltes,' symbolism and romance
TO begin our brief inquiry into this
writer on writer's, into this at times
real pleasant propagandist for Ro-
nance, two questions: Has he sym
pathies enough to illuminate his
mems works and lives, and has he
courage to do the same? Concerning
MarloWe, Nillon, Dickens and one or
TWO others, the answer justifying the
hlgh cost OF paper, seems entirely
favorable Cas- much as we dislike some
of the idiosyncrasies of his, at times
excellent, at times eXecrable, style).
And so we now follow up with an
excerpt or two or three from his
"allusions'-hrst, to Marlowe;
He was an artist who labored
with sincere and appreciative rever-
ence for his labor's worthiness in
the very highest fields of creative
writing. And it is really an in
considerable matter that his dramas
are failures in that they patiently do
not attain to the original concep-
ton. The shortcoming is bred, not
by inferior workmanship, for in
technique Marlowe excelled, but by
the reach of his conception, which
in cold earnest was superhuman.
1t is not unreasonable, in
deed, to assert that he has had no
equal anywhere,
To consider-as after any such
statement seems unavoidable-the pos
sibility that had Marlowe lived to at
tain maturity he might to-day have
been as tritely gabbled about as
Shakespeare, is rather on a plane with
debating what song the sirens sang"
or the kindred mystery of what be-
comes of political issues after election i?
Marlowc. precisely by virtue of his
more sensitive genius, was predes-
tlnate to an early death. In so far
as any comparison can be carried, the
advantage is, of course, with Mar
lowe. he was scant two months
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Men Who Fought
Plain Tales of How They Fought
and How They Won
"AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT"
By FLOYD Gibbons. 12mo. PIP. 4l0. George II.


"AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT"
BY FLOYD Gibbons 12mo pp 4l0. George II.
Doran Company.
The Official Correspondent of The
Chicago Tribune Accredited to the
American Expeditionary Forces" has
given US one Of the most simple, and
yet forceful, pictures of the American
army in action which have vet come to
US from the field He had Of course,
unusual opportunities. In the first
place, he was on the Lacona when it
was sunk. He had an experience then
as unsual as it was thrilling. He wit
messed the landing of the first Ameri
can troops in France, the establish
ment of the first American sector, the
firing of the first American shell, and
went "over the top" with the first
American contingent. He was with
Pershing in Paris. He draws vivid
picture of the battle of Chateau
Thierry, we'll as that Of the Bois dc
Belleau and Amiens. He was horribly
wounded at Bois de Belleau and lay for
three hours almost within reach of
safety, before darkness permitted his
rescue. The story of the battle and
of his wounding is strikingly dramatic,
all the more because of the straight
forward and unadorned language in
which it is told. Then Gibbons saw the
insides Of a hospital and his account
of his treatment is valuable addition
to that phase Of the records of our
part in the war.
From start to finish the book is in
age and yet a ightforward simplic-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Edith Sicllel

NIW AND OLD. By Edith sichcl New York
r. =. Dutton & Co.
In 1901 Edith Schel wrote:
And |, who know what love, what
beauty is,
might have been a poet, might
have told
OF al the pain and all the summer
bliss
Earth aad the heart contain thou
sandfold.
might have been a poet but for this.
That Uo who fashions spirits did
withhold
The =, OF hame-thc fame Of
Which 1urncth thoughts to words Of
molten gold.
For ever must | aim. for ever miss,
Wanting the gift that's neither
bought nor sold
Yet havo that which frees from life's
caprice,
And makes the day fresh and the
footsteps bold;
Mine arc the dreams that bring a cen
tral peace,
= And mine the JOY that never can
grow old
Because Edith Sichcl "knew what
love, what beauty is" and because she,
despite her aspirations and assertions
was so self-conscious with her age as
to admit "withholding of the final tip
OF ilame,' she became exactly the men
tai and spiritual type for good criti
clsm. Though her life of devotion to
the poor lmost sympathically sketched
IN "A. c. Bradleys introduction here)
her stories (including the rather re
markablc, rcalistic--idealistic "Gladys
Leonora Pratt" and "'Loiza" in the
present volume, also), and her tiny
sheaf of dozen poems humbly hidden
away among articles to "The Pilot
and "The London Times" here, in
New and DID, suggest her one of
action and of that egoism customary
IN the creative writer of worth, the lit
tie sonnet above, as is a habit with
verses any way accrcditablc to a versa.
tile writer, betrays the secrets. And
since, of course, artists and writer's
contrary to popular opinion and pop.
ular subconsclOus envies--havc, reallv
less of evil, after all, in them than
good, subjective expression is safe
Here we find Edith Sichels two secrets
They are sincerity and humility. In
her prose writings, always ATTACKING
hyprocrlsy and false modesty, DESTROY
ing sham and forgiving all her dead
duchesses' and parlor poets little
S","h' anu lolplcS, III ner verses she
gathers her folk of former centuries
and her memories of others memories
Of them into sweet. living bouquets
and, like an old maid, presses them to
ner breast In memory" she CON
fesses her clandestine loves with
monks, nuns, sinners and saints of ali
sorts, who lived liveliy or quietly. long
ago (reading her similar poetic theme
from her prose reviews" at least so
can we interpret)--
The memory of that which WAS
Floats like water lily leaf
over tho tideless depth of grief.
Dark and cold and still as glass.
there where no change can ever pass.
Where shadows are long and light is brief
The living thought Of the days pone by.
With roots deep down below the deeps.
Gently rocks and gently sleeps
Shining and green where the waters lie.
Until to him who vigil keeps
What was Is the life that cannot die
The present reviewer, abashed and
humble and sincere on the threshold of
a new and cgoistic and forwnrd-look
ing age, throws fifteen pages of scrib-
bled notes and quotations of the crit
ical flashes and endcaring wit-venturos
Of Edith Sichel into the handy waste
basket. 1t is not fair to Edith Sichsi
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

TIE DIARY or GERMAN SOLDIER RI
hnopf. q
The author of this vivid exposure of
leutomc ruthlessness served as a nom
commissioned officer in the German
army from the outbreak of the war
until 1916, when he escaped into Den
marx, and there wrote his story Al
though he did not hold a commissioned
rank, he was intrustcd with a number
OF important duties, acting as inter
prefer and halson officer for his bat
talon. Feldwcbcl C is evidently n
trained and experienced soldier. and
ms narrative has more military pre-
cislon and accuracy than is usually
1ound IN the war "reminiscences Of men
VINO enter the army directly from civil.
IAN llfe. The chief interest Of the
diary Tor American readers, however.
hes in its explicit confirmation of the
atrocities committed by the German
troops in Belgium and Northern
France. Wholesale looting, outrages
against women, massacre of the helm
less French wounded and of unofrend-
ing non-combatants, all these damnablc
crimes of the Prussian war machine
are related with the most minute ref
crcnces to time, place and accompanv-
ing circumstances. If the peace CON
terence intends to exact punishment
from the men responsible for these
barbarities, abundant valuable evidence
can be compiled from this book.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Boys in the NAVY

TIE ADVENTURE CLUB WITH THE FLEET
by Ralph Henry Barbour Illustrated I'm
PIP 2a0 Dodd Mead d Co '''
Mr, Barbour's book is boys fiction
but 1T might we'll be regarded as mems
truth. In stirring narrative he rjves
~ llfellke and veracious picture Of the
transportation of our first troops 10
France and of some exciting expcri-
ences with submarines. There are also
various striking scenes on land. one
account of the destruction of a Zen
nelin raider over London being par
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
More Fairies

TIE FAIRIES ANNUAL. BY Cccn Starr Johns.
We shall hope never to outprow our
fondness for fairies and fairy stories.
especially when they are such up-to,
date creatures as those in this sump-
tuous volume. Indeed, these are
fairies which will appeal to grown-ups
more than to children, in their de-
llghtful satires upon various social
phases of the day. The volume is
e!Xquisitely printed and is profusely
Illustrated with colored plates, all Of
which arc excellent and some of which
are works of art for which no praise
could easily be too high.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

ity which often rises to the heights of
great writing 1t is very valuable
book, and that is strong statement to
make when one contemplatcs how much
has been written about the war. 1t is
a work that one wants to read and re-
read and have in his library, for it so
truthfully, and fully, and honestly por-
trays what the war meant to the Amer
lean Sammy" GEO.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Poems of the Day

THE NEW DAY. By Scudder Middleton. limo
rp. ~ The Macmillan Company
Mr.. Middleton has the essential quail
ties of the true poet. He has imagina-
ton, fancy, sense of form and of
beauty and that seriousness of purpose
which is as essential to the lghtest
touch as to the profoundcst sounding
of the depths. These poems are in
many keys and measures, including sew
cral incursions into the realm of "free
verse" But the supreme merit of his
free verse" is that its freedom is a
means, not an end. He writes it not
for the sake of nouting rhyme and
metre, as most writer's of "free verse"
do, most aifectcdly and obviously, but
simply because it seems to be the httest
mode of expression of his thoughts.
Thus:
walk along the yellow hours
And find you at the end.
Marvellous mother of The stars.
Yet most of his verses are in or
dered measure, smooth and fluent, with
a touch of classic simplicity:
Because tomorrow we shall lie
Unknowng with the yearly slain,
We walk to-day away from men
And look across the ripened grain
1t is not great cathedral organ, nor
yet an innumcrable orchestra, that
obeys the touch of Mr.. Mddeton's
hand, but it is little company of
chamber musicians, with wcll-tuned in
strumcntS.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
The American Creed--
Franco Manners
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

respect its flag, and to defend it
against all enemies"
1t was a graceful and useful thing
for Mr. Andrews to prepare this little
volume, giving us the history of the
origin of this creed; an account of it's
author Ca descendant of one of the
signers of the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence), and an clucidation of the
meaning Of the creed and reminder of
t. sources from whic it's ideas and,
indeed, its very phrases. are derived.
1t is a splendid little pocket manual of
American patriotism, calculated to en-
able every citizen to give to any man a
reason for the patriotic faith that is in
him.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
The Last Enemy
Ilit LAST ENEMY BY A. Judson Petit 12tno
pp %. Tho Marshall Jones Company

TIE LAST ENEMY. BY A. Judson Petit 12rno
pp 80 Tho Marshail-Jones Company.
u "Ihe Last Enemy" is another
story" whose formulation is laid on
actual happening" About a man who
intends committing suicide. to satisfy
has curiosity and the worlds need of
u reliable account" and intends BEING
brought back to tell the tale by making
use Of the science Of surgeon, his
irlehd IL ends, not as we would have
1t, with the eternal death and silence
and inferential damnation Of such a
hero, but merely tiredly, with the very
ordinary resusctation and gratitude of
a drowned" girl, made heroine of
by the hero's saving her. Though we
cannot agree that "thc occurrence may
we'll mark an epoch jof the most far
reaching import in the annals of a
lonR-wondcring race" we consider
that the book has very good though
somewhat inapt. title.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Rowing and Fighting" by Major f..
). O'Rcilly illustrated, 8vo the Cen
racy personality, of score Of wears
OF actual rowing through many lands
and fighting in various wars-in the
Spanish War, the Philippine insurrec-
ton, and in China, Venezuela and
Mexico.
Theories Of Social Progress" by
Arthur James Todd, is "A detailed and
scholarly study Of the various salient
phases Of civilization and the attempts
which arc made to formulate the con-
ditions of human progress. The author
is the professor Of sociology in the
university of Minnesota. (8vo, the
Macmillan Company
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
The FIGHTERS i'm the War;
How They Foug ht and Won

scure, while the action is so thrilling
and the whole spirit of the book so
lifelike as to carry the reader along
irresistibly on a current of interest
and excitement.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
A BOch's Diary

HE DIARY OF A GERMAN SOLDIER r.
huopf. a.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-01-24

Hart Schaffner & Marx overcoats in
$35 and $40 values---smart styles in the
newest metallic shades.
Materials of finest quality, superbly
trimmed and tailored.
$2750
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-01-24

leading to the grand assembly to be
known as grand-stairs. Underneath
the stairs would be q dust-chute
made of reinforced glass and pipes
built In at the head of the chute
would supply water so that all
stairs could be rinsed off by turning
big faucet in the engine room. AS
the water descended to the foot of
the stair 1t would go directly into the
sewer.
Check the Babies
The stairs leading to the two diff
ferent floors would be of different
height and extent, but all would be
enclosed and have glass sides, fin
ished of like show windows at the
stores. The spaces under the sub
stairs would be called rotaries, and
the spaces under the grand-stairs
would be known as nurseries. The
baby carriages would go into the
rotaries and the babies into the
nurseries. The parents would re-
ceiye check for the carriage and
another for the baby, and checking
clerks and nurses would take care Of
them till they were called for. Per-
sons desiring to bring luncheon
would eat 1t at the nurseries. The
grand-stairs would be numbered
from one to twenty and the sub-stairs
would be lettered from A to T SO IL
people wanted to get together or keep
track of each other, they could do It
by agreement as to which stair and
entrance they would go to-.
Prevent Colds and Sickness
For the purpose of keeping the
cold air from rushing into the build
ing at the entrances. I would have
double doors and vestibules and in
all vestibules would be hot-air regis
tiers pouring hot blasts in cold
weather SO people could stand ON
them a few seconds and get warm,
and no cold air current could get
thru into the assembly. Other hot
air registers would be just inside the
doors. The same heating plant that |
poured hot air into the entrances
would heat the rotaries and nurse
ries. II there were twenty grand
stairs and twenty sub-stairs, l would
have twenty heating plants, and in |
each furnace would have abundant
,oils to heat water as we'll as air,
'or I should insist on having q
wealth Of hot water for heating and
,athing. the heat would be applied
It the outer extremities of the build
ng, leaving all the central areas in
ne warm zone. The twenty smoke
tacks and the twenty elevators
would be built In the same towers or
ninarets, and for the top floor there
would be enclosed halls or corridors
horizontally for passage
'etween dance hall and minerals.
t may seem expensive to operate so
many furnaces, but we are going to
et our coal from briggs now, and It
vill be some cheaper by reason Of
etter management and the short
aul.
would have the heating plant arr [
anged so the water in the baths
ould be kept at any desired tempera-
lre and q profusion of sanitary
fountains on every floor I
'ould make 1t easy for parents to
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-01-24

proper construction and proper loca-
ton of stage, pipe-organ, pianos and
the stands or supports for the orches-
tras. would have the ceiling high,
rising in q dome, with myriads OF
windows in the sides or slopes of the
dome.
On Third Floor
The third floor I would build for
an elegant dance hall. 1t would be
smaller than the grand assembly,
occupying a section not larger than
the dome half way up from the base,
and Of course, it would be where the
top of the dome would naturally be
II complete dome were built. Ele-
vators and stairways would serve
the dance hall, there would be album
dant dressing rooms, cloak-rooms,
lavatories and drinking fountains,
and the heating would be from the
sides, with the ventilation passing
from outer floor to upper dome, so
that nobody could sit in draft, and
nobody would need to sit rear cold
wall.
Forty Outside Stairways
J would have all the outside stair
ways built of steel. with as large
EesLes in the steps and risers as
wcLl:; be practical, SO the raiuwa.er
woIld pass tight thru land so the
snow would no: find much .odgment,
and would fall thru as soop as it war
brushed by foot or broom. would
ask the architects to arrange the in
side starways the same as far as
practical, so they would not hold the
dust. would suggest dust-proof.
chute or lining under
each stairway to take the dust, and
would have system of pipes built
In SO that warm water could be re-
leased to flow down the chute, carry
ing all the dust into the sewer.
Stairway Made Modern
1 would ask the architects to ar
'ange the outside stairways in pairs |
With avenues between them. The
'tairways leading to- the auditoriums
would be called sub-stairs, and those
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-01-24

Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Denton Of po-
catello motored to Blackfoot Mondav
morning. Mr.. Benton returned ~
his business at Pocatello while Mrs
Denton went to Ferris to resume her
duties as teacher.