The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-22

THE Heritage and Other Stories"
Viola Brothers Shore, who at ona
time, had not a thought nor an am
bition beyond her business career
and later her husband and chill
dren, is now a full-1edged author
who has thoroughly and convinc.
ingly arrived. Her volume of short
stories has Just been published BY
Doran under the title OF Tho
Heritage and Other Stories" The
Heritage appeared some time aga
in the Saturday Evening Post. and
not only made a great stir among
Jewish circles, but was hailed hy
both Jew and Gentle as one Of the
few intelligent discussions Of in.
teTmarriage.
The Year of Delight"
THE Year OF Delight" (Harcourt
Brace and Company by Margarg
Widdemer is a typical Margaret
Widdemer romance. light, fresh. al
together delightful and charming
1t is an up-to-date and feminine
"Brewster's Millions" and is one
girls answer to the question
What would you do If you had
six million dollars
Poor Mr.. Joseph Hergesheimer!
How he found himself trapped re-
Gently. at Yale, and Obliged to de-
liver before a hall full of women,
the lecture on The Feminine Nui-
sance in Literature" he had plan
ned and innocently expected to give
before one class of Yale students.
is an incident almost as well known
today as the Fatty Arbucle trial
The consequences have been enor-
nous, one of them, the following
letter. written after the publica-
ton of MIR. Hergesheimer's lecture
in the Yale Review, and published
in the Bookman.
MY dear Mr.. HergeSheimer:
Your article in The Yale Review
for July on The Feminine Nui-
sance in American Literature in
which you claim that all that is
cheap, meretTiciOUS ard flambOy-
ant in American literature is the
direct result Of the fact that our
writers cater almost exclusively to
feminine public which fattens on
this unhealthy diet, has stirred me
to unwonted action; for the first
time in my life I am moved to lift
I'D my voice in clamOrOuS protest
against magazine article. | my
self am a peculiarly fragrant eX-
ample of the feminine nuisance,
cast for the double role of grea:
reader and small writer. and in
both capacities | send up a stricken
and outraged cry. Ungrateful Mr.
HeTgesheimer! Do you in candor
believe that your own royalties are
derived from the masculine portion
of these United States? Do you
in truth visualize all the readers Of
those official dispensers of sunlight
and Virility whom you pillory so
b1ithely and cruelty, as golden
ringletted and snowy fingered, ham
mock swung and chocolate fed? Do
you sincerely maintain that the
tired business man, the tired pro
fessional maxwell, the tired aver
age man-turns scornfuIly from
these to James Branch Cabell and
your own pages of gold and iron
and ivory? In truth, and in good
truth, you have turned traitor to a
more lo3aI constituency than you
deserve.
You say that 10000 women read
a novel to one man l cannot guess
from what mysterious source yoa
procure these figures that at once
accuse and acquit your sex, but do
you plead that that solitary mascu-
line figure invariably draws copy
of Conrad or Hardy from his peck
ct? Look close at the title-doesnt
it say something about The Girl
from Forked Rivers or The Man in
the Closed Room %"