New-York tribune., 1921-02-08
The Search for IS,.owledg.

SIR: AS inclusive as newsstand
that carries The Bookman" is good
spent three hours last night trying to
get copy of the February issue and
got no end of healthful exercise
Reelected at last that maybe tha
stands in the big railway stations
might be chance. Hikcd to Penn Sta
ton first, and there found traveller
arguing with the two uniformed coun-
ter attendants that the January Ma
tIonal Geographic was out Driven to
the wall by ridicule, he finally CON
Iessed that he was hick and had seen
the magazine on stand in Philadel-
phla. Both attendants then bawled him
out In the way that only real New
Yorker can do to a provincial Right
on his heels | asked for The Bookman
though L might have known better.
But had lot of time and a little
spirit left, SO | Jared on to Grand Cen
tral. There found the arcade news.
stand closed temporarily for repairs
and, hope, extensions). One fight
ing chance remained--the counter in
the main waiting room. Well, believe
me or not, l discovered an attendant
there who was kind to me and who sold
me- proudly, the only eXtant copy of
the current Bookman in Greater New
York.
Out of this might we not evolve n
sales system? Let the Grand Central
lay in supply of Bookmans for the
territory Of Manhattan east of Fifth
Avenue. Let the Doubleday, Page book
shop in Penn Station be made venders
by special appointment to the territory
west of Fifth Avenue (inasmuch as it
would be impossible to talk the Penn
lobby newsstand into catering to the
whims of highbrow hicks).
CUsH.
AS general rule writer's and editors
want to discuss anything but their
work when they are on a holiday.-Ray9 q
Long in The Bookman.
AS general rule writers and editors
don't want to discuss anything but
their work when they are on holiday;
and more often than not themselves
in relation to it.
"Have you Jessie Rittenhouse's lost
anthology" queried hiker as he
peered in the doorway.
"Yes, indeed, would you like it?"
said.-Mary Frank in The Bookman.
A more maliciously candid person
than Miss Frank might have said 81
hope So"
To all other reviews of Mr.. Houdini's
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods"
we prefer that of Mr. Percy Hammond,
who says it is indubitably the most
valuable treatise on the subject that
has been issued by E. P Dutton &
Co. this season.
Although white paper still costs lot |
Of money, all cars, journalistically, are
high powered. And an AUDIENCE
though three words take lot of ink
and paper always rises to its feet.
"As to burning Liberty bonds"
writes Cas-, didn't you know that all
the Liberty bonds in the country have
been stolen long ago?" By the
way, how is the Nicky Arnstein case
The Philistines Be Upon Thee, Ben Ami
Overheard at Samson and DeiIah"
"Well, that's the worst performance /,
ever saw-bar monet"
IF he'd only learn to talk English I
could stand him better"
. Just cheap emotionalism. Anybody
could do that | wonder what
Alec saw in him-and he sergeant in
the U. S. army, tool" A. e..
There is a good deal In name, but
The Thrill Distributing Company has
Just been incorporated at Wilmington,
DEL, for the manufacture of non-alco-
1olic beverages.
There is, thinks G., adventure, too,
n Mathematics, such as being vamped
'y Sinuous Curve; and tragedy, such
as marriage to Variable who is the
Limit -
Doubtless the Vicious Circle is also
eccentric f. p. A.