New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-20

duction and part of Walter Pach's
translation Of the second volume of
Ellie Faure's History of Art tonight.
This is book which deserves to be-
come as widely read as James Harvey.
Robinson's "The Mind in the Making"
and Hendrix Van Looms STORY of Man
kind" Besides being comprehensive
survey of the origin and development
of artistic expression among the vari-
oes peoples of the earth, beautifully
illustrated with rare and interesting
reproductions, it is also moving
and interesting philosophy of art and
Of life. 1t is Faure's theory that art.
philosophy and religion are but differ
state of man, and he Celebrates his
thesis by discovering that the form Civ
en- to artistic expression at any given
time among any given peoples is identi-
cal with or analogous to the form they
give to their religion and philosophy.
The book is not Only history of art
it is spiritual history of mankind.
The book has the passion and beauty
that is inherent in the writings of a
man of profound convictions and~per-
fectly ordered ideas. This history of
art has been contemporary classic in
France and one can see at glance how
deeply indebted to Faure is, for in
stance, so excellent an English critic
as Give Bell
AUGUST is
William II. Briggs, of Harper's, came
to the office and we went uptown to
meet Ernest Boyd for lunch. I ex-
pressed to Mr.. briggs my enthusiasm
over Faures History of Art" and my
hope that the reading public would
show it's gratitude to Harpers for
bringing it out, by according it the re-
turned from London and Dublin and
| extremely glad to get back. No one is
writing anything in Ireland now, he
| said, because life is too exciting.
Things had quieted down in Dublin
when he reached there, but life on the
-countryside is still precarious.. "The
| people don't even discuss the fight
ing. All you hear is some witty
and malicious anecdotes about the off,
| GERS, reducing the whole affair to an
absurdity. And there are no privates
in the armies; they are all generals y
He said thar he had seen James
Stephens among others, and that Steph-
ems told him he hadn't written any
thing in two years. "If he doesn't get
to work soon," said Boyd, she can never
come back" He said the situation in
London with regard to American liter
ature. is highly amusing. Sinclair
i.eW.s has 60. Jnem ali sC.rred up" he
said. "They don't know whether to
begin to regard American literature
seriously and they are much upset
about it. They ask questions, anxious
to be treasured that American litera-
turee is a, joke, so they won't have to
bother about reading it, You can't
find anything except the worst class
of American fiction on the bookstalls
Jonathan Cape keeps on bringing out
American writer's, such as Herges-
heimer and Mencken, but the majority
iof English intellectuals think he is
crazy for doing So" Boyd met Ronald
| Firbank, whom he described as Ian
gorous, angular dandy with curled,
yellow hair, who seems to subsist en-
tirely on cigarettes and great quanti-
ties of champagne "His daily bill for
champagne" said Boyd, "would keep a
family TOR month" !. Mr..
Briggs, Boyd and were en- rapport in
sonal Record" is the book of his we
like best. Boyd suggested that Har-
per's bring out Ellie Faure's liter
airy and phil,sophic essays when his
History of Art" had caught on. eek
| cept that Faure has never dealt with
sex problems" said Boyd, she much
resembles Haveiock Ellis in the wide
range of his curiosity and apprecia.
tons. think it is unfortunate that
1 Ellis is known almost exclusively for
MS studies in the psychology Of sex,
for ne seems to me one of the greatest
1 and certainly one Of the most infiuen-
/ tial essayists on the fine arts that Eng
land has produced" The in
fiuence of Havelock Ellis on such men
as Arthur Symons in England, James
Huneker in America, Remy de Gour-
mont in France and Stephan Zweig in
Germany is obvious support Of Boyd's
contention. To Huneker, Ellis came as
teacher and Messiah; he accepted
Elhs's literary essays as gospel and
revelations. While govd wait.