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shipbeard" To dinner tonight
with Bob Nathan at the residence of
Dr. William Kraus, who told me that
"Glands Regulating Personality" is an
unauthortative and unscientifc book,
which might cause great harm if it
became too generally circulated. "There
Is not enough known about the glands
yet" he said, "to generalize concern
ing them, and certainly there is not
enough known about them to warrant
the publication of book dealing with
them. What we actually know about
the function of the glands is very lit
tie indeed" We went to see
The Advertising of Kate" comedy
whose most serious fault lies in the
TACT that it proves two different and
contradictory things. :. Note: The
printer won't set any more-this week
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Letter Box
"Children of Trangression"

Sir: You recently printed an article
by Thomas Dixon praising book
called "Chldren of Trangression."
The author of "The Clansman"
should know the South, but / cannot
agree with him that this book pictures
the real south.
Mr. Dixon assures us that the author,
Mrs. Tyler, is herself "a Virginian of
the Virginians," and praises her for
not dragging in psycho~analysis.
And it is, indeed, refreshing TO and
an author who does not tear up his or
her soul, but I must take issue with
Mr.. Dixon when he says "her character
sketches of the old regime are terrible
and pitifully merciless in their ac-
curacy."
Terrible and pitiful yes-but not ac-
curate-such things as Mrs. Tyler de-
scribes may possibly have occurred,
but certainly they are not typical Of
the South, and it seems to me un-
fortunate that book like "Children
Of Trangression" should be held up to
Northern readers, as true picture Of
the South by Southerner Of Mr..
Dixon's reputation. p. Y. HELM.
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We Recommends ---

Search" (Putnam). By Margaret
Rives Larminie-As being the story
of a young Englishman's aspirations.
hopes, defeats and triumphs, viewed
disrass ssionatcly and with keen insight
by woman writer; and as being an
intelligent and interesting story.
''rhe Dark House" (Dutton). By L.
A. R. Wylie-Because it is a dramatic
stcry of pitiless circumstance which
throws a number of people into un-
happy contact, temperament against
temperament, beliefs against beliefs:
and because it has pathos, pity and
beauty in the telling.
"White and Black" (Harcourt). Bv
H. A. Shands-As being a little prose
epic Of American life in the South.
"Mr. Antiphilos, Satyr" (Lieber e.
Lewis). Translated from the French
of Remy de Gourmont-As BEING a
new addition to the work of Gourmont
now available in English: as being as
quaint satirical conceit in that Gour-
mont purports to write the letters of
a satyr who appears in modern civili-
zation and finds that civilization not to
his taste; and as being book Of
philosophical ideas charmingly dis
guised as fiction.
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or as drink-soaked derelicts Of the
wharfs. Much Of the glamour of the
smoothly trimmed clipper ships fades
before this recital of inhumanity and
injustice, but they were days also of
eplcai adventure. To lunch
with Henry and Ann Sell and Mis-.
Lucille Buchanan where we talked of
the sculpture of Brancusi, the pro-
fessional youth Of John A. Weaver.
the literary lavishness of Ben Hecht.
and the Russian opera. Henry de-
lighted US by observing that he was
not moved by the "amorous box
cars" Of Brancusi. ,Diuna
Barnes came in this afternoon and told
me delightful anecdote concerning an
opera singer who, goaded by the i'm
pertlnence of woman poet whose
teeth were not all intact, suddenly said
Il should so like to buy you a new set
OF teeth" To tea this after
noon at the home Of Olive and T. F..
Mount and met there William Nc
Fee and Mrs. Terence Holiday. McFee
is a droll and delightful Scot who is
very deaf. He said people fancicd that
he had an easy time of it as chief
engineer, but that he had to stick close
to his job or any one of fifty other
men would be ready to step into his
shoes. passengers, for some reason"
he said, "think I am fond of children.
and. they are always turning their off
spring over to me. The defects of
training always come out in . child ON
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by them realized with
poignancy. "'oos,
WELL he has written another 5,..
" with a wretched, puzzIin. ~ s'''
"The oppidan," which to an 49, .'s
means nothing, but to Les,;a e'leaa
triguing distinction that ba. % ~ Il
since Henry VIII. An Onn;a,~ auu'ss
Etonian who either lives in COLES, ;, : =
Doesn't am not quite sure WY,
and what does it matter, for -. '",ea-
is all Of Eton. Once, year. ''a
picked up a novel called Grey y.se,l ,se !
and I stared fascinated at sbs. .''.s'
title. I haze never read It nor ' t..
tell Of it-f'm sure it was vo,.., 'SH
but what two words, S's-
And tnst Is what Leslie,
should be named-a tale .. ts,t D''s
gray cocoon, where the gnsss tus' s's'
fly sheds its cocoon It s,,.,, s''
been called "Grey Youth" O.. ''s' ~
it and you are carried back to ~, !"
Of Shelley, or day-long fights vi.
casionaily tragic, ray, fatal euIm.
tions, OF Wellington's playing s.,s.
of intolerable bullyngs and ,,.s
nable raggings. And even no..
timately we are shown Eton o, H..
COS, and the last rnagniAcencs ~ =
Victorian age is spread ir front -
q play done before shadow.d ta,s,,.
Of the past,
The book interested me enormns,
Mr.. Leslie has sharp cye to, !.
manners Of his age. If he dos. :.
plumb the motives Of his pso,ls i
his creations with the keen analvsi, j
Strachey it is because he refer, Il
finer judgments 70 the court o. s,.l
Celtic deity which he has accented Il
his own-and where the inscrusabi,,1
Of men is relinquished beyond anslys.
to fade into that more immense u
scrutability in which all final snsss-
and judgments lie.
Those vino are interested in the ry,
patchwork quilt picture of vie.sgs,
England, which IS being gradusr
pieced together from the memories 4
survivors and the satire Of their ssl
mentators, will enjoy The oppidaa-
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might be the result Of years Of y.
curate observations. yet it is not pss-
tographic. 1t is authentic enough
be biography. inspired enough 70 a
fiction. One comes upon iunumersbs
homely incidents that pierce with tier
truth, upon felicitiss Of phrase tbs:
demand rereading. Philip never Ceases
to be Philip. He is lo-able, Annoying,
pathetic, amusing, puzzling, crgszl.
clear-and always himself. That alsa
is an achievement.
THE only quarrel we are hak.
heartedly inclined to pick Eai
Vaughan is to ask why he Hsds
Philip, who was clever, intelligent Ind
fastidious, fall under the spell Of ssts
ungracious, unlovely and uncult1ssd
women as he did? But the questirr Il
answered before it is articulsted: srsa
is human bondage. 1t is only anoiats
one of those things people do .hss ars
comprehensive without being eS.
plicable
Here is life set forth with fd:l1tr,
beauty and calmness. Maughan ns7s'
weeps or laughs with Philip but 80.
do. He maintains that difficult Fes'
tion between sympathy and neutraii9'
From the time Philip is nine untiI y
is thirty we are taken into his exissi
ence more completely than any one WEE
knew him could possibly have beeh
Though at times We are as lmpatlei'
with him as he is with himself, vs.
always feel that what is Happening Is
inevitable. We are at home wiss d.
most unusual acquaintances; We %'
ticipate in the discussions OF ars ana
religion and ethics with ease; We sui.
fer and rejoice with him. rise silo iaA
with his fortunes, comprehend ana as'
miss his passions, waver and ae''''
with him, and at the end feel the ssn'
placidity and happy sense OF 'f'e'
ocableness as does Philip, in the auS'
of his new decision.
While there are still such hooH v
discover in 1922 as "Of Human osHs
age" written in 1915, no slur oil hs'
ern literature may go unchallengs''
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE. By W. Somerset
Vaughan. Doran.
HILIP CAREY had club foot
l. and it affected his whole life
and his view Of life. He
learned that when people were
angry with him their primal impulse,
seldom restrained, was to taunt him
about his deformity. He learned to
mask his sensitiveness, though he never
got over it. Because he couldn't join
in the sports of his own age, his boy
hood was spent largely in solitude
that was only alleviated by his insa-
table desire to read. Because he
couldn't dance, his relations with girls
were peculiar, and he was driven to
rash, impulsive friendships that further
affected his life-not always for the
better.
"Of Human Bondage" is tremendous
thing, tremendously done; a remark
able combination of the broadest
strokes and the most minute detail.
One feels that there is nothing un-
known about Philip, so akingly
has his life been told and yet there
are large gaps left to the imagination
1t is as plotess and apparently ainless
as life itself. Each momentary I'M
preston, friendship, emotion is of
paramount Importance. Beliefs are
formed and discarded, friends made
and lost, passions flare and die, am
bitions rise, shift, change; affairs are
absorbing, come to an impasse, settle
themselves. Only at the end are we
able to look back upon the partly COM
pleted tapestry that the years have
been weaving. The colors have
blended; the pattern is forming. We
can imagine the finished picture with
some degree Of certainty.
Philips years at English schools are
not, perhaps, so vividly told as Comp
ton Mackenzie or Coningsby Dawson
might tell them. But there comparison
ends. One wonders at the endless in
genuity that invented character after
character, breathed upon them and
made them live, allotted to each its
place and gave to each the benefit of
that marvellous descriptive ability that
is Maugham's. "Of Human Bondage"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

"E. Fl. Hartmann: A Biography"
(Houghton, Mif1in). BY George Ken
nan-Because it is an amazing recital
of epical events in the history of Amer
lean big business ventures; as being an
intimate and interesting account Of a
vigorous, resourceful and unusual per-
sonality; and as being a book which
gives the reader knowledge of the
way certain political and financial af-
fairs are managed not to be found else
where
"Mr. Prohack" (Doran). BY Arnold
Bennett-As being the mellowest and
most delightful of all Of Benefits
novels; as being in way a merging
of the method and manner Of "Clay-
hanger" and "The Pretty Lady,; and
as being q story you are certain to
enjoy.
"The First Million the Hardest"
doubleday. By A. B. Farquhar-As
being an almost incredibly naive auto
biography of a man who as a boy made
up his mind to become millionaire. in
terviewed all the wealthy men of New
York on the secret of attaining great
wealth, went to work and achieved his
millions; as being a human document
OF first rate interest, one which is
wholly and uniquely American.
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AoD
Scribner's Sons.
vOW, Shane Leslie is tho son
Of an Anglo-1rish baronet.
He is an old Etonian and he
is chamberlain to the Pope.
He is half a mystic, and he is entirely
cousin of the utilitarian Winston
Churchill. In him there is stronger
sense OF old England, I mean sense
not Of it's worth or blame, but Of its
being, than is possessed by any one
living, possibly excepting Lytton
Strachey.
It is almost impossible to review a
book Of his and resist the temptation
to tell anecdotes OF him-how hair
pin fell from heaven, for instance, and
pumped into the King of Spain's tea,
Of certain sentimental haircut, Of
the fact that he has been the hero of
two successful modern novels-but
with such precious material I can be
no more than. tantalizing, for 1t be-
longs to his bi'ographer, not to me.
He first came into my life as the
most romantic figure I had ever known.
He had sat at the feet of Tolstoy, he
had gone swimming with Rupert
Brooke, he had been young English
man Of the governing classes when the
sense of being one must have been, as
Compton Mckenzie says, like the sense
of being a Roman citizen.
Also he was a convert to the church
Of my youth, and he and another, since
dead, made of that church a dazzling
golden thing, dispelling its oppressive
mugginess and giving the succession
Of days upon gray days, passing under
it's plaintive ritual, the romantic
glamour Of an adolescent dream.
He had writer book then. 1t had
sale-not the sale it deserved. "The
End Of the Chapter" it was, and bought
by the snap-eyed ladies who follow with
Freudian tenseness the missteps Of the
great. They missed its quality of low
haunting melancholy, of great age, Of a
faith and of a social tradition that
with the years could not but have taken
on a certain mellow despair-apparent
perhaps only to the most sensitive but
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that Swift was animated alwavs
BY high regard for truth. He was
inhibited from telling the truth
about the church for fear Of losing
MS income as minister; and from
telling the truth on all sorts of Or
casions for fear Of losing favor with
his patrons who were in power. He
was pathetic and tragic man, in
whom so many powerful emotions were
pent up that he was probably driven
insane by them. How much a man Of
1eellng he was comes out in his poetry
and in his letters. He PLAYED for tho
deanship Of st. Paul's, but to get rid
of him they gave him instead the dean
snip of st, Patrick's, and he hated Ire
land. 1t was out of this embitterinp
experience that he wrote 'Gulliver's
travels" "But isn't it probable" /
countered, that his high regard for
justice and truth and the fact that he
was prevented from criticizing certain
things only served to strengthen his
satlricsl gifts7 Isn't It probable that
his very genius, tho genius which
gave us 'Gulliver's Travels "A Ger
tain PROPOSAL and "A Tale Of a Tub
was heightened and sharpened by this
very fact that he was inhibited in
other directions?" But Wilson be-
lieves that Swift would have been a
greater man than he was had he had
greater intellectual courage. "At the
very time when Voltaire and other
men in Continental Europe were COM
batting prejudice and superstition and
carrying on the work of human en-
llghtenment, Swift was defending the
dunderheads, playing up to popular
preJudices, and attacking the cham
pions of progress with all the sham
sh'bboleths beloved by the mob. This
only because it gave him more power
with the aristocrats he wantedto please.
he must have known that he was
equipped to play as great part in
intellectual history as Voltaire, and
in the irony of his defeat in his old
age ne must have regretted that he
did not seize the opportunity"
nut mere wilson was arguing from a
hypothesis which has always seemed
to me to be merely speculative and
rather barren, i. e., that had man
not done thus and so, and had he done
this and that, he would have been a
greater man. Possibly. But the fact
is that Swift is Swift, a UNIQUE and
powerful personality in English litera-
sure, the creator of some Of tho rich
est products Of the racial genius. He
might have been greater force in
political and economic thought, but
would he have been q greater literary
artist? Wilson's notion is like that of
Van Wyck Brooks in regard to Mark
Twain. Both Brooks and Wilson are
scolding these men rather bit too
late, am afraid, and probably Swift
and Twain were so constituted that
they would not have profted by the
scolding even if they were still alive.
WILSON and took another walk
this morning and discussed E. E.
Cummings "The Enormous Room"
James Branch Cabell, Van Vechten,
universities, the characteristics of the
South and other topics. l told him l
thought certain passages In "The
Enormous Room" are notable achieve
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ments in the art Of writing, but that
the book shows too many signs Of
haste; it has too many meaningless
superlatives and badly used adjectives.
1t Is, though, the work of a man with
strange and interesting gift for OBJ
servation Wilson said that CUMMINGS
seems uncertain in his method, espe-
clally in his poetry, sometimes writing
an effective line, only to surround it
with iifeless ones. Returned
to New York in the afternoon and went
to the Boyds' for tea, where I found
Padralc Colum, Miss Eleanor Whiting
and Guy Holt We were talking about
James Joyce, when Padraic said there
were only twelve persons in all Dublin
who are not mentioned in "Ulysses"
and that the book is the size of and
looks like telephone directory. The
Colums are going to the MacDowell
colony in Peterboro, N. H., where
Padraic plans to write novel before
returning to Ireland was
telling them of an article on titles I
planned to write, and mentioned that
the most perfect title knew Of was
Edward Arlington Robinson's "The
Man Against the Sky" saying that
after writing that title the poem was
superfuous, because it told or sug-
gested all. Padraic offered as perfect
title Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" but
l said that told no more than "Srnith.
President of the Interboro Ice Cream
Company" and maintained that
Shakespeare wasn't good at titles, hit
ting the mark only once, in "Love's
Labor's Lost" which isn't so very GOOD.
Boyd offered "The Playboy Of the
Western World and Yeats's "Ideas Of
Good and Evil" and then Padraic Of
fered comprehensive one in St.
Thomas Aquinas's "Concerning God
and His Creatures" But have espe-
cially in mind such titles as "The
Vision Of Piers Plowman" and "Swee.
ney Among the Nightingales," which
are SO good they express the whole
mood and content that are to follow.
Perhaps the best title remember. next
to Robinson's and Eliots Gall of whose
are good, is Corbiere's La Rapsode
F'oraine ct lie Pardon de Sainte-Anne.
which, like "The Man Against the Sky"
is poem in itself Tonight 7
read Search" q good novel by Mar
garet Rivers Larminie. 1t is an objec-
tive study on the same theme which
so many contemporary nove!ists have
treated vely-that is to say. it
is an English "Moon-C Calf" or "Road to
the World" written by a woman who
writes intelligently and we'll.
WIS morning l hit upon a real de-
light, Samuel Eliot Morison's "Mar-
itime History of Massachusetts" a
we'll documented account of the clipper
ship and whaling days of Salem, New
buryport, Nantucket and Boston. From
this we learn that many of the for
tunes Of our best families in New Eng
land were laid by the most question
able of misunderstanding and snug
ling, piracy, slavery, shanghaing and
even murder. Poor, gullible plowboys
were lured to the sea by dazzling prom
ises and enslaved for life, never get
ting out of debt to their employers.
brutally manhandled, shanghaied from
one ship to the other, often either to
end - beaehcombers in Pacific isl.nd.
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REMA1NED at home most Of the day
and read. Ruth and Robert Wise
man, the architect, came out in the
evening and we talked of the aesthetic
theories of Jay Hambidge, Give Bell,
Coulson and Henry, and we agreed that
aesthetic theory is only mental
amusement like metaphysics, valueless
alike to artist and public. Bob told
me that he had proved by the mathe-
matical formula of Mr.. Hambidge that
tin can and coffee pot are works
OF art. He doesn't care for the Munich
pal Building, which, he said, is only
the convential triumphal arch turned
into an Office building, and Manhattan
Bridge doesn't interest him as much
as Brooklyn Bridge, which he main
tains has more to commend it. We are
agreed, however, that forgetting its
wedding cake detail tho Woolworth
Building is triumph Of American
architecture. We discussed the prob
lem as to just how far the mind is
capable Of disassociating the percep-
tion OF pure form from sentimental as
sociations and accumulated experience
and we concluded that it Is probably
impossible to attain a complete dis
association. l confessed that on the
occasion when l derived the greatest
pleasure from the sight of the Wool
worth Building Gin blue-gray dawn
when life was just beginning to stir
in lower Manhattan) there was mixed
up all sorts of -sentimentality.
the sense of the infinite and the
triumph Of human endeavor and the
buildings resemblance to a gigantic
cathedral. After they had gone / read
warfare in the Human Body" by
Morley Roberts, which I found inter
esting only in that chapter which has
to do with the origin Of therapeutic
bathing. The book is SO heavy with
medical jargon that i found it difficult
to read.
MAY 6
INVENT to Princeton this morning to
w spend the weekend with Edmund
Wilson jr. l have seen no university
more ideally located than Princeton
1t is isolated and quiet, the landscapes
are beautiful, with rows Of poplars and
blossoming dogwood. and the buildings
are. almost without exception, pleas
ure to the eye in their adapted Gothic.
While we strolled about the campus
we spoke of the lack Of emphasis
placed in this country upon the
achievements of our scholars and scien,
fists, such as Michaelson. Millikan,
Breasted, Coulter, Angel, Salisbury,
our great research workers, philolo-
gists, chemists, Psychologists and biolo-
gists. regretted that Professor Gauss,
Of the romance language department,
was away, for Wilson had told me how
he had influenced, taught and encour-
aged Princeton undergraduates. It was
Professor Gauss, he told me, who sent
This Side Of Paradise" to Scrihner's
with a note commencing it.
After dinner Wilson and / walked for
three hours along country road, talk
ing about Jonathan Swift, whom we
consider one of the greatest masters
of English prose. Wilson related to
me many facts concerning Swift's life
with which / was unacquainted, par
ticularly in regard to his dealings with
Temple and Bolingbroke. "You were
wrong" hs told me, when you said
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THE VANISHING POINT. BY Coninssby
Dawson. Cosmopolitan Book Corpora
~ oNlNGSBY DAWSON may have
derived many spiritual benefits
from the war, but an improved
literary style cannot be listed
among them. In "The Vanishing
Point" he clearly trespasses on the
preserves of Mr.. E. Phillips Oppenheim
The male characters in the story be-
long to the species of fictonal super
man who can settle the destines of
nations with wave Of the hand;
while the women possess the magical
beauty that can lure men to destruc-
tion or inspire them to heights of
achievement.
The novel is badly Uttered up with
unreal stage apparatus. The back
ground of contemporary Europe, tragic
enough In itself, is incredibly twisted
and butchered to make melodramatic
holiday. The author is lavish with
plots, counterplots and espionage.
With an eye to exotic glamour the
author injects an allowance of Hindu
blood into his heroine and introduces