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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-30
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-30
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utilities to transact business in Kan
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Of the Wichita Natural Gas com
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Henry L. Doherty Is the owner OF
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-30

physician friend suggests that
We say something In this column
about--"what TO DO when the doc
tor goes"
The New York herald., 1922-01-15
Hergesheimer Dresses a Doll

middle years, and. with no definite ef-
feet upon the reader of either charm
or virility. It's chief actuations and
episodes, which are backgrounded by
minor characters of a rather faint and
exceedingly trite marionetti order
deal exclusively with two calmly de-
serted wives and two presumptive
noisome divorce cases. Yet "Cytherea,"
with its capable. forceful drawing of
one absorbing woman character and it's
unexpected and profoundly sensitized
Conclusion has probably climbed
higher and plumbed deeper than any
previous novel by this earnest writer.
"Once in" and any reader, even the
most average" who is either intelli-
gent or conscientious, will surely con-
tinue, despite the startling spaces of
arid inactivity and monotony, to the
interesting rewards of the books au-
thentic, powerful high lights and
that "once in is swiftly and refresh
ingly accomplished by the author. for
no device in any recent book has, in
my opinion, surpassed in originality
The New York herald., 1922-01-15

TIME action Of Canada in making
Bliss Carman poet laureate. of
Nebraska in giving the same
title to John G. Neihardt and of
Michigan and other Western universi-
ties in offering a certain amount of
material support to various American
poets raises anew the question of a
nations duty to it's creative artists
Not that a few thousand dollars are of
much account in this land of heaped- up
material riches. But that the money
should go to poets and mere makers
of literature, There seems to be
something un-American about that. 1t
is a departure from the traditional
policy Of starving the poet to death
for the good of his soul
America, it appears is beginning to
realize that her ldiSsee taire attitude
toward literature Preserving the right
to censor it when it runs counter to
certain popular taboos) is not the very
best one after all. OF course a few
men will always smash through in
spite of the devil, just as few flowers
in a neglected garden will attain a
rich bloom in spite of the weeds. But
If one wants a fine garden one must
cultivate it. And If a nation would
have a fine garden of literature II
must cultivate that, too. Europe has
realized this for a long time. Many
small European nations, whose wealth
is not tithe of our own, have devoted
large sums from the public treasury
to aid literary men and artists.
The Scandinavian countries, for in
stance, whose total population is less
than 100000. and whose contribu-
tions to modern literature have been
so great, have always given liberal
support to their writer's. The most
generous supporter of literature,
though, is little Iceland, the hyper
borean island commonwealth half way
between Europe and America. In pro-
portion to population Iceland has
probably done more for literature than
any country on earth. Her citizens
number not quite 100000 persons, less
than 1-L000 of the population of the
United States. They are mostly fish
ermen and farmers, scattered in small
villages about a difficult coast. Means
of communication and transportation
are not very good. and the comforts
of our mechanical civilization are few.
One would not suppose that such
place would do much in the way of
supporting a literary or artistic cul-
ture. Yet that little island common
wealth gave us the Icelandic sagas and
the Eddas. and in our day has pro-
duced poets and playwrights and
The New York herald., 1922-01-15

CYTHEREA. By Joseph Hergesheimer
Alfred A. Knopf.
THIS notably aesthetic and pleas
ing title, together with the au-
thor's reputation, would invite
even a reader whose personal taste
had not yet been seriously Herges-
heimered. Certainly unless he were
a conscientious reader he would be
apt to skip certain rather heavy pages.
Yet he would be happily surprised
more than once, more than twice, by
the books sudden. great and outstand-
ing virtues, which lift the rather
curious product, not in moments but
through long and gratifying stretches,
undeniably beyond the level Of most
current books of fictipn.
To tell In miniature the slender, bald
plot of "Cytherea" would be as gray
and preJudicial in effect as to describe
slender bald man. For its "hero" is
most prosaic in personality, beyond
The New York herald., 1922-01-15
REVIEWS OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS
WITH NEWS AND VIEWS OF AUTHORS

handicrafts as well as agriculture. 1t
was from one of the schools founded
under this heritage that the venerable
man whose historical writings bear
witness to Irelands claims as the
bringer Of civilization and Chris
tianity to England.
Among the glimpses we have of
Irish life in the dark ages of Europe
is it's enormous wealth, particularly as
represented by the wonderful collec-
ton of golden ornaments in the Royal
Irish Academy in Dublin, which in
cludes 500 articles weighing 572
ounces. This Irish wealth of gold
is one of the unsolved mysteries of
Irish history" and how great it was
is shown by the fact that the en-
tire collection of such objects in the
British Museum from all England,
Ireland and Wales only weighs twenty
ounces. Mr.. Fitzpatrick also gives
us picture of the order of chivalry
in ancient Ireland called the Fianna,
or Fenians, whose requirements would
put our Boy Scouts on their mettle.
A member of this order "had to be
able to ward off with his shield the
spears of his adversaries, hurling them
simultaneously; to be able to fly
through forests without losing his
braided locks or breaking a branch:
to jump over branch as high as his
forehead and stoop under one as low
as his heel while running at full speed.
and to pluck a thorn from his foot
while so doing"
w. b. MCCORMICK.
The New York herald., 1922-01-15

glacier came TO Scandinavia and went
its way again. Tradition begins 10
take on some semblance of the real
Germund and Gevn are the man and
woman around whom the story turns
Bereft of his mate the Viking joins
the Norman hordes on conquest bent
in lands where the sun shines con-
stantly during the day and where
night is as warm as Scandinavia in
the heat of summer. "The Ship" is a
panegyric in honor of the pillaging of
foreign lands, the carrying away of
rich booty and attending adventures
We are now no more than a thousand
years from the present. The adven-
turous dwellers of the north set their
course toward the land of immortality
as they had conceived it to be. His
tory speaks in generalities with re-
gard to the real purpose of the sons
of Lodbrog on their Viking quest
southwark. Jensen writes: with
their sixty-two ships they started
toward the south, through the Chan
mel, turned their backs on Englands
precipitous heights and were greeted
on the opposite side by cliffs no less
imposing, the gateways to France
sight that for the moment was lost on
them. True enough, kingdoms were
to be founded here, but there was al
ways time enough to get back to that.
Much more important things were be-
fore them. Not just fragments on
the outskirts of the world. but the
very centre Itself. the great 'Midgaard'
i'm the east where. mountains of gold
rose up in eternal. indestructible sun
shine"
THE first they saw of Italy" writes
Jensen. was beautiful mountains in
many colors and sprinkled with white
flakes that looked like glaciers. but
proved to be marble. A clay colored
river had its outlet between low cliffs.
A mile outside II changed the color Of
the ocean and pointed the way for the
Vikings. The river they took to be the
Tiber. and. of course. the first big city
to which they came could not be any
other than the very world city. Romel
To capture II would at last be an enter
prise worth whilel"
The Vikings had heard that the key
was in the possession of "the vassal
OF the white Christ" But the place
they had reached was not Rome. but
Luna, at that time a large and beau
tiful citys constructed almost exclu-
siveiy of marble from the nearby Car
rara. Its white splendor dazzled the
eyes of the Mortimer. Never before
had they seen anything approaching It.
In his description of the capture OF
Luna, Jensen has drawn largely upon
the chronicles of the famous Dudo, who
wrote nearly a century following the
event. Almost for the first time in
The Long Journey" does religion as
practiced around the Mediterranean
come into contact with the heather Of
The New York herald., 1922-01-15

| the north. The authors cynicism is
here given full rein. And yet it is
not as a scoffer that we must set down
Johannes V. Jensen. Rather il is
hypocrisy that he attacks with his in
cisive pen. The Brother Parvus that
he introduces later on in the narrative
is character full of lovableness.
Brother Parvus struck root in the
northland. He worked marvels among
the simple folk. The little bell that
he brought with him as his constant
companion became in time of won
drous size and the summoner to SER
vice of the many who embraced Chris
| tianity. 1t is the future Copenhagen
that Jensen describes as the home OF
the Danish fishermen in that long ago.
Shipping and trade and industry took
their beginning. The sway of sOdin
grew less and less. As for Brother
Parvus, when death called him after
he had attained the miter of the Arch
bishop, II was his great regret that he
should pass away without having suf-
fered martyrdom. mot a northman,
no matter how much of a heather.
would have thought for moment OF
touching a hair on the head of TIE
little good natured wise man"
Johannes v. Jensen is too much OF
an artist and too little of a historian
to have deceived himself into believing
that in making his final volume of
"The Long Journey" deal with Column
bus he could present document of
historic merit. That was not the task
he set himself. But he has informed
the figure OF Americas discoverer with
life
OF course. Christopher Columbus
could not be other than of Scandi-
navian ancestry! That Jensen avows
with feryor The migratory fever of
the northmen carried them from the
old forgotten shores around the Baltic
to the Mediterranean. and il was for
Columbus to continue the history of
discovery.
I'm the person of Columbus" says
Jensen. "the nature longing of the
heather unites with the Fata Nor
gana of Christianity--and both go to
joint destructionl II we conceive him
as the hero in a tragedy of fate. where
the elements are too much for him. we
might say of Columbus that he is the
first modern man, the first godfor-
saken individual; he makes space and
reality take the place of the mental
bondage and superstition Of the mid
die age. Bur later times depend on
achievements that came after him:
other heads schooled in theories that
he did not possess broke down the
image in which he believed, and made
TIE world larger"
Jensen will have IL that the legend
of the Flying Dutchman belongs by
right to the career Of Columbus Santa
Maria, that is the ship. ana Columbus
the outlawed soul OF the mariner who
The New York herald., 1922-01-15
Jenens Great Five Volume Prose Epic Of Complete

ton of this theory. But before Amer
lea is discovered the onetime tropics
of northern Europe have turned to ice
and snow, and then become temperate
zones; heathenism and cannibalism
Eave been succeeded by mythology
and Christianity; the Vikings have
gone forth on their voyages of pillage
and discovery; millions of years
have been passed in review. and after
all has been told there remains in
memory the outstanding fact that
Man and Woman in whatever era and
under whatever circumstance are the
rulers of destiny and the only factors
that count.
Some twenty years ago leading
Danish critic described Johannes V.
Jensen as having a great deal in COM
mon with Knut Hamsun and the Pole.
Przybyszewski, not only in that he was
typical of his generation. but because
of his chaotic, fantastic blending Of
barbarous bloodthirstiness and tender
sentiment. In some of his earlier
books, like "The Danes" and "Elnar
Elkaer," Jensen shows the effect or
Nietzsche's doctrine on university
student brought up in a religious at
mosphere on a farm. His Unborn feel
ings and preconceptions were first torn
asunder, but he rose later into a rare
fed sphere purified and possessed of a
clearer understanding of existence.
On the foundation of his personal
experience Jensen built up The Long
Journey" Primitive man in his relation
to his Maker, nature as the elemental
force for good or evil, the struggle for
existence and the survival of the fit
test. fire as the overpowering factor
these and other elements fascinate the
reader as he follows the career of his
ancestors through heat and cold, on
land and sea. IL Is a narrative open
to controversy, no doubt, from the
scientific point of view. AS a piece
of fiction writing IL ought to make
place for itself in any language into
which The Long Journey" may ulti-
mately be translated from the Danish.
The vastness of the material before
the reviewer necessitates brevity with
respect'to the volumes preceding "The
Ship" and "Ctristoffer Columbus" In
The Glacier" there are passages that
burn themselves into the mind with
that incisiveness that only the Arctic
explorer exposed to the elemental fury
of eternal winter can fully realize.
The Glazier" has as its subtitle
Myths About the Age of Ice and the
First Man" The Lost Country" tells
of the discovery of fire as the friend
of man-how "Fyr," the hero, broke
away from his tribe. how he was sac
rificed that Cunning Api might be ap-
peased in his wrath. What matter
though Fyr had initiated them into the
secret of making hunting weapons
from the stone. though IL was due to
him that cooked meat became their
The New York herald., 1922-01-15

food instead of raw flesh and fish and
creeping things eaten alive. Cunning
Api had spoken! Must not the offer
ing be commensurate with the ma ajes. "
of the ruler of them all?
"a whole forest of animals would
not suffice to satisfy his craving, a spe-
cial. costly dish must be served, and
suddenly the thought runs through
them all that it is Fyr himself that the
fire is after." This is one Of the peaks
of Jensen's satire.
In THE Glacier" there is still much
about the forest people before the COM
ing of that fearsome transition from
the tropical to the bitter cold. Here II
is Dreng who is the heroic character,
the progenitor of the hardy race that
conquered the wild horses and brought
the fever of migration to the youths
of the land. Skins of animals now be-
gin to clothe nude forms. Already the
atmosphere portends the coming of a
climate different from anything known
heretofore. The trees of the forest are
made into the first ships that ever
sailed the seas. Timbered huts take
the place of dwelling in cave or under
ground.
After the glacial period had had its
millions of years man found himself
on the road to a new existence. In
Morn Guest" family life takes on a
different complexion. Here Johannes
V. Jensen uses his own Denmark as
background. There are some wonder
full passages indicative of the restful-
ness characteristic of the Danish land
scape at this day. His familiarity with
everything that grows in field and
fcrest, the relations between Guest and
Phi, his mate, the whole scenario un-
rolls itself before the eyes as the au-
thor's song of glory. because now man
has attained to his estate, has reached
plane where human existence begins
in real earnest.
The time has also come when mans
conception of Deity Is not confined
solely to the forces of nature, but looks
further for some explanation of him
self and his environment In THE Rid
die of the Untve.se' Haeckel speaks
of the uneducated lnember OF a civil
lied community surrounded with
countless enigmas at every step. Just
as truly as the savage" And further
on we read that "for thousands of
years humanity has placed the last and
supreme basis of all phenomena I'm an
efficient cause. to which It gives the
title of God -fDeus Theos)."
It is no wonder that the people of
the stone age seized upon the visible
for the purpose of worship. The COM
ing of Christianity was fraught with
many doubts and the old godheads did
not submit gracefully to destruction.
II is the era Of the Viking now. and
the open sea and far off countries be-
gin to beckon. Thousands upon thou
sands Of years have passed since the
The New York herald., 1922-01-15

and charm Mr.. Hergesheimer's sud-
den plunge, on the early page II, into
his episode of the doll-the "Cytherea
which is the supposed symbol but
really the fetish of the story.
Every descriptive reference to the
piquant toy figure is so captivating,
made with such firm authority. that
one sometimes wishes the whole con-
text We're dominated by 1t after the
first picturesque lines:
The doll, beautifully dfessed in the
belled skirt of the eighteen forties,
wore plum colored silk with a bodice
and wide short sleeves of pale yellow
and crossed on the breast a strip of
black Spanish lace that fell to the hem
OF the skirt. 1t wasn't, of course, the
clothes that attracted him, but
the willful charm. the enigmatic fasci-
nation of the still face. The eyes were
long and half closed under finely
arched brows, there was a minute
patch at the right corner of a pale
scarlet, smiling mouth a pointed chin
marked an elusive oval beneath black
hair drawn down upon long, slim
neck. hair to which was pinned an
odd headdress of old gilt with. at the
back, pendant ornamental strands of
gold glass beads"
The source of my chief discomfort in
reading the book is the excruciating
taste Of the episode, utterly meaning
less, vulgar, and untrue, of the young
Southern wife, nefariously kissing the
hero on the stairs the first time she
l.; I,o Io-
husband! AS a geographically repre-
sentative Southern type, for which she
seems intended, she doesn't hold one
tear; for there amt no such animal;
while, oppositely, no authors casual
thumbnail touch, en- pdSsdnt, could be
more discerning, more ingratiating,
than, far on in the curiously uneven
book, the brief reference to Mrs. Dav-
encott, the Bostonian.
1t is with a thrill OF totally startled
interest that, well over a third through
the book, namely, on page $50 in
volume of less than 400 pages, one
comes upon the living" Cytherea, the
then and thereafter completely alb
sorbing Mrs. Grove. The vivid yet re-
strained. intimate yet dignified draw
ing of her builds a character of dis
tinguishment that can be known only
at first hand; and. still later, it is as
keen delight, and perhaps A healthier
one, to find in the sudden yet amply
faceted catastrophe a thoughtful sad
ness that, because of the genuine love
that has been, leaves no bitter taste.
but rather a hopeful, almost satisfied
instinct that Mr.. Hergesheimer, with
out tendency to initiate" yet is
striving to rightly emulate men of our
time who are recognizedly greater
than he. HORACE FISH.
The New York herald., 1922-01-15
Ireland as a Civilizer

not isubsist between Ireland and any
Other country. In both these countries
of Britain there were Irish military
conquests and political settlements as
weh as Irish cultural and missionary
enterprises, and both Wales and Scot
land endured for centuries as Irish
provinces, colonies and political de-
tendencies. Among the English the
work of the medieval Irishmen .partook
more exclusively of the character OF
Ipsh missionary and cultural work on
the Continent Nevertheless, the rela-
tfons between Ireland and England In
that era were relations of a special
and peculiar kind. and If England be-
fore the so-called Norman Conquest
was not a political dependency of Ire
land it was in a true sense a moral
and intellectual dependency"
To those learned in Irish history
it cannot be said that Mr.. Fitzpat-
rick's text presents any new matter.
It's great merit lies in the fact that
it here assemblies facts relating to
Ireland's contribution to the making
of Britain as the English nation from
widely scattered sources, most of
which are unknown to the general
reader. He carries his readers back
into an age so remote as to appear
legendary to most of us, as when he
says that Armagh 1.-THE great Irish
SCHOOL,, founded three centuries be-
fore Bagdad, was. in 1869, -. /.
erected into national university for
all Ireland and all Scotland" And
of hovu Ir;cI, fov,i1iao v,o rto of fbic
long and unbroken chain of history
this author cites the case of the De-
cies family-the present head of
which married daughter of George
j. Gould-who having been defeated
by the High King, Cormac, mac Art
t226-266 A. d., left their old holdings
in Deece, near Tara, and, dividing,
went part to Decies in Munster, which
still bears their name"
AS indicated in the preface. Mr..
Fitzpatrick only refers briefly to the
work of the early Irish missionaries
on the Continent, in northern Italy
and France, in the Low Countries and
in Germany, from which time the
town of st. Gall In Switzerland still
comes down to us bearing the name
of an Irish saint by whose people that
city was founded. His chief interest
lies in showing how Ireland carried
her evangel of religion and culture
to Scotland, England and Wales by
means of missionaries. who followed
up their religious teachings by found
ing such great centers as Iona and
Lindisfarne, wherein were taught the
arts and sciences and all the homely