New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05

Sumner has any place on jury.
am informed that the society he rep
resents operates under a special law
which would, in effect, make it the
custodian of English literature. Lack
ing perspective, it would turn our
novels into artistic Rollo books with
cut thought of the place they may
have in the history of literature. Is
Mr.. Sumner aware that Baccaccio was
the basis of many shakespearean
plots? 1t is hardly to be doubted that
he would have banned Boccaccio.'
Mr.. Sumner specifically mentions, in
his proposed plan, books dealing with
sex, medical, scientific and pseudo
scientific subjects intended for inds
criminate circulation. AS one of the
most prolific writers on psyche
analysis, DR.. Andre Tridon, Of 121
Madison Avenue, expressed the follow
ing views yesterday on the scheme for
voluntary censorship:
81 am absolutely opposed to this
idea. Those who want censorship are
inferior meddlers who seek publicity at
salary, but can only get it by an
noying jeope. Mr.. Sumner has to
Justify his salary. Naturally he does
| not like psycho-analysis because he
could not stand being psycho-analyzed
himself.
Not Babies, Says Tridon
"There is real need on the market
for these books. One Of the stupi6i-
ties of modern civilization is that we
put a premium on ignorant mistakes.
Books on psycho-analysis deal just as
much with the nerves and glands as
they do with sex. We are not babies
This effort of Mr. Sumner to create
censorship committee is simply his
dying struggle to hold his job in face
of ridicule."
None of the publishers Intercepted
had anything to say in favor of
Brothers and George H. Doran e. Co.
preserved discreet silence. Horace
Liveright, of the firm Of Boni & Live
right, recalled the seizure of a number
of copies Of "The Story of Lover"
hook he published two years ago. At
that time, he said, he published an I'D
vertisement suggesting that, in place of
the censorship then existing, commit
tee of fifteen public spirited men and
complaints brought to them by any
police authorities, vice societies, etc.
"At that time Mr.. Sumner and I
communicated with each other about
this matter, but it was never my in
tention then, nor is it now, that any
sort of body be constituted that would
act as censors before the publication
Of book" said Mr.. Liveright.
Liveright Sees Libel
within the last couple of months I
have had correspondence with Mr..
Sumner regarding a censorship COM
mittee and on one occasion he and /
and three other men met together and
talked over this matter. AS l under
stood his proposition, the books that
were to be discussed by the committee
medical and scientific nature and for
that reason DR.. Wilfrid Lay. the
psychoanalyst and author, was present
at our meeting"
Mr.. Liveright said that his proposed
libel suit is based on Mr.. Summers
remarks on limited editions in news
paper interview to this effect: eve
have investigated such limited editions,
and find that they are really on sale,
all you want of them, if you are willing
to pay for them. One fragrant in
stance is a free and slangy translation
of an elleged classic, and this we are
now prosecuting"
"Mr. Sumner knows that the only
case against classic which he is now
prosecuting is that of the satyricon Of
Petronius Arbiter published by me-"
said Mr.. Liveright. "Mr Sumner says
alleged classic This qualification Of
his requires no comment. Nor is it
necessary for me to state that the lin
tied editions published by my firm are
truly limited. In so far as unabridged
translations of the classics in formal
or idiomatic English is concerned, is
sued in limited editions, this matter
has been decided in more than thirty
different cases since 1886 by the APP
pellate Division of the Supreme Court
and by the Court of Appeals and even
by the lower courts, and always in
favor Of the publisher
"Mr Summers remarks about many
of the authors of the so-called younger
school merely add to the gaiety Of ma
! tons"