The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-10

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do for you, how the committee on athletic
works. how the library is used and so OF
and on.
After Eton came years of sojourn trave
and study, in Germany, Italy, France an,
England preparation for Cambridge. and
regular round of examinations for tn
diplomatic service. For England does no
admit her sons to the Foreign Office. viii
its many exits and possibilities, solely OF
the basis Of being able to prove tina
"Tannhaeuser" is banal music as compared
with "Parsifal," or that Adam Bede" i.
a perfect book. Maurice Barring was /
miserable mathematician; nor was he alto
sether a genius in geography: nor wer,
his ideas OF political economy academicall,
sound; his history was rickety; his Ger
man was unstable. He was Obliged. il
other words. 10 cram. coach, grind flag
supplicate and entreat 10 get into tn,
diplomatic service. He finally made it he
cause OF some sudden and quite unexpected
vacancies. But what a wealth OF aesthetic
he became attache at Paris under Sin
Edmund Monson. then Ambassador
The usual took place; after serving al Z
number Of posts-Paris. Petrograd. Rome
Copenhagen-he decided that life in the
diplomatic corps is what you make it, II
you put your heart into it. you viii IL
light hearted. II not. not Maurice BARNS
concluded to throw it all overheard. except
the memories. and revert 20 pure Iitera-
ture. For him it was the only safe exit
because his knowledge Of letters and mer
81 letters-when he went to Russia il
ls0i-was probably as intimate and pro.
found as that OF any other subject Of tn,
United Kingdom. And this enbarrasse.
his reviewer II he emphasizes some par.
ticuiar phase Of his puppet show the reader
Is apt to believe that that is one of it,
stag sections. This. is not true: the WORK
Is equally meritorious throughout. unles.
i be the longish chapter devoted to forma
beer drinking in Germany This is an old
story. a worn story and one that no longe,
has the attraction it had when students
Of this country flocked to the Fatherland
having been assured by their instructors
who probably never were beer-inspired in
their drab lives-that II they would onl,
90 to Germany and drink the beer theh
Threats would Immediately adapt them
selves to the Teutonic gutturals. compli
Gated syntax would come easy and tn,
polysyllabic compounds would seem I,
them like mere CALCULATIONS of the soul.
Otherwise the book is book of proverbs
Of judges IN art; Of psalms to the meanins
Of imaginative chefs doeuUre: or revela
tons concerning the ways of those who's,
works we real. rather unmindful OF thei
names and insensible to the experiences
they went through before being in a posi-
ton 70 haul up before their publishers an,
hand over their manuscripts on what seen
like automatic subjects. Maurice BARNS
| jotted down the 400 odd pages of thi
spiritual thesaurus without having ever il
his life kept diary. He rejoices now i,
his apparent shiftlessness. for ne state
that only those incidents in a mans lif
are worth printing which memory itsel
retains. Solomon with all his wisdom neve
1 spoke more wisely. He says the Shake
spearean productions he saw in Copen
hagen were far more remarkable" tina
any he ever saw in Berlin, and thereby re
veals the fact that he is the discriminatin
Judge of dramatic art. He read whe
almost an infant Vernon Lees The Prime
of the Hundred Soups" and says of thi
forgotten work what David might hay
said in praise of the armies of the Lor
after routing the Philistines
Nor IS ne a stranger to the ways Z
Jeremiah or afraid to indulge in lamenta
tions. While still at Elton he decided tina
some OF Rider Haggards works are tras