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The New York herald., 1922-11-26
The World of Letters as Others See It

combines the practice of dining with soci-
ETY. and preaching at it is ON a slippery
slope Did Mayfair really mind being
rallied at for its Sins? l always found
it extremely proud of them. So long as
il had the means of carrying them on the
statement of their wickedness (Which the
individual sinner passed on, if need be- to
his neighbor) and the analysis of it, were
not awakening but amusing. Therefore
Father Vaughans thunderbolts seemed to
be mostly ''duds." Those of the ascetic
Manning hurt, for Manning wanted for
his penitents a world as physically hard
and as spiritually exacting as the one he
lived in.-From "A WGWdrei'' in the Nd-
ton and the AthendeHn.
The New York herald., 1922-11-26

has plumbed the great secret of the lib
eralism of his time and equality of ours.
Pity, tenderness, love, or whatever you
choose to call it, is an essential ingre-
dient of the greatest genius, whether in
reform or in art. 1t is the absence of
pity that is the final condemnation of
most of the literature, painting and sculp-
ture of our time. When pity is exhausted
the best part of genius is exhausted, and
there is little but cleverness left In
Tchekov more. than in almost any author
of recent years truth and tenderness are
united He tells us the truth even when
it is most cruel, but he himself is kind.
He often writes like doctor going his
rounds in sick world. But he cares for
the sick world. That is why his stories
delight us as the synthetic golden syrup
of more optimistic authors never does. So
By Robert Lynd in Books and Authors"
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
The Fungus in Our Literature.

THAT American Literature is still a
STRIPPING, unclothed and walking in
it's infantile crudity, has become well
worn complaint among our critics. But
there is among us something far more
menacing than healthy youth, however
crude our youthfulness may be. There is
among us fungus; fungus which has
come to light through the recent growth
of modernities and things called ultra" I"
There has been a sore in more than few
of the STRIPPING bodies of American writ
ers, and it is the sore that has produced
the fungous growth. There is still a fes-
tered place on that sore which is not quite
healed, but is seeking a healing, an es-
cape, through the pains of still another
disease. And this other disease is an out
growth Of the first; symbol of its Itch
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
Are Canadian Authors Behind the
Times?

THE lack of background in the Cana
dian novels that are being offered
to the public was also the theme of a
prominent literary man in the East who
did not wish his name mentioned just yet.
He asserted that in their literary concep-
tions and in their artistic inclinatiOns too
many of our writer's are about thirty
years behind the times. This gentleman's
guess was that some young Slav or He
brew living in Western Canada would
come along and, presumably by virtue of
a more subtle hereditary artistic instinct,
write a real novel, going down to the very
bones and marrow of human nature.-By
T. B. r. in Manitoba Free Press.
Nine. Bernhardt on Her Early French
Rival.
D EFERENCES have been numerous
Ae of late to admiration and praise al
legged to have been lavished by Sarah
Bernhardt upon the art of Marie Lloyd,
and one press accepts them as a tribute
to the English actress of that name
who lately died. The Marie Lloyd
to whop Sarah Bernhardt referred
is French actress who beat her
for the Prize for Comedy at the Con-
servatoire in the Cos. The following
is a description of her rival in a transla
tion of the great French actresses own
words: 'She was tall, very tall, her
narrow, white shoulders emerging mod
estly from her decollete robe, very decol-
lete-without danger. Although very
young, she had greater womanly charm
than any of us, 1t was a prize
of beauty that they awarded to Marie
Lloyd. If the jury had been of good
faith-"-FrOm The Saturday Reuieto.
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
Chronicle and Comment

ter in those days and in no way realized
his importance, but l could not help feel
ing his charm"
A N unfamiliar anecdote of Alfred de
L \ Musset told to Simmons at Concar-
neau, the artist colony on the Breton
coast, by Georges Pouchet, the ichthyolo-
gist. "The poet had many fads inherited
from the days of swords, pistols, snuff
and powdered hair. For instance, he
would under no circumstances accept cop
per money; in fact, he would not touch
the metal in any form. Towards the end
of Mussets life he frequented certain
cafe in Paris; used it as club. He would
go there to write his letters, read his pa
per and, with him, there would be quiet
man in plain clothing. At certain time
in the evening he would make a gesture
to the waiter, who would serve him with
two carafons, one of brandy and one of
absinthe. He would pour them together
in one glass and, looking at them, take
out of his buttonhole his button of gen.
eral of the Legion of Honor and put it in
his waistcoat. He would then down the
mixture at once; the quiet man would
take him to his carriage. No one but
Frenchman could have done this. He
would not get drunk as member of the
Legion
HE leader of the Concarneau older set
was Bastien lie Page. One day Sim
mons attempted to tell him the meaning
of an American negro song, but he refused
to listen mo, Simmons, do not wish to
have it explained l know what it says.
1t is pathetic song of lover mourning
for one he has lost" Then he rendered it:
Ze lobStere in se lobStere pot,
Ze bIue fish in se pdnne;
Zey Saffere, oh, Sey Suffere not
What suffere for nly Marie Anne.
Naturally, discussion of Bastien LIE
Page leads to discussion of the woman
who meant so much in his life. Marie
Bashkirtseff. Fresh from the hands of
her maid she was a fascinating blond
'vamp,' but in about twenty minutes the
charms began to go. Her hair became
unruly. buttons refused to do their duty
and slipper strings burst She had beau
tiful feet and was inclined to wear her
shoes too small. l once sent her mes
sage saying that I would give her a
sketch for one of her slippers She re-
piled: know the value of new pair
of slippers. but I do not know the value
of one of your sketches
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Continued from Page -Four.

the Rue de Douai in Montmartre. The
room six flights up, with trapdoor for
a window, was furnished with two iron
cots and very little else. The students
used champagne bottles for ewers. For
these quarters they paid 80 francs a
month. No heat, of course, and in winter
the cold was unspeakable. Although
some of the pupils were old men with
gray hair, who had been there fifteen or
twenty years. One day an Englishman,
calling himself Vernon, turned up. He
was about 55 years old, hollow checked,
with sad eyes looking out from under
great brows. He stayed about two months
and after he left the students found out
that he was no less a parsonage than
Lord Dufferin.
WHISTLER was a familiar figure at
w the Paris salons of those days, but
it was in London that Simmons first met
him. Whistler took the younger Ameri-
can painter to lunch at the Hogarth Club
and then back to his studio to look at his
work. large manservant in full livery
brought out the pictures for exhibition
He wore white gloves, and was careful
not to touch the surface of the canvas.
OF Whistler Simmons records: His ac-
cent was very English and he was full CT
mannerisms, constantly fooling with his
eyeglass or the lace at his throat. He
asked about Paris, and I told him of the
first show of the Impressionists, held on
Sisley, &c The pictures had looked crazy
to the people of the day. Whistler said:
oh, | know those fellows; they are
bunch of Johnnies who have seen my
earlier work"
A GLIMPSE of the poet of absinthe.
a "Verlaine sometimes came to this
cafe (the Cafe des Lilas, on the Boulevard
st. Martini Paul Verlaine. | often paid
for his beer. A plain, hairy dirty figure,
seemingly physically very feeble; you
would not think to look at him twice
except to marvel at his ugliness and dis
orderly appearance unless you saw his
eyes. If he looked at you you knew you
were in the presence of your better. He
was wOrshipped by all and they fought to
pay his check, lowering about him like
crows around dead carrion. waiting to
snatch at anything that dropped from his
lips | was not a good student of charac-
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
The Late Father Vaughans
Thunderbolts.

T DID not know Father Vaughan, but
his brother the Cardinal, met more
than once. Sincerity, piety, physical
beauty and fine manners were the marks
of the Vaughan family, and the Cardinal
combined these qualities with powers not
purely intellectual, but compounded of
insight and the kindred gift of managing
men and making them work. These vir-
tues, so catholic and so characteristic of
the family, descended, I suppose, to
Father Vaughan. But they seemed to
have passed through a slightly coarser
strain. No one would accuse Father
Vaughan of want of candor But he who
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
How Canadian Literature May Develop


TT was interesting to see how the West
was looked upon as the land of prom
Use in which Canadian literature would
develop most richly, and the opinion that
it might be strongly influenced by Cana
dians not of Anglo-Saxon origin is inter
esting too and also suggestive: the rec
ognition being that the intellectual capac-
ity of Canada is not going to be limited
to the mental and spiritual heritage of
Great Britain; but the idea that the Slav
or the Latin can go further into the prob
lens of life which furnish the subject
matter of literature than the Anglo-Saxon
is not very sound: the field is open to
all, and race and nationality make little
difference; the statement is really inter
esting because it directs attention to the
fact that Canadian nationality has a COM
plexity which is apt to be overlooked, and
that Canadian art will lay tribute on
sources far beyond the range of the An
glo-Saxon instinct and character-By r.
B. r. in Manitoba Free Press.
The New York herald., 1922-11-26

Maria Louisa a Queen of Comic Opera.
HERE are certain portraits by Goya
which count among the most strik-
ing and unforgettable of the masters per-
formances, and that is saying a great
deal; there are good many others which
were painted essentially as a matter of
routine and come as near being dull and
commonplace as anything that flowed out
of Goya's brush ever can. Speaking gen
orally, one very interesting aspect of
Goya's work as a portrait painter springs
the amazing degringolGde which by that
time had taken place in the world of the
Spanish court and aristocracy, and which
tells with all the greater effect since
Goya in his methods of composition often
deliberately revives memories of Velas-
queZ. AS portrayed on Goya's canvases,
the contemporaries of the artist seem en-
gagged upon one joint enterprise of giving
a burlesque of the seventeenth century,
with its all pervading solemnity and
grandeur: the Queen of Charles ~, Ma
ria Louisa, may assume the pose and copy
the fashions of Philip Tvs Donna Masi-
ana: nothing can conceal from us the
fact that she is but Queen of comic
opera.-From "Goyd as Portrait Paint
err" by A. de BerWete y Moret, in the
AthendeHm.
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
Is the War No Longer a Fit Subject? !?

Is the War No Longer Fit Subject?
w HOEVER he is, "a Rifleman" never
w showed more nerve than on the
day he presented the manuscript of -Four
Years on the Western Front" to the pub
fishers, expecting them to do something
more with it than push it back toward the
drayman. And my respects to the Cd
hams Press! They did not push it back.
They published it. 1t would do tired
journalist no good to try to picture what
the document was like in manuscript
But in print its probable quarter of a
million words make 400 pages DENY oc-
tavo. The price is but Is shillings. Such
a quantity at that price, in these days,
startles us as much as would statesman
in the act of keeping his word, or the re-
mission of our income tax. 1t is unnat-
ural. But so great volume of matter
for so low figure is less startling than
the detail that it concerns that war which
to-day is one of the indelicate subjects
forbidden to the ears of the well bred; the
war which should be sheltered from nice
people and left to where it now belongs,
to taverns and to rude minds. 1t is
hardly fit subject even for print, except
that harsh sort distasteful to the polite.
Yet, in spite of the recent advice of gen.
tie and wary editors and sensitive book
tasters, here is a publisher who issues
without shame huge book which revels
in what is tabooed.-By II. M. TomIinSon
in The Athenaeanl.
The New York herald., 1922-11-26

ing vagrance, contagious seed of that
sore. Its symptoms are: rigid isolation,
an Indifference to the real issues and the
healthy mentality of our land, and even
cold denial of that health because it, in
itself, can never hope to experience that
exuberance again.-Frons the Modern Re-
Uieio.
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
Is Erik Dorm" More Real Than
"The Newcomes"?

THE battle of the books goes merrily
L on. Already the longest battle on
record, it may be expected to survive all
our efforts to do away with wars. We
may some day consent to settle disputes
over boundaries without resorting to
blows. But when it comes to deciding
what the real thing" is in literature we
desire no pacifists to compose our differ
ences. Begun as fight over the Anciants
and the Moderns, whether Homer and Vir-
gil were greater than the writer's of two
centuries back, the battle has lStterly gone
through many phases. Is the novel a
more effective instrument than the play?
Is rhymed, metrical verse so shackled as
to be impotent? Is the gutter more
real" than the drawing room? Erik
Dorm" than 1.-The Newcomes?", Can ro-
nance go hand in hand with reality, or
must the real be produced by a literal
chronicle?-From the Independent.
The New York herald., 1922-11-26

HE great artist is reformer trans
L formed. Shakespeare is sometimes
held to have lived aloof from the re-
formers temporary passions But that
repeated summons to reconciliation in
his plays is the credo of a man who
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
Little Portraits-Clemen Dane.

MISS CLEMENCE DANE, the author
1x1 of will Shakespeare" and THE
Bill of Divorcement" land incidentally
the most interesting and most successful
contemporary woman dramatisD, is tall
and slim. with the attractive, well marked
features that are the outward and visible
sign of the determination to succeed. Her
real name is Winifred Ashton, and l imag
inc that her pen name was borrowed-from
the famous church in the Strand Miss
Clemence Dane was for some time ON
the stage, and few years ago she made
a considerable success in a play called
ELIZA Comes to Stay" Before she was
an actress she was school teacher, and
in her first novel, Regiment of Women, -
she exploited her school experiences.
After Regiment of Women" she wrote
two more novels, and then with her first
play, "The Bill of Divorcement." she won
the right to be numbered among the few
living dramatists who matter. = From
John o. LOndOnS WeekIv
The New York herald., 1922-11-27

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The Nenana news., 1922-03-11
SECRETARY DAVIS TRYING
 TO SHAVE OFF COAL STRIKE

WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. H. Secretary James J. Davis of the de partment of labor urged the coal miners and operators ''in the inter ests of common sense to get togeth- CT and save the country from the costly results of 9 coal strike"
 The secretary also made the form al statement that, with the approv- al of President Harding, he had entered into direct communication with the representatives of the coal operators in the central field with a view 10 having joint meeting with the miners, prior to the end Of the month, when the agreement expires.
The Nenana news., 1922-03-11

wood, Democratic leader told the senate that he would vote for its ratification in -he same spirit which actuated him to support the treaty Of Versailles and the League of Nations covenant.
 The real issue, the senator told his hearers, hinged on whether the United States is ready to give it's sanction to any arrangement for peace "by mutual understanding" or desired 10 continue the opportunity for war that has threatened us for the last two decades"
 In concluding his adress, Senator Underwood asserted that he did not regard the treaty an alliance in any sense of the word, but, even f it were, and were founded rather on arbitration than on force, he would support 1t. On the other hand, to argue that because t was not found
The Nenana news., 1922-03-11
PACIFIC PACT DISCUSSION
 IS CONTINUED IN SENATE

Fit is Q straightforward document which attains one of the most in- portant objects the American go7- ernment had in view, and is of the highest importance in the mainten- ance Of friendly relations in the Far East"
 The recognized amenities or in- ternational intercourse. the secre- tary's letter stated, precluded the possibility of revealing the informal confidential negotiations and conver- sations incidental to the negotiation of the four-power treaty, but, the senate was assured that a full dis closure of everything that had been said or done leading up to the fram- ing of the treaty, would reveal noth- ing that can be construed as being derogatory to the part taken by the American delegates. declaring 1T conclusion that there were no secret notes or understanding.
The Nenana news., 1922-03-11
FORMER LIGHTWEIGHT
 CHAMPION IS KILLED

SEATTLE, Mar. II.-Fra1k Les lie shipworker zhoe and killed Johnny OLeary, former Canadian lightweight champion today.
 Leslie claimed mat he acted in selt-deteHse and shor when O'Lesry and another man attacked hin. He added that OLeary and others had been annoying him because Ae work cd fer the General Petroleum com- .pany where a strike was 5n progress
 0'Leary first became prominent here in 1911 when he met and de- teated some. of the best 1sghtweights. on the coast. Later 2: Winnipeg he fought a drawn battle with Fred dy Welzh the worlds lightweight champion and 2 few weeks later, at Buffalo, he fought drawn match with Johnny Kilbane. In 1916 he fought his last fight with Eddie Pinkham knocking him out in the third round.