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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-05-14

was the beginning of much. John
son was delighted by the profuse
hospitality he received and the
Thrales flattered and interested By
his presence at their table. Invita-
tions became frequent, and from
1776 onward Johnson was free of
the house. A room was set apart
for him both at Streatham and in
the Borough, and the Thrale home
was his when he pleased.-Froas
John o. LondOn'S Weekly.
Very Much to the Point.
ON your comment MAY 81 on
" the newest addition to the
latrine school of literature" writes
Edmund Lester Pearson, the libra
rian, you say 'politeness is one of
the chief things the matter with
modern literature Even if this is
SO, Dos Passos, Cummings and
others are going the wrong way to
find a remedy. Every sensible rad
ical knows that the wild and yio-
lent radical only helps keep the
conservative and standpatJer In
power; the extreme Stiles of Green
wich Village not only bring art into
disrepute but strengthen the hand
of the academician and Journalist;
and the folk who think that the
supreme achievement of the novel;
list is to get lie mot de Cambronne
into literature, and on every page,
re merely insuring that the reign of
Polyanna shall be long in the land.
The game is old; it was tried as
long ago as La Terre. So far from
showing strength. these apostles of
the bad smell are exhibiting weak
ness: their books recall the dinner
table talk of the medical school
freshman Its success consists in
driving some other pal' faced youth
hurriedly from the table. One of
the most sulphurous End powerful
speeches in our literature is the
monologue by Huck Firms father
IN the hut with Huck. Yet there is
not an oath in it, nor any word
which caused the publishers to lose
their nerve and to blot it out How
these little men would have loaded
it down with all the naughty words
which they have gleefully discoy-
cred, They recall the two little
girls who went into the garden to
say some swear words After long
thought one of them remarked:
'Helletydamni' And the other costa
tically responded: so do To-
From at Seems to Me-" By Hey-
uood BroHn in the Neio York
World.
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The Legend of Cyrano.

WHO does not know the legend
w of Cyrano? AS the hero of
the most popular French play since
Hermann" Cyrano de Bergerac is
known to all the world. Thousands
even of those who care nothing for
the literary history of the seven
teenth century can tell you that
Cyrano had a nose, was the best
duelist of his time, wrote a play
which Moliere plagiarized and made
a voyage to the moon. The fam
tastic and chivalrous Cyrano of
Rostand is the last great creation
of the Romantic movement, and no
one who has enjoyed that heroic
comedy will be so pedantic as to
censure Rostand for creating a
character utterly untrue to history.
Researchers may produce irrefu-
table evidence OF very different
Cyrano; learned editors may re-
publish and annotate his writings
in support of their argument: but
for the world in general Cyrano de
Bergerac will not be the Partisan
"libertin," atheist, poet, gambler,
denizen Of Grub street." but the
fine Gascon gentleman, the delicate
lover Of Roxane.-From the London
Times.
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The New Englandism of
Hawthorne.

LIE lived in an atmosphere IN
IL which it must have been ex-
traordinarily difficult to stand suf-
ficienly remote from everyday life
to see it not merely with the eye
but with the imagination. To the
eye there must have been little
enough of fantasy in the narrow
lives of the men and women about
him. Never comes any bird of
paradise into that dismal region"
he wrote of the Custom House in
which he passed so many years and
that made such havoc of his wits"
He had to transform his surround
ings into strange land into which
bird of paradise might enter. He
cid this by the invention of sort of
moral fairyland, into which he
could project his vision of the mys-
terry of human life. He often Of
tends our sense of reality, but he
never leaves us in doubt OF the
reality of this moral fairyland as
the image of all he knew and felt
about human life. 1t is Puritan
ical fairyland into which sin has
come. But, strong though his sense
of sin is, Hawthorne does not al
ways in his view of sin agree with
the Puritans. He is more Chris
tian, and he condemns the sin OF
self-righteousness more than the
sins of the flesh. Even so, his imag-
ination is very close to that of the
Puritans. who believed in witches
and in men possessed by the devil.
The difference is that Hawthorne
was inclined TO believe that the good
cburchgoing people were also
witches and men possessed by the
devil Unless / misunderstood
Young Goodman Brown" Haw-
thorne is here telling us how he
was tempted to behave this and re-
preaching himself: for having given
way to temptation. In THE Scarlet
Letter" il is the egoism of the
venseful husband, not-<he adultery
of the wife or the coxa. dice of the
minister who sins with her, that is
the objectionable sin of the story,
From the A(E Statesman.
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youth, indeed, is like any
other youth except in it's
youthfulness. Tastes change, am
billions change, circumstances
change, day dreams change. Never
theless the thirst for action is
hereditary and is never quenched
by mere living. If boys have the
odyssey" and 1.-THE Three Muske-
teers" and Robinson Crusoe" they
will read them, for these great
stories are beyond fashion. Nick
Carter will seem to them old fash
toned, but they will crave his
equivalent in adventures of their
own time. For the Nick Carter
story is in it's entirety what the
great romantic classics are in es.
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dppcdlS " US III tue milky stage.
Character begins to seem interest
ing at about the age that one takes
hesitantly to cigars. When the
doctor cuts down on our meats and
starches, and a digestive pill fol-
lows after dinner coffee, then we
begin to relish ideas in our fiction.
And when the decline toward old
age is well under way we welcome
fiction in our ideas and think that
we are still reading narrative. Such
is the progression from Nick Carter
to H. G. Wells.-From Nick Gar
ter" in the Literary ReUieU.
National Literary Vitality.
TT is safe to predict a great lit
l. erary renaissance in America.
All the raw material, all the fresh
interest and driving energy are
there, and her one necessity now
is to forget English literature, from
Dickens to Wells, and to let her
own wells bubble like the dickens.
Indeed, she had started doing that
some years back, and, like the be-
ginning of anything, the first re-
suit is unpleasant and incoherent.
But the old standards are not quite
as satisfying as they once were;
the powerful hands of Messrs.
Kipling and Anthony Hope are be-
ginning to relax what had seemed
like an eternal grip, and American
brains are growing self-conscious
and self-sufficing. Saving every.
body's presence, l think the Amer
lean story is the saddest invention
Of modern times; and it seems less
to have been produced by a mans
head than by donkey's hoof. But
the energy wasted on these tales
cannot be paralleled in Europe; and
within the last few years certain
American writers have appeared
who are actually trying to write,
and who understand that writing is
beautiful and very difficult art,
demanding all of thought and swea.
that full grown man has. America
has attained national equilibrium,
and her writers may be with US in
less than a generation.-From An
Adventure in ProphecN." By James
Stephens in the Atlantic Monthly.
Cenoa's Literary Associations.
MANY English writer's have asso-
Av1 Citations with Genoa. Only
last autumn / had pointed out to me
with great pride by a Genoese
friend the house where Byron lived
and where he was Joined by Shelley.
The latter found death in the blue
Mediterranean within sight of the
place. Byron delighted in the old
palatial city, and the house he oc-
cupied bears a great inscription on
its front concentrating his resi-
dence there. l could not find the
house in which Dickens stayed for
many months and penned a large
part of his Pictures from Italy"
Another visitor to Genoa was Mark
Twain, who called there in the
Quaker City, and he describes its
bewildering array of palaces ard
its narrow tunnel-like streets in his
''Innocents Abroad" Genoa has
much changed since those days
when Italy was still under the heel
of the Austrians and the Popes
were temporal rulers. Now Genoa
is singularly attractive place,
clean and well kept, and its workers
are as well housed as anywhere in
Italy, thanks to one great lady.
The palaces all remain, and have
been added to by a Scot, who has
built the fantastic Castillo Mac
kenzie" in a commanding position.
From John o. London's Weekly.
English and American Books and
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Countess Tolstoy's Early Life.

OUR first governesses were Ger
" man; we were taught French
first by mother, then by governesses.
and later by the French lecturer of
the university. We were taught
the Russian language and science
by university students. One of
them tried in his own way to de-
velop my mind and to make me a
believer in extreme materialism;
he used to lend me BIuchner and
Feuerbach; suggested that there
was no God and that religion was
an obsolete superstition. At first
l was fascinated by the simplicity
of the atomic explanation and the
reduction of everything in the
world to the correlations of atoms;
but l soon felt the want of the ordi-
nary orthodox faith and church,
and l gave up materialism forever.
At that time a new type had just
appeared in life and in literature;
there was the new breath of
nihilism among the young. / re-
member how at large party, where
professors and students were pres
ent, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons"
was read aloud, and Bazarov
seemed to us to represent a strange
type, something new, something
which contained a promise for the
future.-From 'Tolstoy as His Wife
Kneto Him" in John o. London's
Weekly.
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The World of Letters as Others See It

Edith M. Hull. But the greatest
recent success is that of "If Winter
Comes" by Mr.. Hutchinson, which
since its publication has sold more
than 100000 copies. Among the
best sellers of British non-fiction
books last year were Wells's out
line of History" ''The Mirrors of
Downing Street." Mrs. Asquith's
Autobiography" and Mr.. Stra-
chey's Queen Victoria. From the
Saturday Reuieao.
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Blasco lbanez Writing the "Foul
Horsemen."


IRON November, 1915, to Feb
L ruary, 1916. he composed in
Paris in little apartment in the
Rue Rennequin his novel The
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, -
in which he pictured the psychol-
ogy of the German and told the
story of the Battle of the Marine
and the first fighting in the trenches.
The work was translated into Eng
lish and published in 1918 in the
United States. There its success
was extraordinary, far exceeding
the success in Paris years before
of the Quo Vadis" of Sienkiewicz.
1t may be said that in America
The Four Horsemen of the Apoca-
lypse" has been more widely read
than any other printed book with
the exception of the Bible. In
a day Blasco Ibanez became a
worldwide celebrity-From "Bldsco
Ibdnez." By LRcien de Sdinte Croir
in the MercRre de France.
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Rabelais's Convent Life.

D ABELAIS'S father was an apoth-
1C ecary. When he was 9 years
old the boy was sent to'a monastery
school and in his early manhood he
became a Franciscan monk. The
Franciscans were VIGOROUSLY un-
learned, scorning scholarship as
though it were heresy. Rabelais,
however, somehow contrived to find
books to read-Latin, Greek, He
brew and even Arabic classics,
romances, as well as books on medi-
cine, astronomy and mathematics.
Nothing is really known of his con-
vent life except that he proceeded
to priests orders. He remained in
the monastery until he was Al.
Then he managed to obtain permis-
sion to move from the Franciscans
to a Benedictine monastery. He
took this to mean that he might
leave the Franciscans,' and he for
got to join the Benedictines.--From
John o. London's Weekly.
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Irwin Cobb on a Vital Topic,

"THERE is a spirit engendered
by a mellow bottle passed
around the table that heightens the
joys of human companionship and
tlnts the world q bright and COM
Portable rose color. 1t sharpens the
wit and ripens the philosophy of
the most staid and stolid. 1t makes
people more genial and gentle and
amlable. 1t makes them more truly
themselves. And a writer can Judge
them better, and give sounder and
more telling picture of them, when
he has had a few drinks in their
company. l believe that old Bobby
Burns would have been more of a
mute, inglorious figure if he hadn't
had good bit of Scotch in him.
l don't think our own James Whit
comb Riley would have touched so
feelingly the heartstrings of the
great American public if he hadn't
tried many friendly glass of beer
in the back parlor of his favorite
saloon in Indiana.-From Authors
aud Alcohol" By Ellery Rand in the
Neio York ''Times Book Reuieic."
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English and American Books and
Readers.

Readers.
Jew British authors have such
l. enormous sales in America as
quite number of American authors
have in Britain. One reason for
this is that British authors turn
out nothing corresponding to the
Wild West story or what is known
in the American trade as the
bloody shirt" type. The British
books that command large circula-
lions in the United States are of a
far higher kind--of the best quality.
Mr.. Wells is a favorite with Amer
leans and his "Mr. Britling' sold
enormously. Standard authors of
our time, like Conrad, Doyle and
Galsworthy, sell very well, but do
not reach phenomenal figures
The younger men, such as Walpole
Compton Mackenzie and Swimmer.
ten, have all made good. Among
novels the best sellers in America
for 1921 included The Sheik," by
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DIR. johnson and the Thrale..


JOHNSON knew nothing of the
- Thrales nor the Thrales of
Johnson. Yet they were to live and
travel together constantly on terms
of intimacy and affection for six
teen years. Johnson was to know
rural peace and every luxury of life
in the Thrales's home, and that home
was to gain enormously in happiness.
culture and social amenity from his
presence. The doubletransformation
was brought about by Arthur Muir
ply, who was an intimate friend of
both Thrale and the Doctor. Ii
entered Murphy's warm heart to
bring the two men together, but
they belonged to such widely differ
ent spheres that some continuance
was necessary to persuade the
Doctor. The Thraies. on the other
hand, were ...ser to see the author
of the Dictionary" the Rambler"
and 'Rasselas" under their roof. It
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one for the reason that, being a real
Bohemian, he was in the habit of
doing all his writing at the cafe.
The hotel proprietor offered to Dor
row one from M. Proudhon. Fine"
said Murger. at will be the more
amusing" Thus it was the Social
lists own pen that wrote the ter
rible retort that appeared in the
Dir Decembre.-From "Les An
males" of Paris.
The Washington times., 1922-12-17
Z. Wonen's "India" Umbrellas
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Immense Purchase of WOnsens
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The Delta independent., 1922-04-21

the home of Mrs. Savage's brother
Harry Wood and family.
Miss Goldie Hutchinson spent Sat
urday and Sunday in Paonia with
home folks.
Mrs. Grace Ralston and Ray File
nor returned to their home at Rifle
last Thursday week.
Leslie Savage and George Tracy
made a business trip to Montrose
Wednesday.
Mrs. H. E. Welborn and Mrs. Tillie
Fettinger who have been on the sick
list are able to be up and around.
Sam Gingrich, Curry Dickerson and
Royal Porter paid a visit to the den
tist in Hotchkiss to have some dental
work done last week.
John Van Engen left for Grand
Junction Monday morning in response
to a telegram stating Mrs. Van Engen
was quite i'll.
A deal was closed last Saturday be-
tween L. A. Crisler and Edmund Car
vile in which Mr.. Crisler again be-
comes the owner of the Moving Pic
The Delta independent., 1922-04-21
CRAWFORD
, >>>> >>>> >>>>>> .

Glen Gumm was business visitor
in Hotchkiss last Wednesday.
Mrs. John Wilson spent the week
end with Mrs. Kate Reeder.
Luther Collins made a trip to his
sheep camp near Hotchkiss Sunday.
Valard Meek of Paonia visited with
his uncle Don Meek and family last
week.
Miss Louva Lorimer who has been
helping Mrs. Albert Cooper returned
to her home in Hotchkiss Saturday.
Miss Kate McCommons came over
from Cedaredge Friday and spent the
weekend with her parents.
Harry Welborn spent Saturday and
Sunday as guest of Herbert Peck
at his home in Delta.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Savage went over
to Redlands Mesa Thursday to visit in
The Delta independent., 1922-04-21
LOCAL NEWS
, . . . . . . . . . . 80 . =

VIM. w. Dingman Is able to be out
on the street and in his law office this
week after several weeks illness.
c. n. Allen was up from his Grand
Junction ranch attending to business
matters Friday and Saturday.
]. c. Rowbotham was down from
Cedaredge looking after business and
lodge matters Saturday.
G. II. Rask and family are now
comfortably settled In the Wood
worth property on Fourth and How
ard.
Miss Eva Louise Williams has re-
turned to her work in the Junior
High School having recovered from
several weeks illness of flu.
Mr.. Doyle and family have rented
the James Armand property at 445
Howard and moved in last week, Mr..
Doyle is connected with the Assooiat-
ed Fruit Company.
- A. l.. Craig and wife of Paonia
spent short time in the city Monday.
They had started to Montrose on a
business trip but encountered snow
and cold so turned back before reach
ing Olathe.
( Mr.. and Mrs. NJ ". Bennett and
Miss Rebecca ]. Hays of Rogers Mesa
spent the day here last Thursday.
While they were here the storm came
up and they had an unpleasant jour
ney home.
The Delta independent., 1922-04-21
He is Busy.

He is Busy.
H E. Fairbanks. one of Delta's ex-
pert painters, has been very busy the
past few weeks. He is doing the ex-
terror painting on a six room house
for Mrs. X NJ. Crockett of the Eldina
Hotel This building is being erect
ed just south of her home, Mr..
Fairbanks has also been putting a
mirror finish on the doors of the Pres
byterian Church and on some new
quarter sawed oak floors of the H. E.
Perkins home.