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Can Samuel Butler Survive
The Discipleship of G. B. Shaw

ford, says Mr. More. with the incom-
| ing of women, is ''the spiritual sense
of AN actual presence of the Deity.
| Rut I can tell you what Mrs. Ward
would say: she would simply deny the
| fact of extrusion She would
uphold her sincere conviction that the
idea of God had been merely purified
by the process" And in this essay
on oxford. Women. and Cod" he
avoids hasty deductions. Whether
the intrusion of women had anything
20 do with the extrusion of God. you
win not hear from me-"
II is enlightening to compare the
critics treatment of three rebels
Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Adams,
end Samuel Butler. Norton is praised
for his doggedness and rebuked for his
folly" Adams wins applause for his
scholarship but not for his "senti-
mental nihilism." Butler fares we'll
with his impudent irony. but "The
Way of All Flesh" is condemned for
being bitter and dishonorable and the
approbation of Bernard Shaw and
Gilbert Cannan is turned into an in
Gictment
The other essays deal with "On the
Cosmic Relations" by Henry Holt:
and 'Recollections." by Viscount
Morley
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

crutches of gold and silver that the
reader is liable to lose track of them
altogether for sheer glitter.
Prof Phelps romps through his book
with the joyous zest of a healthy un-
dergraduate, exuberantly confirming
opinions. that the average. fairly in
telligent man has long since careless
ly accepted as crystallized contempory
judgment This sort of person isn't
concerned with the fact that a later
time will smash the crystal into paste,
analyZe it and find an unhreakable
piece here and there 10 keep for It
self and pass on. He knows what the
world in general thinks of Barrie and
Shaw. and II pleases him to think he
thinks the same. Now along comes
DR.. Phelps and blows the good news
into his ear as if he had just dis
yawp. IT sounds like a plain case of
too much animal spirits. The doctor
should be indoors more.
The opening sentence on Barrie is
beautifully illustrative. Perhaps the
most intelligent attitude to take to-
ward the plays of j. M. Barrie is un-
conditional surrender" trills our jolly
playboy. IF one unreservedly yields
ones mind and heart to their enfolding
charm then one will understand them.
Otherwise never Understanding of
many things comes only through sub
mission" And so forth. Well, here's
a go. It's pity one can't make out a
woman by the same method.
If this is the kind of thing the Yale
undergraduate is fed on, no wonder
he has-or used to have-good teams.
He will again. His scholastic life must
be as serene as a midsummer day in
the life Of a piping Strephon. He sun
renders Internationally, and lopes off
to the football field with full under
standing of the graphically clear-as
it were--the magical and mystic Bar
rie. 1t must be great stimulant in
drop kicking. 1t must also turn out
the kind of playgoer that ticket spec
ulators pray for.
The one lean piece of meat in the
sizzling fat of the professors ecstasy
is his essay ON Fitch-barring, of
course the resurrection in the pref
lace. He knew Fitch, and he gives us
a portrait of the man, interesting and
instructive. Personal contact seems to
have sobered him and turned his crit
ical legs away from the ballet man
ner of the other essays.
II is a great pleasure to leave the
doctor in his maturest mood. Here
are three passages from the Fitch
paper showing how character may
enter into mans attitude toward
clothes:
When | was a boy in the Hartford
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Reviewed by
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN.

Prof. Phelps's book contains papers
on six playwrights-Barrie, Shaw,
Galsworthy, Fitch, Maeterlinck and
Rostand. In his foreword the profess
sor SAYS: Il have not selected these
dramatists because I believe them to
be exclusively the best, but because
chose to write about them. Their work
interests me. and they are modern.
two ought to be-"
Precisely what the learned author
had in mind when he wrote the last
sentence is not clear, but it has a
kindly and comforting ring, and is no
doubt the kind of remark most dead
men would prefer to have made about
them. Messrs. Fitch and Rostand must
be deeply solaced by the thought that
Time is eternally their debtor. and
the Fates eXasperated by the knowl-
edge that they owe something they
can never repay. 1t is a palpable hit.
tt is obviously not criticism. and it
may not, as the vernacular has it..
mean anything. but friendlier and
print.
1t is also iluminative of the pro-
fessor,s method. 1t cannot be said that
Ihe is ever informative, but he is so
gentle and agreeable that one cannot
help instinctively choosing him for a
lbiographer. The last thirty years."
Isays the doctor, In the same unfor-
Igettable preface in which Rostand> and
Fitch rise from the dead, will prob
ably be regarded by future historians
las a great creative period in the
drama" The reader of later genera
tion who stumbles on DR.. Phelps's book
is not to be envied. He will kick his
own shins for having been born so
miserably out of date. A record of so
many great plays will never fall into
his hands again. He will imagine a
veritable epidemic in which play
wrights were quarantined to keep
them from injecting green grocers and
subway guards with dramatic great
ness and so disorgahizing the social
system. Since most of the plays so
designated will by that time be quite
forgotten. the hapless reader will never
have a chance to undeceive himself.
His only hope will be in certain
idiosyncrasy of Prof. Phelpss. " The
doctor evidently has little faith in the
ability of nouns and verbs 10 walk on
their own legs. so he holsters them up
with such adjectival and adverbial
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Reviewed by
MILDRED L. BLUMENTHAL.

In an essay on Book Reviewing"
contained in this volume. Mr.. Lynd
tells us that Reviewing alas. is for
the most part the record of the souls
adventures among books that are the
reverse of masterpieces" and to avoid
fallacious criticism a reviewer is urged
TO bear in mind the aim Of the book.
He should Judge linen as linen. cotton
as cotton, and shoddy as shoddy," but
1T is ridiculous to denounce any OF
them for not being silk" To say that
The Art OF Letters" is silk would be
inadeQuate; II is brocade, silk brocade
If you wrl, but with fine threads OF
silver and gold running through the
warp ana woof of the rich all-over
pattern OF its versatile appreciations.
Mr.. Lynd's book is an advent In
literary criticism, for II has increased
by one the small number of genuinely
interpretative critical volumes. In a
series of miniatures the author reveals
an unusual insight into the char
acteristics of some OF the diverse and
complex personalities in English ltera-
ture He understands and appreciates
the peculiar admixture of their incon-
sistencies and contradictions their
keen sufferings and unholy joys. their
aspiring nobilities and earthly failings,
their music. their beauty, their truth
Above all Mr.. Lynd has the power of
recreatne his authors. and despite
discerning and clear analysis his re-
suit is invariably so synthetic that one
is oftentimes startled 20 feel the still
pulsating heart of a contradictory
Pepys, a tortured Donne. dainty
Walpole, or q buoyant Morris.
The ascetic streak Of Mr.. Pepys. pale
but distinctive enough to be quite
palpable and the simplicity with which
he lived a double life. lead Mr.. Lynd
to characterize tho joyful Samuel as a
sort OF Scotch Puritan But II must
he remembered that MIR. Pepys was
a spectator and a gourmet even more
than he was q Puritan He was n
Puritan. indeed. only north-porthwest
His Puritanism was something less
than himself. 1t was y pair Of creak-
ing Sunday boots on the feet Of
pagan" Living as he did with one
eye on the lasses and the other on
the meenlster." he strikes Mr. Lynd
as Scottish. particularly since "he was
notoriously respectable, notoriously
Woodworking Judge Of sermons,
fond OF the bottle. cautious, thrifty"
Pepys's Diary Is not merely tho iot-
tings Of his doings and his thoughts
n Is his Confession. and Mr.. Lynd
reminds us that occasionally for lack
OF priest. keen appreciators Of life
like criminals, lovers and other ego
ists' arc quite apt 70 confess in soli-
tude, or to ears that hear not. Thus
is the soul purged and oased for
further appreciation But In spite Of
his drinking and laughter his rolling
eye and promiscuous kissing. his sweet
dreams and his readiness AZ all times
10 give way to musique and women"
Mr. Pepys never entirely shakes off his
timidity. - AZ a crisis he dare not
confess in English even in cipher,
but puts the worst in bad French with
a blush" His shell Of standards and
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a
TOOTH" would certainly meet with op-
ponents: and few mothers would con-
sent TO the Spartan practice of slay-
Ing subnormai infants. Like most
creators of superstates, DR.. Hall has
modelled his Utopia upon theories
that would have little chance OF gem
eral acceptance and IL IL somewhat
too evident that his point OF view is In
vincibly that OF the scientist. But the
fact remains that he has imagined a
civilization undoubtedly superior to
our own, made that civilization con-
vincing and-what Is more significant
made its decline convincing. And in
sketching that decline he plays the
satirist TO good effect After thousands
of years of Utopia the people become
discontented with their superior con-
dtion; they cry out for less restraint.
more individual freedom. &C., and
gradually demolish the structure IL has
taken ages to erect. Among the most
important features Of the fatal revolt
arc strikes Of teachers. preachers, ply
sicians and finally Of women.
In 80 far as the author here at
tempts TO assai the forces prominent
in industrial disputes, he seems to
share in the common faults OF the
satirist In being too superficial. as
suming TOO much. and resorting to
ridicule that has no necessary rela-
ton TO the facts But In so far as he
attacks selfishness. individual and col
lective, the selhshness of the single
man as well as Of the organized group,
he teaches a gigantic object lesson, a
lesson that may open the eyes Of the
most complacent and serve as guide
and a warning against the pitfalls that
beset the extinct supermen OF Atlantis
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Sociology Troubled
The Earliest Times

SOCIOLOGY: ITS DEVELOPMENT
AND APPLICATIONS. BY James @.
Daley. D. Appleton & Co.
Prof. Daley has written a very COM
prehensive account Of sociology from
the earliest times. He studies the
proverbs of a-Hotep and the doc
trines of Confucius as well as the
teachings of the Greek philosophers.
He shows how anthropology, biology
and psychology have made their con-
tributions in recent. times to the
science of sociology. His survey has
no crimes of omission and yet his ma
terial is handled with a good sense of
proportion.
One who sets out with the aim of
summarizing the best thoughts of
others can hardly be expected to make
new contributions to science. How
ever, Professor Daley's attitude is
worth noting and we hope that it is
shared by others. This is his mes
sage.
When sociology lends itself so
readily to a sort OF religious interpre-
tation of social movements. Ii is not
strange that many people find it a
kind Of inspiration for life. Back of
statistics and the cold logic of science
Is belief in the perfectibility of man.
kind. The perfection of humanity on
earth, however, lies far in the future,
and it may be that many thousands of
years will be needed before the possi-
bilities become real. Yet the human
mind is so constituted that II will con-
tinue TO dream of the good time COM
ing, and as 1t frees itself from error
and Illusion its utopianism will gradu-
ally merge into science of provision.
and social energy will strive method
fcally to bring about a social recon-
struction founded on reason and in
spired by the hope Of final achieve
ment"
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Samuel Pepys and William Morris Enjoyed Life Varousy

decorum is always Puritanical. but the
diary of his heart reveals pig. "One
thinks of him sometimes as a sort of
Deacon Brodie, sometimes as the most
innocent sinner who ever lived. For,
though he was brutal and snobbish and
self-seeking and simian, he had a
pious and merry and a grateful
heart
How different is the picture of the
suffering. disillusioned pagan Chris
tian John Dome! He. too. was pious,
but his was the piety of passion, not
of>gloss. He was intensely alive, with
his body. his mind and his soul
aquiver. He thirsted for every phase
of experience that life could offer
physical, intellectual, emotional He
studied continuously. inquired search
ingly, thought profoundly and loved
widely and deeply, but always with a
degree of conflict and dissatisfaction.
And he writes without restraint
Dome was by destiny the complete
experimentalist in love in English
literature. He passed through phase
after phase Of love OF the body only,
phase after phase of love OF the soul
only and ended as the poet of perfect
marriage" The extent 10 which
Donne's writings reveal his actual ex-
perience, as apart from that which
was born Of his fecund Imagination,
can be a matter Of conjecture only.
Mr.. Lynd doubts whether Donne was
ever gay, even as youthful' jesting
free lover. and believes that "far from
being primarily the poet of desire
gratified and satiated. Donne is essen
TALLY the poet of frustrated love"
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

For this reason the author attrib-
utes Donne's greatest poetry TO the
struggle and conflict in the obscure
depths of his soul Had he
been less of frustrated lover. less of
a martyr. much of his greatest poetry
would never have been written. .
His progress as a lover was progress
from infidelity to fidelity. from wan
dering amorousness to deep and en-
curing passion The image that is
finally stamped on his greatest work
is not that of a rowing adulterer but
of monotheist of love- The after
was his religious conversion. at first
a mere formal change from Catholi-
cism to Professionalism, but later de-
veloping into that passionate, COM
plete and enduring spiritual conver-
sion which is manifest throughout his
Sermons and Divine Poems.
There was nothing so painful. so
searching or so frank about Horace
Walpole. True he had his enthusi-
asms. but very carefully disguised
rnder the whimsical mask of an "eigh-
tttIitl 1tHluIy man VI ldSluOl WHlIIi
he took great delight in wearing.
HE affected coolness. disdain, anna
teurishness, triviality. He was a china
figure OF insolence. He lived on the
mantelplece and regarded everything
that happened on the floor as rather
low Joke that could not be helped.
II he descended from his man
telpiece IL was more likely in order to
feed n squirrel than TO save an empire" !"
In William Norris, on the other
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Reviewed by
STANTON A. COBLENTZ.

This book should prove source OF
recreation for the reader as well as for
the author II contains number of
interesting stories sketches and auto
biographical narratives, some Of them
lngenuously conceived, and all of them
iIlumincd here and there with a
CLEAN of humor. But the most no
table work in the book should pro-
vide not only recreation, but plentiful
food for thought. This Is The Fall of
Atlantis" story based on the old
legend that has stimulated minds no
less great than those of Plato and
Bacon.
The narrative takes us first forward
many years to the rediscovery OF the
sunlen island OF Atlantis, and then
back thousands Of years 10 the golden
days Of the island, when its people had
attained civilization far surpassins
our own But the bulk Of the story Is
occupied not with the rise or glory OF
Atlantis, as tho title indicates. II Is
concerned with the decay and destruc-
ton Of the super civilization. and
therefore seems 10 direct toward our
own civilization something Of the
ironic sneer Of the pessfmist and OF
the warning voice OF the prophet
Though Atlantis at its prime in
clined toward the Utopian, Il would be
an exaggeration 10 say that 1t was
actually perfection. Many OF its Gus
toms would be considered backward
even in our time. The punishment Of
criminals according TO the doctrine,
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
CRITICAL ESSAYISTS ANALYZE LITERATURE

Public High School one of my class
mates vas named William c. Fitch.
OF all the students he was the most
peculiar. the most eccentric. He was
unlike the normal boy in clothes, ap-
pearance, gait, manners, tastes, Ian
guage and voice. No other youth
would ever have dared TO wear such
Clothes they were indeed clean, with
out spot or blemish. looked as if they
were being worn for the first time,
which in itself fills the ordinary wearer
with terror as he enters the school
grounds; but the radiance of those
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Fiction.

THE MAN WHO DID THE RIGHT
THING-By Sir Harry Johnston. Mac
milan
THE ENCHANTED CANYON-Rv
Honore Willsie. Stokes.
LES DRAPEAUX-By Paul Rehotix.
Two volumes In French. Paris: Err
nest Flammarion. 2s. Rue Racine.
OVERLOOK HOUSE-By VIII Payne.
Dodd-Mead.
VAL OF PARADISE-By vingie E. Roe.
Dodd- Mead
THE HALL AND THE GRANGE-By
Archibald Marshall. .Dodd-Mead.
THE UNLIGHTED HOUSE-By James
Hay. Jr. Dodd-Mead.
A COURAGEOUS MARRIAGE-By
Marguerite Bryant. Duffield.
"FOLKS"-By Victor Murdock. Mac
milan.
EVERY POLITICIAN AND HIS WIFE
BY Adele s. Burleson. Philadelphia:
Dorrance a. Co.
ROSA MUNDI AND OTHER STORIES
by Ethel NJ. Dell. Putnam.
THE HOUSE IN QUEEN ANNE
SQUARE-By w. y. Lytel. Putnam
History and Public Affairs.
A DIPLOMAT IN JAPAN-By the
Right Hon. Sir Ernest Satow. Lippin-
colt.
OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE WAR:
THE MERCHANT MARINE. Vol
ume One-By Archibald Hurd. Long
mans. Green.
THE McCARTHys IN EARLY AMER
1CAN HISTORY-By Michael j.
O'Brien. Dodd-Mead.
EDITORIALS FROM THE WASHING
TON POST: l9i7-192o-By Ira L. Ben
nett Washington, -. c.: Washington
Post Company.
WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE EARL Y
DAYS OF THE SOCIALIST MOVE
MENT-By D. Bruce Glasier Long
mans. Green.
LIE DRoIT INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC
PoSITIF-By j. de Louter. Volume
one. IN French. oxford University
Press
Health.
SLEEPING FOR HEALTH-By Edwin
+. Bowers New York: Britton Pub
fishing Company.
A BILL or DIvoRCEMENT-By
Clemence Dane. Macmillan.
SHERWOOD or ROBIN HOOD AND
THE THREE KINGS. A play in
five acts-By Alfred Noyes Stokes.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

the other boys. So | always hid these
offensive things before reaching
school. and put them on again on my
way home. / hated football, baseball; j;
was bored to death by all sports; and
| did not see why | should do things
hated to do merely to conform to pub
lie opinion
Finally the critic adds this COM
ment:
Judged by the standards most peo-
pie use in estimating success, he was
right and all the rest of us were
wrong; for in later years we are cred
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Books of the Week


Verse.
PoEMS-By Augusta L. stetson. Put
nam.
SHIPS IN HARBoUR-By David Nor
ton. Putnam.
AVON'S HARvEST'-By Edwin Airing
ton Robinson. Macmillan
HORTZONS-By Viola c. White. Yale
University Press.
Outdoors and Travel.
THE MOTOR CAMPING BOoK-By
Elon Jessup. Putnam.
TOPEE AND TURBAN: or HERE AND
THERE IN INDIA-By Lieut-Col III.
"A. Newell, J. "A. John Lane.
Business.
AMERICAN BUSINESS METHODS
FOR INCREASING PROJECTION
AND REDUCING COSTS IN FAC
TORY, STORE AND OFFICE-By
FLOYD w. Parsons Putnam.
Psychical Research.
DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOM-
ENA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE
TO MMORTALITY-By Hereward
Darlington. Dodd-Mead.
MANS UNCONSCIOUS SPIRIT-By
Wilfrid Lay. Dodd-Mead.
fHAdhENTS OF TRUTH-By Richard
1ngalese and Isabella Ingalese. Dodd-
Mead.
Writers and writing.
THE MEN or THE NINETIES: Being
Note on Some OF the Writers Of
That Period-By Bernard Muddiman.
Putnam.
Juvenile.
OUR LITTLE CRUSADER COUSIN OF
LONG AGO: Being the story OF Hugh,
Page to King Richard OF England, in
the Third Crusade-By Evalcen Stein
Boston: Page Company.
miscellaneous.
THE HILLS AND THE CORN: A
Legend of the Kekchl Indians OF
Guatemala. Translated into English
by Robert Burkltt. Philadelphia Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Museum
IRISH GLASS: AN ACCOUNT OF
GLASS-MAKING IN IRELAND
FROM THE xvTTH CENTURY TO
THE PRESENT DAY-By NJ. S. Dud-
ley westropp Lippincott
SCIENCE OF FIRE FfGHTTNG-By
Luke Flanagan. New York Fire De-
rartment. Published by tire author
MOTHER AND CHILD-By Edward r.
Davis. Lippincott.
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glossy garments almost hurt the un-
protected eye, and they We're cut in a
manner that we should not call futur-
ist."
In writing of the dramatist of later
years Prof. Phelps quotes Fitch's own
reference to his school days:
The only concession | ever made
was this: on stormy days my mother
forced me to wear overshoes to- school
which / hated. and | knew 1t would
not do to appear rubber shod before