The Realm of Books
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The Realm of Books Tomorrow's Truth Review by JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Ef FREEMAN BOOK. New Wjgmrk: Huebtch. $l.0O. \ The belt of the Freemen! In Lew words, the best that the ns Ejga'i journalism...
...Here is no high-nettled and purposeless exuberance of spirits...
...Schiller maintains, hss, for reasops implicit in its development, moved steadily to a poorer type of man...
...New Yorki Seltser...
...Znnesville Labor Council Elects /The Zanesvllle...
...By Herbert Kraut...
...Llterstare ONE-ACT PLAYS OF TODAY...
...Schiller suggests two...
...Of possible remedies Mr...
...WHAT IS MAN...
...tune alone will tall whether man li te win freedom from,the beast . Q J. T. I. Book Notes B. P. Dutton announce for publwa-tlea a little later ia tea laaaea a new book by Ferdinand Oatendowskt, to ss called "Tha Shadow of the Gloomy Kail," la which the noted author of 'Beauts, Men and Gods" telle the itory of whst befell Russia during and after the war sad preeente his ewn conviction as to whst she may de end heroine before she can again be ed-mn red ta the (entity ef nstiens...
...On this assumption, he has done a good piece of work...
...So-leeted by J. W. Marriott...
...Incidentally, he raises some questions regarding Allied treatment of Germany that in our judgment will be vindicated by tha cooling of passions and the passing of time...
...It is from the angle of such neophytes that the book must be considered...
...Amang the beoki arhcduled by ths Home of Putnam during tho coming spring season, are "With Fen snd Brush and Chisel," by Emit Fuchs...
...New York: Century...
...Now it has been done...
...It is difficult for me to see wherein its effectiveness lies...
...Perhaps he slighted Francis , Thompson...
...And if one is purely vegetarian in hit literary diets, here is a filling table d'hote...
...Palgrave knew what he wanted: "an' what he thought 'e might require 'e went an' took—the same as you...
...The gray mare...
...In Lew words, the best that the ns Ejga'i journalism has to offer...
...On* Shilling...
...we must proceed slowly, by trial, error, retrial and promise of success, on the long path that leads we know not whither...
...Ohio, Central La-»«r Urdon has elected snd installed ifwrs for 1926, as follows: aJTjMdent, James O'Kana...
...In short, these lectures are the work of three men who accept the fundamentals of the present world order—disorder would be a better word — but who are somewhat troubled about Its present working...
...These reasons are simple and clear: (1) civilization tends to care for and preserve the poorer element of the population...
...New York: E. P. Dutton...
...He who forms the prejudices of a nation guides its destinies...
...In tho Action list there will be a new novel by ths suthor of "Recompense and "Simon Called Peter," which hears the Interesting title "Numerous Treasure...
...t.O0...
...V KNOW that not all is yet well In thia country of ours, And that much ia atill here That ought not to exist...
...He treads lightly over the causes of modern Imperialist expansion and conceives it as a necessary and, on the whole, benevolent process that makes for good in the end...
...What May Happen TANTALUS, <y THE FUTURE OF MAN...
...George I. t...
...With such energy, sincerity, direet-atis, and beauty as are vouchsafed him, each man sets out on the endless voyage to the far barbor of his dreams...
...THE OCCIDENT AND THE ORIENT...
...If Mr...
...The lectures reveal a studious Englishman who has read much of the history of the Eastern peoples and who has observed s great deal of their customs and institutions in his travels...
...New Yorki Putnam...
...which Introduaes for ths first time in ths works of this young lady t|)o American Scene...
...f.OO...
...Dur-|l its four years the Freeman t*intained a standard of honest, taand judgement in social and po-Bfcal affaire, of sincere, unflinching Eth in other fields, that makes its K2 existence enduringly significant...
...One is to accept the principles of Christianity...
...It is typical of the Briton who has an affection for the Empire and who believes that British expansion abroad, while it has been a harsh experience for Indians and Egyptians, has been justified by the bringing of Western culture and institutions to them...
...Edited by Don C. Seitz...
...In the slightest essay of the series, he contents himself with making that one pojnt and briefly indicating possible remedies...
...We must, therefore, be tolerant of social, racial, political experimentation, for alone some unexpected line new hope may brighten...
...The history will ba la four volumes...
...By Simon Ftlahla...
...the rest only here...
...Tha original one-eetcr which contained the germ ef the Idea for that now famnui plsy appears In the volume undsr tha title, "Poor Aubrey...
...a * TO this country I came as a man < Twenty-five year* ago, And I promised the judge not to have More than one legal wife at a time...
...BOOKS RECEIVED _ Social Science THE DOMINION OF THE SEA AND AIR...
...This may sound at first like an attack on social democracy...
...It is strange thst no one until now hss had the temerity to recsst or add to the selection...
...By Sir Valentine Cairo...
...Henderson is guilty of any outstanding error, it is this: he assumes that his audience is composed of reasonable people who can be reached by argument...
...He csaminas the arts, beginning with Homer snd the Ola Teatamant, and coming down to the present day...
...The Ultimate Port FAR HARBOR...
...II.M...
...They hope for stability but aro perplexed by the many puzzling problems which the modem imperialist world presents...
...MISS MILQRIM'S PROGRESS...
...Thus CI) the ultimate reward of merit is sterilization, and society sppears to be an organization devoted to the suicidal task of extirpating any ability it may chance to contain by draining it away from any stratum in which it may occur, promoting it into the highest, and there destroying it...
...See-E"ery...
...It was published in 1861, and Pal-grave claimed to have winnowed thoroughly the wheat of Parnassus up to the harvest of 1850...
...H^^HBBnflg^HtlJ*JES^BaBaaH9eKsaHM...
...i' In the lint of history, the house will issue tha first volume of "A Short . History of England," by Hllelre Bailee, who it ia rumored will give the Bemsn-Catkollcs their jmt...
...Perhaps its outstanding merit is that it is not couched in the technical lingo of the class struggle, exploitation at the point of production and the possibility of an entrepreneur's profit when selling an article beneath its exchange values...
...By Concordia Morrcl...
...through his acceptance of the crew, gleanings of his shipmates and weir essentially lonely lives and suggested stories, on to tha man who •My years later knows that snare is more wisdom in the sunken hull, Washed by the under-sea, for aye . at rest...
...but com-i pilers should be positive and not so . negstive ss to their selecting when . they give ua one...
...New York: Thomat Seltter...
...Humanity is still Yahoo-nianity...
...With its forests and rivers and farms...
...But, oh, the aggravating restraint' the lukewarm apex of his verse...
...Spurred on by something irritant, provoking, in the word "modern," the publishers and the talented compiler have extended the Treasury to date...
...This volume Is the fifth In a sarlaa of atudles ef culture from tha paint of view ef the clam struggle) tha other works, already published, being "Tho Profits ef Religion," "The Brass Cheek," "The iloose Step" and "Tha Goslings" "Tha FlatUsrlng Word, and Other One-Act Plays," by Oeorga Kelly, which Little, Brown snd Company have Just published, contains four plays which the author wrote for his own repertoire when hs was s hcadllner on tha Keith and Orphenm circuits—before the icii-natlorlal eucross ef "Tho Mew-Off" on Broadway...
...It is to me, at least, doubtful whether the recent growth of the British Labor party has been due to such pamphlets as this, or whether it hss been brought about by forces and causes entirely apart from such mild propaganda efforts...
...1 i Big Mare SPRING THVNDER AND OTHER POEMS...
...1.00...
...London...
...By CharUt Nor-awn...
...Or fought under Grant or Rob Lee— None of them did...
...It is a simple and clear treatment of the theories of Socialism...
...The Golden Treasury Up*to*Date A Review by RAYMOND FULLER GOLDEN TREASURY OF MODERN LYRICS...
...Good God, sir, If we are to rely for our security on the Sermon on the Mount, all I can say Is, God help us...
...By Rschel Lyman Field...
...That the Independent Labor party ssw fit to reprint this pamphlet, which was first issued in 1911, is evidence that the party has found the book effective...
...Schiller predicts, consists in regarding our civilization as experimental...
...t.OO...
...He frequently traveled in the Orient and has served as foreign director of the London Times...
...The same house announces sn autobiographical newel by a young man ef Italian parentage named Louis Fer-(ions winch the Duttoni announce for early publication under the title of "Reamer Ua...
...Sir Valentine Chirol was connected with the British Foreign Office from 1872 to 1876...
...The Immigrant By VLADIMIR KARAPETOFF Professor, Cornell University NONE of my forefathers landed On Plymouth's gray rock, Or helped to dump tea in the Bay...
...by gosh, so I did...
...By Enid Scott Rankin...
...yet it is a treasury, none the less...
...And Chris, the bosun, talked to all, ^ and me...
...ho once shook to hear the winging gull, Am sobered now...
...re Is mora wisdom in the sprays . that glisten n 'tarlight, in tha sea's moan, and ehores that listen...
...GERMANY IN TRANSITION...
...R. F. a Rail Strikers Lose Court Appeal L. R. Raylor, Jacob Sink and PaU rick Hanahan, of Illinois, serving terms in Leavenworth prison for violation of a Federal court injunction restraining interference with railway post, office cars during the rail-j road strike of 19-2, have failed in the United States Supreme Court foiva retrial err reversal of their con-vletion...
...Of course, modernity is only 1 a relative term, yet I venture to assert that nine of every ten people picking up such a titled book would imagine it to cover current lyrics— and not, alone those of England, And, oh why, number the poems with Rbman numerals...
...slang the way are prominent land marks, the Northern Lights, the Ssragossa Sea...
...It was written for the new convert or for the person meeting the Socialist philosophy for the first time...
...Professor Kraus, the German, is equally cautious, but his lectures are largely confined to contemporary Germany...
...Professor de Visscher presents the problems of nationalities, minorities, security, international control of communications and the League of Nations much as we would expect any educated Belgian nationalist to present them...
...Active, progressive, and kind...
...Within the mind of each Ma the final port remains as the deathless lure...
...Yet on the way each man sees other travelers...
...I love all her people, of all colors and creeds...
...What I Bcmembar," by Mllllcsnt Osrtatt Faw-eeit...
...His point of view is also conservative...
...But so profuse snd sweeping are the apologies in the preface for having the work called or thought of as a worthy addition to the Treasury that one wonders why, in order to provide ua with another anthology, they didn t go out and huild a new Canastoga wagon instead of hitching their trailer to a i star...
...this he admits would at once rouse a bitter opposition from every Church in Christiandom...
...In their "Bfoadwsy Translations" aerias, the Duttons snnounca for immediate publication "Martial's Epigrams," the twelve books in which the famous Roman satirist made his Witty and scathing criticisms of the luxury and rice of tht lomsn Empire, snd Lidos' "Dangerous Acquaintances...
...They include the ancient battleground of the Occident and the Orient, the passing of the Ottoman Empire, the troubles and problems of Egypt, British rule in India, the problems bound up with protectorates and mandates, snd Bolshevism as a far-tor in the East...
...perhaps he overdid , Bridges—whst of it...
...Even . the Bank of England hasn't all the ¦ gold in the island...
...So he let me become a U. S. » And I helped you good people To get what you need— Dry laws, woman's vote, Good roads, a big tax on the rich— Yes...
...In ths rsalm of balls lettres...
...ia MONOGATARL TALES FROM OLD JAPAN...
...But this assumption is at least open to debate...
...New Yorki K-ltser...
...By CharUt de Vitteher...
...By Frtd Henderson...
...And there i« S pee/ novel of farm Ufa in tho realistic vein by, 0. D. Eaton, s young msn Who has been known te the Journalistic world for some time pant...
...no traces kicked over, no whiffletrees splintered, no bits tsken in teeth...
...a a a * a AN' I waan't raised as a boy On a farm in New England or the West, Nor aent to a little red school house To be pampered by a kindly schoolmarm And be told to get rich Like old Carnegie, Goulds, and them all, And to honor the Red, White and Blue— Not I wasn't...
...The slower but more possible procedure, helped by the advance in psychology Mr...
...There will be a new collection of "Georgian Short, Stories, IMS," including tales by Mlehael Arise, Msrtln Armstrong, Aldous Huxley, Osbert Sitweell, C. f. Montagus and many others, and a composite novel called "Bobbed Hair," written by twenty authors, among thorn ara Carolyn Walls, Alexander Wooll-eott, Louis Bromfield, Dorothy Parker, Wallace Irwin, Sophie Kerr Underwood snd many others...
...They embraced the Faith from the Greeks Many centuries back, And they've kept it intact ever aince— Yes, they have...
...it offers nothing new in the way of Socialist theory or of interpretation of theory...
...Boston I Small, Maynard * Co...
...In its social advocacy the Freeman was limited by the Single Tax, si s physician who urges development of the digestive system, overlooking the fact that there are circulatory and respiratory systems as wall, to say nothing of a signal center of command overhead...
...Try as I would, while I read on, poem after poem, in Mark Van Doren's pleasant bpok, I could not get the big shambling, stumbling horse-poem out of mind...
...2) the birth-rate of the feeble-mipded and of the uneducated is tremendously larger than that of the cultured, so that "society, as at present organized, is always dying off at the top, and proliferating at the bottom, of the social pyramid...
...Muir's Note on the Scottish Ballads, Kazimierz Tetmajer's "The Maiden Dew (a chaste idyll from the Polish), and Theodore Maynard's well-argued Reason for Rhyme...
...I am captious lest I be too unstinted in my real joy in such a booh as this...
...New York: Scribncrs...
...POEMS FOR THE NEW A'iK...
...As the Nation's literary editor...
...Vice-Jfeudent, Charles M. Ralston...
...Haldsne, in the first volume of this series, showed the fate of the future glorious through science...
...Such scenes, and situations, and thoughts, ss are in this volume, few "rural" poets start!— none better perhaps than Froit, He suggests Frost in many of his first few lines...
...These lectures remind us that the process of patching up a bleeding and battered world is by no means completed and that the international physicians remain puzzled over their work...
...is the Pegasus of this bard and his book...
...Made possible by.the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation, they were delivered at the University of Chicago by a Belgian, a German and an Englishman...
...Now York: Putnam...
...their roads conflict or cross or almost coincide...
...You can bet your aweet life That F do...
...Francis Neilson, Geroid T. Robinson, H. Kel-lock and Van Wyck Brooks—of the old editorial board—follow fast, with three dozen scattering more...
...No schoolmarm haa drilled this creed into me, I just learned to love corrimon folke ' By living and working with them— Yes...
...But when the minds of the editors are applied te specific problems, they illumine s vest field...
...Always I seemed to stand leaning upon the fence watching the ponderous gray (?) creature, while "Her feet trample on clover, and her breast Moves with superfluous might against the weeds...
...Financial jjeretary-Tressurer, Frank A. sSetm.Y ?ula"e-Guardian...
...Irving Berlin," a biography from tho pen o f Alexander Wndlrott...
...SIX PLAYS...
...Same...
...It Is said to tell the story ef hit rough and tumble experiences In an American shipyard sad hia adventures among his lawless follows of the Immigrant dsn...
...The woodcut by Charles Locke on the title-page catches the old mare to the life—and the cut is repeated on the loose-cover...
...particularly #1 should desire more of Edwin guir and Alexander Harvey...
...It does not pause, But dreaming spreads and flows . . . So I am taken Beyond all flutter of bird:, all cry of flowers— All nibble, and lesp, and fall—to lie in grass...
...one of the loaders of the, suffrage movement In England, Snd "Samuel Pcpys," a new itudv of the gentleman In his unetpurgated stale by J. Lueas-Dubreton, who brings coal te Newcastle by writing ef the dlsrltV fa Oellie vain...
...Upton Sinclair will publish from his Pasadena, California, olllce...
...or spots unbeckoning that somehow hold the eye...
...New York: Blue Fawn Prut...
...For the most part, people go the way of their prejudices...
...early in February, a work of criticism entitled "Mammnnsrt ." Tha book Is a study or literature snd all tho srts from the point of view of economics...
...Middle Articles" is a section devoted to discussion of the arts...
...John C. Saylor...
...Those who have followed the discussion of these questions by conservatives who sincerely believe that compromise and concessions will bring a relatively stable order will find this position stated by this Belgian...
...But I know in my heart...
...l S», on the journey to the far har-aor he will never reach, Charles Norman gives us the vivid impressions of a youth who (dim-sensing tha symbol) has with his spirit followed his body forth to sea...
...it is rather a protest against the process of equalizing by leveling down, against the social system that creates childless wasters at one end and drudging child-laborers at the other...
...our sjrsonal favorites are Nevinson on flardy...
...But tie one is partially available in another Huebsch volume, the other in few recent "Blue Books...
...The newcomer on entering the organization, and I don't think the I. L. P. will prove an exception to this rule, will meet this terminology soon enough...
...Tha author advancas tha thesis that all art is propaganda, whether consciously or unconsciously...
...Chicago: Univtrtity of Chicago Preti...
...A FAR LAND...
...AND I love thia great country of mine...
...Yet selection here, and among the "Book Reviews," which are, rather, provocative assays, is rendered difficult by the unswerving excellence of whit is si well sustained and varied an snthology ss our oldest and most jucce#*/nl periodicals could make...
...Ernest Hunt, sn English lecturer and authority on psychology In its rotation to music, in this book he dis-eussas tho place of musie In life, how life expresses itself through music, the function of the tesehar of masle as sn Intorprater, ths finding in the spirit of tho rosl meaning of music, the purpose' of art, whether or not there is such a thing •¦ "pure music," whst the srtiltlc temperament really signifies, snd limilar themes...
...By Mark Van Dor en...
...1 One can have nothing but praise ' for what Lawrence Binyon "took" from the lyric treasures of England's poets...
...East of most everything shown In your Iittfe old geography book...
...By J. A. Thomson...
...fj| || with regret that we find so jJiny articles left out of this collection—as space compels...
...the selections grouped here as "Current Comment," "Editorials," and "Miscellany" combine effective criticism of immediate polity with keen thrust through the paper of the circus-hoop that holds us from understanding of ourselves...
...Spirit 4nd Music," which the Dut-tons hive just published, is tbe worn of II...
...Maaefleld is I almost left out—no matter...
...New York: Macmillan...
...His six lectures impress us as the most vsluable of the series...
...Samt...
...On the whole there is little that Is new presented...
...The collection called "The Golden Treasury" has become a classic and standard list of pre-Victorian poetry...
...Inquiring to what extent they have been used to acrva snd gler-i ify the ruling classes...
...By F. C. S. Schiller...
...life in his fruitless journeying...
...1 did...
...Old straw is threshed over, words sre carefully chosen after the academic tradition, and the student of international affairs is left with s feeling that he has been led into paths that he has traversed before...
...The numerous political parties and the complexity of party issues are impressive to the outsider as presented by Professor Kraus, while his presentation of the other questions mentioned is forceful and more illuminating than the dry and unimpressive lectures of de Visscher...
...Jean Oooteau's navel "Le Grand Ecirt" is to be offered in translation by Lewis Oslsntlere.' Motile Psntsr-Downei, tha seventeen year old infant phenomenon who last year wrote "Tha Shoreless Sea," steps forward this ydar with a new one sailed "The Chaos...
...it offers nothing new in the wsy of argument, analogy, evidence or statistics...
...All anthologies, like New Fug-land mince-ples, are good, only some i are better than others...
...He is never Frost—but that were too severe a test...
...tbert Is "Adventures In Criticism," by the dean Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, and "A School for Ambssssdors," whioh Is a collection of ssisys by Jutes J. Jusser-snd, former Ambassador from France to tha United States...
...None of them marched to the fife With Washington's ragged militia men...
...They include a serviceable outline of political tendencies and parties, the reparation question, the relations of Germany to the League of Nations, the principle of self-determination as applied to Germany, the new German Constitution and the separatist tendencies in his country...
...Schiller, in the latest conjecture, sees civilization as the chief factor in its own downfall...
...THE STABILIZATION OF EUROPE...
...But it does seem to me at least • that the word "modern" loses some¦ what its meaning when one goei ¦ very far hack from the contempo-1 rary...
...ss a critic writing about bonks and bookmakers, the talented, wide-minded Van Doren is at his best...
...New York: Seltser...
...Arranged by Lawrence Binyon...
...1WAS taught by bewhiskered teachers, 'Midst cruelty, ignorance, dirt, And I still get confused i Between short English i and long e, While my tongue will not twiat for t-h...
...Rich, full-flav-ed oats in a quiet stall, or lush grass in upland pastures, these the soft-winged horse and rider'love: "I look and look, but do not see these things...
...By Msrths Ostenso...
...The volume contains ten chapters and includes comprehensive treatments of such outstanding questions as confiscation, liberty, officialism, waste, unemployment, human nature and the practicality of Socialism...
...They have no magic cures to offer but they are in hopes that somehow we will muddle through...
...Tru,l**i' J,m«» J- Dele, A. f «owniley and John H. Hiekay...
...My mind is lost in the river of bright green That, smoothly out from between those highest elms, issues under the sun...
...The initials of Albert Jay Nock we see most frequently recurring, especially after comments on international affairs...
...A Book for Neophytes A Review by DAVID P. BERENBERG THE CASE FOR SOCIALISM...
...For in boyhood I spoke quite a different tongue— Yes I did...
...The winds out ef the West BP«sk still their murmured accents beautiful, And And me dazed, with no cry in I4 my breast...
...Mase-leld, had he ever been that young, wight have written such a poem as this, in which the high seas his Dauber crosses, less colorful and more turbulent, are still mysterious, dimly foreboding, yet always with links on the rocks of sailor-town...
...a * * a * AS peaaanta they lived in Europe Eaat of—well...
...The poem, for the slim volume is *M long poem, carries the reader •™a the fervent youth, first hearing the call of the sea, on past the timidity of the first days aboard ihlp: And in the fo'c'ile now the men were kin, Waited in the sess's fraternity...
...Independent Labor Party Publication Department...
...Civilization, Mr...
...Bertrand Russell, in the second, pictured it dark with the lusts of men...
...1 Old Straw Threshed Over A Review by JAMES ONEAL...
...her calm restful-ness, her steady dark, deep eyes, her contemplative gaze...
...The fewest people can be persuaded or convinced by a steady and logical recital of facts and syllogisms...
...If we puah all together, We shall get those good things-Yes, I know this for sure...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 4
