New-York tribune., 1922-12-31

that Dewey was nov e'N"' ~ -.
lovman 10 read but Dr. Robinson sila Vn"'
pcwev was so busy with his problems tra' ''
"a -, time 10 learn the art OF expressing
M. i1.,s In terms every one could under
.,.,d and that people who came after nl"'
could do that Tor him.
Ike most OF t.e modern pyeho'oR''.s'
pr. Rsbinson putsslittle faith IN what o''''
,.,iiv Masses for thought, hpding gr'n'''
.,gniaeanee in caoiion. Above all ne mas
...,,o, Tor what be calls "ihe olp
,..i.i,ns, method of reasoning" He 90 ne
.ays skepteJ or Oh abstract doe'"ne' a"'
,.,ernlit es Que o. cur greatest pFo'''''" p
s,vs is that OF getting thc human race
,,, N its infaniile stage Of emotion ana '"-
,,ui,,enrc We rrow rp In awe end ie"r OF
,5mirstior for our parents and ae We -
,trspeh life VIC keep on Transferring 'h''
40. fear or admiration 20 other people o'
,h,,.,. even abstraetions. relying too little
,,,or ourrelves. passing the buck 70 others
80 our failures. never growing up One
,h,,g he said impressed me greatly because
:, a the phllosophical kernel Of my bclict
3, the impossibiity Of objective criticism
I, ,,. There can be no objcctiyity, because
IN object il comprchended only subieotiyely'
An object may have an existence in itseii' out
We can know that object on'y as II exists
ir our minds. A form OF agreement among
men Of recognized taste and intelligence may
he reached. say IN regard 90 certain points
considered TO be merits IN a work CT art ana
in so far as one critic Is able % deincate
tsese roints he may be said 90 write objec-
tive criticism hut even that sort OF object
i~ity is subjective, after all
Hazel and went 20 dinner tonight az the
Lbme OF Miss Dorothy Scarborough. who
gives courses in the short story az Columbia
ard /, the author OF "The Supernatural ~
Fnelish Fiction We found there Miss Dorothy
Brewster. Prof. John Lyon and John Weaver
and after dinner. with Weaver there to'prod
nv memory with Tell them about the
time"--. related anecdotes Of Chicago
litcrary activity until netriy midnight The
ucre incredible and comical aspects oi
that feverish period began, / believe, about
tbe time hat Margaret Anderson, beautiiul
Girl eager for culture, came up from the
proyinees and by sheer force of personality
eot money for and began issuing "The Little
Review" Il was a lordly and belligerent
little magazine from the first. and Miss An
dcrson. having only an instinct for and no
training in aesthetic matters, subllmeiy
ignorant. but sublmely assured. gathered
ground her most OF the men and women who
were seeking individual self-exprcssion. with
oat regard TO what tradition had Dictated
Carl Sandburg. Ezra Pound, Sherwood Ander-
son. Edgar Lee Masters. Ben Hecht. Stanley
szukalski. Maxwell Bodenheim, Alfred hreym-
borg. Yachel Lindsay. Alexander kaun,
John COwper Powys. DR.. George Burman
Foster. Llewellyn Jones, Jane Heap and
dczens OF others. Poetry; Maga-
zine OF Verse" had already gained
an international reputation and was printing
contributions from England, France and Italy
rs we'll as from America; and Maurice
Browne had got his Little Theater much
talked about, and Miss Mary Garden had
helped the interest created in Chicago as
musical center By the late Theodore Thomas
end his superb orchestra; but Miss Anderson
sounded the proper note Of youthful revolt,
mo compromise with the public taste and
printed stories and poems By Anderson, Sand
burg. Bodenheim and Hecht which had been
turned down by every magazine in the coun-
try. Europeans began TO send contributions;
The Little Review" paid nothing. but poets,
ortists, n6clists. musicians in France and
England showed a lively interest in the mag
azinc and considered it an honor TO appear
w IL; Remy dc Goumont wrote that it was
the only magazine In English that was not
moribund, the only one IN which he cared
% appear. Lord Dunsany sent a story and
Miss Anderson returned it, saying, "why do