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The New York herald., 1922-06-11

Up AND DOING. Poems bv C. p
Mcdonald Second Edition. New
York: Carey Craft
N the soft summer weather inst
now halcyoning for us few
people really want to do any
work and a stimulus to those who
have to work should be valuable.
Such a prodder may be found in
many of the eighty-five poems that
make up Mr.. McDonald's SO appro-
priately named volume. The last
one sums up all the stress in this
quatrain:
Work, all we get to your lash we owe.
Though you are harsh to us now and
then,
Too many rail at the dice you throw.
Too few are willing to trp asaiaf
The italics. We hasten to say, are,
the poets. not ours. for his verse is
not only strenuous but looks it. The
book is dedicated to a warm friend
Of the arts and Of the famous SUN
Tobacco Fund. Mr.. Seneca G. Lewis
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Still speaking Of interviewing. We
correspondent bought pint of beer
for stalwart native Of Dorchester
not long ago. The stalwart native
turned out to be self-supporting
employee of a Dorset brewery, who
got his beer for nothing and was not
to be bought that way-but that is
neither here nor there. What inter
ested US was his deep throated re-
mark: e's a fine man, is Mister
Thomas 'ardy." We waited for more
-avidly. "'e's fine man, Mister
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gether and then for all their com-
patriots In turn? First of all, some
dreamers express the feelings of
Z the people about them: they be-
come the mouthpiece of those who
toll and rejoice beside them. Then
If their words are clear
those first poetic accents are trans
mitted like echoes to other bards.
who take them up and spread
them. Gradually a har-
mony is composed Yet
from century to century the lead
ers of the orchestra are few. There
are not many Villons, Rabelais,
Montaignes, Molieres and Vol
taireS.
Anatole France is, himself, one Of
these great voices. with message
for the future as well as for his
own day.
But great as are his other achieve
ments, one is driven ultimately to
class him first of all as a master of
expression, as the supreme stylist.
And there are very few such in any
generation, or in any land. In Eng
ish, for Illustration, there has not
as yet appeared any successor to
Stevenson. In the France of to-day
there is none to compare with Ana
toIe France. He rose, very early in
his career, above any of the schools"
or movements" of which French lit
erary life is. always prolific. In a
way he was nurtured in the Con-
court movement, but he broke away
entirely from the eccentricities, neol-
ogisms, curious epithets and search
for the unusual. the unexpected word
that marked that phase of literary
experiment. His art is the perfec-
ton of art in its apparent artlessness
and simplicity. A simplicity that is
deceptive, as any aspirant will find
if he tries to initiate it in any tongue.
France himself has stated his creed,
saying:
The simple style is like a white
light. 1t is really complex, but
outwardly it does not seem so. The
beautiful and desirable simplicity
of language is but an appearance;
it can come only from the correct
order and the supreme economy of
the various parts of language.
The clew to it lies perhaps in the
word economy, which comes very
close to being a restatement of the
ancient Greek maxim meden agQys,
nothing too much" There are no
superfluous adjectives. in Frances
writing, no unnecessary words of any
kind But there is nothing lacking.
1t is never cold. bare or eolorless.
The theory of it is curiously like
Herbert Spencer's attempt at a
philosophy of STYLE" which he based
upon economy of effort to the reader,
but where Spencer and most hum
bier folk merely theorize and some
times approximate, France entirely
succeeds. Indeed, it is an acme of
success in that respect, and one must
go back to the Greek dramatists for
a parallel.
H L. PANGBORN.
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H. L. PANGBORN.

DITTIES FROM A DITTY BAG: AND
WAR TIME MEMORIES. BY Albert
5. Crockett, New York. S. l.. Par
sons & Co., Inc.
"HIs little book of rimes by a
good humored traveller makes
no further pretense to merit
than the remark in the PREDATORY
note that most of them have ap-
peared in Life, the New York Times.
THE NEW York HERALD, THE Sun OF
elsewhere" A few are graver. but
most sof them are gay-like this:
UNREEFED.
My Phyllis would not take a dare
The way of fillies anywhere
And SO she went and bobbed her hairi
My Phyllis said she would be free
So free that all who ran could see
And cut her skirt off at the knee!
My Phyllis said she would not wed
When / lost both my heart and head.
mo man shall rule Ger me- she said
The days have passed and she's pdssee.
l wonder II she's just as gay?
For fashions now have changed thew
say
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
The Book Factory
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.
THE FLYING START.

% the ednk silence that foced big
a0ned nA sojtenng
Ao the eldest director sqraued ben
An there is to tell cast possb-"
CRACKED split the agoned squeak
man can't inst ranish into thin airr'
"A man. Knapp fun of money
1t nds not to be wondered
long table the directors
found this opening paragraphs
S I'm all for mystery stories that
j Begintheir mystifyng
The minute that the readers sat =
Him down. It's very trying
To turn hundred pages ere,
The dirty work begins.
tedious opening, declare
To be the worst of sins!
And when write mystery tale
I'll follow that example
shall not open like SNAIL
As witness this here sample:
Page One. Upon the floor there Ian
psardered IN striped
PGjamas. Very strange to sag,
HIS cash had not been saoiped!
Or This the cry that reached my ear,
Oh, help or Pu get hurted"
forced the door and (aint 1T Queer?)
found the place deserted! =.
breathless story I'll narrate,
A thriller genuine,
And make my readers papitate
The second begin!
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Thomas ,ardy!" repeated the gent as
how We had bought the beer for.
Yes! Yes!" repeated ye corre-
spendent, right eagerly. And the
robust son of Dorset cleared his
throat and gazed at the meek and
inoffensive poor fish as had bought
him his beer, and strolzed his mus
tache and cleared his throat and
rumbled: "'e's a fine man, Mister
Thomas 'ardy." And-well,
e isl
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But shall we give you the pattern
of typical lit'ry interview, English
style, o you American Journalistic
excuse me, newspaper men, who
would interview the great? Here.
then:
The interviewer seats himself,
crosses his legs, fidgets nervously
with concealed pencil and note
book, balances a teacup on his knee,
and inquiries:
"Mr. Scribblemuch, do you believe
it's true that/the novel as a literary
form-compared to the short story
or the movies-that is, the cinema
that is to say, as distinct artistic
entity-is going through period of
transition that is eventually"
Mr.. Scribblemuch (taking his tea
without sugar and milk: YES yes
Have crumpet. Mr.. Jones. You're
rot eating anything at all, Is it
true, Mr.. Jones, that they're really
trying to enforce that amazing pro-
hibition law in New York;
LONDON. JOE.
Some day when we have the space
we're going to tell you about the
'Southey section of George Saints
bury's fascinating Letter Book
Southey's didacticism always got
our goat; we insisted that no man
with sense Of hunor could have
written such preachy poetry. Yet
the Southey correspondence in "The
Letter Book" proves that Robert
had an excellent sense of humor.
Which makes the man more of a
puzzle than ever.
We wonder whether Lewis Carroll
would have kidded Southey SO
brutality in Alice in Wonderland"
if he had known that the pious Bob
was more than a humorless moral
ist. This, of course, would have been
disarming. And the world might
have lost CarrolPs rollicking Father
William" verses. one OF the finest
parodies in the language.
So many books. according to an
nouncements, FILL long felt wants.
that after another hundred or SO of
these volumes are published this
ought to be a pretty eontented uni
verse.
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Continued from Preceding Page.

Jerome Cofgnard." The same method
is followed in "L'orme du mal.-
La Mannequin d'osier," 'LAnneau
damethyste" and finally in IN. Ber-
geret a Paris" the last of which
appeared in 1901. The collection
known as "Histoire contemporaine"
is made of the last four of these.
In all these he uses his characters as
the vehicles of comment and criti-
cism upon politics, affairs of the day.
literature. art and the whole round
of life.
In addition there are seml-his-
torical romances. such as bal
thasar." which is a story of one of
the Magi. and 'Thais." which takes
us to Alexandria. His ironic novel
"Cranquebille" he also dramatized;
the play had some success at the
Renaissance Theater and his works
include other dramatic sketches. His
"Noces eorinthiennes" has been pro-
'duced at the Odeon, and during the
war. in 1918, it was given under
extraordinary circumstances at the
Comedie Franchise, while Gothas
dropped their bombs on Paris. Mu-
sicians, too, have used his works, as
MassenetNin "Thais,' and, more re-
markably, a comic opera has been
made OF La Refine Pedauque." But
NJ Gsel tells us ~he does not like
the theatef becsase-he doesn't. The
art of the stage seems rather clumsy
to this subtle logician, wf-o tends
flock Of IDEAS as light snn many
hued as the clouds" In fact, his
genius is not that of the theater.
IV.
He shows at the summit of his
power as a satirist and also as a
oontroversialist in the sardonic "Ile
de Penguins" and in the strongly
anti-clerical study of Jeanne fAre.'
Appearing at the height of his inter-
national fame in 1908, these two
books are perhaps better known to
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

Wells's new novel, 1.-THE Secret
Places Of the Heart" is so full of
glittering generalities that the reader
has to wear an eyeshade to keep
from blinking.
Oh. trauel-6ook tcorshipers, my con-
feRtion's
That yox should peruse It. Long
strctA's ~Lourentidns."
Louis Hemon fans will find the
chapter maria Chapdelaine of Peri
bonka" Of especial interest. With
the exception of the bromide, Can
ada is Gods country" we found it
delightful reading. We have yet to
read a travel book in which some
place or other isn't called Gods
country. Doubtless the Creator ap-
preeiates these acknowledgements of
His ownership. but after a while,
wen bet. they leave Him a trifie
bored.
There is only one bromide that we
dislike more than the Gods coun-
try" one. And that is Marie Conway
Oemler's oft repeated assertion that
love is the most wonderful thing in
the world. =. Though, of course,
Marie is probably right; especially
when the love affair takes place in
one of Gods countries. Ask Zane
Grey.
LINES.
Said l. A. r. wylie to j. v. A.
Weaver,
"They tell me that you are Young
Unbeliever."
Eyes, enjoy knocking the older men
highly"
; Said ]. " A. Weaver to 1. A. r..
Wylie.
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he said, with that wistful Mase-
fieldian gleam in his eye, "I was
never entrusted with anything more
important than fetching the ingre-
dents"
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OUR OWN LONDON CORRE-
SPONDENT

The spring crop of American jour-
naiists about to Interview Arnold
Bennett and Fl. G. Wells has begun
arriving In their despair the great
men resort to unusual expedients.
Ye correspondent bumped into Ar
mold Bennett the other day in the
most unlikely place in the world.
III give you three guesses.
No. In the Authors
Club There was a hunted look in
the authors eye as he said a melan-
choly "Good afternoon" to We corre-
spondent, who forebore from speak
ing. Gratefully the author of "The
Old Wives Tale accepted cigarette
silently profered. Then-"Ah, here
we arei" called a firm and CHEEKY
voice 1t was Robert Haven Schauf-
fer He was getting an interview.
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Speaking of interviews, ye corre-
epondent could make sensational
literary, revelation concerning John
Masefield II he were so inclined.
What? Well, he never takes
= dare Its entirely untrue. Mr..
1asefield assured The Book Factory
correspondent over = confidential cup
Of tea that he was newer cocktail
mixer in ~Bronx nlE~ -Ah. xe.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
THE PEOPLES CHURCH.

The speciality toward which all faces are turning in the Peoples church is the free New England Supper that < scIeuuled for next Thursday. Nov. 16. for church members and friends of the congregation. A varied and tempting program is being prepared, including a most welcome address by tlev. kenneth Mackenzie of Westport. Plans are also on foot for the annual gift-making festival of Thanksgiving week.
 Tomorrow. the pastor will speak on The Invisible Church of Christ" as part of the morning service of wor- ship. The church service is preced- ed by prayer in the upper room at 10 a. m.
 The Sunday school at 12 o'clock will be in charge of w. B. Harrington, a former superintendent, and the Chris tian Endeavor Societies at 6:30 will consider the conditions and value of mem bership in the church.
 The theme next Wednesday evening will be "The Visible Church"-its Re quir ements and Advantages. This ser vice will be preparatory to the Lords Supper on the following Sabbath.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
CHURCH NEWS.

At the Grace Methodist church, corner Fairfield and Clinton avenues, Sunday morning at 10:30 the pastor, Rev. Irving L. Smith. will speak on "The Joy. of the Lord" The subject of the cfIildren's talk will be ''The Battering Ram" The choir will sing 70 Love the Lord,'' by Thayer.
 The Bible school and Mems Fra terna1 Auxiliary meet at 12 o'clock.
 The Probationers class will meet at p. m.
 The Epworth League devotional meeting at 6:50 will be led by Miss Ruth Potter.
 The evening service will open at The choir will sing Come Unto Me- by Neidlinger. The subject of the sermon is Where Dwellest Thou
 The Sunday school board will meet at the church on Monday, 7:45 D. m., for their regular monthly meeting.
 The prayer meeting will be held at the church on Thursday afternoon at 2:30.
 Friday afternoon, 4:15, the Junior League will meet in the church.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
STAMFORD METHODIST.

Stratford Methodist Episcopal church, Main street, near Post Office, Stratford. Rev. A. F. Cha anberlain, pastor. Morning worship 10:30. Nov 12: Organ Prelude, Alteration. Gaul; Anthem. What Are These?,' Stainer; Anthem, God is a Spirit" Bennett Sermon, "A Fathers SoHcitude.'' Or gan Postlude. Septett, Beethoven.
 A resolution on the memory of the late Mrs. Sarah Smith will be read at the morning service.
 The Red Cross enrolment begins this week. Everybody should join. Evening worship, 7:S0. A commun- ity service in the local Congregational church. Special music, and an ad- dress by an out of town religious leader. The service will be in keep ing with Arrnistice Day. The Meth odist church will cooperate.
 Sunday school 12 noon. Epworth League 6:45. Leader. Murie1 Me Conren. Topic: What Christ Means
 Wednesday evening. 7:45 Mid-Week Service. Theme, The Spirit of Our Prayers This theme will be dis cussed by nine different people.
 Friday afternoon The Womans For edgn Missionary Society will be enter tained in the parsonage at 2:30.
 Saturday evening 7:30. The Queen Esther-Standard Bearer Society will meet at the home of Louise Foster, Garden street Young people of fl wears and over are invited to join in this work.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
PARK STREET CoNGREGA1IONAL

MT. and Mrs. kamba Simango who leave carry next year for East Africa Will be ct Park street Congregational church at DoLn se-VlCeS ol Sunday. They will both speak at the murning SerVIce al II o'clock. The public has an Opportunity of nre etlng d remark able couple who exempllfy the rom ance and wonderful possibilities of Foreign A1issio2ary work. Rev. F. Bunker, now of Wilton, Connecticut, discovered MT. Simango in darkest Africa, under the Portuguese flag. Eff forts to help the natives were resisted by the government officials. Any black boy responding to the appeal of great risk to himself. Kamba Siman- go was one who had it in him to stand all the cost. He was helped into more hospitable British territory, and later to South Africa. Later he found opportunity to 0rne to America and worked his way through the Hampden Institute and has during these last three years crowned his achievements by graduating from the Teacher training course at Columbia University. This romance of the Mission field found its eliminated in his recent marriage to a lady whose grandfather was slave in America but who was worked back to Liberia by way of the famous Underground railroad-' In story and in personality Vesper Service they will appear in African life. It will be of interest to know that this couple will go to Af- r1ca supported by the Congregational churChe eS of Fairfield county
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH

Tomorrow morning at 1O:SO, Dr. Marshall will have for his subject "Pleasing Religion" In the evening there will be a song service and ser mon, "Minding Ones Own Business. The music for the day will be as fol- lows:
 1O:3O A. M.
 Prelude, ditation'-Bartlett- Anthem, Awake Up My Glory'- Chadwick.
 Huhn.
 7:3O P. NJ.
 Prelude, "Chanson du Soir"- Matthews.
 Evening Hours"-Barri-sh
 Postlude, "March-F'aulkes.
 At 6:30 tomorrow evening, there will be a meeting of the Epworth I. D. Beebe. What Does Christ Mean to Your" will be the theme for this evenings meeting.
 On Monday at 2.30 D. m. the Wo- mems Foreign Missionary society will meet at the home of Mrs. Paul Men ough, 342 Maplpewood avenue. The meeting begins ,pr omptly at this time On Monday evening there is bowline at the Holland alleys. All church members and constituents are invited to come.
 Tuesday, at 2:30 p. m. the Ladies Sewing Circle meets with Mrs. Chas ON1aIC, lOZ N OTnlS1n Street. 1IllS IS Il business meeting and every member should be there.
 Every Wednesday at 200 p. m. the Church Aid society meets to work The mid-week service begins at 7:45 every Wednesday evening. The topic for next week is Using Our Tal- ents or Losing Them Matt. 25-29 For the two months ending with last Wednesday the average attendance at prayer meeting was 1OS. There is very special interest manifested in the prayer meeting.
 The Junior League meets every Fri day at 400 D. n- Next Friday Jack Webb will lead the devotion. Mrs. kearns will give a story talk.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
ANNIVERSARIES CHURCH.

Tomorrow will be observed as "Ja- pan Sunday at the First Universalist church Tn emphasis of the splendid missionary work which the UnIvessaI- ist uenoIninauon is ooing in Japan. This work includes the malnte nance of schools. homes for garls, social ser vice centers, churches and Sunday schools. Rev: Hal T. kearns, the the pastor, will speak at the morn ing service On The Challenging of Barnum." A special offering for the work in Japan will be received.
 Japan Sunday will also be observ- ed in the Sunday School at noon with an appropriate program
 Mrs A. N. Blackford will lead the young peoples meeting at s:30 p. m. Toplc, "Our Duty in Japan"
 The second Cheerful Sunday Eve ming Service of the season will be held at 7:so p: m. MT. Kearns will give a brioi address on the theme, :-The Other Fellow" which will be followed by a stereoptican lecture de piciting "The Wonders of Mammoth Cave" in beautiful colored pictures. A special feature of the service will be several solos by Mir. John Sutli- van. one of Bridgeport's well-known baritone solo1Sts. The public is cor dially invited to all services
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
OIIVET CONG. CHURCH.

At the II o'clock service in Olivet church on Sunday morning pr. Sher- rod Souie of Hartford will give an address on missions He is the sec retary of the Missionary Soc .ety of Connecticut, which is the oldest mis- sionarY society in America Of any kind and was founded in 179S. Dr. Soule t,as formerly the highly sue ceSSful minister of the Con ngrega ational church in Naugatuck and in his pres ent position has shown the same eX- cellent qualities of leadership. In the evening at 1880 he will give an illus trated lecture on the history of some of the Connecticut churches out of which have come some of the na- tionally famous men. On Monday evening at 6:30 the officers and tea ch- CTS of the church school will enjoy together the monthly supper and fol- low it by a business meeting The Missionary Institute holds the fourth session on Wednesday with supper at 6:30. followed by study in thu groups led by Mrs Calvin, C. l. Treadwel and Dr. Brown It is eS- pected that an address will be given by Rev. Charles N. Miller of CeyIon at S:15 D. m. The Montgomery Mis- -Ionary Society has the monthly mest- ing in Holden hall at 3:SO D. m. on F'i'iray, with an address by Miss Min nie Garter. whose home is in Bethel but whcse work is in Inanda- Africa On the same day. Friday, the Holden Missionary Society will have a food sale from 3 to p. m. in the lecture room.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
Rosebud Reserves
 to Play CrashOs

The Crasho Cubs and Rosebud Re- serves will clash on Diamond 6 grid iron tomorrow afternoon at Seaside Park. the game to start at 1:30. Line ups:
 Crasho Cube-Pettrasci. le; Afihfta, It; Sava, lg: Gj1es-Trues c; Rowe Moore. re: Doherty. Tt; Bannan-Kiely. rE; Pinski. qb; PaDpas, rhb; Haanis, fhb; Sampson, fb.
 Rosebud Reserve@-E Sumsky. le; c. Carr, It; R. Sch CT att Ig; J. Syn mott. c; R. Wright. re; F. Broderick, Tt; E. Licsh. rg; 6. Hinack. ie, NJ. Sterbach. rhb: Dick. flib: P. Ca 7te, ,fb.
 Chacklan, Conner, Lombard and Lesko will sub for tn he Crashos. and Knapp, Poke, Luc;Ls and MeadonIy will sub for Rosebuds
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
WASHINGTON PARK CHURCH.

pr. George c. Foot, pastor. will speak at Washington Park Methodist Episcopal church, corner BaTnum and Noble avenues, Sunday 10:3O a. m-, on Discharged" and at 7:30 p. m. on "The Non-Conformists.' Morning music, organ, '+Serenade" and 'Alle- gro con Moto," Schubert. Contralto solo. And When Ye Reap" Schneck- CT, quartet, Great is the Lord,'' Hark- CT. Evening music, organ, "Madri- gale" Simonetti, "RecessionaL" Wat son, quartet, 70 Worship the Lord" Watson. Congregational song service. Sunday school, 12:10 noon. EpWorth League, 6:30 p. m. Midweek ser- vice, Wednesday. 7:45 p. m. Every
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11
Murphy in Army
 NOtre Dame Tilt

Bridgeport will have a representa- tive player in the lineup of the big game between Knute Rockne's famous eleven and the West Point team at West Point this afternoon in the per- son of Joe Tim Murphy, product of Bridgeport High school. Although Murphy may not start the game he is sure to go in for part of the time. He will occupy Captain Carberry's po- sition at end. A good-sized de1sga- ton of local fans made the trip to West Point to root for the Irish man. to defeat West Point
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11

St. Mary's church, Pembroke street, corner Steubeo street. Rev. Matthew J. Traynor. pastor. Masses. 7:a0, g and 1o:3O. Sunday school after the g o'clock mass. Vespers and bene- diction at 2:3O
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11

Sacred Heart church, 71s Myrtle avenue, Rev. Richard F. Moore, LL-D:, pastor. Masses 7, 8, g, 10 and II ocF ick. Sunday school after the o'clock mass. Benediction at 7:SO p.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11

St. Charles church, 1255 East Main street. Rev. Patrick McGtvnev, pastor. Masses, 7. s, 9:15 and 1O:se. Benediction on Sunday evening at o'c
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11

St. Augustine's church, corner Washington avenue and Pequonnock street, IEeV- James B. Nihill, ?. R., pastor. Masses, 2. 8, g. 10 and 11:16 (high mass). Benediction at 7:30 D. m.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11

Blessed Sacrament church, Union avenue and Orange street, Rev. J. J. Duggan, pastor. Masses. ', 8. and 1O:30. Sunday school at o'cltck. Benediction at 2:45,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-11

sr. Patrick's enurch, s51 North av- enle, Rev. John c. Lynch. pastor. ~asses, 7:30, 9, 9:3o and 10:3o. Ves- Sus at o'clock.