SNAP SHOTS
Middleton, George
Snap Shots Boohs, Art, Drama By George Middleton \x7'IIILE on the train between rehearsals of A * Thousand Years Ago, Pereey MaeKaye's successful drama of the Arabian Nights, the author wrote the...
...From the preface of My Lady of the Chinese Garden...
...The attack on Socialism is made by Dr...
...Hillquit, a distinguished practicing lawyer, the author of A History of Socialism in the United Slates and Socialism: Theory and Practice...
...NE of the most important books ever pub-- lished bearing on the issue of Socialism is Socialism: Promise or Menace, a joint debate upon the right or wrong of the matter by Morris Hillquit and John A. Ryan...
...He was living in the Baker cottage, a rented furnished house near an ice-pond with trees around it...
...They see and hear the boatwomen, the women who have the most freedom of any in all China, as they weave their sampans in and out of the crowded traffic on the canals...
...He told me, during that visit, that he had two new novels in mind, one of them a sequel to Kidnapped...
...but I told Stevenson that I doubted the wisdom of his putting his name to it as joint author...
...Genung's experience has been similarly varied...
...Socialism is defended by Mr...
...The other was Si...
...I remember once I took up a pair of skates for him and a pair for myself, and we skated...
...The history and significance of the forests are sketched as a background for the more specific data which apply directly to the wood-lot...
...DA RELY do two men come to a task so well equipped as Edward Breck and Charles Harvey Genung, the translators of Florian Mayr, the successful novel of German musical life by Wol-zogen (B...
...Paul Seminary and well known as the author of A Living Wage...
...But the real Chinese women, mothers of men like Li Hung-chang and Wu Tingfang—with their hopes, their fears, their romances, their children and their religion have hitherto remained undiscovered...
...Books about China deal mainly with the lower-class Chinese, as it is chiefly with that class that the average visitor or missionary comes into contact...
...He was always better at sea, he said, than anywhere else, and he wanted to fit up a yacht and take a long cruise and make his home at sea for a while...
...W,Hncbseh...
...The main topics into which the discussion falls and to which each debater gives his attention are as follows;—Social Evils and Remedies, The Socialist Industrial State, The Philosophy of Socialism, Socialism and Morality and Socialism and Religion...
...The actual operations and the information necessary to conduct them are accurately described in brief and popular' style...
...Os-bournc had written the story throughout, and Stevenson went over it and touched it up...
...Hillquit has been a delegate to the national conventions of the socialist party since 189,9 and to the international congresses and conferences at Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Copenhagen and Brussels...
...These same tourists visit the tea-houses and see the gaily dressed sing-song girls, or catch a glimpse of a gaudily painted face, as a lady Is hurried along in her sedan-chair, carried on the shoulders of her chanting bearers...
...This annoyed him, and he afterward wrote me that he couldn't take advice about such matters...
...S. McClure's Autobiography (Stokes...
...Ives...
...Here for the first time opposing arguments are presented with the highest competence side by side in a form available for immediate comparison...
...The tourists see only the coolie woman bearing burdens in the street, trotting along with a couple of heavy baskets swung from her shoulders, or they stop to stare at the neatly dressed mothers sitting on their low stools in the narrow alleyways patching clothing or fondling their children...
...Breck was literary adviser to a German publishing house, assistant Consul-General at Berlin and then worked on the London Times...
...Here he is well known among player folic, having translated and adapted many of the most successful foreign plays seen on the American boards...
...Their home life is a sealed book to the average person visiting China...
...He went on to say that he didn't think any novel of his was -worth as much as $8,000, and that he wouldn't be tempted to take as much money as that for a novel, if it were not for a plan he had in mind...
...Breck is famous as an amateur fencer...
...He blushed and looked confused and said that his price was £800 ($4,000), and that he must, consult his wife and Will Low before he made any agreement...
...He was then going over Lloyd Oshourne's story, The Wrong Box...
...ill WENT up to Saranac several times to see * Stevenson...
...Ryan, for the past twelve years Professor of Moral Theology and economics at St...
...The book is published in the Rural Science Series, edited by L. H. Bailey, and is profusely illustrated...
...He lives in Boston but shakes its dust from his feet at the opening of the fishing season in order to cultivate his imagination...
...Genung is a New Yorker until spring makes it possible for him to take possession of his country home in the literary and theatrical colony in the Connecticut foothills of the Berkshires...
...Literary Notes IT IS the purpose of The Farm Woodlot, by E. G. Cheney, Director of the College of Forestry of the University of Minnesota, and J. P. Wentling, Associate Professor of Forestry in the same university, to aid the farmer in the establishment, care and utilization of such small batches of plantations of timber as may be maintained in connection with the farm...
...Wolzogen is warmly interested in the translation of Florian Mayr which is known to hundreds of thousands of Germans but whose introduction to America and England has been incomprehensibly delayed...
...Both men arc Americans who studied abroad and lived on the Continent long enough to absorb its life and to cultivate a cosmopolitan attitude of mind...
...I read it, and thought it a good story for a young man to have written...
...LESS IS KNOWN about Chinese women than about any other women of Oriental lands...
...I told him that I would take either story and pay him $8,000 for it...
...Complicated and technical problems encountered only in the management of large tracts of forests have been carefully avoided...
...This volume and his lectures have given him a national position as a leader of progressive thought in industrial, economic and social helds...
...Snap Shots Boohs, Art, Drama By George Middleton \x7'IIILE on the train between rehearsals of A * Thousand Years Ago, Pereey MaeKaye's successful drama of the Arabian Nights, the author wrote the following graceful tribute to a fellow playwright, Josephine Preston Peabody, on her recently published drama of Assisi, The Wolf of Gubbio: "Dear Josephine, You've poured, I ween, All in a cup, a crystal cup-Pied with lights that flush and falter And flower again-All in a three-rimmed loving-cup Fit for the dear Madonna's altar Where thieves and shrews and wolfish men And wondering children may come to sup,— All in a cup, a shining cup, Held by the trembling paws and fingers Of your divine Dog, Fra Lupone, And him, his crony Whose loving laughter lingers In the echo of song that bubbles so easy In syllabling: 'd'Assisi, d'Assisi!' Large white soul in the simple wee body,— Pulsing, you've poured in a glowing cup For joy of our generations:— Wine: wine, distilled from the sheen Of the mind and the heart Of Josephine Preston Peabody,-Fair befall her!—Felicitations...
Vol. 6 • August 1914 • No. 31
