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The New Era in Poetry
l atermoyer Justifies the Trend Away
From Lutes and Nymphs and Sedges
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altars, Mr. Untern : er is frankly
a ? strategist trying at all costs to
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to i lis feelings ?.bout some
thin) '? Xo honest critic
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o.' them, says Mr. Untermeyer, have
p ? the old soil of poetic ox
pr?s . n in some personal fashion and
found fresh, vigorous beauties undef
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ivators are not let off free
o: meas .rement. Tho Imagists. he
sco'. art- always in danger of being
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?tale as quickly as the old. However,
h deprecation of Conrad Aiken, be
t. se to the critic Aikon seems to be
v ? ? _.- too much out of the sickly
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x . a poet ought not be limited mere
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I; ! nul -il Utly of 0 I fut ?m ie gettillfli but
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uriition In Continental thought anil
feeling. If this book is the result of
the merging of England with Europe
through the war. then the richly fla?
vored insularity which was tho peculiar
spirit of the English novel is passing.
The inland current has flowed out to
meet the (ont mental sea and the Vic?
torian tradition is left bleaching on the
sands
It is difficult to believe that the
author, Romer Wilson, is an English?
woman. There is the alternute awk
wardness and inspired freshness in the
use of words that one tinds in the
English o? a cultivated foreigner. This
awkwardness, however, is largely illu?
sory, because in the larger moments of
the book her expression becomes amaz?
ingly elastic and finely shaded. Hut ?ess
English in character than that is the
mood of her comprehension of her sub?
ject. "Martin Sch?ler" is put down with
the stark brutality that one sees in
ultra-modern European paintings, and
this brutality has an imagination-com?
pelling quality of its own.
As a youth in Heidelberg, filled with
stirrings of power that shuttle him
between animal exuberance and lyrical
ecstasy, he has an amazing actuality, i
Through the arc of his development ;
this actuality is maintained in greater;
or less degree. His ruthlessness and
egotism are justified by the aura of :
power which surrounds him. Of the I
three women who love him, the woman
who is least significant to him holds
him longest. He achieves great success !
as u composer of light opera and be- j
comes a sophisticated worldling. On
the eve of his success a revulsion at !
the cjuality of this success seizes him
and he flees to the .Schwarzwald, where [
in hermit ?ike seclusion he works out i
one of the inspirations of his youth,?
and in accomplishing a really great ?
piece of work finally achieves a hum il- j
ity of spirit.
Novels about genius are difficult to
anpraise. The tormenting delicacy of
"Jean Christopher-' and the Teutonic
ruthlessness of "Martin Sch?ler" alike
have the same overstressed quality.
But the quality of Romer Wilson's
acute perceptions is unmistakable. Who
is she, and what are her trial flights,
that this first one is so sustained and
high? We await her next one with in?
terest. R. I).
< Iccasionally Theodore Dreiser's sense
of humor is truly Wilsonian. He first
tells a joke and then explains it '
urit-j a jui-e ?iiu Lneii explains i
"Peter," one of the best sketch
"Twel ?.- Men," he writes: "Aproj
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long hetore traintime, bought his ticket
and waited for a while, looking out
the various windows; then finally re
turned to the ticket seller and asked,
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meant the station building itself.'
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"All I Do Is Turn Things
Upside Down"
She ?a always turning things upside down to see what was underneath. And wha(
?t ** found?what she saw, that's the delightful new story by the author of "Mary Cary."
ONLY ONE NOVEL CLEARLY TELLS THE FULL
MEANING OF THE WAR, THE INCOMPARABLE
The Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse
By VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ, Author of "Blood and Sand."
Translated by CHARLOTTEBREWSTER JORDAN. $1.90 net
E. P. BUTTON & CO...681 Fifth Ave., New York
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Wilson and France
Daniel Halevy Gives His
Interpretation o?
President
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??pace on l hti w hole, adequate? To be
Btire, there are slips, bul thi** i?. only
hatufttl, Thus, the author reveals n
rathe*- unwarranted optimism when ex?
pressing the belief trial the election
: l>v tliri'i-t popular vote of t he Pri tl
.l?*nt and of statt* Governors offers an
efficient corrective to the evils of
party machinery and boasism. For- !
! Innately he does not mention the Vico- ,
; President, at least. He discovers a
tendency to elect Presidents from
among- state Governors?an example
of what logicans call hasty induction,
He would have hit closer to the mark i
by ascribing to state Governors a ten- I
1 dency to launch themselves ns Prcsi- !
dential possibilities. Furthermore, we
read that "the I'resident, (Mr. Wilson)
is extremely careful not to lose con?
tact with the press. The press is able
to manage the people. He desires as ,
much as possible to manage the press.
, This man, who receives nobody, de
| votes a special afternoon every week
i to a journalistic reception." This was
evidently written before the days of
i Mr. Creel. Since then, Mr. David
Lawrence has visited France, and M. ;
Halevy thus had an opportunity to
have his wrong impression corrected
by n first-hand witness. That M.
Hal?vy is unable to clear up the mys- ,
tery of Mr. Wilson's Mexican policy is
not surprising; so is it. to everybory else.
When the author speaks of the po- !
tential necessity, en the eve of war. |
of coercing "ten or twenty millions"
of disloyal residents and includes in
this number not only Germans and !
Austrians, but also Irish and Jews,
his sweeping inaccuracy becomes ir?
ritating. It is to be regretted that the \
book ends with September, 1917. .Some- ?
how a volume on Mr. Wilson, minus
the fourteen points, is like a treatise
on Luther without reference to the
church door of Wittenberg. The
translation is good, although the usage ?
of retranslating English terms with- j
out checking them up must be dis- ?
couraged. It results in faux pas, like ?
speaking of the "league to impose';
peace" or calling Roosevelt's following i
in 1912 "Progressists." Also, the use [
of the French term syndicate for rail?
road brotherhood will be misleading
1 for 9? per cent of American readers.
Probably many Democrats will object |
to the translator's employment of the i
lower case "d" in denoting the Demo?
cratic party. Slips of grammer such as j
"very discredited" will be frowned
upon by purists like President Wilson, \
who, with alt his lavish display of the j
adverb, would never -?*= it with the
past participle.
EUGENE S. H AGGER.
A man we have come to.like is the
German spy. He is so helpless that '
he touches our sympathies. We have
been meeting him all season in plays
and in novels. When a book or a play ,
begins with some character saying
over a secret telephone: "This is K one
.hundred and ninety-two and a half;
ja gut!" We know that something
terrible is going to happen to that
man in the last act or the last chapter.
He is a part, we perceive, of the !
marvellously efficient system of Ten- :
tonic espionage, and he will presently !
be foiled, checked and exposed by some
little whipper snapper of a heroine !
who will discover all his plots through
woman's intuition.
We also feel sorry for the spy when
he is killed or led away to jail in the
last chapter or act because he never
did anybody any harm. Of course, ho
has plotted all sorts of things, but,
bless your heart, he never blows up
anything. The heroine is always there
to step on his bombs and pick the,
precious documents out of his pockets ;
when he isn't looking. In fiction and j
in drama the German spy is the very
dachshund of underdogs.
Growing Pains of Artist
Slender Volume of Verse Shows Mrs.
Unterrneyer Careful Worker in Poetry
By Geoffrey Kirsons
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the in '! ' Mi i I l li i "" ? ' < seems *
,i i,. faII Ml i Lowell singles out fn
special prolsi "Autumn." with 11
"wind picture" of an old yard with
catBup bottle bubbling In the mlddl
nf It "Verhacren's Flemish gonr
pictures are no better" There is
catalogue of vegetables and sundr
household operationsj there is an oc
casional metaphor to help; there is
central figure to unify the pictures ?
the < nd. But the scene lives ? o( a
all. Catalogues can be poetry, heave
Working Up to Broadway
Letters of Harry J. Smith Tell
the Popular Dramatist's Career
"LETTEKS ni'' HARRT JAMES SMITH."
With an Introduction by .lu!..': VVI bor
Tompkins. Published by Houghton Mtf
flm Company. 183 ??ir... Prlct JJ.
By Heywood Broun
There would be no need of biograph?
ers if the letter writing habit were
common. A man gives himself more
freely and truly in this form than in
an autobiography, even, because in
most caaes he writes unconscious of
the fact that type is ahead of him.
Harry James Smith was evidently a
likable man of good education and
sound judgment who had a talent for
fiction and the drama, but his letters
would have no interest outside the
circle of his acquaintances if it were
not for the fact that in 1906 he was
on the editorial staff of "The Atlantic
Monthly," and in 1918 he wrote "The
Little Teacher." This ?3 an adventure
more entrancing than life on the Span?
ish .Main, this journey of a literary
young man through the Harvard Grad?
uate School, through "The Atlantic
Monthly" and upward and onward
until he writes a popular play for
Mary Ryan.
There are gaps in the letters, to be
surr, but it is possible to trace the
progress of the author from his early
days when he grows enthusiastic over
a favorable review of his novel in "The
Nation" to a much later date when he
writes with equal satisfaction to a :
friend that Charles M. Schwab liked
"A Tailor Made Man."
We do not mean to imply that there j
was anything reprehensible in the '
progress of Harry James Smith. In fact
there is no indication that he ever;
realized the process of adaptation ;
through which he was putting hi" lit?
erary wares. Still less was it tragic j
since it seems probable that his gift j
for writing was no more than a nice j
talent. It is amusing, however, to note |
Smith's reaction to "Shore Acres" in !
1910, when he "marvelled to see how!
all its rusty, dilapidated machinery of
laughs and tears could still be effec?
tive with a second class audience." and !
how he justified his own "Little Teach?
er" with the explanation: 'The Little ;
Teacher.' by the way, is not for the i
jeune fille, preeminently. You would :
be interested to see the make-up of the i
audiences, mostly hotel people, rather
smart and worldly, but touched some- ?
how, with the desire to love a simple
tale simply told. They do love it? !
and I love them for loving it because I :
For These Times?
Eight hooks: The first two fiction, touching, re?
spectively, on Americans in war-time France
and war-time London; the other six significant
volumes of politics or biography.
The Day of Glory
By Dorothy Canfield, $1.00 net
Out and About London
By Thomas Burke, $1.40 net
The Political Scene
By Walter Lippmann, $1.00 net
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Proposed Roads to Freedom
By Bertrand Russell, $1.50 net
The Peace President
By William Archer, $1.00 net
Uncensored Celebrities
By E. T. Raymond, $2.50 net
Richard Cobden : International Man
By J. A. Hobson, $5.0Q net
^V-?u&l Bismarck (Uniform with Charnwood's "Lincoln")
I fjlfl By C. Grant Robertson, $2.25 net
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mind dccpl su ffus* d wil h emoi
'?! ' Untei.r's work, und thereli
ii*". her chanc* > mid give uj
her forced ol lervation of tho visibl*
world, h?-r conscientious Interest it
catsup, and write the true Btufl? of ho
mind. Perhaps the resuit would b?
poetry, perhaps it would be philosophy
ii might be both. Her pre.cut work
for all its admirable qualities, come
perilously near to being neither.
believe the play rides on the crest of
contemporary motives and impulses."
Stage Heroes Don Khaki
As we remember it the hero and the
sub-hero suddenly appear in uniform
in the last uct and announce that they
are going to Plattsburgh to win com?
missions in the army. The heroine
says that she will study to be a Red
Cross nurse so that she may accom?
pany the hero to France, and the cur?
tain comes down as the hero suddenly
begins to sing "Over There."
"it is not a play I would or could
have written myself five years ago,"
writes Smith at the end or his letter.
Of course not. The collection of
letters explains all that. From the
earliest days of which the letters tei!,
the days when Smith was amus ng
himself in his ieUure hours outside
"The Atlantic Monthly" with Beaumont
and Fletcher and "The Shropshire
Lad." and finding "The Egoist." "the
finest piece of contemporary high
comedy 1 have ever read," from these
earliest days Smith was writing plays
He wrote a good many of them, and
most of them never saw production
Those which reached the stap*e did not
get to New York. From the letters we
judge that they were fanciful hif-l
comedy. The author put all his faith
into these, and each failure drove hin
deeper into discouragement. Even the
production and success of "'Mrs. Bump
stead-Leigh," with Mrs. Fiske, gav(
him only a brief respite, for he wa:
unable to follow it up. All the play:
which he loved came to nothing. Bu'
there were any number of people whi
were ready to give him advice. Sue
cessful managers began to teach hin
the theory of the theatre. He learnet
of things which "the public won'
stand for." and other things whicl
"the public must have." He discov?
ered the reproach in the word "high
brow." One of his plays was refus?e
because it possessed this ouality.
At Last a Timely Subjec.t
There is a gap here, but we soon fini
that the lessons have not been un
heeded, '"-rnith writes to a friend tha
he has high hopes for a certain pla;
because the subject is "timely." Proh
ably this was "The Tailor Made Man,
which made a huge popular success
This told the story of the career o. ?
man who discovered that the way to ge
on in the world was to wear goo?
clothes and to bluff. The author ha?
put more than that into it, however, fo
he writes to a friend: "The bie: appea
of this play is its heart appeal. High
here the critics crave us no help, for no
one of them discovered this remarkab!
fact."
This time Smith was able to go o
from one success to another. Ther
can be no doubt that he had mastered
formula. In "The Little Teacher" h
faced a problem about a scene in whic
his hero was knocked out, and he wrot
to a doctor in order that he might mak
his Dlay accurate within certain we:
r'i-f.T.dd bounds.
"Little heroine, who is the school
teacher, is the person who should
rightly take charge; and what she does
should be the perfect epitome of ef?
ficiency and first-aid science; also?
since this is a play and not real life?
ther-* should be nothing displeasing
about it."
But for all his formulae, Harry James
Smith did ha*, e interests which were
greater *o him than writing successful
plays. He risked the iocs of a produc?
tion for "'rhe Little Teacher" in order
to co to Canada and cather moss which
was urgently needed by the. Red '"ross.
Finishing up his play m a brief vaca- j
tion. he returned to British Columbia
to go on with his war work, and was 1
killed in an accident,
"In Flanders' fields
the poppies blow;
Between the crosses,
row on row?"
in tlttsc beautiful ? erses ] i .,
.YicCrae, ti.c poet-soldier, who
Jin France, rails t-. us to carry on
it- \'i(-;?.rv of our dead. But McCrae
as more than a one-poem poct.J
This little volume contains other
verses by him equally as fine.
IN FLANDERS' FIELDS
bv John McCrae
At it// booksellers, $125 ru-t
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This column is intended as a medium
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t understood by any man.
"The Social Secretary," by Elizabeth
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