A Great Journalist

...We view ths atones, therefore, through the deep, waters of mysticism...

...but his exclamation point It equally justified by such sonnet lines as: How, if the heart to theta frail enemies Yields, can it hope to scale the heavenly hill...

...Hera and there may be found in "Who's Who in America",tha names ef a few conspicuous men in the movement, but others whoss contributions to the Lsbor movement may be just as important And no placs in this standard work...

...His editorial page, which waa hie constant interest and self-education, waa by far tha beat of his day...

...A. E. Is more naive in his seeeptance...

...they have, indeed, taken a mossy covering of traditional imagery and phrass—so flat thsy ars no shining psbbles to the hand, but overgrown and partially imbedded...

...This, of course, la a matter o* teste...

...N. Y.i World Book Coss""hiSTORY Or THE UNITED STATES...

...N. Y.t Micmlllin...

...THE VITAL PROBLEM...

...Short Stories of Two Nations A Review by CLEMENT WOOD FLYING OSIP...

...M. T» Macmillan...

...It may not be curious but it is interesting to note thst some who sre active in some phsse of these movsment* withheld dsta because of fear that they might be victimized...

...But these his keen intelligence, at once massive aad restless, eaw from every facet...

...Feudslism had begun to sway and band: the system was unsbla to support the sristocratic class in the fashion that earlier centuries hsd mads poi« sible, snd thli class esms to da* pend mors and mora upon the rising bourgeois groups of tha nation...

...S vol...

...M. Tit (Social flctopc*>si TIONAMNTJWO%BR.* ™?!%m...

...Tha fsll of ths English drama market, the transient fall of a social class...

...Th* Lawbreaker*," by Lydia Salfulina, and the two aharp etories by Ivanev, sre also of the first rank...

...N. Y.I M»e, mlllan...

...Four of ths stories are superb: "The Anniversary" of a man's' fifteenth year of marriage...

...Napoleon in Egypt A Review by DAVID P. BERENBERG VICTORY...

...N. T.: Bwdletjtost...

...The persistence of the Puritan complex and its deadly influence in checking tha development of the drama Is suggested In the experience of P. T. Barnum, who, to avoid persecution, when opening 1 a theatre in New York, named it a, > "Moral Lecture Boom" and atored the lower floor with "antiquarian curiosities and biological freaks...

...Aiken...

...New York: Hon ford Prow, T Mat Utk Street...

...England, ones consisted of moral etories: the naughty girl died by act of God, the naughty boy grew up and waa jailed or eaten by an alligator, while tha good girl married and had thirteen children, and tha good boy rose successively to being a millionaire, a Praaident, and a Sunday School superintendent...

...thetie taste, were tha causae ejf the death of Ellsabsthsn ardf Jacobean drama...

...By Edward Ch.nning...

...If the rest, bad equalled it, it would be among the hast yogyaphlaa aj#» Ua*so~ Two Labor Annuals A Review by JAMES ONEAL THE AMERICAN LABOR WHO1...

...We hear of Josephine'e tare affairs and indiscretions, and hardly an echo of (he great forces that were stirring the world...

...N. Y.: Putnami...

...It is fair to point out that A. E. rarely trie* free verse...

...Now York: 7 Best 14th Street...

...Now American fiction has made its own cus, the two chief pattern* being of the "Skinner's Dress Suit type, where soma accident or design make* th* village dumbhead one of our sacrosanct financial nobility, or where, through misunderstandings and philandering*, th* young wife and husband swing back to an affectionate reconciliation, and live happily in Leonia the rest of their days with two msids, three cars, and a weekly copy of the Saturday Evening Post...

...Mlicellaneoa* JUNGLE DAYS...

...Certainly'the Napoleon that rise* from these pagea is hardly the man who held Europe in his hands for close to twenty years...

...This is good romance, but poor history...

...and we see Talleyrand palling the strings behind the scenes so dextrously that the uneasy suspicion arises that the hero of the epos was the wiry Abbe, and that Bonaparte was only one more puppet on his stage...

...How often "has not the editor, the organizer or the executive wished that he might hav* at hand a volume that would give him something of tha background in the life of soma person in the Labor movement who for the moment haa become conspicuous either in some controversy or in the daily newsT Well, here.it is...

...She belongs to that school of dabblers in history who find the explanation ef great event* in petticoat scandal and boudoir gossip...

...The warm'eeiet It at my feat...

...te the songs of Shakespeare, to Keats...

...N. Y.: Macmillan...

...By Leon Trotsky...

...that hare arises the modern see-powsr ef England...

...By A. E. New York: Macmillan...

...The Negro Migrations," by Charles 8...

...The Last Visit," a study of youth and dsath with a brightly unmoral finale...

...It would take a psycho-analyst an historisn, and a poet in one, to do justice to the theme...

...tM...

...Artistry" telli us once more that some Being worked through ages "to bring this loveliness to he...

...Both books are well worth purchase and owning...

...Neither of these patterns, Darwin's god bs thanked, are observed in Soviet Russia or by Mr...

...As its name implies, it is s directory of the periodical publications of trade unions, fsrmer organizations, cooperatives, snd political organizations pf the workers in this and other countries...

...But to be a truly Iterating reformer, in the high sense in which alone one would speak of it ia connection with a man of his caliber, one must identify one's self with a cause and then promptly forget number one...

...He loved not only power but also wealth, and so he never really attacked the foundations of the powera that be...

...Justice aad social maladjustment...

...But its fnjtdoRt is a matter of high grade intelligence and not the result of t reformation...

...By William H. Kilpatrick...

...London: Fabian Society...

...Too «ny staccato sentences sre not to ie...

...and he indicated them capably, fiercely and, aa the whole, fearlessly...

...Now York: E. P. Dutton...

...In its main outlines the story runs true to historical record...

...as short story writsr, hs is a aeintillating success...

...and this volume, if that fact ie so, is another tribute to the excellence of that critic's discernment, and a reminder of his invaluable service to American literature, in refusing to follow the Bryan Rotary, Club standards and in slaking to accolade for us a literature worthy of the high word...

...II...

...Stories of Not* Rueeia My Stifulina, Skiekkev, and seven other $ Now Yerkt International Publisher* BRINGI BRING I My Commi Aiken Now Yerkt Mont m Liveriykt...

...Vol...

...He was hot-headedly rambunctious and given to abusing his pet hypocrites, yet he was so scared of libel suits thst he lived in constant fear of his courage, which, none the less, usually, almost invariably, won out...

...Nov ii the body improved by the choppy, exclamatory style that Miss Aminoff seems to like...

...The book before me is, or purports to be, a record of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign...

...all the shadea, from the most conservative to ths extrsme Left, have been included...

...The weakest thing In the boos...

...No movement has been overlooked...

...By George Lanshury...

...These things msy be true—yet ihsss ars not what Napoleon wished...

...BOOKS RECEIVED - Lil ' jytesstare , J FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON- By Ferdinsnd A. Onendowikl...

...A Lost Dream" begins with wizardry, then slumps to parlor conjuring: There ie not a flicker In the candle of dream...

...Edited by Solon DeLeon...

...FOUNDATIONS OF METHOD...

...Fortunately, we stay turn from "It* single star that i* so shy" to other lines, to fair as a star, when only one It ehining in tha Iky, to Spenser and Milton for poetry that embodies faith—rather than faith that drafts verse to its was...

...is, ths pseudo-fictional fragment called "Lenin...

...The two atorlea of moit persisting illumination are "The Lawbreakers," in which bureaucratic stupidity and th* viciousness of home raising for children are displsyed, and the amazing dairy "Hunger...

...THESE two books are a reproach aad an indictment of the cheap machine-made pattame of tha American magazine Short story...

...Johnson, and the, Editor concludes his novel, "Adolf Moor...

...And he was also thoroughly decent...

...but whenever he was it bothered him enormously, which is far more human than always to be good...

...A* it ia, he merely created a great organ...

...Saving in the essay* shewn that Influence ef the material environment In shaping the evolutiqS of literary standard* and Judgments, the prassnt series is devoted to showing the influence of sax standard...

...Under JVater A Review by WILLIAM LEA VOICES OF THE STONES...

...The book itself includes 848 pagea, of which 249 are devoted to men and women in this country...

...snd bristle with action adequately told...

...THE MIRACLE OF FI.EET STREET...

...Historians have pointed out that It was the unorthodox and restless West that overthrew the "Virginia ' Dynasty" in politics, that destroyed the caucus oligarchy which had selected Presidents, and that revolted against the aristocracy of the East with its pretentious dress, manners, customs, and aristocratic attitudes...

...The American Labor Press is of mors restricted scope but a bandy manual for the ssme officials...

...As we recall it, Aiken's stories ars praised by Edwsrd J. O'Brien...

...By John Bauir...

...Tha Middle West and North West," he writes, "were colonized largely by malcontente from the East, who would welcome any institution unfavorably received by the tyrannical bourgeois of New England, and by immigrants front Sweden, Germany, and Ireland, who had no religious antipathies to the drama...

...So easily the hero becomes a caricature...

...PASItTNO (TP rm PHANTOM*, By C. J. Patten...

...London t Labor Publishing Company...

...the economic conditions of England gnd Europe that gave this class Its shops and tendency...

...Did he gain what he hoped at win t Certainly to all outward seeming it looks now like a little boy's adventure, a belated exploit of Don Quixote...

...jak EFFECTIVE REGULATION OF PtTB* LIC UTILITIES...

...The World is undoubtedly tjaag our freest papers...

...A formally pejer training goes Into its making, (Inenai policy is increasingly more iMhistieated, and —in the great pnju-the cheaper falsities are gamed not so much because they ire untrue, but because they are (tup...

...Calvsrton's point of view: It wss the rise ef bourgeois culture, icarred with ths ashes off asceticism, that brought te an abrupt and dismal conclusion the splendour of Elizabethan art Treatises have bean written try* ing to show hew the decline of morality, the degeneracy of lnse pulse, the vicious descent of ess...

...It Is not only interesting because of ths information It carries but it will become particularly useful moat any moment to officials, editors, organizers and others holding responsible positions...

...Deportment of the Rand School of Social 5suae...

...And he missed greatness by a shot...

...that without Napoleon the Rosette Stone might not have been found...

...Pulitzer waa greater as a personality, however, than as a man of ability...

...the poet achieves s few arresting momenta, ss in ths commsnt VI sm dream-betrayed," or In the poem "A Holy Hill," thst ends: Know that tkie granite height May be a judgment throne i Dread thou the immoveable will, The wrath of etene...

...To this list hiss been added publications issued by the Government, religious organizations and those periodicals that from time to time give some attention to the problems and policies of the Labor movsment...

...Mora often the ineptitude shadowed here in "immoveable" break* 'boldly forth...

...THE CITIES Or ROMAONA AND TBI MARCHES...

...aad hie editorial excellence he bequeathed to the World of today...

...By the Laser **• •lore...

...By Edward Hasten...

...In the "American Labor's Who's Who" an attempt has been made to present important biographical data "on the outstanding figures in trsde unionism, Labor politics, workers' education, Labor defense, cooperation, progressive farmers' groups, and related movements throughout the nation...

...Flying OsIp" is a volums of splendid stories, wall told...

...they arc fixed, immobilet ss A. E. himself remarks, only the stones hsvo held through the eons unchanging—tley are dead...

...In a way it also supplements the "Labor'o Who'a Who...

...In burning blue Lagoon boyend lapse a All focus beeprinJcled— Rose lotuses...

...This handy compendium will prove very useful and we can imagine some emergency arising in some organization whereby It desires to obtain wide publicity for some matter and be thankful that it has this directory to turn to for thie purpose...

...Her eye is blinded with the glamor of war and pageantry, with intrigue and fine-sounding names...

...In its form of presenting information, this book will compare favorably with the other standard work mentioned above...

...By Edwsrd AI*worth Res...

...and, "Hey, Taxi," In its gem-like entirety, are great, aa Lardner'a harsh "The Champion" are great Nothing fails entirely, although "The Disciple" sags lowest...

...And that he was a strong personality is nowhere more obvious than in hi* idiosyocrscies, of which hs had many, and which were r.ever affected but genuinely ludicrous and now and then spiced with genius...

...HISTORY of THE FABIAN SOCIETY...

...By Leonie Aminoff...

...He preferred adventure to danger...

...The Dark City," with the analaved auburbanv Its kissing his chains and bloating up a maggot vision worthy ef foe...

...He was occasionally mean, as is every fundamentally human person from sheer impatience...

...Chart** ir*ndt...

...The combination of these two qualities made him appear a crusader...

...a U...

...And the author ventures not even a guess...

...By William S. Sadler...

...LOng reminds us that it wan also this West that provided favorable aocial and economic conditions for ths theatre...

...Why did Napoleon undertake the foolhardy expedition T What did he expect to gain...

...STATE EXPERIMENTS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND...

...As poet, Conrad Alksn, with his fstiguad and perverted Pegaaus, wearies me...

...but he latensely disliked the fakers, whose number proportionately apparently never abates—a distinction which speaks volumes in his favor...

...And ao ho exjmujbly bat palpably exaggerjL atT" bo call* Joaeph Pulitsar SjpVrator ef Journalism...

...In hit cast this meant personal compromise, for thoroughout the volume one glum that he saw through and fsr beyond tha mere mechanics of ^¦inasit.ijaoOTiiaan.Wa economic in...

...Many of the steriea included are far from perfect...

...It still prints the ablaat and moat intelligent and moat courageous editorial page in the great dailly press of America...

...Whether ths minutiae are well documented, or whether they spring from the author's imagination, lam not prepared to say...

...THE atones, ef all primal things, are alons unchanged...

...in literature...

...N. Y.: Dutton...

...SURE...

...WHO...

...Pulit5p net liberate journalism, for 25d reason that of all the maIgpillectual profeaaiona in this 3?y journalism is still tha least SbOur contemporary metropo.iaa arc" la probably more intelliMBt Jess it was in the last quarg ef a century, but in that Jest* It expresses the heightened grading °f edacated life in this ftfjJttf in general...

...N. Y.: M»cmill»n...

...later we lean from "Magnificence" that "myriads tolled in dark and cold" to create "the marvel of a tiny flower...

...IN his introductory note to the "American Labor Who's Who," tha Editor calls attention to ths fact that "the person interested ia tha progress ef Amsrican life ia gsnersl, of women, of the medical profession, of the bar, of corporation directors, or of leaders la social life, could turn to tha epproprlat 'Who'a Who' directory or ragister," but not ao those who have contributed to the building ef the economic and political organisations of ths working clsss...

...The reaw fact of th* matter has been largely missed or neglected...

...Modern Quarterly >fpHE current number ofljf I Modem Quarterly begin* a n*# series of assays hy the edftosa V. P. OaWertcn, entitled "Isn jj preaaios) in Literature,* ths first is» stallmsnt being largely an introdoe* tlon to the theme which is vary apt geatwo ef what is to follow, tha objective scientific approach is maintained as la his collection of essays, "The Naw.r Spirit," which has woa so many favorable comments aj, tha handa of the critics...

...And the Labor> press might well copy the leeway'It usually gives to its writers...

...By William Bob...

...The cause of it* faU had been it*} conflict with another class: the) bourgeois...

...N. Y.i Oxford Press...

...Moreover, it seems to us that schools, libraries, nswspapsrs and other periodicals will find it essential...

...Had ha lived dangerously he might have been the first of the liberators of our press...

...It ia so easy to overstep the lino between admiration and adulation, to mar the image by too realistic a use of the brush...

...It seems to us that this "Who's Who" is indispensable to the responsible officials of economic snd political organizations of the workers...

...The Egyptian Expedition is s striking incident...

...And, for all my own addiction at times to the vice, I suspect psychologies*: "the fact is the sweetest dream that mas knows," to pervert Frost in one word...

...It is beside the point to say that there ware incidental benefits...

...By William P. Reeves...

...therefore A. E. calls *helr "voices" these poems, in which he tries to sr.are what are to him the old, unchanging verities, the basse of Christian balisf...

...He had aha real defects of his great talents—and that is one of the secrete of a strong personality...

...The title story, of s Russisn cerise who sought vainly to throw his life sway on the battle-front, out of hie horror at the white annihilation of hi* family, is brilliant and memorable...

...London: Labor Publishing Company...

...hut as> least they are not eugar-ceated lies nor Booster Week propaganda...

...Hs was a staunch friend...

...American fiction, taking its cue from...

...One might draw from almost every poem its tribute of trite idea, or image, or Inept attitude...

...Thought*, good or bad, sooner or later will bs found te bs in error, facts ate of longer mortality and closer accuracy...

...The introduction, accurate or not, is highly, interesting and Interpretive of the material that follows...

...Scott Nearlng contributes an article on "Education and the Open Mind" Snd another translation of Plechanov's "Ths Monistjg Conception of History" appear...

...THE LESSONS OF OCTOBER...

...But Pulitzer was not laientlally selfless...

...AMERICAN LMBOR PRESS DIRECTORY...

...Waltsr Long contributes the second section of his series on "A Sociological Criticism of ths American Drama," and he reminds us in a clever statement that, in th* first fsw dscsdes of the nineteenth century, "since the people were satisfled with art for London's sake, all native plays were automatically precluded...

...Other contributions are, "The Decline of the Concept of Instinct" by J. B. Eggen...

...The sex attitudes, their freedom and liberty of, utterance, . , . sre manifestations of a class-psychology of aristocratic typs, specifically expressing...

...N. T.I Dutton...

...He was not merely human, but "all too human...

...She ia.content with the externals...

...An excerpt from this fint offering gives sa idea of Mr...

...It refuses to stoop sot merely to the falsification of ¦jot, to deliberate editorial misinterpretation, but it goes one step further and also refuses to stoop to reaction.' It is intellectually too prouAApt to run with the times, fctsqptimes are becoming increasingly chaotic, which is bound to blur th* vision and policy of a great 11beral dally...

...The first chapter of the book is one of the ablest biographical essays in recent literature...

...All his contacts in the course of a condensed, somewhat willful, but extraordinarily rich life were of an intensity which wore out not only himself hut most of ths people about him...

...That is the danger with the eternal verities...

...If this be liberation, then Joseph Pulitzer Is responsible or it Pslitser was fiercely, neurasthenleally...

...CIVIC SOCIOLOGY...

...By Edward R i'*»i...

...Tha rsmsining section gives the dsta for tha most conspicuous men and women in other countries...

...energetic...

...The samples of current Rusaian fiction that follow ars the reveres of psychological...

...WRITING historical novels Is a dangerous occupation...

...That this motive should b* responsible for s few not desiring a place in this volume simply emphasizes the fact that the boasted "democracy" of America haa its perils for thoss who work the hard est for genuine democracy in all the institutions of aociety...

...Tennyson, mid-Victorian aa hs was, knew the danger "leat one good custom should corrupt the world...

...He never judged people, for he waa not interested in anybody's morals...

...it is ths rolling stcne that gathers no moss...