New-York tribune., 1922-10-01

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Je mai rien qui me IL ranpelle.
Pas De portrait, pas dc cheveux.
Je n'al pas une iettre d'cilc;
Nous nous detcstions tous les deux.
J'etais brGtal ct langoureux.
kile etait ardente ct cruele:
Amour dun homn5e nalhcurcuy
Pour une maitressc infdeie
In jour nous nous sommes quitteg.
Apres tant dc felicites.
Tant de baisers ct tant Dr. 'arrnes,
CONNIE deux capemjs rompus.
Que leur haine ne soutient plus.
TT Gu laissent tomber leurs arfnes.
The last three lines Of this sonnet
carry it into the domain OF poetry.
Mr.. Maurice Barres is enniaentlv en-.
barrassed He wrote a beautiful novel
"Un jardin saf fOronte' which
noticed here some weeks ago. Mr.. Jose
Vincent, literary editor Of La Croiy"
a prominent Catholic daily, fnds this
novel to be shocking pabuium 'or Cath.
olic readers and excommunicates it Get
egoricaliy In recent issue OF his paper.
Mr.; Barres IS pertdrbed ane repIies
feebly through the medium of another
Catholic newspaper. L'Echo dc parisp
A.
ditional and Catholic French idea" and
that, while he understands and wei
comes the structures of the "anti-
French" press, ne believes Mr. Jose
Vincent to be unjust. Must we,p lie
cries, condemn art ~
fear very much that Mr. Jose Vim
cent has the right on his side. The
heroine of Mr.. Barres is an unre-
deemed pagan and the delight lie took
IN portraying her is only TOO patent.
Iolstol, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mr..
Vincent have, as good Chr slians. no
authority to exalt art. You may read
the four gospels from one end TO the
other and you will find that there in
one point upon which they are al in
agreement-they contain no word in
honor of art, letters or science. Their
teaching is purely moral and religious;
intellectual culture is not mentioned
for an instant. And the Limitation"
of Thomas Aquinas warns US against
being touched by 'the subtle and
beautiful words of men" and tells US
that sit is more profitable to renounce
all than to study subtle things" Boy-
suet blames those who in the time
fer prayer and the practice Of virtue
give themselves to the study of history
and philosophy, or to the reading
of new books, romances, comedies
poetry" ..
Mr. Barres wrote a delightful tale
sensuous and not very edifying. The
righteous thunder of Mr.. Vincent fol-
lows him. He reaps the whirlwind-
and his book sells in the fifty thous
ands.
l cannot remember when dr. Hen
Ryner was elected prince jss con-
teurs.' In any event, he has since be.
come the saint of another Of the III
erary chapels of Paris and believe that
there now exists a kind of 2y3,cv club
worshipers of a Ryner cult and prob
ably attired in Ryner garb, ike the
Raymond o-Duncanites. MIR. Rynsr's last
book is called LES Veritables Entire.
items dc Socrate.' His thesis is an at
tractive one, holding that Socrates de-
served his death because it is true that
Socrates, obeying the laws Of nature.
or, as he preferred to say, the unwrit-
ten laws nobly violated the written
laws and the orders of the city.
The laws of the city revenged them
selves shamefully, as is their custom /
Socrates, in other words, was an anar-f
chist of the type of Mr. Ryner. and
neither Plato Cor whom Mr. Rvner has
found an Infamous suruame) nor
&enophon understood his preceptor.
Any attack on Plato is bound to be well
coined by aesthetics, and by the young
generally, but one would wish it
little less numbering, less dull and
lighter of hand than the touch of DR..
Ryner