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New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Mysticism
The Viewpoint of a Cath
olic Philosopher
THE uses Of mysticism as envisaged
oy q Catholic believer are set

NHE uses OF mysticism as envisaged
oy 8 Catholic believer are set
forth by Edward Ingram Watkin
in The Philosophy of Mysticism (Har-
court, Brace & Howe). The author
takes as his chief source the writings
Of the Spanish mystic, st. John of the
Cross. Along with his Interpretation
Of St. John, he presents his own cor
ception Of the mysterious and exalted
emotional and intellectual processes
which are associated with mystical phi
losophy. Mr.. Watkin states his posi-
ton clearly and unequivocally in the
following sentence:
Il therefore repeat and emphasize
with all confidence as the starting
point Of these studies my definition OF
Mysticism or mystical experience as
the union intuition Of God, the per
sonal God, believed and adored By
theists of all ages and creeds"
So, although he is willing to agree
with modern psychologists like James
and Bergson that the subiminal mind
is the seat of mystical experience, he
firmly believes that this experience is
not conditioned by the ordinary sub
liminal mental processes. He argues
powerfully that all recipients o.
mystical revelation are conscious OF
distinctly external force operating upon
their consciousness. This force he de
fines as the Divine Presence and Ac-
ton. He employs a pragamatic argu-
ment against the skeptics who ascribc
all mystical visions TO halluc;nation
and selfdeception.
Can We in reason believe that the
lives and work Of the mystics are thus
the fruit of illusion and hallucination-
1t were surely as reasonable a belief
that the achievements of art and SCI
ence are the products of illusion More
over, the result Of illusion must surely
be the detriment, indeed, the destruc-
ton, Of the souls higher life, in pro
portion to the closeness of relation
ship between the illusion and that life
Illusion and unrealsty must ever pro
duce emptiness and death. never full
ness and life. The result Of mystical
experience, however, has been the
growth and elevation OF life. Hence
that experience cannot be illusory."
Mr.. Watkin is deeply learned in
supernatural lore. He is we'll acquaint-
ed with all the various ways in which
the passionately religious soul seeks
communion with the Infinite He ex-
pounds the philosophy Of mysticism,
especially as exemplified in the works
Of St. John, with convincing eloquence.
At the close of the book he pours out
his own beliefs in a poetic Epilogue.
which is in itself no inconsiderabls
addition to mystical literature.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Turn About Tales
LICE HEGAN RICE &

A LICE HEGAN RICE and Gale
~ Young Rice have taken turn
about in telling the short
stories for a book published by the
Century Company. Turn About Tales
s the name Of the book.
The stories by Mrs. Rice are chsrat-
ter sketches Of the homely folk she
loves to portray. Someway Mrs. Rice
finds the romantic in the commonplace.
She takes a rather formidable spinster
in "Beulah." the first story in the book,
and gives the little flashes, and the
final victory in winning man which
make this outwsrdly unse1ed person
truly feminine. 1.-The Nut" deals with
another unattractive person. And again
Mrs. Rice hnds the one act Of this
mans life which raises him out Of his
ordinary SELF 1t would seem that she
could, given the chance 70 study them,
take any Of the humdrum and boring
people Of which life seems 90 full at
tines. and put her finger upon the one
unusual or sublime spot.
Gale Young Rice's stories, sandwiched
in between those Of his wife, show q
distinctly different taste and talent. His
characters have romantic settings At
least, and most Of them are moro what
ordinsry homefolks would consider ro-
mantle ehsraeters. In "Franeeila" the
- 80 l..
power which sets her apart perceptibly
fiom other women. In Lowry. the set
ting for the story, Yokohama" appeals
as romantic, and the dead sea fruit OF
life waeted because Of disappointed d
love is almost morbidly unusual.
Both MIR. and Mrs. Rice have ability
- character skesehers. The difference
In their stories gives sAs little book
Aeyor
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Apples of Sorrow
Novelist Writes Sad Story
That Causes Laughter

"AKE few ingredients Srom
Bertha NJ Clay, few from
"ouida." add q favor Of bsnal
m morAlizing, and you have formula
for che creation Of F.. E. Mills Youns's
latest novel. The Almonds Of Life
(DoYan). The title is from 9 Chinese
aphorism to the import that the fruits
Of earthly years come late in life. In
this story they are apples Of sorrow
sour and moldy.
Tho scene is lsid At che outset In
South Africa. Elderly Fred Wootten
returns from England with beautiful
young wife. Within . brief time she
md q young husband, one George Al
lerton-he has q wife and children on
the ground-fall wildly in love and
run away to England, Paris and Venice.
They expect two divorce suits and get
one, for Georges wife refuses to re-
lease him. Dramatic situation! Tears
and embraces Of frantic lovers won
derine what to do next. A fatsful
letter arrives, telling Of tho death Of
one Of Georges little girls. Gerda--
note the Ouidsish naMe-awskes to q
sense Of lofty honor and dismisses
George with a gesture Of supreme re-
nunesatien. Curtain.
We have Q frown for the publishers
Of this novel. not because Of our pain
won through sloshins through the
muddy puddles Of tho books hysteria
and bomhAet. The Almonds Of Life 10
Yiet Of Typographical errors. We
checked them up, as we read and count
I'D total Of forty. There is no ex-
eu.e for such wanton punishment Of
reader. And there are too many
crudely constructed sentences The
following two might have been lifted
bodily from a college, entrance exam"
In English, sentences Sor revision
". all of the paat which she cared
for left behind, and ahead OF her, life
with a man whom she did not love in
an uneongenal land; ". Wootten
surveyed the broadening band Of white
cutting the darkness with weary salts
faction"
F. E. Mills Young is not long on
memory for correct Quotston. He
sends = young girl TO piano to sing
. musical setting Of Tennyson's open
ing lines Of "Maud," and dear Berry!
warbles these words as she begins the
song:
Come into tho garden, Maud
Shades Of Lord Alfred!
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Stabilizing Chaotic Industry
G. d. II. Cole Sets Forth Guild Socialist Scheme
of Economic Reconstruction

down q concrete plan Tor the nstionaii-
cation of the railroads. In this con-
nection he describes and critieixes the
Plumb plan. He approves The under
lying principle, but he objects to eer-
tain details, especially to the provision
which favors the managers as against
the manua! workers in the distribution
of profits
From the mines and the railroads
Mr.. Cole goes on to consider the cot
ton and building trades. He also sur-
gests various methods by which the
workers may set about gradually de-
priving the employer Of his authority
and fitting themselves for the opera
ton Of industry. He feels that the
shop is an excellent unit for aggres-
sive action, and he strongly advocates 5
industrial as contrasted with craft
unionism. He believes that the ex-
preparation of the employer would be
hastened if workers committees would
insist upon taking over such functions
IS The engagement and discharge OF
labor, the appointment Of foYemen, the
payment of wages and the fixing of
hours
The author speaks slightinsly Of the
much praised Whitley Councils, which
he represents as al ineffective method
of attempting to adjust irreconcilablo
differences. He ssserts that the Coun-
ellis are only politely tolerated by the
trade unions, and that their practical
achievements have been negligible.
Opinions may differ about the wis.
dom and praeticability Of M. Coles
extensive program Of industrial
change. But his vast. accurate and
penetrating knowledge Of big British
trades and businesses must Be &C.
knowledged with unqualified respect.
Workable or not, his theories are al-
ways entitled to serious consideration
because they are based upon 6 care
full study Of the practical factor. in
volved in industry.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
2m Life Not Unmixed Evil in William McFee's Opini01
Down the Trades
Vivid Account of a Voyage
in Southern Seas
TIME opening Of the Panama Canal,
bringing the Pacific and the field

TIME opening Of the Panama Canal.
bringing the Pacific and the field
Of its beautiful islands within
easier reach Of the men Of the Atlantic,
has thrown open q vast sea area to the
sails OF the cruising yachtsmsn. We
are sure to receive, within 4 few years,
literature on the spaces Of the South
Pacific, and it may we'll be that Lewis
K. Frecman's In the Track of the
Trades (Dodd, Mead & Coz. is sort
Of pioneer book in this division Of
works Of travel and adventure.
The Lurline. the schooner Of th's
fascinating book, set sail from the
San Pedro quay near Los Angeles on
February and pointed to the west
into the waters of the Pacific. At once
the author Of this journal Of the cruise
got busy with his pen and we have
pictures of the Commodore tackling
the vexatious problem Of dead-reckon-
ing, and of his own tricks" at the
wheel and falling into line now and
then at the tail Of a sheet or halyard
From the day Of the slipping from a
California harbor TO the close of the
cruise Of 13,500 miles, seven months
and seven days later, Mr.. Freeman con-
tinucd to set down on paper his OBJ
servations Of places, people and GUS
toms, producing as a result a readable
book Of travel.
The chapters on the MarQuesas, Civ
ing rather 8 grewsome inkling of q
faint survival Of cannibalsm, and that
n the Passion Play at Uahuks, lead US
into the color Of this volume at an
early stage. 1t will be Of value to
students Of the Passion Play idea. as
it has found Interpretation in various
parts Of the world. to peruse Freeman's
careful and picturesque account Of the
Uahuka conception and staging Of
scenes in the last hours of Christ
To-day the part Of the Saviour is
played by native called Lurau, the
in all the Msrquesas. In the scene Of
Christ Healing the Lepers" real lepers
appear on the stage. Pontius Pilate
finds presentment in the figure of an
Old chief, Rauga, formerly a cannibal.
He appears in a Srogged military coat
and silk hat.
Tho pages on days at Samoa are
tingcd with the spirit Of r. L. S. Free
man visited the grave Of Stevenson and
saw tears start from the eyes Of great
chiefs when the beloved poet and novel
st was mentioned. And there were
"reminiscences of the hideous hurricane
Of years ago, the storm that belched
in from the sea and smashed British.
American and German ships to flinders.
From Samoa the Lurline ceme
back to the Sandwich Islands and the
United States. bringing with her men,
ories that the author Of this book has
embodied in q pictorial and Auid prose
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07

not diverting and worth reading. Me-
Fee has gift Of reflection, possibly
born OF the long silent watches At sea
which carries the reader along, re-
gardless Of the plot or the actors
Unlike Leonard Merrick, who rarely
wastes words on anything but action.
McFee pauses here and there to speeu-
late. He is not afraid to explain mo-
tives and ideas. He bel,eves that most
Englishmen pass their days in Z con-
dition Of mucilaginous uncertainty TO-
ward their emotions, that they Tighten
too easily when approached By the
flames Of desire.-and he says 50 in his
latest book, that and anything else
that occurs to him. Tho result is that
his readers will forgive him his d.
gressions, even as they hope he won't
lay it up against them il they fall to
accept at once his views on the su-
perior advantages Of the Turkish style
Of lovemaking.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Night and dDay
Virginia Woolf'S New Nov
el on English Life

COC NOE the literary elect
those who live in . high towe,
from which the outgoing OF no
literary craft escapes the sweep Of their
binoculars-hsve long known Of Virginia
Woolf. Those Of US who live on q
slightly lower level Of appraisement
have caught hints Of her excellence
now and then In chance-seen English
journal. We who have in this country
missed her novel Tho Voyage Out have
now an opportunity to know and meas-
ure her by her later novel, Night and
Day (Doran.)
There is difference, easily apparent,
that sets Virginia Wool{ apart from her
contemporaries. She has made her rec
enciliation with the past-even the
Victorian past-as they have not. Nor
does she impoYtune the future as they
do. In her English writing has re-
turned to the old calm contemplation
Of itself, its ripe perception Of q way
Of life, ordered, ancient and secure.
Her work seems to lie in that AZ
ternoen glow Of Henry James, where
rich umber shadows Of tradition make
curious effects OF light on her people.
She has, like James, q deep relish for
the soeia! spectacle, something. too, Of
his sense Of social irony, in lighter
measure, mingling with her undoubted
regard for It. Night and Day Is flled
with deliberate ssvor!ng Of the hsv-
ored routine Of English living-and this
dcliberation overhows into q fine lei
sure Of style.
The leisure seems to Us here, who
aim at novel as compact and con-
10, ged. The geometric patterning Of
the story is so simple that it is difficult
not to overlcap the authors discus
sicns with a greedy foresight. Kath-
ayine's impusion to the scholarly Rod
ney. In the fulillment OF her duty to
her scholar!y family, the disturbing
entry Of Ralph Denham, the fine and
noble character Of Mary Datchct, whose
life, spent in the service OF others,
make her abnegstion Of Ralph easy
and, finally, the entry Of Cousin Cas-
sandra, who can 80 capably assuage
Rodneys wounded vanity, and leave
katharine free to GO TO Ra!ph-so sim
pie a story would seem not to require
che vast bulk Of sos pages.
These wide, discursivc spaces are, to
be sure, peopled with characters whose
individual quality is not to be lightly
dispensed with. There is the gentle,
bewildered Mrs Hllberry. Katharine's
mother, who emerges out OF the cloud
Of mudded poetic references in which
she Mves to sn occasional astonish-
ir9ly Vivid observation Of the world.
And the character Of Katharine herself
"a woman with no aptitude for phrases
in q family that lives by phrases. Or
vignette like this one Of Hr. Clacton
fixes Mrs. Woolf's power in its more
concentrated form: IKE was = thin,
ssndy-haiYed man Of about thirty-fve,
spoke with Cockney accent and had
about him a frugal look, az IL nature
had not dealt generously with him in
any way, which naturally prevented
him from dealing generously with
other people"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
WESTERN mqtions haze no monopoly of morals and
" political liberty declares William Mcee In his latest
novel, Captain MacedolNe's DaNqhter

That 10 one Of our modern improve
mentA"
A fairly vigorous indictment, some
might think, but Spenlove does not
lose the thread Of his love story. He
sits up all night on the bridge to tell
it. and his brother officers with him.
He finally overcomes his unwillingness
10 be more than a super in the play;
consents to take Captain Macedoine's y
daughter away with him, whereupon a
but one should not reveal the ending
of 3 book before the reader has perused
the preceding chapters.
Well Worth Reading
Captain Macedoine's Daughter will
not make the impression that did
Casuals OF the Sea. McFee once told
the writer Of this review that he did
not expect to duplicate that work very
soon. And he hasn't. But he is too
clever 4 writer to produce anything
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
ARoom of Mysteries
Cosmo Hamilton Paints Struggle Between Love
and Eroticism

must be found. She is discovered. q
lovely Martha Wainwright, neiahbor
living near the Mortimer estate in
estchester. OF course she has loved
Bill for months and merely waits a
reciprocity inspired by him. Hamil-
ton. with full use of his Auid sweep Of
prose, and he can write convincinely.
brings the two together. Bill recap
lures the long-lost rapture Of q first
love, il he ever had one.
The moment in this story comes
when Martha, in the few hours Of
pause before the wedding, decides to
surprise Bill in his New York apart
ment. She steals in and, hearing
voices. glances into the blue room.
Bill is entertaining the three last
sirens on his long list. They are drink
Ing his health, q drsught to a happy
welded life. 1t takes some diplomacy
to get Bill and Martha arm-in-arm
again.
This novel is called BY its publish
ers "a powerful plea for the single
standard Of morality" Is it? Old
Barclay, and even his wife, have been
crooked. They forget IL and smile and
ehuckle to themselves over smutty
memories, by the freight Of senility
Bill has cut swsthe rods wide; yet q
clean, noble girl can learn TO ignore
his record and marry him. Why not
snite the lechexous pack In this novel
with fame that should wither them
to cindcrs and leave Martha Vain
wright, pure white, a rescued figure
| clean aRaiNat the smoking. sooty aehes
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
HERE is q scene in an early
stage Of The Blue Room (Lit-
tie, Brown 4 Coz, Cosmo Ham

stage Of The Blue Room (Lit-
tie, Brown 4 Coz, Cosmo Ham
ilton's latest novel, which, the
soehor assures Us, resembles IS Sheri-
dan play" To our mind it goes back to
. period prior in the history Of the
drama, to the days and tho manner Of
Cengreve. Old Barclay Mortimer and
his wife gye the Restoration favor In
their knowledge Of each others past
wanderings from a path of marital
fidelity, knowledge rather cleverly re-
vealed BY Hamilton IN his giving the
old rip an opportunity to read aloud
to his wife his private journal Of an
eient eseapades. they condons past
rarely clean and frequently dirty. Ham,
ilton gilds them with . vssnish Of social
standing, but they are, for all the
enamel, q sorry pair.
Their son, Bill Mortimer, has tsod
hard on the heels Of the father. Some
where uptown in New York he has, In
hia apartment, "blue room," the seeno
Of bacchanal!an mysteries. Three girls
from the upper tier Of hApperdom Gone
admits that one Of them is luringly
feminine) have shared seriatim, and as
a trio. this haunt Of Bills. So, when thi.
thirty-3our-year-old rake returns from
the war with eyes open to bigger mean
ings IN life, the "blue room" assumes es
the indigo hue Of . shadowy something
TO be forgotten, eradieated. Bill will
marry, raise family, be q clean MEM
Der Of the world facing the sunrise.
The xiYl who is to be HOODWINKED d
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07

lam MCI &C : AAteSt DOCks Zap
~ tain Macedoine's Daughte,
Doubleday Page & co., that
along with other members Of Western
ra.ons they are suffering from the
smiable but disastrous illusion that
.bev have created monopoly in free
dom and truth and the right conduct
Of life. With this IS q postulate, the
noou.ar British novelist takes his
reader through what, coming from
him. is a rather unusual love AFFAIR,
most Of it happening in Turkey.
Captain Mscedoine's Daughter is
different from McFee's previous books.
Thst is to say. it is different not only
in plot and character construction, but
decidedly in atmosphere and setting.
In Casuals Of the Sea, McFcs's greatest
hook. we were shown the soul of an
Enelishman. There was suggestion
of Dickens in the style. The charac-
ters were all English; they moved
through tragic problems in their
native atmosphere to stirring con-
clusion. There was sympathy in it for
the lowly folk who toll on land and
sea and then pass on. leaving no last
ing trace behind. Many Of the scenes
were laid in the neighborhood where
McFee passed mis- boyhood, before he
vent TO sea and became ultimately an
engineer OF United Fruit Company
.eamship.
One Man Tells the Story
Tire story OF Captain Macedoinc's s
daughter IS told by Mr.. Spenlove,
engineer-,ieutenant r. n. r. aboard
he Sycorax while that unit Of his
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
ADrCAL reformers are often
accused Of attempting to
fhxnw indMcAr,r into cLanc

t. tHFoW INDUSTRY lNtO CndOS.
Mr.. G. D. H. Cole, the we'll
known British sociologist and guilds
man, adopts a precisely opposite view
point in Chaos and Order in Industry
{Stokes). In Mr.. Coles opinion the
present industrial order is character
ized by waste, disorder and maladmin-
istration. He believes that a more Just
and moro efficient technique of produc-
tion could be evolved by a reconstruc-
tion Of society along guild Socialist
lines.
Guild Socialism Defined
"rhe central guild doctrine, as it
appears to me-" says Mr.. Cole, "is that
the various industries and services
ought to be democratcaly admins
tered by those who work in them
1t Is. In fact, an attempt to apply to
the industrial aphere the principles of
democracy and self government which,
In theory at least, are accepted as ap-
plying in the sphere Of political gov
eminent"
The author discusses the practica
application Of. this basic principle to
various important British industries
Ke 10 convinced that the time is ripe
for . fundamental change in the pres
ent motivation of work. Self-interest t.
as the dominating factor in the work
cr's Psychology, must give way to the
inspiration Of free service. To the
skeptie who doubts the efficacy of such
An ideslistic appeal the author replies
by pointing to the medieval guilds, in
which fine work wac done FOR its own
sake.
Mr.. Cole feels that II the guild psy-
eholegy 10 to be revived the element
OF private profit must be rigidly
eliminated from industry. Conse-
qusntly. he advocates the speedy or
ultimate naturalization Of the mines,
tho railroads, the shipping and cotton
industries, etc. Naturalization, to
him, does not mean the substitution of
An omnipotent state for the private
employer. On the contrary, the whole
tendency Of the guild movement is
away from bureaucracy Mr. Cole
wishes to hand over the control and
operation Of every industry to the
workers engaged in it. He makes GER
tain exceptions In the case Of technical
experts, but as q general principle he
recommends the election Of admins
trative officers by the men themselves.
He would protect the consumers inter
cats by the creation OF q committee en-.
powered TO offer criticisms and sug-
gestisns about the direction of the
various industries. In the last resort
IN appeal could be taken to Parliament
It IS noteworthy that Mr.. Coles
projected scheme for the democratic
operation Of industry does not give
the workers. the right to fix their own
wages.
Plumb Plan Diseased
The author discusses the reorean!-
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
The Cat
In a Bird-Cage

1t was old Aunt Emma Campbells S
black cat; and she took him to New
York and Paris, because "we-all"
had to 60 wheresomever Peter Dew
ereaux Champneys went. And he
was to be an artist. Aunt Emma,
huge, black and golden-hearted, is
one of the delightful figures in that
new love story
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
William Lyon Phelps
writes OF
LEONARD MERRICK

q have read with keen
interest every one Of his
novels that you have
published thus far.
g They are all works Of
distinction, Of high
literary art.
g The best thing about
them is that every one is
good story we'll told.
g They are sowell wrought, the
plot basis is so admirable,
that, apart from ones con-
stant interest in the story, it
is a pleasure to see such
workmanship. I quite under
stand why Barrie calls him
the novelist's novelist.
g Some of his short stories re-
semblc O. Henry in the ele-
inent Of surprise and con-
cision.
lust Re0ds
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
The House of Lynch

Uniform with:
Conrad IN OueSy OF
His Youth
The AcSor-ManAQcr
Cynthia
The Position OF Peggy
Harper
The Man Who Understood
Women
The Woridllngs
When Love Flies Out o. the
Window
While Paris Laughed
Each, Sl.o0
l.. P. Dutton & Co., 6Sl 5th AMY.