The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-11-09


oil boring from Arucean "a feehun." )"
which II merely prose oxpssssion Of
or sombrc-drunk. At nina or mart
lie dubs his dreary brethren kings.
THEN there Il "A Walking DeIssnte.s :
1 In which In, the guise Of Vermont
farmer. Kipling cndeavored 10 distinguish
between the various types from various
parts Of the country. Marcus Aurslius
Antoninus and most OF tho horses on tho
farm reflect something Of the domssticity
Of gray New England. There ara also
strangers. State and city pride Is prov
alcnt. Tho city element Ia represented
In Muldoon. the ex-cnr horse. born In
Iowa. but typical New Yorker. swearing
by the city OF his adoption. ANY borse
dat knows beans gifts outer Kansas before
dcy Grips his shoes. DO BELT Line stables
amt no Hoffman House. but derc vander-
bilt's 'longside ef Kansas" There is
Twcczy. type Of the old South. ever the
most courteous Of horses. loyal 10 bis
allegiance 70 tho Blue Grass region OF
Kentucky. Excuse me. sub, but unless I
have been misinfohmed. most Of yo'
prominent siahs. sub. are impo'tcd from
Kentucky. and I'm from Paduky." Then
there Is the blatant Doney from Kansas
with his: Kansas. cir. needs no advcr-
tisement. Native sons rely on themselves
and their sircs. What the horses Of
Kansas think to-day the horses Of
America will think tomorrow"
Tn similar vein much might be cited
1 from score Of other tales and poems.
But II is only the very limited mind that
finds In these citations any evidence Of
underlying hostility. "The Islanders"
which arraigns "the fanncled fools at
the wicket and the foolish OATS at the
goals" and "The English Flag" cannot
be construed as rejecting dislike on tho
part Of Kipling for his own land. Behipd
the most vigorous attack upon American
institutions there has always been kind
Of mental kinship with the people OF the
United States. The personal Kipling-
though perhaps he may not relish the
statements much more OF m American.
apart from his political beliefs. than he
is On Englishman. His manner OF speech
is more American than it is English.
which does not mean that he talks
through his nose. or drops into the idioms
used by Wilton Sargent in irritating mo-
ments Of "An Error in the Fourth Di-
mension." He has perhaps been little
cocky at times In his manner Of rap
ping us over the knuckles, but the fact
is that he hits upon an occasional truth.
Even the criticisms conveyed in the
alleged interview, which he has denied.
furnish food for serious thought. The
professional patriot may foam at the
mouth, but 1t is the professional patriot
and his brethren who arethe real enemies
of the Republic: not Mr.. Kipling, who has
always fought in the open.
A LFRED A. KNOPF, INC, has just
"A brought out the first volume OF
new edition in English Of the works OF
Guy de Maupassant, the translations be-
ing made by Mr.. Ernest Boyd. So far
Maupassant in English has not been
success. Taught to write by
Flaubert, who was an exacting taskmas'
ter, he took the word he needed to ex-
press his meaning, and very often that
word was one that flustered the timid or
translator. There is in exist
ence a paper covered translation of Bel
Ami" in which not merely words but
entire episodes are missing, with the re-
suit that the story is utterly unintelligt-
BILE. There is an English edition of Maui
sold by subscription, very elabo-
rate as to binding, but so distorted that
1t is not Maupassant at all. To illustrate,
take the story "Mouche." The philosophy
of that tale, all its mordant irony. Is
summed up in five words Translated
into highly proper English, the words
mean absolutely nothing.
A LSO. to put the matter bluntly, the
A average American who claims ac-
quaintaiice with the work Of Guy de Mau-
passant bases the claim first upon his
Of H. G. Burners very Gle. er
adaptations in Made in France in
which Bunner did not mutilate the origi-
nal, but retold the tales with what he
called UNITED States twist; secondly
upon his knowledge Of la Parure" (The
Necklace), which is to be found in every
text book on the short story as the su.
preme example Of the art Of condensa-
tion. and, thirdly, on the familiar glib
comparisons of Maupassant's work with
the work Of Edgar Allan Poe. and 0.
Henry. To turn to the cinder path for
a figure Of speech, the average American
reader knows Maupassant as highly ef-
ficient performer at the literary 100 yard
dash. But "Une Vie" and Pierre ct
JEAN" and "Fort Comme la Mort" and
"Bel-Ami." and mont Oriol," and "Notre
C@ur' attest his ability to run the mile,
while he was probably at his very best
at the 440, to which distance belong such
tales as Monsieur Parent" "L'Heritage"