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New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
The Magic of Mr.. Cabell
BY Thomas Caldecot Chubb

superlstiyely ut home in sperlod where
least made pretence of respecting.
But it seems not; it seems that the
ege of gallantry in some respects
went beyond what Mr.. Cabel required
for tho purposes Of fiction, and that,
therefore. for once, this supreme of
romanticsts actually did romanticize.
think that Ormskirk and de Puysange
and even dc Soyecourt~one expects
Audaine, who. being q Jacobite, wss
fine fool and capable of any chivalric
gestures--at least certain of their
momcnta would have troubled their
creator to find models.
And then, having said that much. [
must change my direction. suppose
it is true, as those who arc not so
fortunate contend, that we Cabellans
have completely lost our sense Of pro
portion; the man has somewhere com
msndcd magic and, at its behest, VIC
who have yielded must find cxtrava-
gances to utter. For discover myself
saying that nowhere out of his own
pages do 7 know where to find better
stories than three Of these: "Simon's
Hour" and "rhe Rhyme to Porringer'
and "The Scapegoats." Two of them
for sheer force, and the one between
them for bewitchng loveliness,"t have
premonition will deprive me or more
hours than 7 dare to think Of read
ing them over and over.
Yes, truly the man has found a
charm to cast over us. But it is of
his own making.
There is one partiGasA nr thing further
that can be said of ~Gallantry." To
an unusual decree in this book, even
for one who considers it matter Of
fair Importance, has he found q felic
ity Of phrasings. When he speaks of
chat lack of commons sense which pre-
eminently distinguishes all our neigh
bors from ourselves" when lie says
"The largest footman but one removed
Mr.. Erwyn's cup" when Captain
Humphrey Dsgge, the "vilain," with
20 lord, sir, surely you forget the
devil is a gentleman" and, in re-
viewers argot, merely "select at ran
dom"-you are aware that you have
come upon writer who possesses a
variety of dexterties.
Imitation is generally regarded as
very high among the orders of fiat
terry. In cases like this you give MIR.
Cabell the higher one of wishing that
you had Dom Michel Fregose's dagger
and he had not ohm Bulmer's Milanese
shirt, so that you might effectively
vent your irritation that he and not
you-has done these things. Not be-
ing so equipped, your latest reaction
is envy and sort of hoplessness.
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at least, of his many books are eX
traordinarily good, and by founding
and editing "The English Review" he
did a service to contemporary English
literature which will not be forgotten.
Some really intelligent millionaire
ought to descend upon him at Little
worth and give him carte blanche to
start another literary paper, as al
antidotc to "The London Mercury"
Hueffer might refuse the job, but if he
accepted it there is no one l can think
of who would do it better. He is a
sound and courageous critic, with a dis
interested passion for good literature
and no bias in favor of his own gener-
alton as opposed to its successors.
think that he is probably one of the
very few critics we have left who could
be trusted to praise his enemy's work
if it deserved it.
see that Miss Rose Macaulay, who
won the Femina-Vie Heureuse prize
last year with her novel Dangerous
Ages" is now engaged upon a story
about Geneva, the League of Nations
and that curious group of individuals,
book is TO be called "Mystery at Ge-
neva," and will be published here in a
month or two. am afraid | am a
hereto in regard to Miss Macaulay's
work. OF all her books that l have
read, and I have read most of them, the
one like best is "The Secret River"
now completely forgotten and most
probably out of print. Dangerous
Ages" her biggest success, | must con-
TESS I cannot bear. But whether she
is enchanting or unbearable, Miss
Macaulay has an uncanny knack of
making other writer's read her
Coincidental with the present Vic
torian vogue is revived interest in
the customs, costumes and even the
art of the Second Empire. Mr.. Philip
Guedalla's new volume, "The Second
Empire is therefore very timely. IL
is brilliant piece of work, as crisp
and easy to read as a good novel. Mr..
Guedalla has been known hitherto as a
fippant and amusing essayist and book
reviewer, and after "Supers and Super
men" he was supposed to be incapable
of sustained effort" His new book
shows that he was misjudged.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
' Tribunes News and Reviews of Books and Authors
Paris News Letter
By Lewis Gslantiere

1%HERE arc many villages in
n France which arc in no way re-
markable and which do not rec
-A3' ommend themselves to the curl
osity OF the traveller. There are others,
however, which, far from populous and
without Importance, have nevertheless
particular character, an original
physiognomy both interesting and at
tractive Such town is AngeYs, with
it's atmosphere Of decrepit nobility. its
two beautiful Chardins and it's incom-
parable fifteenth century tapestries, be
side which those Of beauvais appear
only too primitive. Another OF these
is Provins, ten kilometers off the main
line from Paris to Troyes.
Little known even 70 the French
tourist, Provins is the ancient seat of
the Counts of Champagne om1 Brie.
The new town" lies in the valley and
is remarkable for its cleanliness and
quiet, its pretty streets and hand
some church. The old town, situated
On high hill is collection Of houses
built for the retainers Of the lords Of
the county and clustered about cho
teau (now a public school, an early
Gothic church (terribly redecorsted IN
the vulgar taste OF the nineteenth cen
tury) and fascinating watch tower
and dungeon known as the Tour de
Cesar, where kings and princes spent
years imprisoned in tiny, ne-cold
cells. An eleventh century granary is
now the archaeological museum of the
region. II contains few Roman sar-
cophagi and some medi@val sculpture,
among which is a remarkable four
teenth century stone head fixed with
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Va issued mis- IOnS-neralded bl-
" n ography Of his friend
Richard Middleton, a poet
and literary journalist who
some years ago committed suicide
in Brussels at the age of twenty
eight. 1t is an interesting, unconven-
tional book, which really does give one
an idea Of the sort of man that Middle
ton was. The only thing have against
it is that Mr.. Savage seems to think
that Middleton was great poet, and
can't bring myself to believe that
he was in any true sense of the word
a poet at all. l never have been able
to understand why Frank Harris ad-
mired his work so much, unless he
was Influenced in his judgment by his
personal friendship for Middleton. To
me it seems devoid alike of originality
and of passion. What little inspiration
it has is derived at second hand from
Swinburne and from Dawson. But for
his tragic and untimely death in cir
cumstances which touched the popular
imagination | have suspicion that
at any rate as poet-he would by now
have been forgotten.
Middleton was familiar figure in
Bohemian circles in pre-war London.
used to see him fairly often, about
dozen years back, at Beguinot's, small
French restaurant in Hobo which at
that time was much frequented by
young journalists and poets. He would
come in at dinner time with some ere
view copies" held in very white and
shaky hand, deposit them on the table
and then begin to talk. | can see him
now, stroking his dark shaggy beard
with tremulous fingers and leaning
eagerly across the table. I suppose he
ate some sort of meal while he was
talking, but he did it so unobtrusvely
that one didn't notice. From the little
that | remember of it I should think
that his talk was good, and l imagine
that he was man much valued by his
circle of friends. But there was some
| fundamental weakness about him which
prevented him as writer from getting
the most out of his talents. Austin
Harrison printed a good deal Of Mid.
dleton's verse in "The English Review"
but | doubt whether it would have got
into that paper under Ford MADDOX
Hueffer's editorship.
For what long time, by the wav.
Hueffer has kept silence Not so MANY
years ago this queer, erratic and un-
even writer used to turn out books
good, bad and indifferent-at the rate
OF four or five year. Now, bolieve.
he is living placdly on his little Sus
sex farm, breeding pigs and growing
tat. 1t is great pity. Half a dozen,
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lsae
~ TEVENSON once wrote: "The
> whole secret is no art does com
~ pete with life The real
art that dealt with life directly
was that of the first men who told
their stories round the savage camp
fires. Our art is occupied
not so much in capturing the
lineaments of each fact, as in marshal
ing all of them toward u common end"
To an outsider pryng as closely as
in politeness he dare into the intimate
concerns of another man, IL seems as if
Mr. Cabell must have started his ar
tistic career in very close accordance
with the idea there advanced; that it's
meaning--which was never that "Main
Street." say, could not compete in
weariness with Main Street itself, but
rather that the appeal Of art was "un-
usualness" s"--equipped him with the
formula which, to obtain story, he
applied TO the elements of life.
OF course he was equipped with more
than simply that. The products of this
formula unqualified would include
"Jurgen" and Treasure Island" and
the Book Of Ruth, to speak only Of
narrative fiction, but they would in
clude also many lesser and less notable
things. To the bare formula, for real
distinction, must be added other things.
Stevenson himself was furnished with
superb style and an unequaled joy
of narrative. In the case Of Mr.. Ca
bell it is also a superb style, and a
frequently referred to irony, together
with a less noted sense of pity, and a
sense of humor that the gods must
covet; the result being that we have
"Domnci" for sheer loveliness, and
"Jurgen" for a gigantic Gargantua-
Idyll epo-comedy, and "The Cream of
the Jest" for intellectually, moving
definitely to permanence among the
books that the world will regard.
<hilu VIC nave dloO, ICloouSu w ClC
courtesy of Mcbride, lesser books
"The Line of Love-" "Chivalry," "Gal-
lantry"-which lacking in the great
ness" certainly do not lack the charm.
TITO SAY that "Gallantry' is less than
- "Jurgen," therefore, is not to pay
it very much of an uncompliment. But
to say that, in some ways, it is less
than those other books of short
stories dealink with other periods is
to evoke challenge. 1t is generally
imagined (by people who have not read
"Gal.ntry") that the man who has
shown such skill in piercing the dis
guise of ages that blandly wore the
mask Of an exalted code would be
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sympathy and broadening vision it
In the fall of the same year came
"Benefts Forgot" true story of
Lincoln. Two years. later, in the fall
of 1919. "Thc Forbidden Trail" was
published, an absorbing novel of the
"Still JIM country. Another gap of
nearly two years, and one of the
authors best liked stories, "Thc En-
chanted Canyon" was issued in the
spring of 1921. This is a novel of the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado and of
national politics. This fall will be pub
lished her Judith Of the Goddess Valley"
showing the rough, virile, actual West
of to-day in one of Mrs. Willsie' IS
strongest novels
New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
The Career of Honore Wil!sie

a DESCENDANT of the old New
"a Englanders who went West
"a lIonore Wilsie was born at
~ Ottumwa, Iowa. and took her
A. b. degree at the University of Wis
cousin Soon after graduation sho
married consulting engineer and with
him she spent two years in the deserts
of Arizona They then came to New
York, where Mrs. Willsie devoted her
self to the task Of winning recognition
as 9 writer.
One of her first encounters was with
Theodore Dresser who laughed at her
youthful enthusiasm, but praised her
stories of the desert and offered her
a position at editorial work. She re-
fused it, as she was determined to
keep all her time free for her writing.
Not long afterward her stories began
to appear in magazines, and proved
unusually popular For "Collier's' and
"Harper's Weekly" she wrote several
feature articles on divorce, immigra-
ton and the reclamation service. Nor
man Hapgood said of her: "She has the
ability to get at the essentials of
big question and put it in simple,
human terms
Mrs. Willsie has spent much of her
time in various parts of the West,
gathering material at first hand by
actually living with the people. Her
desert trip was later supplemented by
long periods in the mining districts,
the mountains, the Northwestern COW
country. Never does she place novel
in any section unless it is long and
intimately known to her,
For five years Mrs. Willsies was
editor-in-chief of "The Delineator."
But the demands of this man-size job
left too little time for fiction writing
So finally, in 1919, she decided to de-
vote her entire time to her writing
and she has been hard at it ever since.
Her first published novel, "The Heart
of the Desert" (1913), won her i'm
mediate recognition as novelist of
promise. "Still jim" 1315) came next
and showed growth in power In that
ability to put on paper the "bigness"
of the out-of-doors and of strong char
acters.
Lydia of the Pines" was published
in the spring of 1917. In deepening
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Co. 1922 -'0'' ="
~ CHOLARS for some centuries
%sM have been reading "The Divine
4 Y Comedy" as theology, as phi
losophy, or history, or simply as
an allegory of this world and the
other. Hence the necessity, as Croce
sees it, for restoring the poetry in
him to first consideration.
as there any reason" he asks at
the outset, "whv Dante's poetry should
be read and judged differently from
! other poetry?" Yes, because didactic
intentions are so intermixed, in its
composition, with the purely poetical
impulses. But these extraneous con-
ditionings attach to every other poets
work-Shelley's, for example, or Ten
nyson's, or Carl Sandburg's. In this
respect Dante is like them qualitative
ly' the difference between him and
them is quantitative-theology, ethics,
allegory are in his poems in greater
proportion than in theirs. For this
reason it is necessary to apply to
Dante an "allotrious" criticism-the
assignment to the various disciplines
Of the materials in Dante's poetry that
are proper to them. The work Of the
scholars is necessary to this end. No
one should attempt to read Dante with
out the aid of commentaries But to
eXaggerate the Importance of these is
baneful. They only should lead to
our finding ourselves with Dante as
man to man, or to placing Us in imme-
date relationship with the poetry"
Croce makes quite eplan his distinc-
tion between the quality of Dante's
poetry as poetry and it's quality as his.
. .torical, theological or PHILOSOPHERS
data. AS, for instance, in this ms.
sage:
an the history of philosophy the
doctrines OF Dante must be rethought
IN their logic and dialectic and linked
with anterior and posteiror doctrines
IN such way as to cause their truth
and error to become apparent and tt
/ N'~N'' wiz PiaSS lHcV n6lu and Ine
function they exercised in the genera
4 development of thought. But in the
history OF poetry, as in the sjmple
reading and enjoyment of poetry, thj,
does not matter; were it introduced i,
would cause disturbance, because those
doctrines are there, not in so far a,
thought, but only in so far as mag
med, and cannot therefore be dialec
tlcised as true and false. They sbouIe
be known, but in the same way as W.
know myth or fable or any other fact
that is to say, as elements or part,
OF poetry, from which and not from
logic they derive their significance.''
| To approach the poetry of Dante il
this fashion it is necessary to dispos,
OF the problem of allegory. Croce does
this with nicely
"Allegory is. nothinr b,,+
sort OF .cryptography, and therefore ,
practical product, an act Of the viii
las distinct from n--msthetic--a q
intuition or imagination) which de
crees that this is to mean one thins
and that something else.
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A Literary Mother Goose
By Dorothy Stevens Ogburn

Haywood has little Broun
Whose mind is bright and clear,
In almost all that Haywood writes
He quotes the little dear.
Poor old Burton Rascoe!
Poor old Burton Rascoe,
He performs such feat
He must work at white heat,
And his brain must get hot as
tabasco.
With a ring ting, tang,
And ring ting, tang,
Poor old Burton Rascoe!
AS Wallace Irwin and Samuel Merwin
Were walking out one Sunday,
Said Wallace Irwin to Samuel Mer-
win,
"Tomorrow will be Monday!"
Dickory, dickory dock,
Van Loon went to Antioch;
But "The Baltimore Sun"
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Made bid for his fun.
Dickory, dckory dock.
A Young intellectual lived in an oak,
Wisky, wasky, weedlc;
And the scornful critical word he
spoke
Was fiddle, faddle, feeble!
When native talent came that way,
Wisky, wasky, weedle;
He said, you're provincial, silly jay,
Fiddle, faddle, feedle!"
Three Benets,
Three Benets,
See how they rhyme.
See how they rhyme.
They all write poetry and other stuff,
W. RS so prolific one names not
enough;
I'd give him away, but t'would be
rather rough
Three Benets.
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ZONES has been banned by the Ber-
mondsey Public Libraries Committee
in London. Banned" is the word used
by THE Westminster Gazette" The
committee gave as a reason that the
book was not considered suitable to
have in a public library. No par
ticuars.
Fifteen authors have collaborated in
the writing of "Nonsenseorship," which
is scheduled for September publication
by the Putnams. It concerns "prohibi-
tions, inhibitions and ilegalities.
viewed from the angle of dissent.
Haywood Broun, George Chappell. Wal
lace Irwin, Ruth Hale, Ben Hecht,
Helen Bullitt Lowry, Dorothy Parker.
Frederick O'Brien, John Weaver, Frank
Swinnerton, II. NJ. I-omlinson, Robert
Keable, Charles Hanson Towne, Alex
ander Woolcott and the author Of the
Mirrors of Washington all have a
whack at the censor.
More curious than any account Of
table rappings and trumpet tootings.
and much more weird, must be the VOL
ume on "The Psychic Life of Insects. !"
a translation from the French by DR..
L. O. Howard, just published by the
Century Company. 1t was written by
an eminent Frenchman, a member of
the Institute of France, name not given
IN the clip sheet The idea of insects
having psychic life suggests awful
possibilities for the hereafter.
What's the use of climbing Mount
EVerest! No use, says Sir Francis
Younghusband, in his book. "The Hear4
Of Nature" just published by Dutton's.
Nevertheless, he adds. there is great
virtue in it. Such feats give humanity
confidence and pride-they are morally
oTaclng. The natives of the Himsayas,
VINO 40 not climb for sport or achieve
lnent, are poor-spirited lot, Sir Fran
els maintains, compared 10 the Anime
mOuntaineers
.. Henry has been done into French.
Selected tales from "Sixes and Sevens"
nave been translated by Maurice Beer
block. M. Beerblock says the French
are interested in Porter's work ratber
Tor the philosophy expressed therein
tban for'his ability to tell good story.
he defines the philosophy as that OF q
melancholy Pierrot, making others
'aush 10 hlde his own sorrow.
Robert Keable's next novel will have
oouth African locale, with which the
author is we'll acquainted, II viii he
called "The Mother of All Iiving"
"Outwitting Our Nerves" is IN go
twelfth printing, says the CenturS
Company; And a Life of Pasteur',
published some years ago by Double
day, Page & Co has sold fifteen edi-
tions. WI
Three American books shortly to be
brought out in England are Ellen Glas-
COWS One Man in His Time" which
thongs "Rekindled Fires" will bear tha
imprint of Jonathan Capes, and Ca
ruso and the Art of Singing" by Fucito
and Boyer. which also has found a
London publisher. g
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g. -SA- MANY In A,1,nrica 0If KNir4nr
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"Outwitting Our Nerves" is IN Sc
twelfth printing, says the Cen+,,r,,
Company: And Life of Pasteur',
published some years ago by Double
day, Page e. Co. has sold fifteen edi-
tionS. WI
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Croce ON Dante
By Hi Sinons

REVIEW OF THE POETRY OF DANTE"
by Bendetto Croce, translated from the
Italian by Douglas Ainslie. Henry Holt g.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
London News Letter
BY Douglas Goldring

M R. HENRY SAVAGE has just
issued his long-hera,lded bi-
n ography Of his friend
Richard Middleton, a poet
New-York tribune., 1922-07-30

Robert Keable's next novel will have
south African locale, with which the
author is we'll acquainted. 1t will he
called "rhe Mother of All Living"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
A Bookman's Day Book
BY Burton Rascoe
JULY 20

JULY 20
EN- HECHT was in town to-day
* 10 see about the publication
D Of his new novel, "Gargoyies,
Omaha daily bee., 1922-06-04

Root. katheFyn iRdoe, Mary Wood
land. Elsie Ptak. lois Jorgensen.
Elizabeth Clark. Florence May. Ade'
lima Brader. Jean Laverty, Cora Law
erty, Eugenla Hahn, Lois Etter.
katherine Redman. Alice Ginsburg
Lyle Robinson. Lester Slosbure
Vivian wFenn. Sarah Forman, Lynn
sholes, Helen Paneoast. Ruth Wllln'
sky, Phyllis Lehmer. Edna carnal
and Margare, Widenor.
On Thursday evening. June .. al
the BURGESS. Nash auditorium. Miss
DeLone will present Miss Thelma
Skeen. The public 10 cordially in
yIted 10 hear the following program:
Schubert fshtasis" s".''''.''''''' @ ,@rfnsss
"Arshssaue' '.....,...'''.'''''''''psss,anss's's. s,as''.
"Nalss lie cohestn :.'.''''. Hssssl slIaahs n
samson and pslilah' '''''AFr by snssr
IMorceaux charseterisaues)
a. "wl,I "n,s o na. ,hs wi'p 49,, ha''s,mshs rnsniss
,eS, "E,ua. Pour a la Main dauchs @ ''''.
..,..,...,.,..;;..,,,',,.,,. Torsstson
,D IA % s"srse ''''''''''utI,,,ii,a u,.s.i,nsn, ,an.
40 psnse des syiphes ...,,, .dodeffoid
concsrto-"chorai st Variations" ,Widor
torchsstrai parts on the piano by Misc
peLone,)
Ida Lustgarten will give a recital
nj tho Schneider a. Mueller audi
torium Thursday evening. June g..
She will he assisted by Mabel Ed
wards Price. pupil OF Lena Ellis
worth Dale. Vernon c. Bennett at
the piano and her sister. Dorothy
Lustgartcn. pupil OF Emily Cleve.
Nettye S. Witt will present 20 Of
her pupils in piano recital at the
Schneider & Mueller auditorium on
Wednesday evening. June 7, at s.
On Tuesday afternoon. at Du-
chesne college. piano pupils of Miss
Loretta DeLone were presented in
recital program. Those taking part
were the Misses Dorothy Mcknight.
Electa Hill. Murilla Sullivan, Grace
King, Anna Erhart. jeanette Nc
Kinney and Gloria Dworak.
School Forum Concert.
The Omaha School Forum has
completed arrangements for the
concert to be given at the Brandeis
theater Thursday evening, June s. at
$3.50. Among the outstanding fea-
lures Of the program will be the Sc
lections played by Stanley Jan Le-
tovsky. whose technique is said to
remind one of Godowsky or
Friedman. The Kountze Memorial
quartet, which includes Myrtle Fran
ces Wyatt, Harriette Clark Helgren,
Justin Helgren and Gus Swaneon.
will sing. A number Of box parties
have been arranged: Dundee
school, 23; Bancroft, 10: Kellom. 10;
Columbian. 10. The proceeds OF the
concert will help pay the expenses
Of eight delegates from the Omaha
Forum to the National Educational
association convention in Boston In
July. Tickets may be obtained at
any school or from the committee In
charge: Jessie Pierson Mitchell,
Columbian; Catherine Carrick, Mon
mouth Park; Mabel Henrickson, Mill
Ter Park; Sarah Person. West Side;
Mrs. Otley Campbell, Franklin; Ber-
nice Mcleod. Benson High; Gay
nellie Faye, Dundee: Florence Rey-
nolds, Miller Park; Elizabeth Hutch
ison, Dundee, chairman.