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The New York herald., 1921-10-09

the periods before they met, so she
has endeavored to write 1t. It is not
only biography but almost an auto
biography. Frequent use of his let
ters adds to this photographed
effect.
That Jack London's adventures with
women would make vivid stories of a
genius on that side where genius is
most wont TO break rules might have
been guessed. That this phase of him
should in fact be given to the world
by the woman into whose hands he
at last laid his whole life Is remark
able. But the best thing about the
book is the authors good reporting.
She has not kept herself out Of ito
try would have been futile and even
injurious. But she reduces comment
to the minimum, paints the picture,
tells the story and leaves judgment to
the reader.
II Is clear that he turned to her not
only his married side; TO Jack London
and Chairman Kitteredge marriage
was a continual adventure of self
revelation. II was o point of honor
as well as an intense desire with Jack
that she should know and accept him
entire-heights and depths, bewilder-
ment and struggle. He had said that,
should he die first, she would be the
only person able TO tell all the truth
about him. And he expressed doubt
that she would have the courage for
It. He desired her TO do this. as he
himself would In all probability have
done had the autobiography which he
had in mind been written.
OF her publication of many of his
letters to her Mrs. London says:
Editors have repeatedly approached
me on the subject of publishing Jack
London's letters to myself. All argu-
nents were barren of result save one:
that Jack London's love nature is so
little known or reckoned with in the
average estimate OF him, or, worse,
misunderstood. And because
70 just study of the man can other
wise be made I present throughout
my book the letters I have chosen
from the uncounted ones In my pos
session. Below / quote the very first
in which he mentions his regard,
something that had Heretofore been
undreamed of by me.
"'You speak OF frankness. | pas
sionately desire It, but have come to
shrink from the pain Of intimacies
which bring the greater frankness
forth. Superficial frankness is COM
paratively easy but one must pay for
stripping off the dry husks of cloth
ing, the self lf-conventicns which
masque the soul. and for standing out
naked In the eyes of one who sees.
have paid. and like a child who has
been burned by fire I shrink from
paying. too often. You surely have
known such franknesses and the PEN
alties you paid. When l found hearts
desire speaking clamorously to you |
turned my eyes away and strove TO go
on with my superficial self, talking |
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
BY w. L. GEORGE.

,.T Ursula TRENT" (Harper's)
is simply planned as ten
years in the life of young
woman. beginning a little before the
war and ending about three years
later. The war occupies no place in
the book; it is only suggested so that
the flight of time may be understood,
but it is not developed. as we have had
enough on that subject. 1t is specially
destined to indicate that the war has
not done so much as all that for young
women, and that cwhile many fields
were opened to them during the war
they closed as quickly as the valves
of an oyster threatened with the abb
straction of it's pearl.
The heroine selected is Intentionally
chosen among the ordinary girls--a
girl from the country intelligent. re-
sourceful, fairly plucky. fairly weak,
generous impetuous and foolish. abso-
lutely unframed. In a word, just any
body. That Is important. because the
exceptional person seldom makes an
interesting character. The book re-
lates how after indulging in war SER
vice she found home life intolcrable
and determined to go out 10 work. de-
velops her difficulty in finding work
in the reconstructing world, her pow
erty, her slip into unfortunate and
miserable affairs. and her final recov-
cry. hardened and enriched by her ex-
perience.
So far tha. is a story which would
not perhaps have enormously inter-
ested me to do. but the essence OF It
and the real chance Of its success lies
in the fact that it is the story of a
woman written by a man IN the first
person. This has been done before by
one or two Frenchmen, but IL is very
rare in England, because the English
man realizes the immense difficulty
which man finds i'm writing as a
woman. He has to make an imagina-
tive and an emotional leap; he has to
place himself in the position of a
woman, to see himself handicapped as
Is even the modern woman by an
carly training I'm subservience, by a
comparative lack of education, by
physical weakness, and. above all, by
the sense of superiority that nearly
all men feel over nearly all women.
He has also to give a twist 10 his mind,
to develop a different sense of logic.
do not mean that he has to be illogical.
tor women are not illogical, but he has
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Chairman London Tells of the Man Who
Wrote and Lived "The Call of the Wild"

world early, and |. adventured among
different classes. A newcomer in any
class, l naturally was reticent con-
cerning my real self, which such
class could not understand, while
was superficially loduaoious in order
to make my entry into such class
popular and successful And so 1t
went. from class to class. from clique
to clique. No intimacies, a continuous
hardening, superficial loquacity so
clever, and an inner reticence so Sc
cret. that the one was taken for the
real and the other never dreamed of.
"'Ask people who know me to-day.
what 1 am. A rough, savage fellow,
they will say, who likes prizefights
and brutalties. who has clever turn
of pen, a charlatan's smattering of
art, and the inevitable DEFICIENCIES of
the unframed, unrefined, self-made
man which he strives with fair
measure of success to hide beneath
an attitude of roughness and uncon-
ventionality. Do l endeavor to un-
convince them? It's so much easier
to leave their convictions alone.
"'And now the threads Of my tangled
Iienced the greater frankness several
times, under provocation, with man
or two, and woman or two and the
occasions have been great joygivers
as they have also been great sorrow
givers. 1 do not wish they had never
happened, but l recoil unconsciously
from their happening again. 1t is so
much easier to live placidly and COM
placently. OF course to live placidly
and complacently is not to live at ALL
but still between prizefights and kites
and one thing and another ! manage
to fool my inner self pretty well. Poor
inner self! l wonder if II will atrophy,
dry up some day and blow ,eway.'"
Jack London's death seems to have
occurred at the very flood tide OF his
powers-or, to be more accurate, at
one of those periods of mental gesta-
ton when new life and power are
gathering. Jack was troubled in the
months before he died, but he was evil
IDENTIFY growing. He had become deep
ly interested in psychoanalysis and
was studying and thinking in that fer
tile field. 1t was whole new life to
him, and his long reading was culmi-
mating in reflections that would have
meant work in a new and valuable
phase. Jack had seen and experienced
in his own person a primitive side of
life totally unknown to many study
ard parlor literary analysts. He had
much to give.
The two volumes are profusely illus
trated and they are good reading for
| the story interest, but beyond that
they suggest a field for the critic
biographer who will take the mans
own books and trace the parallel de-
velopment of his nature with the
phases of his literary progress.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

l cannot say--"In all things that con-
cerned
Thee and thy hopes 1 never swerved
or turned.
Or held with stumbling mind a waver-
ing creed"
But this at least I can declare, indeed
Through days with tempest packed.
with thunder piled,
My dream was of an Ireland recon
ciled
By utter undoing of wrongs all earth
And by full freedom to fair friend
One OF the most interesting poems
in the collection is that I'm which the
author appeals to America:
Friend with frank tongue, who DER the
unfattering sea
Dost likewise fiatter not; who view'st
the maze
And tangle of things through no vague
shimmering haze:
Pledge thou thy word that II. long
urged by thee,
We loose her bonds and set the Thralled
one free.
That morn fair deed. crowned with
mans golden praise.
Shall not for us. in thy consenting
gaze.
Prove the bright mother of dark calam-
ityl
Then shall we know that some who
else might mar
The dayspring. and drag midnight from
Its grave
Some whose imperial dreams are 10th
TO die
Will listen first beside the Western
wave
WIN hear thy thundered interdict nfar.
And flee In terror lest they hear II
nigh.
STANTON A. COBLENTZ.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
''Till Ireland Has Her Own"

IRELAND UNFREED. Poems Of 1921.
BY Sir William Watson. John Lane
Company.
r N view of the present critical Irish
situation particular interest at
taches to this poetical appeal by
one of the best known living English
poets. Evidently Sir William Watson
is firm believer In the justice of Ire
lands cause and in her right to free
dom: he refers to that country as "the
Land of Hope Deferred" and 1t is his
contention that there is in Ireland a
spiritual force that must triumph.
though for a while physical might pre-
vail, and though England mistakenly
follows a course in which "palsying
fears" freeze up noble purpose" Only
in liberty for Ireland, as the poet con-
ceives II, can there be rest:
To all who heed. to all the freed,
To all the unfreed. tits known
There'll be no rest for Ireland's breast
TIL Ireland has her own.
Age after age will nurse the rage
That breeds not rage alone,
Bringing no rest to Ireland's breast
Till Ireland has her ownl
Most of the poems In this thin coll
lection have less of lyrical quality
than the above: most of them have a
stately and sonorous beat that fol-
lows in the Miltonic tradition. and
that brings reminders of the majesty
of Mr.. Watson's splendid "Ode to
Autumn Because written on theme
whose interest must certainly wane In
time, they are not likely to be long
remembered; but in many. as the fol-
lowing lines will illustrate. there Is the
quality of real poetry:
Thou whom not joys but perils and
pangs allure;
The white foam's sister. as the white
foam pure;
The dark storms daughter, guarding
long and late
That far descended heirloom, ancient
hate;
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
A Wife's Portrait of a Novelist

THE BOOK OF JACK LONDON In
TWO Volumes. BY Chairman London.
The Century Company
T T is no ordinary literary biogra-
ply" that fills the two volumes
which his wife has written about
Jack London. She has written of the
man she knew, of the man he was, the
man he aspired to be. and written as
frankly and as clearly as he enjoined
her to do
Not only have you a story of the
mans life, his travels his thoughts on
different subjects. his ideals: but there
is kind of compulsion in the narra-
tive which brings the reader into the
company of the living Jack London in
his varied activities.
AS he told his wife. His Mate
Woman" as he called her. the story of
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Soundings in the Sea Of Ink

scious-of lack in his own equip
ment which makes him angry. So
he tries to shout down the poets.
noticed a passage of this kind in
his lively and tolerant book of Amer
lean impressions, Hail Columbia"
But the book was so good of it's kind
that it seemed better to let the alb
surd paragraph go without comment.
Now he does it again in his novel
Ursula Trent" (Harper's), book
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

know not what And did it con-
sciously-partly so, perhaps-and did
it automatically, instinctively. Mem
ories of old pains. incohercnt hurts. a
welter of remembrances, compelled me
to close the mouth whereby my inner
self was shouting at you a summons
bound to give hurt and to bring hurt
in return.
81 wonder If make you under
stand. You see. in the objective facts
of my life l have always been frank
ness personified. That / tramped or
begged or festered in jail or slum
meant nothing by the telling. But
over the lips of my inner self I had
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
American Speech.

- ALSWORTH4 IS latest collec'
l 7 tion, six Short Plays"
(Scribner's) contains that
curious piece THE Little Man, |
couldn't help wondering IL he wro. e
that before coming over here. The
American in the play furnishes the
most curious example of imaginary
dialect that has been printed for a
long time.
1t is not easy to be sure just how
the playwright picked up his odd as
sortment of what he takes for our
turns of phrase Some of them prob
ably come from Bret Harte.
In Drinkwater's introduction to the
text of his abraham Lincoln" he
saws frankly that he doesn't know
the differences in usage between Eng
land and America and therefore does
not attempt to indicate any differ.
ence. A comparison of his play and
Galsworthys ought to convince any
body of the wisdom of his forbear.
ance. He would have done better IL
he had let even his negro talk like
everybody else.
American writer's have sinned in
the representation of English char
aeters. But Il has been rather in the
exaggeration Of some marked type,
who Is labelled as a type. The Euro
pean has too readily imputed certain
personal characteristics and notable
habits OF speech to Americans OF
every order. This is John Gals.
worthy's idea OF American talk-or
was at one time; he may have
learned better since:
"You seem kind of skeery about
that. You've had experience. maybe.
I'm an optimist-I think we're bound
TO make the devil hum in the near
future. opine we shall occasion a
good deal OF trouble to that old party.
There's about to be a holocaust OF
selfish interests. The colonel there
with old man Nietch--he won't know
himself. There's going to be a very
sacred opportunity"
A little knowledge-of another ma
tion's language-is a dangerous
thing.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

II is not generally known that l.. M.
Montgomery. novelist. is in private
life minister's wife and writes her
books amid the duties of a Canadian
parsonage. Her husband is the Rev.
Evan Macdonald of Leaskdale. On
tario. "Rilla of Ingleside" (stokes) is
her latest book.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Fighting Takes Up Too Much Room
Mr.. Georges Complex. Yankee Talk

obviously something deeper than a
mere effort to be original. And it
isn't safe to jump to conclusions in
matter like that. But certainly
the impression left on the reader is
that Mr.. George is half conscious
or perhaps it is together subcon-
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

q HE would always remember the red sunset catching
up the orchard and making all the apples shine like
- fairy gold and Owen leaning gate beside her
and telling her about his school days 1t shot through her
mind while she listened eagerly that Nick long in the
Doone Valley had told her of his school days. too only it
had been different then She had known how to listen
to his condences and they had hurt her little because he
hard in his young of right He had none of
Owen delicate tolerant humor. The light the
apples becomes erer still under the low red kythey
vivid that they looked enchantedand Owen, leaning
beside her. laughing down her eyes, looked enchanted
There something dazzling about him. if he
more than Just her friend and Jua's husband. He
beautiful and strange.
This kind of thing makes feel religious " Owen
said at last.
eyes, said joy very softly; it's quiet prayer
Owen looked at her curiously.
You believe in all that sort of thing, / suppose he
asked, religion, churches, law and gospels?''
Joy hestated
81 believe she said ''in thing at least I don't
know if believe it, because suppose believing being
what you think ism it, when you find it hard? l
haven found it hard but do believe in love- Owen
"LoveY asked Owen-his eyes rested on hers with
kindness that seemed beseech and claim answering
kindness from her. "But that's what | believe in too
JOY. That oughtnt to pan out very hard
'Everybody's" :" she went on, and for everything;
think it is what can live on"
Owen laughed softly.
You interest less he said ''when you make it
@Fa1m 50 ta, an arss Srdsr erys:., Heart. sv sgg,
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

long since put a scala seal indeed
rarely broken, in moments when one
caught fieeting glimpses of the hermit
who lived inside. How can / begin to
explain? My child life was
uncoDgenial. There was little respon-
sive around me. l learned reticence,
an inner reticence. 1 went into the
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
81 Hate Poetry"

~ NE OF the curiosities of current
literature is the w. l.. George
poetry complex. Probably
nobody but a psychoanalyst could
get at the reason for it. But 1t is
The New York herald., 1921-10-09


freedom from traditional prejudice.
But though fiction writer need not
express his own view in the talk OF
his people, Mr.. George has plainly
done so, particularly If the passage
in Hail Columbia" be recalled.
Ursula begins like this.
Now / hate poetry. / suppose it's
crude of me, but j feel that to write
roetry is just way of getting ones
self misunderstood in a complicated
manner" And the young doctor
with whom she is talking, quite diff
ferent type in other respects, makes
the adverse vote unanimous:
Poetry is only superstition. A
sort of degraded music. {. .
Everything that is said in poetry
can be said in prose more easily and
completely. The fact remains that
if you want a rhyme to cat 1t must
be something like mat or pat or rat.
Now rat happens to fit, and all is
we'll in that case. But imagine the
wretched situation of poet with his
cat hero in barn where there are
no rats, but only mice. He would
have to torture, to mangle his line
so as to end: A mouse, not a rat.
In other words he would have to
drag in the wretched rat.
IF you want melody buy a penny
whistle. And, anyhow, il all you
want is melody why bother about
the sense at all? Why not juxtapose
words that sound we'll. such as pur-
pie, primula, Endymion? There's
quite nice line for you: Endy-
mion's purple primula. Doesn't
mean anything, but sounds we'll.
That's why it's poetry. Miss Trent,
let me give you that opinion of poe
try as keepsake, since you're leav-
ing the world-I mean returning to
your family. Don't be taken in.
Neither by political traditions, nor
by class habits, nor by the worship
OF Latln or Greek or poetry or the
musical glasses"
Now Charles Darwin was as frank
as Mr.. George in confessing his in
ability to enjoy poetry. But he was
too great, too wise a man to blame
that upon the poetry. He quietly ex-
pressed deep regret that he had not
tried to develop such powers as ne
had in that direction. He realized
that he had missed something pre-
cious, a treasure of human heritage.
He knew good deal more about the
relation of cat and rat than does Mr..
George. But he said nothing about
the difficulties of rhyme in case the
rat turned into a mouse. He left all
that humbly to Robert. Browning
(who was capable of rhyming prom
Ire" with from mice" without
qualmD. He was scientist enough
to recognize his own disabilities.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

Capt. James Norman Hall of Lafav-
cite Escadrille fame has been spending
the last year and half in various
islands of the South Seas. lie is now
back In Boston. his old home, glad
enough to be there. but still anxious
TO return TO the region Of Tahiti Mr.
Hall is almost as well known as a
writer as i'm aviation. His High Ad-
venture" and "Kitchener's Mob" are
among the outstanding books of the
war.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
He Put Himself in Her Place

TO adopt a woman's logic, which is diff
ferent from that of a man. because
man is more likely to be governed by
general principle (however false)
and woman by a particular instance
(however inappropriate). He has also
to take into account that a woman's
desire for a thing is infinitely more
concentrated than that of a man. All
humanity goes in blinkers, but woman
tends to add bandage to one of her
eyes.
Add to this the difficulty for a man
of imagining a woman's sensations.
the physical emotions which he cannot
feel. woman's sense of the attrac-
tiveness of man, of his bulk, of his
vigor, of all the things which move n
woman toward a man. II Is not won
derful that men should have so seldom
attempted such an exercise; If il is
successfully performed. there lies the
chance of the popularity of the story.
Soon after Ursula Trent" was writ
ten IL was read by two women, and
their opinion has a certain value. The
first woman said: Ursula Trent is
quite a real girl. very much the sort OF
girl one meets, and L. for one, like her
very much. She is the sort of girl
should like to make friend of. I
don't like Mr. Georges men as well as
his women; perhaps that Is because
fe likes the women so much better"
The second woman said; Il think
Ursula is absolutely real, and i'm fact
il is quite worrying TO see how COM
pletely men can find us out: l hope
that there aren't too many men like
that | don't think Mr. George quite
realizes the difficulty a girl expert
ences when shc has TO struggle against
her family: but then his heroine has
immense pluck. and l wish I had as
much"
So far as the verdicts go they show
that there is reality I'm Ursula. and
that is the most important thing from
the point of view of the female reader
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

IT Ursula TRENT" (Harper's)
is simply planned as ten
years in the life of young
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