The Washington times., 1921-05-22
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PRIZE RHYMED REVIEW.


| PRIZE RHYMED REVIEW.
John Strong Newberry won the
prise offered by the Macmillan Com
pany for the best rhymed review Of
Wells Outline of History" The re-
view. which is 10 seven verses. begins:
Deep In the blank abyss or time,
When Earth was only coolins lava.
Life raised from intertidai slime
| Frati belnga glutinous as guava,
| which. forming skeletons and gixzards
! BY complications Of their cells.
Brought on the Age of Giant Iizisrds
Whose sage historian is Wells-
Mr.. Newberry's reputation as ! a
poet was made in q more serious Way
than the specimen verse would indi-
cate. through the translation Of two
poems from the French OF Paul
ciaudei-"The City" and 'Tete DOR
AB ORIENTA.
II has been predicted that we are
going to be more concerned with. the
Pacific and the Far East In the very
near future than with any other part
of the world. The controversy over
the Island Of zap. the fevered war
preparations reported under way in
Japan, and the sending of General
Wood on a special mission to the
Philippines trip about which there
| is naturally much curiosity--all COM
bine to heighten and intensity the
interest OF the West In the East.
Literature already reflects this
ascendency of the East. and one of the
most colorful as most important
Las uyif ha Eo ~ io No hal
Wood Martins Green Gods Pavilion"
The author presents the Philippines
vivjdly, and deals with political con-
ditions OF the Orient In a way that
few Americans could. Mrs. Martin.
the wife of u. s. army officer, has
lived In the. islands and watched the
growth of American influence there
from the early days Of American occu-
patton.
"IE DECLINs DE LEUROPE.-
The London Times comments upon
NJ. Demangeon's lie Declin de PEu-
rope" just published in this country
by Doubleday. Page & Co.. under
the title America and the Race f,r
World Dominion" as Lucid story
Of actual facts Here Is no philosophy
OF history, no prophetic grandeur, no
and lucid study of actual figures and
facts; nor is the conclusion one OF
tragic gloom, for the author refuses
to accept the idea of. mankind as the
mere passive agent or victim of i'm
personal forces for good or i'll. The
general conclusion to which he comes
Is that the uprising of America on the
one hand, and of Japan on the other
Japan mastering and directing the
vast resources of Asia) win dethrone
Europe as the great originating and
determining force which it has hith-
erto been In world affairs"
NJ. Demangeon reaches the
startling conclusion that Europe, as
a direct result of the war, Is at the
point of imminent decay and destined
continent OF Asia and that the
hegemony of the universe has al
ready passed from the older civil
izations to the United States, to re-
main there until the smoldering
fires among what until yesterday
we're the subject races of the earth
burst into open and consuming
flame. M. Demangeon's grasp of the
economic problems that are remould-
ing the continents, makes America
and the Race for World Dominion"
one of the outstanding works of it's
kind that has been produced in this
decade
CANADIAN AUTHORS FORM UNION.
Canada has been SO busy with other
things that she has not paid much at
tention to her authors, but recently
some OF her legislative Eeniuses
framed a new copyright bill for their
alleged encouragement and protec-
ton, and after the authors had read
Bill ~" they decided promptly that
it's chief provisions meant discourage
ment and extinction Very promptly.
too, they organized the Canadian Au-
thors Association, with John Murray
GIbbon as president, to oppose the bill
and to safeguard hereafter the inter-
ests of Canadian and American au-
thors in Canada. This bill. they de-
clare, would destroy the American
cuthor's protection in Canada and the
Canadian authors existing protection
In the United States
Arthur Stringer. ono OF the associa-
tion's leading spirits. who Is probably
better known in the United States
than he is in his native Canada, has
ritten for MacLean's Magazine an
interesting article, entitled Our Au-
thors Get Together" in which he says.
in part:
"A plaintive voice piped. not so
long ago: Where are the Canadian
poetsT And an answering voice, not
untouched with cynicism, retorted:
On tho train to New York! But
times must have changed For only
last month In the city of Montreal I
saw more than 100 honest good
ness Canadian poets and authors
gather together for the purpose Of
forming q sort of union of the ink
rot. They were there like bees about
a syrup barrel. They were there to
get unionized and have walking dele
gates and grievance committees after
the manner of the plumber and the
locomotive engineer. They were very
cerious about IL all. And as i lis