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New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

CASTOR will never know what strange
force constrained him to utter that cry,
to quit the ranks and to hurry forward.
He had just seen Luce, his Luce, his
midinette, on whose corsage the general
was pinning the Croix de Guerre. Every
thing happened as in dream. AS he
approached the general raised his cap
and, like courtier, kissed the hand OF
the working girl who had shown herself
a heroine.
Luce fell into Gastons arms under
the fatherly eyes of Joffre
"You have found each other here?
Well, my children, since you love each
other l give you both eight days fur
Tough to go and get married"
Luce entered the salon on Gaston's
arm.
To his mother and father, frozen in
wardly with surprise and displeasure,
but retaining outwardly their equanim
ity and poise, the lieutenant said gaily:
my dear parents, l present you my
fiancee. She has shown at Arras such
devotion and courage that they have
cited her in an order of the day. We
have been decorated at the same time,
and the generalissimo has ordered us to
go and get married"
Then Gaston's father turned to hts
wife:
II don't think, my dear, that we can
dlsobey an order of Papa Joffre"
But the mother couldn't answer. She
was crying too hard and had all she
could do to press together in her arms
the engineer and the midinette.
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The reviewer goes on in judgment: {:

ne reviewer goes Oh III JuOSHenC.
"The book is not, we think, quite on the
level with its predecessors. 1t is certainly
not to be compared with the first of the
series. George is less thoroughly con-
ceived than that marvellousy real Edwin,
and all his adventures, while they are more
diversified, are considerably more sketchy.
The accumulation of details has been done
with care less minute and perhaps little
less passionate. Mr.. Bennett in a word,
has put less work and less of himself into
;he book. 1t seems to hold position mid
way between his more ambitious novels,
such as 'Clayhanger' and The Old Wives
Tale and the intermediate and less elabo-
rate though still characteristic works, such
as The Card and The Lions Share But,
as he could not in any case have avoided
doing, he has put much of himself, both Of
his creative virtues and of his mere dio-
syncrasies, into the book George is, of
course, youth from the Five Towns who
comes to London to pursue his fortune
this time in architects office. He is, the
reader need hardly be told, inwardly timid
and inexperienced, yet outwardly confident
and determined, whatever may happen to
him, to appear to all beholders as grasping
firmly the reins of the situation. Luck and his
native parts colaborate to give him always
what he desires, and at very tender age
he miracuously wins great competition
and becomes famous To this fame he adds
promising, though not very substantial,
material success, and just as promise is
developing into performance he throws it
aside, becomes second lieutenant in
territorial battery, the junior of bov Of
twcnty-four and the aversion of a typically
.nilitarst colonel whose caprice sends
George off on "a wild and diotic errand
The volume closes with George warm and
happy in the consciousness of having by
accident brought the errand to successful
conclusion"
Francis Hackett, writing of "The Roll
Call'' in "The New Republic" is not so
mild in his evaluation. Away from the
Five Towns Mr.. Bennett creates without
Inspiration. the critic finds.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

Mr.. Krehbiel of The Tribune writes
interestingly of Medtner
The music which challenged the most
serious interest yesterday (outside of that
which for a sentimental reason attached to
that of Mr.. Rachmaninoff HIMSELF was that
of Medtner. This was not because he is the
least known of the three, although he has
remained practically q stranger to our con-
cert lists, but because of the originality and
beauty of the pieces played. They were a
so-caled fragment entitled 'Tragedie' and
three short pieces labelled Fairy Stores.'
Fecund in melodic thought, markedly modern
in harmony, they yet disclosed a masters
appreciation of the value of logical pro-
cedure and form. In this latter respect they
were paired by the composers own compost
tions, which opened and closed the concert
"a set Of variations a theme by Chopin
and six studies entitled 'Tableaux' The
theme, we think, was that of the Prelude in
C minor, the twentieth of the set of twenty
four, and it was presented in a number of
varied and extremely interesting phases,
which compassed large gamut of emotional
phases, though it never carried us far out
side the magic realm into which the creator
of the theme led Mr.. Rachmaninoff's
playing was full of strong grace and elo-
quence, masterful, appealing, convincing"
AS for Rachmaninoff, Mr. Krehbiel
says:
1--WE question if there is chord in Mr..
Rachmaninoffs soul which could be made
to vibrate in response to frivolous appeal
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

men had decorated with pine branches.
Then came the hour of retreat-an
hour of clenched teeth and clenched fists
OF a swift change of front. CASTOR
next trained his guns on the marshes of
st. Gond, into which the Breton regi-
ments had driven the Prussian Guard
Then came the wild pursuit of the beaten
enemy amid the joyous clamors Of
France, spreading her wings in the
heaven of victory.
In the trenches near to Arras. CASTOR
having put his cannon under cover, was
able to correspond regularly with his
family and to make inquiries about Luce.
HIS mother, whose love had been rein
forced by separation and daily anguish.
wrote him beautiful letters. She was
tender to him. She was glad to tell him
what they knew at the house where he
lived and what they said of the girl he
loved.
Luce, after many wanderings, had
reached Arras again. She had volun-
teered to care for the wounded. She
l1ved with some other heroic women in
the cellars, under an incessant rain of
proJectllcs. The city was dying. 1t was
being destroyed shred by shred, like a
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

sworn to conquer, to wait and to marry.
They saw each other secretly, and their
love, being very strong and deep, re-
malned pure. Luce was of poor but hon
est stock. CASTOR had loyal heart.
* *
The war came
On the evening of August 2 CASTOR
was at Versailles, alongside his four rs
guns, ardent, mad with enthusiasm. Be-
ing an engineer of arts and manufact-
ures, ne knew better than most others
the power and precision of our field ar
tlllery. One great concern weighed on
him, however. Luce had been in the
north for two weeks on visit to an old
aunt. Who knows whether his darling
had been able't return to Paris ON the
last civilian trains?
For time action, rapid and terrible
chased all the lovers preoccupations out
OF his mind. He took part in the ener-
getic French offensive in Alsace-Lor-
raine. He moved down whole ranks of
Germans. He drenched battalions of
them with fire. He paraded on a trot
through the streets of Mulhouse his gray
pieces, the wheels of which the artillery
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

~ ACHMANINOFF made his third
public appearance in New York
AA Sunday in an all Russian pro-
gramme, and earlier critical i'm
pressions of his austerity seem to have
been confirmed by this latest perform
ance. Medtner, a composer not widely
known here, was given rather impress
sive Interpretation by the Russian COM
poser, but reviewers appear to differ as
to the value of the compositions. Mr..
Finck of "The Evening Post" who does
not often show sympathy with modern
Russian music, says of Rachmaninoff'
own variations on a theme of Chopin's
that "it was extremely clever work and
playing, to be sure; but too much is too
much"
Mr.. Finck continues:
with this piece however, and with his
six etudes which ended the programme, Mr..
Rachmannoff achieved an easy victory over
the other numbers listed the Sonata, opus
10, and some preludes and etudes by Scria-
bine, followed by two compositions by N.
Medtncr: 'Tragedie' and three Fairy
Stories" Medtner, like Bolshevsm, is Rus
sian Of German parentagc; but he is quite
harmless; also dull; and so is Scriabine
who is often compared to Chopin. The
trouble is that his hazelnuts, which look
much like Chopin's, are all hollow"
Mr.. Huneker, signally open to new
impulses, commented in "The Tines:
"Mr. Rachmaninoff gave his sharp minor
prelude, hailed with applause at the first
booming bass note, among three final encores.
His own opening variations on a Chopin
theme were gracefully done; his final 'Etudes
Tableaux' suggested pictures of Russia at
a gallop on the march, echoes of the
labyrinthine dialogues of lovers, or Virgin
figures from sacred ikons.
"Mcdtner'sr Tragedy Fragment which
brought bravo from the boxes, was more
like mad scene for piano, contrasting
With the same composers naively descriptive
Fairy Stories' Scriabine's Sonata Fan
taisie' ran, to the more exotic style, rolling
up mountains of notes like SNOWFALL sud-
denly turned to fantastic shapes Of the ten
other Scrabine pieces, preludes and etudes,
one of the last named, from Op AZ, shared
with Rachmaninoff's famous encore the hon.
ors of the day"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
lHE MlDlNETTE-By Henry d'Yvignac

CHE had golden hair, an amusing
little retrousse nose, cleaning
~ white teeth, eyes of forget-me-not
blue, graceful carriage and a
dainty figure. She was twenty years
old, and her name was Luce.
He, CASTOR, was tall, solid, distn-
guished looking and dark. He had beau
tiful eyes and caressing voice, and was
twenty-six.
They lived in the same house. They
liked each other, so it was said. But
Gaston's parents, as soon as a resident
of the Quarter had told them the secret
of this idyl, uttered loud protests. His
mamma gave him to understand that
she had not scraped and saved to send
him to the high school, to have him
learn dancing, fencing and the violin,
to put him through college and to make
an engineer of him, with the sole object
of seeing him marry midnette. She
added that she had picked out for him
an exquisite young girl who had a dot
ah! dot that was real dot. Gastons
papa had drawn him into corner, after
offering him cigar, and had nurmured
to him, between puffs
You understand. She's fine, little
Luce; fine. But don't marry her. Not
a midinette! No! A little sweetheart?
Yes. Breakfasts in the country. Pleas
ant memories. But nothing serious.
Make good, respectable, bourgeois mar
riagc. Besides, you need the money!"
Gaston and Luce, in spite Of all, had
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

"A ER. BENNETT is on us again
N with a novel; he has his fc-
- IA tion coming from the presses
so regularly now that the end
OF season and beginning Of another can
almost be known by his temperance.
A reviewer in "The New Statesman" a
London weekly, finds certain method in
Mr.. Benefits novel writing.
"The modern historian has brought the
practice of his art-he is usually pleased
to call it a science-to such a pitch of con-
sciertiousness that he frequently spends
three years in the composition of an octave
volume describing the events of year.
This evolution of method, which has finally
deprived him of his chance of ever coping
with all the sylables Of recorded time, has
not yet been observed in the novel; and,
since Mr.. Bennett closes his new novel at
the end of 1914, it may be supposed that
he has an excellent chance Of bringing the
chronicles OF the Clayhanger family down
actually to the moment at which he writes
the last sentence of some future novel.
'Clayhanger,' it will be remembered, be-
gan somewhere before the date OF Mr..
C,ladstone's first Home Rule bill; and it,
with its successors, 'Hilda Lessways' and
These Twain covered large section Of
he lives of the two protagonists. Now
Mr.. Bennett picks up the story of Hlda's
son, by her first invalid marriage, George
Cannon, in early July, 1901, and as he
leaves him in anything but final manner
on the last page, after having given him a
brief taste of life in the artillery, no
doubt there is more to come. Certainly
the existence of character abandoned in
such a position is more precarious than
ever was that of Edwin and Hilda; but Mr.
Bennett thoughtfully provides George with
three daughters, so there is no need for the
'Clayhanger' epos to come to an end be-
fore its creator so desires"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

ing the thermometer into which the con-
ductor spits, the telephone meets in cx-
tremes. A window will change the sub
ject for standing room only
Yet, in spite of a Sunday ceiling to
the same schedule, condensed into the
bucket of a Melba lip-stick, the traffic
cop will empty the ladder to an equal
number of rounds. This bandagc is the
legislature of taxis to taxidermists,
hanging the dessert for bricklayers to
little remains of cube root The uptown
exit may, or may not, be in manuscript,
but as result of the binomial theorem
of closing time, the water mains, when
ever they are directed to funerals, will
make a vacuum flash
WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02


out as ~; enere % are sradati0ns in the seriouss.,
Oh MS attitude to his art. At his first ,s.s ''
ne was all the master interpreter en.ssS
IN the task OF expounding some of tbs se
winch has his reverence, as it had b.s s y
reverence OF generations before him A. +"
second ne seemed to feel, or at least h.
US think so, that he was hired en..~. '4s'
whose business it was, with as little sac,,s
OF dignity as possible, to make the liz
music which his employers deemed dss;s',
In his third recital, which took place - w
negie Hall yesterday afternoon. he ro..' sS'
the junction which is evidently most ~ =
taste This time, however, he presentsd .
self as an exponent of the nations, -,
OF music to which he belongs-the Rus,;.'
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
A Lady
By Edgar Lee Masters


carnation silk.
Embroidered with Venetian IA.
Between linens that crush in y
hand
Soft as down.
Waking, she looks through a window
Curtained with carnation silk.
Embroidered with Venetian lace.
The walls are hung with velvet
Embossed with a f1eur de lis,
And around her is the silence of ns
ness,
Where footballs are like exhalations
From carpets of moss.
Little clocks tinkle.
Medallions priceless as jewels
Lie by jars suspiring like Goals of fra
And the maid prepares the bath.
Tincturing delicious water with exouis4
essences.
And she is served with coffee
In cups as thin as petals,
Sitting amid pillows that breathe
The souls of freesia!
All things are hers:
Fishes from all seas,
Fruits from all climes.
The city lies at her command,
And is summoned by buttons
Which are pressed by her.
Noiselessly feet move on many foou
Serving her.
Wheels that turn under coaches
Of crystal and ebony,
And yachts dreaming in strange wag
And wings-all are hers.
And she is free:
Her husband comes and goes
From his suite below hers.
She never sees him,
Nor knows his ways, nor his davs.
But she is very weary
And all alone amid her servants,
And guests that come and go.
Her lips are red,
Her skin is soft and smooth
But the page blurs before her eyes.
Her eyelids are languid,
And droop from WEAKNESS,
Though she will not rest
From the long pursuit of love-
Her hair is white;
The skin of her faultless neck
Edges in creases
AS she turns her perfect head.
And the days dawn and die.
What day that dawns will bring herl lcr5
And day by day she waits for the dsrI
OF new life, a great love.
But every morning brings its rems|
brance
Of the increasing years that are gone
And every evening brings its fear
Of death which must come.
Until her nerves are shaken
Like woman's hair in the wind
What must be done?
Some one tells her that God is love.
And when the fears come
She says to self over and over,
God is love. God is love.
All is we'll"
AND she wins little oblivion,
Through saying "God is love-"
From the truth in her heart which cn4
Love is life,
Love is a lover,
And love is Cod"
She is flower
winch the spring has nourished,
ana the summer exhausted.
Fall is at hand.
Weird zephyrs stir her leaves and be4
SONS;
And she says to herself, 1T is not fall
For God is lovei"
My poor flower,
May this therapy ease you into sleep, /
And the folding of jewelless hands! 1
You are beginning to be sick
" the incurable disease of age
And the WEAKNESS of futile flesh.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
Vacuum Tires: A Formula for
the Digestion of Pigments
q Ia la


When the shutter from a dry angle
comes between the pin and a special
delivery it appears at blue. Likewise
in concert with strings on any other
flow the clock of third evenings past
Broadway is alarming, because it is writ
ten in three-four time to chewing gum;
if you upset the garter, the remains
west, or to the left of flesh, as in re-
volving or Rector's. The whole effect is
due to blinds, drawn in arithmetic to
sketch Of halves, which are smoked into
double disks. BY such a system of in
Simultaneous tickets a given volume of
camera, analyzed for uric acid, leaves a
deposit Of $40, and the style DEGREES
that human surfaces be worn for trans
parencies, the price mark being removed
from the lapel.
If, however, the showcases are on
trolleys, bottles must be corked for the
makeup of negroes. Or, if a goitrc
appears in the elevation of the host a
set of false teeth, picked for the high
lights by burnt matches, must be ar
ranged at once in three acts. For the
first, provide electric fixtures that are
tuned to cork tips. For the second con-
sideration is flour, thirds being a kew
that is rarely advertised Notwithstand
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
And with each seed
A kiss --.-.=.

kiss. -
Rivers
The loose threads
OF the seas
Fabric.
A curtain Of silence
Raised slowly
BY invisible hands.
A guilty conscience
Moaning
In the night
1t is the wind
That blows. .
The potatoes
The cabbages
The turnips
All done sir
The angels said
If you are through
Said the Lord
You may run along
And play
SO they made
the flowers.
Whilst the angels
Adjusted
The halo
The Saint blushed
Perhaps
The thought
That he was
Putting one over"
The day said
Let there be
Silence
And it was
Night.
With an imbecile smile
| stare into the pit
Into which | have dropped
My yesterdays.
ADOLF WOLFF.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

~ UT of Wall Street comes tho
latest radicalism of the spirit,
" "TNT," a magazine of poetry
and decorations IN the ne1U mode,
aVith each edition limited to / 900 copies.
The editors are not called editors, hom-
erer Man Roy, Adolf Wolff and Henry
S. Reynolds give themselves as sponsors
for 1t. The March maen,ber contains
among other things, Evrimous "Thc
Theatre of the Soul," IN translation
by Marie Potopenho and Christopher ST.
Jolu
(Ercerpts from the magazine are here
nrintcdl
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
Translated by William L. Mcpherson
(Copyright, 1919, Ne1v York Tribune 1,c.)


is spugny yuuso muhnh1 IN
~ McHh Hhshutmo
vauua
is mulauamn
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
Leaves of Tea


The mule
Stands
Still
Head bowed
AS in thought
But
Perhaps
Too wise
To think.
Things Of the spirit?
Nay!
Give me things of the flesh
For things of the spirit
There's all eternity.
The young woman
BY the Mirror
The swan
On the lake
Both
Fussing with their
Feathers.
brought my mistress pomegranate
On the persian cushioned couch
In the dim rose light
fed her
Seed bv seed
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
Hearing Rachnaninoff
the Third Time

Expert Criticism Divides Too Much Is Too Much"
Cries One Writer. But Full of Strong Grace ana
Eloquence," Declares Another
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

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New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

Case aud Comment
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

"A HR. BENNETT is on us again
MI with a novel; he has his fc- !
- -A- tion coming from the presses
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

~ ACHMANINOFF made his third
public appearance in New York
IN Sunday in an all Russian pro-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
TO THE JUNK HEAP

ECRETARY DANIELS comes
back from Europe firm in the
~ conviction that the only thing
to do with the great German fleet
is to take it out to sea and sink it,
with the navies of the Allies in at
Daniels. Ne assume. occupying a
place we'll up toward the center of
the picture in full view of the movie
operators sent to record the scene
for the benefit of future ages. It's
a picturesque idea, but one that does
not fit in we'll with the American
notions of thrift and saving.
The Secretary thinks that sinking
the grand fleet with pomp and cere-
mony would be a great object lesson
to Germany and would tend to
humble the proud Teuton spirit
which declines to accept the fact of
defeat at the hands of the Allies.
But there are millions of dollars
worth of metal and machinery in
these vessels and a more practical
idea would be to put them up at
auction with all the junk dealers OF
the world in attendance. If Mr..
Daniels would have Germany eat
humble pie, here is a fine way to
do it. RELOCATING the pride of the
German navy to the junk heap
would be a lot more humiliating
than to sink the vessels at sea with
the navies of the victors cruising
about in the offing.
We have wasted too much in this
war already. We need the steel and
machinery of these great ships
which, as the Secretary says, are
unsuited for our naval purposes and,
therefore, should be destroyed. To
the junk pile with them, but let them
be put to some useful purposes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05

Storchgericht, a trial and putting to
death of one of their number. Some
mold the opinion that the unfortun-
ate bird is one that has been injured
and cannot accompany the flock,
and is therefore "eXtinguished."
Kill Offending Wives
The Dutch and Alsatians, however,
ascribe these killings to some offense
given to her mate by the female
stork. Numerous stories are told of
the offended husband collecting his
friends and with their help killing
the guilty wife. On one occasion
when goose's eggs had been sub
stltuted for the stork's, the female
and young goslings were killed by
flock of storks the male bird had
summoned. Probably the story is
pure invention, for a pair of storks
have been known to hatch and rear
the young of the black stork, whose
eggs had been substituted for their
own.
The regularity of the storks' mi
grafton furnished jeremiah with a
rebuke against the Jews: THE storl<
in the Heaven knoweth her appoint
ed time" A modern traveller in
Palestine chronicles the sight of
thousands moving slowly northward.
They were scattered" he SAYS "over
hill and valley. moving a few miles
n day-not in flocks hut singly and
in pairs" It's Hebrew name,
Chasodah. signifies pity or mercy.
and is probably derived from the
aHection which the stork has for
its young.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
ON RIGHT TRACK

ENCOURAGEMENT that State
II College is to have playground
room sufficient fer all its stu
dents ought to be a signal for other
colleges TO study the system that is
being introduced at State. The idea
there is to have all the students pur-
sue athletics in some form or an
other. This is as it should be and is
in line with popular trend.
Our colleges have been all too prone
lect the mass. The star in any line
of endeavor has had his coach, his
training table, his special quarters
and privileges which less skillful
students were denied. This devel-
oped high class football, baseball
and track teams, but did little for the
individual except in the way of
school spirit.
The colleges were not entirely to
blame for this. For the past quarter
century or more American people
have been content to sit on bleachers
or grandstand and let others take
their exercises for them. They
would cheer themselves hoarse over
a baseball or football game, but re-
fused absolutely to do any playing
themselves.
Recently, however, there has come
a change. The individual has come
to the understanding that he is miss
ing a lot by not having a little sport
on his own account-which is one
of the reasons why all outdoor rec
reations, from camping to canoe
ing, and from croquet to golf, have
grown wonderfully in popularity.
This tendency will be greatly de-
veloped by the homecoming SOL
der.
State College is keeping abreast
of the times, and her students will
be all the better for this recognition
of their needs.