Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-07-03
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Joseph Hergesheimers stories
Tubal Cain" wild Oranges" and
The Dark Fleece" have been
Drought out in new editions by AL
fred a. knopf, each as a separate
volume. These three stories were
originally published in one volume,
Gold and Iron" The text has been
revised and the type reset.
The French historian, George
Lenotre, whose history of the little
lost Dauphin. Louis XVII, was
published in this country last
autumn by Doubleday, Page & Co,
has published later book in Paris
under the title THE Impressario of
the French Revolution" The "im-
presario' was Baron Jean de Batz.
THE great unknown of Gascony
with the Basque name, a fanatic
Royalist and yet an ardent men,
Der of the national convention. M.
Lenotre holds him responsible for
the fate of Desmouline and Danton
and sets him Up as the agent OF
Pitt and the wire puller of Chabot;
in short, as the impresario of the
greatest political drama known to
modern history The book has
been translated into German by e.
Klarwill and published by MANI of
Vienna.
1t has long been the custom, par
ticularly in this country to con-
tend that there We're two Dostoie-
vskys--one preceding the years of
exile in Siberia, the other follow
ing that period of torture. Martin
Gran has published a critical study
however, entitled "Dostoievskiis
Uugdomsvaerker" (GydendaD, in
which he treats the great Russians s
life up to the spring of 1850, and
proves-to his own satisfaction
that the exile has no influence on
the works Dostoievsky produced
during the last thirty years Of his
life. He claims that Poor Peo-
pie" GS46), Ghosts" and other
works of the young journalist and
novelist contain all the motifs later
to be continued in the works that
were to follow his Imprisonment.
His thesis in short is that Dos
toievskys talents and nature were
such that no event, however horri-
BILE or reassuring, could change his
original plans or make a different
man of him. His collected works
constitute a spiritual unit If so.
then so much the worse for Dos
toievsky himself, while the peda-
gogues who discuss the relative in
fluence of heredity and environ
ment might just as we'll adjourn
sine die in favor of heredity.
1--WE think Lips That Have Gone
Astray' the foulest novel that ever
yet defiled the English tongue; and
that in absolute filth its author can
give any modern French writer six
and beat him hollow!"-The Par
thenon.
Fair Author Ito her publisher,
pointing to above opinion of the
press quoted in his, advertisement
of her novel;: "And pray Mr..
Shardson, what do you mean by
inserting this hideous notice?"
Publisher: my dear Miss Fitz-
morse, you must rememb"r that
we've paid you a large price for
your book, and brought it out at
great expense and we naturally
wish to sell it!"-From Mr..
Punch's History of Modern Eng
land (Stokes).
Lucien Bertrand has contributed
an article to the Revue des Deux-
Mondes on Goethe's Faust IN
which the assertion is made that
though Goethe was a man, he was
a German man, and consequently
his chef d'oeuvre is nothing but the
usual display of spiritual atrocities.
Were 1t not for the standing OF the
magazine in which the critique ap-
pears it would not be worth no.
tice. The study renders a marked
disservice to letters and politics.
One of the most absorbing of the
tales OF the great astronomers in
Alfred Noyes' watchers of the
sky" (Stokes) is that of Calico, in
ventor of the telescope. In 1880
he wrote a treatise setting forth
the Copernican theory that the
earth is not the fixed center OF the
universe but moves about the sun,
and for this hersy he was speed
ilv summoned before the 1nqulsi-
tion. There is an old story that
the aged Calico. threatened with
horrible tortures, recanted and
then whispered under his breath.
"But. nevertheless. it does move
Mr. Moves makes clear that this Is
now considered fiction, but his
story Of the true incident IS OF rare
vividness and genuine nlstorlcai
interest.
East Las Vegas, n. M. July q
Five Judges have been selected Tor
the band contest to be held here
duriug the COWBOYS reunion. They