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man, Madelaine derived much amuse-
,nent cut of the fact that HI. l..
Mencken had sailed for Europe on an
American boat. Mencken Ii going to
visit Hugh Walnole and soruc others
in England and there Is an eager cur
iosity on the part % many who know
Mancken as TO what his Impressions
of England will be. Ernest Boyd says
that he thinks that Walpole VIII
show Mencken such good time tina.
Mencken will come back enthusiastic
about England and the English. Mrs.
Biorktnar said that her husband, the
author Of that excellent novel for par
erts. "Phe Soul of q Child,a is still
J In the South at work on new book.
AUGUST IL
Looked over the translations tonight
Eof Count MORN, Deputy and 'hlar-
guerite." by Anatole France. They
are two slight novelettes, which any
admirer of Anatole France should read.
They are the latest additions to the
twenty-odd volumes in the excellent
John Lane Dodd, Mead edition of
Frances work in English, under the
4 editorahip of j. Lewis May and Bernard
Mall. The TRANSACTIONS, in nearly
every instance, have been made by men
and women who preserve as much as
/
style. Count NORM, Deputy" is a sly
satire upon political campaign methods
and upon pressmen who help elect and
defeat politicians by paid hack work. 1t
/ has denouement that is at once de-
licious and poignant. Marguerite" is
delicate and charming love story, told
4 with insight and fearful wit.
Went to Charley MacArthur's to-
night and Charley and Caryl Frink and
Jimmy Whitaker and | got into Caryps
car and motored out to a roadhouse for
midnight supper. Caryl got off the
road coming back and we didn't get in
until daybreak. There were other com
plications, Jimmy had dressed in white
flannel trousers and had got haircut
in preparation for greeting his wife,
Miss Ina Claire, ON her return from
Europe. But what with sitting on the
spare tire most of the ride and staying
up all night he was sad looking mess
to greet any one. His white trousers
was unshayen and unwashetf and sleepy
eyed. After we got in he had to dash
for the revenue cutter, and | hear that
when he came aboard Miss Claire recog-
nized him from afar and, embarrassed
by the condition of his clothes--for she
was talking at the time with some I'M
maculately dressed and dignifed friends
Co stay out of sight; but Jimmy came
rushing UP anyhow, arms open for an
embrace.
AUGUST 10
Ny wife and 7 went for a ride with
Seward Collins and for swim in the
4 pool on his fathers country estate, and
iron, there to dinner in Croton and
) to the house of DIR. Gregory Stray
: nell for the evening Dr. Stragnell is
the editor of "The New York Medical
journal, and psychologist and
psycho-analyst. He said that the Rus
SANS and the Scandinavians were the
; only novelists who had contributed
anything of definite value to psy-
: chology. "Dostoieysky and Chekhov,
and Dostoievsky especially, had an al
most uncanny knowledge of what goes
! on in peoples minds. Some of the
brought to light by modern psyche
logical research were known instinc.
. lively by these two men. Dostoieysky's
character delineations often could
serve as case histories, SO accurate are
! his accounts of them as pathological
J subjects. Dostoievsky was very sick
man physically and mentally, a manic
J Oppressive and an epileptic; but Che
I khoy was, though in bad health physi-
i
that ever put pen to paper"
} DR., Stragnell was enthusiastic about
Joyces ulysses" and about "The Old
!; House." by Cecile Tormay.
AUGUST 20 =
Dodd, Mead & Co. have Just brought
out in an excellent formal a new edi-
ton of Max Beerbohm's inimitable
"1uleika Dobson,' and / spent the
morning running through it again for
fayorite passages. Last night
reading Sinclair Lewis's s'Babbitt .
. which is to be published on September
a. | cannot review it until septem-
! her IA; but may say In advance that
, . 1t is a superb piece of work. 1t sug-
! gests "Bouvard ct Pecuchean Just as
! Main Street" suggests sMadame
Hovary." It is excellently docunaented
! gayly satirical and with touch OF
: DOM" by A. S. NJ. Hutchinson, which
read during Sunday, | do not, think
: much Of, but predict for it the most
extraordinary sale of the year, simply
because IT deals with the old problems
:. OF nome or career for women. and
!, l. IN sueh manner as to arouse heated
: | controversy. find that even / becom
! nttle indignant over Mr.. Hutchin-
Z soti reasoning and feel inclined TIC
- write letter to the paper giving my
9 views in the matter Earv]
: rink and | started out at 8 O'Clock
y ! y9-mgnt to motor to Boston. Between
: Westport and Bridgeport we lost a
8 tire and the jack broke and / couldn'i
= get on the spare tire or find a garage
= open. We had to wait on the road
: rom i.5o IN the morning until Gao
2 Wnen a truck came along, and the mer
on II helped US get started again. /,
was very cold, and we had forgotten t.
3 pflng along robes, and we had to buflf
IRE of the side of the road to keer
e warm Caryl had motored down II
T Tess than fourteen hours, and it tool
o us nearly twenty-four to drive back.
n WAS glad, though, that we went through
n New Haven, Springfield, Worcester arc
/ the country between Worcester ana
v Boston during the day because thu
: scenery thereabout is continual sur.
4 prise and delight to the eye. AT one
poInt along the road we got to talkinc
Y about intelligence and emotion and The
: aiferent processes by which women
!, and men arrive at the same under.
q staneinE of things; and We had an in
j. STANCE Of It there. Caryi said ehe
+ didn't think there lie any such fbjne
+ as combination of intellsrence ana
!. emotional unresponsivenass In per.
! son; that intelligence depended nnov
: emotions. And only tho other night
I was reading new tsztbook on Hpsy.
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