The New York herald., 1921-09-25

far into space, joyriding to all the
planets. There is almost a Gilbertian
note to the rollicking chorus:
And I'm sure they are singing, "Oh.
trolley la la
For a life minus worry and fuss
Who'd laugh and be jolly and chase
melancholy
Come trolley la-la-ing with us''
All poetry is ephemereal. the pass
ing emotion of some one who will re-
turn to dust and ashes Yet there Is a
lasting interest in certain poems which
have no emotional quality, because
they reflect the manners and the spirit
OF the age. Addison's Spectator lives
because of the comment on the Gus
toms of that day. Mr.. Anthony is for
tunate in being able TO turn to the
newspapers for inspiration. Hts fertile
minds finds theme in the most un-
| likely places. The statement that
students at BARRIERS school have a
regular college yell' makes him lyrical
He imagines the tonsorial artists as
making this cutting speech:
sharpest rajors! Finest latherl
There's no waiting Rah rah. rah
Twenty BARRIERS Sis, boom i a-ah
This poem is cleverly entitled THE
Gay Young Shavers." Other news
items which provoke his satiric darts
are the desire of the Hungarians for a
king, the return of the corncob pipe,
the remodel.ing of clothes, the inclu-
sion of alarm clocks as luxury taxes
the finding of hoochspar in Nevada,
and the statement that the movies are
responsible for crime. Stiletto Tommy
alias Nick the Gizzard Slicer, alias
Dave the Dip and Lon the Loaded
Dicer was acquitted when his lawyer
plead as follows:
"He was the incest gentleman
That ever / had seen
Until the time he saw a crime
Depicted on the screen,
A-stealing's not his business, sir
'Tis just an avocation
That he acquired when movies fired
/ His young Imagination"
| We are under the impression tina,
Edward Anthony conducts a column
of literary interest somewhere CAS- g
matter of fact he is standing right be-
hind us and threatens to wiring oul
neck if we don't write a long review
but he is fair minded and we can say
what we please.) We suspect this con-
nection because he has written some
rhymed book reviews which are better
than Arthur Guiterman has written
Perhaps the best of his "Sonnets of q
Book Reviewer" is the sixth. which Is
as follows:
/ VI
Suggestive sexy stuff enveloped in
A mist Of mysticism. Little sly
Approaches to the garbage can. Flow
thin
This slobber that Bohemians glorify
Author. what is your aim? To enter
tain?
II can't be that. The stuff is far too
dull
To teach the unsophisticated brain
Sex hygiene or eugenics? They might
Gull
Some information on these topics II
You'd be explicit, but you only hint
And limiting merely leaves n fetid whiff
My guess You like to play Bad Boy
in print.
j iOu Tt catering 10 the naIuTHl ue-
sire
or every little boy to play with fire.
There are tricks to all trades. II is
legitimate for the author to express
the poets worries of technique and
method and mode of life, but he should
have spared the manuscript reader.
He will doubtless be expelled from the
union for writing THE Bewildered
Manuscript Reader:
Oh, there are many. many times
When / am puzzled quite.
Now here ! have a book of rhymes
That seem to be all right
The author Is a likely poet
Though certain things displease.
! think I'll hedge. But how? know /.
"It
Has possibilities
And here's a novel-rather good
But IL ii good enough?
Search me There is a likelihood
That / shall have to bluff.
Ill say-and what could be potter
or easier 70 distil.
Than report like this: "The t0riter
rs not icithout some skitI!r
JOSEPH GOULD.