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among writers-ecstasy. From his
pen there came frenzy-a frenzy of
Joy in his work that was pagan. He
thought and felt dithyrambically. He
hurled his seed and forgot the harvest
going on to new fields. To me.
Huneker. physically as well as ar
tistically seemed to leave a trail Of
unearthly light behind him.
And withal he was the most modest
of men--a man who always seemed
somewhat ashamed of his greatness.
Or did he wear that mask of clownish-
ness that Nietzsche told every great
man to don when he went among the
swineherds and long ears? / put it
as a question through sheer politeness
for ] know what J know.
Huneker loved human nature with
the same passion as Walt Whitman.
I have stood for hours with him while
he talked to bartenders. cabbies. po-
licemen. gamblers and porters. He
was curious of everything that God
had created. Optimism" and pes
simism" were to him obsolete words.
Life was good because ii was an adj
venture. Good and evil were also
mere words to Huneker. Experience
was Grace. In one of his last letters
10 me he said happiness was n snare
no man could be happy and create. He
was Rabelaisian. Heinesque-and as
gentle as a woman. In n word. the
most extraordinary man-with Poe
and Whtman--that America has pro-
duced and in his field their equal.
Szukalski. the sculptor. says that
criticism is a bird and n sword. The
Criticism" of Huneker was just that
"a bird and sword He flew while
he destroyed He bullded and razed
with the same hand. Francis Wilson
put IL beautifully in his speech over
the corpse of Huneker at the Town
Hall when he spoke Of his "construc-
tive condemnation" - referring TO
Buneker's work as dramatic critic.
Huneker despised fake, sham. puff.
camouhage. bunk---in fact he despised
and satirized publicly and privately
almost everything that makes ZIP the
America of to-day. But no man ut
tered louder or longer hosannas when
an American did something real In art,
letters. the drama or music.
Huneker was not attached to any
school. movement or ism. He was
Hunckcr first, last and all the time
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Reappears

carefully hidden and not shown TO
any one. The book is dedicated TO his
mother, and the picture of his old
home near Pescara and his mothers
care for him and her tenderness to
see that the fire was alight all night
are infinitely touching and will COM
pare with the best pages that the poet
has ever written.
Some of the descriptions of incl
dents of the war are stupendous. In
his delirium these events through
which he passed were conjured up
again within his bandaged eyes. A
great raid was to be carried out on
the Dalmatian coast. The night be-
fore his pilot in a trial flight crashed
into the sea and was drowned. DAN
nunzio, who was saved, watched his
body throughout the night. He de-
scribes all the little details of the
placing of the body in the coffin, the
journey across the lagoon to the
island of the dead and the final burial
all this with infinite grace.
Another night when sleep would not
come to him he feels the bed rocking
like the double wings of an airplane
between sky and water. To get a
whiff of the fresh air of the Adriatic
he opens his mouth, but no relief
comes. At the end Of the bed without
his mask and pilots cap he sees the
face of his pilot, Alfredo Barbieri, and
there follows the picture of the raid
on Lubiana, in which D'AnnunZio was
to have taken part, but at the last
minute was substituted by another.
Barbieri was killed with the pilof.
"Time after time all the passions Of
all the times sweep across my band
aged eyes, innumerable like the hot
sand through the clinched fist. But
7 recognize them. Are not these the
mad days of May, of the evening al
the Capitol? Forms fitting. shrek
ing
All the visions of his past life pass
before those eyes; the music of Bee
thoven, Frescobaldi, Scriabine. Paris
records and remembrances of his eX-
lie on the Atlantic coast near Car
cachon. A flower culled by the Cathe-
dral of Pisa, night ride in the desert
near Cairo, a torpedo boat raid under
Piero Orsini and visit TO the Moro
sini Isle with it's big naval guns. One
Of the finest phantasms is that of
holy week. 1T is holy Friday. it is
the birthday of Rome. All those who
are dead in battle, all have given their
lives as the price of the world. All
those who work and worry to feed the
battle, all give their pains as the price
of the world. All those who take their
share fight and die in this most just
war. all share and fight and die for
the price of the world" But con-
valescence has begun. and the work
was completed for what little re-
manned later
This history of the writing of the
book is not to be found as might he
expected at the beginning of the book,
but is placed at the end. The con-
tents are divided into two parts which
are called by the author Offerings"
7. A. SINCLAIR POOI4EY.
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SDonGCnce of about three years before
I ever laid eyes on the greatest liter
airy magician that this country has yet
produced.
I first saw him at the old Garden
Theatre. at an opening performance of
one of Zangwills plays-the name Of
which now escapes me. could not get
10 him between the acts.
But the great day-or night-came a
few years later. 1t was in Jacks"
restaurant one Saturday highland
those old Saturday nights in Jacks"
were things ever to be remembered It
was about / o'clock Sunday morning.
was deep in my third or fourth
seidel of Pilsner-a beverage that was
to Jim the elixir of Hesperus-when in
blew Hunekcr from Sixth avenue, lead
ing a crowd made up of BILLY" Glack-
ems, George Luks, Ernest Lawson, Fer
dinand Sinzig and Frederick James
Gregg -N
Huneker had on a flaring red tic, a
perfectly fitting gray tailormade suit,
and the radiance of his face-Olympian
auJ Arstophanic-dim the incan-
dcscents.
After he had got seated went over
ard announced myself.
"Nietzsche or Schopenhauer?" he
thundered at me. That was his greet
ing and the first words he ever spoke
tc me. II was typical of the man.
NV health. the weather. what was I
dcing-these were of no consequence.
Had 7 deserted the Book of Ecclesi-
astes" for Thus Spake Zarathustra" q?
That's all he needed to know at that
moment. ] do not remember my an
gwer. II could not have been very
erllghtening. anyhow, for he showed
me into n seat at the table without
listening to me, ordered for me "a
couple Of seidels" and took from my
lar the book had with me. II was
r. collection of essays by Iafcadio
Iearn. lie glanced Mt the title, and
laid It back in my lap with the com
mcnt:
"Hearn--impressio style
no stufflug."
Ono by one the others left, and
Huneker and I were left alone. We
discussed. debated and wrangled over
Hearn. Nietzsche. Schopenhauer, Amiel,
Whitman, Haeckel. Darwin, Swim
burne. Anatole France, D'Annunzlo,
Tfuysmans, Marie Bashkirtseff, Roose-
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Welt Philadelphia, Duse, Emerson, Max
Stirner, William Penn and heaven
knows what until Z o'clock in the
morning. We then both bowed our
heads in slumber on the table-which
was quite the vogue in those days in
Jacks" at Z o'clock Sunday morning.
From that time on 1 saw him quite
n great deal and corresponded with
him almost up to the day of his final
sleep. When he went to Europe he
would send me a postal from every
town he visited. He always came
back with an inexhaustible store of
anecdote. He seemed to have the eyes
of a hy-and brain that was a
camera.
The last time / saw Huneker was
about a month before his death. lie
was coming out of the Metropolitan
Opera House He looked tired and
bored as indeed he was. We went to
q bar. where we drank near beer. His
remarks about prohibition We're all
that n free born Americans should be
although quite. quite unprintable.
All of James Huneker's work from
"Mezzotints in Modern Music" TO
variations" is variation on one
theme-genius. Did ever n man--with
the exception of Victor Hugo-ever
glorify in such prose the one thing
that justifies the existence Of man on
the planct-genius-a James Hume
ker's? Genius was 10 him the vesti-
bule to the temple Of the Mansion in
the skies. The productions Of the
great composers writer's. painters,
poets and sculptors made for him a
veritable fairyland. And with The
magic OF words he lifts all his readers
bodily into that Never Never Land.
He knew more than any other man OF
his time the esoteric meaning OF And
in the beginning was the Word
without expression there can he no
creation. The Word is tho creational
nat. There must always he an An
nunciatlon. Music was the Eternal
Beauty OF Plato made manifest In
sound: poetry was its epiphany in
words; paint its ef1lorescence In color.
His valuations were instantaneous
immediate reactions of his exquisite
sensibllity 10 eternals. He was the
arch enemy of the academic. of the
platitudinous, Of the sentimental Of
lipstick English.
lie possessed that rarcst of gifts
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ing of other men when his hero comes
in question.
The whistler Journal" is rich in
every kind of value. II is no retelling
of the Life" It's very informality
charms the reader. Here is a unique
word picture of Whistler III 1884:
"At this period. and during the
greater part Of his life, when he was
in the studio at work. Whistler looked
not unlike al old Fashioned American
barkeeper because he wore "a wliite
waistcoat with sleeves which all bar
keepers used 70 wear and also because
he had the thick curly hair which
many of them culti. 9ted. Thcy iuggled
with glasses, "A lost art"
But this is not a mere record of eN
ternals Here is Whistler, the honest
worker, always Learning:
But he knew Whistler preferred to
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A Personal Tribute and a Review
Nv BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.


r LOOK on my friendship-both
actual and epistolary-of twenty
l. years with James Huneker as
one of my most precious and inspiring
possessions. It was he who pro
nounced for me "Open Sesame!" be-
fore the golden gates Of European
literature and art. have never been
on the Continent of Europe-except
mentally. It was James Huneker in
the opening years of this century who
was both Cook and Baedeker to me.
Then there were his electric, dynamic
style. his ecstatic enthusiasm before
the men he loved, his carousing, toler-
ant and vivid personality, his scholar
ship-often obscured by his incan-
descent brilliancy-the perfect union
of heart and head. his aristocratic de-
mocracy, his Unsuitable pursuit of
variation, his swift and acute evalua-
tions of men and their product-all
these came with terrific impact on
myself and the rising generation of
Americans at n time when we were
CRYING for n Moses 10 lead us out of
the house OF the slavery Of provincial
ism.
Although we were both on the same
paper-the old morning SuN-at the
time ne became dramatic editor-suc-
ceeding. believe. Franklin Fyles-
we did not meet. He seldom came to
the office. But on the appearance of
his first Sunday article-on D'Annun-
zio and Dusc-the latter at that time
appearing In la Citta Morta," La
Gioconda" and other plays of the great
Italian poet at the Metropolitan Opera
House struck MP n correspondence
with him.
Hero is tho American ] have been
looking for" I said to myself Here
is tho man who will lay the House Of
Snug in ruins--thc American who
laws about him with a jcwelled club"
7 think my first letter TO him began
with "Ecce Homo, AT which the
brain Of Jim Huneker must have
smiled grin. His sense of humor
was half of his genius
Then began an intermittent corre-
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| hear the truth. would rather have you
say what you thought than get off the
usual commonplaces. Some years ago,
in Whister's studio with Lavery,
Whistler showed them a portrait he
was doing and asked their opinion.
Walton started to oriticise, but Lavery
interrupted, oh, Mr. Whistler, we
would not venture to criticise your
work. Whistler, however, paid no at
tention to Lavery. but made Walton
say what he had begun to say and
then argued It out with him, just as
any other artist would have done. We
know for ourselves how little Whistler
liked the % Great MASTER attitude
the % splendid o wonderful"
There is new matter about the Rus
kin row with Whistler. It doesn't seem
very important. This paragraph
throws light on Mrs. Rushins final
preference for Millais:
"Rusllin. Sandys said, treated Lady
Millais when she was Mrs. Rusl<in
abominably He was not brutal, he
never reproved her But he kept a
had her up before him and read her
every day in the past week.
The book is full of good stories
about all sorts of famous people. Here
comes in the author of "Sartor Re
sartuS":
HE later told the story of Carlyle
and the painting of the portrait more
completely than before-that is, to us.
There were ladies in Chelsea-well-
Nine. Ventura. who was determined
that should paint it. | used to go
often to Nine. Venturi's. | met MaZzini
there, and Mazzini was most charming.
Nine. Ventura often visited me- and
cne day she brought Carlyle. The
Mother was there. and Carlyle saw
il and seemed to feel in it a certain fit
ness of things. as Nine. Ventura meant
he should. He liked the simplicity Of
il. the old lady sitting with her hands
in her lap, and he said he would be
painted And he came one morning
soon, and he sat down. and | had the
canvas ready and my brushes and
palette. and Carlyle said And now.
mon, fire away. That wasn't my idea
of how work should be done and
Carlyle realized it. for he added: If
yere fighting battles or painting pic
lures. the only thing to do is to fire
away one day he told me of others
who had painted his portrait. There
was Mr.. Watts, 4 mon of note. And l
went to his studio. and there was much
meestification. and screens were drawn
round the easel and curtains were
drawn. and / was not allowed to see
anything And then at last the screens
were put aside and there I was. And
7 looked Mr.. Watts. a great mon. he
said to me: How do you like 1t? And
! turned to Mr.. Watts and ] said:
Mon. ! would have we know / am in
the hobit of wuring clean lunen. But
Carlyle agreed that ] had given him
clean linen. and he liked the portrait
he told people afterward that he had
been there. talking and talking, and
that | had just gone on with my work.
and had paid no attention TO him what
ever"
Both volumes arc fun of good pic
lures. But the text alone more than
justifies them
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PenneI Tells How Artists Ignorance
Held Up Work on Liberty Loan Posters

when they had been so made the
originals had to be photographed onto
sheets of zinc or stone or redrawn on
the zinc or stone by trained crafts
nan in lithography
About five of the five hundred
artists who made war posters under
stood lithography. and the other four
hundred and ninety-five did not The
consequence was that the four hundred
and ninety five posters had to be re-
drawn, and this not only delayed the
United States Liberty Loans but it
cost the United States Government an
enormous sum of money for unneces-
sary time and labor.
And every artisc whose work was
copied and redrawn also vas disap
pointed. He knew nothing about the
art, and most of the so-cslled litho-
graphic artists knew nothing about
design. and the result was that in
every case the drawings were changed
and lost in character excepting those
of the half dozen men who did know"
OF course il is pity that so much
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hand. If. therefore" explains Mr..
Pennell, "the book seems to be
talked instead of written, it is what
want, what I have said, what l have
learned, what i believe. 1t is
myself And though talked in six
hours. it has taken sixty years to get
together" There is plenty of wisdom
here. of the kind that can be got only
by experience. And Pennell is right in
emphazing the need for more attention
to such training to meet world. compe-
tition:
1--WE are going to have to hght in
the immediate future not only our enc
mics but our allies. and they are
trained craftsmen, and unless we are
prepared to take up nationally the
teaching of the graphic arts and the
applied arts and the industrial arts our
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lanes Mcneil Whistler.

enemies and our friends are going to
do our art work for US"
He illustrates the shameful result in
great crisis of the lack of such train
ing. Even the people who consider art
something a nation can take or leave
must see the force of this:
Those colored posters that you have
seen, the war posters that were issued
for Liberty Loans were nearly every
one of them think all of them-done
in lithography. but they were nearly all
of them done by men and women who
did not know anything about lithog-
raphy. And the drawings were most
ly made not in photographic chalk but
as water colors or oil paintings. ana
Joseph Pennell.
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o T Pencils
W r / t i n g
s h o ul d be
m a L I @ q
by scolding.
Even if his
never end
ing indict-
ment of our
day were all
true it is ir-
relevant o +
at least he
could get the
poison o u {
of his sys
TEN by one
good page of
danns and
be done with
it. But never
Hilflu. II !
ore is full of
gold. w G
must forgive
the bad tenn
per, just as
we overlook
n i S slight
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cenceS oI giants
with a guidance in
r. a T { S m a nship
that should be of
use to sincere art
lists of the future,
even if they are
only little giants.
The lectures that
make up The
era p hi e Arts"
we're delivered at
the Art Institute
of Chicago on the
Scammon Founda-
ton. They were
reported in short
The New York herald., 1921-12-18

HERE AND NOW STORY BOOK BY
Lucy Sprague Mitch ell. Experimental
stories written for the children from
2 to years old OF the City and Coun-
try School or the Bureau of Educa-
tional Experiments. Illustrated by
Hendrix Van Loon. f. p. Dutton &
Co
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VARIATIONS. BY James Huneker.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
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THE GRAPHIC AkTS. Modern Men
and Modern Methods. By Joseph PEN
nell. illustrated. University of Chi
cago Press.
THE WHISTLER JOURNAL. BY E. r.
and J. Pennell, authors of the Author
lied Life oil James Men. Whistler
Illustrated Philadelphia ]. p. Lip
pincott Company
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RS. MITCHELL has largely
succeeded She has made a
new and bcautiful contribu-
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got more arts and letters than usually
come in one bundle. And as If to dem
onstrate the fact the two books listed
above were issued at about the same
time. The partnership of Mrs. Pennell
in the second is happy illustration
of kind of picture-and-te comrade-
ship which has been not uncommon
in America. to mention only the Blash-
fields and Walter and Louise Hale
Readers of the old Century will re-
member the armchair travels through
less known Europe they used to de-
a- light in. with Elizabeth
III and Joseph.
These two book
min gle glowing reu1inis-
Arizona republican., 1921-04-05
NATURE VERSUS ROUGE

To paint or not to paint; That is the question.
 To affect the corner drug store complexion or back to nature2 That is the puzzling question to Miss 1921.
 Men have, for the most part, dip lomaticaly avoided the issue.
 However, at last, one brave man has dared to declare a ban on rouge for the girls in his office.
 Dr. Manton M Carrick, state health officer of Texas, issued orders to the 20 young women employed in his of flee to boycott rouge.
 Rouge Is an irritant, he told them. Tt produces skin disease. It injures instead of improving the looks of a woman"
 Two weeks later their boss states that they had been growing prett1ef and their skin had become clearer and the healthy glow was returning to their cheeks
 Deep down in our nature there IS something that demands the genuine and even the faintest glow of health that tinges the cheeks of a woman Is preferable to the richest rosebud hue that bears the telltale marks of hay ing come from the corner drug store
Arizona republican., 1921-04-05
Sta5|sEteff1atys Kitcfi{aHl1

fat. Remove seeds and veins from peppers, cover with boiling water and cook until soft Rub through a sieve. Mince onion and garlic. Cook meat, perpper pulp. onion and garlic in boiling water to more than cover till meat is tender When done thick en with flour and butter cooked to- gether.
 Baked Beans Without Molasses
 Two cups navy beans, 4 teaspoon soda, 1 very small onion, A pound salt pork or bacon, 1 F teaspoons salt, Is teaspoon mustard.
 Soak beans in cold water for four or five hours. Put over the fire with enough fresh water to cover, add soda and bring slowly to the boiling point. Drain through a colander and rinse under running water. Cover the bot tom of the bean pot with thin slices of pork. Add onion, whole, and pour in beans Score the rind of the re- maining pork and bury in beans. Mix salt and mustard with l cup of boiling water and pour over beans Add enough more cold water to cover Put cover on bean pot and bake six or eight hours in a slow oven-
Arizona republican., 1921-04-05
PHILIP GIBBS AND pR. COOK

What year was it that Doctor Cook did not reach the North Pole? I for get, and I am jotting down these very imperfect memories in a remote viii lage many miles away from any ref erence books
 Anyway, Philip Gibbs was at Co., penhagen with a number of other London journalists, among them MT. Stead, to meet that accomplished explorer. Every one else swallowed Doctor Cooks connections, but Philip Gibbs refused to do so. He smelled a rat, and he went for the unfor- tunate imposter like a rat terrier.
 All his newspaper colleagues thought he was making a fool of him self-even Mir. Stead urged him to de- sist. declaring that he was ruining his whole career. I remember how anxi- ous I was for him, myself, for he seemed to be judging by instinct rather than on evidence. and there was material for a libel action in his every message. But he was perfectly right. and all ended happily-exccpi for poor Doctor Cook. - Frederic Whyte in the BoolSman.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-05
MRS. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH | SHOOK HANDS OF VISITORS

One of the official guides who shows visiting strangers around the
 United States Capitol will be willing
 and anxious to work for the nomina-
 ton of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
 worth if she ever decides to become candidate for the high office her father held. Mrs. Longworth is a
 consistent attendant at the sessions of the senate and as consequence she
 has become quite well known to most of the guides and Capitol attaches. It | is worth while for a guide to do more | than the perfunctory, and if he suc- ceeds in pointing out a few celebri- | ties in his tour his fee is likely to | be increased by few tips
 This particular guide was showing | a string of visitors through the Cap | ito1. As he left the supreme court room and turned to go over into the senate wing, he spied Mrs. LonSworth | coming toward him.
 There he said. not too modestly | so Mrs. Longworth could hear him | and at the same time not so loud fl | would be offensive, lis Mrs. Alice | Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of the
 late president and wife of the dis | unguished member of congress from | Ohio."
 He turned toward Mrs Longworti
 and took off his cap. She smiled ana
 the guide had an inspiration.
 Mrs. Longworth, will you shak'