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The New York herald., 1921-10-23
Soundings in the Sea of Ink

daily association with architecture
If we knew little more about the
principles of construction. A good
book to learn them from is Talbot F.
Hamlin's THE Enjoyment of Archi-
lecture" (Scribner's).
The author has good deal to say
of the social values of his art. In
no class of buildings is this illus
trated better than in school build
ings.
"The modern school house is airy
and conveniently arranged, and often
the most carefully thought out build
ing in the community. For this state
Of things the architect is directly
responsible. Even before public
opinion had awakened to the horrors
of dirty and dangerous schools the
architect had devoted a great deal
of thought to the problem, as many
Of the older schools, when designed
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MY LIFE HERE AND THERE. BY
Princess Cantacuzene. Countess Spe-
ranskey, nee Grant with Illustrations.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
TIME granddaughter of Gen. Grant,
born in the White House in
= 1876. has found her life varied
and deeply interesting, and she has
been privileged to see the great spec
tacle of the European panorama for
the past thirty years from place OF
great advantage. Her fathers appoint
ment by President Harrison as Amer
ica's representative at the Austrian
court came when she was in her thir-
teenth year, and marked the frst step
into her European experience. her
"reminiscences go back almost to BABY
hood, and the extraordinary SIM
plicity of her narrative, which
must inevitably remind the reader
of the marvellous clarity and direct
ness of the memoirs of her grand
father, charms the reader and disarms
his occasional impulse to note some
chapters in this unaffected chronicle
have had vast circle of readers in the
Saturday EUenin0 Post, and not Few
who have enjoyed that reading will be
glad to have them in their present col
lected form.
From beginning to end the limpid
clarity of the delightfully."- straight
forward narrative dominates the read
er's impression of this singularly
charming record. It's native freedom
from effort is reflected In the few words
prefixed to the volume, in the course OF
which she writes of her work: 1t
pretends to no value save as being a
sincere first hand impression Of people
and events in themselves often i'm
portant. among whom and through
which l lived an interesting life till
the period of the world war. | have
written entirely from memory. possess
ing no documents by which | could
verify my recollections, but from the
comments of witnesses who have writ
teen to me believe my assertions will
be generally found correct" And the
dedication to her children is in perfect
key: "To Mike, Bertha and Ida, this
tale of their mothers youth and of
their own is offered in memory of the
happy days spent together"
No part of these extended memo
randa exceeds In charm the details of
her -girlhood, which reflects the
childish simplicity of the impressions
made upon her at the time they hap
pened. The record covering the last
months OF Gen. Grants life are equally
pointed and informing. And when she
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Memoirs of u. S. Grants Granddaughter

the country, and especially those Of
Anglo-Saxon blood who had originated
it's ideals, were standing back, letting
less worthy men hold power. He
thought those who had come recently
to our shores, though ill prepared and
needing education, were unduly allowed
to influence our laws.
"He hated the vice and sluggishness
which had crept into public life, poison.
ing the nation, and he had deep con-
tempt for those who-thinking only or
material gain-left all national affairs
to men lacking in patriotism. Never
did he lack faith and patience; and, all
devotion to his country, he never felt
able to go into anything merely for his
own advantage. A fortune decidedly
modest satisfied my father, but though
he preached economy and industry to
his children, he was always glad TO
join us in any simple, healthful pleas
ure, and was our best educator and
adviser"
In the autumn of 1898 the young
woman was invited to join her rela-
tives, Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer with their
two young sons, to spend the winter
in Italy and Egypt The opportunity
for this travel enchanted" her, and
her mother-who had reared her In
the careful way which is now called
absurd to let her go.
That winter in Rome she first saw
Prince Cantacuzene. and after few
weeks acquaintance became engaged
to him. They were married in New
port that autumn. A portrait made
in 1907 shows n woman of brilliant
beauty. The record of her life in
Russia Is fascinating, yet all is told
with the same delicious girlish sim
plicity OF phrase. Writing of some
court balls at st. Petersburg, she re-
marks: II dressed for these parties
with feelings of elation, donning my
best clothes and knowing it was all
pleasure for me-" And her descrip-
tions of all the details of these
great assemblies, even to the
minuti@ of many uniforms and
of court procedure. give evil
dence of an astonishing memory
Her memories of the young Empress
Alexandra are becomingly respectful.
Of course, but are tinged with deep
regret for the alien influence which
was gradually separating Nicholas
and Alexandra from the genuine de-
votion of the great mass of the Rus
sian people. as well as from the most
thoroughly loyal and worthy members
of the court circle.
These remarkable chapters are
among the most important of con-
temporary memoirs. Certainly none
can be more frank and entertaining.
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western front. He could take great
risks but only when he could take
time. Given free rein, his decision
once made, there would have been no
halting. no stammering when the mo-
ment came But his hand was forced.
and the tragic glories of Gallipoli, fol-
lowed by the collapse of Russia, left
the Allies no battle ground except the
western front"
During the latter months of his
life when power and authority were
being shorn from him, a scene oc-
Cured which testifies to the breaking
of the iron Kitchener.
''In the evening the English official
bags arrived by special messenger"
continues the author, Lord K. was
much moved by two letters full of re-
gret and expressions of fidelity--one
from Sir John Cowans. the other from
Sir Herbert Greedy, his private sec
retary. In the dingy room. he occupied
at the top of the British Embassy he
stood with his back to the fire while
the letters were being read aloud to
him by Fitzgerald. He was standing
with bowed head as he listened, and
when he raised 1t his eyes were full OF
tears When he broke the silence he
spoke of the dislike felt for him by his
colleagues. adding: 'Asquith is my only
friend One present told him that an
eminent member of the Cabinet had
complained that he was wanting In
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by good architects, testify. The true
architect is never content with fol-
lowing the minimum requirements
of the law, as the mere builder is too
often content. The true architect is
always puzzling over his problems
and applying all his expert knowl-
edge and skill to producing buildings.
that shall not only satisfy public
taste but as nearly as possible shall
embody the high ideal of the build
ing that exists in his own mind. If
his building does not far surpass the
minimum requirements Of the law
and of popular opinion in conven-
ience, in efficiency, in sanitation, in
beauty and in safety the architect
feels that he has failed. The mental
result is the raising Of the taste of
the community to new level; for
good things which the public has
once enjoyed it is very loath to part
with.
1.-THE material result also is i'm
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STATE OF ARKANSAS.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

r HAVE been reading THE Day Of
Faith" the great allegory' by
= Arthur Somers Roche, with its
theme, my Neighbor is Perfect" and
its unique vision OF a universal day of
faith dedicated to the heart Of man.
One wishes that the author philoso-
piers simple faith could be translated
from the pages of his book into actu-
ality, for the President has invited
the great Powers to a disarmament
conference. and once more the peoples
Of the world thrill to an ancient hope
Idealism renews it's battle against So
called practically. This time idealism
must not fail!
Greed and hatred, in the daily af-
fairs Of man, in his industrial order
and in his international relations. have
brought about collapsing civilization
which testifies to mans inability to
check material maladles with material
remedies. We must have faith
Shall we travel eternally the vicious
circle that, beginning In preparation
ends in war. to begin again I'm new
preparation? We must have faith!
We are taught that man is made
in the image Of his Maker: yet. even
as the heart accepts that mighty truth.
the brain whispers TO the hand the
false word, Impractical" and the
sword flashes from the ready sheath.
Civilization, warned by experience.
must not again challenge hate with
only the puny powers of tho hand and
brain. 1t must not rely solely upon
contracts whose intent is OF the mind.
and whose fulflment rests upon dis
credited force. II must turn TO the
human heart; for deep in the human
heart is faith.
The churches, preaching their noble
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lie esteem and what he knew to be the
inner mind of those earnest men whom
he vainly tried to influence and guide.
compose the tragedy of Lord Kitch-
ener, the nemesis of his past tri-
umphs."
Although the faults of Kitchener
were manifold he accomplished great
deal and perhaps more than any man
deserves credit for stemming the Ger
man tide. At least for the first eigh-
teen months of the war, Lord Esher
believes, that Kitchener was the most
imposing and vital factor.
There are moments in Kitchener's
life which l like to remember" con-
cludes the author. "his gentleness at
Khartoum when he stood on the spot
where Gordon fell: his growing ad-
mission to a friend, who, like him. had
cried when the mutihy veterans
marched past at Lord Curzon's Dur
bar; the tone of his voice when he
spoke of Birdie the joy of battle i'm
his eyes as described by one who saw
him In the front trenches at Amaze,
and, finally. my own memory of him
as saw him at Calais. when 1 had
driven through a wild storm from
Acknowledgment gusts of wind
sweeping over the gloomy town
where he was meeting, in one of the
last full discussions. the political
leaders of the Western Powers"
GEORGE KENT
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KitchenerCould Not Change His Way

The TRAGEDY OF LORD KIrCH-
ENER. By Reginald Viscount Esher.
Il. r. Dutton G. Co.
CD ETwEEN Gordon and Kitch-
ener there was a bond"
writes Lord Esher, "the bond
OF the desert; of great solitudes, of
open spaces-a close tie that the
desert men understand. Lord
kitcheners aloofness, patience, slow
ness If you will. were the outcome of
life lived in solitude where the passage
of time counted for little. He
would have loved to build pyramid.
~. When he thought of war it was
after the manner of Darius-slow NOV
ing hordes concentrating upon their
objective with fatal method"
The war called Kitchener back into
service, but he was no longer the
K: of K. of the Sudan and South
Africa of twenty years before, and he
only as yet was aware of the tragic
fact. Self-reliance, self-sufficiency, hat
red of the written word, dislike Of
functions, the habit of verbal orders
were still part of his being, but they
were ghosts of their old selves. The
armor of his soul had rusted. He
was imperfectly informed He had no
knowledge of the organization of the
army or the methods of Parliamentary
control and all that these things mean
in the administration of public office.
in this novel sphere he was baffied and
lost confidence in himself. He
was no longer breathing in a world of
wide spaces. but of narrow streets"
Lord Esher proceeds to unfold rap
idly the events of the first eighteen
months of the war as revealed to his
personal observation and by the letters
written to him by Lord Kitchener, who
was his intimate friend. The journals
of Lord Esher and the correspondence
upon which the present volume is
based have been deposited in the Brit
ish Museum for the traditional sixty
year period. We should be grateful
for this all too brief account of that
great and dramatic figure who the
author rightly compares to Saul, from
his head and shoulders and upward,
higher than any of his people"
Although hampered by his ignorance
of office method and the restraints i'm
posed upon him by the Cabinet, Kitch-
cner managed to accomplish several
things of paramount Importance, most
valuable of which was the raising of
an army. His irresolution on the SUBJ
ject of conscription later on. his in
ability to discuss and compromise with
his associates, the conflict with Sir
John French on the subject of muni-
tions, re-ulting in the establishment of
the Mutations Ministry. successfully
weakened his position.
''If during the early months OF 1915
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measurable. New York city's newer
schools are a wonderful civic pos.
session, and so are the schools
in a thousand different towns and
cities, all because in them architects
have striven to do their work sim
cerely and well. Particularly in Cal
ifornia has the school architecture
risen to high level of public SER
vice. because there the community
conscience seems to have been de-
veloped to an unusual degree and
because economic conditions and the
moderate climate have given the ar
chitect a greater freedom to build
according to his ideals II education
is the great hope of progressive de-
mocracy, surely in building the
many windowed and efficient schools
of New York or st. Louis, or the in
vitingly delightful, wide spreading.
one storied schools of California,
American architects have performed
conspicuous public service, and ar
chitecture has been truly the express
sion of the awakening social con-
science of the nation"
Architecture has close relation
to all the other arts. Music, the
drama, the dance, modify the struc-
ture of the buildings that house
them. Painting and sculpture are
often inseparable from the walls they
decorate.
But apart from these obvious re-
lationships there are some that go
deeper. In the plan of a building it
Is possible to get more direct feel
ing of the law of proportion that
holds good in all the arts than any
where else.
1t is possible also to observe the
way beauty and use go hand in hand.
Fart of the task of the architect is
to discover in the necessities of the
case his chance to create and in
creating to satisfy some of the nobler
necessities Of our nature. When he
does, not only do we live in the house
but it lives in us and enriches our
life.
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A Novel Proclamation

message, have not existed in vain
The truth which they have instilled
in the heart Of man is none the less
truth because the difficulties OF daily
living have seemed insurmountable
nor because the clashing ambitions of
nations have erected walls of hatred
between man and man.
We must have faith, but shall we
keep faith locked in the heart. as
though we were ashamed Of IL? Shall
we not, rather, in this frightful crisis
Of the worlds history release Il and
let the heart attempt what the brain
and hand have failed to achieve-the
rule of peace? The time has come.
therefore, I Thomas G. McRae, Gov
ernor of the state of Arkansas. do
hereby declare and set aside Tuesday,
the first day of November A. D., 1921.
as a legal holiday. to be known as the
Day of Faith; and mindful of the
tragical years behind. and OF the
dreadful potentialities of the future I
do enjoln all good citizens on that day
to offer prayer for the success of the
disarmament conference: 20 acxnowl-
edge the rights and virtues of their
neighbor. whatsoever be his. nation.
his race. or his creed; and as evidence
of that faith which Is within them. at
the hour of noon on such Day of
Faith. reverenuy to speak the allie
gorical words my Neighbor Is Per
feet" hoping. without elf-righteous-
ness. that where Arkansas dares TO
lead, the world may not fear to follow.
THOMAS G. McRAE.
October l. 1921. Governor.
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writes of her life in Vienna, from her
first party frock to her presentation at
court, the same quaint perfection of
inpid narrative frames the more
notable Incidents. The same quality
shines through all her narrative of
her life in the great northern empire,
among whose ancient traditions she
found that her sincere American per-
sonality was far more readily COM
posed and settled than could have
seemed possible. This granddaugh-
ter of an American President and
daughter of an American General
comes of the stock which had pos
sessed the traditions of the founders
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Pathetic View of British War Chief
In Correspondence With Lord Esher

candor and too fond of what were sup
posed to be Oriental methods He said
quite humbly: Yes, suppose it is so:
but / am an old man, and 1 cannot
change my habits-it is too late
1T was curious momentary haunt
ing glimpse of the real Kitchener
massive. inarticulate. shy. and emo
tional. He seemed with all his great
achievements for a background, a
noble creature, of good, wholesome
color, in spite of the few darker
threads that traversed the tapestry of
his character
The great mass of popular opinion
believed whole heartedly in the hero
of Khartoum, but his colleagues in the
Cabinet had lost their respect for and
faith in him. Therein lay the tragedy
of Kitchener, in the opinion Of Lord
Esher. THE mortifying contrast be-
tween the place he occupied in pub
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of mans expression of life's needs
one must reckon with the idea or
concept of the answer to this need,
the materials with which this idea is
tc be expressed, and the essential
technic to express it adequately and
efficiently. Harmony between the
idea and the material expression is
always vital. 1t is useless to repro
duce the Pantheon to express the
idea apartment-hotel, or to waste
space, labor and materials on elabo-
rate Louis XIV. borders around ad-
vertisements whose goods and whose
copy would more likely suggest Zulu
land or modern bourgeois war profi'
teers."
And he shows why these things are
SC. Advertising results, like every
thing else that is human, are based
on the working of the mind:
ideas comprising the advertisers
message are conceived in the same
mind that conceives other ideas. and
the same physical machinery is used
in performing the mental operation.
This special brand of ideas is related
tc all others in the processes Of con-
ception, and likewise in the relation
ship of the idea to its expression in
material form. This truth empha'
sizes for us the absolute necessity of
seeing the art of advertising in its
relation with other manifestations OF
life, rather than as an isolated art
or even as a science.
Seeing relationships of this kind
soon leads one to look for the prin-
c.ples which control human action
and those debating the safe and sane
use of the materials with which one
expresses his thoughts and feelings.
rather than unimportant details of
isolated individual problems sepa-
rated from everything else in life"
In Prof. Kitson's book. though ad-
vertising ~ only incidentally treated,
its appeal Is analyzed. He puts the
accent on the information conveyed.
The public wants to know more
about the goods offered and about
the men and women who make them.
This Is another way of saying that
advertising is growing more human.
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Wind in the Pines.

TT is not good for words, any
more than for man, to be
alone. I think they are never
quite happy without pictures or
music or the sound of the friendly
voice uttering them. They were mu-
sic and they were pictures before
ever they hardened into forms that
would fit into a dictionary.
A book has been made out of the
silhouettes by Mrs. Lucy Gibbons
Morse, "Breezes" (Houghton Mifflin).
There are a few words in 1t, but not
many. Amy Lowell speaks the fore
word-when is she free to write free
verse between these multitudinous
prefaces?
1t seems that Mrs. Morse has been
making these marvellous little dec
orations for years. Before Barrie
put Peter and Wendy in the Tree
House, she had filled her pine
branches and thistle stalks with boys
and girls that will never grow up
nor come down, we hope, to the
ground.
This is good American art. AS Miss
Lowell says, Here are the pine trees
which crowd along the sandy shores
of Cape Cod, the woodbine which
twines over the porches and round
the windows of the white houses, the
thistles and clover and sorrels 4
of the open pastures above the
low bluffs Mrs. Morse
must have watched trees for
hours to capture these moods
of wind among them as she has
done, and to embody them in
the little people of her fancy"
The three silhouettes that decorate
Soundings this week are all repro
duced from Mrs. Morse's book. 1t
doesn't matter If the Ariels of the
treetops distract the readers atten'
ton from graver topics. Even these
are not unworthy of serious medita-
ton. With what courage they go
about their perilous play! No, 1t is
not courage, for they live in world
where fear never comes-the world
of the free winds, moving without
effort, dancing, floating, falling to a
thistle top. They bring a joyous
mutiny into solemn world, but in
their mutiny is music and music IS
order.
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twenty years of life could have been
lifted from his shoulders" remarks
Lord Esher. "or if the K. of K. who
still flashed at times to the surface
could have been guaranteed the aloof-
ness in which his mind worked best,
the question as to what effect Lord
kitchener's force and spirit would
have produced on the course of the
war is of irresistible interest. During
those months, which under circum-
stances more adapted to a full mani
festation of his peculiar gifts might
have proved to be the grand epoch of
his life, his steps began to falter and
his influence to wane. Left to
himself he would have selected. as all
his friends knew. some point in the
Near East, and would have launched
an attack with every man and gun
and shell which could have been
begged borrowed or stolen from the
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Architect and Advertising Expert
Help Decorate the Everyday World

resent had no place in the peoples
actual daily life.
Mr.. Parsons makes no bones about
calling advertising an art. He
wouldn't get so excited over it if
there were no art possibilities to be
developed And luckily for the rest
of us, he has the power to interest
others and to show them how they
can apply everlasting principles to
the needs of to-day.
Advertising" he writes "(the
newest and the most virile Of the
so-called applied arts), can no more
reach its highest state Of efficiency
without the art quality than could
architecture, sculpture, cabinetmak.
ing, or dressmaking, for in each field
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of the Republic. and her own spirit
still preserves them.
A paragraph in the chapter called
Going Home" in which she tells Of
the family's returD to the United
States, when she was about 20 years
of age, reflects this idea. She has
been detailing the events of the Span
war as they affected the
Grants; her father, at forty eight years
OF age, insisted upon joining the forces,
and his daughter writes:
why, father held that in govern
ment of the people such as ours was
all must take a share of responsibility
and effort. He set an example in this
matter. He was greatly distressed at
the way the strong. fine elements OF
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Advertising Is an Art.

A LII the worlds store, and all
w the men and women merely
L sellers-or merely buyers. as
the case may be. If you doubt 1t look
at the literature of buying and sell
ing. Note the authorship Of such
books. There is our old friend Frank
Alvah Parsons, gospeller Of art, evan
gelist of beauty in the home and on
the person (see Interior Decora-
ton" and "The Psychology OF
Dress"), coming out with "The Art
Appeal in Display Advertising"
(Harper & Brothers). And Prof.
Harry Dexter Kitson Of Indiana Uni
versity turns his X-ray on "The Mind
of the Buyer" (Macmillan).
A commercial age. groans the pes
simist. Pure philosophy turned
pragmatism, the arts and sciences all