New-York tribune., 1922-04-30

about Santayana at Harvard, and how
Santayanai usually the ascetic asthctc,
hsd once reported Il Harvard football
game IN graceful journalese for The
Daily Crimson" Read tho May
"Bookman,' which contains q batch of
gooc things, including an analysis Of
the minds OF the critics by Edward f.
Paramore jr., Z letter from Hugh Wal
pole denying that the English arc in a
conspiracy of silence against American
literature, an essay by Stuart p. Sher-
man on "Disraeli,' and still more
interesting (and rcvclatory) letter by
Sherman, a satire on the New York
literary groups, and an anonymous ar
ticle on Joseph Ncrgesheimer
APRIL 25
MAXWELL PERKINS at luncheon
" corrected my impression that j.
P. Marquand was married. He's only
engaged To a Boston Back Bay girl.
They don't do these things SO quickly
in Back Bay" He told nc
that Scribner's is to bring out q vol
umo Of Huneker's letters IN the fall,
and said that ne had always been
afraid of the last chapter in "Steeple-
jack" but he hadn't found any one who
had read it. We talked about the little
tragedy of once popular writer's like
Harold McGrath and George Barr Nc
Cutcheon, who had been crowded far
in the background by the newer men.
and how mono Of them except Turkng-
ton had oriented himself to the newer
fashion and point of View. AL
fred Knopf put hts town car and chauf-
feur at my disposal for the afternoon
for drive in the country. Tom
Smith, most prodigal Of hosts, had II.
L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan,
Ernest Boyd and myself to dinner.
Frank Adams aud Peter Toohey dropped
in later. We discussed philology, boot
leggers, polygamy, Hcrgesheimer
newspapers, Won Bayros, burlesque and
parody, and then told blue stories
Mencken said was wrong about his
insensitiveness to style, in witness
whereto he offered that he had intro
duced Dunsany to American readers.
"By which process Of rcasoning," an
swered, "Lee Keedick is an aesthet-
clan. He introduced to Americans
Blasco 1banez and Rabindranath Ta-
gore
APRIL IS
EREDERICK 4. STOKES had me to
lunch at the University Club and
showed me through the club library,
certainly the most attractive and best
arranged repository of books have
ever seen. in the chess room we
ran into Frank NJ, Colby, the gentle iron
list Of "lmaginary Obligations' and "The
Margin of Hesjtation," who told nc he
does most of his work in Che club H.
brary when he is in the city. .
Charles Hcnrotin jr.. overh caring me
say that | was formerly a Chicaroan.
came over and chatted for a bit and
told me Of the serious illness Of his
philanthropic mother, who spent 50
many years in the establishment and
development Of the Juvenile court and
Of the boys home in Chicago. :.
Arthur Cotton, the librarian, is Justly
proud of his domain Nv
Stokes told NE that the manuscript of
an unpublished novel by Jane Austen
had been found In England called Love
. and Friendship" and that his company
is to bring it ont in The fall.
lie also told me an amusing anecdote
about how Scott Fitzgerald. during q
conversation with Robert Bridges, had
leaned over and plucked hair from,
Dr. Bridges beard with the comment
that it was gray, and how the dignifjod
gentlemen had heeu so nonplusged bv
TINS amazing performance that he did
not demonstrate until Fitzgerald had
plucked ont six hairs. lie also
told mo that Balietf had described at
the Dutch Treat club, hor he had tried
for three hours to make Trotzky smile.
without success, and we agreed that the
most pathetic Of all human creatures
Is perhaps the man who is incapable Of
responding to hU N or Al
Dorbon-Aine l bought the hitherto un
published fragments Of the Journal des