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Arizona republican., 1921-11-27
THROW DOWN YOUR ARMS
(By Edgar Kennison)

(By Edgar Kennison) Shall war forever Rend and sever Our lives and souls with hate and pain; Or Christ our Lord In His living word Come back to hate-siclk world again? Throw down your arms And false alarms, Bred in the darkness of hate and fear And peace descending Will be the ending Of national CD quarrels, Both far and near.
 The light is breaking, All people awabing, To welcome the glorious morning when All swords are broken In hailing His token: PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL, TO
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27
CRIME

About 2000 men and women awaiting trial in the District of Columbia, criminal charges rang ing from grand larceny to murder.
 Sixty per cent of them are under S5 years of age
 Criminals among elderly people exceptional. The longer lives in this world, the more inn pressed he becomes with the truth that doesn't pay.
 Then too. it takes at least 35 years for a human to get his emotions and evil instincts control usnally longer
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27

It bad enough that Miss Rappe should have been killed. It Is worse that her character should be assassinated to her slayer.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27

We already have disarmament. We judge from the democratic newspapers that Secretary Hughes already disarmed criticism
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27

the distinction of those contests Of the gold en age of Greece, when victors were crowned with laurel and when poets vied in singing of their tr umphs-
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27

Japanese praying for success of the arms meet Ing. learn from yesterdays dispatches If they will only stand of the way their prayer will be answered.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27

ships and old ste-e-er' will be the cry to sup plant the old familiar slogan ra-a-gs an old i-i-ron"
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27
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Arizona republican., 1921-11-27
SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 27. 1921.

The most generous and maerciful iaa jasdgment upon the faults of others are aliUays most free from fautts themselves. -Aughey.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27

'. T An American Soldier of Greek Ds- scent.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27
RATHS

PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO MEN
Arizona republican., 1921-11-27

He that pilages my house and carries off my treasures wrongs but not deeply the mscreant that would ransack my soul and take away my dreams
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
He Travelled a Million Miles

Scandinavians and Icelanders he can find
points of contact. The chapter headed
"Archangel to Astrachan" is peculiarly in
teresting. as that part of the world lies
outside the path of the ordinary traveller
Fjords, vertical cliffs glaciers blue and
veined. over which flowed cascades from the
melting ice, sparkling they fell-this is
Magdalena Bay, up near the Arctic Circle
with It's fog and it's fisheries and it's tradi-
tion Of Dutchmen, who fought and died there
some 800 years ago.
Russia is shown the land OF endless
power concentrated In the vitality OF Slav
women and wheat fields. II left Rostoff
Morning found the train steaming through
the biggest wheat field in the world There
was nothing but wheat TO the horizon. yell
low for the harvest, and hundreds of ma
chimes. All day 1t lasted, and at night
under the summer moon the train still
passed through wheat for mile after mile
Millions of acres OF wheat@ Millions of
placid women conceiviug and bringing
forth! Natures reservoirs are bottomless
hereabouts and the future is the Slavs'"
OF the Mohammedan East, OF Islam the
Arabs, the bazaars. the mosques and the
chanting muezzins on golden minarets, OF
the silences in courtyards and the strange
glamour upon the Arabian desert Mr.. Curle
writes one would expect: This hour be-
fore dawn is a solemn and wonderful hour
throughout 1slam There are the shrill
cries OF muezzins al sunrise and at that
moment especially over the desert, strange
and lovely effects cross the sky. But Il Is
this full hour before the dawn--this period
in the blackness Of the night-whcn wan
dcrers find themselves nearest Islam's soul"
or the sun curse Of India. the highly civ
llized and cultivated Chinese and tho astute
Japs already pressing hard against their
own borders, Mr.. Curle writes at length
closing his record with glimpses OF the pass
ing races OF the South Sea ISLANDERS falling
away before the cvilizing influences OF the
twentieth century. All the outward aspects
Of the changing show Mr.. Curle has caught
and mirrored for with skilful pen. It's
meaning each traveller must interpret for
himself
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

girl that he found on the roads, one
named Niafer, with whom he falls in love,
but whom he abandons to Grandfather
Death. whom he also met upon the way.
His first adventure is up on the summit
of Vraidex, where he goes to liberate the
fair wench Gisele from the clutches OF Mira
non a kind of phiosophic and nonchalant
Bluebeard, who turns out to be the very
stranger that put Flamberge into the hands
of the swineherd 1t seems that Miramon
was tired of kidnapping girls, and so he
planned that Manuel should put an end TO It,.
Instead of battle Manuel meets with this
verbal welcome:
Love-" says Miramon lis an instant's fus-
ing of shadow and substance. They that
aspire to possess love utterly fall into folly.
So there remains for the puzzled
husbands embracing flesh, which is fair
and dear, no doubt, yet is flesh such as his;
and talking and talking and talking; and
kisses in all ways desirable"
To reach this Miramon. Manuel and Niafer
had to slay serpents to number Of four: but
what was the good? Gisele herself rather
liked the philosophic and epigrammatic wiz
ard. But this dislusion does not daunt our
hero. He moves onward to other adven-
lures, constructing the superman.
And after the music OF many pages and
vast battles and slayings and the winning
of the Lady Freydis and Alianora, Manuel
comes again to confront Grandfather Death.
who tells him that all his deeds here on
earth OF no moment. Manuel the Re-
deemer must go otherwhere. and be as
though he were not
Manuel parleys with Death. Life was
worth living. He had constructed the image
of himself which he dreamed Of when he
tended his masters swine He had played
Don Quixote, and the fair Dulcinea OF the
Ideal was ever fair: and If he had 70 do II
all over again he could not do differently.
Saying which Manuel goes hither with his
inexorable friend. and passes into legend
even as you and /.
In the latter end Of the tale we meet Jur-
gen again who was spanked for stay
ing out all night and for his wild lying"
And II was Jurgen who heard Dom Manuel
say that In man he saw only the striving
Of an ape reft of his tai and grown rusty
from climbing. who has rceled blunderingly
from mystery 10 mystery with pathetic
makeshifts, not understanding anything.
greedy FRI an desires and always honey
cumbcd with potroonery."
Figures of Earth" is a modern Faust
Romance AZ high water mark. and saturated
with tho ultimate wisdom. s book for those
who love literature--a hook that smilingly
indicts Life. but not the unwisdom OF It.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
" As 1t Was in the Beginning

OF much greater value and Of better aug
ury for his future work, are Mr.. Overton's
Long Island village scenes, and his sym
pathetic. understanding portrayal of the life
OF the '70s and sos in these communities
Here he Is fully at home and his people are
solidly human. The delicate sketch OF Miss
c. L'Hommedeu" &C. stood for Chastity Is
a masterpiece.
The humor OF the book Is genuine; warm
IL alive and never exaggerated or misplaced.
In drawing such characters as "Debbie
Conklin" and the old lawyer. "Habakkut
Tuttle." OF Riverhead, Mr.. Overton Il entire
~ felicitous. They are enough in themselves
to make the book worth while
The delineation OF Martin L'Hommedieu.
whose mistaken marriage lies AZ the bottom
Of the story. is strikingly effective; subtle
keen in analysis. and given in clear. clean
strokes that make the picture stand out
wonderfully. IL Is a study OF the progress
sive growth OF a narrow, intense. ascetc
character. to the outburst Of long suppressed
passion. to Illustration and ultimate insan-
ity. In II Mr.. Overton shows an extraor-
binary understanding OF the psychology OK
middle age.
In the unusual technique Of his construc-
tion Mr.. Overton displays not only rare
skill but a distinct originality. The ma
chlnery Is not built from a stock pattern
but IL works with no creaking and to ex-
cellent narrative and dramatic effect The
occasional appearance OF Miss L'Homme-
dieu" as an interlocutory narrator is alto
gether pleasing and adds unusual color.
Mr.. Overton needs no introduction TO
HERALD readers. by most OF whom he will be
remembered as formerly the Literary Edi-
tor OF THE SuN and a critic OF distinction.
This Is his second novel. and Il attains so
high a level on the whole that one feels
that in turning to fiction Mr.. Overton has
found his true calling. and also that in Long
Island and the sea he has found his most
congenial field. No reader OF discernment
can finish this book without looking for
ward to whatever may follow Il.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Love. Came Shyly
to My Lay
BY SAMUEL HoFFENsTEIN.

Love came shyly to my lay,
Peeped at me among the trees,
Would not from his covert stray
To teach his woodland mysteries.
| craved his presence, SO | tried
The call Of Laughter loud and
clear;
He gazed from green leaves, open
eyed,
A curious child, but came not near.
And then there fell upon my heart
Grief like winter on the sea;
The startled branches leaped
apart;
The weeping boy had come to me.
Lay or laughter could not lure
The lordling from his sacred
wood;
But when Grief stripped me, left
me poor,
He lifted up my solitude.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

"Jurgen" or its unearthly satire But
there is great poetry in this book, and it
fairly reeks with wisdom.
1t concerns Dom Manuel. of which they
relate in Poictesme in the old days when
miracles were as common as fruit pies"
that he earned his living by preserving order
and decorum among the miler's pigs. He
giant of lad. with left eye that
dropped and part of his head bald While
he tended the pigs he conferred with the
stars. Romance and the Open Road were
in his soul--so Manuel was not long for pig
gerry.
He meets a stranger one day who gives
him the mighty sword of Flamberge. Man
uel takes the sword and goes forth to lib
crate incarcerated ladies with a snip of a
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
ABOUT AUTH O RS
Capt Bairnsfather Is Presented as
One of the Great Powers in the War

Go Tor Another and another picture fol-
lowed and made the British public realize
that new star had risen in the armament
of art. This phenomenon was simply incred-
ible. II Is we'll known that whatever
else there was in France on the allied side
there was grit, but this sort Of thing was
unbelievable.
Day by day for weeks and months pre-
viously, official reports had grown more
terse and despafring. Up there sit
ting in the mud on the edge of No Mans
Land, was a hell sucn as Sherman never
dreamt OF.
And out Of this massacre. from among
the cannon fodder itself, came an artist who
made the Empire laugh--who restored to
the whole Of the allied people the gift OF
laughter which for months they had forgot
ten: who made even the neutral nations real
ize the inner meaning of the war"
This was the psychological secret which
was OF such great value and pervaslve in
fiuence; and so the brass hats" military
and scientific. agreed. and they sent BARNS
father from front to front with his good
gift of making people laugh in the teeth of
death and relieving the terrible tension 1t
was not in the least OF course, any stolidity
which moved the magic pencil; rather. It
was his sensitivcness to impressions which
struck out the miraculous spark from the
glancing blow OF German steel upon the flint
of allied determination. 1t is well put here:
=. Bairnsfather with a soul which
probes deep beneath the surface of emotion
was in point of fact overwhelmed by the
mechanical horror of war. 1t is proud
Saxon quality which inspires to cloak
our deepest sorrow with our lightest words.
And II was not from contemplation
OF war but in reflection on the unconcern OF
the soldier plunged within Its vortex that
Bairnsfather found his inspiration. He
interprets the feelings of humanity in peace
as well as In war Fourteen years Of cease
less effort before the war to make himself
an artist found their outlet and opportunity
in the scenes In France. In short, the
same thing applies TO Bairnsfather as TO his
famous character, Old Bill. old Bill never
was soldier. He put on the khaki and
went into battle because the German beast
had to be crushed but all the time he was
civilian In uniform"
And the book IS full OF the details. told
with all the whimsical spirit Of the pictures
and there are lots OF good new drawings in
It. Old Bill is the judge in The BARNS
father Case" and he sentences the culprit
10 five years hard laughing at your own
jokes" Every lover of Fragments will
want this record of how they came to be
done.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
BOOK REVIEWS
A Swineherd Superman Is the Hero
Of This New Comedy of Appearances

need to know Give us this day our daily
myth. Ideas are contestable-Beauty never
Imagination is Alpha and Omega Desire
precedes reality and it creates the organ
that is necessary to reach the mirages OF
the will.
Conceive life as 1t is not. urges the great
French philosopher, Jules de Gaultier.
Amen! says Cabell- Charters. Great is he
who inveats dreams and impossibles. Dy-
ing, we salute the Caesars that transformed
the familiar into the unfamiliar. The SUI
perman is he who eternally wills himself
toward an unattainable image of himself.
There is the cynical backwash Of the whole
affair, too. Don Quixote, dying, thunders
his chant to the wench Dulcinea. The ges-
ture-did you note the gesture? asks Cyrano
de Bergerac as he hurs all his gold at fat
Pierrot Between our tears we laugh and
curse at the whole comedy. Well, think
the gesture that we make is of more inn
portance than the cynical as!des of the gods.
We saw what we believed to be Carcasonne
from the top of our manure shed We
shall never get to Carcasonne our reason
says. But who knows? And, then, why
should we anyway? Probably it is better
thus.
And after Beyond Life" I, fell upon "Jur-
gen." Second Cabellian adventure. The
writer calls it a comedy of something or
other just as he calls Figures of Earth" "a
Of something or other-and "Jurgen" is
sheer romantic comedy and irony. l should
call it comedy of disproportions, magical
morality of incongruities. In that book
there is the tragic smile of Aeschylus. We
are not what we are, we are not the thing
we think we are. we are not vending our
way toward the star of our hopes We are
mystery, and the rest slaughter.
Then I arrived at THE Cream of the Jest"
Another fantasy of Life and Love. More
direct, more seizable, more human-the pen
of Anatole France, the derisive laughter Of
Aristophanes In Main Street there are
many mansions. "The Cream of the Jest" is
one Of these mansions. There is nothing
commonplace under any sun. "The Cream
Of the Jest is rare book-for an American
to write.
Figures of Earth" is "Jurgen" in minor
key. Instead of a pawnbroker-poet we
have for hero acknowledgements Once
again We are in Poictesme; but we do not
stay there all the time. We are led in the
golden cords of Cabell's fancy to many
strange lands. where there are strange do
ings by mythc beings. / do not find in
Figures of Earth" the cosmic irony of
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
WORLD WITHOUT END. BY Grant over
ton. Doubleday Page & Co.

A AZ. 0NERTON'S story has qualities
MI that should place him well 70 the
= front among our coming" Ameri-
can novelist II Is soundly sincere in its
conception, truthful ana vivid IN the draw
ing OF its background, with no small dis
tir,ction In style and considerable insight In
character portrayal II Is romance. built
upon melodramatic plot or somewhat old
fashioned type. hut with a real novelty az
the centre or it. Iii takes a high degree OF
skill and fine artistic sense TO handle such
n theme 10 true dramatic effect and 70 con-
vince the reader of IT'S fundamental reality.
Here Mr. Oyerton Is entirely successful
We are warned in d PREDATORY note that
the story Il "in vital particulars a record OF
lives actually lived and a catastrophe as re-
lated. The narrative must not De caileu
incredible" There is. indeed, nothing i'm
credible" perhaps not oven anything I'M
probable in the plot though its foundation
IL laid upon a bizarre incident, In the singu-
lar circumstances OF the marriage Of the
heroine's father. As TO that, fiction rarely
dares be as strange as fact No one need
quarrel with Mr. Overton as to the credi-
biIitv OF his narrative If his warning is
directed toward the occasional intrusion Of
the supernatural. in Heiens spirit" COM
municatlons from her dead mother, neither
ls there any basis for scepticism there such
phenomena are by no means Incredible"
So much OF interest to the average reader
rests in the orderly unravelling of q COM
pIex plot like that OF this story that II
would be manlfestly unfair to betray II
even in a summary outline, beyond point
ing out that IL involves marriage made
by mistake and leading to embittered lives,
creating elements Of mystery, and that the
secondary plot, interviewer with the earlier
theme deals with a waif from founding
asylum. whose problematic ancestry tangles
things up nicely and gives opportunity for
Llacxmail and murder.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

fore Mr.. Justice Busby. Defence by Bruce
Bairnsfather. Prosecution by w. A. Mutch.
With 40 Illustrations. @. p Putnams Sons.
THE popularity of Capt Bairnsfathers
fragments from France was so
instant and spread so swiftly
throughout Europe and America that the
personality Of the artist speedily became
matter Of interest to two classes-first the
general public. which had been swept out OF
it's depression by this irresistible quality of
the fun translated into the drawings and.
second, the brass hats" both military and
scientific who recognized the great value to
the army's moral" contained in BARNS
fathers work and at once began investiga-
ton into the influences which had produced
this fortunate spiritual ally to the fighting
soldier and into the methods OF his selec-
ton of subjects and into his principles" of
appeal to soldier and civilian alike. If the
public wanted to know what Bairnsfather
looked like, the scientific and military brass
hats wanted to know what his ideas were.
And thus the idea of the present book
terminated very shortly after the drawings
began to appear. The artist and his friends
were overwhelmed with so many letters that
his friend Mr.. William A. Mulch decided to
make book to answer the myriad ques-
tions asked, and, as he remarks in his
preface to the book, now successfully made
up: Il have tried to explain faithfully and
anaiytically how Bairnsfather started an
artist, the enormous obstacles he overcame
before he achieved success and what per-
sonal elements in himself and his work seem
to have contributed most toward making
him known throughout the world. 1t is my
special hope that the young artist WILL in
these pages. find some guidance and encour-
agement"
In chapter called "A Recipe for Sue
cess" the keynote Of Bairnsfather's share OF
that commodity lies in this somewhat plati-
tudinous idea: Don't you believe It's easy
The easier 1t looks, be sure there is all the
more sweat behind it, !" The old recipe and
true as ever: the only sovereign prescrp-
ton In sundry chapters and in sufficient
details Mr. Mutch and Capt Bairnsfather
himself tell us Of his boyhood at a military
school his bent for drawings, his appren-
ticeship to hardship journeyman "elec-
trical engineer and Of his joining the army
when the call came.
And here Is the secret spring the scientific
and military doctors were hunting for: AT
the blackest moment of the great war, when
Britain was really downhearted about the
issue, in the English Bystdnder appeared
picture over the title Where Did That One
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Reviewed by
BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.

"HIS is the first original work of Mr.
Cabell since the appearance Of "Jur-
= gen." 1t Is not another "Jurgen."
The greatness of the latter is safe even from
Mr.. Cabell himself 1t is probably his one
book that will last Nothing like "Jurgen"
has been done in American literature
nothing just like it is at present recallabe in
English literature. 1t is an inspired book,
as surely as the great work of Rabelais,
Don Quixote," Pilgrims Progress" or Mark
Twain's 1.-THE Mysterious Stranger"
Figures of Earth" will not achieve the
Index in the United States of Bootleggers.
The puritanical snout will nuzzle in vain.
The pornographic Society for the Suppress
sion Of Itself will search 1t without reward.
There is much lovemaking in it, it Is true:
and this may be. conceivably. a cdsus beW.
For love, to the far-fung brood of Plymouth
Rock, has its secular implication. Sex love
1t conceives form of tomcattery. 1t Is
an extension of the backyard at midnight.
Poetry of physical love-an error of the
blood. The eternal embrace breach of
decorum. Commit No Nuisance These
Premises, it admonishes all lovers. Get thee
behind me, Nature! is it's daily prayer
And so they ever can remain fair in the
sight OF the Lord-and themselves.
Cabell is rank heresy in American let
ters He is a romantic bootlegger. He
vends dreams. impossibes and claims in the
Never-Never Land. which he arbitrarily has
named Poictesme. He is a reaction, a re-
gression, medimvalist. There is an affec-
tation in his style, wordiness, logocratic
animism which jar. At least we all feel so.
1t may be natural to him. He may be a
genuine anachronsm like William Morris
or a singular reversion like Maurice Hew-
lett. To me, as highly I place him,
cannot help hearing the false ring of his
metal-at times. But to all these charges
the wizard of Dumbarton Grange preserves
q silence-and a sarcastic smile.
That was a memorable adventure in my
days when first / fell on Beyond Life"
The name Cabell was completely unknown
to me until / saw that book advertised as
the mental processes of a Congressman,
conceding the possibility that Congressman
have such processes. Beyond Life" is a
flaming paradox. The Lie Beautiful shall
set you free. Illusion is the only truth We
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

ER. OVERTON'S story has qualities
that should place him well 70 the
front among our Coming" Ameri-
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
]. B. CABELL, SINCE "JURGEN"

Sinclair Lewis-a long from Main Seetand James Bran
Cabell who seldom walks modern horoughare reading
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
PLATT'S "The Psychology o
and Feeling" is described
az aenninenflv a common sens,

~0---~-
book" a phrase that needs one more at
tractive adjective to describe it correctly
the word humorous. For this psychologist
is one OF the newer school OF writer's on this
science, who believes psychology has been
made too abstruse and forbidding by many
OF the earlier authorities and has set out
with the idea of making IL more attractive
to the average reader. Psychology, while
complex. is not abstruse." he says; its con-
clusions are open TO all; no other attributes
OF mind are required for its understanding
than receptivity and common sense. More
over It's conclusions are too important So
cially to be neglected In these troublous
times, and should be in the possession OF
ALL"
The text OF this volume was originally
prepared as a course OF lectures and thereby
wears an easy air Of setting forth ideas and
conclusions. He begins with a discussion of
fundamental conceptions, anatomical and
otherwise; discusses inherited dispositions