New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

- - sNsss'4@ = luistdsIe as Tor the He
efaie racial characteristics. He Ia. he
says, q Mahometan, and he viii leave
sny table where pork Ia served. .Yopr
Christian law imposes Impossible
|edicts," he exclaimed; cit commands
you to love your enemies. / hate INV
enomies." And I can we'll believe him.
Ills highest admiration Is reserved
for the New Englandera of Anglo
Saxon Puritan stock--the Lowella and
the Lodges. the Caboss and the Hie-
ginsons. Tho aliens among us, he
says, insult them because "they will
not become Hebraic- Germanic. or
Judeo-Slavsc, or Spanish, Italian.
| Czecho-Siovakian, Ruthenian or what
not. Why should they? am glad to
conform to the ethics and customs Of
this country. for the privilege Of liy-
ing here Is an inestimahle one."
he reserves, however, the privilege
OF holding our play and book critics in
very low esteem. could not serious
~ take issue with him, for was wit
ness to his buying a floral tributs to
an actress he admired and he told me
that ne made twenty drafts Of every
story he wrote. He is an interesting.
amusing and delightful, il credulous.
chap.
| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
| ssDon Marquis and Newton Fuessle
came in to see me this afternoon. Don
was in good form. He voiced his ad-
niiration for d. H. Lawrence and for
Sherwood Anderson. Anderson" he
| said, Seems always to be trying to
clear away the words which stand be-
tween himself and tho thing he wishes
to present" This pronouncement
rather startled me, for it is almost
word for word what Anderson once
told me was his chief problem in
writing. IL like to see a man try for
clarity and simplicity" said Don. "and
that is what Anderson does. Sometimes
he goes even little too far and then
he becomes incomprehensible, because
he clears away so many words that
the ordinary threads of association by
which we establish an image in our
inds are done away with by him, and
as result we are unable to see the
thing he wishes us to see. He is O very
great man. Hergcsheimer, on the
other hand, is interested in every
thing except the essence Of situa-
tion. He digs deeper into surfaces
than any one know Of. He is an
elaborate portrayer of appearances"
Rollin Lynde Hartt had brought me in
a copy of ECHOES from DELL" vol
ume Of poems by Deli Hair, a poetic
policeman, who writes in the manner
of "The Sweet Singer Of Michigan"
and Don, Newton and were having
good sport reading it aloud when Don
said that the greatest literary loss he
had ever sustained was when some one
stole his copy of the poems OF j. Cor
| don Coogler. One of the immortal
lines in Coogler's poems, said Don, is:
There pimples
Surrounding her dimples
AS ever yet have seen"
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6
| I. r. Smith and Horace Liveright
gave dinner tonight for c. A..
Evans, the American representative OF
the English publishing firm of William
Heinemann g. Co. Around the table,
beside the hosts and the guest of honor,
were: DR.. Ludwig Lewisohn, John Macy,
I'll. S. Candy, r. Scott Fitzgerald, Carl
/ Van Vechten, DIR. Fleischer, George
Jean Nathan, Charles Bracket. Otto
Liveright, Edward Anthony, Ernest
Boyd, Newton Fnessle, Julian Messne
! and myself. There were many mock
speeches of the hands-across-the-
variety which were shamed by DR..
| Lewisohn, Dr.. Fleischer and John Macy,
who had a great deal seriously to say
| about art as an International, not a
national or sectional affair. Liveright
| pushed Van Vechten off chair and
broke his collar bone; Evans played the
"Oh, My Gawd" prelude by Rachmani-
noff, to which I gave terpischorean
Interpretation, and Evans, Bracket and
| bundled into taxicab, declaring one
another to be "the life Of the party
ail0 1ou OASSt tIl6 Ming dEO
columbia, the Gem Of the ocean,
i. 1t was great day for .litera-
ture.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER
Lunched with Adelaide Luke to-day
and we rode through the park in vic
toria. "Gargoyles" she said, was, for
all Its carelessness In proofreading, the
most notable book she had read dur
ing the past SIX months. at is one of
tho most accurate interpretations of
human motives that has ever got into
felton," she eaid. 81 didn't like Erik
Dorm because 1t had too much Hecht
in it, always posturing, sneering,
theatricalizing and lifting his eye
brows; but 'Gargoyles' is honest, reve-
,atory, real and important. George
Basine in 'Gargoyles' is George. F
Bahbitt analysed, whereas Sinclair
Lewis merely gives us a phonograph
record of what he says.
The letters Of James Gibbons
Huneker," edited by Mrs. Josephine
II Still a Best SelIerf