This Younger Generation
LEOF, MADELIN
This Younger Generation A Riview by MADELIN LEOF rtf0SA' BARREN LEAVES. By JLUUm Huxley. Sew York.: George H. Doran Co. $2. If you want to know what that mass of tbe population which is so...
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...romance, the demi urge thet fashtohs the illusions by which men devise pretty matkt for life...
...Yet, the tale is relentless: Iff that seeks for his soul abroad may lose his home...
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...The story is a study of a poet who breaks from his mother and wife in New England to win the rewards of life in.the great metropolis...
...It is the lowering, brooding days of November, impassioned and broken out into cruel, wolfish, January days...
...By R*v...
...And through it all Wiiiter, fierce, stark, inexorable, etalks with devastating steps...
...DIFFICULT as it may he te write of Jemes Brenew Ca* hell, it Is none the rate an> noying to find thet another has had the temerity to encsss in tha psende-permanency of boards the creator of Poictesm...
...And all this, interesting to those coming newly upon It, wesrs, when to retailed, a faint yet dulling patina...
...In particular two points are car-I ried through it as groundwork: one, ; that heredity plays slight part in the - mental and physical habits of chil- dren, but surroundings) and "bring-s ing up" do...
...he beholds in it infinite beauty.' He will not borrow pigment* from an enchanted past, nor gather home dreams from Arcadia...
...Yet "The Peasants'' js leagues removed from the romantic novel...
...Hexter manipulates the statistics of divorce libels (applications) rather than divorce grants for excellent reasons...
...By Normsn Doaglas...
...Ratbells...
...N. Y.: Msemillan...
...that was it...
...Children would be all right if it weren't for their parents...
...Blum, Gorman tones down to an exterior account, almost in the 0. Henry vein, as the prostitute recounts tbe man "er ft] whjuh the poet acted when she^pickeiflhrm up...
...The character of Kail, despite the uncertainty of style, is '"ell con.-ceived and drawn...
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...The .•jiicral social and economic ad-Wnrc of civilization reflects itself in a steady trend downward in the number of births, still-births and deaths per population, while the trend of marriages and divorces is on the upward plane...
...There seems to be no loafer any reason for not associating him with the only comparable American romancers...
...Ineai* nation would prefer to live,'' flut what concoeter of besb^allara k» less...
...The writer cautions us that the statistics of births, deaths, marriages or divorces of a given month or months may not always reflect an economic source...
...John A. Ryan...
...Gold By Gold" is not, however, .i leaping forward along lines indicated in "Ulysses...
...Spare the rod and spoil the child" is today scientifically paraphrased into: "Spare the parent, spoil the child...
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...So urged by our desire to challenge Mr...
...After pointing out that Hawr i thorne flees from his period aisd i Melville from his country, the crltle i continues: "Mr...
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...They will discover far* ther that much of the volume con...
...Dr...
...Her intellect *y / *«y« brings her round and the ev/ ** 'very ,ffair ig flne mRterial for "ether story...
...Some escape more easily than others, for their desires arc as disparate as underclothing and painting...
...By Friedrlch Nietzsche...
...Allyn A. Young is less foolhardy and approaches the nebula thus: "Of course...
...usual, the enticingly strange, the "romantic...
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...he must etttrn...
...He has left behind tyli While the dslnty trace WdjWty# irony of CsbeU snare lop mm, m ought to wrench ourselvesMftclshf-ly free to consider this tUVraeAf in the light of the hiatonr of...
...Seek in all the writings of the romantics and you will find nowhere such toiiMl richness, such deep and passionate colorings...
...Irene, thinking herself obedient to her aunt, has consented to marry Hovenden, only to find, once •d*J i« done, that Mrs...
...snnoune* that later in th* «e*ion they wilt publish Shell* Knye Smith's new novel, "Th* George and the Crown...
...For this • book comes pretty near being a i, compendium of all the practical - knowledge that science and common ' sense have arrived at by 192B...
...Phtia...
...Winds, days, fields, snows, trees, human beings — all mingle in one elemental drama, struggling, fusing, inter-playing, passionately, primitively, equally...
...N. Y.i Boni * Llveright...
...N. Y.t Association for Community Cooper* WHY SOCIALISM HAS FAILED IN AMERICA...
...TpHERE are few thinge so well | agieed upon amongst scientist.-, psychiatrists, and physicians, as the physical care of chil-, dren and the negative rules for i their mental welfare...
...Long «t'j' Ibsen had been acclaimed by enthusiastic audiences in Pans, Berlin, and St, Petersburg, he remained unin|roduced to the English and the American publics, and would as like as not still be, were it not for the laudable efforts of Mi...
...pull reaBon and pull hallowed prejudice...
...The writer quotes Prof...
...Alfred A. Knopf...
...His one "tremendous" passage of the interior monologue style, caught memorably in the closing passage of "Ulysses," in the night thoughts of Mrs...
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...Romance is essentially the desire to escape the usual, whieE becomes the humdrum, the monet* onous...
...the various stages in the deterioration of the young enthusiastic poet are well traced, with incidental pictures of interesting characters, personalities and places...
...He proposes a psychological determination for the upa and downs of the business world, prosperity following the bosses' good feelings, a wedding oi a birth in his domicile, and bad business dependent on the bosses' toothache, indisposition or an accident or death in his family...
...and win'the astrologer's play of bright device and mystery hae bound hie World t* our obedient plsnet-mldge...
...She cannot reconcile herself to the shelf where ¦¦• belongs, but must pretend to youth and vigor and Italian art...
...over a week of misery and spiritual debate he will linger through twenty chapters...
...The relation between cause and effect is not apparent or immediate and many factors are involved that retard an effect so as to confuse the connection with its origin...
...i of evil...
...His head was a belfry...
...They are its rndianci and its after-glow...
...and our taste for the spectacle of mental torture will be regarded as in obscene perversion of which decent men should feel ashamed...
...l No mother and no father, liow-, ever humble or exalted their station t in life, ought to be without the in-' formation and guidance of the s knowledge included in such a book - as this, Children of Earth A Review by JtROME ROMAN THE PEA SA N TS— WJN TER...
...It would seem that the doctrine of American insularity and non-interference in affairs European finds nowhere such resdy and implicit concurrence as in our world of letters...
...From the author of "James Joyce, His First Forty Years," one would expect a first novel that follows on the trail of the master...
...I in- slow resentment that smouldered in the injured breasts of the peasants sweep onward into a frenzied and bloody revolt...
...It has the same wit and irony that made "Antic Hay" so fascinating a piece of work, and it has withal less 1 itter cynicism and a little more hjman sympathy...
...Prof...
...from these there has been a grsdual s> proach, to humans, to corttemporefy actions, to nearby familiar scenes, until the novelists of todsy Most frequently ssek through every-day persons snd events In tht far countries of the spirit, In art the telescope has been supplanted by the microscope, Cabtll has thus rather returned to the older, ptrheps now esiisr, way of the *strolow;.n#>ia hailed a now far-off world, has peopled it snd est up Its laws according to his fancy...
...He is •tewed time and time again with 4* triumphs of the flesh and would a life of seclusion trying to **Ply reason to the facts of the universe...
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...the intellectual young novelist, »»es cleverness...
...of Giotto end Z '"iAi bu,k of co«' "whose "•¦they should think about His j-Z...
...Thsy will at diet find much to feed their envy...
...in the process, it may he, art will cease to exist, A happy people, eve now say, h»i no history...
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...Joy will take the place of suffering as the principal theme of art...
...The study of divorce figures is extremely complicated, as one can well imagine, and Dr...
...John A. Ryan, Professor of Moral Theology and Industrial Ethics, Catholic Univtrsity, Washington, D. C. Dr...
...With this exception, the book is tbe best so far that we have read of Mr...
...They talk, talk, task, all the time, until some places in the book make uS want to yell, "Fermez lea bouches," The conversation is always clever, always informative, always eruftdating, al ways biil(iaiit, but every once in so often this cleverness becomes sti fling, and we long for a few pages of simplicity...
...AH the character development, all the little plot there is, all the philosophy, are embedded in conversation...
...Indeed, the second is to the earlier volume what winter is to autumn...
...It is , for popular leading and comprehen-I sion Were its advice reasonably I closely followed, the generation Uj . is now playing with toy autos, efectnc trains and teddies would 1 aiise later to call their parents blessed...
...order to T*pe It he takes late hia chars* aa heiress imbecile who has no conflicts—only shyness, gratitude, and a love for animals...
...Early novelists wsht on the quest to imaginary lands, the worlds of gods or feery...
...The grudge that in the first volume set son and father sgaiusl each other now burst* into a conflagration of hate...
...nut is one surprised...
...Perhaps it will be all for the best...
...Aringarin-garing...
...Most stimulant to contradiction is Mr...
...poverty, snd It...
...PORTRAIT OK A PUBLISHER, AND THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS OF THE HOUSE OF APPLETON...
...To those who have not been steeped in the superb qualities of "Ulysses," "Gold By Gold" will be an excellent approach and stimulation...
...Reymont's novel, "The Peasant," more than sustains the note of greatness achieved by "Autumn...
...The omiaous rumblings of "Autumn" have hilled themselves loose in peals of mighty thunder...
...Every person in the book is of the yonnger generation—if not in age then In desire—and everyone is palled between two loves...
...or should she make her own underclothing...
...At some distant future date, when society is organized in a rational man ner so that every individual occupies the position and does the work for which his capacities really fit him, when education has ceased to instil into the minds of the young fantastic prejudices instead of truths, when the endocrine glands have been taught to function in perfect harmony and diseases have been suppressed, all our literature of conflict and unhappiness will stem strangely incomprehensible...
...Where else but in a Huxley book wbuld you expect to find "To be torn between divided allegiances is the painful fate of almost every human being...
...Full of bells...
...who oak...
...By J. J. Waleh, M. I)., and J. A. Foots, At...
...Torn from the soil where he was nourished—despite the fact that he seemed out of place there—Karl can flourish nowhere else...
...piled an exhaustive "hand book," as they call it, of mental health...
...Cardan Is of the [•"nger generation in apirlL He •"•fee conversing and telling all ™* youngsters about the "incestn-•« homosexuality...
...The novelist dismisses in Sifjtsragreph his hero'a twenty years ot happiness...
...If you want to know what that mass of tbe population which is so loudly praised and so vehemently damned as the hope of the world or the impossible, incorri fible, good-for-nothing younger generation is thinking and doing and saying, just read Aldous Huxley...
...Almost as in a monistic cosmogony, men and the elements co exist upon one plane of being...
...When there is no more misery, he will have nothing to write about...
...It may also be that there is a remote connection between sun-spots and baldheaded-ness, but until the evidence is more weighty and conclusive I, for one, will look for other sources for my affliction...
...The literature of vital statistics is already imposing...
...The fact that divorces are expensive, involving lawyers' and court fees and perhaps alimony, may be the reason for relatively more divorces in timet of business prosperity...
...and second, that - NEHVES are In the main but bod- ity health and hygiene corrupted I and perverted...
...One feets indeed that this must be deftly . . . and one wonders whether something is not awry...
...and adds that he does go "in a lan-guage which never falls below st high level ot perfection"—snd the resders will reflect that by refrain* ing from giving expression to their thoughts they hav* at least avoided ineptitude...
...Then, sitting bsck for a retrospective glance, we sea, thai throughout we have, matching minds with the critic, been held and stimulated and incidentally , confirmed in our opinion ef thai dear vanities of James Branch Cabell...
...Karl returns to receive the prodigal's welcome...
...Alas, per-[ haps only when their fathers and mothers have used with their children the techniques outlined and suggested by this hook...
...His hues com* with, life...
...in its stead to And the nft...
...The greatest hobby of the younger generation would seem to be talk...
...Unlike tha others as each of these three may seem, they have all at least -this much in common, that thsy are engineers of escape from the univtrts of compromise* and . half-measuree to the uAlyerse la which both xessen and the...
...I am sure no careful student will dismiss this discovery altogether...
...Yet the temptations of "••My happiness arc ever present, *h eternal torment...
...and we might add that happy individuals have no literature...
...New Yotki McBride...
...The scenes of life in Greenwich Village and the mood of Second avenue are vividly presented...
...Pamphlet...
...Irene, her niece, is romantic, one falls in love with Lord Hoven-«*n, sweet, simple youth, torn between bashfulness when he is walk-to*', and boldness when he puts on J* ***8 'n his high-powered motor «r...
...What artist, by Van ffitffi , own eluridetien of Cabell, is aitfbt , else...
...pall flesh...
...There may be something in it...
...William Archer, The same tardiness of appreciation characterized our translations of the Russian and the Scandinavian prose mas ters, and, to refer to the present instance, of Wladislaw St Reymont...
...Reymont loves the earth—our earth, earth as it is...
...After the soul-searching experiences of the city, he learns the lesson that though a prophet be not without honor save in his own home, still it shall profit him nothing to win the world and lose his soul...
...She also loves "•»¦ She hates to love, becausk!?n- 8he lose* h'r scintillating!, •"lliant personality, but she cai i m help loving...
...The wicked guiles of Dr...
...By I Wladitlaw St...
...Father Ryan at the Brooklyn Jewish Center The speaker at the next Forum of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, 667 Eastern Parkway, <" Monday, March 30, at 8:15 p.m., will be Dr...
...That's what tbe figures show, but you have got to look carefully before you jump to conclusions, because statistics and lies are blood relatives...
...pull love...
...N. Y.i Bonl * Live-right...
...Vsn Doren, wo complete the volume with increasing contradiction...
...Karl .Jin s ordered a cheese sandwich "and t beer...
...For now the mantle of heroism has fallen from the aging shoulders of Boryna to furl itself about the lusty, primitive form of Antek...
...THE direct effect of economic cycles, unemployment and the cost of living upon births, stillbirths, marriages, divorces and deaths has been analyzed by numerous investigators...
...They leap liks the flame from flints clashing, like the foam from waves surging...
...Hexter modestly conjecture...
...This must be deftly...
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...By Grant Overton...
...Full of bats...
...In his love life, also, he has conflicts, for those he loves seldom reciprocate...
...In no author now writing do »(¦ find a more complete reflection of this younger generation, with Its aaalerotiams, its talk about sex and free-riTing, its unconventionalities, its aim*, its aimlessness, its prejudices, its tolerance, its bugbears, and it accomplishments...
...Modern Llbrsry...
...The parent needs teaching and training far more than the child...
...Csbeil, more sjfs* , tematic than Melville or Hawthorne i in his thinking, Is more thorouth i in his art...
...Rtymont...
...The Peasants," that great prose epic which compelled the instant recognition of the eminent European critics, and which was crowned with the laurels of the Noble Prize, was to us, until a season ago, an unwritten work...
...New\ York...
...e A Flying Horse A Review by WILLIAM LEA GOLD BY GOLD...
...It is possible to maintain that fluctuations which appear to precede a given business cycle really reflect the influence of the last previous cycle...
...By the last , I mean that it is well understood ¦ how not to Ileal the foiinatlve imi i „!.', mind of a child...
...A typical .passage in the Joycean vein may be selected for illustration...
...He is a poet by instinct and desire, •ft writes about rabbits for a living...
...By Alfr*d Kreym-borg...
...Sins of the Fathers" A Rev.ew by RAYMOND FULLER SA FEGUARDINO CHILDREN'S NERVES...
...pull baker...
...Men are made stalwart like oaks, and oaks animate like men...
...The love, the sinful love that budded unseen, springs into a flaming ib.w...
...Social Science BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL...
...Calsmy, the handsome, the debon-nslr, the distingue, is born with a Wwt for love-making...
...Hawthorn* Slid Melville...
...1.00...
...His subject is "The Right aad Wrong ef Labor Uaions...
...Miscellaneous THB STORY OK WILBUR THE HAT...
...At for the positive, as to education i and the fact content «gf his later mind, that is another thing, and i highly controversial...
...D., lMi...
...For Ike nine Ull* that th* author has "gone on in hie avowed practice of the desire te write perfectly of beautiful things...
...He does not with hues a priori embellish a wished-for world...
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...Hexter's work strengthens the findings of other investigators, and his analysis of vital phenomena in and around the city of Boston" in particular confirms the common impression that vital statistics follow the gyrations of economic cycles and that "months of much employment are peak months in marriages...
...The conflict which has raged daring the last few months within Irene's spirit, though not so serious as some of the inward battles that have distracted strong men in their search for the salvation of integrity, was still for her a painful one...
...New York, the Mecca of American artists...
...Put baldly, in it* most concrete form, the question at issue was this: Should she paint, pictures and write...
...When will the fathers and mothers of the world learn that...
...They are elemental and real, as Is the life they light up.__ BOOKS RECEIVED Literature SOUTH WIND...
...he has faith in it...
...The conflict, in its various forms, is the theme of every Arams...
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...Chelifer is the editor of a rabbit fancier's gazette...
...pull duty...
...The reason it not clear, although the economic argument it clearer than the psychological...
...he finds his wife-gone off with another man...
...Hex-ter's work correctly, it may be described as an attempt to survey the no-man's land between the various statistical researches, particularly tho domain of averages, time series and lags...
...Others »r« more badly burned...
...Aldwin-»!•» heart Is seemingly broken by ^ne's leavetaking...
...There is a general suspicion that this is so, but proof is more stable than suspicion and the doctor delivers the proof...
...Here Is the essence of "Those Barren Leaves"—they are the barren leaves of the trees of conflict...
...Ryan is acknowledged ss a leader in progressive thought and in industrial, economic and social fleldi, and is a recognised authority on thr subjects on which he speaks...
...Pull devil...
...Miss Thrip-°w...
...Of lato the international political developments have tilted to a very noticeable angle our Mon-roesque attitude, ('an it be that in literature we shall maintain forever a wall about our land, admitting only the bespangled and the be medalled ' "Winter," the second volume of St...
...Gorman contenU himself with, a comfortable sauntering on the already cleared path ¦wajf- Mj#K>y between, Jet us say Ben ItechU...
...And when the mighty son of Boryna, lifting up his antagonist, swings him aloft with a giant hand to bring him down like a destroying axe against an oak ti tink, who is then man...
...They seem to flourish best during the happy honeymoon of business >vvival...
...and divorces being the effect of economic cycles, may they not, he timorously asks, bo the cause oi economic cycles instead...
...By Herbert S. Gorman...
...Here Antek is a wind that roves, a flee that rages...
...Huntington is the true parent of the optimism prosperity—pessimism business depression theory...
...S 0 C1 A L CONSEQUENCES OF BUSINESS CYCLES...
...These who have enjoyed Cabell will read Van Doren in a spirit of challenge...
...Ogburn and Miss Thomas at this junction snd they give the following warning: "The tendency to secure more divorces in prosperity and fewer divorces in business depression is quite marked, and this conclusion is perhaps surprising...
...instead of breaking new ground beyond themesy paths the Irish novelist has started, Mr...
...One aspect of American nationiliim, —the influence of the group mind—I* discussed In "The Indestructible Union," by William McDougall, j list published by Little, Brown & Company, Prosperity, Hard Times and Vital Statistics —A Review by A.UCUST C LA ESSEN...
...Action...
...By Hemlrik Van Loon...
...At first glance it appears that divorces are not popular during hard times...
...The men of Llpka aetting out In one great body to prevent the destruction of the forest are themselves a forest marching—an army of forest-trees rushing to the rescue of their endangered brethren...
...that we may have our statistical conclusions hind-side front...
...For upwards of a score of years the works of Reymont have been enjoyed widely in the principal Ian guages of Europe, while to us the name of their author was a blank, save for a short-story or so pub lished fugitively...
...And this from a pen relentlessly realistic as that which gave us "Germinal...
...A fine meaty piece of work, done in true Huxley manner that will delight all Huxley fans and bring many converts...
...the discussions—though often seeming , to be the author's rather than the characters'—are intelligent and holding...
...Hexter has been lured into unnecessary trouble...
...By Maurice B. Hexler...
...For though we have learnt to feel disgust at the spectacle, of a bull tight, an execution or a glad iatorial show, we still look on with pleasure at the contortions of those who suffer spiritual anguish...
...though any of a dozen AmeeteanA~might serve—-and Joyce, he freniainS"*consistently undarmg and safe...
...It Is the oncoming of a wild-eyed spirit that rages and ravages through the land in Bacchanalian fury...
...Instead of births, deaths, marriage...
...pull spirit...
...Ells-Worth Huntington are responsible for this daring hypothesis and Dr...
...INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY FROM A CATHOLIC VIEWPOINT...
...Karl's soul was left behind in Springvalc...
...Aldwinkle was once young, and still believes herself as young as ever...
...TROUBADOR...
...The portrait is thus a study of defeat...
...Rye-bread Aryearyearyearye...
...If 1 appraise Dr...
...Van Doren't ettempt to classify Cabell among American novel* i»ta...
...tlsts of a presentation, elear and coherent, indeed, of Cabell's persisting philosophy and theme t "wisdom dee* canting on th* vanity of life...
...in this book, these, competent and broad minded physicians have com...
...IT is a matter for deep regret j that the English-speaking nations should be among the very last to render appreciation to the contemporary European masterpieces...
...In Other words, when he is happy he it courageous and the wheels begin to hum, and when he is depressed he is hesitating snd inclined to be lazy and thus his depression breeds more depression and panic follows...
...Women al-WB make a play for him...
...Tying tht frfttf Cabell A Review by JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY JAMBS BRANCH CABELL sty Carl Von Daren...
...j l. .¦;_,_a...
...By Charl** Browir...
...They are th« fiery passions of the elements in combat...
...Bells in the head...
Vol. 2 • March 1925 • No. 13
