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The New York herald., 1922-04-23
How Moliere Looked.

M OL1ERE'S eyes were uncom-
Az monty wide apart, were large.
dark, heavily lidded. When opened
the lids did not disappear under
overhanging folds Of flesh as the
eyelids of Gladstone, Kitchener or
James G. Blaine are pictured but
suggested the curve of the eyeball
all the time. with TIE drawing go
ing well into the cavity under the
brow. They were like the eyelids OF
Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln and
Eleanora Duse; also. the lower
orbital curve was longer than is
usual, thereby lending that look of
sadness common to those faces last
named. The lips, while full and
thick, were easy and pliable, and.
judging from the later muscular de-
velopment, capable of expressive
modelling. From "Moliere, actor
and Man." By augustus Thomas in
the Mentor"
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
George Sand and DR.. PagelIo.

THE erotic philosophy of George
= Sand is that of woman who
not only is stranger to humility
and remorse but who, in following
every caprice of sense or imagina
tion. poses before herself and be-
fore the world as the champion of
liberty and sincerity. the martyr Of
irresistible passion, the model Of
devotion. tenderness and sclf-sacri-
fee, believing herself meanwhile
the most fascinating creature con-
ceivable. In the course of her ro-
mantle escapades. George Sand
happened once on an honest young
fellow Ia medical student of prom
Use. a certain DR.. Pagello), whom
she enticed into the turmoil of pas
sfonate life about her and who fol-
lowed her to Paris. There, shortly,
she tired of him, and he returned
forthwith to the pursuit of his stud
les. Il was more or less of a
nuisance to her." he wrote years
later, looking back as an octoger
marian upon this strange adventure
of his youth, where he, involuntar-
lily, had played the part of Octave
between Musset-Jacques and Sand
Fernando. MY common sense, as
a plain, ordinary Italian, was al
ways debating this so much misun-
derstood sublimity of hers with
which she was wont to disguise the
garishness of her passions. From
George Sand" By Benedetto Croce
in the Dial"
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Moliere as a Borrower.

M HEN we consider the success
~ sion of Moliere's plays, some
thirty in all, the work of the last
fifteen years of his life-he died
when he was 81, almost the same
age at which Shakespeare had died
when we analyze them one after
another, we see that Moliere was
nrst OF all an accomplished crafts
man in the art of playmaking. He
was not a faultless workman; he
would wind up his plots with con-
venient abruptness; but he always
knew what he was about; he could
always arouse and retain and in
crease the interest of his spectators
In the story he was setting forth.
He might borrow (almost as freely
as Shakespeare had done) from
predecessors and contemporaries
nut what he took he made his own.
He stamped it with his image and
superscription. He put his own
sign manual ON it.-From "Moliere.
Master Playicright' By Brander
MatfheEs in the Mentor"
Dickens in New York in 1867.
II E talked of actors and acting
said if mans Hamlet was
sustained conception it was not to
be quarreled with; the only ques-
tion was, what man of melancholy
temperament would do under such
circumstances. Talked of Charles
Reade and the greatness of Griffith
Gaunt" and the pity of it that he
did not stand on his own bottom in
stead of getting in with Dion Bouci-
cault, but after dinner he un-
bent, and while we were in the box
at the theater showed how true his
sympathies were with the actors.
was especially careful to make no
sound which could hurt their feel.
ings by apparent want of attention.
The play was very dull, so we sat
and talked. He told me that no
ballet dancer could have pretty feet,
and one dreadful thing was they
could never wash them, as water
renders the feet tender and they
must become horny. He asked about
Longfellow's sorrow again and ex-
pressed the deepest sympathy, but
said he was like a man purified by
suffering.-From with Dickens in
America" By NJ. A. De Wolfe Hope
in "Hdrper's Mdgdzine."
The New York herald., 1922-04-23

Wells this question. He has prom
ised TO think 1t out and tell me.
He has the power to guess some
things very we'll I'll put that ques-
tion to Conrad when / next see him.
From The Life ard Letters OF
Waiter II. Page" Edited 5y Burton
J. Headrict in the WORLDS Work.
Flaubert's "SaIsmbo.D
&c ALAMBo" is a blind spasm
~ toward the barbaric-1nys-
terious-luxurious-bloody, toward the
voiuptuous-sacrilegious; and The
true country of his heroine is
not Carthage, but that castle of
bfittany where Chateaubriana
sowed the first seed OF his Atals
ana his Veileda. Flaubert lost no
tlme IN seizing a profitable ocea-
sion which offered itself to him in
the guise of archaeological recon-
structlon in a perfectly elaborated
style to let loose the demon within
Him' freeing him entirely, whereas
formerly ne had not been permitted
TO show himself save in modified
and restrained shape in the body of
ene unfaithful wife OF an insignifi-
cant country doctor. In a well
known monograph on Flaubert If
IS remarked that If he did not sat
isfy his readers in this book. he
certainly satisfied himself: that is
very true.-From "Flaubert. bv
beHedefto Croce in the London
Mercury"
The New York herald., 1922-04-23

psychoanalyst. 1t IS possible that a
yet more modern machine would al
low the guest to call up the hotel
medium equipped with the hotel
table and tambourine. But there is
in the nature of things a limit to
this process of extension when the
personal element is involved
From AT the Siga of the Worlds
End" By G. K. Chesterton in the
"NeaC Witness"
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Chesterton on the American Hotel.

Chesterton on the American Hotel.
TN some hotels Of the American
L sort there used to be an instru-
ment erected in the bedroom; it
had rather the general appearance
of a clock, with finger pivoted SO
as to point at various inscriptions
on the dial: and these were sup
posed to be a complete list Of the
needs of man, in his highest ca
pacity of an American hotel fire.
quenter. Whenever he wanted a
prairie oyster or lorse's Geek, a
secretary or a sandwich, or any
thing (for all know from q daily
paper to a dentist, he had only to
move the hand on the clock and a
bell rang and the person or object
was somehow produced from the
interior mechanism of the hotel.
Now it is quite true that even the
real list was long and detailed. and
that it could be extended and ap-
Piled to almost any length along
certain lines. 1t would no doubt
include not only dentist but de-
tective. A really up to date instru-
ment would probably include bell
that could be rung to summon the
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Moliere and the Comedie
Franchise.

THE association of actors known
= as the French Comedy players
is unrivaled in the history of theat-
rical organizations. Election to
membership is the highest honor
that can be paid an artist of the
stage. Every one, from principals TO
minor members of the troupe, re-
spects traditions that have accumu-
lated through two and half CEN
turies. Indeed, each player, no mat
ter how humble, is a direct heir to
the actors who in their day sup
ported the great Moliere. The
Comedians Theater has always been
called the House of Moliere." On
its stage the plays of the great
dramatists are given with the great
est attention to detail and artistry.
Moliere was an active member of
one of the companies that merged
in 1850, under the royal eoict, to
form the Theatre Francais. 1t was
while he was playing as a member
of the Palais Royal troupe that he
died, dramatically, at the END of one
of his own plays. Seven years after
Moliere's passing Louis the Great
organized the first French State
theater. Moliere's widow was in
the original company. They occu-
pied splendid quarters in the Tuil-
eries.-From "The Story OF the
Conledie Francaise" in the Men
tor"
The New York herald., 1922-04-23

well remember, by that little par
ish of ST. James" of Sir Arthur s
owu definition.-FroBl "Sir Arthur
Pinero and the Fairies" By S. r.
Litfieicood in The English Book
man"
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
How Far Would Dickens
MSS. Extend?

Nl9o. k4tCn6.
M r. DICKENS dined here last
4sA night without company ex-
cept Messrs. Dolby and 0sgood and
Howells. We had a very merry
time. They had been to visit the
Cambridge printing Office in the af-
ternoon and had been shown so
many things that the chief" said
he began TO think he should have
bitter hatred against any mortal
who undertook to show him any,
thing else in the world and laughed
immoderately at ]. T. F.'s PROPOSE
tion to show him the new fruit
house afterward. We all had a
game of Nincomtwitch and sepa-
rated rather early because we were
going to party, and as c. d. shook
me by the hand to say good-by
he said he hoped we would have a
better time at his party than he
ever had at any party in all his life.
A part of the dinner time was taken
up by half guess and half calcula-
tion of how far Mr.. Dickens's man.
uscript would extend in a single
line. Mr.. Osgood said forty miles.
]. said 100000 q y. ! believe they
are really going to find out c. d.
said he felt as il it would go fur
ther than forty miles and was in
cIined to be down" on 0sgood un-
til he saw him doing figures in his
head after a fearful fashion. All
this amusing talk served to give
one a strange, weird sensation OF
the value of words over time and
space: these little marks of i'm
measurable value covering so
slight portion of the rough earth,
From with Dickens in America
in Hdrper's Magazine.
English Writers in War Time.
y Ut, as you know, nobody's
- writing anything but war
books-from Kipling to Hall Caine
Poor Kipling,-his boys dead. L
have no doubt of it. I've had all
the German hospitals and prison
camps searched for him in vain
These writing men and women. by
the way, are as true blue and as
thoroughbred as any other class.
can never forget Maurice Hew-
let's brave behavior when he
thought that his flying corps son
had been killed by the Germans
or drowned at sea. He's no prig.
but a real man. And the women
are as fine as the men. To
go back to books: OF course no.
body can tell what effect the war
will have on the writing of them.
nor what sort of new writer's may
come up. You may be sure that
everything is stirred to its pro
foundest depths and will be
stirred still more. Some old
stagers will be laid on the shelf;
that's certain. What sort OF new
ones win come? ] asked II. G.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Renan and Oxford.

hoUGH M. Renan was annar-
emily in love with Oxford !.
was discovered afterward from )
letter Of his written at the time to
ID -Berthelot, that he was NOT sc
much pleased as he was supposed
to be- Oxford" he said. -is the
strangest relic OF the past. the TYNE
OF living death. Each of its coJe
ieges is a terrestrial paradise. buf
deserted paradise" (His Letter
was written in the Easter Vacation
OF lsSO) He describe the educa-
tioH given as purely humaniss
and clerical" administered IN "a
gilded youth that comes to chanel
IN surplices." He found IAN almost
total absence OF the scientific
spirit The letter further con-
tanned a mild gibe at All Souls for
It's absentee Fellows. "The lawns
are admirable, and the Fellows car
= the college revenues. hunting
ana shooting up and { wn England
only one of them works-nv kind
most, Max Muller" Mrs. Ward adds
the comment of her own that ar
that moment the list of the Fellows
OF All Souls contained the names of
men who have since rendered high
service to England. NJ. Renan She
suggests. was probably not aware
that the drastic reforms introduced
by the two great university COM
missions of 1854 and 1877 had made
the sarcastic picture he drew fofk
his friend not little absurd
From the Manchester Gaardion
Samuel Buffers "Erewhon."
I is just fifty years since Samue,
Buffers "Erewhon" first an
peared in the booksellers windows
an anonymous volume at the price
OF rs. Cd. As new book il had as
companion, though hardly as com
petitor, the third volume of George
Eliots "Middlemarch. The latter
enjoyed a long start in the race for
circulation, but to-day "Erewhon"
is probably more read than Mid
dlemarch." Butler submitted his
manuscript first to Chapman Hall.
but their reader. George Mere
dith. would have none of II
The author expressed no surprise.
I should have condemned .DianS
OF the Crossways,' said he. cor
any other of Meredith's books sub
mitted to me-" Then "Erewhon"
went TO Trubner & Co, who, think
ing from cursory inspection that
it had something to do with the
contagious diseases act, threw il
on one side till reminded by the
author of its existence. He had TO
publish it at his own risk, and cal
culated long afterward that he had
made rather less than SO out of
the venture. Its anonymity was
Erewhon's" salvation. People
bought it and talked of 1t when
nobody knew who had written il,
and second edition was called for,
but as soon as the AthenGHm an
nounced that il was the work of a
young man well known in artistic
quarters named Sumuei Butler, in
other words a nobody. the sak<e
dropped to vanishing point
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
The Purpose of Hamlet

SHAKESPEARE in Hamlet"
- meant to inveigh against some
of the worst abuses of his time
court intrigue and administrative
corruption, chicanery in diplomacy,
espionage and eavesdropping in
high official circles, grave miscar-
riage in the administration of JUS
tice and above all the appalling
prevalence of assassination in
Tudor England.
Hamlet" is Shakespeare's pro-
test against the condition of Eliza.
bethan England. 1t was not Den
mark but England that was rotten.
Not mere Hamlet but Shakespeare
felt that "the time is out of joint" I"
1t was literally true, if the secrets
of the murders of Shakespeare's
own time could have been revealed,
that more things in heaven ard
earth would come to light than
mems philosophy dreamed.-Fronl
Hamlet and the Mystery OF Amy
R0bsdrt." By James WesudH
Thompson in the North American
ReDip1ro
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
What Is "Inspil alton?


T EFT us take the case of writer
IL who is sitting in his room,
getting what may properly be
called an inspiration. According
to our supposition he is being
played upon by his. right hand" in
the unseen. This means that his
conscious mind, with the will en-
ergy derived from the player, is
using unique experience records to
translate in the note of his per-
sonality the emotions which also
come from the player. The emo
tions are translated into thoughts,
ideas, and these are constructed by
the will energy into a work of art
"a theme. In such a situation the
writer, composing in happiness or
ecstasy, may be said to be "in
love-" realizing and expressing his
desires, the fruit of his love, al
though he may not suspect the ex-
istence of the person i'm the unseen
of whom he is a member-since
they are both in the same emotion
tones with blended wills. He is in
life everlasting" in some manner
outside of time, unconscious of the
passing Of the hours; living, in
deed. in the unseen with that
other, although his body is ex-
pressing the emotions phenome-
nally hereby Winston Chnrchin
in the Yale Reuiep.
Poe's Hostility to New England.
MO doubt the reason is tat. for
IN better or worse. Poe had too
little in common with the develop
ing mood of American thought. He
had, as he said, mo faith in human
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-06-23
No. 1914
NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL
REPORT AND PETITION FOR
DISTRIBUTION

In the Superior oCurt of the State
Of Washington in and for the
County of Whitman.
In the Matter of the Estate of Au-
gust Loding, Deceased,
Notice is hereby given that W. p.
Shafer, the executor Of the estate of
August Loding, deceased, has filed
in the office of the clerk of said
court his final report as such eX-
ecutor, together with his petition for
distribution of said estate, asking
the court to settle said report, dis
tribute the property to the heirs of
persons entitled to the same, and dis
charge said executor, and that Fri
day, the 18th day of July, 1922, at
1000 o'clock a. m, at the court
room of our said Superior Court, in
the City of Colfax. in said Whitman
county, has been duly fixed by said
Superior Court for the hearing and
settlement of said final report and
petition for distribution, at which
time and place any person interested
in said estate may appear and file
objections thereto and contest the
same.
Witness, the Hon. r. l.. McCTos-
key, Judge of said Superior Court,
and the seal of said court affixed
this End day Of June. 1922.
JOHN H. NEWMAN,
(seaD Clerk of Said Court
iun9-30
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Some New Books

The Crisis of the Churches, by Dr..
l.. Parks (Scribner).
My Memories of 80 Years, by
Chauncey NJ. DePew (Scribner)
Psycho-Analysis, by Dr.. A. a.
Brill tHarcourt Brace.
What Next in Europe, by Frank A.
Vanderlip (Harcourt Brace)
Joanna Golden, by Sheila X.
Smith (DuttOn).
The Child and His School, by Cert
rude Hartman (Dutton. $50.
The Red House Mystery, by A. A.
Milne (Dutton).
A Magnificent Farce, by \. Ed
ward Newton (Atlantic).
Wild Folk. by Samuel Scovil. Jr.
(Atlantic).
The Notion Counter (Atlantic).
Consolation, by Albion Fellows
Bacon (Atlantic).
The Iron Man, by Arthur Pound
(Atlantic).
Modern Plays, by Sterling w.
Leonard (Atlantic).
The Mirrors of Downing St, by
The Gentleman in a Buster" put
nam).
The Romance of Russia, by +. w.
Campney and Frere Campney put
nam).
In the Morning of Time, by
Charles G. d. Roberts (Fdereick
Stokes, 44@ Fourth Ave, n. Y. City,
Watchers of the Sky, by Alfred
Noyes (Stokes. $2.5OD.
Lloyd-George, by Mr., Punch"
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The Balance, by VIM. Dana Or
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The Million-Dollar Suitcase, by
MCGOWAN & Newberry CStokes.
STD.
synonyms and Antonyms, by F.
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Kipling's Complete works New
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80 Fourth Ave, n. Y. City,.
Towards the Great Peace, by Dr.
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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-06-23

sands are born hungry and die hun
cry. Prosperity doesn't mean in
CHINA Ford in the barn and a Vic
trola in the parlor. 1t means escape
from death through cold and starNa-
tion The war in Europe helped
make times good in China. The re
public gets some of the credit Tor
this. 1t would get all the blame if
times were hard.
This is China as have seen it
an ancient civilization struggling to
Keep afloat as new democracy
and doing it by main strength, awk-
wardness, and luck. But she is do
ing it-and if she succeeds there ia
coming into the world for four hun
dred million human beings a greater
measure of happiness than they and
their ancestors for four thousand
years have ever known. The big.
outstanding fact in my mind is this;
The two foremost elements of the
world are the doctrines of Jesus
Christ and democracy To me they
are one and the same; making the
leaven which must eventually leaven
the whole lump.
Wheather you are reading for in
formation or amusement, you will
find these impressions of Mr.. Muir
dock editor, journalist, congress
man, and chairman of the Federal
Trade Commission entirely fasci-
mating You feel he is an open
minded person telling exactly what
he saw on a trip into the far inter
ior, where he had been told he sim
ply could not penetrate. You will
be astonished, amused, sometimes
shocked, often pierced by keenest
sympathy, by his descriptions of the
people and their mode of life. \
very worthwhile book.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-06-23

9"l'es and marauding cats and
what the birds do for us every yea,
=, destroying such pests as the cod
ing moth, apple curculio. cincb hrna
po'a.o bugs and green leaf lonsa
"hieh all together cost the country
something like six or eight bnparo5
millions of dollars a year.
II Edgar Lee Masters had p,uo5
MS new novel Stephen A DopeIoss
biography in stead of Children Of
me Market Place CMacmilIan Sol
" would have told more immediately
what the book really is. II is =
WONDERFUL portraiture of the most
ienlarkable Of the orator-politician
pullaers OF the country through the
iliihols pioneer and Civil war DAYS
MOI much space is given the war
nafuly more than a mention. But
the economic and political hack
ground, from the days when Chicago
was a settlement with Indians loitar-
ing IN the streets, no sewage ar
water systems, and negroes. though
Tree, were licensed like dogs are
most wildly pictured Masters
style Is an easy one to read with
It's crisp, short sentences. else the
long political discussions would
sometimes be a bit tedious. As
novel, am not sure of its success;
the various heart interests of the
young Englishman who Is telling the
story seems to have little or no rom
nectlon with what is evidently the
absorbing theme, the character and
methods and achievements of Dong
las. Those the author has handled
marVelously well. | am going to put
the book in high school library. to
interest the boys and girls in that
portion of their country's history.
II you want novel with swift ac-
tlon, plenty of excitement. and in
teresting people who will make YOU
laugh and cry, read "A Little
Leaven, - by Katherine Gray Clip
pincott, $2). | do not know who
Miss Gray is; have never seen any
thing by her before. But if this is
her first novel, then the publisher
has made a find, and the mountain
folk of Kentucky and Tennessee
have a powerful new friend. When
| had finished reading | wanted to
offer myself and all my educational
Immediately to help
make places like Piney Fork hap
pier for the brave, half-starved de-
scendents of the Colonial pioneers
who are shut in there. Their kindly
hospitality to the stranger, their de-
yotion to family ties and their
strict holding to their word once
given, scorn of a broken oath, are
Lnlngs SOod 10 remember when one
is tempted to Judge them by the ex-
aggerations of the movie pictures of
feud and moonshining.
Times are fairly good in China.
so far as Chinese experience goes"
says Victor Murdoch in his new
book on China the Mysterious and
(RevelD. The coun-
try isn't prosperous as we know pros
perity. of course. China is a coun-
Try where for centuries people have
lied by hundreds of thousands peri
of famine. Tens of thou
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-06-23
NOTICE TO LIVESTOCK OWNERS

Notice is hereby given that here
after the city ordinance prohibiting
stock grazing along public streets
will be rigidly enforced. 1t is I'M
lawful to stake or herd stock near
the streets within the corporate lin
its. or to permit them to run loose.
BY order Of the city council.
NJ. F. CANNON,
iun9jul7 City Clerk.