New-York tribune., 1919-05-03


Don Marquis, whose "Prefaces" has
been recently published, is creature
Of untrammelled conventions. Instead
of using a ribbon on his typewriter
he makes a carbon sandwich, the i'm
press of the keys on the outer sheet
giving the printer copy from the inside
sheet.-A. w. w.
"Our neighbor The Tribune, has
Reporter, and as Haywood Broun is a
good reporter first and everything else
afterward, Spruce Street isn't too wide
to reach across. Shake!"-The Suns
Books and the Book World" of April
Reach across Why, we'd jump
across to receive so amiable a greet
Ing.
We wish to emphasize again that
this column welcomes contributors and
pays them, too. That is, a contributor
may select any book from the shelves
in Room 1928 of The Tribune Building
in return for paragraph or more.
in next weeks book pages we expect
to have a review of Dwight w. Nor
rows book, "The Society of Free
States" by Professor Roland G. Usher.
We also hope to be able to print a
number of letters from Joseph Conrad
written shortly before the publication
of "The Arrow of Gold"
In an effort to make some lazy verse
accurate recently I tried to verify my
memory of a character in THE House Of
Seven Cables" My memory of 1t was
"Hepzibah Pinchon;" but as I had not
read the book since the spring of 1904
or 1905 I was far from sure. My Sears
Roebuck dollar-down had nothing about
her; my dictionary did not mention her;
asked eight persons and none of them
could help me. So I left it up to The
Tribune proof room and 1t sustained me-
(You didn't specify if two paragraphs
were permissbe).
1t occurred to me then. not only that
free verse was not always lazy, but that
a column conductor might find it amusing
to conduct a roth on his readers Per
sonally have hell of a time remember
ing the classics and standards, having
read most of them at a too early age
Mr. Roth, you may recall is the marvel
GUS gent who rushes up to the man in
the hotel lobby and says: You are Mr.
Addison Simms. of Seattle; I met you
nine years ago on the corner of Seventh
and Polk streets, etc. Send five dollars
and learn how" I'll be glad to start it
off for you for any good book, read or
unread, preferably I haven't read.
Thus: All remember of the 'eThree
Musketeers" Tread at the age of twelve)
IS ofs rniIree rough soldiers who took a
lady out in boat and cut off her head ;
believe there a feur-de-lis burned
on of her shoulders. In Lies Miser-
ables" (read at the age of fourteen) there
was an old man who had library and I
can't recall whether it was stolen or he
had to sell 1t; anyway the affair made
me shed tears. In "S,las Mariner" Tread
sixteen years ago) there was a miser
who hid his gold under the stones of his
hearth; 1t was stolen the gold. and he
came back to find the golden head of a
there too.
Should we teach children the Roth
method as they read PEN
We turned against government own
ership last week when we sent a tele-
gram to Christopher Morley about his
book, "The Rocking Horse" and dis
covered two days later that it had
been changed during transmission to
"The Rocking Hearse." Of course, we
do not assert that Burleson was di-
rectly responsible, but it seems to US
that it illustrates the reckless and
frivolous spirit which he has allowed
to creep into the wire service.
HEYWOOD BROUN.