New-York tribune., 1919-12-04

In Westchester, in Westchester
London, Nov. 10 +. w.
Prof. Haywood Broun's inability to
think Of any English writer except Leon
ard Merrick who does we'll with the
subject of Bohemian life exists, per-
haps, because he never has read
Oliver Onions's "Gray YOUTH" so en-
tertaining and searching study that
whoever borrowed it from us four
years ago still has it.
AS to subjects and writers to treat
them, that question is largely sophisti-
cal. An articulate writer sufficiently
interested, with nothing to see all day
but the business Office of the New
York World, could write novel based
on his observation; while another per-
son, Titanic survivor and veteran
of eight battles, might say merely that
the wreck was terrible and the war
was an experience he never will for
get. If a man can write, it makes
little difference what he writes about
and if he can't, it makes no difference.
Observed, by II. A. L., on the bulle-
tin board of Grace Church, Brooklyn:
I'll a. m, Seven Deadly Evils 8
D. M, Four Means of Grace" Score,
IA, Satan Leading.
Contributions yesterday brought the
total for the poet up to $751, which
makes us feel like giving at least
three cheers for the we'll named hu-
man race.
BALLADE OF THE RED QUEENS DREAM
While the Red Queen sleeps VIC still live on
When she wakes vanish In mist away:
Child Alice Is only pretty pawn
In gamo Of chess the weird ghostfoIk play.
Tho White Queen slghs that she cannot stay:
Tho glowing dawns first crescent beam
VIII lIt those eycds-i hear her say.
I'VE only wraths In tho Rod Queens dream"
The moonlight NIcker across tho lawn
And many sprlghtIy oIf and fay
Startes tho deer the dappIed fawn
Roaming tho glades this night In May.
Tho meadow slumbcrs In silver and gray;
Down by the hawthorn tho daisies tecm;
And all Is nothlng-nor wo they:
Wo only wraIths In the Red Queens dream.
Tower and hattlcment last I'LL dawn;
Tho war lord who thunders In furious fray
flash-and his cannon and he gone.
With the towns he would take and the no
would slay
Lovoslck. the lady harks to tho lay
OF the star eyed poet who follows tho CLEAN;
Llko him she must vanish at break Of day:
We only wralths in the Red Queens dream.
L'ENvOI
Alice the ReaI--what Is it. pray7
hesc Things that Are" do they merely seem7
Fantastic shadows somber gay.
AFRO we only wraths In the Red Queens dream1
c. A.
u can't get used TO foe as an ad-
( jectivc," admits Bah, land the WASH
ington Times headline, WOULD FEED
FOE KIDDIES,' looks, to S. the l.,
cannibalistic. And to proceed to
weightier matters, the Stars Victor
advertisement says that Molly is sung
by Rainald Warrenath."
Don't" counsels the Chemung VAL
ley Reporter, "become too peeved over
the unsettled condition of affairs
Better times arc ahead--we will all
be dead some day" We doubt even
that.
An Army captain, whose pay is 5000
a month (and about $50 commutation)
gets letter from bank that be-
gins "a great many army and navy
officers often permit money to lie idle
or in banks earning only 4io Or Az %
interest simply because it has been b
difficult problem to know just where to
place it," 'I shudder to think" the
captain shuddcrs to think, "what my
losses must have amounted to for this
reason alone"
"ln fact" the Worlds Washington
correspondent said, "some of the more
unfriendly expressed doubt that the
message really was composed by the
President" Tut as the President
would say, we know who wrote it,
-. 'Sh!
Barrie