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New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
London News Letter
By Douglas GoIdring

proposition"
When last heard Of NorusaE
Douglas he was wandering In Tvrol
When | Last saw him lover year ago..
he wae sitting In his tiny study under
the roof in hia hotel In Florence, read.
ing tho proofs Of "Alone'' and cursing
the Job Of writing with such heartiness
that never expected him to sst pen
20 paper again. But writing, IL it
happens to be your meter, is thing
from which 1t is difficult to escape
Douglas has, / hear, completed q new
volume Of travei-sketches and Per.
sonal Impressions, on the same lines
az Alone" and the book will be ready
for publication in the spring. Mira.
Flicker (the poets widow, mentioned
in letter to me q few. months back,
thai she had lent him her copy Of
ULYSSES" have always believed that
Douglas Is, of all rny acquaintance, the
most "unshccksble.a Nevertheiess,
have queer feeling that tUlysses" win
really shock him. It will be interest
ing TO see II the new book contairs
any comment on Joyce. cannot CON
ceivs Of two minds more utterly dis
similar than those Of Joyce and
Douglas.
Dean Inge'a new voIume Of ''outspok-
en- Essays" Is 80 provocative and ehal-
lenging that one does not wonder at its
popularity. Il requires some courage
In modern dean to observe that: "Be-
hind the problem Of our future rises
! the great question whether any nation
which aims at being working-man's
paradise can long flourish. CiviTiza-
| tlon hitherto has always been based Or
great inequality" Sometimes, by RS
fusing to alter his earlier opinions TO
himself, by accident, in the van OF
! fashion, as when he states that "the
grandest and most fully representative
| figure in ell Victorian literature ia, Of
course, Alfred Tennyson." And he ap
| plies q cold douche TO much hument
| tartan enthusiasm when he remarks.
sardonically, that Culture has made
the lot Of the majority worse rather.
thsn better"
The predatory note which Max Beer
hohm has written for his new volume Of
cartoons "Rossetti and His Circle" Is
extremely interesting in view of tins
light which 1t sheds upon his own mind
and personality. Byron, Disraeli and
| Rossetti," he writes, these seem TO me
the three most interesting men taat
England had in the nineteelth centuwy.
England had plenty Of greater men.
| Shelley, for example, was far fnsr
poet than Byren But he was not IN
] himself interesting. he was just cryz
tal-clear crank. To be interesting 8
man must be complex and eiusive. And
l rather fancy 1t. must be q great ad-
vantage for him TO have been born out
side his proper time and place. Dis
raeli, es Grand Vizier TO some Suit
| in q bygone age, miehtn't have seemed
so very remarkable after all. Nor
might Rossetti In the Quattrocento and
| by the Arms. But in London, in the
great days Of deep, SNUG, thick, rich,
drab industrial complacency, Rossettj
shone, for the men and women who
| knew him, with the ambiguous light Of
q red torch somewhere in dense fog
And go ne still shines for me.n
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no really separate existence, and, like
culture, Is never static, but Is "a be-
coming" 1t is in this "hecomingness"
that we are to look for what we are
given to calling scientific laws, which
exist for us only when we have made
them a part of our own thought
that thought which, Gentle tells us
Is life. SO there can be no fixed laws,
pre-supposed before the spirit.
Unity of education instead of its
division Onto what we have commonly
called physical, intellectual and moral)
is the goal. Culture being the ulti-
mate end, and culture being life
(rather than product of life), culture
must have unity. Education, properly
SO called, will result from the ensemble
Of these particular educations." Each
field produces certain peculiar results,
which 1t would be idle to demand of
another, as each is other-self exclu-
sive. Therefore each subject must be
taught separately and by different in.
structors, each instructor being care
full to exclude all not of his own field,
and not to mix the several parts which
compose his subiect~-as, for instance,
when the French Revolution is taught
aside for the time, though the whole,
and all of the range of the past, con-
stitutes the field of history
The chapter. on Character and
Physical Education" might we'll be sent
to the athletic directors of most of
our own schools. Physical prowess and
perfection, we are told, ia desirable
only in that 1t contributes 80 that
higher development of spirit which Is
the goal Of ell education. That when
1t becomes an end in itself It becomes
like the training of prize fighters or
trick animals. "The teacher of phys
ical education must always bear in
mind that he is not dealing with bodies.
He, too, is dealing with souls, and col
laborates In the moral preparation and
advancement of mankind"
Art and religion in their relation 60
education Ia the subject of the last
lecture. Here unity Of spirit is again
emphasized, and the authors idealistic
philosophy leads us into deep water.
But the whole function Of education
is not to give religion, nor yet art,
nor yet mathematics--"we want math-
ematics, but we want 1t In man. The
same for religion, economies, poetry
and all the rest. Otherwise we suffo-
cate and die stifled. For all these are
things, but there Is no life, and things
oppress and kill us. Therefore let us
spiritualize things by reviving the
spirit. Let us release It, that it may
freely move in the organic unity of
nature. Education Is truly human
when IL has for Its contents the ideal
Of the spirit--philosophy."
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%M his autumn has seen the publ
crsion of tive important vol
n umes Of worse, Professor A. e.
Housmaa's wonderful aI.ast
Poems" and Mr.. W. III. Davies's new
volume, "Tbe Hour OF Magic" OF the
former 10000 copies were sold within q
Fortnight Of publication. Now that
poetry lovers hsve had IL proved to
them that g new volume OF verse may
still be worth reading, trust the popu.
larity Of books about poetry, by poets,
msy begin TO wane. Il 10 class of
book which seems to me to do no good
to any one. When poet Bits down to
explain his aesthetic philosophy, to give
away the tricks of his trade, to deter
mine the extent to which moral pur-
pose does or doea not underlie his iyri-
cal ecstasiss, he generally talks
through @ pretty tall hat.
&. The best thing a poet can do with
hts technique is Co put 1t away into his
sub-conscious mind and iesve IL there
until ho needs 1t. II he does not do
this 1t Is bound to get between him and
his Inspiration. The best technique"
as far as one can judge, reaults from
an almost automatic process Of self
criticism. The kind of instructive
taste which fs the result OF education
and wide reading and the exercise of
che critical faculty acting on sn innate
gift can be trusted to operate TO admi-
ration without the envnciation of
formul@. Many modern poets, however,
whose creative urge Is feeble, revel In
| long-winded discussions as TO what
| poetry really ia, how 1t ought to be
written and so forth, and publish these
wordy discourses instead of getting
ahead with their jobs. Mr.. Robert
| Graves, for example, has just written
treatise "On English Poetry" in
which he psyoho-anaiyzes Keats's poem
| LA Belle Dame Sans Merci," and ex~
| plains to US precisely what Keats had
| in the back of his head (thoughts of
Fanny Brawne and of his brother Tom)
while he was writing it. Speaking as
q professional poet, he endeavors to ex-
plain to the laity how the thing is
| done. The explanation would carry
| AApIS SoAPbSbsuA IL H1Es GIaVeS were a
better poet. But better poets have, as
q rule, neither the time nor Che incli-
nation to analyze their own secrets.
1t 80 good news that the control of
'The London Times" has now returned
to the Walter family, backed by the
Astor millions, and that the Harms
worth influence has been displaced. III
literary circles in England interest in
"The Times Is concentrated principal
ly in Its admirable Literary Supple
ment." The late Lord Northcliffe left
the Literary Supplement" alone, but
latterly, there were rumors that he had
designs upon it's life. One can satisfy
assume that these designs are not
shared by Mr.. John Walter, and that
during the period OF his regime the
best English critical weekly will be al
lowed to maintain it's past standards,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19

90 cArHEDRArA by Hugh waipoie j head n,
@serge H. Dofss' company by an I
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
Two Books of Memoirs
By Esther Eaton

s..kPsEs OF AUTHORS. BY Caroline O.,
eIIiiss6nor. Houghton Mifflin Company,
2ssAolRs OF THE MEMORABLE. BY s
as dsfnss Denhsm. George II. Doran.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19

,UT MOHtH a8o htF. HuKh
wslpole made sThe Bright
shawl his occasion for a
protest against the impersi-
nent habit reviewers have Of
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4l
ls6nor. Houghton Mifflin Company,
@nAolhs OF THE MEMORABLE. BY
ca asfnss Denhsm. George X. Doran.
wv r Ho remembers year when
ma we had so many books by
and about interesting peo-
pie &c this fall OF 1922?
" such are these two volumes, one by
"a American woman, the ether by an
saslishman.
Miss Caroline Tieknor one might call
Joint heir With Mrs. Fields to that
company Of distinguished writer's whose
works we're published by the famous
boston firm, Ticknor & Fields. Miss
Eicknor Is direct descendant of the
heston publishers from her grandfa-
saer William D. Ticknor, who was suc-
cesded In the firm Of Ticknor & Fields
y her uncle, Howard Malcolm Tick
sHf, and later by her father, Benjamin
Holt Tieknor. With such connections
10 has had access TO q valuable store
tlstters written to their publishers by
% suthors Of whom she writes. Many
iitsrssting anecdoues were handed down
. ssr by members of her family before
he had personal acquaintance with
iinous men herself.
fhs list begins with Dickens, Haw-
htrns, Longfellow, Whittier and an
sudsa Mark Twain, Eugene Field, Lew
Wallace, Henry James and many others.
4 Diekens's visit to Boston in 1857 Is
rsshicslly described. ALI Miss Tick
or tells us Of him, Of his American
Asnds, Longfellow, Holmes, Aldrich,
aasthorne, and the kindly attentions
sasvered upon him by hts publishers,
Aeknor & Fields, brings him before US
an intimate and most attractive
sht-
\ was notable group. They fully
sicyed life and knew how to make
4 most Of It. Miss Ticknor visited
aaay years later, in London, Dickens's
san, and learned much of the great
1ssists family and home life. which
.ss csscribed as 1t was told co her by
aess es who had loved him.
las greater part OF the book is made
IN ~. letters from the authors to their
s.saahiasrs, many Of them business let
s.a.a a. g 10 great interest except that
Isassg 10 the signatures.
Tsssss anecdotes were told in the
saaf family by Howard M. Ticknor
s,lsa.lag some of the early con-
y sssass.s TO "The Atlantic Monthly
~ lse9 he was then assistant editor,
~. ssowe and Henry Ward Beecher
s.I.sag thsm. OF Edward Beecher she
IN sa.ss that he was always in hurry,
81 never failed in his religious duties.
hsa.ss sas occasion he rushed into the
aows aE prayer time shouting, "All
A ;a,t % your knees. Let US pray. I've
46,c train.s - ~ "o ~
dinner given to W. o. Howells
fiekas seventy fifth birthday Miss
sssn;sa ss;or quotes from his address that
Is Ma, part OF his glowing tribute
Il na IN nst vain: "If had been witness
ean .ra sasr surprising things of Amer
su"tn IN my 6fty years of OBJ
saonsS should think it glory
snd 20 have lived at the same tirna
sha.a uhe ssnie land with the man
A,ner;... asne must always embody
ksaass : narnor to human remsnn.
s..,I. H., that we read Of joel Chandler
Uas,s and his letters coneernine
d wiss nenns" and the ;lIustrations
aSs ass book ID very snter-
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! to myself. who Is that Pilgrim And,
by gum, It's old h-l-a-mfle jes' a-hittin'
his heels. Where you been at, you old
skeezicksT'
gs.How are you, Johnnie7 And what
ere you dom hereT"
'sEeu didn't answer my letters, 80 I
come, to see II yeu was all right"
"You old scalawag. You came to
paint the town red"
Johnnie, highly delighted at this
charge, protested. Honest ] didn't.
Clay. l wasn't feelin' so tur'ble peart.
Seemed like the boys picked on me
after you left. So I jes' up and come"
II Clay was not delighted to have
his little Fidus Achates on his hands
he gave no sign of 1t. He led him
across the road and introduced him to
Miss WhitfOrd.
Clay blessed her for her kindness to
this SQUAT, snub-nOsed adherent Of his
whose lonely heart had driven him
two Thousand miles to find his friend.
Her hand went out instantly. A smile
softened her eyes and dimpled her
cheeks.
I'm very glad to meet any friend
of Mr.. Lindsay. Father and l will
want to hear all about Arizona after
you two have had your visit out. Well
postpone the ride till this afternoon.
That will be better, / think"
Clay agreed. With a cool little nod
that included them both, she turned
and ran lightly up the steps into the
house.
"SOme sure-enough queen" MUIR
INJURED Johnnie in naive admiration,
staring after her with open mouth.
Clay smiled. He had an opinion Of
his own on that point. M '
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- Ne A ~
The note was signed kitty" Be
low were given the house and street
number. Was it genuine7 Or did II
lead to a trap? He could not tell
II, might be o plant or it might be q
wall of real distress. There was only
n way to find ouf" unless he went io
the police. That way was, TO gt
through with the adventure. He de
cided to play a lone hand except FOL
such help as Johnnie could give him
Clay took a downtown car and rode
to the crOss-street mentioned in the let.
ter for a preliminary tour Of investi-
cation. The street designated was
one Of plain brOwnstOne fronts with
iron-grilled doors. The blank faces
of the houses invited M confidence.
II struck him that there was sorne
thing sinister about the neighbOrhood,
I. but perhaps the thought was born of
the fear. Number 121 had windows
barred with ornamental grilles. This
might be to keep burglars out. II
would serve equally well to keep pris-
OnerS in.
The cattleman did not linger in that
street lined with houses of sinister
faces. He did not care to call atten-
ton TO his presence by staying too
long. Besides. he had some arrange.
ments to make for the night at his
rooms.
These were simple and few. He
oiled and loaded his revolver careful
iy. leaving the hammer on the one
chamber left empty to prevent acci-
dents, after tie custom Of all carcfu.
gunner. He changed into the wrinkled
suit he had worn when he reached
the city. and substituted for his shoes
a pair of felt-soled gymnasium ones
The bOwlegged little puncher
watched his friend. just as II faithful
dog does his master. He asked nc
questions. In good time he knew he
would be told All it was necessary fof
him to EnsW' -aazsaE,yssss.,s.e.
As they rode from the Bronx. Clay
outlined the situation and told his
plans so far as he had any.
80 I'm goin' to take a whirl at 1t
Johnnie. Mcbbe they're lynn low up
In that house to get me. Mebbe the
notes the real thing. You can search
me which it is. The only way to find
out is to 60 through with the thing
YOre job is to stick around in front
Of the hacienda and wait for me. If
| don't show up inside of thirty min
ntes, get the police busy right away
breakin' into the place. DO You get
me. ~Johnnie?" AxssESssSszvfS~-r~
"LemMe so with Won INTO the house
LAY" tI,e Ii;l'e man pleaded.
"Nothin' dom, old-tfmer. This Is
my lob, and l don't reckon I'll let any,
body else tackle it. Much obliged.
lust the same. You're one sure
enough white man, Johnnie"
The little fellow knew that the mat
ter was settled. Clay had decided and
what he said was final. But John
ME worried about it all the way. At
the last moment, when they separated
at the street corner, he added n last
word. ~'ss sStf+
Don't you be too venturesome, son.
If them guys got you it sure would
break me =. up"
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DW0YI
Lindsay had read that hundreds q
girls disappeared every year In the
city. II they ever anne to the surface
G9ain 1t was as dweIlers In that un-
derwprtds In the current Of whiehythey
had been caught. ~ ss,fs. i
Hssshad AM enlargement that afbef-
noon to walk with Beatrice Whitford.
They crossed to Morningside park
and moved through 1t to the northern
end where the remains Of Fort Laight,
built to protect the approach to the
city during the War Of 1872, can still
be seen and traced.
Beiitrice had read the story of the
earthworks. In the midst Of the tell
ing Of 1t she stopped to turn upon
him with swift accusation, you're
not listening"
That's right. l wasn't" he admit
ted.
Have you heard something about
your cigarette girl?"
Clay was amazed at the accuracy
of her center shot.
YES" He showed her the news
paper.
She read. The golden head nodded
triumphantly. II told you she could
look out for herself. You see when
she had lost you she knew enough to
advertise"
Was there or was there not a faint
note of malice In the girls vOicef
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I eissyS Sss4s4~, -xlle4Dkphy.sIf enRsIe
not gofn to get me-, Johnnie. DON'T
forget to remember not to forget yore
part. Keep under cover for thirty mlns
utes; then If l haven't shown up
hQiaer yore head of for the cops" Z
They were passing an alley as Clay
finished speaking. He slipped into its
friendly darkness and was presently
lost to sight. 1t a into an inner
court which was the center Of tortu,
q passages. The cattleman stopped
to get his bearings, selected the likeli-
est exit, and brought up in the shell
ter Of a small porch. This, he felt
sure, must be the rear of the house
he wanted. !
"A strip of lattice work ran up the
side Of the entrance. Very carefully,
testing every Stat with his weight be-
fore trusting himself to 1t, he climbed
up and edged forward nOiselessly upon
n roof. On hands and knees he
crawled to the window and tried to
peer in.
The blind was down, but he could
see that the room was dark. What
danger lurked behind the drawn blind
he could not guess, but after a mo-
ment, to make sure that the revolver
beneath his belt was ready for In
slant use, he put his hand gently on
the sash.
His motions were sOundless as the
fall of snOwfiakes. The window moved
slowly, almost imperceptibly, under the
pressure Of his hands. Warily he lift
ed n leg into the room. His head
followed, then the rest of his body.
He waited, every nerve tensed.
There came to him a sound that
sent cold ingertips playing a tattoo
up and down his spine. 1t was the in
take Of some ones cautious breathing. |
His hand crept to the butt of the
revolver. He ero9sbsd, poised for
either attack or retreat. -sr;sJssyszDF~
4 bath Of light flooded the room and
swallowed the darkness. Instantly
Clay's revolver leaped to the air.
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old sayin' 'is. Better ct shS& u tkS
dude"
Miss Whitford bit her lip to keep
from exploding In q sudden gale Of
ninth. But the sight. Of her sel44a
painted chaperons set her of Into pals
Of laughter In spite OF herself. 4 Dv-
cry time she looked ut Johnnie she
went of int renewed, chirrups. He
was so homely and 80 deadly earnest.
The little waif was staring at her in
perplexed surprise, mouth open and
chin fallen. He could see no occasion
for gayety at his suggestion. There
vas nothing subtle about the RuHt.
In his social code wealth did not fig
ure. A fOrty-dOllar-a-mOnth bronco
buster was free to offer advice to the
daughter Of a millionaire about her
matrimonial prospects II 1t seemed
best.
CLAY amt n O. the common run Of
cowpunchers, ma'am. You bet you,
by jollies. he amt. Clay he OWE a
h%alf-interest in the B-in-a-Box. o.
course it amt what he's got, but what
he is that counts. He's the best darned
pilgrim ever l did see."
"He's all right, Johnnie" the girl
admitted with an odd smile. "DO you
want me to tell him that I'll be glad
to drop our family friends to meet his
approval? I don't suppose he asked
you to speak to me about it, did hep
The little range-rider missed the
irony Of this. mo, ma'am, I jest but
ted In. Mebbe l hadn' ought TO of
spoke" e~"
"You needn't feel bad, Johnnie.
There's no harm dOne-if you don't
say anything about it to Mr.. Lindsay.
But I don't think you were intended
for a matchmaker. That takes quite
q little f~inesse, doesn't it?"
The word 'fnesse" was not in John
MES dictionary, but he a%cquiesced in
her verdict. sAECsErET1-~-~
II reckon, ma'am, you're right"
:
Clay was waiting for lunch at a rot
isserie on Sixth avenue, and in order
W iOoS liz VI WAASh bC Adu ulOAC
just now than he knew what to do
with-was meanwhile reading a news
paper prOpped against q water-bOttle.
From the personal column there popped
put at him three lines that caught his
attention: ID h
IF this meets the eye Of G. L. Of
Arizona please write me, Box Mi,
The Herald. Am in trouble.
TNss~as"s's~~ Kitty NJ"
He read it again. There could be
no doubt in the world. I-Xas ad-
dressed to him, and from Kitty. He
remembered that, On the bus he had
casually mentioned &C. Der that he
Usually read the Herald,
After he had eaten. Clay walked
down Broadway and left a note at the
office of he Herald for Kitty.
The thought of her was in his mine
al day. He had worried a good deal
owe her disappearance. 1t was Lot
alone that he felt responsible for the
loss of her place as cigarette girl. One
disturbing phase of the situation was
that Jerry Durand must have seen her.
What more likely than that he had
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Clay did not know. But 1t would have
neither surprised nor displeased aim
He had long since discovered that his
imperious little friend was far from
an angel.
At his rooms he found a note await
ing him. a..
Come tonight after eleven. I am
locked in the west rear room of the
second story. Climb up over the back
porch. Don't make any noise. The
window will be unbolted. a friend is
mailing this. For Gods sake. dOn'i
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Ito be c%Ontinued)

Get into the livestock game and
ship comparatively to nearby plants
in Beaufort or Orangeburg. The
Progressive Farmer is running spec
ial articles on livestock raising and
tells of the big profits derived there
from. $500 puts you on the mailing
list 80 weeks for both The Progress
i've Farmer and The Sentinel.
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though he thought he could c~onjure
from the post the secret of Clay's dis
appearance. Where had he gone from
here9 And where was he now?
In the course Of the next two days
the Runt came back to that post many
times as the starting-point for weary,
high-heeled trampS through streets
within a circuit of a mile. He could
not have explained why he did so. Per-
haps It was because this was the only
spot in the city that held for him any
tangible relationship to Clay. Some
one claimed to have seer him vanish
into one of these houses. Perhaps he
might come back again. 1t was a very
tenuOus hope, but it was he only n
Johnnie had. He dumped over the
pavements till his feet ached in pro-
test.
His patience was rewarded. On the
second day, while he was gazing blank
1y at the post a groom brought two
horses to the curb in front of the
house opposite. One of the horses
had a real cowboys saddle. JOhnnie's
eyes cleaned. This was like a breath
of honest-to-GOd Arizona. The door
opened, and out of it came a man and
q slim young Oma Both of them
were dressed for riding, she in The
latest toys of the town, he in a we'll
cut sack suit and high tan boots.
Johnnie threw up his hat and gave
a yell. You blamed old horn-tOad!
Might "a knOwed you was all right !
Might "a knOwed you wouldn't bite
off more'n you could chew! Oh, you
Arizona :"
Clay gave one surprised look-and
met him in the middle of the street.
The little ~cowpuncher did a war dance
of joy while he chung to his friends
hand. Tears brimmed into his faded
eyes.
"Hi vi vi! Doggone yore old hide, il
It amt you big as coffee, Clay. Thinks