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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1922-10-05

Order for Hearing on Petition to Con-
vey Lands on Contract.
State Of Minnesota, County Of Stearns,
in Probate Court.
In the Matter Of the Estate Of George
Warnert, Deceased.
On Reading and Filing the Petition
of The First State Bank Of st. Joseph,
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1922-10-05

Citation for Hearing ON Final Account
and for Distribution.
State of Minnesota, County of Stearns,
in Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Franc
Albert Huber, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to all persons
interested in the final account and dis
tribution Of the estate of said dece-
dent:
The representative. of the above
named decedent, having filed in this
court his final account of the admin
~istration Of the estate of said d%ecedent,
together. with his petition praying
for the adjustment and allowance of
said fnal account and for distribution
Of the residue, Of said estate to the
person .~thereunto entitled.
Therefore, You, and Each of You, are
hereby cited and required to show
cause, If any you have, before this
Court, at the Probate Court Rooms in
the Court House, in the City of st.
Cloud, in. the County of Stearns, State
of Minnesota, on the
18th day Of October, 1922,
at 9 o'clock A. NJ, why said petition
should not be granted.
Witness, The Judge. OF said Court,
and the Seal of a Court, this 18th
Court seai) J. B. HIMsL,
J. B. PattisOn, Judge Of Probate.
Attorney for Petitioner. Fl 20 S
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06
A Novel OF the Congo
By Will Cuppy

BATOUALA BY RENE Maran Trans
lated from the French by Adele Szolt
Settler. Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06
The Latest Fiction


THE CONFESSIONS OF WELL MEAN
ING EIOMhN. BY Stepaen Mckenna.
Doran.
THE STRONGER INFLUENCE. BY #. f.
Mills Young. Doran.
THE JUDGMENT OFF CHARTS. BY Mrs
Baillie Reynolds. Doran.
WNERENNIAL controversy RACES
b around the question whether tn the
a output of English fiction main
tains a better average Of quality
than the American. Leaving out the
giants among English writer's Hardy,
and the like, most of whom belong to
passing generation-and simply measur-
ing the second raters and ephemera
against each other, expressed opinion
seems to lean to the side OF the English
none the less. They have more finish,
say their champions, more charm and
depth. They know their business better
But do they?
The first business of a novelist ia
to tell story, to keep something hap
pening. And there are an astonishing
number of English novels in which not
enough happens to justify their form
and length. An American writer would
easily condense one into a short story.
If he Spun it out 20 novel length he
would hardly find an American pub
Usher, and assuredly not an English
one. That may be because the short
story market in England is extremely
limited, SD an English author who has
an idea of any kind must make il a
novel or nothing. Here are three ex-
hib1ts which hover obviously between
those painful alternatives. They be-
long to the order of literary confec-
tlons. airy tri13es whipped up to
froth to give them bulk.
Mr. McKenna's "Well Meaning Wo-
man." Lady Ann Spenworth, confessed
indirectly to many handicaps, which
she valiantly endeavors to present as
assets. AS q peers daughter she has
d little niche" in society, without
enough money to maintain it. She ha :,
a good-natured drifter of husband.
| and thoroughly worthless son. She
is snob and fool, constantly cadging
on her more prosperous kin, or upon
the nouveau richie. Her chief anxiety
is to find good job and rich wife for
her scamp of boy. All these items
Mr. McKenna pitilessly compels her to
reveal through her own mouth, atter
the manner Of Mr.. E. +. Benson with
his characters, but never SO deftly and
amusingly as Mr.. Benson. 1t is skillful
for all that, but the picture is too dis
agreeable through out for entirely good
reading. 1t has a kind of Miniature in
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06
For FIedgling Writers

PLOTS AND PERSONALITIES. BY Edwin
e. Slosson and June E. Downey. The
Century Company.
rENHIS is an interesting and original
H. study of the methods by which the
raw material of human life and expert
ence can be shaped into fictional form.
The working practices of number OF
writer's are described, and the authors
both submit number of psychological
tests for the existence and quality Of
the imaginative faculty.
SO a number of extracts from the
famous Personal" column of "The
London Times" are given, and the
reader is invited to make up his own
plots. DR.. Downey also introduces the
game Of literary syllogisns. Two propo-
sitions are set down in the following
fashion: A poor young man writes a
great play. A millionaire offers to buy
it in order to produce it in his own
name. The student is then expected
to develop the implied situation into a
rough plot outline.
The book is eminently practical in
spirit and purpose, and its hints on
fictional technique and craftsmanship
should prove extremely valuable to
young writers. w. H. c.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06

lGhTY in war, cruel as ths
panther he hunted, was tn,
C h ief Batouala - Batouala
$hn NJ nkn11ndii &c
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06

it, And the repetition Of Lady AIMS
cliches becomes tedious Still, for
those cloyed with sweetness and senti-
mentality it ought TO be refreshing.
Ike lemon drop after much chocolate.
r. z. Mills Young, in "The Stronger
Influence" aimed at problem novel.
The idea is big enough for the length
of the book, but enc problem is stated
SO baldfy it seems almost mathematical
and lacks human appeal. 1t is the
Enocb Arden plot Thc heroine, Esme
Lester, is pretty nlusic teacher in
South African town. Going to the high
veldt for n holiday, she meets at a
summer hotel two men who mptiy
fall in love with her. It is difficult to
see why her choice fails upon Paul
Hallam, morese, selfish, idle man and
a confirmed and solitary drunkard. But
she loves him. He reforms, temporar-
lily; they are married, but as he takes
up no work of any kind ne naturally
relapses into his old vice. While drunk
he accidentally pushes his wife down
fight Of stairs. His remorse for this
act takes the extraordinary form of
disappearing into the wilds, leaving his
wife very i'll and quite uninformed Of
his whereabouts. His idea is to stay
away entil he can give up drink. Later
HIS GRatH - reported, Win CIT&ut1BI3n-
tial confirmation. After some years of
widowhood, Esme naturally marries
again, taking the suitor she first re-
jected, very decent sort of fellow.
She is content with him. They have q
baby girl, whom Esme adoreS. Then
returns the first husband. He has been
to the war, prisoner in Germany for
three years. What Is Esme to do?
Hallam has no doubts, nor enough con-
sideration to keep from thrusting in
on such a situation. He expects her TO
return to him-and she does! To an
American reader she seems incredible.
which is ali that saves her from being
irritating. 1t is almost good novel.
The plot Of THE Judgment Of
Charts an obviously manufactured
ti&le-is more tenuous, although in this
two ladies fall Gown stairs at different
times. Charts Osbourne, daughter of
Lord Ringland, runs away from home
to escape a too persistent suitor whom
her family urge upon her. Working
as .vrist in London, she stunlbles
into the arms of a Canadian nailIion-
aire who wants a secretary. 1t may oe
supposed she marries the millionaire,
which supposition would be erroneous.
The tale has more ingenuity than that.
! 1t is quite a clever and pleasing little
story, however thin: the characters arc
nicely differentiated and the hero de-
cidedly ikable. The millionaire is
rather preposterous. His home address
appears to be simply Ontario. Canada,
citizen of the world could hardly
sound more spacious
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06

70 project Immature minds from the
posslole corruption which might result
i;.hi i.ohi reading obscene and lascivious
1iitefature' 1t appears. however, upon
tne testimony which Mr.. Sumner gave
thaC tne Idea to keep certain books
OUT OF the hands of average adult man
or woman, on the theory that reading
such books would prove harmful to
sheir morals. Now, certainly no one
mas read more books which he would
ciassf1y as corrupting than has Mr..
Sumner himself. His il1ustrjons nrede.
cessor, Anthony j. Comstock, boasted
IN has own account Of himself in "Who's
VINO OF having seized and DESTROYED |
forget how many tons of lascivious
pictures and how many carloads of
obscene literature; and yet he died a
God-fearing and righteous man. In the
course of his duty Mr.. Sumner has
probably read more obscene books than
any other man in America. Ii it can
be proved that Mr.. Sumner is moral
and upright man, then the whole theory
under which the Society for the Sup
preston of Vice works blows up, Mr..
Sumner may confound me by saving
that much reading of indecent books
mas blunted his moral sense to such an
extent that he no longer is able to re-
spect the property rights Of Others.
but hope he will not raise that point.
am inclined to doubt very seriously
whether the reading of any book what
ever tends to corrupt the morals of any
one or leads people to thoughts and
actions to which they were not already
inclined. am even disposed to doubt
whether literature of any sort is a
baneful influence upon immature
minds, holding that each man or child
finds inevitably that which he seeks in
the written word and nothing more.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06
A Bookman's Day Book

eohtausd from page four,
PSisnde' Carl Van Doren, Gilbert seIdos
Aaolob ssetving' Hamilton Gibbs, Dr.
eregorv SSsern, Sta, Miles Dawson and DIR.
jahs hy sr, s.fangell. On the stand Mr.
ID ssnananner' head Of the Society for
arstss r htesslon Of Vice, who hal con-
ishIng 'he RAID on Mr. Settlers puh-
INT tbot ta3puse' admitted under cath:
q,e Of fs ne mad warrants for the seiz-
sCasanon"s; STOCK of only three books.
sirps ny! Homecoming," "a Yonng
sstopd gary and Women in Love-.
psiyass siiat ne took from Mr., Settlers
saItioa uesk copy of the EnpIish
Storsr oI "Jurgen" and a conv of "a
ta5 =, ieiier's Holiday; third that ha
hsoks. warrant for the seizure of these
tAesss fourth, that he did not nurchase
ss,s rom Mr. Seitzer, and that thew
VI. s'vs sa'. onered for sale; fifth. that
sson .sser su does not conduct a book
rat nnbI:. e ehat these two books were
sss ;;lsned ars;a1d by Mr.. Seltzer and were
nissta eies Of merchandise but his
sanI,sa property. IN fine, Mr.. Sumner
suilty - on tho stand that he was
sihouss - naving taken private pronertv
!. warrant. What is this
s.rs neither of these books which
q vss selzed without warrant has heen
bs.sM Ms declared by the court nas to bavn baen
10 sba-s.at sb.tshea IN violation of the law.
starvlr mas been preferred against
ssion ,r aeiIers Holiday" and the de-
fst been aegard TO "Jurgen" has not
i eses. esn rendered by the courts. ).
ssis t;ea t,;ai 20 me while listening to
shieb ,s. tsat the whole scheme upon
Y Viz '1s as soclety for the Suppression
sigh ogefates IN its peremptory and
sssIs ssaeg sss manner in regard to books
axsgs ,as. s,s,. ! nad hitherto gone ON the
ps'ea that the law was designed
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06
The Lay Critic
Mss Hnrst's New York

WY YHEN Miss Hurst chose for
Va "a her recent volume of short
wv stories the title 1.-THE Verti-
cal City" She trespassed on
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06
Irwin Cobb's First Novel

]. POINDEXTER, coLoRBD. BY Irwin
s. Cobb. George III. Doran Company.
GA A LII art is one" may be
"a truthful maxim in its
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06

has no money of has own. The design.
ing promoters are simply and summar.
lily got rid Of by the showing of six.
shooter.
This naive tale is embroidered by
Jctf's own comments on New York and
life in general, the story being told in
the first person. The humor is pretty
fiat footed and heavy-going, and the
feeblest jest is obliged to take at least
two curtain calls before being allowed
to retire from the page. But if you
like Irwin Cobb. which is to say il YOU
belong TO the great majority of the
American reading public, you will
probably find enough of his character
istic flavor in this story to take it
down easily. Little CLEANS, for in
stance, like Jeh's contribution to the
uch-discussed negro problem II
amt no problem he remarks, 'I's a
pusson. | Graves to be r .ara-d'
And so MIR. Cobb has striven to regard
him with fair success.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06
London Letter
By Douglas Goldring

A HOPEFUL sign of the vitality
"a of English letters has been
the foundation during the
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06

regarding objectivity so fsw as 20 sup
press any reflections that others might
| attribute to me-" he tells us. Obvious
ly he thinks the only course for nov
elist with feelings is to write prefaces.
But God is good. Forget the preface.
In spite of his aesthetic and missionary
preoccupations, Rene Maran can write.
"Batouala" itself is superb. A strange.
exotic work, with many points of excel
lence, it will live on, think, by the
simple, powerful story that it tells of
the chief Batouala and his yassi and
her lover, Bissibingui
N HO could resist this tale of pas
w sion in it's blood-red setting?
Yes, it is the triangle in Ubangi- -Shari
A tumescent tragedy of love to the in
cessant scratching of jiggers-for life
in Batouala's land is just one insect
after another.
| am impressed by the universally
Of poor, ignorant Batouala, With
hardly a trace of what is called intel
ligence, living fabulous life by and
for his breakfast of grilled caterpillars,
his liquor and his amorous indulgences.
mean, jealous, murderous, obeying
only the most ridiculous tribal taboos,
believing only in the patiently unbe-
lievable, he greatly resembles some of
my best white friends.
He even possesses many talents that
are rare in civilization. He is an artist
on the musical li'nghas and he knows
and recounts the beautiful legends of
his race. His serious thoughts do not
bore me. He thinks, for example, that
yawning is a way Of expelling sleep
through the mouth, and that sleep it.
self is an inward and private fire, as
is proved by the facts that on cold
days one breathes out kind Of smoke
And who has seen smoke without fire I?
1t sounds reasonable.
Yassiguindja is charming. Delight
fully rakish Yassiguindja She is per-
haps a reincarnation of my favorite
English heroine, the good and gap
toothed Wife of Bath. Sleeping, eat
ing, men, dancing and tobacco, she
asserts, are the only things worth hav-
ing. And modesty she holds to be
just another of the hypocrisies of the
whites.
You could hardly expect Yassi-
guindja to forego Bissibingui. So
wicked was he that every yassi in
Ubangi-Shari ran after him. Nor can
you blame Batouala for trying to play
the panther, seeing that he bad bought
and paid for her with seven waist
cloths, box of salt, three copper col
lars, bitch, four pots, six hens,
twenty she-goats, forty big baskets of
millet and a girl slave.
Mrs. Seltzer's translation has pre-
served the best values of "Batouala"
One can hardly put the stylist and
poet Maran exactly into English, but
Mrs. Settler has reproduced both the
spirit and substance of the book as
nearly as may be. In point of literal
ness she is more faithful than the
anonymous translator of the limited
English edition issued recently by
Jonathan Cape in London, who trans
lated "Il nest, a vrai dire, qu'une sue
cession d'eaux-fortes" as ait is, in
deed, merely succession Of strong
drinks"
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06
general applications, but

& & A LII art is one" may be
"a truthful maxim in its
~ general applications, but
the technique of various
branches of art differs considerably. 1t
might appear, for instance, that any one
who can write good short story is
equipped to write good novel. Not
SO, alas. Take Mr.. Irwin Cobb, VINO
might be presumed master of the art
of fiction, or at the least good jour
neyman. To be sure, he is best known
as a humorist. but humor is matter
of opinion; there are some he fails to
amuse. But whether or not you like
his short stories, they are technically
good. Seldom does he turn out one
lacking a solid and well-constructod
plot and clearly defined characters. He
has the ingredients and he knows the
recipe.
1t is, therefore. peculiarly disap-
pointing to consider his first novel.
AT least, ~. Poindexter, Colored," is
offered as a novel. Actually, it is q
short story, only it isn't short Mr..
Cobb has forcibly elongated it, padded
it out, stuffed it like Strasburg goose
for the market; and the poor thing
moves with slow and tottering gait
that is natural after such treatment.
1 ms is not tne way movers are made.
A novel has it's natural mode Of growth
and development; it must be a novel
from the beginning, or it never will be.
j. PoindeXter himself is a familiar
figure to readers Of Mr.. Cobb, but will
be more easily recognized as JEFF, the
colored servant of old Judge Priest.
Hitherto he has seldom been seen with
out a tray of mint-garnished glasses
in his hand; he has only hovered dis
creetly in the background. His Great
or wisely decided that jeff could hard
ly figure as leading character while
Judge Priest was in the story; so JEFF
is lent to goodnatured young noodle,
designated as Mr.. Dallas Pulliam, and
comes with him to New York. Pulliam
needed guardian more than servant,
but he got both.
jeff rescues his new master from a
gang Of financial sharks and female
vampires by methods of his own, which,
however, are not altogether new to tic-
ton. lie disposes of the ladies by in
forming them confdentially that Pull
liam is, to say the least, eccentric, and
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tne H1OkOundJ1 oil so many
villages. Beautiful and schooled in love
was Yassiguindja, Batouala the mo-
koundji's favorite wife And there was
Bissibingui, the family friend, the tall
est, strongest youth in Uhangi- -Shari,
the eternal tcrtium quid.
They have given their potent blood,
these vivid, lustful Africans, to Rene
Maran's "Batouala," SO that the book
lives nightly. This novel of native
life in the French Congo by full
blooded negro, crowned last year with
the Prix Goncourt and immensely popu-
lar in France, comes to these shores
in translation by Adele Sold Seltzer.
VIII it triumph here also? / rather
think 50.
Circumstances, it is true, of some
what Fictitious but very practical ma
ture, helped "Batouala" to become the
vogue in France. In addition to the
prestige of the famous prize and the
superlative praise and detraction in
evitable to the competition, the book
ton in the Chamber and was skinned
alive in the "Temps" by pure and spot
less patriots.
These irrelevancies will hardly be re-
peated here. "Batouala," however,
should win without them. Indeed, the
novel should have in sense it's 'best
hearing now that it is removed from
much gable that had nothing to do
with Apollo and little to do with "Ba-
touala"-but great deal to do with
the preface to "Hatouala."
TN THIS preface Rene Maran calls
J. upon his brother writer's of France
in eloquent and exalted words to re-
dress the abuses, frauds and atrocities
groes of Ubangi-Shari, in French equa-
torial Africa, a colony so outlandsh
that | suppose Thomas A. Edison is the
only American who can bound it off
hand.
"Civilization, civilizations" he cries
pride OF the Europeans and charnel
house Of innocents. Rabindranath Ia
gore, the Hindu poet, once, at Toxic,
told you what you werel
"You have built your kingdom on
corpses. Whatever you wish, whatever
you do, you move in lies. At sight of
you gushing tears, shrieks of agony.
You are might prevailing over right.
You are not torch, you are con-
hagration. You devour whatever you
touch"
True enough. One would think,
though, that Maran would have made
civilization the villain of ''Batouala''
and thus have justified the preface in
the fiction or, better, have made the
preface unnecessary. But he didn't.
The white slave drivers appear in the
background vaguely as sinister and
hated beings, but they remai:. there,
leaving the field to the play and inter
play of forces which they had no hand
in creating, an effect that l think the
author did not intend to produce.
Moreover, Maran is disciple, or VIC
tim, of those who want novels written
with the most sacred Flaubertian OBJ
jectivity. "I have carried my scruples
New-York tribune., 1922-08-06

PLOTS AND PERSONALITIES. BY Edwin
e. Slosson and June r. Downey. The
Century Company.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-23
BALTIMORE WEEKLY
LIVESTOCK MARKET

BALTIMORE. May 22.-Cattle-
Reports for week ended noon to-
day. 2.257 head. against 2.0O4 last
week: 95 carloads for week. Mar
ket about steady. Steers. choice,
ssaS.5O; good butcher, s7.25a7.75;
medium, s6.25a7: common. s5a6;
heifers. choice. ss.75a7.25: fair to
good, s5.75a6.5o; common to me-
dunn. s5a5.5o; bulls. choice, s5.50a6:
fair to good. s4.75a5.25; common to
medium, S3.75a4.5o; cows, choice. s5a
SIS: fair to good. s4a4,75: common
to medium. s2a3.5o. Maryland and
Pennsylvania cows generally 81
lower.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts for
week ended noon today. 4,457
against 4.734 last week. Fair sup.
ply, market lower on sheep. steady
on lambs. Sheep. s2a7: spring
lambs, sf1a16.5o.
Hogs-Receipts for week ended
today, 1865 head. against 1889
last week. Fair supply, market
steady. Lights. s11.so; heavy and
medium. $11.60a11.S0; pigs, sl1.70;
roughs. s6as.1o.
Calves-Receipts for week ended
non today. 1924 head against 1929
last week. Liberal supply, market
higher. Calves, $5a11.