The New York herald., 1922-11-05

right moment, because the war and its
results would have brought him a great
disappointment in the destruction Of
all his ideals. 1t is interesting to con-
template now the enormous influence of
this man upon the younger generation of
Jugo-Slavs. His taste (Which favored a
strictly nationalistic observation-disclosures
with a purpose" as opposed to all kinds
of artisan, symbolism, decadentism) and
his ideals in politics (because he was at
the same time also a member of Parlia-
ment)-were sacred law both for his stu
dents and for a great majority of other
young people all over the present Jugo-
Slavia-
OF that whole pre-war group of. writer's
who had literary value. only Branko La
zarevitch and Madame Isidora Sekulitch
are still writing steadily to-day. Madame
Sekulitch is especially active. She is the
type of the crystallized intellectual, stress
ing thought more than feeling. A lover
of refined paradox and euphonious phras-
ing, she writes essays that always attract
intense interest. If we should attempt to
find her mate in American literature, we
could Iken her to Amy Lowell-a literary
figure quite similar to that of Madame
Sekultch.
From the Croatian writer's of the same
period, Prince Ivo Voyinovitch, the writer
of some pompous odes, cosmopolitan
dramas (such as Madame With The Sum
flower'), and a beautiful, tender historic
triloov ahouf tho Panuhlic of n,,broVnilr
has also ceased TO create. Vladimir MAJOR,
a poet of intensive Dalmatian motifs full
of sunshine, is still writing, but not so often
and not so well. Mirko Korolya, the Of
ficial Bacchus from the Dalmatian coast
is still prolific with his rhythmic and cor
rectly measured expressions of passion.
Dinko Shimunovitch, writer of stories and
novels about the monotonous, quiet un-
eventful life of the country is mostly in
teresting for his very beautiful and artistic
literary landscapes His style has always
much of color and of freshness. Ivo
Chipiko, also a writer from Dalmatia-
whose short stories have some touches of
D'Annunzios early work. has spoken, it
seems, his last words
From the group of typical Bosnian and
Herzegovinian writers, only Shantitch still
writes more or less credible things
Shantitch is especially famous as the writer
of a poetic one act play "In the Mist"
which was directed against the emigration
to America of Jugo-slav peasants. in Bos-
mia and Herzegovina. Especially popular
were the verses beginning:
Remain herel The sun of alien skies
Will not shine as this sun shines here.
Bitter are the crumbs of bread
There where your own is not
There where no brother is''
Another writer from the same group,
Petar Kochitch, writer of political satires
on the Austro-Hungarian regime i'm Bos-
mia, met a tragic death at the end of the
war in a sanitarium for the insane in
Belgrade. His best known work was a
play The Badger before the Judge"
"
In view of all this it becomes clear
that the young men" of Jugo- -Slavia found
clear field before them for innovations
and Observation-Disclosures moreover that
were not slow in manifesting themselves
once the turmoil of war was over. What
an abyss between our prewar mental state
and that of Myroslav Krleza, for instance,
Kreeza, Jugo-Slav fron, Croatia, does not
write for one nation and in the name
of one nation. He is much broader and
more cosmopolitan than that, with senti-
ments too deep and too refined for i'm
prisonment within any one province or
parish. All his work comes from him
!