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The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-24

Folks who live in glass houses
should never throw stones -
And may we here further remark
Folks WIN live in such houses may
find 10 discreet
TO urcss and undress IN the dark.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-24

The bowls with which many peo-
pie receive increases In the tax rates.
arr only equalled by the loud shouts
with which they vote for costly pub
lie improvements.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-24
Commonplsce


He works in the city, and she--well.
she stays
In the little wee world Of life's COM
monplace ways;
She brushes and dusts and she poi
ishes bright
That spot which is precious TO one
mans sight.
She decks out the table with silver
and bloom
or those roses which scent all the
dusk Of the room;
Along the dear commonplace high
way of home.
She isn't as pretty as many you'd
see;
lie isn't as rich as a thousand may
be;
But neither would alter one jot Of
the grace
Which arms with It's sunshine their
worlds commonplace
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-24

babies are apt to form union and
refuse 60 be BORN
Il know il, but doggone IL, they re
liable 60 start enforcing his prohi-
bition law any minute.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-24

II don't know about lending you
any money. When I lent you scne
over n month ago you told me you
only wanted Il for a little while
well. I didn't Keep 10 long
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-24
obliging

Lady Customer want 10 see
your nails.
New Clerk Gin hardware store) --
Ycssum. Finger or toef
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-24

There rrc wives and wives now'
take yours, for instance
"Slrc, take her, II you IKE she's
no Statue II Liberty
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-24

Doughnuts made daily at MARTINS
Bakery. oS-u
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

ticisn, Wells. Shsw and Bennett arc
writer's, +. +. Y. colyumist and John
Farrnr an editor. Does that man real
lzc, however, that but for some acci-
cent OF fate these worthless might have
startled the world with another form
OF genius, genius that remains hid
ing--"by their works ye shall know
den because the business OF every day
sweeps them irresistibly along?
Who knows, for instance, that Wood
row Wilson does not successfully hide
genius for market gardening, Wells
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
The Cosmos of Mr.. Hamilton
BY Hunter Stagg

that the marquis's little scene at the
5ookstaIl should have been written in
innocence. 1t is a familiar scene.
Goodness knows how many fictional
persons Of every age, sex and con-
dition have been brought to the rail-
way station fifteen minutes ahead Of
time in order to gaze with more or
less incredulity at the stuff on which
the public is fed! But I am convinced
that when MI Hamilton did it in "The
Rustic of Silk" he must, he simply
must, have known what he was about.
The thing could not have been done
in stupidity, and, therefore, must have
been done with kind of liunaor which,
with an eye to his sales, the author is
afraid to use in any more apparent
manner.
For tie book is one which blasts
forever the idea that Cosmo Hamilton
is the Rupert Hughes OF England. Nr.
Hughes might at any time write OF
lower middle class girl Of incredible
charm who a5pircs to become the
e1eria OF an l02CCeSSlD1e otAtoSiAio' VI
ascetic temperament and Messlanic
purposes. Mr.. Hughes might make her
do it. too. But even he would never
manage the affair with such c!umsi-
ness and illogicality as is exhibited IN
"The Rustic Of Silk" nor would he De
guilty of anything so bad as Mr.
Hamilton's style. And that is saying
good deal.
IF. then. Mr.. Hamilton's books arc
written by man of intelligence and
humor it is probable that most OF 1he
others of the same type are written oy
people of intelligence and humor too.
Therefore there is no hope that the
stuff on which the public is fed-the
illiterate fiction" can be improved az
there might be if it were written IN
ignorance. No; it is a fixture IN our
literature, not to be altered by hairs
breadth, and might as we'll be accepted
az such and given occasionally such
long reviews as this.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Books on The Radio

tury). by Raymond Fraucis Ystc, anI
L. G. Pacont.
William I. Gavity, chic. engineer q.
the De Forest Telephone and Telegraph
Company, has written Tho Radio
Book which George ". Jacobs & CO.
expect TO bring out early in the sum
mcr. Mr.. Garity, who is at present
supervising The manufacture OF thou
sands Of home machines, gives IN his
book detailed Instructions on how to
build. install and operate aomc radio.
within few weeks J, b. Iippincot.
Company will publish "simpliacd
Radio" by ". Gernsback, editor OF
"Thc Radio News and Science and
Invention" All grades Of equipment.
from household instruments 10 more
expensive apparatus, are covered.
Amateur Radio" IS al inexpensles
p2pcr-backcd WORK on wireless bv
Maurice J, Granger. published last
week BY the James 4, Mccain Com
pauy.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

bridge seems to have disappeared.
d Terence Holiday was seen the
other night in the Pirates Den. &
What do you know about that! John
Moroso says he reads eight hours q
day. 4 1t is, we think, not gen
orally known that John Drinkwater is
"a bibliophile. & A portrait Of
George Sterling, painted by Herkomcr
IN 191G, hangs on the walls of the
"Jinhs room" in the Bohemian Club in
San Francisco, where are the portraits
OF numerous members, mostly dead.
& One Of the best libraries OF pure
literature in the United States is that
OF Thomas l.. Raymond, formerly
Mayor of Newark and now Commits
sioner Of Docks o. something over
there. & a traveller from Washing
ton reports that a younger brother Of
Stanley Rinehart, son OF Mary Roberts
Rinelart, ia q newspaper reporter in
that city. G. frank Adams's idea OF
Z pleasant spring gct-up seems to be
heavy vivid yellow overcoat. & We
have heard that Albert Jeremiah Bev-
erigo is at work on biography of the
elder Pitt, to be as monumental a work
as his John Marshall" & or all
thing. Last week we happened, by
freak of memory, to refer to Shaemas
OSheil. The other day comes Il letter
from him from Kansas City. Says lie
has two children and is going into the
newspaper business out there. 8
Frank Shay is rigging up book cara
van to tour Cape Cod this summer.
The craft is, We understand, to be
called the Roger MilHin. At the chris
tening ceremony Chris Morley will
break bottle Of ncnr-beer over its
nose. & II recently published
novel, "Homestead Ranch" by Eliza
beth G. Young, the hero's name is Bob
Holiday. e. William McFcc arrived
at this port May 4. s. Something
should be said about Miss Amy Flash
ner, whose exceedingly capable activi-
ties as assistant editor aid consider
ably John Farrar in getting out such
good "Bookmln." g. The Coffee
House certainly is fashionable club.
The pillars Of the organization frown
upon members who do not wear dinner
clothes there after O'Clock in the eve
ning. 81 Every once in a while we
wonder what has become Of somo OF
the old familiar faces. Where, for in
stance, is William Aspenwall Bradley"
& When you 60 to Cincinnati you
want to look up Howard Saxby, colum-
mist on "The mercialTribunc,' y
author Of "The Resurrected Defunct"
and other works, possessor Of much
Old Taylor, and accomplished man
about town. & When title was
being sought for the volume which was
eventually named "Thc Mind of Arthur
James Balfour" one OF the titles sug-
gested was "Baifour's Belfry." g
One Of the best magazines in the coun-
try is free. 1t is "Fashions Of the
Hour" published by Marshall Field &
Co. and edited by Miss Rene Mans-
field. & Harry Edward Maule al
ways looks as though there were noun
tains on his mind. & We near that
when Bill Benet began to write 1.-The
FIRST Person Singular" Es started out
to write a psychologi novel and
found himself writing a mystery story
instead. & When you go to Balti-
more YOU want to call Oh the bookseller
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

for buck and wing dancing, Shaw for
cornct solos, Arnold Bennett for trick
cycling, i, Y. V. for designing ladies'
clothes, John Iarrar for the worlds
1eatherweight championship? Who
knows, indeed, but that ono day they
may not break away from the irksome
routine OF a belittling success and give
vent TO these secret passions?
Let us take the sad case Of Cosmo
Hamilton, doomed apparently to the
treadmili OF fiction and the drama,
egonized each time he steps upon =
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

platform to hear himself introduced
as "the well known author" when all
the time his secret dream, his "grandc
passion" his most cherished form Of
elI-c&pression is as a caricaturist.
plays &C., fooiishness." lie cxclaims.
Anybody can write < play. Novels $
why not eight nlonths' hard labor up
the river: But caricature8--ah. In
stead OF having secretary hammer
cut her youth upon 4 typewriter, in
stead of having to correct galley proofs
and page proofs ad rauseam, putting
back commas and semi coions into
their rightful places and healing the
split intlnitive, you take clean piece
of Bristol board, a fnc pen and q bot
tic OF Chinese ink, and in an hour
there is your victim-the smallest line
significant of a vice or a virtue, cvery
Wrinkle the complete expression of e
benevolent or malignant philosophy"
A'OR years Cosmo Hamilton has
borne his cross silently, turning
out everything from dialogues to MT
alcal comedy. occupying the editorial
chair Of weekly journals, bitterly
watching the circulation go uD like q
balloon as result Of his literary fair,
all the while agonzed by the eternal
repression Of his instinct for corica
ture. Perhaps the saddest moment OF
his sad career was when Max Beer
bohm came TO see him one day in Lon
don in order TO make caricature O.
him. The paradox was indeed bitter
There WAS the great cartoonist diving
TO be q successful novelist, while Ham
ilton the novelist dared not confess to
his ycarning to be a great caricaturist t.
Unhappy couple.
To-day, unhonorcd and unsun~, there
IS Il row OF what might be called yield
lngs to repression on the wall OF Ham
llton's study, q galeric intime of many
OF the most famous men Of to-day. Dor
traits which do not so much hold the
mirror UP to nature as hold it up to
nature Psyche analyzed. They are at
encc his pride and his despair-his
light hidden under bushel of sue
cessful novels. In "The Rustic Of
Silk the latest one, is this portrait
OF Lloyd George:
He stood In the fuI light for r. rnoren,
vile lie gave his coat and hat to n foo.
man~-i soft dump hat and d coat liaed
Witn EHry shiny black satin lie looted
more than ever like quack doctor, on
VINO was d cross between a confe,iian and
rcviYalist His uncut hair very white
now, hcppcd oTer the back OF his cola :
IN IN a most "ncivilized manner. and his
Htts inol9t ache, ot the wairus type Was
quito out OF keeping With it. II lie had
ior a poet. or tlramatist who desired 10
Who horrished in tho Victorian period
His short pebelau figure with legs far 100
small and apparently too tran - carry his
fat little trunk. gave nm 4 f::lonle- ike
appearance. but in his eyes which We're
very wonderful there was Il CLEAN of
hlfnor and reaourccrulness which stamped
MIN as u consunrlate leader of men. while
MS forehead denoted imagination and keen
intelligence"
Yes" said Hamilton. chats un-
doubtedly the little Welshman. but
ilattcr myself that in the carcature
there Is the very perfume Of lecks."
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

TIE RUSTLE OF SILK. By Cosnlo Ham
LtoA. Little, Brown & co.
|aw HERE is in this novel q passage
g which would indubitably have
h the effect OF momentarily lay
ing out stronger men than |,
could stronger men than I be in
duced to read the book at all. The
passage tells Of late train and an
elderly marquis, who "killed time by
studying the contents Of the bookstall.
looking with sort of incredulity at
the stuff on which the public is fed,
the illiterate fiction with glaring
covers"
And so on. These words are not, Of
course, what you might call amazing
in themselves. But as I read them
type and page reeled; for second |
was in the station myself, peering over
the shoulder of the incredulous mar
quis as he examined the stuff on which
the public is fcd, the illiterate fiction
and the cheap magazines, and most
prominently there was exhibited the
very book in which the marquis was
character, and of which was at that
moment reader-yca, even Cosmo
Hamilton's "Thc Rustic of Silk" itself.
1T was very curious, and with the
passing of the vision developed a
new wonder about the authors of the
books to which Mr.. Hamilton is not
the first to apply, and apply rightly,
the word "illiterate." 1t so happens
that Mr.. Hamilton's own "Tho Rustic
OF Silk" is the f-st as we'll as the worst
of the type that have read in long
while. and till the reading of the lines
quoted above it had seemed to me that
he was only one of many writer's VINO
however correct an estimate they
might place upon each others books
were honestly unaware Of the awful
ness of their own particular efforts.
But now this surety is considerably
weakened. 1t passes the limits OF
stupidity, whether British or American,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
The Turnstile
BY Pcregrinc Pickle

WN THE April number OF "The
E Boollman" that department Of the
magazine called "The Gossip Shop"
quoted Cor maybe misquoted) s.
we'll known New YorI, bookseller as say
ing that all editions Of "Moby Dick"
before 1920 We're expurgated. No; all
Erglish editions were before the edition
published in 1920 in "The Worlds
Classics" The first English edition Of
the book was expurgatcd BY. presuma-
bly,, Melville, and subsequent editions
before that OF the Oxford University
Press apparently followed suit. The
early American editions were intact.
There arc a number Of very fair "rcad-
ing" editions Of the book, but there is
to be published this autumn the first, so
far as we know, really handsome
volume Of this classic. 1t viii be illus
tratcd with numerous authentic old
prints.
Being so youthful as all gct-out, how
did John Dos Passos acquire that dis
tinguished bald spot OF his crown:
Some reviewers regard "Gentlc Julia"
as Mr.. Harrington cat his best" I'm
doubtedly it is one Of Tic funniest
books in the language. But something
Of the authors estimate OF it is given
IN letter he wrote last January. He
said: Il am following Alice Adams
with very light book made up Of some
things ! wrote several years ago. Next
year shall have another novel,"
CHARLEY TONNE was seen coming
OUT Of restaurant on Houston
Street recently. -&- The bookshop
started up on University Place by
Hector MacQuarrie and Dorothy Stock
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

NIL spced WIN WhIch radio sets
are being manufactured and
sold 10 eoualled only b. The
speed with which publishers
Lave assembled books on the new
science to satisfy tho growing demand
Tor information on the part Of keen
u Interested public.
Among the best books on radio re
Gently published is Radio for Every
body" by Austin Lcscaboura, editor OF
"Thc Scientific American" Since April
i2 $4,000 copies havo been sold,
lIerpers report tremendous sale for
"Iho Home Eado,' b. A. Hyatt Yer
riA which was issued about two
months ago.
"Ihc Book Of Wireless" by A. Fred
cricl Collins, which Appleton states to
be ono Of the frat books on wireless
Tor amateurs published, is in its elcv-
enth edition now. II has been revised
this ycar aud brought up to date by
tho inclusion Of the newest discoveries
Gnu III DG lCSOJ LII ~ VI cSE.
Lawrence ". Cocbsdav, editor of two
radio magazines, a wireless worker in
the navy during the war and the
builder Of one Of the first radio broad
casting stations, has written a BOOB
which Stokes viii publish shortly. It
is called "RadioTeleph ony for Every
one and like the majority CT books
on radio, is couched in simple. untech-
nichal terms for the benefit Of the lay
lnri.
Nine radio authorities have collano-
rated TO produce "Radio-Phonc Receiv-
ing %. Van Nostrand(, which is dc
/ scribed as a practical book for every
body. The authors are John II. More
CT oft, Z. E., and Michael I. Pupin, d. Sc,
Of Columbia; Alfred \. Goldsmith,
Pl. d.. of the Radio Corporation Of
America; Robert D. Gibson, Il. L., The
Telephone and Telegraph Company;
Louis A. Haseltine, NJ. T.. Stevens In
stitute; Erich Hausman and Frank
Canavacio, T.. T., of the Polytechnic In
stitute, Of Brooklyn; Paul Hoernel. L.
E., OF the Western Electric Company,
and JOHN Y. l.. Hogan, Institute OF
Radio Engineers. Surely, with SO much
technical experience behind il, this
! bool, ough. to be a good one.
Other books on radio include: Radio
Amateurs Handbook" by A. Fredericl,
Collins, to be published by Thomas Y
Crowell in June; Radio for Amateurs
by A. Hyatt Verrill (Dodd. Mead &
Co..; "Wircless Telegraphy," by Ber-
nard Leggett (Dutton); Radio Re
ccivng for Beginners,' by Rhey T
snodgrass and Victor F. Camp Mac
millan); "The New Science Of Radio
! Doubleday, Page, by Donald Wilhelm
and "The Complete Radio Book" Cen
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

ENORMOUS ROOM; BY -
TT, ss,.ss. ns0Bl Bonl & LiVeTish'' 4,
HERE was, recently, a war. y
"var. 50 to speak, for liberty
Th;, liberty was sought by
i millions of men in tFenones
...,v some in prisons. Cummings an
a'' -, :: was one Of the latter lie
~. deserter. He was not
ss..,;s. ss' Hc was no. an anti-mIlitar-
u. was net even an anareh'ss'
10 20 u.as art. He had a friend
his l., saar IN one B., also an American
'o@s W. uson nc had joined up in the
VIA s...on. Hsriss Ambulance Corps.
'' rs.v had read some OF the literary
.,a,.: i.sS Of a'o ono ". Wilson and were, it
.as .ssn.. moved g., However, wrote let
home after few months Of clean
's.' I .rhnlances .'r that even in glorious
,ss rr.nce. o. in Mr.. shakespcare's Den
,..rE '@d.'' some things were rotten. A
rrs.sb censor, naturally, was horri1ed
,.S :. read one OF the letters, and
,'s '-' .se literary B. arrested. Cum
r.i1e,. unlike p, had not let any Of his
ann.b.s sow into ink, but the French
eoye-nnen. officials apparently were
so,sroto tho two friends and
detained him, too.
The two Americans were sent to
concen.ration camp at La Ferte Mace,
and after three months in this deoid-
ely not nice place, it would seem.
according to ii. Cummings, they were
released through the efforts q their
yererts without the aid Of Dr. (con-
erred by Mr. Mencken-our local
iather-in-heaven) Wilson, who WAS
busy not reading, according to Nj.
Ray Stannard Baker, the published
ecre. treaties OF Europe.
During his stay st La Fert4 -dact
cummings, againss whom there was nc
oiarge save that he was friend to b.,
gas packed with c great number Of
cher prisoners in The Enormous
Room," sort Of second Black Hole Of
Calcutta.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Books nouCAr

rE0bsS & EEOh, INC, A CORPORATION
desiiag in cid and rsxa books, sG.a
rraras. esc.. are the largest suyrrs and
dis.rioutors Of old books in this cscn,ry.
We are in the snrkct to bny fer spot
cash books in large or small suan.i.ies
and entire private libraries. We especially
want limited sets, u luxe editions ana
late encyclopedias. Autographs alse
k,o~ght. rsss psshins aaA rxsA~va,. Ths
ssraatssss ssszSst y H. ssilss q bssin
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Shop Talk

Professor j. Arthur Thomson, dis
,inguished English scientist. has unA
deitahen TO tear away the technical
ties and details which surround SCI
cncc fox the Iayman. In his Outlines
Of Science" which Putnam viii pub
lish shortly, lie gives the gist Of mod.
ern science il broad strokes, covering
most branches iilustratively and ade-
quately enough 30 give the inquiring
reader the keys 10 open the doors.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14


BIZ 1 have come to praise Cum
o. mlnsa' not to bury him. know
~ 'nese shortcomings, but the aro
.ause . Of an artisan artist wso ;s
anatt tl"ie"''ng with form. Show me
f.. 'aef young prose writer who has
I.r. ''8ins or daring to play with the
su1ee--and tor., don't mean by that the
psIred, pas II clever, mimicry Of saw
a1, ~" hecht. can find the veins of n,.o
an 49,, ~ oummings's composition with
yos u"nasty eye; show me another
60, e american prose artist in whose
, r0S''lon 80 gold can be mined without
patient pickaxe.
grant that some pages are sandy.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

there, Meredith Janver. A man Of
much wit and erudition. His most re
cent argument is that there arc only
three words spelled b-e-m anything:
bcmoan, Bemis Heights Mame OF q
village in East Central New York;, and
hemol], to bemire, bcdraggle.
We think we'll write out every once
in while little account of some
New York booksellers who ought to be
better known generally than they are.
We'll begin with the Scribner store.
There are a number Of men there who
dapper little gentleman with the gray
ing hair. in the Office at the rear, is
r. j. Stafford, the manager. He has
probably attended as many important
American book auctions as any mar
going. But he is difficult TO lay hold
of unless you arc acquainted with hl!l
or have an appointment with him. just
in front of Mr. Sutford's Office sits
George hItWorth, thc buyer. 4tah
George anything about a modern book
and he'll tell you. Al the right of the
door as you enter is the desk Of Lewis
Hatch, known among his associates
az "Atlas," because Of his engaging
stoop. Lewis went into the book husi-
ness as "iist boy" A thorough biblio-
phile. Rare books, English editions
art books, bclles-lettres, his field. At
the left Of the door is the desk OF
John Wylic A very sound scholar
History, biography, ancient classics,
his dope. The tall young man with the
pleasantly sloping shoulders is hranh
Simpson. Very found of light corver'
sation, and with {! wide range Of ;!ead"
ing in fiction.