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The New York herald., 1921-10-09
JENNY. BY Sigrid Undset Translated
nom the Norwegian by w. Emme
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isNNY. BY Sigrid Undset. Translated
nom the Norwegian by w. Emme
Knopf
,.O IGRlD UNDSET is the fore
most woman writer in the
~ scandinavian countries TO-
day" announces the publisher Of
Jenny" Therefore it must be that
the novel is significant of the present
trend of feminine-and feminist
thought. at least in Norway And to
those who at an earlier day read Ellen
Key with bated breathings. or TO those
who still earlier were intrigued by
that literature dubbed "the obscene or
scandinavian" the significance %
the Undset book is somewhat mystify-
ing.
AS a novel, however, to be enjoyed
without qualms Jenny" becomes 10
the reader an absorbing study OF 4
girl art student, thwarted in her career
by her sex instincts and by circun-
stances; thyarted in her eager mother
hood by the death of her child, and
llndiiy dNCtpNlliS iiti oNh NN"'ii Go Nf''
one solution of life that seemed
insoluble.
Written with understanding ana
sympathy, the story is so frankly and
naturally told that even the most
squeamish of readers would never ac-
cuse the author of striving after effect
in the scene after scene in which
Jenny and her friend Cesca bare their
inmost thoughts to themselves. In the
hands of popular English or Ameri-
can novelist one shudders at the in
evitable sensationalism with which
Jenny's reaction against her lover
would be blared forth; and is grateful
that there are still-scattered here and
there in this country and abroad-a
few writer's who are more interested
in the sincerity of their work than in
the rapidity with which they can COM
plete their annual quota of fiction.
We accept Jenny as an intensely
human fellow creature from the mo-
ment in twilit Rome when she and
Cesca are met by Helge Gram, who,
like themselves. is a Norwegian stu
dent. The subsequent chapters during
which Jenny and Helge discover their
potential love for each other, are
succession of intimate and fascinating
pictures of Rome. To be sure. much
of the serious student discussion does
SAVIOR of a small. town coeducational
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nerton's "Coquette." Would be
blondes, according to Swinnerton. can
get better results with henna than
with peroxide. | told Henrietta
not to use peroxide. / kne,c IL
wouldn't turn out right. I'm going to
make her do ii over again with henna
Tuesddy-I feel so righteous safter
reading few chapters of Hall Gaines
The Master of Man" that | offer my
services as speaker to every reform
bureau in the country.
Wednesddg-Ge a job writing auto
graphs for a busy author "The more
modest the inscriptions you write the
more I'll pay you," he says to me.
People like a humble author. Make
the recipients of these free copies
all of them important people-think
me genius who doesn't realize what
he has accomplished"
II get the idea, sir" say and pro-
ceed to inscribe the first copy, This is
q bum book. but what do you want for
nothing?"
He fires me. Gosh! there's no pleas
ing some people.
Thursddy-Hard at work on the In
ternational Art F'raternity's Move.
ment to Introduce Art In America, for
which movement I am publicity i'm
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neighbors Consequently IT is rather
surprising that when Jenny does toss
her cap over the windmill 1t should
fall into the pleasant paternal hands
of Cert Gram, Helge's father, who Is
unhappily married and very neigh
borly.
We did hope that Jenny would not
prove quite so thoroughly middle class
as she promised in the beginning.
Surely in an artist of her latent pos
sibilities there would develop broad
mindedness--a certain social instinct
We doubted once she saw the rolled
ousehold Of Helge's parents and COM
mented to herself upon Helges mother
(Gert's wife)--a Strindbergian neuro-
tic housewife. we gave up all hope
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Teddy Follett, the unframed misfit,
generous of mind and heart, well in
'tentioned but somewhat weak. who is
a victim of the social and economic
system, is lovable character in many
ways. His career is an example of our
failure to find the right man for the
right job, and also of our inability to
discover how to train people to do the
things for which they have special
aptitude. We are not even able to
get the men and the jobs together.
Here we have one of the fundamental
defects of our system of public educa-
ton. the serious nature of which is
brought home to managers of public
institutions almost every hour of every
day.
The application of mental tests dur
ing the war showed that more than
half the army did not have the intellf-
gence and adaptability to graduate
from a high school as il is now con-
stituted. 1t also showed that those
incapable Of profiting by the present
type of education could profit to the
utmost by a proper kind of educa-
ton which would recognize aptitudes
and base training thereon instead of
unwisely assuming that men have SIM
liar abilities any more frequently than
they have similar loops and whorls
on the tips of their fingers.
Interesting experiments carried on
at the New Jersey State Home for
Boys at Jamesburg have shown that
through proper medical treatment, diet
and educational work boys who come
into the institution three years re-
tarded for their age and grade in the
public schools are frequently found TO
be retarded but one year after "A years
stay in the home. Experience at the
same home has also Indicated that
many children have distinct manual
ability. whereas others have distinct
verbal ability, and that any proper sys-
tenn of education or industrial employ
ment must take cognizance of these
facts.
Undoubtedly, If industry is ever to
overcome the prevailing unrest among
workingmen who. perhaps uncon-
sciously. are rebelling against tread
iAi+h WIN "hN hit anu
thirsting after a change to express
themselves in creative effort. il must
have it's own system OF asserting it's
employees, of training them along the
lines of their special abilities and of
furnishing them work where they will
have an opportunity to advance. There
is nothing inherently unsound or un-
surmountable in carrying out such an
industrial policy. for what industry is
there which is not suffering from a
lack Of skill among its workingmen.
from an enormous labor turnover and
from failure of the employees to be-
come sufficiently interested in the
work of the plant so that they feel
and make others feel that IL is their
own?
The author has been equally fair in
handling the subject of capital punish
ment. He helps the reader to UNDER
stand. az judges. prosecutors and in
stitutional administrators know from
experience, that there are many differ
ent types of offenders. some of whom
are what we call casual or environ
mental offenders. Teddy FolIett is
clearly one of these Tt seems unin.
tclligent to treat him exactly as we
treat a degenerate member OF one of
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

1t may come as surprise to many
of Gen. .Dawes's admirers to find his
name as a composer in a late record
catalogue of a melody in A major
played by Kreisler. But those who
know the Director of the Budget inti-
mately or have read his Journal Of
the Great War" already are aware of
his gifts as a musician. Music of the
very highest type was a constant
source of relaxation to him during the
tremendous strain of his war service.
Both as composer and as a musician,
we are told. he is one of the most dis
tinguished amateurs in the country.
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our criminal gangs who kills "his
man." whom he never has seen or
known, for a miserable thirty pieces
Of silver. The author does not at
tempt to say that capital punishment
Is wholly wrong. He contents himself
| with showing that 1t is revolving to
our better instincts, in this particular
case, at least, of unprecedented mur.
der. Presumptively, the author did
mean us to feel that it would be un-
lust in every case of unprecedented
murder, but he does not say so or lead
US necessarily to that conclusion
The author does not go into a dis
cussion of the age long conflict be-
tween the individual and the State, but
it is entirely apparent that before We
can improve the administration of law
we must get back to the broad. hu-
name and enduring foundations of law
and of public policy. AS pointed out
by Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard
Law SCHOOL,
I'VE need to observe that legal his
tory shows a continual movement back
and forth between an extreme solici-
tude for the general security and the
security of social institutions, leading
to minimum of regard for the interest
of the individual accused and reliance
upon summary, unhampered. arbitrary
administrative punitive justice and at
the other extreme excessive solicitude
for the social interest in the individual
life, leading to a minimum of regard
for the general security and security
of social institutions and reliance upon
strictly regulated judicial punitive JUS
tice, hampered at all points by checks
and balances Md technical obstacles"
To which he adds, elsewhere, this con-
clusion:
"The reports are coming to be filled
with speeches of prosecutors for which
we can only find a parallel in the ha-
rangues of Jeffreys and his colleagues.
Excessive securing of the tech
nical rights of accused persons in the
nineteenth century produced the third
degree Just as the excessive zeal of
prosecutors. browbeating of witnesses
and unreasonable searches OF the sew
enteenth and eighteenth centuries pro-
duced the criminal procedure OF the
nineteenth century
our greatest work can be done with
the environmental or social offenders.
II is our hope that THE Empty Sack"
and books like IL will lead the people
to appreciate the necessity for the in
dividual consideration of every case
OF wrongdoing and the sanity of indi-
vidual treatment of each and every
offender Murder may be murder"
but a careful examination will show
that every murderer differs from an
other murderer. and that the circum-
stances under which each crime is
committed and the social Backgrounds
are essentially different The whole
conception of a jury to judge between
the law and the offender is proof posi-
tive that from the most ancient times
the conscience of mankind and the
best traditions of the law have been
in conflict with that essentially brutal
idea that the law can be enforced
without respect OF persons. Because
of it's expression of this truth. "The
Empty Sack" in my judgment. is "a
much more important book than
main Street"
BURDETTE G. LEWIS.
state Commissioner Of Institutions and
Agencies NJ Neic Jersey. Author
OF "Thc offender"
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The Book Factory.
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.
Impious Impressions.

8. AMY LOWELL
The lady's vender of toy balloons,
As | am sinner, she is
She has good line and her saesnanship's fine
No wonder she's doing the biz
Oh, buy balloon! She has purple and pink
And lavender-talk of the town!
And some that are blue Ga most popular hue)
And yellow and orange and brown
She blocking the traffic on Main Street, she is,
With people who gather and stare
In boylsh delight at the wonderful sight
Of these colors afoat in the air.
1t ever m rich I'll buy all her balloons
Or, at any rate, several cases
And wait for breeze, andin comfort and ease
, III float to- Olympian places!
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
NEGLECTING LIGHT VERSE.

Bessie Graham's able THE Book
mans Manual has one striking weak
ness. 1t neglects the field of American
light verse; Christopher Morley and
TIA. Daily are the only humorous YER
sifiers mentioned. There is mention of
Carolyn Wells, but only as antholo-
gist. There is not line in the book
about Franklin i. Adams, Arthur
Guiterman, Oliver Herford, Bert Les
ton Taylor, Don Marquis or Ted Rob-
inson. While this "A serious omis-
sion ii is not a surprising one IT Is
characteristic of the attitude of most
compilers. They apparently do not
know that light verse exists.
This, you say, is the fault of the
light verse brigade: II they do not get
more recognition it is because they do
not do better work. You are wrong
(We are going to argue with you
whether you want to or not) Amer
ican light verse-at least the work of
the big leaguers we have mentioned
is an excellent product The reason
why more attention isn't paid to 1t is
| that 1t has become fashionable to dis
miss the writer of humor--both prose
and poetry-with a patronizing word
or two like amusing" or rather good
fun" No one seems aware OF the
fact that George Ade is an important
figure In American literature or that
Arthur Guiterman's Ballads of Old
New York" is worthy of a place be-
side Edith Wharton's 1.-THE Age of
Innocence" in the literature N Man
haitian Isle.
As soon as we are admitted to the
United Protective and Benevolent
Brotherhood of American Humorists--
1--WE once wrote a funny line which
has been submitted to the Committee
on New Members and we are hope
fuD-we shall try to induce the
brotherhood to declare war on all
those who patronize, overlook or sass
the humorist. When we nave killed
off all American offenders we mean to
open a London office and drown In
the Thames that long line of English
critics Including the blissfully ig-
norant or wilfully Indifferent Harold
Williams) who have failed, these
many years to give the immortal Gil
bert n square deal.
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nclal is in making cross with a blacl,
lead pencil beside an unfamiliar name
some time in November, but out West
Sheriff still has his original power.
And Broderick makes the most of it,
The book is written in a pleasant.
breezy style that is well suited 70 it's
subject. The author is interested in
action. clean straight adventure and
no frills. But his sense of humor
comes right along with the rest and
gives the reader the feeling that no
matter how tight the pinch he has
never lost his head. He does not take
any OF it too seriously. You feel that
he has had an awfully good time writ
ing il.
It's a story that great many peo-
pie will enjoy. 1t can he especially
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Norwegians in Rome

causerie-and in the picnics and love
making one is continually tempted to
read campus" for Champagne
so much the truer and more universal
does the story seem.
When Jenny returns to Norway
however, we began to suspect the ac-
tual reason for the retrospective vigils
of our heroine. Jenny is an interest
ing person, true to life and all that;
but she is also thorough little middle
class snob. Her Emotional shortcom-
ings. we deduce, are not so much due
to her cold inability to respond pas
sionately to Hedge as to an nhibitory
respect for the moral standards of her
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Society Can Reclaim Many Offenders
THE EMPTY SACK. BY Basil King.
Harper Brothers

THE EMPTY SACK. BY Basil King.
Harper Brothers.
TT is an especial service at this time
for an author of widely read fic-
= ton, without stating conclusion
or mentioning sociology" as such, to
expose the emptiness and shallowness
of the "class warfare" conception of
society. The instincts of the elder
Mr.. Collingham, the banker are in
constant revolt against mechanical
ideas of efficiency and against a sys-
tenn of employment which in former
or commercial house was not con-
cerned with the moral. social physical
of the members of their families. un-
questionably, were he a manufacturer
conditions because of which a crowd
of men would appear at his company's
gates every morning, each filed with
the hope that perhaps a regular en-
ployee might be sick or might have
oversight and that an additional man
might be needed for at least a days
temporary service.
1t is clear throughout the book that
Collingham is as much a slave to an
inadequate and shortsighted system
of business as is his aged employee,
Josiah Follett The author does not
let either appear as personally blame
less for their inability to break the
letters which bind them. He forces
recognition of the fact that many
business men and many workmen are
not capable of rising to a new plane
Where the working man and the busi-
ness man cooperate upon an intelli-
gent basis. This is a striking way to
indicate the need for leadership of the
highest order i'm business. in industry
and among worlSingmen. The empty
sacks cannot stand upright in them
selves. neither can the blind lead the
blind.
The author does not say that busi-
ness men or industry must become re-
sponslble for their old employees after
they are no longer able TO compete
successfully with the rising genera
ton, neither does he say that the indi-
vidual who does not save and prepare
against the deficiencies OF old age
should be held blameless for his mis-
fortunes. He drives home with great
force the fact that blaming the en-
ployer or blaming the individual will
bring about no solution. He leaves
us with tho uncomfortable feeling that
we are rather shortsighted and. very
poor managers IL we cannot devise
means of meeting such difficulties.
especially in view of our very remark
able mechanical and industrial
achievements
Robert Bradley Collngham, Jr., has
learned from the war that the son OF
the banker and the son of the candle
stick maker were likely to be equally
good soldiers at the fighting front. The
idea influenced him upon his return,
and while he was probably incapa Bile
of thinking out proper course Of ac-
tion his heart and his instincts led
him to do the right thing in particular
circumstances. He was capable of re-
spending TO the right appeal.
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recommended for winter evenings. The
courage of young Parks (Which is
nothing less than recklessness at
times5 will make every feminine
reader yearn to hang on to his coat
tails. but she will not like him the
less for that. 1t is a book worth try
ing but warn the children first not to
interrupt you.
EDITH LEIGHTON.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
SONG OF THE SOUL PAINTERS

Studio Chant.)
No doubt you've heard of art
Well. we are artists all.
For we can etch and paint and sketch
Upon a moments call
Wen paint you anything
From nudes to barber poles.
But there's no fun when all is done
Like painting peoples souls.
CHORUS:
on. art is SO dirinet
'Tis soothing to be n IL!
without my art I'm sure Uty heart
Would break this Uery minute,
1t must be quite bore
To be like other folk
And not to etch or paint or sketch
Or draw a single stroke
1t comforts me, my art,
When things are dark and dole
It's here ! rush and grab a brush
And paint the human soul!
CHORUS:
Oh, art is so dtUine. &c.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
THE JOURNAL OF CARLO
KNIGHT, FREE LANCE.

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piece of information in Frank Swim
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
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presario (to appropriate a phrase of
Horace Liveright's).
art" says Simon Knadel Of Hawaii,
president of the movement, begins
with the soul. Impress that on your
American artists-I mean dabblers In
art; you have no artists. Write a
song about it. A campaign like this
needs one"
Yes. sir" / meelly answer.
Impress upon them" he continues,
after he has scored his novel point,
that the primary object of art is to
reproduce the soul of a person or
thing. Only the soul counts"
What about the solar plexus?"
ask
That's important, too" he replies,
but il cannot begin to compare with
the soul"
II see" say I, meeker than ever
Friday and Sdturday-I write the
song Simon Knadel requested. 1t is
called Song of the Soul Painters. 4"
Here IT is for your edifcation:
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

CHORUS:
Oh. art is so diUine. &c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-23
C0NECUH COUNTY IS
 FILLED WITH BUTLER
 HIGHWAYS BOOSTERS

Evergreen, March 22.-(SpeciaL)- Road work in Conecuh county is at a standstill, pending Governor Kilbys decision on the calling of the legis lature into extra session for resub mission of the 25,oOOooO bond issu amendment.
 The adverse rulir.g- of the supreme court is deeply deplored by good roads advocates as a progressive road build ing campaign for the county had been mapped out for the year. Hopes are now pinned on the probability that the measure will again be submitted and ratified by the people of the state.
 Expressions from leading citizens of the county indicate that Conecuh voters would cast again their ballots favorably should another election be called.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-23
MONTEvALLO COLLEGE

Montevallo. March 22.-(Special )--A piano recital by Mrs. Mary Tucker Mo- ble of the music depar tment, Alabama Technical Institute and College for Women. Montevallo, was big success. She was assisted by Miss Crocker vio- loncellist, and Miss Young, accompan- ist.
 Mrs Noble is an excellent pianiste. She plays with warm, rich tone color ing which is very finely contrasted' with an unusual delicacy of touch that gives beautiful finish and reality to such a composition as the Liszt "Gnom- enreigen" or the "Wayward Waltz" by Thompson. Miss Young's accompani- ments were finely proportioned, and made very satisfying background to the solo,
 The Howard players, from Howard college, irmsngham, presented two one-act plays and some speciality num- bers at Alabama Technical Institute and College for Women. Montevallo, which was largely Attended. The pro ceeds formed the contribution of the junior class to the college annual The Technala. The players also appeared in Anniston. The players. under the direction of Miss A. Bess Clark, profes- sor Of English at HowaFd gave most interesting presentation of Lady the News Gladys Wellington. in her presentation of Mrs. Tarpey, the deaf woman. who bewailed the fact that she was last to hear all the news, deserves special mention, as does I. N. Patter- son. who played the part of Bartley Fallon, whom gossip accused of mur- der