New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
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More Memories of Mark Twa;,,
BY Burton Rascoe

BY Burton Rascoe
lsEoA]D ] WITH M4S & TWIN Asp w rher Published
n fR. VAN wYCK BROOKS will expt i, +h; s,
Vl os1 ~ 80 s s Wrote psychonalstical "The
Clemens thwarted genius only partly realized his
baes owing Difference to the ms true capa
the demands of backward civilization that he be
Of the great sar1st he laid much sros nn
Importance of the Mark Tvans fam, tts ] upo n
censored much of his writings Withholding some Of It even vet from %
hcatOn because of the revolutionary IDEAS these [
contain Mr. Brooks examined with mscroscope tho ~
reported conversations of Mark seeking for evidence Of HE ~
revolt agan the restraints put upon hand finding great deal Of
Indeed ne found many bits of evidence could not see
after he put his finger passage and told me was th
thought his ZEAL what will Mr. Broos l e'e
this episode: ~ ~ "i niooHs make OF
Mark Twain and Mr. Fisher manuscript bv sb
hauer at the Royal Library Berlin of which was
Mark asked mr. Fisher what the title the essay was gbu
manuscript sms msS d @ TGSrt6 wG lex examined
ookas Now h s hs ws the ~ntd msssas
Mr. fsneF copied out the original and later of it
had received the manuscript. " s " "e
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Again Mr. Fisher relates Il honestly much Of that he
nahsn (Which Mark suffered put on For Mark liked
leisure above all things. did not feel like tn h +d
ly he had it bad and scoldng y was an excellent
wife to him. but she had the spirit that Mark lackednd
God knows ne needed proddng One NAV easv i'm
Ee Mr. Brooks beating his breast thought of this
@ o simple ans resortng to might enjoy
leisure from breadwinnng bo pen He will doubtless ind
great snheanee in the simple sentence "of Vienna women Mark
IVAN oSea 70 say that they cud pretty walking out
with his wife feels relieved plain one And with +he
d lament IN the episode the little bareback
rider had suffered broken was frightened h
clown 1he clown has to get laughs risk
ner SO that the
what wd And you and too never thought kicking myself
laughing when that poor girl broke her bet
But the risk of arousing Mr. Brooks record my
belief that all these things reveator but that
w 90 not indicate that Mark Twain had
never fully bore fruit shall again record
produced the best work he capable
ohe artist
accurate critical maxim who reflects spirit
time Mark Twain did that superby the America Of
MS perlod ncanate genial rugged nquisve
ooasu boyish SOUL authority full of moral
and ethical vrle insensve subtlety bad
hammered and little unhappy Nothing this more arn
than this haphazar episode, unlary has got
together of the
q during long acquaintanceship
Much has been Mark Twain was called non
to the bufoon he
directions The implication buoon at
ALL think this is notion buoon
and by this do not dsparage him. buoonery too
Mr. Fishers book valuable and our visible
records Of the personal largely record
OF ufoonery This does not that significant
ant and even bit pathetic the light upon that loyabe
afectionate, and much loved, simple humanitarian.
From Paris Mark Twain usually dsgrunted His stories
did France affair that made him
OF the
italy The Dagoes he used to like their coed with
politics. Of which know nothing, sque stories which
my we won let me wrlete you AS to Franceone
gave me TO understand that lacking the
Interpreting abeaux
wet blanket of that kind
eHort! will tell you what is really the France
concluded Every
closet fock embroidered with whatever the flower
@ of the Academic Fancashopng against that he NAV
be elected to the Institute like Monsieur is ve
everything doesn't
This reveals does the famous Chicago and the
episode of the Concord that Mark aptitude was precisely
for bufoonery Even if limitation natural
way OF looking things something upon him.
Without it, he would have been Mark he might