New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
A Bookman's Day Book
By Burton Rascoe
MAY Is

who took mo through tho Public
Library, which Is, of ali civic institu-
tlons in kind. the most inviting to the
student that I have seen. Met
en- route Edmund Lester Pearson. the
poet and editor Of tho Library Bulle-
tin: Robert l.. Finster. secretary to
the director; Frank A. Waite, chief Of
the Information division, and Miss
Leonore Power. head Of the charming
and eozy room for children.
Mr. Finster told ne that the library
clrculates ten million books year, an
amazing and hopeful figure, enough TO
lay the fears Of tho pessimists that
tne motion pictures have brought
about decline Of reading.
hich reminds me- that Frank Eaton.
the rotogravure editor, told ME yester-
day that the motion picture people are
greatly disturbed over the advent of
the radio, which tends To keep people
away from the movies, and that thev
are considering ways and means Of
snHpressing the invention. We
may now expect 20 be diverted BY the
spectacle Of campaign by high-ninded
notion picture producers against the
1aolo as menace 70 public taste
Read the revised edition Of Y
l.. MencAens "In Defense OF Women
an ingenious and amusing satire.
wherein Mencken reveals. imulici+lv
the reasons why he remains a bache.
Tor.
NAY Il
/ oNCHED with Dr. Henry x. Marks.
author Of Peter Middleton" one
OF the fe" studies in fiction Of an
ssexual male. The psychological in
sleht and the tragic Implications or
this book we're obscured for manv re
T'ewers b. a dramatic device which
heightened the tension OF the nara
t've, but which night easily have hcon
dispensed with. That device was.cor-
ceI-ei with syphilis, and was. perhaps
unfortunate, because it laid the bnot'
OMEN to charge of sensationaIism
heTcaS II Is an austere, poignant and
III eHiRent "ork. Or. Marks
SAD mat psychoanalysis was Of great
probably the maiorifv ~ ,bo no+obGo
achievements Of men were 6ue
ferioilty complexes which e.ron,..boroL
tncir powers in o,a dirac.;o-,
rosult of flr!s+rstions IN a,o.}a,. '''S
This. which ! think is trne r,ala,
"onaef Why a person with valuable
distressing complex, setting bim
anam irom ht. fellows h cAaractcr ana
II. or ,yhy am ono r.onld ~ "lOH
r2iyr +. mn "" o"' 0"9 "ou'o "'sn to de-
cenera1v agreed that +bo ~ Iie.t!
~ the human enjr;t f,o,, aTLo MI. "i ~
Co,red,-- fo ,.l1i,ssosa sno ~ ne D.FlIo !
o. Illustrations and srn,,.ss,o,,,' , su,,3
c,ltatnl,- Tho tca-. ,tp!+'..9I"7' p!'''So'o"7' ana
~ Jo,',d sro o'.- .t-oll ln'eI es'ins people
INT, wronr w.,b tbon, 40 nave ,lI noIn]
r.av be stIcras.ful 80 as.oi,l;u, % ,G"u
Leonardo's Mona r'saY - +hn I,',I,s eLIal
rf an tdirie oon,,Ia1. 49, ny ou'eo,ile
Anthony MAJ. accnnot err ~ NatherIne
rnan.. or Wa,c-.,n4 r,,ii WV aeHleEe-
,,or,ds ,r r1t'I1s,,o "iler on the
ueIscs: and ana,bn, ia ~ d! IN,
ms. discover that IacL NJ
worlds chamnGon nn+r,I;st - - lle
some kid rave him biact e,.o ,,'oon
he was little fellow. but vb;Io 49,
makes Interesting readinc What wa
cselN, is our cam hv .his ra,iocino
ton? Trua erouch o,,or,e.L;
that stands ont in buman
usually achieved Inv much e., f,o,i,,t, ~
eorrow. and II is tbe corst.,,t o,,ls,a '''lu
c' men of science and Social ,bon,'. 80
lessen this suferinc snd .a,.,.l.,.
lessouine tho d,vereity and ;noo,,o,: ~
e,monC peoples. to make Nc a1i VII
Happy and financially secure
FuJ wonder If life would be ondnr.
sole if this consummatjon wero
achieved. There is the constant cIy
c. the lntellectuals against standard /
ization. and on the other hand manv
81 these lntollectuals are working
~ mieht and main TO make US all as
ka as two peas ! gave Or
Marks news Of his old college
friend, nr. Herman Adler. the Il
iirol7 state crimjnologist. Great
Isychlatrist aud a broadly cultlred
ana gentle man, who, when last saw
i'm Was at work on a treatise touch
ing upon the thing We have Just been
'AlAlng about. DR.. Adler says chat
letufe constantly struggles to vary the
tpeeies and IN the production of its
sports which by. Adler says are the
eh-F creations of any value to nature
fcheme or variation, an individual is
produced who may possess any number
o' fepagnant and ant-social character
1'Oes ana yet these very character
j. ,i7tieS are essential components of that
onClFiHuai' say Moses, an Aeschylus,
linton Nletzsche, or Wagner,
Gnu "'tH'uI lhem the Individual would