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New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
An Idle Idyl
BY Louis Kantor

you carry a conviction about war id
your breast pocket, unless you are
willing to accept the end (hlnted at, bu.
never achieved nor openly arrived st)
as the means-thst IL, unless you ars
willing TO accept the authors motive,
his intention, as the result. After all,
II Is not enough that seed is planted;
the tree must grow II you want to ca.
apples. And am not even certain that
NJ. ROLAND planted a seed.
THE story Is simple enough. There
are no full-dre,s villains or wicked
ladies. The villain is War. Tho hero
is Youth. The heroine IL Love.
Scene: Paris during the carly ter
riblc months Of 1913.
Action: Youth in the symbols shape
worships Luce, his Goddess Of Love. But
the govehnments Of the civilized world
are playing an old, noisy game devised
to mako copy" for future Mr.. Wells's
and Mr.. Van Looms. Pierre, strangely
enough, doesn't want to play that game.
He seems to prefer that other and much
more amusing form of warfare-love.
But finally he realizes that he must 60.
However he wants TO know life steadily
and whole before he goes off to the
great human abyss. Quite naturally. T
should say. Luce agrees, naturally.
The morning before their appointed
night Of education finds Pierre ard
Luce in cathedral for the alteration
Of an Infinite Being. Bombs dropped
casually from the heavens by . bored
enemy aviator destroy the cathedral,
the alteration and the looming great
night.
But the flame Of the iovs which binds
Pierre ard Luce is fading yellow
tipped with iron gray. 1t is weary,
elderly attempt TO create the blazing
esctasy of young, naked love. ROLAND
might have given these two eighteen
year olds body instead If middle-aged
mind clothes TO cover the lack Of body,
He might-really it is pity.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Six Best Sellers
FICTION

memoirs Of Midget by Walter
de "a Mare (Knopf).
Peter Whiffle," by Carl Van
Vechten (Knopf).
"Kimono,' by John Paris Olive
right.
Dancers in the Dark" by
Dorothy Speare (Doran).
AN Ordeal Of Honor" by An
thony Pride McBride).
"Crome Yellow" by Aldous Hux-
ley lDoran).
Merton of the Movies" by Harry
Leon Wilson Doubleday.
NON-FICTlON
Memoirs of the Crown Prince Of
Germany" by William Won Hohen-
zollern (Scribner).
THE Mind in the Making" by DR..
James Harvey Robinson (Harper).
"The Story of Mankind" by
Hendrix Van Loon (Liveright).
"My Memories of Eighty Years.
by Chauncey NJ. Depew (Scribner)
The Outline of History" by II.
G. Wells (Macmillan).
"A Parody Outline Of History"
By Donald Ogden Stewart (Doran).
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
The Great american Corbov

have run across in years, an ideal VOL
ume to pick up for an idle moment
It's very lack of synthesis adds to is
value for this purpose, for no matter
to what page we open we are assured
that each paragraph will hold our at
tentlon. give US some trife for con-
versation, and yet we know that we can
lay the book down at any time without
experiencing that unsatshed feeling
which comes over US when we lay down
an expository book without following
the argument TO the end.
The universality Of Mr.. Rollins's
exposition is what astounds US most.
We can think of no phase Of cowboy
life which he has not explained fully.
What kind OF European news held his
interest, why he wore bandana
around his neck, how the word ratified
came to be a synonym for nervou. and
excited, why he never hung his trous-
ers up at night, what he used for a
can-opener, Why seven years was the
average limit OF MS Oronco-bust,ng
days, how he sat his horse. why hs
was not good jumper, why he wore
dark clothes-everythng is there.
Mounted Justice" (Houghton MI
fin), by Katherine Mayo, is a series
Of true stories" describing the ex-
ploits of the Pennsylvania State
Police. The tales are written with
vigor. reality. and dramatic force;
they display good descriptive ability,
a knowledge of how to create su.-
pense, and the power to impress every
scene and incident vividly upon the.
readers mind. In a word, they give
the effect Of successful fiction. They
are, perhaps, at times too starkly
realistic; they abound in scenes ot
terror, of horror, brutality and crime.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

PIERRE AND LUCE BY Roman Rol-
land. Henry Holt & co.
"\HlS almost touching little war
love story, By tho fosming (in
the sense that Niagara gene
rates foam with casual ferocity)
author of the overprai sed Jean Chris
tophe," is, suppose. what is called an
idyl. The publisher quotes a reviewer
in "The Nation" as having written: IN
ROLAND has written an idyl, an idyl
Of love that Is born under the wing Of
DEATH" l should substitute the yawn-
ing little word-idle. This birth under
the wing Of death" confuses me, too,
for found nothing "alive" in Pierre
and Luce" Maybe 1t was due to the
translator's practice Of birth control.
do not know. | do not care.
The book is like that. You don't
care. 1t is SO wan. dim. Not the dim
ness of unrcality. No, Pm for that
It's the dimness born Of exhaustion
temporarily, no doubt, in the present
instance-the exhaustion. that is to
say, Of the artists creative fuel. You
can't make a rich, golden. foaming ire
with chars Of the precious fuel; at
best, you can achieve q winey, mellow
reelection Of that fire. But not If
you're exhausted. And somehow one
feels, knows, that ROLAND was tired
tired, when he sat down to compose
this story. Perhaps he ia written
out" I hope not.
Potentially the story indicates the
poignance Of the death Of Youth CLifc)
during a war: the last war, for ex-
ample, which imprisoned the sensitive
young, the unlived, in a blacker than
black, sun destroying Chinese wall of
anguish. NJ. ROLAND wants you to see
that wall in Pierre's heart, budding
mind but he doesn't help you TO. If
you want to see 1t. you do; IL you
don't want TO, you don't. Your reac-
tion is voluntary.
The pity and the terror must be pro-
vided by the reader. and even that
creative contribution doesn't help. The
story simply does not come off unless
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
E<"HE COWBOY" (scribner's),
by Philip Ashton Rollins, is
fascinating reading, a treas

Dy Pnlllp ashton hOlllnS, Is
Il fascinating reading, a treas
uy Of cattle country anec-
dote and information beside whose
pictures squeness the average wild and
woolly novel seems bit fiat and color
less. In writing it the authors avowed
purpose was to counteract the impress
sion Of the ranchers created by the
omnipresent twog gun-man story. and
we recommend his work heartily to the
writer's of all such novels. 1t is an
extraordinary 353-page course in West
ern atmosphere and background, writ
ten by one who knew the COW country
we'll in the heydey of the cattleman.
MIR. Rollins's achievement. we admit
rather rcgretfully, lies chiefly in max
ing an encyclopedia intere esting. The
very chapter headings are sugge estive
of the Britannica-Cowboy Character,
Saddles, Bride, Lariat and Quirt, Live
Stock, Equipment and Furnishings
these titles give an idea of the topical
method which the writer follows. We
are given an intimate picture of all
the details Of Western life. With that
the author appears satisfied to rest.
This is not a criticism--it is a la
ment. We cannot help feeling that
with his familiarity with the cow coun-
try Mr.. Rollins could have given US q
prehensive view of the West as
whole and the part it has played in
American life, could have made a real
contribution to the interpretative his
tory of this country But he has kept
his eyes so close to his subject that
The Cowboy" from a historical point
Of view. must rank as an invaluable
source book and no more
Be that as it may. "The Cowboy" is
the best book for the guest room we
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
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New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

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New-York tribune., 1922-05-28


Houghton Mifhin
T HERE is a reality and a beauty
. of description in Villa Gathers
treatment of the prairie coun-
n try that must bring a wonder
ing sigh Of gratitude from any
, one who has lived there. The pages
spill color; words sing with life There
is breadth and openness as fine as the
land about which she is writing. Ii is
brimmng with love of nature that
overlooks neither its lovelness nor its
cruelty. 1t is in tune with the singing
prairie winds; it is as virile as the
hardy prairie growths: as lyric as tho
call OF the land. as epic as the seasons.
MY Antonio" is a quiet deliberate.
yet rapturous account of life on the
Nebraska prairies when men and women
were learning to harness it's wealth TO
their needs by wrestling the treasures
from its soil. 1t tells of those carly
days, thirty years ago when many peo-
pie still lived in sod houses and caves
and rode six miles to their nearest
neighbors, 1t is filled with the details
of mode of living unknown and
strange to US, but which our ancestors
knew sometimes only too we'll. People
starved or prospered in ratio to their
energy Bravery and unending toll
we're common necessities. Ambition
for new plow. frame house, COW
was driving force,
Jim Burden, who tells the story after
lapse Of years, went out 10 live with
MS grandparents when he was ten.
and Antonia Shimerda, the young
daughter of q Bohemian family, who
we're their nearest neghbors, becomes
so woven into his life and all his
memories that the association is
never broken. 1t is fine tale Of a
girl whose demand for contact with
the earth of which she was so MUCK
part is both genuine and appealing
"a merry. hard working. fearless
earth-woman, who needs no sympathy
and yet evokcs it.
1t brings home compellingly. too,
thing which we more cultivated and
artificial folk are apt to forget; that
these people know the same JOYS and
despairs, loves and hates, failures and
triumphs as do we who are. perhaps,
more articulate but less elemental. The
drama of life goes on as fercely in the
Western grain country and little
prairie town as it does in the close
packed East. Distance and loneliness
accentuate, if anything, the poignancy
of grief and happiness.
There is belief all understanding,
and simplicity of telling in my
Antoais" that will not easily be sur
passed. ADELE DE LEEUW.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

large, heavy book. OF course, had
heard of Lafcadio Hearn and read an
occasional reference to him, but had
never read anything written by him.
It's a wonderful book!
Every one who loves good reading
and good writing should read 1t. 1t
gave me an experience as revivifving,
as delightful as to come upon a clear,
cool spring on thirst provoking hike.
These lectures to Japanese students
could have been delivered to Americans
with profit to the latter. If very YOUNG
people were introduced to Shakespeare,
Keats, Poe or other great literary fig
ures by Hearn, they surely would ac-
Quire love for the masters that would
never be buried under the avalanche of
best sellers
When read what people write about
BOOKS stories, plays or poems 1t usual
~ leaves me only with a consciousness
Of having been bombarded with words.
It's very easy to be sneering or mawk-
!sh, and they seem nearly always one
or the other. In spite Of their evident
efforts never could get the slightest
desire to read the works they dis
cussed. But Hearn stimulated me to
wish to reread every author he men
tions.
He has several qualities as writer
that make this book delightful. One
Is the historical faculty'-I suppose
that is subimated or extended form
of sympat athy-and he knows how to
condense. He understands words, what
to say and what is not necessary to
say-he does not need to pile up heaps
of language In three or four sem
tences he eliminates subject or the
personality of an author so as to leave
a clear picture with the reader. | no.
tced this particularly in his lectures
on Shakespeare and on Poe.
HEARN's style is delightful and
makes this large book more inter
estlng than hundreds | have read of
third its bulk. He writes with the de-
ceptive simplicity of true art AT the
end of the book felt no fatigue. onlv
regret that thcre was not more of il.
OF how many collections of lectures is
this true?
He seems to me a perfect critic. He
goes at each subject with calm disnas.
sion, illumined by the light of common
sense and warmed by real human kind
ness.
MRS. FRANCES NIERMAN
2951 West Fourth Street, Los Anoele,
Calf.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Books of Yesteryear
Hearn as a Critic

A SHORT time ago. on litera-
~ turc shelf OF the Public Lib
~ ra1y. found Lafcadio Hearn's
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Factory Harmony

WHEELS. BY Hubbard
Hutchinson. Published BY C.P Put.
MANS Sons. sl.75.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

To claim for this book European
significance simultaneously denied to
j. NJ. Synge and James Stephens is to
confess complete ignorance Of its
genesis and to invest its contents with a
mysterious import which the actualty
of references would seem TO deny.
While James Joyce is endowed with the
wonderful fantastic imagination which
conceived the fantasmagoria of the
fifteenth chapter Of "Ulysses," vision
of Dublin Broken. whose scene is the
underworld. he also has the defects and
qualities Of naturalism which prompts
hin, to catalog the Dublin tramways
and to explain with the precision of
guide book how the city obtains its
water supply.
In fine. Joyce is essentially realst
as Flaubert was, but, just as the author
Of Madame Bovsry" never was bound
By the formula subsequently erected
i1to the dogma Of realism. the creator
III Stephen Dedalus has escaped from
the same bondage. Flaubert's escape
was by way of the Romantcism from
which ne started. Joyce's is by way Of
Expressionism, to which he has ad-
vaneed.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

Les SeNons
les neiges,
la rage,
le rtre du cheval sauvage
sortant nu DE- chez le barber.
nos mains capucines ede ratre,
81 IL Conteau de la colombo
e. la monte en- son herbier
ct l'aniral debout: II eornbre
CONNIE un rideau de theatre.
applaud par tout le rivage.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
9ay 1r1punes News and Reviews of Books and Authors
ls Paris News Letter Aa
By Lewis Galanticre

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witty stories. 1t is always
un Tel (whose wit is re-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-16
PROBLEMS OF LANDS
BORDERING PACIFIC
TO RECEIVE THOUGHT
(By Associated Pressl

HONOLULU, T. H., Feb. 16.-Finan-
cial and economical problems of coun-
tries bordering the Pacific ocean will
be placed under the microscope and
endeavors will be made to discover
remedies for their alienation at the
Pan-Pacific Commercial congress,
which will meet here, probably in
July, under the auspices of the Pan
Pacific union, according to the tenta'
tive program made public today.
Support has been promised the con-
ference by a number of prominent per.
sons, according to messages received
from A. II. Ford, director of the union
who Is in Washington in connection
with the congress.
These include Prince Tokugawa, one
of Japan's principal delegates to the
international conference; Viscount
Shibuzawa, who finished tour of the
United States recently; Philip Tyau
former secretary of the Chinese dele
cation at WASH ton; Secretary Of
Commerce Herbert Hoover; Colone
Jones, head of the United States Coast
and Geodetic survey; DR.. Paul Bartsct
of the Smithsonian Institute; DR.. Dav
id Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus
of Leland Stanford, Jr. university; DIR
Barton Evermann, and others.
Significant Pan-Pacific commercial
problems of each nation touched b.
the ocean will be presented in paper:
given by one delegate from each coun
try on the first day Of the congress
according to the tentative program.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-16
Alkali In Soap
Bad For the Hair

Soap should be used very carefully,
if you want to keep your hair looking
its best Most soaps and prepared
shampoos contain too much alkali.
This dries the scalp, makes the hair
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The best thing for steady use is
Mulsified cocoanut oil shampoo (Which
is pure and greaseless) and is better
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Two or three teaspoonsful of Mulsi-
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an abundance of rich, creamy lather,
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You can get Mulsified cocoanut oil
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cheap, and a few ounces will supply
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months. Be sure your druggist gives
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spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Cleo
Culbertson and family. Mr.. and Mrs.
Virgil Fulton spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Oliver Demaree. Mrs. Elsle
Alyea of Williamsburg, Mrs. Cora Nor
rison of tiis place attendeQ the funeral
of a near relative near Muncie Mon
day. DR.. Edgar Bond of Richmond
visited his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
Jehiel Bond, Monday. Mrs. Martha
Mendenhall called on Miss Abbie Mar
shall Monday. Mrs. Clara Folks
and children, Helen and Buddy, OF
Cincinnati, were recent guests of Mr..
and Mrs. John Hendershott. Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Piper left recently for
Peru where he is employed. Miss
Mary Williams of Richmond spent the
weekend with her mother, Mrs. Ar
cadia Williams Mrs. Mary Palmer
spent several days the past week at
Indianapolis visiting Mrs. Leota Du-
bois. -. Stephen Parrish and family
have moved to their home in Rich
mond . Revival services have been
postponed until March at the M. +.
church Services will be conducted by
Rev. Stoner of Chester. :. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bud Demaree entertained at din
ner Sunday at their home south OF
Webster for Mr. and Mrs. John Mulch
ner, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Mutchner oil
Richmond and son, Carl. Elizabeth
Ellis spent Sunday with Loretta Wea-
dick. Mrs. Jes Gibson and son
verle, and daughter. Reba Lavon OF
Scott county, came Saturday to spend
few days with her daughter and
family, Mr.. AMI Mrs. Noel Culbert-
son. ). Lee kirkman of Peoria, ILL.,,
visited whit Mr.. and Mrs. Will Harris
recently, en- route to Dayton, Ohio, on
business. Mr.. and Mrs. John Men
denhall entertained Sunday at dinner
for Miss Edna Spille, Harold White OF
Union City, Reba Mendenhall, Her
man Spille of Winchester, Hazel Clark
and Anthony Kleeman of Richmond
| Miss Treva Clark of Williamsburg. =.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. William Culbertson had
/ Sunday dinner with their son. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lowell Culbertson of near Rich
mond. 49,. Miss Florence Wickershan
entertained at her country home west
of Webster, Friday evening for a few
! of her many school friends. Those in
cluded in the party were Miss Esther
Duke, Miss Mildred Wilcoxson, Miss
Margaret Crow. Carl Demaree, Charlie.
E,libee, Paul Austerman. The enter
tainment consisted of Touring anC
Valentine contests of which Miss Mil
1 dred Wilcoxson and Carl Demare,
won the favors. A luncheon wa:
served to the guests by the hostess.
! JACKSONBURG, Ind.-The youns
people of Green's Fork gave a yer,
/ enjoyable entertainment here which
was well attended >. Rev. d. l.. Mill
i igan will fill his regular appointment
here next Sunday. j. Rev. and Mrs
Hogan of Cambridge spent Frida.
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lut
! The Hard-Time social given b.
i the farmers was attended by a larg
crowd and was one of the happ,
events of the winter. Miss Heste
Gethers spent Thursday with Mrs
!, Will Brooks. =. Mrs. Halle Ringer
spent the weekend with her mothe
at Blooming Grove. James Lutz j
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-16
Everyday Adventures

When you've grown very tired of
the furnished room" you've been
living in for the past six months
tired of the wall paper, tired of the
furniture, tired of the outlook and
everything
And you think what cheering
thing it would be if you could move
somewhere else where the sur
roundings would suit you better
one of those rooms you've pictured
to yourself but that you don't
really believe exist any more
And so you try to make your
dream come true by looking over
few vacancies" that you've heard
about, but except for differences in
size, all the rooms have strange
resemblance to your own
And so you just go on-week
after week-in the old place, until
the day you happen to look through
the Palladium's Rooms and Board"
column
And Then the Sun Comes Out.
Because by looking into two or
three of the offers there, you find
| exactly the sort of attractive. com
| Portable room you've been wanting
and you begin to enjoy your "home
life" again.
| Copyright 1920
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