New-York tribune., 1922-12-24

Z y s..med 70 be on the way to per.
:. custom sanctioned in the Of
- literary editors by at least a sense
,.,,iitv Of their own endeavofs save as
.i,h funny little badges and serious
- ....,ees By which. and only, they are
s..r,ished from other spectators at the
r.m Dick and Harry have ultimately
n not more, 70 say about what is
"a be permanent as Arthar, Cliff
800 Albert, Gilbert, Edmund. John
~ stll. we wear the funny little
.. IA Tom, Dick and Harry do not
- ,.dr,s give US the privilege Of speak
Do ~. ,,se. sr oatkedra. bassO prOfundo,
,entos, esm losdc, IN ertens0, or
- NV that suits our talents and tenn
n >, What is more, we exercise 1t.
ps ,,ee every year. About this time.
~ nav ne, please, the harmless little
a uy trade and forbeAr while in
49, 49, nv vsropal tastes and preferences
dnc 90, of what is critically right and
sna :, .7sng and my defects Of tempera-
en-s - ,oulpmcnt in tones more becoming
"sn, r-,.hisn orscle and with an assurance
30 - vsais,er has q proper right 70 as
/, bis most uncertain and variable
o -, ,.kinr Il eli in ali, it has been very
-..,;.g year. hasn't Il? In literary
ian, What with all this discussion
.r,,v,,s.s and Rabbit and The Waste
,..S- ana This FrecdOru'; and "Jurgen
-. - -slsesed and promptly Jumping into the
- -, .,l,.r elHss. and the little wars between
- simmer and the publishers, and the
-, uteIlnetuais kicking one another on
=. .sin and this stuff about the superb
...,;tv Of the Nordic. race, and Coue WITH mas
,.,-ul.. and SsntsyAua saying IN a. new
80, 70 his Life Of Reason Chat holy
~, hook Of the intelligentsis) that II
-. mare asesIrztcly have been entitled
sT,uairs Of Ny Dead Life and Lytton
s.r,,hey hiding the good queen and her
,,;skful husband, and this bright young
min GuedeIIa making fun Of Napoleon
u Petit. and Marcel Proust getting
s.,uy into another language, 50 that even
a, p,vneh may now read him, and Thomas
E,ry Publishing a new volume Of poems
"A sinking back in seneseent despair WINE
a, Nobel prize goes to Jaeinto Benayente'
- rxprsssiouism becoming a bagaboo to
amt the bedrooms Of frightened critics, and
"a. Enormous Room" getting an enormous
s,sps. selling in all eighteen eopiesi and
Hsny Kemp telling more jokes on himself
tsn anybody before him; and A. T. h0us-
-, A1pgipg out another volume Of poems
,e,r tventy-6ye years Of silence, and Give
p.B aseiding that significant form IS not
!. Srsfficsnt as he once thought it was;
nd-ssH. what with all this we have Ger
tairly bad enough TO talk about.
Yes. We chaps with the funny little badges
.su been as busy as cranberry merchants
sysug to keep up with our jobs. There
sne dong, for instance, ulysses" BOOK
rusaiuing half million words the equiv
i.,+ lr mere bulk 10 six ordinary sizaoie
usuraes. and 50 comVaetly written T'lo ~
-, ,,uven narrative thread that we
-. sk;p a page (ss we sometimes do
We vvere 70 make any sense oat Of IL some
red 20 skip, and what squsVk they raiseo'
n heenuse they cheated. They said the
,ok was unintelhgible Efbsr they had read
few paees and then turned over 20 the back
zee how the story cEne out. The novel Is
enough; in fact, it is faseiDat-
! reading. probably one Of the great erea-
:. = works in the English lEngnsge; but you
,o,4 Get A thing out Of it by jumping
,ouns here and there trying to hnd smutty
80. II is curious how many people have
,as nothing but Marion Blooms sohloquy
|, the end Of the book, and 1t is curious, too
l.t these same people viii tell you, on the
d,upeth OF having read that and that only
I1,. su,yxses" is filthy, the rawlings Of q