The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-04
LITERARY LOCALS.

margaret Wiuoener IN JAN. Inc
rumor goes that II was Henry Holt
and Company who sent her there.
And no one knows how to get her
out! 1t all happened in this way.
Before Christmas, publishers some
times receive requests from pris-
ons for slightly damaged books to
help fill their libraries. Henry
Holt and Company were rather
startled when they found that their
shipping clerk had sent to a Texas
reformatory sucn titles as Margaret
Widdemer's Your Only Young
Once" Mercier's Crime and Crimi-
nails" Updegrafrs "strayed Revel-
lers," etc, etc. Such is the irony
Of prison reform.
Shaw Desmond. the eminent Irish
novelist, is now in this country to
begin an extended lecture tour. His
latest novel, Gods" was publish
ed by Charles Scribners Sons coin
cidentally with his arrival in
America.
The Biblical line about honor and
the prophet Is certainly verified in
the case of James Joyce, the IRISH
writer. Ulysses" his novel, whose
precarious serial career was ended
by a New York court, is to be pub
lished In Paris, where Joyce lives
IL will be remembered that his first
novel, "A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man" was brought out in
this country by Mr.. Huebsch-the
first publication anywhere. In fact,
the first British edition consisted of
sheets exported from the United
States. This may seem especially
curious to future literary historians
because the Joyce impressions, so
startingly exemplified in the Por-
trait. has been initiated in England
more widely than anywhere, no.
tably by Dorothy Richardson and
May Sinclair.
The Pleasure of Ignorance" by
Robert Lynd. the distinguished
English critic. is announced as a
late fall publication of the Serb
ners. The essays which make up
the book are written in a lighter
mood than are Mr.. Lynd's previous
publications in America. which
have included "Old and New Mas
The Passion Of Labor"
Stephen Vincent Benet has come
| across" with a bang. His first
novel THE Beginning Of Wisdom. &"
has been well received all over the
country. His recent book Of poems
Heaven on Earth" has been
awarded the Poetry Society prize for
| 1920, together with Carl Sandburg's
| Smoke and Steel" And now he
has married a young lady he me,
| not Ions ago in Paris. Miss Rose
mary Carr, Of the University of
Chicago. 1918. She had gone over
to Paris on an exchange scholar
ship and remained during 1920 to
write for the London Daily Mail
and the Chicago Tribune. After the
wedding in Chicago. on November
| 2s, the two left for France and the
Riviera, where they will spend the
winter months.
Robert Frost. recently Of Yer
mont, has established his residence
at Ann Arbor, having accepted q
| fellowship in poetry at the Uni
versity of Michigan. The founding
OF this Fellowship and It's accept
ance by a poet of Frost's fnterna-
tional reputation adds recognition
and impetus to a movement begun
by Percy Mackaye and President
Hughes of Miami. According to
the terms of the fellowship Mr.
Frost is to have no academic duties
but word comes that a club of
young writers has already grown
up about him.
On the 18th Of November. Hourh.
ton Mifflin Company published
| Roosevelt in the Kansas CITY
Star" This volume is a collection
OF the editorials which Mr.. Roose-
welt wrote during the war for the
Star In none Of his writings doe.
Roosevelt seem more emphatically
himself than in these often brief,
always pointed utterances. Mr.
Ralph Stout. managing editor of
the Star. has edited the material
and added an Introduction telling
the story of Col. Roosevelt's long
friendship with the paper. This is
the second publication of the
+ Roosevelt Memorial Association,
who are gathering all availabl hi :
\ OgraDhical date copoar,ys -,