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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-09-23
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-09-23
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The New York herald., 1922-02-26

and squalor. Otherwise the descrip-
ton of twenty years ago fits. But
Bunner, in imagination, played with
the old house as he felt it must have
been in the first decade Of the nine-
teenth century. AS the home or
Jacob Dolph he made it a fitting
mansion for a merchant prince OF
old Manhattan. Actually, in 1904.
which, according to the Bunner
story, was the period of the occu-
pancy of Jacob Dolph. the house was
tenanted by William Van Nreden-
burgh, who had served under WASH
ington with the rank of colonel. The
Van Vredenburghs emigrated, not to
Greenwich Village, as did the Dolphs
in the novel, but to the valley OF the
Mohawk, embarlzing for their jours
ney in a sloop at the foot Of Whites
hall street. Among the Onandags
Indians Of the Mohawk the erstwhile
continental officer became known as
THE Great Clear Sky"
What a pleasant old town ii must
have been in those early days, and
what a particularly pleasant prose
pect must have confronted Jacob
Dolph as he looked out of his win.
dows across Battery Park of fine
spring or summer morning! From
the pillared balcony he caught a
glimpse of the sun that loved the
Battery far better than Pine street.
where Dolph,s office was. 1t was q
poplar studded Battery in those days,
and the tale tells how the wind blew
fresh off the bay and the waves beat
up against the sea wall and large
brig, with all sails set, doomed COM
spicuous to the view, and two or
three little fat boats, cat rugged after
the New York fashion, were beating
down toward Staten Island to hunt
for the earliest bluefish. Then, in
the evening in summer, the crino-
lined ladies and the beaux with bell
crowned hats gathering by the sea
wall to watch the sun set behind the
low Jersey hills and to inspect and
admire the review of the Tompkins
Blues or the Pulaski Cadets. Bum
ner was distinctively a story teller
of New York. lie wrote OF the city
in The Midge" and repeatedly in
the course of "Short Skies" and
More Short Skies" But i'm all his
work there is no structure that
stands out more vividly than No. z
State street. the house of "The Story
of New York House"
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Is This Honest?

Upon his second meeting with
1 | Savina Grove, Lee feels
restless. Other people are
present, and che felt that it would
be impossible to remain seated,
calmly talking, for another minute.
The conversation Of the Davencotts
that had so engaged him now only
sounded like a senseless clatter OF
words and uncomfortable laughter. He
wished they would so; that all OF
them except Savina Grove would
vanish, but why he wanted her to
stay, why he wished to be alone with
her and what, in such a circum-
stance. he would say, were all mys-
teries."
This strikes us as the sheerest
tommyrot. Either that or Lee Ran
don must have been in the habit OF
asking himself why he got up in the
morning, why he put on his hat or
why he put salt on his eggs. Yet
Mr.. Henry Seidel Candy finds in
"Cytherea'' confirmation of his judg-
mert OF Hergesheimer as "one Of
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Browning's
Durable
Philosophy

BROWNING CRfTIQCES. BY Mari
garet Holmes Bates. Chicago; The
Morris Book Shop.
THIS series of critiaues should
prove valuable, not only as an
introduction to Browning's
poetry, but as a guide for the moro
advanced student. Practically the
entire range of Browning's work is
covered from "The Ring and the
Book" to pieces as short as MY Last
Duchess" The author writes inters
estingly, and with a critical insight
into the poets thought processes ana
meaning; she interprets intelligently
the more abstruse passages and has
a shrewd eye for the underlying sig@
nificance Of whole poems and groups
OF poems as well as OF particular
scenes and lines.
The author does not see in Browns
ing the blind optimism nor the stolid
contentment that some commentators
are inclined TO observe I'm him, and to
construe as "Christian faith" rather
she detects "the indifference, the uns
concern for the future that all pros
found students must arrive at soon
or late" Browning was not one Of
those who plunge their heads ostrich-
like into the sand and conclude that
all's well in this ''best of all possible
worlds" he did not accept the ir-
rational tcnets or the faith OF other
men. but arrived, through original
thought, at conclusions Of his own
He was not religious In the popular
sense. nor did he subscribe to any
particular creed; he realized the llm-
itations imposed by nature on man-
kind, and he vaguely surmised fu-
turo in which our requirements
would be different; but he was con-
tent to live in the present. to be
keenly alive 70 all the forces OF tho
present and TO build up philosophy
not upon faith or desire. but upon
knowledge OF conditions as he found
them. And the greatness OF Brown
ing Is to be ascribed largely to this
willingness and this ability to look
the world straight in the faoe
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
|. The House of H. e. Bum
ner's STORY of a New
York House."
By the Author of "The New York
of the Novelists" and "The
Paris of the Novelists."

~ Stale street New York, op-
I posite Battery Park. is one Of
the few remaining picturesque
edlfices that link the Manhattan Of
to-day with the older city. No. Z
State street has been for many years
tho Mission OF Our Lady OF tho
Rosary, a homo for Irish immigrant
girls But back in the eighties OF
tho last century Henry Cuyler Bun
nor gave 10 q conspicuous place
among the literary landmarks Of
New York when he found in its
quaint aspect the suggestion for his
'1rhc Story of a New York House."
Twenty years ago the setting OF the
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
The Whispering Gallery

is to us as thorough a piece Of non-
sense as was ever put into a novel,
Random can't get the doll out Of his
head. When ne meets Savina Grove
he can't think at first who it is she
reminds him OF. Presently it comes
to limits the doll, Cytherea-
1t is tho doll, mind you. that wakes
him to the fact that there is some
thing missing in life. We cannot see
why Mr.. Hergesheimer makes so
great fuss at such great length
over Lees coming to an understand
ing of himself.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
In Which We Find Fault With Pretty Nearly
Everything Including Certain Ideas of
American Literary Independence, and Mr..
Joseph Hergesheimer.
BY DONALD ADAMS.

the dangers and giories Of blue
water"
What moro fortnight encourage
ment to the young Nebraska intel
lectuals Of to-day or tomorrow could
be given than these words OF Emer-
son: "Meek young men grow UP in
libraries, believing it their duty to ac-
cept the views which Cicero. which
Locke, which Bacon have given; for
getful that Cicero. Locke and Bacon
were only young men In libraries
when they wrote those books" 81. L.
Mencken could find no fault with that
advice.
Because Emerson and Hawthorne
wrote in the pure English tongue.
does it make them the less American
in spirit? They didn't write in Amer
ican because there was as vet no
wide differentiation between or own
speech and that OF England. 1t is
hard to think of THE Scarlet Letter"
or "The Great Stone Face" in terms
Of Gardnerian English, but were
these stories feeble echoes OF British
literature because Of that?
The point OF view which credits
American letters with having sprung
new born from the soil Of Kansas
and Illinois reminds us of the con-
temporary furor over ,petting parties.
There are those who would have US
believe them peculiar to the rolled
stocking period, and yet we recall
quaint practice among the Colonial
settlers of this country, which went
by the name OF bundling. 1t is true
that Faith and Hope and Prudence,
who went on these bundling parties,
knew neither lipstick nor rouge, but
the essentials, we gather, were the
same.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Literary Pilgrimages
at Home and Abroad

house was described as follows:
THE former grandeur OF the locality
is gone, the air shriu with the rush
and clatter of the elevated trains,
the clang OF cable bells. the rattle Of
heavily laden trucks, tho surround
ing streets are griny and dirty. but
the old house attracts and holds at
tention by its sedate dignity. The
original builder. or the architect who
designed il, probably changed his
plans more than once In the course
Of building. II is supported by three
tall, rude columns OF stone and
stucco. The windows of the second
story are thrown In shadow by the
peculiar curve of the upper balcony.
From the State street sidewalk stone
steps lead up TO tho entrance on
both sides. Over the iron railing is
the gilded cross OF the mission"
To-day a little more noise, little
more congestion, little more dirt
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Emerson's Part.

TTAvE we forgotten--but we
have-an address delivered
by Emerson in 1887 before
the Phi Beta Kappa Society. which
he called "The American Scholar"
That speech was the first clear call
60 build a literature OF our own. II
told Americans that they need no
longer be initiative, that they had
only 10 rise TO the level Of their op-
portunities and their responsibilities
and their literature would rise with
them.
Lowell wrote afterward. 1--WE were
stin socially and Intellectually moorel
to English thought TIL Emerson cut
the cable and gave US a chance at
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

" to be unpleasant. We got
so irritated and indignant
over two matters we had in mind to
write about that we have decided We
may as well rid our system of as
much spleen as possible in the space
allotted to US, in the hope that next
week we may be positively jovial.
First Of all, we have grown tired
OF hearing that American writer's
are only beginning to see the possi-
bilities Of this country as literary
material. We have grown tired of
seeing the members of the old New
England group patted on the back
and dismissed as a lot of pleasant
old fogies, who made some nice
parlor literature from European
models, but whose value has been
much overestimated. 1t has been
much overestimated and overempha-
sized in it's relation to the literature
of the rest of the world, but not in
its bearing on our own.
School children grow up regarding
that early group with an indiscrimi-
nate and disproportionate veneration.
Whittier, Longfellow. Holmes, Emer-
son, Hawthorne, Lowell-they are
thrown together and set up like
frieze OF equal deities. They were
not that, but some of them did con-
tribute to the growth Of a truly
American literature, and one of them,
at least, was a great man.
Stephen Graham, in the Posts
Literary Review last week, is the
latest writer TO do his bit toward
isolating that group from the main
current of our development. THE
New England tradition" he says. ''is
passing. Emerson. Thoreau. Whittier,
Holmes and many others were nearer
to England than the great American
writers OF to-day. The purity of
language. the asceticism OF thought,
the severity of judgment OF the great
New England writer's belong to the
Old World rather than to the New
World with its providential bless
ings."
1t is true that the New England
tradition is passing and that those
who labor TO keep it alive are un-
touched by the vigorous currents in
American letters to-day, but It was
this same New England group who
helped to swing us into the vigorous
currents in which we find ourselves
to-day.
Thoreau and Emerson were Just
as indigenous as Vachel Lindsay and
Sherwood Anderson. SO was Haw-
thorne. They were more narrowly
indigenous, perhaps, but they could
not have written as they did any
where but in the United States. Can
you picture Thoreau living in the
6DbliSu ldiNC CoAlAtA - hAAtAAo Uo-
den" there?
Holmes. to be sure, was not a big
literary figure at all. lie was per-
sonality, a very urbane and Boston
ian DR.. johnson, who wrote very
ordinary stuff. AS a matter of fact,
who now reads anything that john
son wrote?
Walt Whitman is often given the
credit for having been the emanci-
pator, the fearless cutter Of apron
strings. AS a matter of fact he got
most OF his stimulus from Emerson.
lie Is stepped in Emerson's ideas.
Did 1t make Emerson less an
American force because he saturated
himself in Greek and German PHI
Iosophers? Is the preoccupation OF
some OF our most "native" intel
Iectuals with Nietzsche and Freud n
sign of their 100 per cent. Ameri-
canism?
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Cytherea.

SytucI Co
DETTING parties bring us very
naturally to Joseph Herges-
heimer's new book. 'Cytherea"
(Knopf). Some. VIC know, would
protest the connection. It has been
proclaimed from some quarters that
this is a novel which deals seriously
and deeply with the problem OF con-
temporary marriage. 1t has been
called "a notable book, both as a psy-
Geological and sociological study" Il
is, in our opinion. nothing OF the
kind.
We had hoped to find ground for
enthusiasm in Mr.. Hergesheimers
book. It's better fun being enthu-
siastic than it is to be fault finding,
and besides wo thought better Of Mr..
Hergesheimer. If this 'Cytherea'
were the work Of q new writer We
might be content just to forget about
it, but because the author IS being
talked about as Americas foremost
novelist and this work is being ac-
cepted loosely and illogically as a
piece of him at his best we want to
say much more about It.
The stuff Of ''Cytherea" Is badly
this. Lee Random, O middle aged
business man with cultural leanings,
Is vaguely tired Of his wife. He
doesn't at first realize 1t, but what he
wants is another woman. Fanny has
become too much the mother OF his
children, the guardian OF his COM
fort. He finds the new woman in
Savina Grove. married, middle aged
and sex starved. They run of to-
gether to Cuba, where Savina dies
and where Lee apparently elects to
stay.
Mr.. Hergesheimer throws I'm a
country club background. q profusion
of cocktails, mach talk OF legs and
a great show of motivation for what
his people do.
We say people. They arc not that,
really. Lee Ranion is just somebody
tormented by desire which the au-
thor makes out to be moro vague
than there is any real need for.
That is practically tho sum OF all
we ever learn about him. Savina
Grove is Just a lecherous lady who
finally has to let herself go. There
is more reality to the figure OF his
wife, cold though she Is There Is no
substance whatever to the minor
figures in the book. Nina Raft. the
motion picture actress. might be .
girl on magazine cover.
Cytherea, the doll that Les RAN
don bought in q confectioner's shop,
because OF n mysterious quality IL
held for him. Is as near to flesh and
blood as they. And this business OF
the doll, which you can dignity by
calling II fetichism II you want to.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

the most honest analysts OF sit
uation.'
1t was an hour or so after these
musings OF Randon's that he and
Savina embrace, and Savina shouts.
81 want to be outraged"
"She should have said that, he
realized unutterably sad. long ago,
to William Grove. But, instead, she
had told him. and, whatever the con-
sequences might be, he must meet
them"
Really, Mr.. Hergesheimer, You
don't deserve to get away with il.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

Free Verse.
"HEODORB MAYNARD, in
The Yale Rcricr, has stated
the case against free verse
with admirable clarity in an article
called "The Fallacy of Tree Verse"
And what he has to say holds good
Of certain manifestations in other
arts than poetry.
1.-THE artist" he points out. is no
longer concerned with the impossi-
bic but happy task Of capturing alb
solute beauty: he does not believe in
absolute beauty. Consequently, he
is thrown back upon himself, and
must use as the material of his art
not reality, but his personal reac-
tions to the unsubstantial phenom-
ena of appearances. He gives up in
despair the ancient ambitions of his
craft and confines himself to the
narrowing circle of his own ego. 1t
is terrible fate, but one that has. at
present, the delusive attraction OF
novelty.
'nThe vers librists renounce the
hope Of perfection. And yet they
have performed an exceedingly use
full service to literature - one for
which we should be grateful-they
have carried out the dead. The
vogue OF the loose and the senti-
mental and the decorative is over"
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

TKY E are determined this week
wv to be unpleasant. We got
sn ii.ritatnd and indinnant
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L0RTON NEWS

I On Monday. February 18th, Mr.
J. Sidney Wiley visited Richmond
Va, where he passed over the hot
sands of the desert, in being initiated
in the order Of the Mystic Shrine
He returned home on the following
day
). Mrs. Charles Waddell has returned
from a visit with her parents, IN
Eugene, Oregon.
I. Mr.. Leo Beach was recently ap-
pointed postmaster at Camp Hump
hreys, Va.
The usual meeting of the Monday
Evening Club was held in the man,
Office of the female department o.
the Workhouse on Monday evening
with an attendance OF 81 Mr.. u.
H. Pugh was in charge OF The
meeting current events were given
and short talks on the life Of Lin
. coln were made by Superintendent
Mover, Rev. J. w. Beall and SIR
Pugh. Mr.. Beall then gave a talk on
the "League of Nations" After the
programme was completed, refresh,
ments were served.
Mrs J. H. Madara and Mrs. John
Clancy were callers in Occoquar
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Meyer had as their
guests over Sunday two Of Mr.
Meyers sisters from Washington, ID
c.
Mrs. T. ]. McCollum and Mrs. +
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purchased a new Ford Sedan.

purchased a new Ford Sedan.
Mr.. and, Mrs H: IF. Green were
visiting homefolks in Washington,
Tuesday evening.
There will be dance on Thursday
evening in the Lyric Theater, given
by a few Of the men belonging to
the Lorton and Occoquan Club Mu
sic will be furnished by an orchestra
from Washington.
Miss Meta Fuchs will go over to
Annapolis this week end where she
will attend the hops. She will be en-
tertained by friends while there.
Mrs. T. w. Murton, of Washington.
D. c., is the house guest Of Mrs. II.
H. Green, for several days.
Mr.. F G. Davis is indisposcd at his
home on Ok Road.
Mrs. Charles Fuchs and little
daughter, Jeanette, spent Friday
night as the guest of Mrs. /. A.
Green. in Occoquan.
At the Lyric Theatre on Saturday.
the is, Walter Niebuhr presents +.
K. Lincoln, in "The Inner Voice"
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P. McCollum and children were visit
ing friends in Washington, Monday.
Mrs. T. T. Marshall spent the
week end in Washington, d. T.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. I. Dolph who are
spending several weeks in Washing
ton, came our to their home for the
week end.
There will be a meeting of the
Bridge Club on Friday afternoon at
tho home of Mrs. Fred lIynson, in
Occoouan. Quite q few who are not
members have also been invited.
Mrs +. ]. Coffin and daughter.
Miss Mary Frank, spent Tuesday in
Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Martin Dunn. Mrs. George \.
Dunn. of Gum Springs, and Mrs. J.
w. Anderson, of Accotink, were
guests Of Mrs. Kenneth Dove on
Thursday Mrs. Dove also had as
her guests for dinner on Saturday
evening Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Da-
Wis and Mrs. +. G. Davis.
Mrs. Arthur Petit continues i'll at
her home on Ok Road, suffering
from severe cold.
There were good attendance at The
business meeting Of the Lorton and
Occoquan dancing Club which was
held Friday evening al the home OF
Mrs Corbin Thompson, at Wood
bridge, Va. After disposing of bust
ness there was dancing for few
hours. Delightful refreshments were
served.
Mrs. r. r. McCollum has recently
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Fredericksburg-A capture Of fifty
four gallons of corn whisky, two o1ot
leggers and Studebaker roadster
was made yesterday by Chief Of Po-
lice S. B. Perry and Officer Catletr
Jenkins, when the rum-runners at
tempted to cross over the city hrldS'
which spans the Rappahannocls River
here, en- route North. When surprised
at the gate by the officers, the men
made an attempt to resist arrest.
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They were taken to a detention cell
at headquarters and jailed until trial
for violation of the State prohibition
law. The men gave names OF c. NJ
Atwood and A L. Kitchen, of Peters