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The Realm of Books Another Census of Parnassus A Review ky RAYMOND FULLER An Embarrassing Book A Review by McAlieter Coleman.. THE ESSENTIAL AMERICAN TRADITION. By Jen* Lee Ben nett. New...
...The book is a credit to himself, to American literature, and to his publishers...
...J*™ Sundelius, Margery Maxwell and *J«J»ss Gordon as soloists...
...New York: Greenberg...
...there are three aafe commentators on American poetry to turn to...
...Mischn Levitzki will give a recital In Honolulu on July 27...
...And this appears in some measure in the stories set before us...
...He learned to read and write at the age of three...
...The general theory of evolution, could it be discussed by one whoss learning antedated Darwin...
...It is therefore gratifying to havs thia opportunity to lead at first hand some stories actually written by a Chinaman...
...THE MINERS' FIGHT FOR AMERICAN STANDARDS...
...If the librarian of the Union League Club who buys the book on the strength of the announcement on the jacket that "the true ons hundred per cent Americanism ii here defined" ever looks inside its covers, he is liable to hurl the seditious thing out the "window...
...This is a disillusioning and embarrassing book for one hundred per centers and one deserving a place in the library of every true friend of freedom...
...If mysticism is a mental failing, at least it is a prized one...
...We csnnot resd many of the tales consecutively because of their monotonous insistence on a few situations...
...Not only have the purity of all large race storks been proven to he mythic...
...Social Sciences THE NEW HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES...
...But they never enter into these matters In detail...
...PLAYWRIGHTS OF THE NEW AMERICAN THEATRE...
...By Herbert GHet...
...And there is another: "A mystic is one who turns from the microscope and the telescope to the faith within...
...DRAMA Broadway Briefs Tha Ridisg Lloyds have joined th* Luna Park Circus this week...
...surely he paints a gorgeous picture of this handsome, impetuous pouth, half crusader, half poet...
...Our present owns them, but uses them gingerly...
...RIVOLI —"Paths of P*rsdiM," from "The Heart of a Thief," hy Paul Armstrong, with Betty Compson...
...A fine bit of writing that deserves quoting in any review of thia book on poetry: "Most poets are inhabited by a triple imperative: to bring up from the deep hidden pools of their unconscious the desire and decrees that twitch and toss there...
...Even Shaw might aay no...
...N. Y.: Dial Pre...
...By Max Eaetman...
...It should not be the last of the translations from the Chinese...
...At the Cinemas BROADWAY Reginald Denny in "I'll Show You the Town," with Marian Nixon, Edward Kimball and Lilynn Tashman...
...then slowly crystallize «rs years psss, until they assume the earth-form called science...
...May he live to re-write Chapters 7, IS, li), and 20, into another volume as good as is the balance of this...
...Bowdlerlzation Is annoying at best...
...But after all is discounted, readers of this book will wish that they had read one-tenth as widely in American literature as has the author...
...China In A Polished Mirror • A Review by DAVID P. BERENBERG STRANGE STORIES FROM A CHINESE STUDIO...
...The present book add* little to what is already known of Rosa Luxemburg* life...
...to clothe these in a garmentry of singing beauty...
...When he was seven years old he was his father's secretary, took charge of his accounts and paid out the workers...
...We must take the translator's word for their standing in Chinese literature...
...WjleHus will be heard as Mnrguerite '""suit," on July 2, with Martinelli "Wag opposite her in the title role, ft Msphittofele sung by Rnthier...
...A rarer, shyer sort lack the third element, the advertising flair, the itch for poetic publicity that is needed to overcome the deaf inertia of wearied man...
...The China that appears in these anecdotes is a curious melange of sophistication, of gross superstition...
...COLONY "Passionate Youth," by J. Grub Alexander, with Beverly Bayne, Frank Mayo, Pauline Gurnn and Bryant Washburn...
...New York...
...ii r\ ED" ROSA, the "firebrand," |^ who was anathema to tha e r m a n Junkers, o a e o f whose cowardly menials struck her down, is already enshrined in the hearts of the Socialist masses as a glorious martyr...
...Hi* breadth, in American poetry la amazing...
...THE POETS OF AMERICA...
...1926...
...Joyce recently read aloud from his writing* to a phonographic recorder ao that a record of hia vole* may he kept for futur* times, lie I* said to have "» scholar's voice, polished, eloquent, preoccupied with Hie cadence of word...
...Her friendship with I .nine Kautsky not only survived her sharp break with Karl Kautsky on a matter of Socialist policy, but remained fully aa warm...
...Bonl and Llvcrlght...
...At its worst, mysticism is its own cousin, insanity...
...His ma,ny years in prison and in exile, his love-life and his family life, all have their place in this interesting, if not particularly valuable, book...
...New York: Boni A Liveright...
...By Wltt*r Bra* n.r...
...This, I believe, ia the major fault with the work bearing such a title...
...By Son C. Salts...
...Bar* of Seville," on July 1. Mme...
...but there is another feeble arrow to be shot at the author, We birds who have perched meditatively on Ihe Golden Bough, or sat like jessed hawklets on the horny fist of Jung, must loudly caw down a thesis which breaks out discordantly now and again through these pages, Mr...
...Trotsky Again LEON TROTSKY: THE PORTRAIT OF A YOUTH...
...I have mentioned one defect...
...From aeven to ten or *lev*n at night on* can or rathar muse admire, In all tha streets, right and left, In the open shops of th* Barbers (every third Genoese is a barber, the other two arc awindlcrs of uncertain occupation), sitting figures that are enveloped In white robes, and thai aeem to aturly th* dirty calling with philosophically upturned noaas, while an agile, black-eyed youth d*nc*e ¦ bout on their visages with finger* that art not exactly whits...
...Or Witter Bynner or Arthur Whaley has set before us a bit of Chinese verse—a free-verse, yet bound in conventional limits at which we could only guess...
...New York: George H. Duron Company $3.00, ifT^HE essential American tra[ dition is certainly not a thing of territory and institutions, of formulas and symbols...
...There are those who lsck the first inner mandate: they are the embroiderers, the eloquent with no word to say...
...SHEDDING THE TEARS...
...Those near-truths that wa call truth appear first as mists, visible only to the seers...
...Ins chapters devoted to the flrat-magnitude stars of his collection sre not perceptibly damaged...
...Several aw dincers, including Princess Iwona and Princtss Lnla are appearing in the "Night Ia Cairo" attraction...
...3.00...
...but were they "pure," critical psychology knows now that an individual's home life, associates, impressions, experiences, account for practically all that go to make up that unduplicated diversity which is our Conscious Selves...
...Hence there are four chapters where both its readableness and value fall far below his standard* When, for example, he lumps under a chapter head called "Fallow Years" the Amerind poetry and all the Aframeriran potts...
...his Golden Treasury has been crammed by surtaxes laid on ev«ry poet whose outgo has exceeded his income...
...Not only safe in judgment, in the main, but brilliant in phrase, sympsthetic and broad-gauged in criticism, 1 refer, of course, to Louis Untermeyer, Harriet Monroe, and Clement Wood...
...We sre told that Pu Sung Ling, who lived in the 17th Century A. D., was a social critic...
...He I* just recovering from th* fifth operation on his eyes in about eighteen months...
...Another se» attraction at I,una is the Royal Simula Village with eighteen South Sw nmn and singers...
...There are but two or three of such passages, however...
...It is a collection of eaaayi which deals with the writer's work in the little patch of South American jungle to which he refers aa hia laboratory...
...He delineate* and traces Norman, Saxon, Keltic, Jewish, and even "American" strains in our poetry, as if they were or are actualities...
...etsh prirea which A. L. Jones M Morris Green have offered for '•¦it sketches, novelties and scenic inMMtieai for the seventh edition of "Or»*nwich Village Follies," have already brought , some 250 comedy Man to their office...
...And what, pray, is the appraissl of poets and poetry but a task in sublimated psychea and libidos ? There is intellectual TNT enough in these two, the greatest contributions to modern thought, to blow all our libraries to atoms...
...In th* morning, but rathar In the •Veiling...
...At its best, it is a leap toward reality faster than the brain can go...
...Friday, Saturday and SunDusolina Giannini will be soloiat at the first Philharmonic concert in Berlin and the first concert of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig...
...His apprenticeship has bean thorough...
...together with Bliss Carman, Stephen Crane, Moody, Markham, Field, Riley, Cawein, Woodberry, Mackaye, Keeae, and several others, thrown in besides, the treatise is pathetically inadequate...
...A rtvitfd edition'of "The Diuerted Village" was presented at the Triangle Thistle, Monday night...
...And yet, we do not get these stories at "first hsnd...
...By Stanley Haldwin...
...All the stories, the authentic as well as the purely apocryphal, indicate that Trotsky, the man, was quiet and reserved, a student rather than an agitator—at least, that Is his history for the short period he was in this country...
...the turbulent, precocious and somewhat unruly boy, in Max Eastman's book...
...And Anally the translator admits that he has bowdlerized the stories —made them acceptable for consumption in th* "best of homes...
...Tuesday Wt.June 30, marks the 14th anniver""lot Ravinia's beginning and on this fiMen Rosa Rnisa will make her BP at Ravinia if, "Aida...
...vet* York: McBndt, ft.iO...
...The subject will be "The ! Pijttelogy «nd Mechanism of L*ughtir...
...Well, Freud planted amongst us two decades ago quite as dynamic an infernal machine as was the Pandora-box pried open by Darwin...
...R. T.f Putnam...
...But, even by this eager gluttony...
...RIALTO- "Grounds for Divorce," by Ernest Vajda, with Florence Vidor, Matt Moore and Louisa Faienda...
...By Jamas Bennett...
...Century...
...Those who lsck the second urge are the voices who always fall beneath the topmost flight, for lack of the craft of singing...
...Indianapolis: Bell Publishing Company...
...Now and then a statue, or a vase, or a piece of embroidery has drifted westward (or is it eastward...
...Here, to enhance the attractiveness of his store of literary Jewels, he provoes himself an accomplished window-dresser, for he has scarcely a page not carrying liberal quotations of poetry...
...Of Pne.'trgr author says (1) that "he inherited an alcoholic taint" from his father, and m that he "hi least Arnertenn of all in singing...
...Trotsky himself gave Eastman very little assistance in his work, but the verifiable matter with the permissible embroidery make a delightful, swiftly moving story...
...Kenneth Finch lints tilt leading role and Edith Broder sill alternate with Agnes Ashley as i»« artist's model...
...TramlaUd from the Chineee of Pu Sung Ling...
...Woven into the text is underlying belief in reincarnation, even in the grossest forms of metempsychosis...
...Butterfly" till Br,t "me in her ™™*T Friday Sr1- July 8. Saturday, July 4, •WW will be sung...
...finally, getting shaved—not, how*v*r...
...Here and there through these peraonal letters are occasional hints of Important events transpiring In the phase of the Socialist movement in which she happened to be at work at the time...
...and, last, to paint them across the sky until all who read may run in the flame of their exultation or fade in the wither of their despair...
...It is one of these well-bound volumes that remains open at the point at which you open it, without fluttering leaves...
...to defile with their venom and hat...
...It essays to cover too much ground...
...Dial Press...
...A GOOD MAN...
...He says enough...
...How much of the book is myth that is certain to surround a man who becomes the commanding figure Trotsky was at the time the hook was written is hard to determine...
...At the age of nine he was getting out a magazine, all beautifully handlettered by himself...
...On this point we may rest assured, for the translator is Professor of Chinese at the University of Edinburgh...
...to give hints of artatandards highly sophisticated, yet altogether different from our own...
...A »sw comedy, a sequel tn "The Fall GujV'Is being written by James Gleams.'lit is'to be called "Mrs...
...IN large measure we have had to take Chinese civilization, in particular Chinese literature, on faith...
...By Thomas H. . Dickinson...
...Perhaps he sees in Trotsky a,fulfillment of himself...
...iSf tB'rt WMk of th* free Qolamsn *one*rt» st New York University beglni Monday and continues ^"•atty...
...ag*in, *xpcctoratTng about every fifteen minutes, not, however, in as simple and formless a manner as with us, but rather artistically, a long, thin stream exuding from th* mntlh to th* aeeompanlment of a abort, hissing sound, without th* artist'* moving his head...
...Sunday night, June 28, ¦artha" will be given with Schipa, [••Knee Macbeth, Lazzari and AnanTit* Chicago Symphony Orchesunder Eric De LaMarter, will give ' Kauri Monday night, with Mme...
...Rosa Luxemburg's pen was a busy one, hut she put most of her set ion* discourses on Socialism and Socialist tactics into scores of special srtlrles and books...
...Even when the travellers were men of sensibility and scholarship, men like Dickinson, Russell, or Maugham, we have always seen China through other eyes...
...W. Huebach, the American publisher of Joyce'* "Dubliner*" and "Portrait of th* Artist," has had other news of hiss In * recant letter...
...PEACE AND GOODWILL IN INDUSTRY...
...Once, after he had ascertained what was coming to one of the workers, he gravely told his father that it was not enough for the man to get along on...
...N. Y.i Macmlllan...
...In none of the arts to the extent in poetry does the Unconscious of both creator and auditor play as necessary a part...
...To read in these pages what Whitman, Emerson, Lincoln, Thoreau thought about America and then to come suddenly upon the drear platitudes of Calvin Coolidge is like falling out of a mountain-stream into the sewer...
...not too much...
...Rosa shows herself beautifully attached to the Kautsky children...
...In this passage, there is a fair idea of what might have been expected if she haqV "I have observed," *h* wrnt* from Genoa, "that there are three favnrlt* oe eupation* among th* Genoese: standing about with hand* in th* troussr pockets, and a pip* In mouth, whll* watching some fellow human being, such as a harbor work*r or a ground digger, with quiet sympathy for hours at a time a* h* is engaged In hi* work...
...CAMEO- Agnes Ayrea in "The Awful Truth," by Arthur Richman, with Winifred Hryson and Carrie Clarke Wood...
...Here the suspicion srises that in the process the stories have largely lost their meaning, and that what is left is a collection of fairy-stories like those of the brothers Grimm...
...MAYFAIR...
...UNDER THE BLACK FLAG...
...His sight seems to be improving llttl* by little, but he is not yet able to read or write, and is obliged to proceed with his new novel slowly with th* aid of three magnifying gleans...
...THERE are as many stories about Leon Trotsky current in New York as there are apartment houses in the Bronx...
...The letters, for the most part, deal either with small, intimate gossip about Ihe Kautsky household or with routine editoi lal matters concerning The Neue Zeit, to which Rosa Luxemburg waa a frequent.contributor: am: of which Karl Kautsky nil Ihe editor...
...That fabricated theory of inherent race qualities i» surely by now quite shat tered by anthropologists...
...White Cargo" reached its 700th performance Wednesday eVening, at the 33th Street, Theatre...
...On the contrary, there is enough pun derous evidence presented by Jung and Fraaer alone to establish the veritable world wide homogeneity of man's unconscious mind...
...YOUNG HARVARD...
...Wood stresses racial characteristics, mental and temperamental, altogether too violently...
...Can a critic afford to lack a scientific tool-shop, and especially a workbench wanting the "cunning instruments of scientific psychology...
...N. Y.I Doran...
...BOOKS RECEIVED Literature GEORGIAN STORIE8...
...and if they are true, the Trotsky family must have lived in every apartment house in that populous borough...
...R«lsa will sing "Mme...
...By Cloment Wood...
...It is tn me only here that I begin to distrust Clement Wood a little...
...Then we must accept his version of the Ch'nese original...
...But it is quite obvious thst smong the things satirized is the complex of sexual manners and marriage customs, and of this we get in this translation bare hints and the evidence of disconcerting omissions...
...N. Y.: Knopf...
...Our Unconscious is a world-wide Brotherhood of Man, it appears—when shall we have a Brotherhood of Thinking Man...
...Wood has added a very in teresting and able mass of comment on the poets (ami,their poetry) of these States Hut he wanted to put it all in one hook, and publish it at once...
...By John L. Lewi...
...Over and over again we meet the disappointed scholar, the fox-girl, the arrogant and selfish official, the loyal son, the benign king...
...One wishes Rosa-had taken greater pains during her travels to put down her impressions...
...We are introduced to Trotsky, the agitator...
...By Georgt F. Hummell...
...Papi Jlrsctin...
...Eastman writes of Trotsky as a lover would of his mistress...
...The patriot who imagines his loyalty to be due merely to any such tradition greatly mistakes the abiding glory of his nation.'' Thus, Miss Bennett in th* introduction to this invaluable anthology of "striking and significant passages from our national documents, State papers and the writings and speechsa of Americsn statesmen and leaders from 1619 to 1921" And we recommend her work to all Americanization classes, National Defence Societies, Y. M. C. A, secretaries and other guardians of the Republic who may forget that Wendell Phillips said, "Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated," or that it was Lincoln who proclaimed, "The country with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it...
...is hsrd here to decide whether Pu Sung Ling intended to satirize or whether he shared a common belief...
...Notes on Books Julian Bojer's forthcoming novel, to b« published early in the autumn by the Century Company, I* to be entitled "Th* Emigrants,'' and will be his contribution to th* memorial year In honor of th* centennial of th* first Noise Immigration to th* United State...
...By Harry E. Barnes...
...That explains the void In thess letters...
...For tha rest we have been dependent on travel books...
...The contest jJMN July 15...
...CAPITOL— "The Boomerang," ' from the play by Winchell 'Smith and Victor Mapes, with Anita Stewart, Bert Lytell and Dnnnld Keith...
...There must be vast literary treasures which can gradually be made available to those of the western readers who care for such things...
...Whenever they shall grow weary of th* existing Governemtn, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it...
...Bercoriea.*-"- ' '"' i _ Willi* Howard, star of "Sky High," ""lldtllver a lecture this Friday night, •t th*.Wilbur Institute of Applied Psy- j diohfy...
...N. Y.i Capitol Bonk Company...
...MUSIC Ravina Op era Season Begins this Saturday THE 14th season of opera and concerts at Ravinia Park, Chicago, "ill begin Saturday night, June 27, *"«"The Love of Three Kings," with "'•I Bori, Martinelli, Danise and Laztt»>Ut the leading roles, with Mr...
...G. W. K. "Jungl* Days" is the title of Williim Beebe'a Utest book which Putnam* announce for publication on July 10...
...By Michael Arlen...
...lied" Rosa A Review by EDWARD LEV1NSON LETTERS OF ROSA LUXEMBURG TO KARL AND LUISM KAUTSKY...
...E. P. Button or Co ft.00, BOTH for those of us who like to get our tastes and ideas second hand — and who doesn't nowaday*' ami for those of u* who really enjoy getting other viewpoints than our own on what we like—and few of us do...
...A press dispatch from Pari* gives interesting new* of J rimes Joyce, that strangest of literary figures, and auggests at the same time an innovation in literary reporting...
...In these small touches there ia added abundant evidence of the lovable character of this woman whom an many agents of reaction have tried...
...r*e was a disappointed scholar, and in his tales he satirizes the foibles,* the weaknesses, the vanities of the civilization of which he is himself a part...
...For Miss Bennett hss culled from the writings and speeches of our public men those passages that stress freedom, and was there ever a time in our history when that word was more obnoxious to our rulers...
...Born of parents in comfortable circumstances, surrounded by people of education and culture, he became an infant prodigy...
...The publishers have chosen to dress this book beautifully...
...This work will be brought out by Miss Sylvia B*ach, otherwise known aa Shakes* - pear* 4 Company, Paris, who published his "Ulysses...
Vol. 2 • June 1925 • No. 26
