SNAP SHOTS

...One of my comrades, now an admiral, used to write my compositions for me, and I used to do his mays and drawings for him...

...Indeed, the hand of the careful analysist of human emotions is hinted at but not always revealed since the psychology is often false and jerky as though motivated by the necessities of the plot and not springing inevitable from the characters themselves...

...Even at that time there was evident danger that the trusts would, by mi-fair means, so terrorize would-be producers that they would not dare to make their appearance as active rivals of the trusts...

...I went to college for a year as a day scholar...

...At one moment I thought of becoming a, missionary...

...It is necessary that it should be supplemented by more of actual competition than in some fields is now to be found...

...This property has remained mine...

...I was brought up in a family strictly Huguenot, on a property belonging to my parents on the island of Oleron, where I passed my entire childhood...

...Masefield for we have had three volumes of poems from his pen during the last year...

...Literary Notes THE FIRST edition of John Bates Clark's The Control of Trusts, which now appears in a greatly enlarged and revised form, was written when trusts were multiplying and growing in size and power, though prices were still held in cheek by some actual competition and by what is termed potential competition...

...The Story of A Round House, published under the title of Dauber in the English Review, proved an astonishing lour de force...

...Following many established precedences he has used the field of daffodils as a sort of motif for the entire poem—a device used with so much effect in Meredith's Attiia where the Danube runs through the stanzas reflecting in its moods the moods of the human story enacted on its banks...

...The work points out the manner in which the Sherman Law favors the policy which is needed...

...but it borders upon melodrama and not life...

...The poem itself is a more specialized study of marital infelicity and lacks the broadness of appeal which one felt, for example, in The Everlasting Mercy...

...It shows how such measures would apply to the many trusts which may not need to be divided under the action of the present law, as well as to the corporations which shall result from the division of the minority of them which may have to undergo that process...

...They wanted me, to enter the Polytechnic to become an engineer...

...My ancestors, who were driven from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, went to Holland, but their remains were brought back to the island of Oleron and buried in the garden of our property there...

...There was ground for thinking that, if these measures were adopted the potential competition would continue to be a powerful influence and, if supplemented by some actual competition, would sufficiently protect the public...

...Another long narrative poem—The Daffodil Fields (Macmillan) —has now made its appearance though it does not sustain the power nor quality of the earlier efforts...

...With this as a preface the distinguished author of Disenchanted and other books gave the following sketch of himself and of his literary start...

...and it indicates, in a constructive way, the supplementary measures which would develop more fully the possibilities of competition, both of the potential and the active sort...

...My elder brother was a naval officer, and his letters from Polynesia and the Orient gave me a taste for travel that nothing could overcome...

...but there is a lack of spontaneity whieh places it upon a lower plane than his own normal achievement...

...In fact, there is a suspicion of over-elaboration and fine writing, often out of keeping with the characters he is depicting, which destroys its versimilitude...

...This means that they were kept at a moderate level, chiefly by the fact that, if they were made excessively high, they would surely attract new producers into the field...

...It, with the other poems in the same volume, placed him in the front rank of those who sing of the sea with all its infinite variety of moods and tenses...

...The work presents an outlook for the future of industry, under a policy that is clearly in sight, which appears more encouraging than any whieh has been recently afforded by the actual state of the business world...

...In the present edition of this work the author still expresses a belief in the efficiency of potential competition, though it is clear that conditions as they exist are not favorable for its full working...

...The Everlasting Mercy, which also contained The Widow In The Bye-Street, was the first of his long poems which attracted the attention of the admiring critics and public as well, though he had already gained an enviable place through his powerful play of The Tragedy of Nan and fugitive verse...

...Masefield is himself, however, at all times: a user of good vigorous Angio-Saxon and a virile observer and recorder...

...and the book advocated certain measures for putting an end to the bullying practices whieh had this terrorizing effect...

...I had occasion, at an earlier date, to call attention to Mr...

...It indicates under what circumstances competitive rivalry has become ruinous and under what circumstances it may be rendered tolerant and beneficent...

...in the, end I had my way...

...I never thought of becoming a, writer in those days...

...It offers an economic basis for a distinction between reasonable and unreasonable restraint of trade, and proposes certain measures which as the author thinks, are calculated to forestall and prevent restraint of the unreasonable kind...

...Not that this poem is devoid of beauty: Mr...

...It, is unnecessary to go into specific detailed analysis of this long poem or to give in elaboration the outline of the plot: it will interest many, no doubt, but it will not move those who were swept along by his melody of the sea One feels his strong dramatic sense, as in the final passages...

...Masefield is too true a poet not to touch ravishing phrases and enkindle unforgetabla figures...

...I was very unhappy there, but I have told the whole story of my boyhood in my books, and The Story of a Child is my history...

...In 1870 I was a midshipman, and took part in the Baltic cruises...

...Perhaps this is due to a rapidity of production or is inherent in the subject itself...

...in fact, at the naval school I was very poor at composition, but not bad a drawing...

...Masefield's debt, to Meredith, notable in the interplay of life with mother nature: this present poem indicates a continued loyalty which is commendable because the model is beautiful and spiritual...

...He is vital always though, in this case, he has been unfortunate in handling a theme more or less trite...

...ONE DAT recently Pierre Loti, who is visiting this country, received newspaper reporters and interviewers and after some persuasion consented to talk a little about himself, first stating, however, that his whole history was to be found in his stories and that he could tell nothing that he had not written...

...That is how 1 have just received the 1870 war medal...

...Since then confidence in this protection has diminished and a feeling in favor of price regulation by the government has gradually strengthened...