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The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29
ANTI-JEWISH PAPER STARTED
BY JEWS

Warsaw. - (J. C. B.)-The "Najer
Hajntp gives a list of the principal
members Of the. staff of the "Rzecz-
pospolita," the chief organ of the
anti-Jewish National Democratic
party in Poland. One of the most
important contributors, who signs
"V. N" is the Jew, Victor Nathan
sohn, the night editor is the Jew
Sapir, the literary critic is Julian
Kleiner. the ews-editor is the Jew
Leon Pontschewski, the Berlin edi-
tor is the Jew Goldscheider Godinski,
and the leader writer, Penenkowa, is
the Jewess Jawitz.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29
AWED BY BAN. THIEF RETURNS
THE TORAH

Warsaw. = q. T. A.)-That The
threat to place a person under the
rabbinical ban may sometimes prove
effective is shown by the restoration
at Bialostock Of the Sefer> Torah
stolen from Krochmal synagogue. The
rabbis announced that they would
pronounce "cherem" on the thief if
the scroll was not promptly returned
to the synagogue on the following
day. Notices were posted at con-
spicuous places. The next day the
scroll was found in the corridor of
the Beth Midrash.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29

j. L. Emmanuel, an attorney, of
Raleigh, N. c., is the recipient of
widespread praise as one of the au-
thors of a volume entitled ''North
Carolina Corporation Code," which is
described as book filling a 1ong-felt
want of North Carolina lawyers and
officers of corporations. Mr.. Emanu-t
ell is a young man and has promis-
ing career ahead of him.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29
DRIVEN OUT OF NABLUs

Jerusalem. = q. G. B.)-The ex-
citement engendered by the Palestine
Arab congress in Nablus has made it
impossible for Jews to enter the
place. Three Jewish merchants who
were frequent visitors to Nablus,
coming into the town after the con-
gress, were pelted with stones and
driven out. Mr.. Miller, the only Jew
ish resident in Nablus, was informed
that if he valued his life he should
leave the town.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29
BOYCOTT FOR BOYCOTT IS LEM
BERG JEWS SLOGAN

Lemberg. = q. T. Al = The
Ukrainians in eastern Galicia having
urged the Jews not to participate in
the elections for Polish Sejm deputies
on the penalty of pogroms and an
economic boycott, Jewish leaders in
conference here retaliated by an
nouncing a boycott against those who
would intimidate the Jewish votes.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29

Elias Lieberman, author of a vol
ume of poetry entitled Paved
Streets" has been honored by the
New York Board of Education in ac-
cepting his volume for use in ele-
mentary and high school libraries.
"Paved Streets" contains the poem
II am an American" which has been
widely recited throughout the United
States. +. =.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29
FOOD REMITTANCES TO RUSSIA

FUUD REMITTANCEH5 To RUSSIN
Moscow, Russia.-Thirty-seven per
cent of the American Relief admins
tration food remittance packages dis
tributed in the Vitebsk district were
made possible by the American Jew
ish Joint Distribution committee, ac-
cording to report of the A. R. A.,
supervisor in that district. The Joint
Distribution committee has distribut-
ed $500 packages in this area. New
York has supplied a. per cent of the
packages and European purchasers 19
per cent in this district. The total
number of packages delivered has
been 1889.
1t is further reported that there is
an abundant apple crop in Vitebsk
area.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29

against the census and the registra-
tion.
The authorities are, however, not
dismayed and preparations for the
elections are not abated.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29
Smyrna Jewish Quarter Spared

Smyrna JEWISH Quartef Spared
Paris, Sept. 22.-(J. C. B.)-In-
quiries made by Jewish leaders here
regarding the condition of the Jews
in Smyrna have elected the informa-
tion that the Jewish quarter adjoin-
ing the Turkish section escaped de-
struction.
The American Jewish world., 1922-09-29

AIMED AL JEWS
'tIntellectual Ku Klux Klan" is One
Name for Harvard
New York (J. G. B.)-Charges
that Harvard University was seeking
to discriminate against Jewish stu
dents have been renewed with the
publication of excerpts from the new
blank form which applicants for adj
mission are required to fill out, says
Boston dispatch to the Times to-
day.
The blank required considerable
personal information and particular
feeling seems to have been aroused
by question as to trace and color?"
Another question is, "What change,
if any, has been made since birth in
your own name or that of your
father?" Of the eight other ques-
tions some seek to elicit information
as to the birthplace of the Students
father, why the applicant wishes to
study at Harvard, to what school or
ganizations he belongs, what are his
chief interests and what are his
favorite sports or games.
Although spokesmen for the uni
versity explain that applicants would
not be rejected because of failure to
answer the questions regarding race
and color and name, and that they
do not prejudice the work of the
committee appointed last Spring to
investigate the question of admis-
sion to Harvard, some Jewish stu
dents and graduates contend that the
new questions are directed against
Jewish students.
So much feeling has been aroused
by the questions that some of the
extreme elements are agitating for
a boycott against the University on
the ground that there is so much
race prejudice at Harvard that no
other course is open. One Jew was
quoted today as calling the universi-
ty an intellectual Ku Klux Klan."
Frederick Allen, Secretary of the
Harvard Corporation, said there were
no means available of determining
the exact proportion of Jewish stu
dents in Harvard, as students had
not been enrolled according to race
or nationality.
"Unofficially," he said, cit is esti-.
mated that last year Is to 20 per
cent of the 2,700 students enrolled
were Jews" (.
DR.. Isidore B. Diamond, we'll
known in the medical profession of
Chicago, and connected with Jewish
and non-Jewish philanthropic insti-
tutions, has been appointed Profess
sor Of Neurology at the University
of Illinois. DR.. Diamond, who has
hany, ioip o. iy,
for over twenty-five years, is grad
uate of Johns Hopkins University. -
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are indicated in the treaties and all
states, including those not bound by
treaties, are expected to apply these
rights to their subject nationalities.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
If the Ancients Had Known
Tobacco.

CALVERLEY'S name suggests
~ how the Greek and Latin writ
ers whom he was so skilled in
translating and initiating would
have sung tobacco's praises had it
been introduced to Europe some
sixteen hundred years earlier.
There would have been good deal
about it in the Palatine Anthology;
Cicero would have enjoyed his
cigar, though it would scarcely have
been consistent with his "gravitas"
to- mention such a weakness, except
perhaps in his letters "Ad Fami-
liares." Horace, too, would have
kept the very best Havanas to offer
to his friends after the cask of old
Falernian had been broached on a
winters evening. Ard what an
elegy Ovid could have written on
his last pipe, But no, it would
have gold tipped cigarette,
smoked en- fdntille before he went
into exile, and how he would have
complained of the vile quality Of
the smokes to be obtained at Toni.
What the Fathers of the Church
would have said about tobacco may
be guessed from what some of their
successors say now.-FrOm the
Manchester Gudrdidn.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Shelley's New Melodies.

THE lovers of Shelley make most
L of his shorter and more lyrical
poems. each the product of single
inspiration and meeting most per-
fectly the test of Poe that a poem
should give a single impression Of
beauty. Few English poets have
been more wisely submissive to the
inner movement of feeling and
fancy. Few have listened more
reverently for the special strain of
music vouchsafed to their ear alone.
Shelley was not the singer to piece
out his authentic melody with the
cold inventions of the mind, to force
his delicate imagination into the
cramping mold of some approved
thought or prearranged sentiment.
The wind bloweth where il listeth:
and Shelley. following the wind of
Ills inspiration, has added as new
and varied melodies to English
poetry as Chopin has to European
music.-From Latter Day Critics
OF Shelley" By Joseph W. Beach
in the Yale Repietp.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
A Young Mans Novels.

IF you take the case of a very
L young man who is eager 10
write and to write novels he will
seldom begin with a clearcut story
in his mind. He is much more
likely to dash into his first chapter
with no idea OF where even that is
to lead him, much less an idea Of
where his succeeding score or more
OF chapters are to lead him. He
just wants to write-perhaps in the
style of this or that favorite novel
ist This is a frequent impulsion
Or take him a step farther and
suppose that he has a subject in
his mind. though not yet a story.
Supposing he wants to write about
the one form of life with which he
is really familiar-school or college
life. He will have his material; he
will have his characters more or
less before him, and the scene in
which they are to exercise them
selves. II is the scene that will
probably be his chief source of in
spiration, for he loves it-or pos
sibly hates it-and wants to ex-
press his emotion about it. 1t is
more likely than not that many
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THE
THE ATHENEUM

the fireplace, played with the sturdy
Doyle baby, enjoyed the ballad
singing of the hostess, tramped the
links with my host, heard stories
of the Weald and gossiped about
Neighbor Kipling. OF evenings we
toasted our feet in Sir Arthur's
study and read verse to each other.
From AN Editorial Adventure
Story" By TrambuH White in the
Bookntdn.
Hamlin Garland's Border Books.
ITO US of the Middle Border the
i Hamlin Garland books are epic.
Their unashamed provincialism is
their glory. Here is the perfection
of the willingly pr rovincial-not on
the defensive, not in any challenge
never by a breath apologetic. But
completely articulate. This is not
Gorky, from some vantage place
VI gOQtn. nlc 40
the sophisticated word concerning
homely days. 1t is the homeliness
itself artieulate. This is the story
of a man who has never ceased to
be identified with himself! There
fore not only to one who knows the
land and the people but to any one
who finds inestimably worth while
an honest record of any section of
national life-of world life-these
Border books are almost intolerably
precious. They are the record OF
that rarest of creatures, the provin-
eial who goes into the world and
makes 1t his own without seeking to
change front"-and then tells the
whole progress with power A
being universal in a fundamental
simplicity and rare in a consent to
utter it.-By Zona Gale in the Yale
ReUieU.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Beatrice Harraden.

MISS BEATRICE HARRADEN
lf1 is joining the small, dis
tinguished group of novelists who
write or have written of musical
life. Her new novel will be called
Spring Shall Plant" the title be-
ing taken from Browning's lines
Spring shall plant, and autumn
garner, to the end of time" The
story concerns the career of young
cellist, and her struggles and
triumphs are described with real
tested knowledge of the musical
profession. Miss Harraden has al
WAYS been as much musician as
novelist, a fact very apparent in
several of her books. At the pres
ent moment, when there is SO much
discussion concerning American
and English books, il is interesting
to remember that Miss Harraden's
ships That Pass in the Night"
won such popularity in the United
States that at the time of her first
visit there even the drivers and the
stokers of the trains in which she
travelled insisted on getting down
and shaking hands with her, be
cause they had all read her book
From the London Times.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Conan Doyle at Home.

HNHEN 1 opened my first direct
u communication with Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, who was at Windles-
ham, his home at Crowborough, in
Sussex. Quite unwillingly | found
it necessary after exchanges of
letters, in which l told nothing, to
reveal the actual purpose of my
journey. There came prompt
negative by mail, but Sir Arthur
regarded the fact that | had come
directly to England to see him, and
he invited me to Windlesham. AS
a guest and with a negative on
record | was manifestly estopped
from business negotiations. AS a
substitute, therefore, l INDUCED
myself in thorough enjoyment of
the hospitality of the house, knocked
billiard balls about the table in the
big living room. drank tea before
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
American Writers and the Truth.

American Writers and the Truth.
WE have short story writers
w in America who are telling
the grim truth. Katharine Fuller
ton Gerould for one, Villa Gather
for another, not to forget Edna
Ferber and Fannie Hurst-all
women too, you see. Powerful
writer's. We seem to excel at the
short story-our swiftness, our
eagerness to reach goal almost
the moment a race has begun may
account for it. But the English
novelists beat ours almost every
time. You express yourselves in
terms of leisure: therefore your
slow moving, quiet story telling
comes out of national character
istic. There we get back to truth
once more. You write as you feel,
as you are. So do we in America.
We are restless. There is more
oxygen in our air. Why shouldn't
we write, then, energetically and
swiftly, just as you write slowly
and distinctly, l was going TO say,
Watch some of our younger novel;
lists grow. Read the next books Of
Scott Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Ben
Ames Williams, Joseph Herges-
heime-, Sinclair Lewis, Floyd Dell
and Miss Gale. They are all telling
the truth. No one can do more
By Charles Hanson Totcne in the
English B00kntdn.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

episodes which he can use come to
him as his mind works upon his
idea; and episodes are the little
stories of which a big story is made
up. But a series of episodes does
not make a novel, although they
are the stuff of which most novels
are made. There must be broad
stream of purpose to which they
relate. From "The Nouelisfs
Workshop" By Archibald Mar
shall, in the Yale Rerieio.
The Author and His Book.
ITO the author his own book is all
i important. He is aware OF
other books, but only as the egoist
is aware of other people. His eye
instinctively singles out the title of
the book upon which he has ex-
pended his time; his heart beats
for its success, its popular appre-
citation. His one standard is the
type and multiplicity of its appear
ances in the advertising columns OF
the newspapers. He is obsessed by
belief in the value of his own work
and its inevitable appeal TO his
fellow creatures. II only that book
is given a fair chance, he thinks. IL
will rival the greatest successes OF
all time. His wife likes it, his
friends praise it; surely they are
good, or at least typical, judges OF
what is interesting and vital
From authors and Advertising.
Bv Frank Spinnerton in the Book
man.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Literary Amenities.

MIR. CLIvE BELL has been au-
4V4 dacious enough to annoy Mr..
Bernard Shaw. He has caught Mr..
Shaw off his guard and has pricked
him very neatly. To be precise: he
has observed Mr.. Shaw recording
his belief in God (Which is compat-
BILE with reason) but on the ground
that, without a divine origin and
purpose, beauty, intelligence and
honor are worthless (which is argu-
abIe). Mr.. Bell has grasped this
opportunity to make out that Mr..
Shaw is a clodhopper and that Give
Bell is now the proper man to pay
attention to. Mr.. Shaw has retorted
that Mr.. Bell is "a fathead and a
voluptuary." which is certainly a
triumph for Mr.. Bell. He has forced
the man who was once the most re-
sourceful controversialist in Eng
land into the pitiable position of re-
sorting to epithets. 1t is very neat
of Mr.. Bell. Nothing could be more
advantageous in the way of pub
licity; nothing could so quickly es-
tablish his reputation in the liter
ary world. Certainly his art could
not--Fr0m Art and Clipe Bell"
By Burton Rdscoe in the Reuicicer.
Where Mr.. Hutchinson Gets His
Characters.
T NEVER model my characters on
l. definite living persons. My
characters either come to me in
some mysterious way l can't ex-
plain land always with their names
attached. which is odd: / never
have to seek about for a name. the
character arrives with one, and /
couldn't possibly use any other)
or else l imagine them out of the
faces of people / see in the streets
or in public places. That is my
conscious way of getting characters.
l see face, and away goes my i'm
agination into the faces life, ca
reer, friends-all kinds of things.
The longest (and best) short story
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Trials of Authorship.

n EADING somewhere in a maga-
IN zine that o. Henry always
wrote in lead pencil on shiny yellow
paper, sent of for box of pencils
and a dozen pads. l was going to
start things right anyway. 1t took
all the first day in my study de-
Gliding on a suitable title. Selecting
a title was not so easy a business
as one would think. l used up three
pencils and sixty-three sheets of
paper and at the end of the day
had but three titles to show for my
work. One was Despair" An
other was Misery" And the third
was A Gloomy Failure" To my
friends in the wall paper business
this would seem a very small out
put for one days work, but feel
sure that the ladies and gentlemen
who write most of our books will
understand. Wasn't it Oscar Wilde
who, while staying at country
house, was asked by an inquisitive
lady at luncheon one day what he
had been doing all the morning?
Putting a comma in a sentence" /"
said the imperturbable Oscar. And
at dinner that night when asked
what he had been doing all the
afternoon he said: Taking il out
again. From THE Bitter End
ing By Percy Wdrman in Har.
per's Magazine.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
American Sellers" in England.

TN view of the correspondence
l. which has lately appeared in
the Times concerning the publica-
ton in this country of American
books il is interesting to recall the
very few cases in which a story
written by an American and first
published in America became a
British big seller. Such a lisI must
surely be headed by Uncle Toms
Cabin" for the book aroused the
widest enthusiasm in this country.
The writer remembers reading in
an old letter the statement, made by
a very intelligent Scotswoman, that
a copy of the book was to be found
in every castle, farm and manse in
Scotland, OF course this was an
exaggeration. but Uncle Tom" GER
tainly became citizen of the world.
for the popularity of the book was
almost as great in France and in
Germany as il was in England.
Next to Uncle Toms Cabin" must
surely come Little Women" os
which new editions are even now
constantly being printed in this
country.-Fron the London Times.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
SheIley's Last Weeks.

EOR several weeks previous to
L that afternoon of heavy des-
tiny Shelley had slept i'll. A
strange restlessness seemed to pos
sess him. Again and again in the
small hours of the night the little
Italian villa where he lived had
been shocked to wakefulness by the
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
The Original of Mr.. Merdle.

MIR. MERDLE is the millionaire
A'A whose career is an intermit-
tent episode in Little Dorrit." !"
Dickens based the story of Merdle
on the career of a Member of Par
lament whom Thackeray once Of
fered to show him asleep at the Re-
form Club. John Sadleir, M. p,
who figures in the Dictionary of
National Biography" as poll
tician and swindler," came from
Tipperary. His immediate occupa-
tion had been that of solicitor in
Dublin, and happy had he been il
he had remained there for life. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Julian Ellis, he
might have done so but for the well
meant advice of a distinguished
peer, who said to him: You are too
clever to hide your talents in Dub
lin; you should go to London.
That's the only place in the world
for anybody with outstanding abili-
ties such as you possess" He pom
dered the idea and came to London.
His titled patron gave him introduc-
tions to members of beth houses of
Parliament, and he made a head
long entry into the best circles.
From the first he was intoxicated
by his prospects.-FrOm John o.
LOndOn'S Weekly.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Saturday Review
MERCVRE' )

shrill voice o: the poet crying out
in his dreams as mysterious figures
at his bedside beckoned him toward
the sea, or supernatural voices
sang to him of his impending doom.
Are you going to join your friend
Plato?' were the last words writ
ten to him by Jane Williams, and
even in his own work there are
verses whose import those curious
in such things have not hesitated
to attribute to prophetic psychic
power-From Percy Bysshe Shell
ley." By LIeinelyn POtoys in the
Century.
Songs of "The Beggar's Opera.
m HE original score of "The Beg
i gar's Opera" preserved in
the Bodleian, is not precise in ac-
knowledging the origin of the tunes.
but on DIR. Ernest Walkers author
ity one may say that the air of
Purce1l's What shall / do to show
how much l love her." is also to
be found there, and the original
tune composed by Carey to his own
words of sally in Our Alley,
this is not the later eighteenth CEN
tury air associated with them.
which was modified from one of
much earlier date. A few of the
songs were set to popular folk tunes
of the day, while some of the incl
dental music of the opera is said
to owe something to Handel. This.
indeed, it was likely to do, he be-
ing the recognized master of style.
with thirty-six grand operas to his
credit, though it was only after the
sweeping success of THE Beggar's
Opera" ra"-inaugurating, as it did. a
long period of ballad opera not
ended in our own day-that Handel
transferred his great talents to ora
torio, upon which his fame rests
From 1.-The Beggars Opera in the
Eighteenth Century" By Mrs.
Comyns Carr in Blackioood's Mdga-
zine.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

l have written was written for me
from start to finish by the faces Of
a man and girl opposite to me for
two station in the tube!-By A. s.
NJ. Hutchinson in the English
Bookmdn.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Shelley Going to His Death.

TT is just one hundred years ago
L since Trelawny stood watching
the boat that was carrying Percy
Bysshe Shelley to his death make
its way out into the clear blue Of
the Mediterranean. The devil is
brewing mischief" was the omi-
nous utterance that fell from the
lips Of a weather beaten Italian
sailor whose eyes were also follow
ing the craft as, in the sultry heat
of that far off afternoon, it slid for
ward to the open sea. And it was
remembered after the melancholy
event that there had been other
less natural whisperings and pre-
monitions heralding the fate that
was about to overtake the ill
starred English poet.-From Percy
Bysshe Shelley" By LIetoelyn
Popys in the Century.
The New York herald., 1922-01-10
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