New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-24

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| By Prokofeif, is heavy-footed poppy
cock. think that Cabell's "Jurgen"
Is one of the indubitable masterpieces
/ of literature. / think that Paradise
I Lost" is not
| think that THE Saturday Evening
/ Post is more automatically literary
than THE Atlantic Monthly I think
! that Harry Leon Wilson's recent satire
/ about the age-oid war between youth
and senllity is amazingly good, and
that The London Mercury" is the
| best thing that has appeared in any
magazine in many months. / think
there is no publication in England that
! has the artistic and literary importance
| OF "rhe Dial" This does not prevent
me from thinking that good two
! thirds Of THE Dial' is twaddle think
/ that THE London Mercury is the most
/ dullest and least intelligent publication
/ with pretentions in the English Ian
/ guage. | think that 1.-The Little Re-
view" and Poetry: Magazine of
Verse" for all their errors and pueril-
I tues have done more service to Amer
lean letters than any other publica-
tons.
think that Frank More Colby is one
of the finest essayists living and that
ne has written things as good as any
thing 20 be found in lie Jardin d'Epi-
cure The only stuff about the movies
| can read IS the anonymous critique
/ IN the Sunday Times: the charming
Miss Underhill, l admit, gauges her
audience more accurately. / think that
the best colyum conductor in America
IS Rig Orchard Atwater) on "The
Chicago Evening Post" The only news
paper reviewer l read with faithful
consistency is n. p. D., Of THE Globe:
am radically opposed to almost every
I opinion she ever voiced, and | begin to
think am slipping when find she has
/ agreed with me about some book; but
she has her say vigorously directly,
unequivocably and, / believe, honestly
and therefore | enjoy her. l think she
IS serious menace to American let
/ tiers; but she thinks the same about
me, SO there you are-hfty-hfty. May
( be, we both are right. | think that
Paul Rosenfeld is 1hapsodist, but not
critic. Still, l think it is a little
less narrowing to read what art does
to Paul Rosenfeld than to read what
Haywood Brcun does to art. Broun
as Il person | admire this side idolatry;
! but though he writes a lucid prose, i
! think, as q critic, he is nix, u think
Percy Hammond and George Jean Ma
than the only dramatic critics in
America with any distinction of style.
Robert Benchleys comment on the
4 "DemiVirgin': "A jury has decided
that this play is not obscene, which is
certainly a dirty crack at the author"
is the best one line criticism | have
read in years.
| think that HERMAN, who draws
| "Arazy Kat" has genius of an ex-
qulslto and original sort; that he is a
delicate and delicious fantasist,
James Stephens Of the comic strip.
~ hot ;,&c
strip artists are among the finest prod
ucts of our Indigenous culture and that
Darling, Briggs, Frueh, Goldberg, Fox
| and hAcCutcneon are worth all the
money they get and a great deal more
in the way of critical appreciation.
George Grosz, the German cartoonist
whose work has called forth extensive
critical notice not only in his own
country, but in France and Italy, is
confessed imitator Of Rube Goldberg,
and Poulbot, the French portrayer OF
children, is q disciple of Clare Briggs.
American magazine illustrators SINCE
( the time of Abbey have commanded the
highest admiration in Europe, and |
think that evon now American illus
traitors lead the world, in testimony Of
which | submit the work of Henry
Raleigh, Wallace Morgan, G. Z. Cham
bers, Dean Cornwell. Wait Louderbeck,
/
| think that Miss Fanny Brice is the
finest artist on the American stage.
think that Charlie Chaplin is perhaps
| the greatest serio comic artist the
world has ever known. / agree with
Gilbert Seldes in that more intelligent
and satisfactory entertainment is to be
mad IN the average vaudeville house
than IN the average legitimate theater.
cannot sit through movie unless it
lg | ,,,,lr
Fairbanks is comical. | got no emo
tional thrill out of "The Hairy Ape"
because the extraordinary mastery of
technique Mr.. O'Neill displayed in that
play absorbed all my faculties. | got
more aesthetic satisfaction out of "de
Who Gets Slapped" than out Of any
/ other play last season; | don't know
what; Andryeff was trying to prove--if
anything any more than | know what
Shakespeare was trying to prove in
Hamlet" and don't care.
heartily admire only one novel by
Joseph Conrad, Lord JIM" and only
one short story, Youth" "The Mig
ger of the Narcissus' like only $3.50,
the rest of the novels not at all. Vic
tory" bored me to death. | am reserv-
ing Dickens If for my old age, | have
Copperfeld" and "A Tale of Two
Cities" OF Thackeray | have read only
Vanity Fair OF Meredith only "The
Egoist' and "The Ordeal of Richard
I Feveral" Of the Brontes, only "Wuth-
: ering Heights" OF Bulwer Lytton, moth
ing OF Trollope nothing. Of George
Eliot everything and liked nothing. OF
Jane Austen everything and liked every
line of 1t. Balzac consider to be not
only the greatest master OF form in
the novel but almost the one French
man OF universal genius; he was one
OF the most penetrating critics in
race of critics, witness his essays on
such diverging geniuses as Moliere and
Stendhal; he was one Of the soundest
OF philosophers, both natural and
speculative; and he wrote more cpl
grams to chapter than Oscar Wilde,
James Mcneil Whistler and Moncton
Miles concocted all together My fa-
vorlte short stories are Judas Iscariot
, and Some Others" by Nicholas An
dryeff; THE Procurator of Judea," by
Anatoie France; lei Ombu," by w. Il.
Hudson; THE Ghost Ship" by Richard
Middleton; Youth" by Joseph Conrad
"Cleopatra's Slipper" by Gautier; Ca
BELTS story of Villon, Maupassant's
story of the duel and Sherwood Ander-
sons Hands"
Only oac book ever made me shudder
: lie Jardin des Supplices," by Octave
Mirbeau. Only one book in recent
, years has made mo weep-"The Brook
, Kerith," by George Moore. Only one
: BOOK has made me angry--"On Con-
temporary Literature" by Stuart p.
Sherman. Only one book has made me
sick--the lasp niece of +r-adJlo ~